This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at The Oakland, 2006 Columbia Road, Washington, D.C., this 17th day of October, 1934, in accordance with request made by the self - Dr. [688], 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. Dr. [688] and Mr. [707].
R E A D I N G
Born June 23, 1873, in Carter County, Kentucky. Time of Reading 4:50 to 5:30 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. Washington, D.C. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes, we have the entity and those relations with the universe and universal forces, that are recorded by the entity now known as [688].
2. Such records of every entity are upon the skein between time and space. Hence we have that which may be given, that - if applied in the experience of an entity - may enable each to so apply its own peculiar abilities in the soul development. For, as has been given, though a man gain the whole world and lose his own soul, what has there been gained?
3. As to the influences that are recorded, we find there are many of those that are accredited in the various experiences of an entity in its passage through the earth in the various periods and places of development, and that which prompts the activity of the soul in its sojourn; hence leaving - from the sojourns in the earth - those influences that are as impulses in the activity of the soul.
4. The astrological influences also have their place in the inner urges that are latent and awakened, through the application of self as respecting will and opportunity in relationships of that which is the motivative force in every mental process in the soul's activity. For with the purpose, with the desire, ever does there come - as has ever been seen - the opportunity, the experience, for what the soul does about that it has gained in its sojourn through WHATEVER realm of consciousness it has passed or is passing. That which remains as being unaware in the consciousness of an individual entity remains as the mysteries or the hidden influences.
5. Yet, as indicated, this entity, this soul, has gone far in its developments; and it is as to how it applies that it has attained in the present that WILL make for the further advancement in this experience; being, itself, through its
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own soul development, as one that is SENSITIVE to the influences from within and from without. With those forces then from without, through the material developments in sojourns in the earth, we find in the present these:
6. Well that the entity have the stones or minerals about self when in periods of meditation, or in those periods when it may find itself the more easily attuned to the influences that may use the body, either in the healing forces that flow through - through its attunements, or through the visions and the associations of the entity; the chrysolite or the amethyst. For the color purple should be close to the body; and the perfumes or odors as of lavender have their influence - not as in great quantity, but that which makes for attunements.
7. As to the numbering or the numerological influences, these will be found to be rather - in those of the changes, as in five; and those in the spiritual forces as in seven. So, when dealing with those things that make for MATERIAL contracts or connections - five; and in those things that make for the aids that may be helpful to individuals or to peoples, would be in the numbers carrying seven.
8. Then, the astrological influences for this entity, [688], come as these - as we find:
9. In the Mercurian forces does the entity find the wisdom of the sage, the seer, as a portion of the experience of self, rather than in the application in that which may be gained from books or from letters - but the words and the sounds and the tones and the colors. For as the vibrations and the HEALING in the amethyst, that make for the helping and aiding in individuals' assistance or help, the wisdom is balanced in those things that are founded in CONSTRUCTIVE forces - which it must be, in the healing. But give ever, my child, the credit where the credit is due, rendering unto Caesar the things that ARE Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's. For only growth, only increase, only CONSTRUCTIVE force may come THROUGH the living influences in the ever creative energies that are the birthright of every soul that seeks to do His biddings - and to be a channel of blessings in HIS name.
10. Do that thou doest QUICKLY, for as thou gainest that understanding He will open the door before thee. Turn rather to those growths in self, that there may come - as has been the promise - the meetings in the mount as from within. For though through ordinances of the body and through the attributes of the mind and soul do those things appear that take that aptitude of how, or the manner or the form, these show only that they are but channels.
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11. In Neptune, with influences in the Uranian force, we find the mysticism of the occult forces, the spiritual domination with the experience of the entity; yet, as in the occult only, one may find the two-faced - or that which is either good or bad. Only in the mind of man is it good or bad; for the CONSTRUCTIVE forces are of ALL GOOD - which is GOD!
12. The sojourns in the earth, as we find, have been in those ways and manners that have brought - and do bring about - the material urges through what is known as the SENSE organization, or the SENSING within self of that vibration, of that approach, of that understanding in its various relationships to knowledge. Not as knowledge that is put on as a garment; rather that which is a growth as from within.
13. Before this we find the entity was in the earth during those periods when the first of the settlers crossed the mountains of the native land, when there were the turmoils and strife over the salt lands - in that particular portion of the native land; then in the name Elsa Stroble.
