This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Va. Beach, Va., this 3rd day of October, 1932, in accordance with request made by self - Dr. [539], Active Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Hugh Lynn and L. B. Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Born April 9, 1875, at Strasbourg, Alsace, Europe. Time of Reading 3:50 to 4:35 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Illinois. (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 that entity known as [539].
2. In entering, we find astrologically those influences in Pisces, and in the planetary influence of Jupiter, Venus, Mercury, Mars and Uranus. These influences in the present experience, however, have been altered in many directions; hence we may find those conditions in the experience of the entity from the mental body that become conflicting with impulse, and that which has been conceded by the mental body as the course of activity in the present experience, yet much that operates, as we say, as urges to the entity is manifested in the activities of the entity in the present.
3. From Pisces there are those conditions at certain periods when the lower limbs and feet cause some uneasiness, and the greater accidents (minor as they may have been) were through those same extremities. [See 539-3 Reports.]
4. In Jupiter we find the greater influence; especially has it been in the choosing of that mode or manner of expression of the entity in the present experience, or the influences that caused the choosing of that profession or relationship that would exist by the activities of the body among its fellow man. This also finds much in the manner of choosing the expressions through that gained in the relationships with individuals, in the impulses that arise from the sojourns in Venus, Mercury, and in Uranus.
5. These influences, that have been acted upon by the correlating of the mental abilities of the entity in the present, will or must be dependent upon the manner in which the entity, or body mentally and physically, reacts to those conditions that the planetary influence will bring as experiences to the entity, especially in the next two or three years. Beginning with the middle of the present
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month, there will be the exercising of an astrological influence upon entities that have been sojourners of Jupiter and Uranus, with Mercury, by those positions the planets occupied as related to such individuals in their present experience; so that the greater possibilities, with an insight mentally, with the love influence, will bring to bear those experiences where the broader visions may be the entity's experience, and thus giving that period of activity in those directions of psychic influence that may be used to the developing of greater abilities in the entity's experience.
6. Those influences seen in this relation from Venus make for that tendency of affability of the body mentally, physically; the greater ability to be or not to be, dependent upon the activity of the will as respecting same, a good mixer among the associates; not as a great leader among men, but rather as one to whom often individuals would turn (when allowed) for counsel, advice and guidance. These will be magnified also during this especial period, when Jupiter with Uranus and Venus make for their greater influence in the experiences of those sojourners in that planetary environment.
7. The Uranus influences have brought those tendencies for the entity, the being in the present, to often seek - for periods - what may be termed "the straight and narrow way," of ethics, policy, politic, and the like; and the same influences have at other periods brought the desire to break away from the bonds of any nature that would prevent the expanding of the causes and causations, of that influencing individuals about the entity, as well as that which would make for bonds to self, either in ethics, in morals, in any direction, whether as in reference to relationships with individuals, things, groups, or what.
8. Then, this makes for many of those turmoils that have arisen in the experience of the entity in the present.
9. The possibilities and probabilities of this being turned into a channel, a period of greater length in the present, when stabilization of the mental forces has reached those periods, make for the opportunities where the greater work as an associate among men, as a developer for the consciousness of the soul's activity in the experience of material and mental relationships, will be done; and there will be the more commanding and demanding upon the entity for decisions, and decided activity.
10. These are personalities, then, that are manifested under the influences astrologically, and that have been builded:
11. One capable of seeing beauty depicted in all expressions
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in nature, whether the bug about its lowly activity of cleansing the conditions about man, or the beauty of song in music, whether reed or string, or the beauty in the rose, the sunset, the stream, or in the awakening of nature as it illustrates to man the new birth into another experience in the material conditions.
12. One that makes friends easily, and that loses them often as easily; quick tempered oft, but this has been tempered much in self.
13. One having set ideas oft; as illustrated in the changes, this has been tempered oft.
14. One of high mental capabilities, and loving peoples and their activities rather than things; yet things dealing oft with the activities of the entity in its relationships to others.
15. One that loves expressions in the very joy of life and living, desiring oft to find expression in play or the exercising in those directions. This has been changed much by circumstance, conditions in the experience of the entity, and duty has ever stood, whether in relationships to those that are friend or foe, rather than the gratifying of pleasures for self.
