This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Va. Beach, Va., this 22nd day of February, 1933, in accordance with request made by Mrs. [268], his wife, Associate 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. [268]
R E A D I N G
Born June 5, 1876, Botetourt St., Norfolk, Va. Time of Reading 11:15 to 11:55 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Va. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes, we have the entity here and those relations with the universe, and universal forces, that are manifested in the personalities of the present entity, [280].
2. In entering from the astrological viewpoints, we will find many of the influences coincide with those conditions that are represented as personalities in the activity of the present entity, as well as many of the influences from the appearances and the activity of the entity then acting in the individuality.
3. These, as seen, are in reverse order, as they were in the present activity or activating forces in the experience of the entity.
4. Hence, oft do we find those experiences when there is an understanding within the entity that to others becomes very much adverse to the normal influences or reactions that might be expected. Hence the body is called strange, or much adverse to the normal reactions from the influences that are in the experience of the entity and of others. Or, sometimes others would say the entity was very strange, very abnormal, when to the entity the activities would be the most normal, and more REASON in self for the activities than from many an ordinary individual.
5. Then, we find the influences come under Neptune, Mars, Saturn; yet the benevolent influences in Jupiter - which make these tendencies:
6. Near large bodies of water may the entity always find the greater satisfaction in the activities.
7. To be among large crowds, high buildings or mountainous country, seems to bring about - in the thought and intent of the individual - great disturbing influences.
8. Yet, in the quiet of self, in the study and thought along certain lines - as reading, figuring, or even counseling with others, the entity finds the greater solace in the
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present experience.
9. In the solitudes, as we find then, does the entity (as we will see from the personalities) find expression in the activities that were in the experiences of the entity through that which has builded for individuality to the body.
10. From Neptune we find those influences that make the entity often called by many one that acts most normal under the influence of hunches, mysterious thoughts, signs, impressions, that to others are imaginative; but that to the entity are the RIGHT thing, though often adverse to the mind, development or thought of others.
11. The influences from Mars make one of high temper, one that rages at some very trivial matter; yet things of great import, that would be a worry or disturbing factor to many, the body laughs at or passes over as being a non-essential for worry, or for even disagreements. Yet often does the entity find those experiences where great problems with the minor things cause dissension in the activity of the entity or body in the present.
12. From Saturn's influences we find one easily at times turned from its thought or activity; at others very determined, yet suddenly seeking for penance and attempting to give expression in little ways, in extravagance in many ways, as to being sorry for those outbursts and for those activities.
13. These being tempered (as they are) through those influences in Jupiter, make for those benevolent feelings of expression that are builded rather as air castles often than as real activities. And those expressions or determinations set by the entity at such times, while many are never carried out, are of the import that would be of an influence in the experience of many were they expressed in the activities of the entity.
14. As to the appearances, then, and those influences that build for the innate expression or individuality of the entity:
15. The one before this we find was during that period when there was the establishing and sojourn of the peoples in the land of the present nativity, at and about that known as the isle or island of Jamestown. The entity was then among those that builded there, and with the experiences of those that brought the contentions and dissensions from many activities the entity gained and lost - and lost - through the experience. For, many of these things that were as dissuading others from associations with the natives, that were established in those sojourns there, caused much
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discussion and suffering in body, in mind, in many of the associations. Yet losing from those determining influences within self for the self-expressions that were gained through those activities. The entity was then in the name John Ailsworth.
16. In the present we find - as seen in the individuality, if the body will go aside with self in the quiet, or in a stroll, or even among a group where counsel is given - there is the absorption, or changes in attitude of the entity or body in such experiences.
17. The one before this we find was during that period known as the Roman, when there were those destructions by the people in power of those that adhered to a thought, a way, a change that was being brought by the adherence to a particular line of thought. The entity was then among the soldiery of the period, and - with the associations of those in authority as well as the associations the entity had with those who were persecuted - there was brought much that through the mental body put it at an unbalanced condition; for the entity was then pulled this way, that way, with the duty in the material life and that calling for the answer through the mental and spiritual life for those that suffered in body during those experiences.
18. Then, the entity finally threw itself, as it were, into the defense of those that made for the followings of those from the foreign land.
19. Hence again we find in the present, those that make for pretensions or those that are given to the activities in the spiritual life have a particular interest for the entity. Yet as suddenly does the entity in the present turn against, and berate, and belittle the activities of those who follow in such lines of thought.
20. The entity then, in the name Pothosin, was an individual of striking appearance in the physical.
21. In the present there is seen the reverential awe that is often experienced by the entity when there is the exhibition or activities of an individual with unusual strength in the physical or in the mental. And the entity holds such as something above the ordinary in the present.
22. The appearance before this was in those lands now known as the Persian, during those periods when there was the over-running or the attack of the land from the Bedouins - or the roaming people from the south and from the hill country. [Uhjltd period]
23. Then the entity was in a position of power and trust with the king called Croesus, and was one that gave counsel; and was in a position of royalty and in power.
