This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Virginia, this 20th day of February, 1931, in accordance with request made by self - through her mother, Mrs. [255].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. L. B. Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Born January 15, 1918, Staten Island, N.Y. Time of Reading 3:40 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., New York. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes, we have the entity now known as [276], and those relations with the universe and universal forces, that are latent and exhibited in the present entity.
2. In entering, we find the influences astrologically in Aries - which will require in the present experience the use of the mental abilities of the entity in making its choice. Hence the particular reference that should be taken as respecting the influences to the entity through the formative period of the mental developments being especially susceptible, that the basis of thought is well founded, or grounded, should be the thing MOST to be considered by those who are responsible for this period. True, each and every entity should be allowed to live their own life - but, as has been given, "Train the child in the way, and when he is old he will not depart from same", but to force issues when in the formative period is to break the will, or to build resentment that makes for the breaking of other wills as the development comes. Training in the way of an IDEAL, and the purposes of the ideal - as it may enfold and unfold in the life of an individual - is to give such an one the basis upon which they will build their lives, as life in its many phases unfolds as daily experiences of the entity. Train such an one to depend upon the divine that lies within, that may be made to become MIRACLES IN the life, or - abused - may be made to become criminal, or even that as separates the inner self from that continuity of life, that is the hope, the prayer, the wish and desire of EVERY individual. The first law in every life is self-preservation of the life, and [if] will the basis or the fountain head from which life itself gains its impetus be that upon which the ENTITY depends, BEAUTIFUL indeed will be THIS life - which astrologically has SO MANY BEAUTIFUL conditions in same.
3. Coming under the benevolent influences of Jupiter with
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those of Venus, we will find that love's influence will RULE the life throughout, will [if] the understanding of love in its broader sense be set as the criterion in the life of the entity, and will cast out fear - that is so easily builded in the experience of human endeavor, that looks on the material world as "I MUST CONQUER - I must make a portion of self in same"; remembering that as was given, God so loved the world as to give - GIVE - His only begotten Son, who took on the form of flesh that He might know the manner of man's experience in the earth; being, then, as a brother - and he, or she, that asketh in that name, seeketh even as the brother to gain that ability to serve the better, even as He thought it not robbery to call Himself the SON of God, yet it was abusing those forces in HIS life to turn them wholly to secular interests.
4. So, in the training of the entity through the next five to six years, especially will mean that for which the life is lived. Not that the spiritual is to be impressed to the exclusion of the material forces, but rather that the body, the mind, is the temple of the living God, and to present same holy, acceptable, UNTO Him is but a REASONABLE service. Then, make the life - the actions day by day - as a LIVING example, a living reflection, of that as is the basis of the ENDEAVORS OF the entity in WHATEVER direction it may CHOOSE to take.
5. Make the home, the home life, the mother life, that as the IDEAL life for each individual who has been called to serve in that capacity. Let each life in such a capacity know that the Father chose such a channel for the presenting of HIS Son, HIS life in a MANIFESTED manner before the HUMAN family. Through such channels have these forces ever CHOSEN to MANIFEST - and, as the channel is attuned to those forces in HIS way, then let HIM - GOD - have HIS way with THY life. Be that channel of BLESSINGS each day, each hour, and as these ARE shown, more and more may the entity manifest those conditions that present themselves as personalities in the LIFE that is seen or experienced at THIS period.
6. That there are peculiarities to many in the experience of the entity is not to be wondered, when the sojourns are taken into PROPER association or correlations WITH these little peculiarities - as they may be termed; for in the experiences in the earth's plane, though few in number, old indeed in earth's experience IS the entity or soul.
7. In the one before this we find in that land now known as the Roman, and during that period when there were the ministering and teaching of those peoples that came up from Judea. The entity was among those who accepted those
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teachings, and coming in contact with those of that period, taught by the lessons of, the experiences of self and others in the contacts of this new peace, yet suffering in body, by privation - yet able in mind to control those beast, both of the field and of the dens and lairs that the body was placed in; the body bore same, gaining - gaining - oft the liberation for the teachings again through these STRANGE abilities in this particular period; being among those who journeyed again to the Grecian land for the teaching of the peoples, as the entity was carried away from same. In body beautiful, in mind pleasant, in abilities surpassing many in that period; gaining throughout the experience, though suffering in MANY ways and manners. In the name Phoebia.
8. In the one before this we find in that land now known as the Arabian, and to that portion of the country where the banishment of those peoples sent from that known as the Egyptian land. The entity was among those peoples called the wild peoples, or the barbarians. The entity then came under the influence of those so banished, and being awakened through those tenets that were held by those in the land the entity became one of the followers, and returning to the land gained in experience through the teachings; becoming an expert horseman of the plains, and carrying the messages to those peoples in the sand and waste places; returning to the land from which the teachings were gained in the latter days of the sojourn, the entity aided much in the building up of the hospital (that would be called in the present), ministering to the ills of those who suffered in body AND in mind. In the present experience such may be that field, that ministry through which the entity may give into the lives of those contacted those deeper thoughts, that may find their expressions in THIS experience.
9. In the one before this we find again in this same land now called Egypt (this before the mountains rose in the south, and when the waters called the Nile then emptied into what is NOW the Atlantic Ocean). [GD's note: See [5748] Egypt.] The entity was among those peoples who gathered in places to establish various groups, or families, or sects, to prevent the inroads upon the peoples from the beasts from without, and the entity aided through this experience in the gathering together of various groups, various peoples, to join hands as a COMMON interest for the common interests of all. In the NAME Hein.
10. In the abilities of the entity, these - as seen - lie in that of ministering to others, and IN the home. Will there be kept those ideals that have long been innate - though rebellious spirits rise within from SUPPRESSIONS that
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existed through the entity's experience - this may be curbed best through those of loving gentleness, kindness, and pointing the way of keeping the body that temple THROUGH which He, the Father, may manifest.
11. Ready for questions.
12. (Q) Has entity a hidden talent? (A) As given, this the greater talent - that the entity may train self, especially in these directions partaking of same - ALL of those factors that pertain to the ability to minister, through the music spheres, through the color, through the needlework, through all of those that make for home.
13. We are through.