This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at The Oakland, 2006 Columbia Road, Washington, D.C., this 15th day of October, 1934, in accordance with request made by the self - [696], 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. Miss [696].
R E A D I N G
Born June 23, 1896, in Villa Rica, Georgia. Time of Reading 10:50 to 11:35 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, [696].
2. In entering the present experience, from the astrological aspects - or rather as we find through the sojourn of the entity in the environs about the earth - there are latent manifestations that may become a portion of the present experience through the application of the will of the entity. No influence is as expressive in the experience of an entity as the gift of the will to each soul for its own manner of expression of same in the material world.
3. As to the astrological aspects, then, from the sojourn in the Mercurian influences - with the aspects of Neptune, we find one seeking rather into the motivative influences of those conditions or experiences that move individuals, groups or masses as to their activity. Those things that are rather from the inspirational or the intuitive nature become the activative forces for the entity itself. Hence this seeking as to those experiences becomes as an innate expression of the entity's activity in this particular experience, bringing - then - the tendencies of a high mentality, with the abilities of discernment and of a natural analytical or of a seeking nature or mind. Hence detail activities as related to things are in the experience of the entity. While people are only a secondary interest, the expressions of nature are the more powerful in the expression for the entity. For the entity may see as great a beauty in the bloom of the rose, the hum of the bee, the beauty of a sunset, the flow of water in its natural elements, as in the activity of individuals - or greater; yet these things - to the entity - must find their
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expressions in the relative relations of individuals as to such expressions in nature. These arise from this combination-influence from sojourns of the entity in those environs.
4. We find both good and bad Jupiterian influences, making for the greater abilities, the greater opportunities for the associations of individuals or things or conditions or experiences in a large scope, a large activity. The largeness, the bigness of conditions, environs, experiences, associations, relations, arise from the EXPRESSIONS of the entity's sojourn in the environ. On the other hand, the contradictory influences bring the lack of confidence on the part of the entity in that which has moved large groups of people for an activity. And the more often the entity finds self (and questioning self in same) choosing the minority, in its associations or relations, whether this relates to those things that are of the material, the commercial, the mental or even the spiritual relationships of such associations in the experience of the entity.
5. Material conditions through the Jupiterian influences have also brought adverse periods particularly in the experience or associations of the entity. These combined - with the earthly sojourns to the material things - make for periods when the entity has not lost in ITSELF, but has questioned as to that which has prompted the activity of the larger masses or groups. Hence the seeking activity through those expressions in the sojourns makes for these analytical tendencies in the mental activities of the entity itself. Hence those things that are in the applications of attributes of abilities for the entity itself will find the greater expression in ANY of the forms of ARTISTIC development in self, whether in verse, song, writing, painting, or in those things that necessitate being prompted by the intuitive influences from within the inner self. Hence the high spiritual developments we find in the entity's own self.
6. Then, as to the appearances in the earth and those that make for influences in the entity's experience in the present:
7. Before this we find the entity was in the land of its present nativity, during the periods when there were the grants of land in that country, territory, state that became Georgia; and in those associations with the first of the trustees or governors of that particular portion of the land.
8. The entity came into associations then with the house of Oglethorpe, that made for the journeyings to the now called
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English or Britain land and the relationships with the people and the environs of the New World.
9. Then the entity was rather in the capacity of an associate in companionship with those people, in the name Sena Gewin; and gained through the experience, for in the changes that came about (and as the inclinations are shown through the sojourns of the entity in the environs about the earth and those activities) the entity aided individuals in CLASSIFYING their series of thoughts, developments, studies. For the entity even wrote much of that which was delivered, in the attempts of that Governor - both in the pleadings for those of this new land before the courts of the land granting same, and to the people in their own manner of association and conditions. Yet with the failures that came to the leader, the discouragements arose with the entity - making for periods of doubt and fears, that find material expression in the present in rather the doubting of individuals than those influences or forces that may MOVE individuals to their activity. Hence the entity is not a materialist, yet looking to material things for the expressions when it comes to individual or group or mass activity. Hence the more often does the entity turn to the influence from within as the source of supply of strength in a material world.
10. Before that we find the entity was during those periods in that same English land when there were the gatherings of those people with the adjoining lands for the entry into the activities to wrest the Holy Land from the infidel, or unbelievers, or those that overran the land.
