This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 21st day of February, 1931, in accordance with request made by self - Mr. [311].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mr. [311] and L. B. Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading ... St., 3:40 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Virginia.
1. GC: You will have before you the body and the enquiring mind of [311], present in this room. You will give a check-up life reading for this entity, answering the questions which he will ask you regarding all phases of life.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, [311] - as known in the present, and those relationships that exist in the entity, and the aspects of the earth's experience. Ready for questions.
3. (Q) What business shall I engage in to make the best commercial success? (A) As has been indicated, the entity's or body-mind's consciousness is such that, in contacts, in solicitations, in these fields of leading, guiding, directing, ENABLING others to find themselves, OFFER the greater opportunity for the body-mind and soul's development. These as given, carried PROPERLY, will also make the commercial success, for there may be the interchange between those offered, those received, in the associations of the body, the body-consciousness, WITH individuals, individuals' relationships; or associating self with the field of endeavor that the entity studies as a whole, THIS - or this in its COMMERCIAL aspect - would make for a success for the body in no uncertain manner. Such as in relationships with individuals or groups who contemplate expansion of, study of, the various phases of the phenomena of life IN the various aspects. Once convinced within self of the certainness, sureness, helpfulness, aid, that may be gained through such channels, or through such offices, then work at it!
4. (Q) When and where shall I go to make the proper contacts to get in this business? (A) He's already there!
5. (Q) How shall I prepare for this place? (A) As has been oft given, each individual must ascertain within his own physical, mental AND soul consciousness the
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sincerity of purpose of others and of self as related to such associations, or such connections, or such conditions. Then, when this is done, when this is found, the way opens itself for such work, such operations, such endeavors.
6. (Q) In the analysis of my various lives given in the life reading, are they the only ones I have lived here, or are they just the outstanding ones! (A) As is asked or sought in the information, "that in that life which built or retarded the development OF the entity." Those given are those in which retarding or developing took place. The common, or the ordinary theory that incarnation into the earth plane is the only source of incarnation or appearance is erroneous, you see; for, as has been given in relativity of forces, [[3744] series?] when one - an entity - a soul - enters in our, or THIS, or the PRESENT solar system's forces, the contacts or the relative relationships bear out the cycles of appearances in the various spheres of development; as in Mercury - the MENTAL life, its relative position to the solar system's - THIS solar system's - center, making for those radiations in those forms, taking form as matter occupied by the entity's being, which represents MENTAL in its greater aspect. Then, as in Venus - which takes those forms, bodily, or matter forms, nearer akin to those known in the EARTH'S plane as earth or material, or carnal forces; they representing more in the form of LOVE. In Mars and its radial effect or position about the solar center, THIS solar center - AND earth, AND Venus, AND Mercury - make for those of a DIFFERENT relationship, known as that seeking that known as vengeance, wrath, madness, and such; and can one but know that each thought, each act, is that being builded, they [one] can see how, where, what way and manner each - in their sojourns in the spheres - make for this entering in. As in earth - we have that position in which matter takes all its various forms of presentation of a given energy, OR force, as radiated from the various effects of this solar aspect, and take on BODILY form, occupying a position of, as it were, three in one - or all force in THIS sphere taking on that appearance of that known as threefold, or the aspects of a threefold nature. As in Jupiter - taking on those ennobling forces, whether they be from earth, from Venus, from Mercury, from Mars, they are BROADENED, they are CHANGED in their aspects, in their forms, as they are taken on in and about THIS sphere. As in Saturn - that to whom all insufficient matter is cast for its remoulding, its changing into the various spheres of its activity, either re-entering through those of the Uranian - which makes for the
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accentuations of very good or very bad, and making, in their relationships through the activity of RELATIVE relations throughout the other experiences, for EXTRAORDINARY conditions; taking on those forces known in earth's plane as from occult influences Now, tracing these through the same, we find we pass then into the water sign, or the mystic forces, of that source in earth's force from which man determines that all forms of life FORM, or predominate, from the water, or the mother of all natural forces in this nature; this termed the mystic. When an individual incarnates in the earth, he has POSSIBLY passed through all the various spheres, either once, twice, MANY times - yet the changes bring those same conditions about for an understanding of each relationship in its MAGNIFIED sphere. In the earth alone do we find them ALL in ONE! for man has taken on a bodily FORM in matter, or in nature. In the others find in the VARIED forms, dependent upon that to which it has builded for ITS sojourn - see? Now, as to one's incarnations in the earth - then we find they DO NOT come at REGULAR, GIVEN, periods - but more as cycles, dependent upon what the individual, the entity, HAS done, or HAS accomplished through ITS cycle of the earth's passage THROUGH THIS solar system, as the SOLAR system is also passing through its various spheres, that are being acted upon by the forces FROM without, or that