This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at Lillian Edgerton, Inc., 267 Fifth Ave., New York City, this 7th day of November, 1933, in accordance with request made by self - Mrs. [431], new Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mr. [849].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Hugh Lynn Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [431].
R E A D I N G
Born March, 31, 1897, in San Antonio, Texas. Time of Reading 12:00 to 12:50 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. New York City. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes, we have the entity here, and those relations with the universe and universal forces, that are latent and manifested in the personalities of the entity now known as [431].
2. In entering the present experience we find the astrological influences such that are often contradictory to that which has been the experience of the entity. Hence it may be seen that there have been in the material or earthly appearances of the entity those periods when the activities of the entity have made for both developments and retardments. Hence from the astrological experiences there have come in the present experience of the entity those conditions which in the mental body have not only made for entanglements at times but those periods when there are in the experience distraughtness, anxiety, unrest. As we shall see from that which will be given, these have been produced in a material manifested manner in the present from the activities of the entity in astrological sojourn as well as appearances in the material plane.
3. As to the astrological urge, we find Jupiter the greater ruling influence in the present experience. Hence the particular phases of earth's activities during the last few years, especially since '27, have been both good and bad; yet the spreading of the associations, the connections with individuals, has brought in the experience of the entity those material things that would to many be satisfying, yet to many another these become rather those things that make for estrangements, entanglements and burdens, when the mental aptitudes and the mental conditions of the body are taken into consideration. The influences from Jupiter in the early portion of last fall made for an association that was rather satisfying, yet the same activities from the
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sojourns and situations have made - with the changes that have come in the recent experience when those influences of Jupiter are receding from those activities in the earth - troubles, consternation, disorders, disruption, in the ideas and the ideals of the entity. And these, as we find, will continue for only a short period, when other influences from astrological sojourns - with the application of the WILL of self - will be brought into more accord, more attune, with the desires of the body from its innate and inner self. For, the triune and conjunction of Jupiter with those that come in the aspects of Jupiter with Venus and Uranus, will make for better conditions in the material aspects of the body. This, as we find, should begin by the 22nd or 23rd of the present month, and gradually increase in the activities in these influences to a period of 3 to 4 years.
4. Venus influences, as we find, make for impulses within the activities of the entity through this experience, as these:
5. The marital associations, the loves, the associations in the inmost secrets of the heart at times have been very pleasant, very near to idealistic for periods, and then making - as it were - bitterness in some associations. Yet, with Uranian influence - which brings the activities of the psychic or occult forces in the activities of the body-mind - there will be made the quieting, with the activities in the MENTAL influences of the body. These should continue in their associations, if there is builded in the experience of the entity during those periods the benevolent influences of Jupiter; though, in a retrospective position, with its sojourns in Venus and Uranus, there is a greater influence.
6. Uranus makes for the periods within self of being very strong in mental impressions, or activities in the experience of very good or very bad. Hence the influence to the entity from these influences or IMPULSES will be rather in the benevolent aspect with Venus AND Jupiter in better aspects to the Uranian sojourners, as the entity has been. These make in the mental capacities and abilities of the entity the estranging influences that have made for currupting the better influences in self at times.
7. The arts, artistic relations, music, travel, have been in the experience of the entity; and those fields of art that pertain to things, places, that are telling in the interest in the experiences of individuals are of particular interest, and should be the field of association or activity of the entity to bring to self more contentment, more satisfying influences in the entity's experience.
8. Those, then, that have to do with the idealistic are of
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particular interest to the entity. And only those with such ideals that are compatible with the ideas and ideals of the entity may bring to the entity, or may the entity associate with in such a manner as to bring, contentment or the satisfying experiences in the activities of the entity.
9. Hence, as we shall find, the associations of self should be in these directions rather than in individuals, rather than in portraiture or even miniature activities; but those that bespeak of not only the murals or what may be termed the giving influences in the experience, not commercial forces, but those that build in the experience of the beholder of such activities, in painting, in music, in art; rather that which builds for an answering to a something within the make-up of the beholders, which makes for a bettering in their lives.
10. As to the appearances, then, and those that influence the entity in the present:
11. Before this we find the entity was during those periods when there were the settlings in the land about the present sojourn of the entity, in the early portions of those settlings.
