This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 13th day of March, 1935, in accordance with request made by the self''s mother, Mrs. [...], 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. Boyd Davis, L. B. and Hugh Lynn Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Born July 31, 1923, in Sibly Hospital about 10:00 A. M., Washington, D.C. Time of Reading 3:10 to 3:40 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. Washington, D.C. (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 entity now known as or called [693].
2. In giving that from the records as we have here, we find much that might be said concerning what has been written in many quarters respecting heredity and environment. For these, whether the individuals will or not, go much deeper than ordinarily seen from reasoning in one plane, one experience, one environ. Yet oft, as we find here, individuals again and again are drawn together that there may be the meeting in the experience of each that which will make them aware of wherein they, as individuals (individual entity and soul), have erred respecting experiences in materiality or soul life even. For the soul lives on, and unless that which has been the trouble, the barrier, the dissenting influence in the experience is met in self's relationships to Creative Forces, it must gradually make for deteriorating experiences in the expression of such a spirit influence in matter - or materiality.
3. In this entity we find it coming under the influence of those things rather in the earth, that have made for that which in the flesh and in the mental forces makes for those expressions of conditions that must not only be met BY self but in those who HAVE been and are responsible for the entering of the soul into the experience. O that men (or man) would become cognizant of the necessity of preparations within themselves for being the channels for giving a soul the opportunity for expressions in the earth, or in matter! THIS soul, or this BODY, was not wanted; yet as it came with those surrounding environs, those attitudes and those wishes and those desires that made for the entrance, we have that
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which must be met. As we find, if those things are adhered to in a conscientious manner that we have indicated, much of that may be eradicated by the time there are those periods when the alterations or changes come in the activative influences within the body itself [at 14 yrs. of age?, second cycle?]. If it is allowed to become a portion of the developing manhood and the expression of same into materiality, less and less will there be the opportunity for the eradicating of same entirely from the system.
4. As to the expressions of the entity in the earth, we find:
5. Before this it was in those environs when there were the activities in the land now known as Salem, and the experience about Providence Town when there were the expressions and activities that made for the suppression of the expressions of individuals in meeting those experiences that came as the expressions of spiritual manifestations in the experiences of others.
6. The entity was not only among those that made for the belittling of such but induced the material activity in the suppression, in the expression; and not only took advantage of those that were being oppressed but used same in such a manner as to gratify, satisfy, the passions of the body in associations with same. These made for the expressions that have brought in the experience of the entity in the present that which makes for the more often the attempt of expression of self during that sojourn, or during that experience; and almost a possession takes place within the body when there are those touchings upon those things when the MIND of the body attempts to rest, such that others creep close to the border; making for those manifestations that bring into the experience the uncontrollableness within its own self. Yet much of that which may make for the corrections in same lies within those abilities of those that are responsible for its physical entrance in the present.
7. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Palestine land, during the periods when the Master walked in the earth.
8. The entity then was among those that were the scoffers, among those of the Sanhedrin itself; for the entity then, in the name Samaleuen, represented the tribes of Reuben, and was of the household of those of that particular people. For it represented same in those experiences in the beginning of the separation of the house, for the entity was itself Reuben!
9. In the experience there, we find the entity lost in many
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respects; gained somewhat in the latter portions, yet allowed self to be led away by that which seemed for the moment necessary for the satisfying of the material expressions and material beings in the activities of the individual.
10. Before that we find the entity was among the first born of Jacob and Leah, and making for the expressions that in the beginning brought much that was in accord with the callings into an activity where these might have brought the blessings upon the activities in the sojourn. Yet when the desires of the flesh entered, and the associations with those things and about those peoples that had been as an expression of intolerance to those peoples, the entity made for the associations that brought disorder, discontent within those of its own household and those of its people in that experience and that expression.
11. These made for again those activities that have brought in the present the necessity of the awareness of the spiritual awakening within the expression and experience of the entity.
12. Before that we find the entity was in the period when there were those changes in the sons of Tubal-Cain when Lamech made for those choices of the first beginnings of when MAN as man partook of those things that made for the multiplicity, or when polygamy first began among those peoples.
13. This brought to the entity during the experience that of disorder, disturbance, the unfavorable expressions of many about the entity; and bringing those experiences that have builded for disorders in the experience.
14. As to the abilities of the entity, then, and that to which it may attain and how in the present:
15. First, as has been indicated, as it has brought to those in the experience, aided by those in the experiences throughout the sojourns, turmoils and strifes into its material experience, so - with those who have meted and who have been with same in many - must there come the deliverance from the association of the multiplicity of activities in the spirit associations and in the activities about the entity in the mental and material plane. Then may we find, if the entity turns to the universal constructive forces that may be had by and through those promises which have ever been made to the children of men, there may come strength and understanding. And in those things that make for the mechanical appliances of any nature may the entity gain activity in the present experience for those greater expressions of material gains, and in the applications of
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the simple laws, "As ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them," becoming applicable, being applied in the experience, may make for the greater growths in this experience.
16. Ready for questions.
17. (Q) Will he be given the power and - (A) (Interrupting) This must be aided in being received in those manners as has been indicated. Follow those instructions. Make for, those about same, the constant prayer - not of a selfishness, but, "Show Thou, O Lord, the way to this erring soul, this wandering entity, that Thou may in Thine mercy bring harmony in the mental, coordination in the material with a perfect mental and physical body."
18. We are through for the present. Copy to Mother " " Ass'n file