14. The entity gained through the experience; for, through the applications of self in attaining the relationships with the natives of the western, the southern and the northern lands, the ENTITY became associated with - not the ordinary medicine man, but - that one that oft would speak with the entity even in the present - Red Feather.
15. In that experience the entity learned much of those things that would bring to those peoples the allaying of the fevers and the healings, the strengthening of the weary in body and mind; and thus gained from nature - or the storehouses of the influences themselves that make for material manifestations in an earthly kingdom - the powers of creative energies. For, would that all would learn, even as the entity gained in those experiences, that - no matter from what source help may come - only divine forces can give HEALING to same.
16. The application of this in the present is in the drawing near to the self within, that it may commune with the god-influences, NAMING them rather as in His name, the Giver of good and perfect gifts in the experiences of man in the earth - man and woman as one, for until the souls are knit in a purposefulness of doing His biddings they are not whole in the earth.
17. Before that we find the entity was in those days when the Master of men walked in the earth, during those days of toil and strife among those that came under the messages that were given to the common peoples - yea, those that
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sought in His name.
18. The entity then was the mother of Bartimaeus, the blind that was healed even as a STRONG man; yet the entity in its seeking, in its faith, held to the tenets of the law of the land and of the period, in the name then Cleopas.
19. In the experience the entity gained and lost, and gained; for it was through the turmoils of the persecution that followed in those days when those in the earth that heard His words were made STRONG in determinations in the mind, in the bodies - yea, those who sought much during those periods to give of themselves in that service for a cause that reached into and awakened all those promises that have been set from the beginning, "I will meet thee in thine own activities toward thy fellow man." For with this judgement ye shall judge one another; not condemning any, for thine own self would condemn thee. Dost thou make for self's own aggrandizement through those relationships in this or that with thine fellow man, thou hast thine own reward - and so must meet that thou sowest. Thou must meet every word thou hast uttered in thine experience. Only in Him may the cleansing come; for, as He has given, "I go to prepare the place, that where I am there ye may be also." THESE words in those days meant much to the entity; brought to the entity the ability to suffer in body that the soul might be made alive in Him. Do, my child, the same today; for His name is above EVERY name, for through that name thou may approach the Throne of grace itself in thy brethren, in thine brother, in thine neighbor, in thine SELF, in thine God thou dost worship.
20. Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as the Egyptian, during those days when there were the reestablishings of those tenets of the Priest that had been banished.
21. The entity then was among the natives of the Abyssinian land that returned with the Priest to the active service in that land about what is now known as the Egyptian land, or about those places where there has been established that shrine to which all come - as to the mysteries of the ages, as to the house of initiation in which the impurities might be cleansed from the flesh that the spirit of truth might make manifest.
22. Hence the activities of the entity were among the sick, the weak, the halt and the maimed, and those that were lame in the feet, through the cleansings of those things from the animals of that connection.
23. In the experience the entity gained much, and the powers in the present for the healings as in hand, the power of the
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approach to the infinite forces that may make manifest, come through those experiences of the entity then. Turn though, my child, rather to those of thine OWN development; not boasting of self, but the law as He has given, "All that call on my name, to them will be given the power to become the sons of God, and to them may be given the interpretation of all they have experienced from the BEGINNING." For HIS law is perfect.
24. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, and that to which it may attain, and how:
25. Study to show thyself approved unto Him, rightly divining the words of truth, keeping self unspotted from the world, and thou shalt have a crown laid up; not as laid away, but as in the service to thy fellow man. Be thou rather the servant of the living God, not of a dead past - nor of those things that can make one falter or faint in the way. For He will guide thee as thou goest. Keep the faith in thee in thy Savior, for He will guide thee; when thou callest He will hear.
26. Ready for questions.
27. (Q) What was the entity in her last incarnation? (A) A physician, a healer to those peoples in the dark and bloody land - as gained from the associations with that one among the red men, "Red Wing."
28. (Q) What is the entity here for in the present; what is her mission? (A) That thou may show forth the love of the Father unto thee among the sons and the daughters of men. As an emissary, as one that would show the light; bringing healing in the body, but DIRECTING such that ARE healed to the source of light in Jesus, the Christ, to whom thou conducted even thine own!
29. We are through. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file