Beyond Death. Edgar Cayce

all of life to live, nor all of death to die.

       Reading 4400-1

      There is also that necessity for the individual to so attune self from the spiritual effect that must be instilled in the individual to whom such applications may be made, as would come under the supervision of the individual; for it is not all of life to live, nor yet all of death to die—for in the midst of death one is in the midst of life, and it behooves one, then, that their own individual life be such that it—their life—is compatible to those tenets, those teachings, those principles, as would be set up by the application of self’s efforts toward the individuals whom one would attend.

       Reading 5005-1

      Do spiritualize thy purposes, thy ideals. For it is not all of life to live nor yet all of separation of the body to die. For to be absent from the body is to be present with thy God. What is thy God? Place, position in the earth? These are naught when things of the earth may not be used. For man enters the earth with a body prepared by others before him. He leaves the earth with the body-soul he has prepared for that realm of the inter-between, and can only depend, then, upon self according to that done with Creative Forces or God’s laws. For they are perfect and are unchangeable.

       Reading 2573-1

      While it is not all of life to live, each soul enters for a purpose. And it is not merely to gain fame or fortune, nor to be thought well of in the material plane only; but it is a real spiritual and mental experience also.

       Reading 2142-1

      One that may be trusted in its relationships with others, and to its own sorrow has often found another’s word is not as their bond; while for self that promised is to self as binding as were it a bond; though these must be often dissuaded in self. Well that self keep this same attitude; for as to those relationships, these make for that that will make life more worthwhile in business, social, political, economical, regions or sources of one’s experience; for it is not all of life to live, nor yet all of death to die; for, as is builded in the experience of self, whether in the marital, the social, the political, the religious or the business associations, each and every individual becomes a reflection of that that individual holds as its ideal—whether that ideal be position, fame, fortune, or the aggrandizing of selfish interests, or self’s own motives or bodily desires. These become paramount in the entity’s inner self, and when these are builded upon that that is not of the ideal, they must sooner or later be wrecked upon those of discouragement, disorder, discontent, disconcerted activity, those of strained relations with friends, associates, family, and the like—for those that breed contempt must have the same as its own bedfellows.

       Reading 670-1

      . . . those things in which the judgments or activities of the entity may engage—either in the mental, material or spiritual ever must be governed by those things of a spiritual source or nature. For, as will ever be seen in any influence, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. The environs and hereditary influences that may be said to be from the purely material sense would never answer in the activities for this entity, whether in relationship to material or spiritual things, as an answer for that to which it would bring itself in relationships with or without these conditions. For the basis in this entity’s experience must be that which is well-grounded in self from first taking counsel within self and knowing from what basis, from what standard the judgments of the activities are to be judged or governed; and these will make for the general assurance within the experiences that the outcome of whatever activity in which the entity may engage in the material sense will bring for the experience that which is worthwhile. For, it is not all of life alone to live nor all of death to die, to those that have visioned—and do vision—that purpose for which the experience of an entity is engaged in its passage through any particular experience in the earth.

       Reading 4028-1

       Q: Does the Doctor appreciate my putting flowers on his mothers grave?

      A: This should not be as to whether the Doctor appreciates it or not. Let it be an answer to thee, to the mother. For if this is done in the right spirit, it will bring many more returns than if done purposely to please someone living. This is not the gaining of something from same, but the contributing to the memory, with the thought of love and compassion.

       Reading 5122-1

      Those activities of the entity should be in or around flowers. For this entity has so oft been the music and the flower lady, until it becomes second nature to work in or with those either in arranging bouquets or corsages, or even the very foolish way of sending to those who have passed on. They need the flowers when they are here, not when they are in God’s other room!

       Reading 5155-1

       Q: Will I overcome death in this incarnation?

      A: There is no death. Death is only overcome by Him, who has overcome death. It is our promise, and when ye abide in Him sufficient to that, ye with Him, as the resurrection, may indeed overcome death in a material sense.

       Reading 262-73

      For He is the way; He is the life; He is the vine and ye are the branches. Bear ye fruit, then, worthy of that thou hast chosen; and He will keep that thou hast committed unto Him against every experience that may be required, that may be needed, that may come in thine attempts to show forth the Lord’s death till He come again; Death meaning that transition, that decision, that change in every experience. For if ye die not daily to the things of the world ye are none of His.