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24. The abilities from that experience are those in which the entity acts the more normal in the present, respecting the keeping, preservation or expending of moneys or mediums of exchange. Yet in this even does the entity at periods find a reverting to the extravagance that was exhibited in the activities during that experience.
25. In the name then Medeni, the entity gained much through this experience until there were those overthrowings of those that were held to the entity near and dear; as the companion [288] of the king's daughter [369] was carried away during those experiences, and the entity then, in throwing self into the attempts to retake those that had been carried away, suffered in body, in mind, in experience; for the entity was taken captive, and through the activities of Edssi [437] lost much respect for that held as to the veracity of promises made.
26. The entity in the present, in extremes, makes many rash promises, yet intentionally within is the desire to carry on for the seeking out of those associations, or something akin to same, in the present.
27. The one before this we find was in that land now called the Atlantean, in Poseidia. The entity was among those of the upper classes who belittled self that there might become a better understanding between those that ruled in power, might and mind, and those that supplied the necessity for bodily adornments or material supplies.
28. Through this experience the entity gained, and often in the present those things dealing with labor saving devices are of interest. Hence at times there is exhibited a turn towards mechanics, or mechanical appliances; and in same would the entity have in the present exceeded or excelled much, had the thought been carried farther in the developing periods of the entity's experience in the present.
29. The name then, as would be sounded in the present, was Auoir.
30. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, and that to which it may attain and how:
31. Through the associations of those with whom the entity experienced the developments or retardments in the earth, that made for the dissenting or dissemination of differentiations in material, moral and spiritual rights, may the entity succeed the most.
32. Study alone, study with many, often brings the greater developments for the entity's present activity.
33. So, with the rising of those benevolent influences in Jupiter, (that will rule those under its influence) in the next three years will be found the experiences when the
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entity may in the present, with those environs and surroundings, make for the greater development in this present experience.
34. Ready for questions.
35. (Q) Why, and is there a cure for, streak of insanity in him and his family? (Left out of original copy) (A) As indicated from those experiences of the entity through the activities, these have made for a retroversion or retrogression; not exactly (as the word indicates) going backward, but reversing or changing from the balances between those influences that are, in a way, hereditary and environmental; and these must be worked out through the experiences in those spheres in which they were lost. As to meeting these, they are innate, they are builded, they are gradually being eliminated by experience.
36. (Q) What relation was he to his present wife in other periods? (A) An admirer of the power, the position the present wife held in the Roman period; yet aloof from same, and disliking and despising same when there arose the determination in self to class or cast self's lot with those persecuted.
37. (Q) In the Persian these associations only came in contact during the period when the entity, or present entity known as [280], was a prisoner; and there was the administering only by the present companion [268] those things that made for the return of sanity, as it were, in that experience. Hence the quieting, helpful effect they have upon one another at times. Also the dissensions, and the inability for compatibility at times; though this experience is only one of many in which there are those influences from an association - as in Jamestown.
38. (Q) What relation is he to the little dog Mona? (A) He fought with the body in the Roman experience.
39. (Q) What was Mona then? (A) The lioness that fought with the entity, and with those that destroyed many that the entity was then seeking to aid.
40. (Q) Will his niece Julia recover while in present body? (A) We don't find the associations.
41. (Q) Why is he a sadist and why annoying wife? (A) As given, from those periods there arises a reverting to the innate activities that impel the body to separate self; and at such times there come those determinations, as it were, to get back to those influences through the varied experiences when there were the dissensions, the reversions from the innate feelings; for the entity often reverts to that which would be called mental aberrations, for he sees much into the past.
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42. (Q) What can his wife [268] do to help or change him? (A) Just in the quietness, in the little things, the little kindnesses, the little gentlenesses that brought him to the better understanding of that being experienced in the Persian period.
43. (Q) Is he ruining his wife's health and happiness, and will they separate? (A) She may be able to do more for him, and with him, than most any other! It would be well to expend self in saving, as far as possible. Not well to separate. [Questions & answers 44--48 left out of original copy & typed on separate sheet for Mrs. [268].]
44. (Q) Has he many more years to manifest on this earth plane in present body? (A) Three.
45. (Q) What will be the cause of his passing into another plane? (A) Rashness.
46. (Q) Does he have any oriental ancestry? If so, what nationality? (A) Through the Persian period, yes. From the material standpoint, in the present, these revert back through those that settled in the British Isles - maternally. [GD's note: I met him later. He looked sort of oriental.]
47. (Q) Any Japanese or Chinese? (A) Those associations with same in the varied experience, making for an aversion at times and yet seeking to know their wiles often.
48. (Q) Where is he, and what is he doing at the present time? (A) About those affairs for which he started out in the very late period.
49. We are through. Two copies to Self [9/22/33 Wife [268] requested extra copy.] Copy to file