This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 105th St. & Ocean, Virginia Beach, Va., this 7th day of December, 1931, in accordance with request made by Dr. [358], himself, Active Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
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 April 29, 1867, at 4:36 A. M., in Bombay, India. Time of Reading 3:25 to 4:15 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. New York City. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: (In going back over the years - " - '78 - yes, when the change came.")
2. Yes, we have the entity, now known as and called [358], and those relations with the universe and universal forces, as are latent and manifested in the personalities of the present entity.
3. In entering, astrologically we find the entity coming or entering under changed, or changing, or altering, conditions. Hence from the astrological viewpoint many sudden and definite changes would be, will be, the experience of the entity in this present sojourn. Coming under the influences as in a change, bringing that in the MENTAL vision of growth - yet many clinging to those visions of the entity in the environs of its youth. In the astrological aspect of planetary influence, by sojourn rather than of positions at birth, we find:
4. Mercury gives rather the analytical turn of mind, and that of Arcturus WITH Uranus a delving into those of the scientific or semi-scientific nature - the EXPLAINING of cause and effect being ever one of those influences that will be with the entity until there is the rising of Jupiter's, with Uranus', influence in the latter portion of present experience, when the entity will be under those of the spiritual influences and opportunities, when broadness of vision in the mental and spiritual WORLDS bring this change again in the experience of the entity. In Jupiter also will make for, has made, those associations with men, people, things, of affluence, and of LARGER associations with moneys, positions, places. These kept as they have been, in their RESPECTIVE places IN the developing of the entity's soul or spiritual forces, make for a broader experience and a meeting of those sources of developing necessary for the greater work OF the entity in the present
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experience.
5. In that as is builded through the astrological, as well as environmental and hereditary - hereditary AND environmental being rather from SOJOURNS than from those of a materialistic, or of the nature of ONE experience:
6. As seen, one whose abilities lie in the fields of doing for others in a manner that is acceptable through the normal channels of material developments. Even in scientific studies, and lessening of physical labors, or a lightening of material and physical burdens of peoples, these are the fields of endeavor. In that builded by the proper association and correlation of such endeavors, reaching the fully scientific field, in the spiritual development must bring the same characterizations in the labors, endeavors and attempts of the entity, but on rather that of a correlative, cooperative, background, than of the materialistic or the sensual background.
7. One given to easily becoming adaptable to the surroundings of self, meeting the emergencies of the moment in both a scientific and an amicable manner, able TO cooperate WITH others in the various activities as necessary for the developments of the good that may come to the whole. Hence one that may be said to have in the greater portion of present experience developed, or BUILDED self, to a position where the greater, or more far-REACHING work OF the entity for present experience is yet to be accomplished; for this must necessarily turn into more direct fields, reaching not only the MENTAL mind but the soul or SPIRITUAL mind OF entities, or individuals, in their application of both oriental and occidental environ, that may be correlated by the entity in a practical, applicable, experience for those who seek through those channels, that HAVE set an ideal in Him that makes for the accomplishing of such IN a material world.
8. In the appearances, that have their direct influence upon the present development or experience of the entity:
9. In the one then before this we find in that period when there were being those settlements, developments, in the present land of the entity's sojourn, with that one known as Penn. The entity then, one named Schunscheimer [?], was among those that made developments among those native peoples, partaking their manners, their ways, yet using same in a manner that saved many an individual and group; SEALING, compacting, as it were, more of those treaties or agreements as made between those new settlers and the natives. The entity gained and lost through the experience. GAINED the greater, in the service rendered to so many -
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saving self by same service; LOSING self in aggrandizing of interests that made for physical hardships for self, and contentions and divisions arising later as to settlements as were to be materially made. In the present this influences the entity as to the necessities of the love of this land, yet the entity as an entity (Let's get the difference, for perfect understanding! The entity AS an entity) sought for the entrance in material plane UNDER those environs that would gain more concept of the SPIRITUAL truths as taught BY that leader in his OPEN way of meeting the various conditions; FOR THE ENTITY, as an entity, held to its FORMER activity in such relations as made for more of the I AM in no UNCERTAIN terms, leaving rather the individual to become that of the follower WITHOUT question - see? In the present experience this also brings that desire to meet the needs of a justification of self in this surrounding, this environ, this changed condition, that must needs be met; one that stood for the freedom OF speech, OF activity, OF individual worship of that it called ITS Maker, in an EXPANDING, developing, environ.
10. In the one then before this we find in that period when there were the expanding of, or extending of, the developments from the Indian land to those of the Persian or Arabian, when there were the establishings of those teachings under Uhjltd in the plain, through many peoples from many lands, for the counsel that good might come to many. The entity was then among those who came from what would now be called the Chaldean country, yet of those peoples who later were among those that were of the tribes left in the land FROM the promised or Judean land. Then in the name Buzzhanahai, in this experience we find the entity developing and losing. Gaining through the desire for, seeking to know that as might give aid to others, the better concepts of life's experience AS a development of the entity or soul life. Losing in the thoughts that such accounts might be turned to the satisfying, gratifying, of EARTHLY or MATERIAL desires, and in attempts to do same brought for self the condemnation of many. Later in the entity's own land DEVELOPING again, in the manner of giving to others those lessons gained while in this Persian or Arabian land, from those tenets of the peoples gathered there. In this present experience much of the same experience must come to the entity for its greater or WHOLE development; for its numbers becomes nine in this experience.
