This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 10th day of January, 1929, in accordance with request made by self - Dr. [204], via Mr. [341].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Dr. Thos. B. House and Mrs. House, Mr. L. B. Cayce, Messrs. Hunt and Lee.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 4:00 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Virginia. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: We have the entity and those relations with the universe and universal forces, as are latent and exhibited in the present personality of that entity known in the present experience as [204].
2. In entering the earth's plane, this experience, we find astrologically the entity coming under the influence of that known as Aries, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Uranus, with those afflictions in Mars and Saturn, especially in that when Mars and Saturn are at the square of the earth in Scorpio. Hence in the 43rd year of the present experience beware of an illness in September of the stomach and digestive system.
3. As to the astrological aspects, without reference to the application of will's force in the entity's appearance in the present plane - for these, we will see, have been changed much by the application of will in the present, as well as in the past environment and in the application of self-will respecting those conditions which are ORDINARILY termed as latent influences in a life experience.
4. In respect, then, to urges:
5. In that as is seen in the mental - the body above, or a tendency toward the application of the mind, the STUDY of mind, the ANALYTICAL mind, the endeavoring of SEPARATION of mind. Hence, especially does the body find self interested in the present experience in psychological, psychoanalytical, subjects - and WELL may it be applied in a proper way and manner, keeping self open for that influence as is seen in the Jupiterian forces, as WELL as that in the influence of Venus; for with the high ennobling influence as may be attained in Jupiterian influence, the mental development may be made useful - while with purely the mental attributes of the Mercurian, as well as that of Aries, may bring destructive influences IN the life as
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respecting the body becoming one-track, one influence, and a THEORETICAL and not a real, applicable, workable, influence in a material world.
6. In the application of will as respecting this condition, with influences in that of the active forces from the occult, there may be seen - without a balance - the body may be often (as it is, at times) misjudged by associates, connections, and those related in active, material demonstrations of mental proclivities of a body - considered RADICAL, and even radical to the extent of not being practical.
7. In the influences then as are seen on the body as respecting environmental and hereditary conditions (as usually considered), will the body take stock MENTALLY of self's own abilities, these will become evident to the mental development OF the body. Not wholly does the inclination adhere to either environmental or hereidtary environment of the present experience. Then seek - From what source then arises this desire of such an ANALYTICAL desire in the present experience? Then there may be seen - from the application of past EXPERIENCES, as applied TO the present experience - a basis of consideration, at least.
8. As to the personality as manifested before associates in the present:
9. One particular of detail; yet not TOO particular, in the sense of being in the position of old-maidish - as might be termed - yet this is often applied to the activities of those whose minds stretch in other directions.
10. One loved - and loving the open.
11. One appreciating the beautiful, whether in nature as pertaining to nature or in man's attempt to copy nature, and WELL would have been the body - from the MATERIAL standpoint - in the application of self to architectural designing, or of architectural structure - whether as applied to building or of the essence of things from which such drawings may be made.
12. As to the application of the forces as are latent - these may be best be seen in the former appearances:
13. In the one then before this we find in that period known as mythological, when there were wars among the Trojans - and the entity then among those that were in accord with those that would defeat the peoples gathered at the gate, and to Achilles did the entity report, and to him many were the counsels given and taken. In the name Tischol. The entity gained and lost through this experience. Gained through the application of self as respecting the interests of others. Lost through aggrandizing the power to which the
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entity arose; for while suffering may bring understanding, CAUSING to suffer to satisfy one's own self brings reproach. Hence in the present experience there is ever the urge by the entity, to others and for self, Be True to Self in such a manner as to not bring reproach from others, and most of all from self. In the application of this may the entity, [204], find a deeper thought - in that it is SELF'S EXPERIENCE being latent, yet seeking expression and expansion in the present experience.
14. In the one before this we find in the land now known as Persia. The entity then among those who assisted in the defense of the king called the Wonderful. The entity then in the name Jdjil, and the keeper of records to that ruler, and put in bondage by those that overran the country from the plain. Then under Croesus did the entity take counsel, and unto him did the entity remain faithful. Hence in the present experience the entity finds self often galling under oppresion under those that would govern or rule, yet finds in SELF the best answer - of being faithful to that highest, that noblest, in self's own endeavors.
15. In the one before this we find in that land now known as Egypt. In the period when there was dissension, and when the priest as was banished was brought back to power, and there was the gaining of knowledge through the establishing of that portion of the rule where there was the dissemination of truths as proclaimed by the seers, by the rulers, by the priest of the period. The entity then as Aaich, went as the interpreter of such knowledge to the layman, both of the native and the foreign in the land. Hence in the present experience the entity finds that of dissemination of know- ledge, of truth, of understanding, the greater effort to be put forth by self. Hence, as the teacher, the lecturer, the interpreter of that which IS knowledge, that which may be applied - NOT as theory, but as PRACTICAL - is that TO which the entity should, will, attain the greater in the present experience.
16. Keep faith, then, in self - and in Him that gave First Know Self, and in that knowledge gain the understanding of the relation of the Creative Energy to that created, and how that created is a portion of the Creator in just so far as the SPIRIT or LIFE OF the created and Creator are in accord.
17. KEEP FAITH with self and those whom the entity may assist - especially of the household of that ruler in the Arian land. [Aryan-Iran?]
18. As to the abilities and the application of same these are in keeping WITH that as given. We are through for the present.
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