This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest W. Zentgraf, 400 St. Paul''s Avenue, Stapleton, Staten Island, New York, this 23rd day of January, 1934, in accordance with request made by self - Mrs. [497], new Associate Member of the Association for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mrs. [255].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Hugh Lynn Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [497], Mrs. [255], Mr. [378], Misses [275] and [276].
R E A D I N G
Born December 6, 1887, in Greenville, Illinois. Time of Reading 5:50 to 6:35 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. New York, N.Y. (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 personalities of the present entity, [497].
2. In entering the present experience, we find from the astrological aspects there would be a great deal that would be changed, and has been changed from what would ordinarily be termed the astrological chart or astrological life of the entity. For, in will's application in the experiences of self there is brought much that either makes for developments or retardments in the mental and soul activities of an entity.
3. As to the urges, though, through the sojourns in environs, we find these influencing the mental attributes of the entity through sojourns in those environs:
4. In Mercury we find those influencing the body in the present in the mental abilities, as to make for one of high mental activity; one that is given in self to note details and to be detailed in the activities of self pertaining to things of material or mental aspects.
5. In these relationships we find this also making for the equipments in self for the meeting of MATERIAL relationships in the present experience. Hence we will find throughout the sojourns these variations that come in the activities in the mental influences, or mental influences that were active in the experiences of the entity, that these have altered, or do alter, according to the application of the abilities in the experience of every entity, every soul.
6. From Mars we find those influences that have made and do make for experiences where there are the activities
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accredited to Mars; in wrath, in war, in allowing self and self's associations - not of the ENTITY so much as in the capacities and abilities of others to be attracted in the environs of the entity, to be influences that have had to deal with the experiences of the entity in the present sojourn.
7. In this relationship to the entity much has been gained, for with the application of the mental forces, as maintained in the activities of the entity in self; while not always serene in self, OUTWARDLY the activities have been to control self. Wrath is rather an excellent quality, but wrath uncontrolled is very bad and very detrimental, as the entity has found even in the present experience.
8. The influences in Neptune make for associations with the mysterious forces in action in the universe, as well as in the experience of self. And the ability to not only control the emotions but also to control the abilities in judgement makes for an individual in the present capable of discernment as to abilities in others, and as to what makes for their qualifications in any field of activity.
9. Hence in the position as one to judge those that were being used in material activities, or in employment, or as to assisting others in finding their place in the activities of a mental or material world, would be the greater field of activity for the entity to apply not only the material but mental and spiritual forces in the entity's experience.
10. In this also makes for the attraction to the entity of those that have recently crossed large bodies of water, or for the better activities in the experience of the entity to be near large bodies of water; the interest in those influences in the activities of the mysterious influences. Hence for this body, in its abilities as a writer, to be controlled or influenced by that as may manifest through self would be well; while few are found that may gain the highest without allowing self's influence to be such as to either make for complete control from without or from the activities of self to become a mental reaction only.
11. As to the sojourns in the earth, and those that affect the body in the present experience:
12. Before this we find the entity during those periods when there were the gatherings of those in what is now known as the vineland, or in and about those places where there were questionings being made through the application of abilities in individuals in their spiritual and their soul life, in what is called Salem, or New England, or Providence Town. In these places did the entity sojourn with those that
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ministered to the spiritual needs of those individuals in that day, in the name Slocumbe.
13. In the experience the entity faltered, yet - as the entity experienced through the application of lessons in the mental and the spiritual forces applied in practicality in the experience of others - brought rather the understandings. Yet the entity saw many that were persecuted for their activities in their communications with outside influences, or of the souls of those that have the more often sought that there be the comprehending of the continuity of life. And, oh that all would gain - as this entity may - the under- standing that the more often do those that have passed on seek counsel and aid for their abilities to journey on, rather than to confuse themselves with the material forces in the earth. Only those that are of the higher forces as teachers, as ministers, may aid those that seek to build in their own experience that which will better fit them for the understanding as the veil is pulled aside. For, life is of the Creator - and it may only be changed, it CANNOT be ended or destroyed. It can ONLY return from whence it came. As to how soon it prepares its soul, that is of the influences that may be carried to the Maker, depends upon what that soul in its environs, in its experiences, does concerning that it knows about that He, the Father, would have it do.
14. There is not more required than can be fulfilled in the experience of any soul. It is true that others, and individuals, may make for influences that may make for changes in the activities, but if the ideal and the soul's longing is set in Him - only self may separate that soul from its Maker.