16. As to the appearances, then, and their influences upon the experiences in the present as related to both the astrological and that which is called (psychologically) hereditary and environmental in the present experience:
17. In the one before this, in the present land of the entity's indwelling the entity was among those that aided in the defense of that known as Fort Dearborn. In the name Beadle, or Bedell, did the entity minister much to the needs of those peoples in this experience that suffered in body, as in want in the material things that supplied those necessities for sustenance of life; as well as in the bodily and physical defense during that period when the rout brought those groups in their attempt to join the southern forces, and the entity was among the group that in the waters of the Ohio lost their lives in the ice and its floe; hence that particular or unseeming influence that comes to the entity as a dread, with the grinding of the ice floe, or the tramp of the horse in the snow that crunches, that makes for some awakening that seems far distant or latent in the exercising of a peculiar influence upon the entity. The entity gained through the experience, and brought much of that in counsel that pointed to those groups in the material affairs to look to the higher sources for that which would comfort when strifes, turmoils, hardships, sufferings weighted down many to the point of resentment, even at their
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own lot. In the present from this experience there is that which makes for a longing for and a seeking of quietude, that is seldom ever granted. Farther away has this been gradually put, by the entity's environs, the entity's duties, the entity's surroundings. These influences, then, make for that which often stabilizes. When others are in turmoil, the entity becomes quiet; when others are in harmony or in quiet, the entity seeks or feels for a moving on. Is there any wonder, then, that to this same land, and to the near surroundings, there comes a call? yet, as we find, larger fields must open for the expression of that the entity feels, in the mighty urges or change that must soon come about.
18. In the one before this we find in that land known now as the Fatherland [Germany?], during those periods when there were the exchanging or the bringing about of those periods when the peoples rose in defense of the Holy Land. The entity was among those Crusaders, then, that led in the way; and was known as The Thunderbolt, that rode with those peoples to that sacred land. In the experience the entity lost and gained, and lost; for the gratifying rather of impulse than principle brought those of destructive influence. The counsel, kindnesses, and that shown in a strange land, brought rather the recurrent or retractory forces in the experience of the entity, and the entity gained through that portion; losing only when the gratifying of self brought rather against punishments, but developing from same much of that impulse for the good of the many at the expense of the few OR many in the present.
19. In the experience then before this, we find in that land known now as the Arabian or Persian, during those periods when there were the gathering of those in the plains for the ministry to the peoples far and near of the tenets, the lessons, the material applications of that entity Uhjltd. The entity then was among those who led in the ministry of the weak, the infirm, and aided in bringing many to that knowledge, that understanding of those truths which applied in the experience of an individual brought peace, harmony, understanding to that soul, that mind, that physical body; hence the entity developed through the period, as Omegahrdht. In the present may be seen much of that innate, felt, found, understood, that even in the ministry to those in pain, whether physical, mental, or what, there must be the awakening of the inner self for an understanding of the abilities that lie within self, that another may aid in making aware of that it seeks is either good or bad for the entity. Quite an accomplishment!
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20. In the one then before this we find in that period when there were the uprisings in the land now known as the Egyptian, and when there was the return of the priest to the land for the raising up of those standards that had trailed through those turmoils and strifes which arose. The entity then, as Pth-Lani, came WITH the priest as one that sought to uphold the hands of the priest in the way of ministering to those that sought to consecrate themselves in body and mind to those tenets, those lessons, those truths that were propounded by the priest in the restoration of the relationships between the peoples and the truths from the Most High. The entity also aided in the laying of much in the pyramids in that period, and should be an interpreter of that given to the world as a lasting memorial of the relationships between man and man, man and the Creative Forces; and that it brings through being at an at-oneness with, instead of at an at-variance with, Creative Energy in a material world. The entity gained throughout this experience; and still may there be seen that that was laid up, of the entity's activities, in the tomb or the small granary, or obelisks yet to be uncovered in the small or first pyramids of beryl.
21. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, that to which it may attain, and how:
22. Many are the contacts that have been made in the present for relationships throughout the experiences of the entity in the earth's indwelling. Many are the preparations made for the activities in that period when the greater service to man, to its Maker, to the developing of the consciousness of its soul development, lies before the entity. How may this be accomplished?
23. Know in whom, in what, thou hast believed, even as in Egypt. Know that He speaks to His sons in the present, even as in those experiences. Listen to the voice within, as it is awakened to the music of the spheres by the incoming of those forces that protect in those relationships through astronomical, astrological, and the influences as builded by self in its application of that known as TO the relationships now.
24. Use, then, that thou hast in hand, step by step. Be not impatient with self, or others. Love Him first and foremost.
25. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n File