This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Va. Beach, Va., this 10th day of February, 1933, in accordance with request made by self - Mrs. [267], Active Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [267] & Mr. [317]; Mildred Davis, H. L. and L. B. Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Born November 12, 1895, in Minneapolis, Minn. Time of Reading 3:10 to 4:00 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Va. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: We have the entity and those relations with the universe and universal forces, the entity [267].
2. In entering the present experience from the astrological phases, we would find that ordinarily given in such relationships would carry a great deal of varying conditions. Ordinarily the entity or body would be termed one having many varying experiences, yet arriving - in some portions of the experience or development - at some very satisfactory periods of an experience.
3. As we find here, from the records that have been builded by the entity so named in the present, the sojourns in the environs that have been builded through the varied experiences - and the sojourns in that called hereditary influence in passing through earth's experience - may account to one much more than that termed from the purely astrological influence.
4. Hence we find from sojourns in the varied environs, that Venus with Jupiter, Mercury and Uranus are the varying influences, with some of those influences in Saturn and Mars as a detrimental or retarding influence.
5. It would be well for such a student as the entity to study that termed a retarding influence by afflictions in certain influences, as to how they affect an entity in a given sojourn.
6. When there is an experience as with this entity, in that influence of Jupiter - and the sojourn from that influence is in Mars before returning through the earth's sojourn, save as a transition, it is then an adverse; or a pulling, or the tendency - when these influences are in those positions in the experience of the entity - to be influencing in opposite directions, see?
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7. We find that Venus is the RULING influence in the present experience of the entity, bringing such abilities and such environs for the body that friendships, love, social associations, make much that causes or calls for thought and activity on the part of the entity.
8. This also has, with its influence from Jupiter, made for what may be termed the saving influences; or those associations, those contacts socially, those contacts from the viewpoint of even material associations, have been the SAVING forces in the activities of the entity.
9. So, the entity, with its personality in this direction, draws those TO self that are CALLED, as it were, from the varying influences in such sojourns.
10. Hence, as may be seen, a contact in the present experience may be as an illustration to the entity; as to how the likes and dislikes of self and associate [Husband, Mr. [317]?] in a former experience make for the drawing together for one common purpose in the present experience.
11. In Jupiter also we find the great abilities in many varying fields. And, with Jupiter and Venus in the ascendency in the present period, there should come in the experience of the entity in the next few years some of the most satisfactory material experiences for the entity in these varying fields. The spiritual developments toward discernments, and the valuation of influences in the experience of the entity, as well as the greater blessings (that may be called) or opportunities in the fields of aiding others to assist themselves in FINDING themselves in their relationships to the mental and spiritual experiences of life. As well as, beginning in that period when Uranus for the entity comes into the benevolent rather than an adverse influence with Jupiter and Saturn (as in the last three years), which would begin about the middle of October in the present year, there will come those greater material opportunities.
12. As to the personalities that have been builded through these influences in the present entity:
13. One tending toward those influences of being rather reserved, even sometimes called shy; yet those closer to the entity know that there are periods when the entity is outspoken, and well-spoken at times, in defense or in the opposite direction of those influences in the experience.
14. There are also those desires or tendencies toward certain conditions in the experience; as the love of delicate shades in nature, whether these tend to cloth, dress materials, decorative influences in the home, or in whatever sphere - it is the tones and shades, rather than
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definite or decided conditions in such vibrations.
15. One with an appreciation in music; and the minor or short notes, or the half tones are those that to the entity become the more expressive. Especially is the attunement towards stringed instruments, or those of any nature with the SOUNDING or the TONING coming from strings, wires, chords, or cymbals that make the tones, whether these become intonations or incantations in the expressions of emotions.
16. The entity, then, is one turned towards the INNER emotions that come to mean so much in the experiences of the entity; and these are quietly, often GENTLY, spoken of within self; and many of the experiences that have come to mean the most are those that are the least spoken of to others.
17. As to those influences that will make for the changes, as in the change which should come to the experience of the entity through the benevolent rather than adverse in Uranian influence (from the sojourn there):
18. This benevolent Uranian influence, meted with that arising again from the Mercurian (or Mercury) influence, will give the better ability for the discernment of all these influences of the higher vibration, or the higher influences in the experience of the entity.
19. For, while Mercury's influence through those developing periods in the present experience stood well in the position for aiding in material and mental advancement, with the adverse influences under Saturn and Mars through the last three to six years there has been rather the inability often to consider that the discernments or the judgements of the entity might not be questioned even by self.
20. With the surety, then, that comes with those benevolent influences in Uranus with Jupiter, Venus, Mercury, there will be brought a balancing and a coordination within the influences of the entity in the present; as well as those that may be considered as hereditary from the sojourns in the earth's experience.
21. As to the appearances, then:
22. In the one before this we find the entity in that land of nativity, but - as has been or was expressed during the experience - far from the birth in the present; rather during those periods when there were oppressions about Salem and Providence Town; of those that chose to give the expression of that felt, from the feelings of those that chose to GIVE the rise to those differences from others. The entity then suffered rather as one that was accused of being able to cast spells upon, or to wield an unseeming influence in, the lives and activities of others; in both Salem And
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Providence Town, but suffering most in Providence Town, under the name Hester Wayne.
