This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Va. Beach, Va., this 5th day of June, 1933, in accordance with request made by self - Miss [347], new Active Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Miss [1377].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. L. B. and Hugh Lynn Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Born September 8, 1873, in Jersey City, N.J. Time of Reading 11:20 to 12:05 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., N.J. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: (In going back over years - "90 - 89 - That's a big change! - 88 - 87 - 86 - " etc.)
2. Yes, we have the entity and those relations with the universe and universal forces; that are latent and manifested in the personalities of the present entity, known as [347].
3. In entering the present experience, the astrological influences are rather the experiences of sojourns of the entity; hence are innate and manifested in a greater or less degree, dependent upon the activity of the will of the present entity (this referring to the present experience).
4. Then, do not let those conditions that are innate and manifested in a degree become confusing to self, in making application of that which may be given for benefit to the entity in the present experience.
5. Coming under the influence in Venus, with Jupiter in the positions that the entity occupied in these environs, the entity is one inclined or tending to be shy, petite, rather recluse. While the entity is aware of many conditions that are felt in self, there is a reserve - or has been through the experience - that has kept the entity from giving expression to that which is known; and the entity has had those experiences oft when there were the urges within self to act, from those things the entity contacted, from these individuals the entity contacted - and had the entity acted upon the impulse, as it has found, a great deal of change would have been in the experience.
6. Hence questions that have arisen oft in the mental application of the entity's experiences, as to whether there is an impelling influence from without self that controls the mental and active forces of self, or whether it is lack of stamina or judgment in self as to the activities.
7. These may be found to be contributory conditions in the
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experience, whether related to the material or mental; whether related to the material things of life or to the mental attitudes that the body has assumed towards conditions, as to relationships with individuals, groups or tenets that have been in the experience of the entity.
8. As the entity should understand, there is an influence; yet, as to an entity's application of self - it is as to what the entity, the will, the soul, does about what it knows or feels, that makes for weal or woe.
9. Hence, when self is guided by an ideal that is set, as to its mental relationships, as to things, conditions and individuals, the results are the builded influences; hence have their application in the experience of every entity in its journey through the material or earth experience.
10. In this application also does there come oft to the entity (and to many another under such experiences, or such environs) much intent and purpose (or study) towards that relating to what may be termed karma, or the destiny set, and what an entity may do.
11. What may an entity do?
12. There is set before thee two ways, ever; and the choice is given to a soul as to whether it (the soul) chooses that in keeping with the ideals set in Creative Influences, or God, making the will one with, not blaming Him with that which comes to self, but self - as to what has been builded, and what self does about His love, law, and experience - in every relation.
13. From those influences also in Jupiter we find the individual application respecting those influences in individual experiences.
14. Hence all those forces that may be termed of the environmental (as astrological, numerological, the aura, color, vibration, etc.) are a portion of the entity's experience, and at times becomes confusing to the entity - as to whether these influence the experiences, or the experiences influence these in the activity of the entity.
15. It will be found that all have their place; for, as we have given, every force - in its manifestation - is from the One, or God. And that which is manifested in material things is a result, and not the motive force; for mind, mental (which may not be seen with the eye as termed in the material world, but with the spiritual eye) is the builder.
16. In this relation, too, the entity will find that in self these influences as related to material conditions may be made a portion of the entity's experience, in aiding others to analyze themselves.
17. For, first one must know self, and that it as a soul
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desires to do about that it has attained in the mental world. This is making an ideal. Is this to be used, then, for self- indulgence, for self-aggrandizement, for self's laudation; or is it to be used that the power of the universe, the love of the Creative Force, may be made manifest the more in the experience of self and in the experiences of those whom the entity contacts?
18. He went about doing good with the knowledge He had in a material world; evil-spoken of, yes - but for this purpose came He.
19. And self will find that in the application of the laws of love, of environ, of experience, of all the forces that maintain their activity in the material world as expressions of a mental influence from a Creative Force, or energy, all are of His bidding - and to be used as He would have.
20. Hence, ever should the meditation of the entity be:
21. OPEN THOU MINE EYES, O FATHER, TO THE GLORIES THOU WOULD SHED UPON THE SONS OF MEN. LET ME, IN MY WEAKNESS, BE A CHANNEL, AN AID, A HELP, TO AN ERRING ONE!
22. Those influences also from the astrological experience in Uranus make for the astrological, psychological, and the psychic influences in the experience of the entity; and in material things make for that which is often termed (through the younger years of the entity in this experience) as selfishness; or the entity was rather moody, inclined at times to be thought to be somewhat selfish; yet, on being better understood, was found to be confusion rather than selfishness.
