This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 3rd day of November, 1927, in accordance with request made by self - Miss [369].
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 2, 1905, in Norfolk, Va. [3:58 A.M. as per rdg. 369-12, Par. 19-A.] Time of Reading 3:20 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Va.
1. GC: You will give the relation of this entity and the universe, and the universal forces, giving the conditions as are as personalities, latent and exhibited, in the present life; also the former appearances in the earth's plane, giving time, 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.
2. EC: We have the entity here, and those relations with the universe and universal forces as are latent and exhibited in the present experience in the earth's plane.
3. In entering we find the entity comes under the influence of Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. Hence we find, irrespective of will's influence, many contrarywise, or many conditions that are at-variance in the experiences of the entity. Much to be applied in will's force through the development - for, as seen, unto Saturn once has the entity's influence gone; yet these conditions are experiences in the inmost self and must be met through the application of will in the earth's plane; for through the application of will's force does an entity develop or retard.
4. In the experience with will's force we find in this experience these conditions as respecting the astrological and astronomical aspects of the entity's experience:
5. One of those who, through mental forces, reaches the conclusions for self in most conditions in the life. Sensitive, however, to a fault, and often jumps at conclusions before reasoning force has had the opportunity to show the mental forces that position necessary to occupy.
6. One that may be loved into seeing many ways of actions, yet seldom does this change the entity's opinion, until reasoning has brought the proper attitude to the entity's experience.
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7. One that has ever the high ennobling forces in the life, and reasons towards same without respect to person or to position, yet - as will be seen - the entity's experiences have carried the entity through many various phases of fame and power, when viewed from the purely material viewpoint; yet such positions often brought those unsatisfactory results in such a way and manner that the reasoning force through the sojourn in Mercurian forces has made that advance in the development of the entity in the manner that ALL must at least be reasonable to the entity for it to attain a tenet through any condition presented. Well that this be used, but REMEMBER - same can be taken for self's own detriment; for without faith none may gain the highest development in the material or the spiritual plane; for when one may not have faith in that not seen, how may one expect that reflected from self to inspire others to faith in that the body-mind, the mental-mind, or the self represents?
8. One, then, that is in that turn of the development where this experience may bring that which will bring far advance, or may bring self to that of the "don't care" attitude of an earthly experience. Beware of that attitude in ANY condition in life, or in mental or spiritual aspect towards self, others, or relations with the universe - for each and every entity has its place, its niche, its pulse to fill, and none other may fill that as self is capable of doing. Rest the faith, then, in that power that gave the entity the being to make self One with that Creative Energy from which the entity as the whole came.
9. One that loves the beautiful in nature, in art, and in the life of others that the entity may contact.
10. One that ABHORS insincerity in any form.
11. One that is in that position of the elements in the astral forces where much may be gained in the MATERIAL way and manner, or the experience may be spent in GAINING the elements of reason without secular gain or position; yet the entity capable of rising to superb heights. In application of that once attained in the life, becomes the center of its (the life's) endeavor.
12. One in the life that should not enter the wedded life until after the thirtieth (30th) year, and not then until sure in self; for in the physical being there are those elements of uncertainty that would rob self of best developments were such unions made. [See 369-14 Ck. Physical on 6/16/36 clarifying this.]
13. One that may gain much through association with occult force or powers, for REASON - with the elements of high ideals and love and discretion, bring much development to
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such experiences.
14. In the urges as are seen from the experiences in the earth's plane, we will find many of those conditions that often bother the entity in the PRESENT experience. Hence those injunctions that may be given here, and through the experience and urge that to develop the entity must hold ever first and foremost that of Oneness with the Creative Energy in life, in death, in the inter-between - for it is not all of life to live, nor all of death to die [Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, James Montgomery's [1771-1854] THE ISSUES OF LIFE AND DEATH, Stanza 2: 'Tis not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death to die]; for one is the birth of the other when viewed from the whole or center, and is but the experience of the entity in its transition from and to that universal center from which ALL radiation is given.
