This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Va. Beach, Va., this 26th day of September, 1933,in accordance with request made by self - Mr. [378], 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. and Hugh Lynn Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading ... Street, 3:30 to 4:10 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. New York City. (Soul-mind, seeking further information on his Egyptian incarnation as Hept-supht and its influence in the present. Questions.)
1. EC: (In going over the suggestion, interpreted the name as follows: "Hept-supht - Help Keep It Shut.")
2. Yes, we have the entity, the soul-mind and the experiences in the earth of [378], as known in the present.
3. Ready for questions.
4. (Q) Give spiritual help to develop the psychic powers, which will enable me to become a fitting channel for God's work, now. (A) In the application of that which has been the experience of a soul through sojourns in the earth, these should not be taken only for their historical setting; nor for their historic value, save as to the conditions that were manifest in a material plane through such an experience and what an entity's, a soul's, activity was and how same makes for urges in the present.
For, the application of spiritual laws or psychic law that pertains to a soul-entity in its activity in the material atmosphere or environ, is not only peculiar unto itself but there is seen in the application of the material attributes of a physical body that which may be a shadow or outline for that pertaining to soul development.
As indicated or sought for here, as related to the activities of this soul, this entity, that may be applicable in the experience of the entity for development of self towards the application of psychic or spirit law in the present:
That which a conscious mind does with pleasure becomes a part of the entity's personality.
Then, the natural question in gaining an appreciation of
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that which may be helpful in the developing of a soul-entity would be, what is personality of a soul?
The understanding of a body in the material environs as to the laws of a particular experience, making for that termed as sincerity of the entity, of the soul, pertaining to the law that is known, is the soul's personality. Think on that!
In relation, then, to the entity; as sought:
As the entity in the present makes the application, or sets in motion the experiences of self in its contact with those influences that may be contacted in its association, relation, environ, in its walk through the experience, so will the growth be; so will there be unfolded to the entity those experiences throughout its own appearances, not as to the histology or the genealogical conditions but that which is much deeper - or that known as individuality. And so does growth come.
Or, as we have given as to how a soul becomes conscious, aware, of its contact with the universal-cosmic-God-Creative forces in its experience; by feeding upon the food, the fruits, the results of spirit, of God, of Life, of Reality: Love, hope, kindness, gentleness, brotherly love, patience. THESE make for the awareness in the soul of its relationship to the Creative force that is manifest in self, in the ego, in the I AM of each soul, and of I AM THAT I AM.
So may the entity, the soul of THIS entity, become aware - through meditating upon those understandings, those truths that are as examples, as witnesses in the earth and its environs - of THAT which magnifies the Spirit in the earth of the first manifestation that man calls God and His holy angels.
5. (Q) Give a prayer to awaken the best in me now. (A) SO LET MY LIFE NOW SHINE UNTO OTHERS THAT THEY MAY KNOW THAT THOU, O GOD, WOULD SPEAK AND MEET THOSE I MEET DAY BY DAY.
CREATE IN ME A PURE HEART. RENEW A RIGHTEOUS SOUL WITHIN ME, O GOD!
6. (Q) Was the entity the one that, at the completion of the pyramid, clanged the sheet of metal? [See 294-131, 10-A--12-A, 1/25/32 in re [378].] (A) Clanged the sheet of metal at the completion of Gizeh, that sealed the records in the tomb yet to be discovered.
7. (Q) Please describe incident and ceremony.
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(A) This is rather unreasonable, and may be best given with the entity present; for it would prolong much at the sitting here.
The apex (that has been long since removed by the sons of Heth [?] [Gen. 10:15.]), the crown or apex, was of metal; that was to be indestructible, being of copper, brass and gold with other alloys that were prepared by those of the period.
And, as this was to be (Gizeh we are speaking of) the place for the initiates and their gaining by personal application, and by the journey or journeys through the various activities - as in the ceremonial actions of those that became initiates, it became very fitting (to those as in Ra, and those of Ra-Ta Ra) that there should be the crowning or placing of this symbol of the record, and of the initiates' place of activity, by one who represented both the old and the new; one representing then the Sons of the Law in Atlantis, Lemuria, Oz and Og. So, he that keeps the record, that keeps shut, or Hept-supht, was made or chosen as the one to seal that in the tomb.
The ceremony was long; the clanging of the apex by the gavel that was used in the sounding of the placing. Hence there has arisen from this ceremony many of those things that may be seen in the present; as the call to prayer, the church bell in the present, may be termed a descendant; the sounding of the trumpet as the call to arms, or that as revelry; the sound as of those that make for mourning, in the putting away of the body; the sounding as of ringing in the new year, the sounding as of the coming of the bridegroom; all have their inception from the sound that was made that kept the earth's record of the earth's building, as to that from the change. The old record in Gizeh is from that as recorded from the journey to Pyrenees; and to 1998 from the death of the Son of Man (as a man).
8. We are through for the present.
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