12. The entity then was among the first student body in this particular land, and in the foundings of the schools in and about those places of the entity's present sojourn, in that of Long Island, were the entity's activities.
13. Through the experience the entity gained and lost, and gained in the latter portion of the sojourn there. The name then was Ellen Hender. In the application of self during the experience, in the early portion the entity gained, for it applied itself in bringing to others that which would be helpful to them in their daily experience. With the coming of power and position in the experience made for the self-aggrandizing of interests that made for losing in self, or soul development. Yet, with the trials, with the temptations that arise with these periods of decline in the associations and connections, there was brought the ideal activity of self-development, rather than self-indulgence. Hence the entity in the last portion developed in the morals, in the mental attitudes and in soul environment.
14. As to the influences brought in the material aspects of the body in the present from that sojourn, there are the abilities in self that have found little satisfactory outlet in application that would bring to others that felt innately in self would be the better experience or development of others. Hence this has made for an association in contact of individuals that are capable of, and are able to make for, creating such influences, for the groups, for the
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masses.
15. Before this we find the entity was in that land now known as the Roman, during those periods when there were trials and tribulations among the peoples for the thoughts, for the services, for the activities of the people that remained true to tenets and principles, ideals, that were created in the minds and hearts and souls of those during the period.
16. The entity then was of the household of Elois, and was in the name Helene. In the early portion of the experience the entity was among those that joined the games that were prepared by the rulers during that period of the fights among the gladiators, among the beasts of the field, and later those that fought with humankind in the arena.
17. The rebellions of that something within the self of Helene in this experience made for the application of self to know something more of the lives and experiences and impulses that prompted individuals to give of themselves in such a way and manner. This brought turmoils and strife, yet there was the turning within self to the making of an application of self to those peoples in such a way and manner as to bring in the experience of many those things that were not only helpful in the material ways and manners but helpful in the mental and soul development of the individuals, as well as self.
18. During the sojourn the entity enjoined self in companionship with one, Herrotel, that prepared and preserved many of the paintings of those periods that have become the basis of many a renowned painter in the more modern and medieval times.
19. Then, the entity gained throughout, even in those periods when enjoining self with that which to self later became mockery; for the heart, the soul of the entity, was rather with those that suffered in mind and in body. And in applying self in that which regained much for the respect of self for the activities, there was builded in the soul's activity those things that made for soul development.
20. In the present much turmoil arises within self from the mental experiences of that sojourn; yet same has oft remained the bulwark of faith and hope in the whole experience of the entity. And in same may come that which will in the present make for the greater sustaining forces that will make for contentment, peace, harmony, happiness and joy. Not in what may be termed the periods of turning to religious influences, but rather the impelling influences in self to do SOMETHING for those that are aiding others to find themselves, their places, their positions in the scheme
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of things, of life, of their activities. For, as was experienced in that sojourn, the entity may find in the present that helping others to help themselves will bring joy, peace, happiness, contentment, and a life much worth while.
21. Before this we find the entity was in that experience or period when there were the journeyings into the desert by the Grecian peoples for an understanding or a hearing of the teacher that had builded in that land now known as Arabia.
22. The entity then was beautiful in body, in mind, beautiful in purpose; for the entity was of the household of the leaders in the period. And the entity was dissatisfied with the activities about self and sought that which had through the HEARING brought contentment and health and happiness to the wayfarer in the desert.
23. Then the entity journeyed into the land and found that which had brought these developments for the peoples, and enjoined self in the activities; yet this in itself brought discontent, by the activities of those through whom, to whom, the entity in the relationships in the MATERIAL affairs belonged, as it were. For, it was considered as a deserting of principles of the entity's upbringing. This brought turmoils and strife to the entity's experience in the MATERIAL things or affairs, but in the soul brought development. For, though the entity lost in material things, it gained much in the spiritual activities in that experience, as Joseliny.
24. In the present from that sojourn there are the turmoils in the mental activities that have been in the experience of the entity in the present; yet made for - in the mental and soul body - the sojourn in the Uranian experiences. Hence in the present the mystic, the occult, may bring to the entity satisfying experiences, if the application will be in such a way and manner as to make for the understanding of self's relationships to Creative influences in the life.
25. Before this we find the entity was in that land known as the Egyptian, during those periods when there were the turmoils from the rebellions when the Priest had been sent away from the land into banishment into the Abyssinian land.
