This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at The Oakland, 2006 Columbia Road, Washington, D.C., this 12th day of October, 1934, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [691], new Active Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Miss [681].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Hugh Lynn Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Born April 11, 1900, in Webster Springs, W. Va. Time of Reading 11:20 to 12:10 A. 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 latent and manifested in the personalities of the present entity, known as or called [691] in the present.
2. Many are the records of the entity, and bright are they in many of its activities. There is a condition that is out of the ordinary, for the entity should in this appearance become a channel for expressions of the divine activities in the earth through the efforts or expressions in its own writings.
3. In giving that which may be helpful for this entity in this experience, not only from the astrological sojourn of the entity in the environs about the earth - that have been accredited by the ancients to those influences upon the earth, the activative forces in their positions about the earth - but those things that are more as omens, the various accredited vibrations as in stones, etc., we find having an influence upon the entity. For the entity should ever wear about the body the lapis lazuli or the lapis linguis; for these will bring strength to the body through those vibrations that are brought or built in the innate experience of the entity from its sojourn in the Egyptian land.
4. Also in the numerological numbers we find that one or ten will always be those periods, days, cycles when changes come in the experience of the entity in making its application to those attributes either of the mental or the material things in the experience of the entity.
5. As to the astrological aspects, we find Jupiter being the ruling influences in the entity's inner urges. This aside, please:
6. That which may be given as an urge is the innate or
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indwelling, and as to what a soul in a manifested form in materiality does ABOUT the urge is that which is weighed between will and environment.
7. In this experience's urge, then, from the Jupiterian influences, we find one that will come into - or the abilities for coming into - the influence, or under the influences of those in the varied walks of life that make for, from the material standpoint, the abilities for expression; whether in a social, material, political, environment that makes for what would be termed from the material standpoint opportunities. As to the application, this will depend upon the action, activity, by the entity.
8. In this same urge we find there are those things pertaining to the greater relationships of individuals as to groups, as to masses, as to environs, as to hereditary environment, as to the influences in their activity, will be as urges and as visions and as dreams of the entity. For people as groups, as masses, are rather as the entity's vision than the whole. While detail is an experience, rather does the entity see and vision in the broader sense; and this same environ or urge will bring the environ in which material things of great earthly value may be in the experience of the entity during this present sojourn. True, since the adverse influences in Jupiterian activity for the last nine months - yea, twelve months - there has been only the rather adverse, save during the period of the entity's nativity or month of birth; yet very soon - yea, in three days - changes are to be eminent in the experience of the entity; that is, the opportunities for these. As to the application, or that an entity in the manifested manner does ABOUT the opportunities, this is up to the entity - but the urge does and will present itself.
9. The influence in Mercury, combined with the Jupiterian, make for abilities in those fields of activity that will deal with masses and groups and states and societies and associations, and those things that have to do with the leading of thought in varied directions and activities. Not that there have not been periods of wonderment, the disturbing conditions that prevent the entity from its application of the knowledge that has been maintained and acquired within experience of the soul throughout its sojourns in the earth, but the judgements and the acquiring of the understandings are EMINENT in the urges of the inner self. Making the application becomes, then, the problem in the experience in the present.
10. Then, the influences from Venus are third or secondary conditions. The judgements have brought about, will bring
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about, conditions in the love affairs, in the relationships with friends and individuals of a rather extraordinary or unusual sort of experience. For when those things that make for separations and divisions in the material affairs have ridden rather in the activities of those things about the entity, they have brought distraughtness at times; yet the judgements, the visions that have sustained the entity are those that will make for with the application in the present experience - many looking to the entity for guidance in their relationships, their activities, towards others. From the same we find friendships are of a peculiar importance in the experience of the entity. One lesson learned, and must be learned in the experience: No soul in manifested form has so many friends that it may justly say "I have no need of another," or "I can afford to lose this or that." Greater are the friendships of those that are indeed friends, than they who have been commonly welded through the relationships even in blood.
11. As to the experiences then that may come to the entity through these influences from the soul or entity's sojourn in these environs:
12. One broad of vision. One that is as a complement to those that are of the birthdates that are after the fifteenth of October and the first of December of any year.
13. One that in its relationships or associations will do the better with those associations in commercial relations whose birthdates are between the twenty-second of December and the eleventh of February, in any year; for, as has been given, numberological influences, the vibrations from associations by activities in the earth, create or make for - or are - influences through which the sensitiveness of the entity may develop or gain much.
14. Then, as to the appearances in the earth and their influence in the present experience of the entity:
15. Before this we find the entity was during those periods in the land of the present nativity, when there were the settlings in what is now the New England land, or the vineland, about those places known as Salem, Providence Town, Newburgh Town.
16. The entity then was among and in relationships with those that were persecuted for their relationships with the activities known as visions, experiences, relationships of activities from without. And in the name Dale Alison did the activities of the entity make for aid to those that were persecuted, those that were questioned as to their visions, as to their activities.
17. And in the present experience of the entity this has
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made for its abilities in those directions for the maintaining of the relationships with individuals who were oft questioned as to their activities with groups that might be questioned from the political or social activities in the material conditions. Yet the entity was not one that had aided in such, but rather the innate expressions of the finesse' of the love influence in the experience; gaining from the spiritual and soul development, losing from the material conditions in that experience.
18. In the Salem vicinity may there still be found the records, both as to the recorded and as to the nature of hearsay. And those in Elm Cot [Misses [283] & [2842] - see 691-1, Par. R1], those in that environ may assist the entity in acquiring knowledge concerning that individual experience.
19. In the present, in making applications of that gained, study in self to know the sources of that which has prompted the activity of individuals that have swayed the action of the groups, the masses, the classes of individuals in all of their dealings with their fellow man. For in that field may the application bring to the entity the awakenings of those influences from that sojourn, whether in the artistic temperament of the entity or the recording of same.
