This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Virginia, this 11th day of April, 1934, in accordance with request made by self - Mr. [531], new Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by David E. Kahn.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Mildred Davis, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. L. B. Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Born December 6th, 1893, at 9:00 P. M., in Havana, Cuba. Time of Reading 3:20 to 4:00 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Penna. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes, we have the entity and those relations with the universe and universal forces, that are latent and apparent in the experience of the entity now known as [531].
2. In analyzing those experiences of the entity in the earth's sojourns, and those periods when there has been through the mental the application of experiences in sojourns in the earth's environ - or this solar system, these will be found to be varied.
3. That there have been periods when the entity has not given credence nor credit where credit is due, from the experience of the entity in its present sojourn as well as in others, is evinced by the attitude of the entity in the present as to his relationships with those of spiritual natures. That the attitude, too, is an ASSUMED one - rather than the innate cry for expression of the inner self - is also evinced by the activities respecting same, and the spoken word that does not coordinate nor tally with that the body in its emotion, in its relationships, has experienced and does experience; as will be seen from that which may be given respecting the entity's activities in the earth. For, he that is false to himself will rarely be otherwise with his fellow man.
4. Then, in giving that which is of a constructive nature in the experience of this entity - either from the astrological or from the purely mental development of the entity in this present experience - it would be well that there be builded for the entity something of the background that may be as a point of contact for the entity, in its seeking, to reason from.
5. (Another paragraph, yes) [GD was wondering, here, if she should make a new paragraph.] The varied experiences in the entity's sojourns, then, are as the variations in the
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experience of a body, mind and soul in its dealings with its fellow man as individuals, as groups. And the dealings with the social life of the body. And these are judged by all active minds from the standards to which they as individuals have given credence or allegiance. And while these associations or divisions of the life depend upon or influence one another, they are entirely separate.
6. So are those experiences of a soul, for the body is made up - the physical body is made up - of mind, body-physical and soul. The mind may be founded in spirituality and thus have its concepts and precepts founded in that which is everlasting, or they (the precepts and concepts) may be founded in materiality and thus be only carnal or material in that which may be builded in the experience of any soul or body during an individual sojourn.
7. That these concepts or precepts may vary is seen by that which is drawn as an example for the entity as to that life in the business or commercial world and that life in the home. It is not drawing from something, or on something, that the body is not acquainted with. If the activities of the entity or body in the relationships mentally and materially with his associates in a commercial world are not founded on justice, and an equality of the activities of both parties to any associations, then questions arise. To be sure, the entity has acted in its experience in the present sojourn, in many periods or instances, such that he has questioned himself as well as having others to question his own activities. But unless these have the appearance of being founded, and unless their basic principles are founded, in peace and justice and mercy, the fruits of such an association are NOT well. The same in the home; though the status here may be somewhat varied - unless these are to be founded on principles and standards that are beyond reproach in self, and ideals are set as to what relationships are to be. So in Life. For, Life - as man may find same - is a continuity of experiences from one sojourn, one association, one with another, even as the varied individuals that one may meet in his commercial life. Each contract, each contact, each individual association depends one upon another. Yet are separate. Yet are SO correlated that it depends upon what the body DOES ABOUT SAME as to whether he makes a success or a failure! Not only in the eyes of a commercial world but in the consciousness of self. For, each soul-mind must live with itself, and what that soul-mind, that body, does ABOUT its associations with its fellow man depends upon what the body thinks of itself, considers itself, in relation to the
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Whole.
8. So does it behoove every soul to so live and so act, in its contacts with its fellow man in its business and commercial life, that it will not be afraid to stand on the corner and watch self pass by - in relationship to its activities with its fellow man.
9. That, too, may be said in such a relationship in the home. So in the inner life; as the home, the relationships there have ever been as a representation of the relationships of the soul to the continuity of life, or Life itself. For, if the ideals and the principles and the basis of Life in its relationship there are not founded on idealism, rather than ideas, on the spiritual relationships rather than material, it too must fail.
10. So, this may be taken then as the basis from which there may be given this body as to what it has done with its experiences in the earth, as its life has been projected into the various manifested places and forms and manners for its own soul development; for, if the body, the soul will but accept same, HIS God - every soul's God - has not willed that any soul shall be lost. For, each soul is precious in the eyes of the Father, in the eyes of the Maker, in the heart of God, one the same as another. There IS no respect of persons. There is the respect of those that use His blessings, His opportunities, His privileges, granted to the sons of men in the attributes of their minds, bodies, souls, as related to their fellow man.