as is ordinarily known - or has been DETERMINED and named, though not rightly, or wholly rightly in their aspects - as those forms in the various MONTHS, as given - yet we find a SIMILARITY of expression, rather than action. ACTION from the MOTIVE forces FROM the entity's EXPERIENCE OR development, or through either the EARTH'S experience or the SPHERES about same. Hence those that speak of the GODS of the universe are PROPER in their concept, WOULD they be CONSIDERED as an INDIVIDUAL division of the various SPHERES - but God, in His heavens, the Maker of ALL, is as the ONE GOD, the ONE source! the various spheres of experience through which the entities pass making for those variations, either as to appearance or to those that are builded; for where the treasure is the heart is also. One lays up earthly treasures, then those are builded and they seek oft to gain again that which was left undone during that sojourn; for silver and gold, cattle or position, name or fame - these are but symbols of, an expression of, an individual entity attempting to make manifest ITS concept of ITS first creative energy in ITS position in the universal forces. As an entity passes on, as has been given, from this present - or THIS solar system, THIS sun, THESE forces, it passes
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through the various spheres - leading first into that central force, through which - known as Arcturus - nearer the Pleiades, in this passage about the various spheres - on and ON - through the EONS of time, as called - or space - which is ONE in the various spheres of its activity; even passing into the inner forces, INNER sense, may they again - after a period of nearly ten THOUSAND years - may an entity enter into the earth to make manifest those forces gained in ITS passage. In entering it takes on those forms that may be known in the dimensions of that plane which it occupies, there being not only three dimensions - as of the earth - but there may be as seven, in Mercury - or four, in Venus - or five, as in Jupiter. There may be only one as Mars. There may be many more as in those of Neptune, or they may become even as nil - until purified in Saturn's fires.
7. (Q) When and why did I enter the earth's plane? (A) To make manifest, even as the entity came in contact with that "All power given unto them in heaven and in earth." In earth, then, as has been seen, we are GIVEN - MEN, WOMEN - are given an OPPORTUNITY - see what you do with it all! for having passed through all the various developments as seen, all the various spheres of experience, as ones who may be one WITH the first cause, or build for themselves that which corrupteth - or that which shineth even as the ash on fire, yet soon burneth out and is cinder. So the soul enters in, to make manifest ITS concept of, ITS OWN concept OF, the first cause! Being endowed with that spark, or portion, or light, to MAKE manifest, it enters in EARTH - where ALL, in THIS sphere, are one! Just as an entity that leaves the earth's plane oft experiences an interim WITHOUT the knowledge of being without that dimension; being in a greater dimension, yet not capable of manifesting again in its form in a third dimension, seeks to express itself. This we see in many phases, in many manners. Just so a SOUL enters an entity, enters with its attributes of its soul, taking on a form, coming in the dimension of that plane in which it finds - through its awakened forces, by the various spheres of relativity of forces - to make manifest ITSELF, or - as it were - it has flown out from its source to try ITS wings, to seek ITS own doing - or undoing; dependent upon that as has been builded, and the use it makes of that given it.
8. (Q) Was my work completed in my life in India or will that cycle return to be completed, and will I play a part? (A) The opportunity is before you, for, as has been seen, the entity may make for itself here quite an interesting demonstration, which to ITSELF will bespeak that as has been
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given as concerning abilities of the entity in USING the various forces. Be WARNED - do not use to self's undoing! but that thou mayest know, this thou mayest do! Gaze into a crystal, in thine own conscious moments - thou may see many of the spheres through which YOU, THYSELF, have passed. Possibly not the first, but before the FIFTH time they will begin to appear; for these are a portion of those same forces studied. USED - not abused - in India, as WELL as in Egypt.
9. (Q) Give a brief sketch of my Egyptian life. (A) Even as a sketch this may be LONG, but if the entity will - as given - vision in self's own quieter moments, and look upon those monuments as were builded in that period for the dispensing of the various forms of the knowledge obtained and made manifest in the lives of individuals - in most too much a ritualistic manner, which eventually brought to many that "Must I give this people water?" THAT attitude, that condition - but if the entity will vision these from the aspect of the uses made of the sacred fires, of the sacred musics, of the sacred dances - as the entity gained the understanding of that rhythm, and the various forms of air, water, fire, brought INTO the experience of the mental man and as he used same in the dispensing of this knowledge in the various spheres to which he was sent, or went, or CHOSE to gain counsel from those combining forces of that as was obtained by self in the experience, and chose to match with, or mate with the various forms of the finding of self - expression in the other fields - then the entity may gain something of the sojourn in this land. For, coming in as the entity did - and taking up the various studies as they began in the rehabitating of those places beset by the turmoil and strife that arose from dissensions in the land - and as the entity gained from this poor, decrepit outcast [Ra-Ta] who returned to give counsel again to those who were falling by the way; though fallen himself in PHYSICAL conditions, yet the mind active - and the entity caught a vision, then, and sought to send same forth. DO the same in the present. We are through for the present.
Copy to Self " " Hugh Lynn Cayce Two copies to Ass'n office
[3/7/31 See continuation in 311-3, to further answer his questions.]