23. There still may be found some of those things, expressions and experiences of the entity during that experience.
24. In the present there is brought those intuitive influences within the activities of the entity. With the development of these, if they are attuned to their variations in the experience, there may come much satisfaction; and much ability of the entity for bringing the desires to others that would come to know themselves and their relationships with the UNIVERSAL forces that may be manifest in that which was given, "He that will be my son, I will be his God."
25. It would be well for the entity to gain through the experience, that those influences which come from the UNIVERSAL are those that may bring the greater peace; in enabling those in the third, the fourth, or even the seventh expression of animation in the spiritual sense, to better manifest.
26. In the one before this we find the entity in that land now known as France, and in that portion which has so oft been under oppression or the change of environs; but during THIS period it was under those influences that made for the joining together of those that would go in defense of the Holy Land, during that period known as the second Crusade. Then, the entity joined in among those that went to see those that would go across the waters for the defense of that ideal.
27. The entity gained much through this experience, yet with the waiting and the longing brought much discontent; and to the latter days came much worriment that made for indecisions (that arise in the present). For the entity then, in the name Charmiloe, did give much for the development of MANY that had an ideal set in service.
28. So, in the present, OFT is the entity termed - when decision has been made - as a very hard-headed individual; very set in the ways. Yet the PURPOSE is known within self, and when that arises - with body, mind and soul does the entity rise in defense of those purposes, those aims.
29. In the one before this we find the entity during that period when there were many from even the Grecian land going to the hill lands of what is now Arabia. The entity then was among those that journeyed forth to gain something of an understanding of those reports that had come out of that land, and joining self then to those that dwelt or built in that experience the entity became an aide to those that
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attempted to disperse that gained from the teacher in the land.
30. Being misunderstood, and the things given being misconstrued, there came again those persecutions and disappointments in the experience of the entity; yet with that determination to hold to that which was gained through the experience, though suffering from privation in many of the necessities even of the physical life, the entity journeyed again to those same lands and aided in building anew, even through those destructive influences being brought by the entity's own people; and builded much within self's experience, in the name Axelia.
31. In the present there may be seen much of the determinations in gaining that to which the entity sets out to accomplish, in WHATEVER may be the field of endeavor TO which it has chosen for the reaching out. THIS, EVER, makes for development - when the IDEAL is set in constructive influences.
32. In the one before this we find the entity in that land now known as the Egyptian, during those periods when there were the returning and rebuilding of those influences that were carried on in that land when the priest returned from the southern lands. The entity then was among those peoples who returned to the Egyptian land; aiding in building much that was of the material as well as of the mental and spiritual influences in the lives of those peoples, as they sought to coordinate their lives under a spiritual guidance during that period, in the name Apt-Soi.
33. The entity gained throughout the experience. Coming under the influences of the teachers, and later in the influence of the priest, the entity joined self to those of the Temple Beautiful and its services there.
34. Colors, incantations and intonations of music have their particular influence in the experience of the entity from that builded innately in self during the experience.
35. The life, the experiences, may be called both beautiful and constructive during the experience; for, toward the latter portion of that sojourn, many people WORSHIPED that which the entity did - as also the entity itself.
36. As to the abilities, then, and that to which the entity may attain, and how:
37. As may be seen from those experiences, the abilities are present in most any field of endeavor. The abilities to strive, even against odds, are innate within the entity's experiences.
38. Hold fast, then, to the ideals that were set in that gained through the experience in the Egyptian influence, and
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we will find that to which the entity may set itself may it turn for material, for mental, for spiritual benefits in even THIS experience or sojourn.
39. KNOW in whom thou has believed. KNOW that those called (and self has been called, as seen by the various experiences in the earth's sojourn in the various influences through which the entity has passed) have also been predestined; and that there may be the calling together, then, of many that will make for the development for self, for the aiding of others in their spiritual life, in their mental life.
40. Ready for questions.
41. (Q) In what manner should I develop my psychic abilities? (A) In that which is found by turning the introspection into self, in the LIGHT of self's experience in the relationships WITH the developing periods throughout earth's sojourns. As this: In the experience first there was set an ideal in the relationships of man, as man, with the Creative influences. In the second, as the relationships of the APPLICATION of those influences in the experiences of individuals. In the next is seen the DETERMINATIONS to hold true, though faltering in those influences. Again is seen the mis-interpretation of self, and the physical and mental persecutions through same. Then, turn to that within; and THROUGH that; then when the Voice speaks to self within, HEED that given.
42. (Q) Please explain what was meant by seeking universal source as contact for helping self and others? (A) Seeking the Spirit, or the CONTINUITY of Life WITHIN self, which IS the gift OF the Creative Force in the experience of every entity!
43. (Q) Outline in detail how I could go about the development of self to make this possible in the highest manner? (A) By meditation and prayer in the name of that held as highest to the influences to the Throne itself; for in the TRAINING of the inner self may those ATTUNEMENTS come - even as there is seen manifested in the mental experience those intonations that make for the influences upon the impulses, the influences upon the inner life, are controlled by the gentler, the more delicate tones, rather than the harsh.
44. We are through for the present.
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