This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 322 Grafton Avenue, Dayton, Ohio, this 25th day of February, 1925, in accordance with request made by her daughter, Mrs. [538].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Born December 14, 1861, at Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky. Time of Reading R.F.D. ..., 12:15 Noon - Dayton Time. ..., Kentucky.
1. GC: You will have before you the body of Mrs. [265], nee [...], who was born December 14, 1861, in ..., Kentucky, and 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 time, place, 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 body here, and those conditions in the universe relating to same. We find the entity took its position from the influences of Mars and Uranus, shaded or assisted in those of Venus. Hence we find those latent forces as are exhibited in the personality of the individual and as has been throughout the present existence in earth's plane. One that is ever surrounded by those forces of Mars, that force bringing many contentions in the life of every character.
3. In the different phases we find in the early forces those as relating to those pertaining to the forces of Mercury. In the next phase those as are found in Venus and Jupiter. These being, then, the kind or nature of the contentions: First of the mental development in the entity and those about same. Next the elements of the heart and the affections thereof. In the next the development begins in the mental and the forces show that when tempered with the love and ennobling influences in Jupiter the entity develops to those higher forces in present earth's plane. In the influences then of Saturn and Uranus, there are troubles brought into the life, and trials through those of the secular nature, and much sorrow in the life.
4. In the change then there is found the ennobling influences in the development, and the care of the offspring, yet ever is that element present in the influence of Mars bringing those elements of contention,
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dissatisfaction, those of the nature that bring much distress at times to self, to others.
5. As to the development in the earth's plane, in present we find that under the influence of the ennobling forces as bring to the life the study of those elements pertaining to the science of life and living, and the constant control of self will bring the greater joy to the body.
6. As to the appearances:
7. In the one before this we find in the household of the ruler in England that was beheaded, and the entity then in that of the next to the king himself. Under these stressing times the entity finds the forces as are developed through that of the suffering in mental anguish brought to the body. The personality in the present sphere is the inability of the entity to correlate the mental anguish of bodily suffering in the physical to those of the higher forces. [Charles I and wife Henrietta - 1609-1669]
8. In the one before this we find in the rule when the first Romans were giving the law in that region, and in the household then of Quandrus [?] [Thomas Aquinas (1225?-1274)?] do we find the entity. Then the entity ruled much in the forces as were manifested, and gave much to the people in law and in custom. In the present sphere we find the personality in that of real counsel to many, when individuals will listen, yet we have the forces as exhibited in present ever shadowed by present forces.
9. In the one before this we find in the land of the Egyptians when the second pharoahs were in the rule. [Ra-Ta period] The entity then was in the household of that ruler, and was submerged by the rule of that force, or that ruler. In the present sphere we find that personality as exhibited in the entity when at times it is to rule, even with destructive forces to self and others, and as for a principle that is latent in the entity's forces.
10. In the one before this we find in the rule in the land now known as the Peruvian forces, and in the last days of the Ohums. [Aymaras] When the destruction came to the cities of those rulers, the entity then leading in the forces and the ruler of that people. In the present personality we find the innate forces anxious to study of all literature pertaining to the ecclesiastical forces of other peoples, and the desire for knowledge and the ability to apply same. The body would have been well as one that could try to apply same. The body would have been well as one that could have made a great mark in literatures, in writing, as an authoress, for we find all the qualifications necessary in the present sphere. As seen, this yet might be
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developed, if the opportunity were given to the entity to express itself. For, if the entity were given the time and the opportunity to give the experiences of self to the world, this would bring a mighty force in the present sphere to many minds seeking the knowledge this entity is able to give. We would give the how to use this: Dictate same to someone, separating self from others for several days at the time. This would be accomplished.
11. Then, to use this as given, keep the forces in self and multiply that ability to control the weaknesses of the mental forces in contradictory statements to others, for we find in only two appearances did the body even not develop. In these we find the keel to which the entity broke, as it were, against the resistances and overcame only in the last forces, and this makes the plane the harder for the entity.
12. Keep then in that narrow way that leads to life everlasting, for the entity has laid up many, many forces that give of the developing closer to Him, who is the giver of all good and perfect gifts. Then apply these gifts as He would have thee do.
13. We are through.