This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 26th day of September, 1927, in accordance with request made by self, through [900].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mr. L. B. Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Born September 3, 1891, 1:05 P.M. N.Y. Time, R.R. Station in city of Lyons, France, while mother in transit from Hamilton, Ont., Can. to her home in Lyons, France. [Twin to brother born dead.] Time of Reading % ... [900] & [137] Bros., 4:00 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. New York, N.Y.
1. GC: 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 the time, the place, and the 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. [GD's note: After above Life Rdg. suggestion had been given by GC, but before EC took or repeated the suggestion, Reading 5756-5 was volunteered, with a message from John Drew. [In regard to people of the acting profession being interested in EC's work, the Life Readings especially.] At the end of the message EC took or repeated above suggestion and then proceeded with Miss [302]'s Life Reading.]
2. EC: We have the entity and those relations with the universe and the universal forces, as are latent and exhibited in the present earth's plane in that entity known in the present as [302].
3. In entering the earth's plane we find the entity under the influence of Mercury, Neptune, Uranus, Mars, and Jupiter. Hence, with the developments as have been attained through the experiences in the earth's plane, irrespective of the will as is manifested or as may be manifested in the present earth's plane, we find:
4. One of the deep thinking - yet subtle and sagacious in mien.
5. One capable of taking advantage of every incident,
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circumstance or condition that may be presented to the entity, for the furtherance of plans - whether for weal or woe.
6. In the manifestation in the present plane with respect to will's force, we find:
7. One capable of understanding, handling, and of being able to use men, places, position, time and conditions, to that of the way in which the developments may be made for weal or woe.
8. In the influences as are seen, we find:
9. One naturally capable of getting into the minutest detail of any proposition, condition or circumstance presented to the entity, and those conditions as pertain to the mystery - or the night side of life - are as the open book to the mind of the entity. Well, then, that the entity use that will in the way that brings developments for self and for the ENTITY in the proper way and proper channel, using the correct criterion, the correct measure - for with what measure ye mete it shall be measured to YOU again, and with what understanding ye use self or others with that same rod will the understanding be measured to YOU. For what profit it a man, or woman, to gain the WORLD and lose their soul? for in the detail of getting, get understanding - and know that the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord worshipped by self.
10. In the elements that make up this entity we find some are contradictory, in a way and manner, as would be termed from the purely astrological aspect of the conditions - for we find the entity using in this plane, in this experience, that prerogative of the will that has been turned into that channel by the entity that would be at an adverse angle to that as would be seen from the purely astrological viewpoint.
11. One at which much may be pointed - much may be said.
12. One that has the ability to destroy or to make men.
13. One that has the ability to be at ease in an office, whether of men, among men, or in the drawing room of the elite, or one that is in a sick room, or in the pleasure hall - or the ability to adapt self to that position, condition, in which the entity finds self.
14. As to the relations about the entity - as is seen by conditions surrounding even the entrance INTO the earth's plane - the ability to usurp, or to give, or to take, that the entity desires. Not irrespective of position, class or station, but - as the WILL is guided by that correct incentive - that condition or element may be paramount in the development, or into the EFFORTS of the entity.
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15. As to the appearances, or experiences in the earth plane and the urge as is seen from same:
16. In the one before this we find in that period in the French rule when the woman rose to the position of the leader in that land. The entity then in that of the leader, and becoming - as has been seen, made, in the minds of many - the criterion for strength and for beauty. Yet persecuted in that day, and in all gaining and losing - gaining and losing. In the name - Joan of Arc [1412-1431]. The entity then in that of the present experience finds that desire to lead, to guide, to direct - yet, as is seen, the power of the abilities seems ever not JUST in the RIGHT direction.
17. In the one before this we find in that period when there were the wars in that time when Achilles ruled in that land. [See Trojan War, Greek Mythology, Homer's ILIAD.] The entity then one who gave much to the strength and power to the entity, being then in the flesh the mother of Achilles [now Mr. [900]], and ruling in power through the tenets given to the entity in that period - and losing in self through the aggrandizement of power, position, and the tenets of earth's surroundings. In the urge is seen that of the ability to guide or rule men, and the same in the ability to guide or rule women, yet ONE in the individual, the other rather in groups.
18. In the one before this we find in the land when divisions were seen in that known as the Egyptian country. [Ra-Ta period.] The entity then the leader of that land when the northern king was in power and deposed the ruler whom the entity then guided in the mis-applications of the power of the peoples. Then in the name Isdio. The entity lost through the first portion of the experience, gaining through the attack as was made on the peoples, and even though submerged by the ruler in the tenets as were given by the scribe of the entity's own people, in the latter days gave much to the peoples in understanding, in the relationships of the conquered, in relationships of the poet and the peasant, to the one in power and the one in servitude. In the urge is seen that activity ALWAYS - active! active! active!
19. In the abilities of the entity - these would lie the greater in that of the directing of others in ANY channel that the entity chose to be a leader, instructor, teacher, or director - yet there must first be found in self that UNDERSTANDING of self and self's relation to that Creative Energy of which the entity is a portion, for without the correct balance there can come no satisfaction, no attainment for development through the eons of time, space -
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for all are ONE, and the entity must find that the self is OF that one and attain to the greater understanding of the at-oneness with the Creative Energies in the earth's plane.
20. Keep thy paths straight. Love God - and thy neighbor as thyself.
21. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Mr. [900] " " Ass'n file