This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Virginia, this 26th day of April, 1934, in accordance with request made by self - Mrs. [540], new Active Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Esther Wynne and Group #2.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. [540], Esther Wynne, Helen Ellington, Frances Y. Morrow, Nellye Twitty, L. B. and Hugh Lynn Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Born August, 1903, Mathews County, Virginia near Bohannon Post Office. Time of Reading ... Ave., 11:15 to 12:00 Noon Eastern Standard Time. ..., Va. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: August 16th. Yes, we have the entity here, and those relations with the universe and universal forces - that are latent and manifested in the personalities of the present entity, [540].
2. As to the entrance into the present experience, and those things that may be helpful in the entity's understanding those relationships with the universe, we find that the astrological conditions as they are ordinarily understood have some influence; yet the real activities - or those things that are as innate experiences and thus making for influences in the environs, in the hereditary forces of the entity - we find are from the sojourns of the soul in those environs that may be said to be the planetary associations of the entity in this solar system.
3. Hence we find there are those definite influences that manifest themselves innately in the experience of the entity in the present.
4. For, the Uranian influence we find makes for the innate "sensitive" individual; capable of discerning in the vibrations or feelings or emotions that are experienced by the entity in associations of individuals, or in the associations of even groups, much that has been and is experienced by such vibrations from such associations.
5. These influences also make for those periods when the entity in self feels very much elated by the activities, from seemingly unknown sources. Or, MOODS are as experiences - when there are those feelings or premonitions of impending influences in the experience. These as they are developed, or as their application is better understood, may be used as aids by the entity in helping others in their
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problems, in their understandings. Yet at times the entity feels that too much is known, for a correct balancing of that which is always held as the purpose of the entity in relationships to individuals. Hence it will ever be necessary in the experience that the entity, in its mental and physical activity, keep well balanced as to its purposes and desires in its activities, as to relationships with groups or individuals.
6. This influence also makes for those periods of extremes that come to the body from many varied angles; as in those periods of development in the present experience through the associations and activities; and in those periods when the activities changed - and these have brought, or there has been the experience of, sudden and definite changes in the entity's associations, the entity's environs, the entity's way of thinking, the entity's manner of approach to various experiences that have become and must remain a portion of the entity's life in this sojourn.
7. In Mercury and Venus we find those influences of a high mental purpose in the experience of the entity; or that the entity weighs well in the mental influences those things that pertain especially to physical relationships with individuals or with groups, with associations as to that activity in the spiritual life and in the mental life. These are as definite things apart from the general relationships or activities of the entity within its innate self; and a NORMAL reaction naturally arises from these innate influences. Through the Venus influence there are close friendships made with individuals, yet the entity often finds self analyzing those friendships as to what has produced them and as to how they may be made to be for the betterment in the mental and spiritual relationships. For, as the entity has found, SINCERITY of purpose must ever be the keynote to every action, whether friend or foe - whether they be in those urges that come from any of the extremes or the mental forces. And when sincerity is the guiding influence the entity recognizes the activity of others, or others' own responsibility to themselves and those in their own environs.
8. Also in Jupiter we find a sojourn making for vast changes in the outlook; or there have been material changes in the aspect of relationships with those of certain thought, those of certain activities; thus bringing in the experience the abilities to be aidful through the thought that may be helpful in bringing into the consciousness of others that which will help them in their MENTAL ills. Hence a healer in fact!
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9. As to the appearances in the earth and those things that make for more of the material changes and activities that are produced by urges in the spiritual or soul development of the entity, we find:
10. Before this the entity was in that experience when there were many changes being made in the relationships of the peoples of the land of the present nativity, during those sojourns when there were the wars and the activities of same in those periods known as 1776 to 1800.
11. The entity sojourned in that land near to where the activities were begun in the present experience, in the name Jamerson.
12. In that experience the entity found much that brought turmoil through the physical activities of those about self, yet made for those sojourns that have set determinations and ideals and purposes as those factors in the experiences of all that will bring the fruits of that sown in the mental and spiritual self in its activities day by day.
13. These are those things that influence the entity in its present sojourn in relationships to ideas, more than individuals.
14. Before that we find the entity was in the French land, during those periods when there were those turmoils from the activity in other lands, when there were the gatherings of those that went for purposefulnesses in the experience of many that had been called as the defenders of a cause.
15. The entity was among those that were left in the land by those that acted in the capacities of the Crusaders, in the name Curre.
16. Through the experience the entity gained and lost, for - while in hopes and in desires it was with the activities of others that were related to the individual or entity during the sojourn - the activities of those so associated brought distrust, doubt, fears, and those conditions that meant for changing in the ideals or as to the purposes through that portion of that sojourn.
17. In the present there are the innate and manifested questionings, yet if there comes the sincerity - by the act and by the truth of those things presented by individuals - the entity may then join with the full purposefulness of self in such relationships.
18. Before that we find the entity was in that known as the Promised Land, during those periods when the Master walked in the earth.
19. The entity then was among those that came under those influences in the sojourns of the Master in that land of Galilee; for the entity was then a daughter of Zebedee and a
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sister to those that were close in the activities of the Master in that land.
