This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at The Oakland, 2006 Columbia Road, Washington, D.C., this 16th day of October, 1934, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [694], Active Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Hugh Lynn Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [694].
R E A D I N G
Born October 24, 1889, in Washington, D.C. 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 now known as [694].
2. In entering this present experience we find there are many influences from the mystical, or the little understood conditions about the earth, that influence the entity; and in the present experience there have been many conditions arising from time to time that have been - to many, and to the entity itself - little understood, as to how, by this or that - when apparently from the material angle conditions must evidently be thus and so, yet these have - as it were, from the practical side - been rather the outcome of unseen influences, of conditions that have had little to do with the material things. And yet these have always brought to the entity rather wonderment than understanding. For the necessities of the material world have crowded where, were there the practical application of those things and conditions that have been in part experiences these would have been changed entirely for the entity.
3. Then we find not only the influences from the astrological sojourns but from the material environments of the entity under such conditions where there were given, as it were, by those environs in which the entity enacted its sojourns in the earth, the accrediting of activities in the associations of that sojourn, that have builded for omens, the numerological, those that are often called the superstitions of the people in the various environs. Hence we find these as those things that should be in the form of omens about the body; not as good luck charms, but they may be termed so by many; for these are from those activities and sojourns that will make for variations in the VIBRATIONS about the entity, hence bringing much more of harmony into the experience of the entity in the present activity. The very red stones; as of coral, that is rather of the deep sea
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variety, and when this is worn about the neck or about the waist - or upon the arm - let it rest upon the flesh, for it will bring quiet to the body. Let the raiment be something of blue, EVER, upon the flesh of the body, whether in the waking or in the sleeping - and especially in the sleeping hours, for it will bring the influences as the music that quiets, through the vibrations that are set off by such. And let the numbers as in three, six and nine ever be the choice, whether in the activities in the material, in the sojourn, in the position, in the place, or in WHATEVER the activities may be; for these carry with them their vibration by the NATURAL relative forces to the human emotions. And the body will find that the unquiet and the tumultuous conditions will be changed to the harmonious abilities to give out. And if a body-mind, a body-physical, a soul-body would have understanding, then GIVE - that it may have. For they that would have life, love, hope, faith, brotherly love, kindness, gentleness, mercy, must SHOW these things in their relationships to those they meet in every walk of life. Dare to speak gently, when even thine self is troubled. Dare to speak gently when thou art even berated by those from whom, in the MATERIAL sense, ye have every right to expect or to even demand honor, and hope, and faith. Though they act in the opposite, with these environs about self as intimated the entity will be able to meet such; not as omens, not as good luck, but as facts for thine OWN development. For thy soul has been tried as by fire through many of thine experiences in the earth. Yet there are those things that make for harmony in their relationships as one to another, as do the turmoils of the mother-water that brings forth in its activity about the earth those tiny creatures that in their beginnings make for the establishing of that which is the foundation of much of those in materiality. Hence the red, the deep red coral, upon thine flesh, will bring quietness in those turmoils that have arisen within the inner self; as also will the pigments of blue to the body bring the air, the fragrance of love, mercy, truth and justice that is within self.
4. As to the astrological sojourns that the entity has experienced, we find adverse influences through the Venus sojourn; bringing those experiences - in its relationships with the MENTAL activities of individuals - of many disappointments, many experiences in friendships that have made at times fears - even to the entity - to give even confidences to those that in the flesh and in the material things had felt that these would be so helpful. But there is being pointed out not elementals save those that have
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been builded into materiality, that may aid and strengthen the relationships in those things about self, those very conditions. To thine own self in these relationships be true, and thou wilt not be false to any - to whom thou shouldest show forth in thine life, thine expression of life, thine activities in the material things, the love even of the Father. BE rather, then, in thine associations in friendships, the impersonal; yet with the love of thy fellow man so deep, so high, as to show forth THAT love that passeth understanding. For REST rather in those promises that He has given, in "A new commandment I give, that ye love one another," and thus FULFILL the law of love. Love IS law, law IS love, to those that love HIS appearing.