26. The entity then joined in with the leader [849] of the rebellion in the land, being a companion and an associate of the entity, and made for self those experiences that with the quieting of the rebellion made for many regrets in the experience. But with the return of peace and the restoring of the Priest's activities as the leader of the moral and spiritual life of the peoples, the entity then aided in making for those relationships of the rulers with the
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leaders of the rebellion that made for closer activities in the duties and the beauties of the land that was gained by those peoples as they gradually discarded the carnal influences in their life.
27. This the entity then made into that which became the redounding influence in artistic developments of the hangings and the decorations of the walls and of the temples of the land, in the name Hat-heptl.
28. In the experience the entity lost and gained, yet the soul's influences have turmoils from that experience through the sojourn from same into Venus.
29. Then, in the present there are the impulses that are sometimes hard to be comprehended by the entity in the association of things that pertain to oriental that bespeak rather of the occidental application of same. And these added to that given from the Roman sojourn may make in the application of that to which the entity may attain in the present experience, through the artistic associations, those relationships that may make for the preparation of those influences in the experience of others that will mean to them as individuals, as groups, that of hope, faith, understanding, happiness, joy; and in the application of same bring into the experience of others these influences, that will make for the entity in the present the greater joy, peace, harmony, in the whole experience of the entity.
30. As to the abilities, then, and that to which the entity may attain, and how:
31. In applying self in associations with, or applying self direct in the applied arts that pertain to creating those things or aptitudes that will bring happiness to others, with a joy of life and its experience, and in the applying of self in aiding those that there may come in THEIR experience something of joy, something of hope, will bring the greater experience in the present sojourn.
32. Ready for questions.
33. (Q) Why am I blocked so continuously in trying to realize or bring the ideal, of which I have a clear conception, into my life here? (A) As indicated from the experiences through which the entity has passed in the earth's sojourn, the more often does it come from impatience with self. For, as seen, while individuals may hold ideals, the finding of those that have the basis of their ideals in a kindred thought or manner makes for those experiences that may be the more helpful. Yet the experience of self has been that others try to dominate. The entity may NOT be dominated by any! Those that have builded soul development, as the entity has, to
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them material things mean little save as they make for the attaining to that which must answer for the ideal. Set the ideal, then, rather in Creative influences in the experiences of others, and it will be found that these blocks, these hindering influences, will fade away.
34. (Q) Why is everything I love always taken from me? (A) Even as it has been in the past. That self's SOUL may be grounded in the hope, the trust, that makes for soul development. How may this, then, be overcome in self? Make the loves, the experiences, rather those that will bring joy, happiness, hope to OTHERS, and it will make for joy, happiness, a life of activity in the present that will make for greater contentment, greater joy, greater happiness.
35. (Q) Will the entity find greatest happiness and expression in painting? (A) As given, in painting; or in associating self with those that make for or create those things that will raise the ideals of others. As the entity was instrumental in preserving much in painting that has redowned [redound?] to an influence in the earth, in the world, that has brought hope to many, so may the application of self in this field of activity by associations with others bring peace and joy and happiness.
36. (Q) Under what teacher, if any, should she now study? (A) With the present abilities, the removal of those influences that have been considered as ideal, turn rather to the meditating in self and visualization; materializing through the painting that which comes from within self. These should bring the greater influences. Not that the entity is to work alone, but rather are the abilities for Creative influences innate and active within self. And in the application of self, and in that field of aiding others in aiding themselves, will bring the greater joy.
37. (Q) Should my relationship with Leopold begun this summer be re-opened, or left closed for his and my own best development? (A) Inasmuch as the associations with the entity in the Grecian and Arabian influence brought consternation, and the meeting of same in the present has made for conditions that have not been for the best development or the abilities of carrying out ideals, do not shun - but rather forget the relationships.
38. (Q) Is there any other advice for this entity at this time? (A) Study that which has been given thee, in the ways and manners self may come to analyze self and self's desires and self's ideals. Know that the ideals and desires must be founded in spirit and in truth, if the fruits of these are to bring contentment, peace, happiness, harmony, joy. For,
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these are the fruits of an ideal well founded, and as the study of same may be applied in the daily activities so will there come joy, peace, understanding. An application in art of the periods would be a WONDERFUL beginning, for self's application of meditation and painting.
39. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file