11. In the one then before this we find in that land now known as the Egyptian, and during those experiences when there was the establishing of those teachings of those
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peoples who attempted to build a relationship between Creative forces and the creatures, that attempted to give understandings and disseminations of the truths as had come from cosmic influence from those peoples then entering into the material world from sojourns from the mental world, in the same sphere of environ. The entity was then among those who, under the teachings of him that was banished in the Nubian land, [Ra-Ta] came again with those from the banishment, to the temples about that place now where the various forms of the figures present, or represent, the attempts of the peoples in the day, and about those yet to be uncovered, in the city THEN called Aicerao. In this place the entity developed much, for the entity became one of the RULERS in the temple upon the departure of him that gave the first divisions of the laws to the peoples in that period; yet some deviations by the entity brought in the latter portion of the entity's experience, as Haijhi, much disturbing in the material ways. This must be met in the present. From this experience in the present comes much of those contending forces in many various lands, much of the contending forces as have to do with the various differentiations between mysticism, occult influence, and those of the SPIRITUAL awakenings in individuals. The spirit makes alive. The MYSTIC may be a way, but may lead to contortion of the very ideal itself. Occult may lead to an awakening, but may be driven by other forces than spiritual. The SPIRIT gives life!
12. In the one then before this we find during those periods when there were the gatherings of the many peoples of many lands, in that now known as the Indian land, those peoples that came as councillors from the foreign or visiting lands. The entity was then among those from what is NOW known as American, and came as one to counsel with those peoples that determined the manner of dealing with many of the beasts, or those things that made men afraid in the earth. The entity then in the name Uowi. In this experience the entity gained and lost; for gaining much in the sense of the application of MECHANICAL appliances for the use of man in that material land, the entity used same to self's own destruction to its peoples, in that PORTION of the land NOW known as Utah and New Mexico. Would the entity vision much of that portion of those lands lying in the southern portions of that land, and those of the Arizona and New Mexico lands, MUCH as a dream would come to the entity.
13. In the ABILITIES of the entity in the present, and that to which it may attain, and how:
14. As has been seen, much has been the entity's
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possibilities AND abilities in the sojourns, that are to reflect in the entity's PRESENT experience. OPPORTUNITIES are still in the entity's wake, are these inclined to the SPIRITUAL side of man's development, rather than the material or the earthly side of same. Then, through those experiences as have been had in the present, through those through the sojourns in the earth and its environs, build in self that which makes for a surety in Him that gave the light to the world, that all might be one under that banner of His. While teachers may come, teachers may go, His self, His DEVELOPMENTS WERE such, ARE such, that all may come under HIS banner and ENTER in at the straight gate. Keep thine self cleansed, through the abilities of self to know the cleansing forces as may be taken from the elements that become creative in their nature THROUGH even a MATERIAL body. So rejuvenate that material body, in such a manner as to GIVE the BEST of self in ESTABLISHING that relationship that brings HEALING to those MENTALLY disturbed, ease of body to those PHYSICALLY disabled, and that brings those understandings in one to that spiritual force as found in Him, He that gave, "My peace I give unto thee. The WAY ye know, and I go that ye may have an advocate WITH the Father. I in him, ye in me, may do - as I have GIVEN you power, THROUGH me, TO be in me, I in thee." Keep this, then, as that measuring standard for thine efforts, that these days in the earth may bring that to self, as to that teacher of old, "I have fought the good fight, I have henceforth laid up a crown of righteousness." KEEP the body, the mind, the soul, in accord with the Creative Forces that make for UNISON of purpose in all.
15. Ready for questions.
16. (Q) My first wife died in India in 1893. In 1897 her spirit informed me that she was going to re-incarnate again in this world to help me. In a dream vision, I was told she was born in America. If that is so, and if I am likely to meet her again, then where and when? (A) When self has been dedicated, set aside, for the developing the SPIRITUAL forces in this MATERIAL world, will these be brought to bear TO aid in that ONCE begun - in the awakening.
17. (Q) My present wife who is in America with me, is she expected to pass away before me or after me and when? (A) This, in the separations that must be necessary for those developments in the occidental forces, for the occidental and oriental cleansing, will make for those separations as will bring the greater understanding to ALL concerned. As to time, place OR period, these in their own
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day. This may be SHOWN thee, even as the vision thou gatherest at the period of the meeting WITH those under the tree, where the three in their native costumes are NOW communing WITH thee.
18. (Q) How far would I succeed in my spiritual mission (see chapter in my book page 425). [Manuscript] (A) This, as has been given, IS the mission, and the entity may set in motion that which may bring about the greater understanding between those of the VARIOUS forces, AS teachers as have been in this material world, but keep rather to the SPIRITUAL side OF development, than would it bring crowds, would it bring force. The POWERS that be must be THROUGH Him, IN thee!
19. (Q) What course should I follow? (A) As has been outlined, the separation of self in the various ways as will be shown thee, as the meditation, the contemplation (Do not confuse - those are entered in, IN their various spheres). In the next two years there should be sufficient of those of the material plane, that the entity may then inject into self's activities that separation, segregation, of self from the WORLD, to become a teacher, a leader. [See 358-3, Par. R7.]
20. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " File " " Ass'n