5. From the influences in Mercury we find one of high MENTAL application, yet not always has the entity found it in self to easily discern whose end was in the constructive direction. Then, those that proclaim the love of CONSTRUCTIVE thought are those things that may bring in thine mental and in thine spiritual experience the CONSTRUCTIVE experiences in thine moral, thine social, thine commercial life. For if ye be not founded in grace and mercy to thy fellow man, may thou expect grace and mercy from thy Maker? For ye are HIS in the earth, and as ye show forth the Lord in thine activity do ye gain understanding as to that which is helpful, that is hopeful, that is peace-giving. Cry not "Peace, Peace" when thou, thyself, hast not SHOWN peace to thy brethren!
6. The influences in Jupiter we find as a great breadth, as a piling up - as it were - of associations, meeting numbers and large numbers of individuals and groups. Yet as individuals does the entity come into the experience of many that the entity never sees; for MANY are and will be dependent upon the activities of this soul in its experience for their security in materiality, as well as in the MENTAL self. And these in the greater portion will never be seen or known MATERIALLY to the entity. This is through the very application of the abilities of the entity in its activity among its fellow man. Hence that injunction, being true to self thou canst not be false to those that are DEPENDING upon THY inner decisions.
7. As we find also, this - in the later portion of the entity's sojourn in this earth, if the foregoing are made a part of the entity's experience - WILL BRING comforts of the material nature, surroundings of those things termed as luxuries of a material world. Use same wisely!
8. As to the experiences in the earth and their influence upon the entity, in those things that come as the motivative
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forces in its associations with others - or through the impulse of that called the SENSE world of the entity's experience, we find:
9. Before this the entity lived in the earth during those periods when there were the settlings in this land of the present nativity, in those lands adjoining nigh unto the present place of entrance.
10. And we find the entity was among the natives of that land, but in those positions where the very associations with those of its environs brought that activity which made for the carrying ON of those things that dealt with the taking away, the adding to, the decisions, in the counsels of the natives. For the entity was among those that were so closely associated with what is ordinarily termed the "medicine man" of those peoples of Powhatan's rule, of those peoples even far to the north in the Susquehannas, and was in the name then of Iu-go-dd.
11. In the experience the entity brought much to those peoples in the way of the bettering not only of the conditions of those who came as settlers in the land, but when there were shown the dispositions of those in the north for the brotherly love - and those in the south for the closer social or living relations - the entity became divided as to that experience in the lives of their own peoples, and as to what it must eventually bring.
12. Hence in the present we find those things that continue to make for, in the experience of the entity, social or moral or marital relations bringing experiences that are hard to be understood. Yet if these are used, even as the entity made application, and as given by Him who IS the Giver of light, "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's," these things will be understood. Give, in thine understanding, the correct interpretation of the motivating forces, and KNOW - in the hands of the Giver - all worketh together for good to those that love the Lord.
13. From that experience also we find those peculiar activities of the entity, that may be relations in the present, as to how then many people of many lands, many environs and many circumstance depended upon the entity. So in the present does the scope of the entity's activity ever reach from the high to the low. And to him who is given much, of him much is required. Not as a duty, but consider ever a service thou may render as a PRIVILEGE for THY portion of the manifestation of thy God in the earth.
14. Before that (among those that influence the entity in the present) we find the entity was in the earth during
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those days when there were the persecutions of those that had chosen to follow the tenets of those of the Promised Land, or that teacher that had come into the earth and whose followers were little fearful of those things that partook of the aggrandizing of thoughts and things of the body.
15. The ENTITY then was among the daughters of Priscilla, to whom Paul came, who with Priscilla and with those activities rendered such a service to those in that experience; suffering in body yet glorying in the ability of giving of self in those things that would bespeak that gentleness of purpose that was exemplified in the life of Priscilla and Aquila (the father) in that experience.
16. In the spiritual and mental life the entity GAINED, though lost in material things - yet counted it all as gain, that there might be given of the body for those tenets and truths that were embraced in the experiences during that sojourn.
