This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 16th day of February, 1933, in accordance with request made by self - Mr. [274], new Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mrs. [778].
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 June 4, 1899, (Sunday at 11:00 A.M. - Paris local mean sun time), 14 Rue de Vanves (14th Arrondissement), Paris, France. Time of Reading 11:05 to 11:45 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. New York, N.Y. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes, we have the entity and those relations with the universe, and universal forces, that are latent and manifested in the personality and in those innates that manifest through the individuality of the entity now called ... Paul [He had listed his middle name Alexandre!] [274].
2. In entering the present experience from an astrological view, many of the impulses we find influenced by the sojourn of the entity in varied experiences of the astrological spheres; and the influences of these are rather the impulse, while the influences of the earth's sojourn and the experiences in same are rather the manifestations in activity. Hence we have the combined influence in an entity's experience, which becomes rather the basic influence from heredity and environ; or the same first law as of cause and effect in the experience of an entity.
3. The hereditary influence from the purely material, or from a nationalism influence, is apparent in each entity; but has there been sought much concerning why an entity seeks a manifestation through such hereditary influence? Has not this been rather the BASIC force through the activities of the entity in its passage THROUGH the varied spheres of experience? Hence becomes more DEFINITE influence.
4. As to what an entity does concerning its environs or hereditary influence from the MATERIAL viewpoint, this is governed by the action of the will (that active principle making for the INDIVIDUALITY of an entity, from those atomic forces that may manifest in a material plane or in ANY sphere of material or matter existence). Thus is MAN endowed with the individual soul.
5. Hence the WILL is an ATTRIBUTE of the soul, and the whole
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development of an entity.
6. An entity, then, is the COMPOSITE activity throughout the experience in every phase of its independent existence from the first cause, or creative influence.
7. As to the astrological aspects for this entity, now called ... Alexandre [274], the ruling influences are in Mercury, Jupiter, Mars, and Saturn.
8. Saturn's influence is rather in that position of making for the creative, renewing, or adding to old principles by the element of a constructive influence for a definite activity; which has been seen so well manifested in many experiences of the entity in its sojourn through the varied or different experiences in the earth.
9. The Mercurian influence is for a high MENTAL ability, as well as an adaptability to the various influences that affect the mental (this being in the broader sense of mental, in the MATERIAL-mental as well as the higher or super forces in its activity) and that are being used through the principles held or maintained by activities of the entity.
10. Jupiter makes for abilities in many varied directions; the associations with a great number of individuals, dealing in principles that are of a basic influence and that tend to make for the larger ENNOBLING influences in the experience, or that make up (when classed from the composite sense) the activities of the entity. Or, as may be termed, there is nothing little or underhanded, or superfluous, in the make-up of the entity in its present experience, as in its dealing with its fellow man or in its activities one with another; making for a TRUSTING nature, and the trustworthiness that may be put in the activities of the entity as related to associations with others.
11. Yet, as seen from other influences from Saturn and Mars, the entity is rather RESERVED in its nature - or in the activities towards MAKING contacts with various groups; working over oft in the MIND, in the MENTAL abilities, as to what WOULD be well, but slow in CARRYING such to fruition until contacts or associations have been made through some definite channel or manner from some outside influence.
12. The entity, however, has the abilities to give much impetus to building on what has been the failure of another. This is true in material things as well as mental conditions and experiences.
13. As to the appearances, and their influence upon the present experience of the entity, THESE - of course - are only those that INFLUENCE to the GREATER degree the activities physically of the entity in the present:
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14. Before this we find the entity was in that period when there was the seeking out new associations by a people in a great land, newly discovered (the native land in the present of the entity). Then the entity was among those of an expedition who came to the new land, and - in the name Jacques Fond du Lac - gained through much hardship in the material conditions as well as developments in the MENTAL influences of the experience. The entity made many tours through various portions of the southland (in the new land to which the entity came), in what is now known as Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and toward the north. Hence the various activities that were considered as NATURAL to the varied portions of the country became of special interest to the entity.