15. In the appearances then:
16. In the one before this we find in that period when the western country now known as Chicago was then a fort. [GD's note: French & Indian Wars? The fort later known as Dearborn?] The entity then among those who sought refuge there from the wars without and within. Not only of the mental and moral conditions, but of the physical forces as applied to those settlers. The entity then the companion of Bainbridge [294] in the escape from that fort, losing the life in the waters of that river known as Ohio. The urge as is seen from same, the loathsomeness to even VIEW those portions of the country, seeking rather the eastern or far western portion of this land; yet that innate feeling that WERE the entity to see, view, experience any living act in this portion there would come something not satisfactory; yet the love of outdoors and of nature is the conflicting urge from this experience. Gaining - losing - gaining - losing - through this experience. Gaining through those things suffered for a principle. Losing through holding of malice and of the determination to get even. Can't be done! [Rom. 12:19] [10/19/27 See EC's dream rdg. 294-101 saying he should protect [369] this time, in thought-purpose.]
17. In the experience before this we find in that land when Charles the Second [of England] was the exile in France. The entity then among those who gave aid and succor to that ruler, and the entity then in the name Charmain, gained much favor with that ruler, bringing much good to the life and to the experiences of those whom the entity contacted in the way of succor to the faithful and to the unfaithful mercy, and the entity gained through this experience, though the entity was treated badly, in the manner, by this ruler, yet the even not holding malice or thought of being mistreated
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brought to the entity not only the help of others but development in that period.
18. In the one before this we find in that Trojan period when there was war made in the land and the city was besieged. The entity then among those who ministered especially to the keepers at the gates. Then in the name Pamn, and the entity gained through this experience, finding much in peoples, positions, conditions, to study and wonder about; yet keeping true to that desire set in self - to remain unspotted from the world though beset on every hand, yet remaining true in every sense to self and to others. Gaining, then, through this experience.
19. In the one before this we find in that period when there were the wars in the land when Xenophon led the peoples into the Arabian land. The entity was among those taken in the charges and working to the defense of land and peoples wrought havoc among the peoples that were invading. Then in the name Isael, and the entity lost through this experience. Though giving self in service of others, yet to the confounding of self's own principles, and the loss of confidence in men in high places, in low places, in power and in high stations, brought much to the detriment of the entity. The urge again seen in the present through that of wonder often at the acts and causes of actions in others. WELL - from this experience - that the entity abstain in body from that which would bemuddle the brain.
20. In the one before this we find in that land when the nomads entered into the land of Croesus and took those of that land as hostage for the tribes. The entity then the ruler's daughter, and in that school or that place so raided by the peoples, and the entity then taken as the hostage for Uhjltd, [294] the leader in this raid, and held as same by this leader until taken from him by the next in charge [195] and there remained. In the experience of the entity then in the name Elia, that horror of being forced into any action, whether of mental, physical, political, or any condition of subject to another's will. The entity lost through this experience, to the detriment of self, to the low dreg that of taking life in the way to satisfy self; not in defense of principle or of self, country or position; yet in the early portion of the life giving much to many in many ways.
21. In the one before this we find in that land when the divisions rose in the land. The entity then the lawful wife of the priest [294] who forsook those that had been set in the right way for those conditions set in the temple. The entity then in the name Asua. In the development the entity lost and gained and lost through this experience. Failing
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then to gain that lesson that was made by the ruler and the scribe to those that brought these conditions in the experience of the entity, for the entity then lost faith in self and in those who made profession to lead others toward that knowledge of the higher forces in earth through man's relation to the Creator. In the urge as is seen, LITTLE of religious thought that may not be reasoned from the vision of the entity's experience. Hence that injunction that faith must be builded in self, would the entity [if the entity would] create or radiate faith for others.
22. In the abilities then, there are seen many conflicting conditions in the entity's experience; yet, as is seen, when all are weighed - that in the gathering of that in mental or in physical force that brings succor, aid, understandings, or the better relations of self toward good for GOOD'S sake, and that that good may be turned into, that condition of making each entity One with the Creative Energy from which all come and all go, unless through self's OWN will becomes separated from Him.
23. Keep that faith in self and in Him, for in Him comes strength, through applying that KNOWN to be right. Gain knowledge, then, of Him through those forces that set thee near to him [[294] - EC] through whom the faith was lost in self, bringing to others that faith through those lessons gained and given to those who seek - through counsel - to understand those relations of man to Creator and Creator to man, for all are One in Him, and we of the faith must be in Him. Keep that committed unto thee against that day.
24. We are through.