This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 10th day of October, 1927, in accordance with request made by self - Mr. [165].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. L. B. Cayce, and [165].
R E A D I N G
Born May 28, 1877, South Lyon, Michigan. Time of Reading 4:20 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Ill.
1. GC: You will give the relation of this entity and the universe, and the universal forces, giving the conditions that are as personalities, latent and exhibited, in the present life; also the former appearances in the earth's plane, giving the time, the place, and the name, and that in that life which built or retarded the development for the entity - giving the abilities of the present entity and that to which it may attain, and how.
2. EC: Yes we have the entity here, and those relations with universe and universal forces, as are latent and exhibited in the present experience.
3. In entering the earth's plane we find the entity coming under the influence of Jupiter, Venus, Mercury, and Mars, with adverse influences in Saturn and Moon's phases.
4. In the influence in the life, we find in the present experience much has been builded through will's forces, for ever should it be remembered that will's influence in the earthly experience bears the greater influence in the life - yet from the urges seen through the experiences in the various spheres brings much in the life of good and ennobling influence; yet there are those experiences when the entity has applied rather the will to overcome many conditions that have presented themselves as those elements to be subdued or overcome to gain the better control of self towards development towards an ideal as set in self's own way.
5. One, then, with high ennobling influences, governed principally by love - even to the extent where the mental forces have given an urge that such were unwise, yet the urge and that set for self has brought much to the entity through the abilities to manifest confidence where even this was not wholly felt.
6. In the urge through Mars' forces brings that at times of the temper that has been subdued in part through that of
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self's will to apply that of love and forbearance, rather than that as would appear in the urge to enact at that time.
7. One that brings much confidence to others through the acts as carried out by self in development towards that idea set for self.
8. One that gives much of self for the enlightenment of others through that of love for fellow man, and for the expressing of that urge felt in that - sweets draw many more flies than vinegar. This often felt in self as true, that to show one to be worthy one must be worthy in self.
9. One that finds much in common with those that ring true, and little in common with those who would climb up some other way.
10. One that enjoys the joke, the pleasure as expressed in clean wholesome fun, yet little in common with that that belittles or besmirches any individual as individual, or as race or people.
11. One that will give much understanding to others through the application of those conditions that bring the better understanding of application toward the ideal in the individual life, for to the entity - as the good is manifest - the body, the entity, good. To that as is of show, or of any favor that besmirches or belittles self for position, power, or such - THESE are little in the eyes of the entity.
12. Beware, though, of expressions in the temper, or in the power of the body physical OR mental over the weak for the urge often comes to exercise such. Never turn same for self's own interest, for - as will be seen through experiences in the earth's plane - much may be lost through aggrandizement of selfish motives. Little of self is held in esteem above others, would there be humble and the contrite heart before the creative forces that give - give - to others that the understanding of relations between men as men, or man's relation to the creative forces - for in selfishness is the greatest plague, the greatest hindrance, the greatest barrier towards man's own development. Hence beware of association or the contact of self towards those who would give their own bodies and souls for position, power, fame, or monies.
13. In the appearances, and those urges seen from same:
14. In the one before this we find during that period when much was being attempted in this present land. The entity then among those who builded for the good of those to come, ministering in many ways and in many manners to the needs of the nation yet unborn, and many of the words in verse, in line, are often yet quoted in schools, in places of learning, in copy. In the name then Franklin. The entity
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gained through this experience, giving self in SERVICE to many, rather than turning same into channels for self's own interest, as might have been done through that experience. In the urge is seen that of the love of the young, and of the making toward better manhood in the home, in the office, in the field.
15. In the one before this we find in that period when the walls were being rebuilt in the Holy City. The entity then among those who resisted those that builded, being in that of Sanbad, the armor bearer to Sanballat - and the entity lost through this experience, for those that builded builded in a purpose. Those that resisted did so for the satisfaction of the self and for the power that might be given to self through that of destructive forces to man, and that the builders represented. Bringing to self destructive forces through aggrandizement of selfish interest. The urge as is seen from same, that of mistrust in some that build towards selfish motives, even though the appearance is good.
16. In the one before this we find in that period when divisions rose in the land now known as Egyptian. The entity then among those that counseled with the ruler, being the FATHER of that ruler who set the house in order, being then in the kingdom of the palace and coming from the north country subdued the natives, and establishing the kingdom upon which the foundations were laid for the first of the manifested study of man's relation to man and God's relation to man, establishing same as was carried on by the young ruler, even DURING the king's own lifetime, being among those that counseled for the return of the priest and the re-establishing of the school or church, and the assistant to that counsellor that gave the tenets to the people, even though the counsellor was the native. In the urge as is seen, the WONDERFUL forbearance to all peoples in all positions, and the entity GAINED through that experience, losing only in that desire to subdue. Remove such far - far - from that as it appears in the urge from time to time, even with forbearance, for each entity has its own troubles to meet. Rather give counsel, even as given during that experience in the earth's plane.
17. In the abilities as are seen, the urge or the ability to lead, guide, and direct. Guard then self in the way and manner that the self is lost in the glorifying of Him that gave self that man might be the nearer to that oneness with the All Creative Force that shines unto the darkest corners and brings life and light to the end. Keep the faith, and in the faith worshipfulness ever in Him.
18. We are through.
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