23. What brings confusion? Self, in that the way is open - yet, as to what to do becomes confusing, in that self gets in the way and becomes the stumbling block. This has made for those experiences also when there were the abilities for the entity to advance, as it were, suddenly, in relationships as to individuals, and in the abilities in the material world also.
24. Also there have been periods when apparently nothing seemed to succeed, from the material viewpoints.
25. In the sojourns in the earth, we find these are at times at an at-variance to the experience of the entity in or from the mental aspect, or intuitional aspect of the entity.
26. These are from what the entity did as to that it understood, as related to the Creative Influences.
27. Hence we find periods both in retrogression and in progress, in the activities of the entity in the earth's plane
28. These, we find, as those that influence the entity in the present, though since five years these are somewhat
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altered; hence we only give those that influence IN the present:
29. In the one before this we find the entity was in that land now known as the Philadelphian, when there was the establishing of an association between those of the native land and those of the natives in the land.
30. The entity then was among the first born in this land, in the name then Stagge.
31. The entity grew to be one that enabled many of the land, and people that foregathered from other lands, to be brought to an understanding of the relationships of the spirit of progress in the land.
32. Hence poetry of outdoors, or that dealing with land, sky and stream, as related to individuals' activity, and such experiences of animal life, bird life and growing things, are of particular interest to the entity; also there is the ability to make same (that is, this harmony) worthwhile in the experience of self, and with others.
33. Through the experience the entity gained and lost; gained in giving to others much of peace, much of a contentment.
34. The greater an individual, the more content the individual may be. Not as an animal that is satisfied with the body filled, but rather that contentment which is seen in the acts of those that bring joy with the expression of themselves; as a bird in song, a bird in flight, an animal in the care of its young. THAT is contentment; the other rather lethargy.
35. In the present there is seen much that the entity may gain from the experience, in the application of those things that deal with individuals day by day; whether it be from those things that may bring the necessities of a material life, in the supplying of that which fills the individual for the time, or in creating harmony in the body.
36. Hence dietetics IN foods will ever be an interesting factor in the entity's experience; for the entity has oft been, as it were, in that of Stagge.
37. Before this we find the entity was in that land now known as the Roman, during those periods when there were the persecutions of those that came into the land bringing those tenets and truths of a new teacher.
38. The entity then was among those that were persecuted for the activities in this direction; coming under the tenets of - and teachings of - some of those that had been very close to the Son of man, the teacher in the Nazarene land.
39. Then in the name Marcia, the entity brought much of the teachings to many; failing only in persecutions, when those
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the entity loved in body, in mind, were being persecuted, and the entity failed through crying against the powers that be.
40. Hence in the present is seen those periods when the mind and the body reaches almost to exhaustion with the upheavals in the mental being, as to the tenets; for these have been changed oft, even in the entity's experience in the present, as to the relationships with those that worship a living God in this or that matter of rote.
41. Hence the entity finds that more and more there must be seen in that the entity dislikes (by analysis and by study) an attempt of that soul, group or individual, to express that which arises from what it must worship, [if it were] were it directed (to the entity) in some other direction.
42. Hence hate, persecution, should never be any part of ANY entity's experience, or experiments. Put such out of thine experience, through the love He showed in GIVING Himself as the ransom for many.
43. Hence each soul should so live that it is willing to become accursed that HIS power, His love, may be manifest the more.
44. Before this we find the entity was in that land now known as the Egyptian, during those periods when there was the reestablishing of the tenets that were given by the priest Ra-Ta.
45. The entity then was among those that grew to be of power, and aid, in the disseminating of the truths in the experiences of others during that period; for the entity became one that aided in the application of material things as to aiding - in the adding to or taking from, in its manifestations - the assimilating through the body. Then, the entity was one that, as it were, set the character of fruits and nuts for the diet of those that would purify themselves for the spiritual service in the Temple Beautiful.
46. Throughout this experience the entity gained, in ministering that it knew to the good, to the needs, of others.
47. In the present the entity may gain much through the development of self in this direction; for, as the body builds - through the attitudes of its mental attributes, either through the experience in environmental influences or as to what it does about the knowledge or the understanding it has as related to the Creative Influences - so may the understanding come to self.
48. For, in the application of love is love begotten: In the application of hate is hate begotten. In the
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application of selfishness does doubt and fear arise.
49. Hence, keep for self - in these periods of meditation, as given - that which will make for using of self, in its abilities in EVERY way, to further not self's ideas but that which self has found good in self's experience, in making known HIS love, HIS laws, in a material world.
50. Ready for questions.
51. Keep the face upward. Keep the face to the light. Let the smile of His love find, in all that thou seest, a manifestation of His glory. Let those that ever behold thee, in thy daily ministrations in a service of any kind, see the light of having been oft in prayer, oft in His presence, in the light of thine eye.
52. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " File