This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 4th day of September, 1934, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [259], through Edgar Cayce himself - Honorary Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mildred Davis and L. B. Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Born March 22, 1916, 11:45 P.M., in the old Union Street Hospital, cor. Union St. & McLeod Ave., Selma, Ala. Time of Reading 10:45 to 11:45 A. M. ..., Alabama. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: (Going back over the years towards birth date - " - 33 - 32 - 31 - 30 - Near accident in '30. 29 - 28," etc.)
2. Yes, we have the entity and those relationships with the universe and universal forces, that are latent and manifested in the personalities of the present entity, called [259].
3. In giving that which may be helpful to the entity in the present experience, some of those things, conditions or surroundings that might be helpful will be given, and then the why may be gathered from the experiences through which the entity in its earthly sojourns has passed.
4. The seal, or that which should be the motto of the body: A triad with the balance, Et Libra et Pura. These as a pin or an emblem or as a drawing would be well to have about the body at all times.
5. The colors, the odors, the body should keep about self: The odor, orris and lavender. The colors, white with not DEEP black but with shades; plain rather than brocaded or laces; that which is sometimes termed mannish, but rather the effeminate in the mannish style.
6. As to the astrological influences and the sojourns of the entity in those environs about the earth, only as mental influences may these be seen in the experience of the mental developments in the present sojourn. Being a body-physical in the present, through filial and material love the material things about the body will remain oft in strain until self has conquered self in its material desires and does not censure another nor find other than - in its daily experience - that which may be used as a stepping-stone for its soul, mental and material advancement. These come from sojourns in Jupiter, Uranus, Venus. Hence sentiment, the
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mental, the vision of power and activity in varied spheres of material expression will be the dreams of the body in its meditations in its inner self; and the expression that comes to the forefront must be tempered with mercy, justice and right, through the WILL of self. For, will is the factor that makes for growth in the soul's sleep through the earth's experience. For, with the birth of a physical body the soul slumbers; and its dreams are the deeds by which the soul is judged in its associations with its fellow man.
7. As to the appearances in the earth and those influences brought to bear upon the entity in its material, mental and spiritual developments in the present:
8. Before this we find in those environs of what is now known as Jamestown, Virginia, during the periods when there was the reestablishing or reenforcing of those that had come in these environs for the establishing of a material dwelling place in this land, the entity was among those that were born under that new regime when there had been the establishing of a government and the spreading out of those peoples into the adjoining vicinities.
9. Then the name was Bainbridge (Mary), the entity being of those that had come as the activities of one that had been a sojourner in this land; growing in the activities that went for the developments of those peoples to the bringing MORE of the people that were to aid in the further development for the land. The entity SOLD for the crown was claimed by same, through those in whose care the body-physical was given in the experience. Hence in associations with some of those that became the leaders in that particular vicinity, and associated the more closely with those that made for the establishing of that indicated in the seal - LIBERTY; for the entity was the associate of those that PROMPTED the activity of Henry; becoming a close active associate of those that made for the Custis, the Lees, the Randolphs, the Curtises, Lancasters, of this particular land.
10. Hence in the present the desires for those things pertaining to power in the fields of politics, and the entity COULD MAKE of itself and excellent politician - should it choose in these associations or environs to make its activities in that direction; yet, as we find, this is not the greater field for mental and soul development - as will be seen.
11. Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as the Roman, or rather the Grecian and Roman, during the periods when there were what are now known as the Trojan Wars, during the activities between those over that entity Helen of Troy.
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12. During those activities the entity then was the companion of the assistant keeper of the gate to the city, and during the experience the drawings of the entity enabled those that were of the besieged to encounter - in part, in the main; though little credit was given Garcia in the experience, yet such enabled the armies - or the individual activities of those in Achilles' activities - to succeed in bringing destruction to Hector's forces. And the entity saw those activities.
13. Hence the abilities in the writing, or to depict by word or by drawing, or by the activities in the artistic temperament, arise from the associations in that experience.
14. The entity neither gained nor lost in the soul or inner development. In the material things, a success; yet these experiences will - through its developing years - play an important part, or impress or produce urges that may find expressions in the material activity of the entity. Yet, as is significant in the latter portion of the seal, purity of purpose, of mind, of body, must be kept if there would be the mental or the spiritual urge that will bring peace and harmony in the experience in this sojourn.
15. Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as the Arabian or Persian, during those sojourns or activities of the people that became the leaders in that land.
16. We find the entity then was the elder sister to that one who rose to be leader, or Uhjltd; for with the divisions of the people, with the turmoils that arose through the raids of Uhjltd's own people, the entity - then in the name Ujilda - made for much turmoils with those that were of the tribes- people. But with the establishing of the city in the plains and hills where the healing arts came, the entity then was among those of that leader's people who eventually came and aided much in the activities during that sojourn.
17. The entity itself aided in the aid to those that were BLINDED by the sands, the glare, and may be said to have been among the first in that particular experience and in that particular environ to make for the protecting of the eyesight by the shades, by the glass that was imported then from the Egyptian and the Indian experience.
18. Hence in these fields of material activity may the entity find much as a means for the expression of self in aiding others, and in bringing comfort and help - even as then; yea, as a teacher, as a director in that field may much of this WORLD'S goods come into the experience of the entity. Yet, as we find, even a greater field may be seen later; for there we find those periods when color and odor
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played an important part in what would be termed in present day parlance the psychological effect upon the minds of those that WOULD BE healed.
19. Before that we find the entity was again in the Arabian land, when the peoples journeyed into what is now called the Egyptian land. [Ra-Ta period]
20. The entity then was among the people that did not in the first journey to the Egyptian land, but with the establishing of the young king, with the banishment of the priest that was a relation of the entity, then Iu-Ptl-In made a journey and brought the first of the turmoils being settled with the princess and the peoples in Ibex, as an aid rather than a hindrance to the young king.
21. There may be particular note that those who were in that sojourn as individuals have an antipathy for the entity, and if their associations were drawn together the entity would eventually have the same character of influence upon many of those even that rebelled - or that in any way made for the troublesome periods in that experience.
22. Later, with the return of the priest, the entity made the drawings that would in the present be termed the commercial, architectural drawings, for much that had to do with the interior as well as exterior of the buildings.
23. Hence as the entity develops in body, in mind, spiritually also, if this is kept as an activity of the body in the present experience it may be made the most satisfying of the experiences - as an INTERIOR decorator, as an aide in color schemes in the various activities in home or hall, in church or in the more humble edifices in the experience. For much talent, as would be termed, that is innate may be expressed by the entity in that direction. Hence a portion of the activities of the body in its developing years should be given to such, that there may come in the experience that which may be the more helpful in the material and the mental welfare.
24. BETTER will the entity find it to make for self a career; not as a lone soul, rather as one with many in various associations, but not in wedded life - for such relations would bring the character of hardships that would break the purposes in the inner self.
25. As to what the entity may attain, and how, in the present:
26. Apply self first in liberty, in faith, in purity of purpose, as indicated in that which has been necessary for its activities through the earthly sojourn; bound oft by ties, bound oft by the will of others in its material activities, that the will of self must rule. Yet being made
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through those purposefulnesses in the ideals of an INNER urge that comes from the soul's sojourn with the Creative Forces.
27. Study to show thyself approved unto thy Maker, avoiding the appearances of evil, keeping the self unspotted from the world; and there will come - through the experience in this sojourn - peace, happiness, and JOY IN LIVING - as an emissary, as a light bearer for thy King - the Christ!
28. We are through. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file