17. And this makes for the experiences in the present where there are the attempts so often to atone, or to make drudges for self for those things. RATHER know ye that the Lord loveth rather that of love than sacrifice; rather the purposes, the aims, the desires! WHAT is thy desire toward thy fellow man? What is that motivating thy activities? Let the love of the Father CONSTRAIN thee!
18. Before that we find the entity was in those fields of activity during the coming together of the people in the hills and the plains when the teacher Uhjltd was making for the gathering of many that made for aid to the body and to the mind of the wayfarers, of the sojourners, of those that would come and go in that land of awakening for many.
19. The entity was among the people from the Indian land that came and went with the exchange of the commercial intercourse between the Egyptian and Indian and Mongolian land, and the entity - through those associations - came to be among those that kept the counsel by the keeping of the records of those as to the needs of exchange, or what would be termed in common parlance as the keeper of the records of the collector at the port, or at the exchange place in that particular environ; in the name then Zu-lezu.
20. In the experience the entity gained in the SPIRITUAL development, gained in the material development; for many were those people who depended upon the choice, the relationships, the decisions of the entity for not only the material things of their life but for the mental and spiritual development - as to their relationships to the tenets being given in that particular experience.
21. As to the application to self in the present, in the
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activities as a keeper of records, as to the activities and associations of others, there comes and will come an outlet for the ENTITY'S expression. Yet in the latter days in this experience we will find, as in the sojourn in that Arabian land (and particularly some influences in the dress are seen from that sojourn), there will be rather the days when others will bring to the entity the fruits of the service in the land - rather than in the activities of self - for the counsel, and for the change that will come about.
22. Before that we find the entity was in that Egyptian land during the periods when there were the disseminations of those tenets that had been through the activity of the regenerations of the Priest, and those that were giving out the medical associations and laws as related to individuals with individuals.
23. The entity then was among those people that were in the Arabian land, who aided in - and helped in - disseminating those tenets that later arose as the Chaldean development, that rose high during those sojourns of many that are even yet recorded in history. There has been the recent excavation in Ur, where the entity - in 10,500, or 10,420 - lived in that land; and a vase or an urn - where there is the piper, with the drawing of the chariot - that was a portion of the entity's own household goods. It's BLUE in color. Hence blue is ever bringing harmony.
24. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, and that to which it may attain and how:
25. Learn that quiet first within self, from within, through those applications not only of the material things but from the counsel and meditating from within self; and ye shall stand approved unto Him, wherein there may be the peace and harmony and joy of a life lived in an active service for not only thy fellow man but - FORGETTING self - pressing on to the mark of the higher calling set in Him, to that day when ye shall stand as a light to many, as a guide to those in the dark ways, and PROCLAIM the acceptable year of thy Lord!
26. Ready for questions.
27. (Q) I would like to know very much how long I will live on this earth plane. (A) Rather choose thou, "How long may I serve my God, my fellow man, through giving service to Him?" And stand ever in that position: "I am ready, Lord, to serve wherever, in WHATEVER realm, THOU choosest that I may be of the greater service!" Many days, many years wait before thee. Do ye not know, "Honor thy father, thy mother, that thy days may be LONG in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee"? Dost thou choose? It is before thee; choose thou!
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28. (Q) What will I be in my next incarnation? (A) This depends upon what thou doest with thine abilities in the present. In the next, as we find, in a position of power; in those realms of not political, but rather social relation.
29. (Q) What shade of blue should the entity use in her dress? (A) Turquoise!
30. (Q) Should the coral, as suggested, be any particular shape or carving? (A) No particular shape, just so it is mounted so that the coral itself may be upon the flesh of the body. Keep that thou hast PURPOSED in thine heart, that thou wilt serve thy Lord. Let others do as they may; choose thou this: "As for me, I will serve the LIVING God; not a dead one, not an outlook for that outside of my self - for He meets with me, and I am happy in Him."
31. We are through. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file