This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Virginia, this 24th day of February, 1934, in accordance with request made by self - Miss [516], new Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mildred Davis, L. B. and Hugh Lynn Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Born November 6, 1877, in Troy, Ohio. Time of Reading 12:00 to 12:35 Noon Eastern Standard Time. ..., N.Y. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: (In going back over years, started first going forward - '34 - '35 - '36 - then changed.) [See GD's note at end of reading.] 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, now called [516].
2. In giving that which may be helpful and beneficial to this body in the present experience, rather than from the approach of the astrological, there would be given that which the entity has builded in the present experience. While some of the astrological influences may be given to make for informative actions in the experience of the entity, but such a life of commendation in this experience certainly needs that which may make for the satisfaction and contentment that comes seldom - all too seldom in the experience of those that may vision that which has been builded in the experience of a soul in the earth plane.
3. For, few that are found in these experiences may be said to have developed so much in a present sojourn - or so much has been met, so much has been the activity without thought of self, but that those who are to make for the impressions upon the affairs of individuals in various walks of life have been rather the activities of the entity - without regard to what such might bring to self. And indeed may it be said, at the end of the few years that remain for the experience of this entity even from the shadows of many that will go down in pages of history as having lived worth while lives, as for soul development THIS entity called [516] will be among those to whom it may be said, "Thy race has been run in this experience; thy life has not been in vain; COME up higher, for - as thou hast been faithful over the few things - become thou a lord over many."
4. For, indeed it may be said that throughout the experience
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in this sojourn the entity has lived in its daily walks of life that the glory of the Father through the Son might be manifested in the lives of those whom the entity has contacted.
5. While oft there has been criticism of the actions of the entity in its associations, in its relations with individuals and with groups, also there have been those that have blessed the activities - and many have there been that have sought and sought in vain to know from whence there had come this renewed hope, this outlook upon life, and have not found that it has been the undercurrent from the activities of this entity; and peace has come into the inner soul of the entity from these very activities.
6. It is true that urges have come from sojourns in the various atmospheres or planes, as from Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, Mars, Saturn - influences that are often or ordinarily termed astrological; but it may even be said that in those sojourns, in those environs, they have been better by the entity having passed through them.
7. For, while those things that are commendable, those things that are glorious in the experiences of souls in their activity are slow in their movement and their action upon those about the soul, and those things that are questionable are swift to run; yet as swiftly pass when there is the activity as this entity has made in its environs in every phase and action of the body to make for "Thy will be done. Use Thou me, as Thou seest fit; not under any name, save in that which makes for bettering the outlook upon those environs in which the individual or soul may find itself." This has been rather the basis upon which this entity has acted in this experience, as will be seen in others also.
8. It is true that there are given fields of activity that have been of particular interest to the entity; yet they have not followed along altogether orthodox lines in the thought pertaining to religious activity, neither have they followed along the same lines as many moralists have set for the experience of others yet lived so seldom those things themselves! But the entity has rather in thought and in expression in its activities been rather of the attitude, "Use Thou me in the way Thou seest fit, that there may be the knowledge that the Spirit of Truth will not only persuade but will pervade and guide the inner forces of each soul that seeks the more to know Thy ways day by day."
9. Then, as to the expressions in the earth before this, that deal much with the activities of the entity in the present, we find:
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10. Before this the entity was during those days when there was the bringing into the Roman land much of the beauties from the Grecian land, as pertained to thought in the expressions of the relationships of individuals to individuals, and why that those forces innate in each soul to find its expression became the thought, the activity of many of those peoples.
11. Hence, as a Grecian, the entity was one beautiful in body, one expressive in the activities in the mental and material things in life; though the entity was in the opposite sex then, and in the name Tunicelli.
12. The entity made for the activities that made for the carrying much into Rome that partook of the activities that made for the preparations of the bodies for the various activities that might be in the experience of others; as in the cleansing of the body in preparation for those that would bring into the world other souls; that their bodies, their minds, their surroundings also be such as to make for that which would be termed in the present day the proper psychological as well as pathological condition in the experiences of individuals that were to be so blessed in their activity in the material things of life.
