This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Virginia, this 31st day of July, 1934, in accordance with request made by the mother - Mrs. [4633], 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 and L. B. Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Born February 14, 1923, in the Sacred Heart Hospital at Allentown, Penna. Time of Reading 11:00 to 11:35 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. New York City. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: 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, called [621].
2. In entering the present experience we have - from the entity's sojourns in the astrological aspects or influences about the earth, that make up this known solar system - those indwellings in that environ of the soul in such measures as to give and create influences that are innate in the experience of the entity. And the entity in the present experience has reached that period in its physical development and its mental application of that which has been builded through the associations and environs in the present, as to make for the warring of those innate and those builded, and the initiation of the entity's judgements as to that it will choose for its activity in the experience. Hence this is a period when much that may be given through these sources, if thoroughly analyzed, may be applicable in the experience for those who would train - or who would give the entity the opportunities in the present to express itself, to make for - as it were - the developing of the SOUL forces in this experience.
3. In the first, then, coming under the influence of those two influences known as Pisces and Aries, we have a headstrong individual or mind, as well as one that - when over influenced - becomes somewhat sullen. And if the spirit is broken, or if there is the forcing of the issues with such an individual by those in authority or in power, it may bring about very detrimental influences. Not that the entity is to be left to "run wild", as it were, with its own imaginations or own emotions, yet these are to be used
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as the influences in a constructive manner. For in the Martian as well as in the Mercurian (and both are in the influence of the mental body) these are to be used as judgements, and as the application in the experience of the entity, to reason with. For naturally, of nature itself, each soul seeks for the expression of that which is built within self as related to CREATIVE influences either from the objective or the egotistical; for these are as the positive and negative forces in the experience of every soul in its activity in the earth - objective as positive and egotistical as negative influences. If the appeal comes to the entity (or in a developing mind) such that what is done is for the exaltation of self, more and more egotism and less and less initiative is there to be seen in the activity of the soul. If what is done is more and more of the positive nature, that the good may arise from those influences though they may appear to be of the personal nature, more and more are the positive forces developed and more and more universal is the aid that the individual or soul may give to its surroundings, and more and more it may gather from same.
4. Beware of an injury to this body during the sixteenth year, in those activities that have to do or deal with things of the explosive nature. Coming under Mars and Neptune makes for an influence during those periods in the middle months, or in July of the sixteenth year, pertaining to explosives.
5. As we find, there have been two influences of the entity outside of the earth to each experience in the earth. While the entity is an old soul, much of its activity - and much of that in what is called time in the experience of man - has been spent outside of earth's environs. Hence many at times call the body or entity a dreamer. Many at other times (that know little of such an experience, or see the activities from a different angle) see the entity as a spitfire, or one determined to carry out those things that are being builded in the experience. But much is to be the change in the experience of the mental and soul forces of this entity, known as [621].
6. As to those things, then, that are innate from the experiences in the astrological sojourns, we find:
7. One that is interested rather in things than in people; though the things may deal WITH, or have to deal with, the lives and the affairs of individuals. Those things in chemistry, gases, motivative forces, and activities of such a nature, or those things that have to do with the dealings in the affairs of individuals in such a way and manner as to
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control their activities, are of the greater influence to the entity than those things pertaining to individuals or to people as masses or groups in their emotions or as to what causes them to have such emotions. Things pertaining to why things are such as they are, what induces such activity or what produces or brings about those things that deal with the constituent elements of things, are of the greatest influence. And since this is the nature, naturally, for the development of the entity in the present, those things or environs that will bring about such activities in the experience of the entity will be for the greater development in the mental and material affairs of this entity.
8. As to the appearances, then, and those things that deal with the material activities, we find:
9. Before this the entity was during those periods when there was the development in the present sojourn of the entity, during the environs when there was the gathering together of the forces that made for the construction of the government in what is now America; or during the periods of the first continental congress.
10. Much may be found in the records as to the activity of the entity, in the name Connolly; and among those that made for the establishings of the government and the relationships dealing with people. Hence law will have its effect upon the activities of the entity; yet, as we find, those things that deal more with the ELEMENTALS - or with the constituents of THINGS rather than people will bring the greater mental and physical development for the entity.
11. In that experience also the entity lent itself to those activities that brought the lightening of the burdens in the commercial activities, particularly as to the developments on the acreage or farm lands; and - as we will find from those records, where the entity dwelt in what is known as Washington - those patents pertaining to stump pullers, portions of wagons and buggies, those things pertaining to locomotion of things. These applied in the experience brought much satisfaction to the entity during that sojourn.
