This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 7th day of June, 1934, in accordance with request made by the self, via parents, who are both members of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. [487], Hugh Lynn, L. B. Cayce, Mildred Davis and Margaret Wilkins.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 11:25 to 12:05 Noon Eastern Standard Time. ..., Va. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes, we have the entity and those relations with the universe and universal forces, that are latent and manifested in the personality of the present entity, now known as or called [487]; this we have had before.
2. The records that have been written have been written. The developments of the entity in the present experience may be given, that have been in the present from the environs about the body mentally and physically in the present, from that which has been written. There is now the activity being made, to be made, in the mental, physical and soul development of the entity, such that the record which has been made by the entity in the present may be given - and that termed the past - that will influence the entity; at least, this in part may be given - not as to ALTER, but rather as to that the entity in its mental self may weigh and measure and see in self, and what self did WITH and concerning constructive influences in the earth.
3. Then the natural question of the entity, from that which has been given, is: From what source, or how, is such a record read of the activities in the past? How may self know that there is being given a TRUE record of the activities in a period of which there is no written WORD history? Yet the entity itself sees, and is being taught, and is studying, the records that are written in nature, in the rocks, in the hills, in the trees, in that termed the genealogical log of nature itself. Just as true, then, is the record that the mind makes upon the film of time and space in the activities of a body with its soul that is made in the image of the Maker; being then spirit, in its form, upon the records IN time and space.
4. As there may not be seen with the visible eye the growth in animal, vegetable or mineral kingdoms, neither may there be seen the growth in the soul, save by and through the
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activities of a body-mind through channels known as sense or intellect, or by drawing the comparisons in self through what is termed space or time - and upon these are the records of a soul's activity made.
5. What then, the entity asks, IS a soul? What does it look like? What is its plane of experience or activity? How may ye find one? It may not be separated in a material world from its own place of abode in the body-physical, yet the soul looks through the eyes of the body - it handles with the emotions of the sense of touch - it may be aware through the factors in every sense, and thus add to its body as much as the food of the material world has made for a growing physical body in which the soul may and does indeed dwell in its passage or activity in any individual phase of an experience in the earth.
6. What, then, are the experiences or appearances or activities of the body in the material world that have influenced, and are to influence, this entity in the coming age or cycle?
7. A cycle is seven years, known or called in the earth, and information may be given or records read as to the varying appearances or activities that may change in that period.
8. How has the scientist or the biologist arrived at the conclusions, that are glibly given, that a body is altered or renewed in such a space of time? By comparing the activities!
9. But what has still remained that makes those about the body aware that the same ENTITY (not body, but ENTITY) is manifesting or inhabiting - if you please - such an altered or changed body? That which shows through the activities of the soul of the body! The application that soul has made respecting that which is creative or constructive, or respecting the gifts of the Creator into the hearts and souls of individuals - or men.
10. In the inception of this body in the present there were those surroundings that made for different or altering conditions which brought to the physical an exceptional or unusual (in words of the earth) activity in the soul-entity. (Get the difference between the wording entity and soul-entity, for words are often very poor in describing infinity in finite space and time.) The soul-entity is a development outside of body in material form. The entity is all-inclusive of soul and that activity in its relationships to the material things known in earth.
11. (This aside, please:) Not that developments in environs about the earth are all soul development; yet when there are activities in Mercury, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Uranus,
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Neptune, Saturn or the like, that are within the same realm of the earth's activity about its own sun, all these are - yea - subject to that law known as the Christ Consciousness, but not physical activity nor physical concern.
12. But this entity, entering under such auspices or conditions, brought with same - as we have indicated from the sojourn in the Uranian influences - that which might make for soul development or soul retardment, by its activity or by its application of the laws that are universal - or from the God-Consciousness in the realm of activity. For, as given, oft would it be said - oft HAS it been seen in the activity of the entity thus far, even in the material things and material associations - MANY have blessed the coming and many have been glad when the entity has passed from, or body has passed from, that environ or that experience.
13. Hence the entity or soul here wields in the earth in the present a place of POWER - yea, more than power. One that may be made into those things that may be beautiful, if they are enjoined with the love that is seen in the Creative Forces activated by the Christ Consciousness, or made in such measures that there may be warnings to many that though they gain the whole world and lose their own soul what has been gained?
14. From an experience, then, in the present there are the activities mentally that must be weighed in the balance; and if they are found wanting in the associations of the entity in the material things, in the mental things, woe be to many! Yet the entity has arrived at that place in this experience in the earth when it must choose for itself.
15. Let self, body, mind and soul, then, be grounded in that as was given by Him who is the life and the light of the world; "As ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them." For, if ye do good alone to those who do good to you, what reward has thy soul? What recompense is in thine own heart of hearts? For, even do those that would make for the aggrandizements of selfish interests, or that they may be well spoken of by many. For, if the purposes, the desires, the aims, do not take hold upon something far beyond those things that partake of the earth-earthy, then indeed does the soul become impoverished and the time and space grow weary - and those things that make for turmoils and strife, that make the heart and soul weary, come into the experience of all. But if the heart and mind forgive those who despitefully use them, those that speak evil in divers places, those that find fault with others will find fault in themselves; for they are writing their own record -
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they must meet, every one, that which they have said about another; for so is the image, the soul of the Creator in each body, and when ye speak evil of or unkindly to thy brother, thou hast done it unto thy God.
16. The entity came from the Atlantean land into Egypt when there were those periods of reconstruction in the land, and from those turmoils and strifes there arose much that made for individual and group development - and the attempt of those in the experience to foster or disseminate same; those things that were good.
17. The entity came then, in the name Axtell [7/26/38 See 1007-3, Par. 13 saying that Ax-Tell and Ajax were one and the same. 6/24/41 See 470-33, Par. 19-A, 20-A.], from those forces that were in charge of the Law of the One.
18. In establishing self in that land, the entity found little of help; finding fault with the king in power, finding little in common with the priest that led; finding those things that measured not to that standard the entity had had in the land, withdrew on account of the associations - specifically - of the priest with those women, or those of the opposite sex in the land.
19. Hence builded in self much that must be met, must be counted, must be countenanced in the present experience - if there will be gained that which will make for the soul development. For, if there is not love such as in showing not only tolerance but patience and brotherly love and kindness and such, there may not be those expansions in any experience that will bring contentment. For, yea, though there has been builded in the mental experience that which may be raised in power in the present to bring - as given - POWER, force, magnitude of purpose, unless the desires, purposes and aims have their inception or motivating force other than through the mental attributes of the physical body, they must be met - even as is being and will be experienced by the entity in the present sojourn.
20. What, ye ask then, would the entity do in the present respecting these relationships and activities?
21. Search deep into the heart, the soul of self, and see from whence cometh that motivating force that DRIVES self on to activity. If it is for laudation of self alone, if it is for the aggrandizement of the interests in material things alone, then know - while you may materially succeed - the ENDS thereof are not well. But seek through those activities that bring the analyzing of same in the human body, in the human relationships, that may be spiritualized by the desires of the heart - and you will find joy and peace, and - yea - in those days - when His forerunner may
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come into the earth for preparing the place for the Son of man, that His kingdom may be established in the earth, wilt thou be ready? Seek ye Him.
22. We are through for the present.