13. Yet little was heard or said of the entity's activities, until they were found in the expressions of those that studied later in their experience and carried much in the form of making the penal laws as well as the social and religious law, from the activities of the entity in that new land to which it had come to give expression to those peoples that the entity saw were rising not only in the political power but in the ability for the centralizing of the commercial activities of the earth.
14. From that experience in the present are seen the abilities in the entity in organizations and their activities in the experience of individuals; yet those very close associations of the entity with individuals make for a great deal more activity in the experience of those whom the entity contacts by the association than by any organization to which the entity may be attached or may be joined. Hence those that may be privileged to come into direct association with the policies of the entity, and that which the entity has accomplished or may accomplish in this experience, may indeed count themselves as being fortunate.
15. Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as the Persian, during those periods when many had joined themselves with the priest or the leader Uhjltd in that experience, who had gone forth to gather those that were minded to follow in the tenets, rather than of rote or
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of formality, of expressing in the associations of individuals that which would bespeak the blessings, the benevolent forces of the divine in the activities of men.
16. The entity was among those that came from what is now called the Tibet or Indian land, and aided in bringing to the peoples of many lands the activities in giving expressions to their own emotions, from the material as well as the social, the moral and spiritual life. These later, by others, were set in their various orders, yet to the entity - as from and in that experience, as Aaiilluu - and to those peoples there was brought that which would make for rather the expressions through the individual activities to bring into the experience of others the thoughts of a creative influence in their active life.
17. Before that we find the entity was in what is now known as the Egyptian land, during those periods when there were the gatherings of those that had escaped from the land that was destroyed - or the Atlantean land.
18. The entity then was among those of the household of the priests or the rulers of that land, in the name Ammelee; and there were sorrowings in the body over the destructive forces in the land, yet in the mental and spiritual life there was brought aid to many of those that were discouraged, disconsolate, over the turmoils that had arisen in the land.
19. In those periods the entity persuaded many of those to make for the activities that would preserve to the peoples what would be in the present termed recipes or placards and drawings, and the like, that were the first of such intents brought to the Egyptian peoples (to be sure, not to the Atlanteans, but to the natives and those who had joined there to preserve such records) and the first attempt to make for a written language.
20. The entity aided much in these; and in the present there is the interest in the abilities of individuals in their various walks of life; whether in art or in music, or in the making of those things that pertain to the activities of individuals while in their home life, or in their social or moral life, or in the activities of the commercial forces. Such an interest arises from those experiences in the latter portion of the entity's sojourn in that Egyptian land.
21. As to that to which the entity may attain, and how:
22. That it has attained, that the entity holds as the way, the means, the manners for giving hope, more faith, more expression to individual activities of others, so they keep their ideals in the One; knowing that all increase, in body, in mind, in material things, must come from the activities
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from spiritual forces that are based in the ideal of creation or the creative influence from Him who made matter possible, that the attributes of the soul might find expression by the means of doing in their own relationships and thus find themselves.
23. In keeping this ideal, in keeping this way of activity, may the greater blessings come to the entity in the present experience. In this way may there be brought the greater contentment for the entity in its activity during the sojourn in this experience.
24. Ready for questions. [EC immediately after this paragraph: "This not included in that which may be given to the entity (that is, the numbers of years given in the first; the numbers of years of the sojourn in the present.)"] [See Par. 1 above.]
25. We are through for the present.
26. Much might be said respecting not only this entity and its activities, and how far-reaching it has been in this experience; for:
27. Though you go to the halls of congress in this land, though you go to the darkest corners in the dark land, though you go amongst the aborigines in Australia, though you go to the peoples in the far north, though you hunt among the cities of wealth or in the cities of the greater activity in commercialization, or in the art or in the music, the imprint of that which has been led by some activity of this entity - [516] - may be found there! Copy to Self " " Ass'n file [GD's note: We understood this to mean that Miss [516] would not live beyond the year 1936, as mentioned in the opening paragraph of the rdg. It was most unusual for EC to go forward in dates rather than backward, in seeking the record for a Life Rdg.]