12. Before that we find the entity was during those periods when there was the return of the people from bondage to the Holy City again, during that period when Nehemiah got from the king the permission to lead the soldiery.
13. The entity then was among those people that had joined into the active force of those lands where the people had been in bondage, in the name then Hezekahi; and aided the activities of Nehemiah, being a horseman of note. Hence animals and those things that pertain to same are of particular interest to the entity; yet the roar of the wild
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beast or the fetid breath of same brings a fear, because of some of the experiences the entity endured during that sojourn and in those travels - yet aiding much in the rebuilding of the walls of the city, working himself upon the wall, and among those who worked yet had their weapons hard by as they labored there. Hence things that pertain to the spiritual life or the moral life of individuals and groups have a place in the affairs and the experience of the entity, yet those developments through which the entity is passing at the present time show little of an influence that will later bring much to bear - save that which deals with the return of the peoples to the Holy Land; for if the entity were questioned by those in the present it would be found that there are innate manifestations that it is the desire INNATELY, from the experience, to see the reestablishing of his peoples as a nation in that land of promise - a rebuilding of the house of David, a reestablishing of those relationships, from those activities. Hence those things that may pertain to same in the latter portion, but that will deal more with things pertaining to wars, will have an influence in the experience of this entity.
14. Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as the Indian, during those periods when there were the journeyings of the people from what is known as the Caucasian into the lands that later became the classes and the castes that made for that development which is innate in the peoples of that land in the present.
15. The entity was among the plainsmen who fought with those in the hills, and rose to the position wherein the entity - in the name Iuden - brought much to that land of those higher influences that deal with the establishing of places that HONORED the sufferings of man in a manner whereunto they might be used as blessings in the experiences of the individuals. Hence things that pertain to the occult or the mystic will grow to be of greater and greater interest to the entity in its development and its activity during the present experience; and may be used in those latter portions to bring a great activity, and a researcher that may bring much to his own people as well as to the earth; for the entity in the latter portion of the present experience will be a leader among men.
16. Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as or called the Atlantean, during those periods when there were the destructions or separations of the land during the period of the first destruction.
17. The entity was among those who aided in the preparation
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of the explosives, or those things that set in motion the fires of the inner portions of the earth that were turned into destructive forces (unawares to many of those, yet) - as was experienced by those that had followed in the law of the One, and those that followed the law of Baal, the laws of nature are used by the spiritual laws for the completing of what are as destined forces in the lives and experiences of those that journey through this mundane sphere. For whom the Lord hath called, whom the Lord Himself hath ordained for a service, whom the Lord hath joined in his activities in the earth to make a great people, him will He preserve; if those things that make for the growing together of the activities in a material world, those things that satisfy for the pleasures of the earth's sojourn, bring harmony and not contention in the experience of those that are called.
18. As to that, then, to which the entity may attain in the present, and how:
19. It has been seen that much depends upon the direction in which the entity is trained or guided and directed during this change now in its experience in this sojourn. If trained toward those things that deal with individuals' activities, a drudge will be the life's sojourn. If trained or directed towards those things that deal with the elements that will make for an expansion in the mental and soul forces of the experiences of the entity, harmony, contentment and peace may come into the experiences of the entity - and thus bringing to same in THIS sojourn those things that will make the LIFE, the experience, WORTH while.
20. Ready for questions.
21. (Q) For what specific vocation is he best fitted? (A) As we have indicated, in those fields that deal with things, or the elementals; as in chemistry, or the activities in the open, or in law, rather than in those things that deal with individuals.
22. (Q) Please give advice and guidance to the parents as to how they may best guide and direct this life? (A) As indicated, not by might or main - but by reasoning. Not by those things such as "You must", but that "This may be the better." Set an object lesson ever before the entity; not as the praise for the entity, but for the accomplishments of the mind and body; guiding, directing, in those things that - if the life is to be made worth while - must have a spiritual influence motivating their activity. For "the spirit MOVED upon the waters" that it became material. So, as the spirit moves upon the mental forces of an individual soul, there may come into manifestations those things that give blessings, or that bring destructive
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forces. Hence surround the activities with those things that are CONSTRUCTIVE; not merely in the material sense but in the mental and spiritual also.
23. We are through for the present. Copy to Mother " " Ass'n file