15. Before this we find the entity in that land when there were changes coming into the land that then ruled the greater portion of the civilized, now called, land - or in the Roman periods when there was the returning of the soldiers that were given to tell their own peoples first of what was taking place in Judea, how the activities there of the individual that had come of lowly birth had brought life, hope and understanding to many, and how that it was being said by those in power that He was turning the world upside down. Indeed did the knowledge then, and does the knowledge today of the consciousness of that life lived in the earth, conscious in thine own heart, turn the world upside down - when considered from a commercial or a commonplace experience.
16. For, the entity then was among those - and the wife of one of the soldiers, in the name Solonika, and among those
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that had seen those of the bearing of the Cross to the hill. And as this experience was told the entity, and later through the teachings of those that had come and did come to the land to spread these teachings, the entity then came to know in the own experience those blessings that might come by the practical application of "Love thy neighbor as thyself - Do unto others as ye would have others do unto you." For, this being the whole law as applied to man in his relations to his fellow man, makes for the abilities in the experience of every soul to know His ways, to be guided by His that have been washed in the blood of that Lamb, and that have sat down on the right hand until that day when they may in their own experience - through the seekers of those that would know His face - again journey to aid, to guide, to direct those in their steps day by day.
17. From the experience the entity gained, and in the present are those seekings as applied to the more material things in the experience, as in its dealings with its fellow man, may bring more and more into the understandings of self as to why, as to when one may know that the Redeemer liveth, and that we shall see Him as He IS.
18. Before this we find in that sojourn in the land now known as Egypt, during those experiences when many were being taught in the ways of those peoples that had gathered there, and the Priest and his aids were sending out the emissaries to the varied lands.
19. The entity was among the princesses of India that came to that land of Ra, there gaining much in the activities with those in the temples of service, as to how the bodies might be purged from the wayward forces and influences in their experience. In the Temple of Sacrifice and in the Temple Beautiful did the entity gain. Then gaining from those applications also where there were meted to the bodies of men those applications in adding to, in the daily life, the things that pertain to the bodily needs.
20. Then in the name Susi-set, the entity went again to her own lands, and began to give to her OWN peoples in that land what had been gained in the experiences in Egypt. And there was kept for the whole period of the entity's sojourn those relations with those that aided in adding to the young peoples in that land the lessons of life as applied to the material body, and in giving out their influence to others. Gaining throughout that sojourn.
21. In the present the applications of those experiences may be seen in the mental abilities, the ability to know detail activities that are the more oft necessary in the experience of others to bring results, physical or mental, in the lives
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or activities of others.
22. Before this we find in the Atlantean sojourn when there were those turmoils from the second period of the separations in the land, and there began the first of the leavings of the peoples to other lands that were being prepared or were arising in their activities. And the entity was among those that were persuaded, through the relationships and through the activities, to leave the law of One to join rather in the mysteries of that as might be accomplished among a strange people. And hence came into the land of Mayra (?) [Maya?], or that now called - in America Nevada and Colorado.
23. In the sojourn there, both developments and retardments came to the entity's experience, until there were the meetings of those that were journeying again into the land from the activities, and then the entity began to build in self and to give to others the laws of One - that apply even in the experiences of every soul in the present. For, ever has been, ever will be, the law of One the same. "Love ye in your daily experience. Apply ye in your daily activities the love that ye would have the Father show thee, in thy relationships to thy fellows, do ye know the law of One."
24. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, and that to which it may attain, and how:
25. In the application of self to that it knows day by day. For, there is given to each that it may use in its relationships to others. For, as ye apply does there come the understanding in the activities.
26. As to the fields of the material relationships, the entity is given in counseling to others, given in meeting the needs of the experiences from day to day, being rather mindful of the spiritual forces than the needs of the body - and in so doing the entity will bring the understandings, of, "As ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so to them."
27. Ready for questions.
28. (Q) When did I meet my husband - in what life before? (A) In the activities in Salem, and in the Providence Town area; as a teacher, what would be called a master in the schools then.
29. (Q) Did I meet C. F. Loomis before? (A) In Rome.
30. (Q) Will you explain for the entity just how the abilities in the writing may be developed? (A) By applying self in first opening self for those influences that may aid in guiding that as may be put into expression. For, as given, seek beyond that veil that is
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also seeking aid, rather to the realm where teachers, ministers, advisors would come, surrounding self with that influence where there is the consciousness of the Christ - whether ye call Him by some other name, it must be from the Throne of Grace.
31. (Q) How can the entity be sure when such contacts are established? (A) Is the entity sure when it's hungry, or when it's thirsty? When it's satisfied, or when it hurts, or when there is any influence in its experience? Such a foolish question!
32. We are through. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file