20. Before that we find (among those that influence in the present) the entity was in that land now known as the Grecian, among those peoples when there were the questionings of those teachers that arose; or in the periods when Socrates, Plato, Pliny and those of that thought - of Hercules and those activities - were upon the minds and hearts and experiences of those individuals.
21. The entity then was among those of the household of one Pontius, in the name Gracien; and was rather of that understanding gained by many in the discerning of the variations in the activities of people through the discussions of the day.
22. From the experience the entity comes to be a good listener, and one that is capable of making in its own experience the most of that gained by the listening to discussions here, there; rather the follower during the experience of the Socrates school, for those were the activities that brought the developments in the experience, though applying self rather in that field of activity that has made for the greater renown of the Grecian architectural activities.
23. Hence in the present we find, too, those things of any particular period or experience of individuals or associations during particular periods, that were influenced
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whether by war, thought or expression in the various activities, are of particular interest to the entity - especially in its study, its reason, its vision, its activities in the present; and, as has been indicated, these make for the abilities whereunto the entity may apply itself the greater in the present experience.
24. Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as or called the Egyptian, during the periods when there were turmoils and strife, when there were the rebellions in the land and those from the Abyssinian and Atlantean lands were being gathered in their efforts to not only maintain but to influence the activities of those in that particular land.
25. The entity then, as a bride of the ruler from the Atlantean land, in the name Azuel, came with those peoples from the Atlantean to the Egyptian land. And as there were the reestablishings of the thought given by the Priest who returned to the land, and the correlating of the experiences of the Atlantean, the entity rose to one of power, one of position. For the entity then presided over those that were in the Temple Beautiful, where there was not only the dance, not only the activity in the Temple of Sacrifice, but the cleansing and the adornment of the body - with the cleansing of the physical for the greater manifestations of the spiritual thoughts that were shown through the music of the Temple, through the dressings and hangings; and these experiences brought for the entity a position wherein many not only of the natives, not only of the sojourners, but the distribution of the thought with the establishing of the schools, with the decorations that were begun in the bodies of those that were set aside for the special service, were led in those things by the entity.
26. Hence those things that pertain to the adornment of the body, those things that pertain to the decorations of home, those things that pertain to the abilities of individuals to influence such things in the lives and experience of many, have their influence upon the entity in the present. And in the recording of these in their proper relationships as one to another may the entity apply self more in the present.
27. Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as the American, during the periods when there were the sojourning of those from the land of Mu, or Lemuria.
28. The entity was then among the first of those that were born in what is now portions of Arizona and of Utah, and among those that established the lands there for the building up or growing up of that civilization in those experiences; and was in the name Uuluoou.
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29. In the experience the entity led many for a greater understanding of how there might be made the closer relationships with the material things and the spiritual thoughts of the people.
30. This also brings a latent urge in the experience of the entity.
31. From these, then, we find as this - in which the entity may apply self in the present, for not only its own soul development but as indicated - may give the greater to those whom the entity may contact in its abilities to give expressions to the innate and manifested experiences of the entity and soul through its sojourns in the earth:
32. There is rather, first, the self to conquer. Then may there be given through thine abilities that which may be the more helpful, the more promising, the more inspiring to others for their activity.
33. Ready for questions.
34. (Q) What specific life work would you advise for the entity? (A) The greater accomplishment may be made in writing.
35. (Q) What type of writing? (A) That which deals rather with the larger groups, the masses, and the impelling influences that prompt same.
36. (Q) Should the body develop her talent for voice, or for the stage? (A) That which gives the abilities for the greater expressions of those things that make for the motivating forces, for the MOVING others, would be the greater talent. Hence the stage, but the writing - then - will become the greater MOVING force for the entity.
37. (Q) Just how should I prepare for the stage work? (A) In those preparations that go with the regular forms, or through the regular channels for preparations; both as to body and as to expression, and the activities necessary for same.
38. (Q) Is it wise to continue my connection in my present position? (A) If this leads to that which is being sought, wise to continue in the present.
39. (Q) From whom should I seek assistance in a career? (A) In self first conquer self, as indicated. Then will it be shown in the relationships of the activities with others; for there are those regular channels through which those seeking such an activity may find the greater channel for giving expression of self. Through those groups, then, that are prepared for such activities.
40. (Q) Do I have a voice fitted to sing grand opera? (A) This would require a great deal of activity in those fields that apparently are not open in the present, yet with
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the abilities in the field of the WRITING there will be brought those associations and relations that will develop same.
41. (Q) Will you advise more specifically regarding the type and character of writing? (A) That which pertains to, first, articles in the various channels for outlet of same; pertaining to the various fields of activity. For the imaginative forces, the abilities for expression in these fields are BEYOND the ordinary. But wear the stone ever about the body, and TOUCHING the body.
42. (Q) Do you mean fiction? (A) Fiction - in articles that pertain to such activities, yes.
43. (Q) What particular activities do you refer to? (A) Those that are necessary for the creating of such activity in self! That is, BEGIN! See? Commence! Start! THAT'S activity! The abilities are there!
44. (Q) Should I seek a change of environment in the near future? (A) If these developments are carried on - that is, in the first field as given, that may lead to the carrying out of the expression in voice, the expression in the active forces before the greater influencing of individuals - these will MAKE for the change in environment!
45. (Q) Is there any other advice or guidance regarding the writing at this time? (A) First, in the understanding of self and those impulses that motivate same, study those influences that have been given; and it will be seen in what fields of activity there may be the expression of self in the writings and in the expressions of self as to the voice, the body, the relationships with individuals. And this will give the opportunities for the greater material and soul development; letting all be tempered with the spiritual, that the results may ever be constructive.
46. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file