20. Through that experience the entity gained in soul- development. While fears and doubts arose at times from the activities through the periods of persecution, that sojourn has builded and does make for those abilities to arouse in others those things that may be helpful in their mental and physical self; also that purposefulness in the inmost self that may bring to the entity those satisfying things that bring joy, peace and harmony. And oft in the visions have there come periods when the entity has walked close with those during that sojourn.
21. In the present, make the applications especially in those tenets of those in that experience, and there will come through such activity the greater joy, the greater understanding, the greater comprehension of the purposefulness of the life of the Master as a man in the earth.
22. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Persian, during those periods of tribulation in the hill land did the entity become associated with those that had taught, those that had aided many in coming to a more perfect understanding of the relationships of individuals to individuals and of the individual relationship to the Maker.
23. Though in turmoil, though in strife often, yet those things that pertained to the activities of individuals as to their MORAL relationships live much in the experience in the present, from those innate activities during that sojourn; in the name Eliabetel - or Elizabeth, as would be in the present.
24. From that sojourn may be much of the application of self in the present as in that experience; patience and persistence on the part of self brought out of chaos in the experience of many another those things that brought harmony. So may the entity in this sojourn, with the double action or application of those tenets in Galilee, gain in self- development.
25. Before that we find the entity was in that land known as the Egyptian, among those that were sojourners from the Atlantean land.
26. Though young in years, as would be counted in the present, among those of the household of Itois, the entity gained in the abilities to act as the mediator between those of high and low estate in the positions in the land. And with the building up of those tenets given in that land, the entity was among those that aided in the temple activity and in disseminating to other lands those tenets or truths that
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might be applicable in the lives and in the environs of those that sought through such channels for succor and aid; in the name Apt-Haleni.
27. In the present there may be found oft those things that harken to the tolling of those symbols that bring individuals to worship; and in the present with the tolling of church bells there is oft set a vibration that has not always been understood by the entity. Such a "sensitive"!
28. As to the abilities of the entity, then, in the present, and that to which it may attain, and how:
29. From those things given as to the experiences and application of self, it may be seen that knowledge alone does not make one wise. With the abilities to use that thou hast in hand may there come understanding.
30. Hence, from those tenets in the Galilean experience, from the purposefulness in the Persian land, from those innate activities that come from the abilities of the entity in arousing its own inner self to an understanding - or the soul or psychic force manifesting in self - there may come to the self the greater abilities to give lessons, give understanding, give aid to those whom the entity may contact day by day.
31. LIVE a normal, active life! GUIDE the inner self through those experiences that may come in the meditations, in the seeking to the inner self.
32. Ready for questions.
33. (Q) Please outline a course of study that will aid in my development. (A) As the self is a "sensitive" - that is, the soul development has been such that even in the material world, under those pressures of the mental and material things - the soul in seeking may find that the communion with self, and that given by Him that said, "My spirit beareth witness with thy spirit" is the better channel. So, in studying self, in analyzing self, stay close to that He has given; and to that thy brother gave in the 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th chapters of John. In these there may be found that which will raise self to that which may be expected of self, that He - the Master - may walk and speak with thee. Be satisfied with nothing less than that HE will come and join in thy activities, as thou showest forth those things He has given are the fruits of the spirit. No study is greater than that He gave; no lesson more far-reaching; no lesson more penetrating than opening to the fountain of Truth!
34. (Q) Please interpret the dream I had Friday night,
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April 20th, in which I contacted [487]. (A) In the associations there has been that which has brought about much that may be found by delving - as it were - into those abilities of self to harken back to those experiences as in Egypt, and in those that the self brought with self from the Atlantean land - where there were the close associations with these two entities. And as these are delved into, MUCH may be gained that will be helpful to each in comprehending that visioned by self, as to how their relations and their associations might aid one another. The vision, then, was rather an experience where PRACTICAL application may be made by self entering into the inner self, seeing and knowing those experiences to be continued - as it were - in the HELPFULNESS that may be given.
35. (Q) Along what lines should I endeavor to train my child, [665]? (A) There is oft seen in meditation the watchfulness of the mother-love over that of its own associate and its own sister in another experience. In the development, then, know that there is kept before the self the purposefulness of each reasoning or comment, each activity, that it has its basic activity in those things He gave, "of such is the kingdom of heaven"; that gentleness, yet positiveness; yet giving in such measures those things that may keep the mind developing towards the usefulness that one may be to the other.
36. (Q) Were her incarnations in the earth as I visioned them? (A) In part; though these may be seen wholly.
37. (Q) Have I ever been associated with my husband [555] before; if so, where and under what conditions? (A) In Persia, in Palestine, in America.
38. (Q) What are the objects that I almost constantly see? (A) The boats that carried the brother, the Master, away upon the sea, as the self belabored with those turmoils at the feeding of the five thousand. The baskets that the self helped to fill. These are often almost visioned in the life. Again, in some deeper experiences, the activities that were in the Atlantean land before the entity left there. The temples there, the enormous prisms that were as the lights and the guiding influences in those sojourns.
39. (Q) Please give me some advice dealing with these. (A) First, as given, find self in those relationships in the study of those verses or chapters given. Then, as the self enters into the meditation, command - or get and write that thou receivest; but do not consider same until thou hast had the verification of that thou receivest again and
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yet again. THEN may they be used as aids in approaching individuals, and in approaching situations and conditions.
40. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file