11. Just as does the individual in his associations with his fellow man build for himself a business relation such that the next individual is glad to deal with him, speaks well of him in his relations with his fellow man, and that his relationships are ever constructive. So is truth; so is the heart of God, as it seeks men - MEN - everywhere - that they, in their relationships with their fellow man, may use the attributes of the spirit of truth. And these be they: Peace, joy, fellowship, love, preferring that there be harmony in just being kind to thy associates day by day, showing fellowship, and worthy of being called "a friend" of those that may be oppressed in any form or manner by the material things of man, or in earth, and showing forth that ye love thy fellow man, that ye honor him who leads thee in that manner in keeping with the fruits or the attributes of the spirit.
12. When those are used that make for envyings or strife, or that any would lord himself over his fellow man, or that the advantage would be taken of those that are weak - either in their mental or their physical bodies, or in their judgments
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among men, or in their weaknesses for the desire of self-praise or self-laudation, these must bring doubt, fear, consternation in the experience of the mental bodies of those that do such - and disease, disruption, disorders of every nature in the physical bodies of such.
13. In this relationship then we find, as to the attitude of the entity from the sojourns in the earth and from the periods when the entity experienced becoming aware in this material plane of materiality:
14. The entity journeyed from those environs in Jupiter, that had made for experiences that brought the greater visions and capacities within the mental self; not only by training in this material plane but as from the innate mental forces of the body being able to deal with great numbers of individuals in varied stations of experience. And these abilities only offer opportunities for this soul to either use that which is of the spirit, or the earthly forces, as we have just given. For, these are innate and are as the warp of the very BEING of this entity.
15. As to the other sojourns, in and about the earth, we find also Venus being in an adverse position. While this has made for an association that has been pleasing, in what is called the love life or the marital relations in the earth, it has also brought consternations by such associations, that question marks have even been in self's own experiences in same. And there arises yet in self those things that do not altogether satisfy in such relations. The trouble, brother, has been in thee!
16. In Mars we find that tendency to become secretive in its relationships with individuals, not letting the activities always be in the light; at times bringing for self anger; at times bringing into the experience those relationships and conditions (these are mental) when the soul - through what it does about such feelings, such a desire, IN its relationships with its fellow man - makes for what life in this experience is to bring into the relationships of the individual, or as to what this soul in this experience may make out of its opportunities in life.
17. If these are to satisfy only the aggrandizement of bodily conditions, of those that bring only pleasure to self, those that only satisfy or gratify material positions in power or place or what not, these must eventually bring canker and rust - in either body or mind - that will eat, and EAT, until there is destruction even in the soul itself.
18. Then, as to the appearances in the earth and that the entity has done with itself thus far, these we find are few (that make for an experience, or as development in the
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present):
19. Before this we find the entity was during those periods when there were the wars in the land of the present sojourn, with those lands from which those peoples had sought to be free.
20. The entity was among those then associated with Howe, that made for some negotiations with the Tories that would have turned much of that land into channels for self's own interests.
21. In the experience the entity gained and lost, for there was the influencing of many; and such activities bring in the present the ability to deal with groups and individuals, where the product of the different lands, of the various countries, may be associated or correlated for the use of the whole in their relationships one to another.
22. As to whether the entity, the soul, will build for itself in the present, or again turn in such ways and manners as to make for questions in self, is to be governed by what the entity knows in self of that it has set as its ideal.
23. In the name then Juniuels, the entity was of the same peoples, of the same land, of which it is a native in the present.
24. Before that we find the entity was in those periods known as the Egyptian, when there were the coming together of those peoples when there was the re-establishing of the tenets of the priest, and the distribution of those ideas and ideals that dealt not only with the spiritual life and the relationships of individuals to the Creative influences, but that dealt also with the relationships of individuals with individuals.
25. There we find the entity was among those peoples that returned from the captivity with the priest and those that brought with them much of those things that made for the ability to the entity to create relationships with other lands, other peoples, and various environs, various associations.
26. In that period the entity gained; for truth in spirit, truth in the relationships with the Creative Forces, were as much a necessity in the relationships established as were the more material things. Hence, in the name then Ptl-adjhalenpe, did the entity gain through the experience.
27. As to what the entity may do with self in the present:
28. Its abilities, as seen, lie in dealing with his fellow man in their relationships as organizations, or of correlations of cooperative measures that may be had in this, that or the other field of activity; whether it is
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dealing in those things that come from the fruit of the ground or from the labor of individual hands and minds, or whether in the exchange of that which is peculiar to the various territories or lands that are as necessities - or as things that bring pleasure for individual activities in individual life in other lands.
29. In all of these may the entity deal, in such ways and manners as to bring for self a contentment in his associations, in his experiences.
30. But if these are not founded in truth, or the fruits of the spirit, they will come to naught.
31. In the physical body and its associations, keep the way clear - that there may be the better coordination, the better cooperation, in every portion of the physical organism.
32. Keep the mind clear.
33. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n