15. As the developments come in the present experience, in the various fields of material endeavor in which the entity engages, it will be found that the association or idea of the flower and the fungi of this PARTICULAR region will not only prove an interesting MENTAL experience to the entity but will - and can - be turned into MATERIAL benefits, to aid in carrying out or furthering many of the ideas as to benefits that may be derived for the gratifying, or satisfying, of some of the impulses in human experience in this particular plane.
16. Before this we find the entity was in that land now known as the Arabian, [Uhjltd period?] during those periods when there was the re-establishing of the land from the inroads that had been made by the people from both the north and east. The entity, in the name Ferri, gained in the abilities to present to the peoples (though they were of SCATTERED groups and undecided as to activities) the mental, material and spiritual influences that are - and may be - the impelling force for activities in a group, a nation, a class or a mass, in their working together for the common GOOD.
17. The entity then gathered much from the varied influences that had been brought to the peoples by these over-runnings from the various types and groups of people; and builded much that made for the beauty of the arts pertaining to, especially, the furnishings for the household and for the use of people in their quieter moments; and in the activities that made for the building up of the hearthstone, or home, by a TROUBLED people.
18. Much that the entity builded in that period is still held as the criterion by those who are under the influence of the environs in that particular area.
19. The entity gained in service; losing only when the
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efforts became of such a nature as to cause the aggrandizing of selfish interests.
20. In the present there comes, from this experience, the entity's tendency from WITHIN to BELITTLE self; and to be dependent upon others for the ideals of ideas, associations, even in those things that may have become very active in the mental abilities of the entity.
21. Before this we find the entity was among those who reestablished the influences in what is now known as (or then called) the Chaldean country, during the periods when there was the bringing in of those peoples from what has been termed the Holy Land, or that peculiar people. [Abraham's time?]
22. The entity then was the one in charge of much of the work to which these varied peoples were put in this land. Not of the soldiery, but rather of that division which made for the COMMERCIAL advancements of this peculiar people, and was in the name then of Bazzyndizhellii.
23. In the experience the entity gained much in the MENTAL activities, through the associations of the varied MINDS and peoples from this peculiar land.
24. And, much of the ability that has ever been in the present experience of the entity, as a judge of precious stones, gold, silver, and the alloys that may be added in their activities for creating adornments, or for the usages in various activities of human experience, came UNDER the influence and through the experience of the entity in this particular sphere.
25. This ability also, as we find, may be that PHASE of the entity's experience, if it will be turned into the direction of the mystic-occult influences in archaeological research with those who may seek out this particular field of endeavor; for the ENTITY'S activities lie farther to the north of that which has been sought out in this PECULIAR land, or particular land, and the FACTORIES (as would be termed today) may be discovered by the entity in a search in the Chaldean land.
26. Before this we find the entity was in that known as the Poseidian land, during those periods when the people had come from Muir, Ur, Lemuria, and the other lands, for the indwelling of the various activities, the seeking together for the divining of many activities or principles in human endeavor.
27. The entity then was among those who would be termed in the present the alchemists of the period, and was in the name Aa-rr-ll-uu (as would be termed in the present, from the combination of those sounds).
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28. In the experience the entity gained, lost and gained; for much was turned into the abilities of subserving people to the whims or fancies of the entity.
29. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, that to which it may attain, and how:
30. In the particular fields of endeavor in the present there are the abilities to combine those elements with particular activities in an immediate portion of the present land, or sojourn. The efforts in this direction may make for both material and mental influences that may be helpful or beneficial to the entity.
31. Also there lies the ability within the entity for the seeking out, through associations with groups or individuals who may act in the capacity of research in a particular field of archaeology. The entity may join with such a group, through the abilities for testing peculiar types of materials or associations, and thus lead into that which may bring to the experience of the entity a development in a different field.
32. Choose thou; knowing that the abilities are present. As to what self will do with the knowledge which is innate, or that intelligii [? intelligence?] which is the "I AM" within self, depends upon what is set as the IDEAL, and the ideal relations with the groups, individuals, or associates. Know that, to use such for self alone is to use for self's undoing; but to use for the magnifying of that which is held AS the ideal is a development of self mentally, spiritually, materially, toward the ideal set before self.
33. Ready for questions.
34. We are through for the present. Later we may seek many things that may be given, as to associations and places. Copy to Self " " File