11. The entity then was changed in the sex, being a man; and in the name Cordelli did the entity act in the capacity of being among those that strengthened Bruce in his activity in that particular service to those influences that had prompted the activity of many. Yet, with the journeyings into that foreign land, into those activities in which the entity found the environs, as many another of those - when there were the failures for the conquest of those things as set out to do by the influences of the elements of itself, as it were, in its rebellion against the activities of individual influences - the entity, under the influence even of the barbarians, the infidel, the Mohammedan faith, learned many lessons. For the succor, the aid given by those people in that particular experience has brought to the entity in the present sojourn the abilities to listen to many and to give, as it were, the place of others as to THEIR thought, as to their intent and their purpose. Hence again from these influences do we find the entity thrown
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upon the influences within the self inspirationally or intuitively for its abilities to allow others to give their own expression, their own beliefs. Hence FREEDOM for all, in thought, in activity, whether it be in the mental, the spiritual, the social or the moral life, in the activities of whatever sphere that may be the promptings - provided the promptings are from within, and the entity or group find same constructive in the experience. These are the questions, as indicated - as to whether individuals or groups find constructive forces in their own inner development, whether from a commercial, a mental or a spiritual basis.
12. Before that we find the entity was in the Grecian land, during the periods when there were the wars with those in the eastern lands, when Xenophen and his followers were making the raids or invasions in those lands in the east - and discouraging news was brought to the entity, in the name Xercia, for her own household.
13. Then the entity was in the household of one of the leaders in the raids, yet those tenets that were brought back to the entity and the associates - those buildings in the experiences of the minds of those during the entity's sojourn there - made for the artistic temperament, whether in body, in bodily expression as in the art of the dance, or in the art of being capable even to hold more of those things that cheer even in the sadness of doubt. The expressions of the art in the paintings, though more of the entity's association here began in the art of sculpture. Hence again we find, in the expressions of these and their influence upon the entity in the present, the delving into the motivative forces and influences in the experiences of others, as - we might say - the mental side of the entity; yet - in the motivating forces in self - as rather the student of nature and its expressions in the material life and its relationships to individuals and their response to same.
14. Before that the entity, we find, was in that land now known as the Egyptian, during those periods when there had been turmoils and strifes in the land not only from the internal rebellions following the banishment of the Priest - in the activities of the moral and religious life - but with the return of the Priest. And with the turmoils and strife that arose from that gathering together of so many of those, even from the Indian, the Arabian, the Atlantean, the Abyssinian lands (the Abyssinian land in which the people had been raised in their attempts), the entity - with all of
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these, as a native in the Egyptian land - brought those things that pertain to body adornments, that deal with the activities of those that prepared for the purifications in the temples of Sacrifice. Hence the entity then was in the name Apt-hen, or - meaning, as would be the interpretation in the present - "Where there is life, there is hope."
15. So, the activities in that experience have brought, do bring, the adherence in the present to those things or vibrations that make for the alterations in the activities of the body - as was given through the tenets of the Priest to whom the entity came as a student - in raising the Creative Energies from within that may find their expressions in the attributes of the physical body, through the SENSING of same in the emotions that are created in a physical body. For the entity aided the Priest during those periods when the regeneration of the body came to him through the casting aside, as it were, of the years of toil and strife through which the body of Ra-Ta itself had passed; and the entity rejuvenated itself with that body in the experience; rising in the latter portion of the sojourn to those conditions wherein it was given entire CHARGE OF the activities in the TEMPLES of Sacrifice, or the temples of initiation - where there were those things carried on in the tombs that were prepared for such during those periods of activity.
16. The entity then gained, and in the present those things of every nature or character of the orient have their periods of influence; as also do odors, colorings, vibrations that are created by these influences in the experiences of the MENTAL mind.
17. Hence, as to the abilities in the present and that to which the entity may attain, and how, in giving the expressions of that the entity may receive through its inner self, owing to its regeneration, owing to its activity in that particular sojourn in Egypt, may be said to be that to which the entity may turn within itself to find that it may give to its fellow man for thought, study, development, in the APPLICATION of same in their own experience.
18. Then, whether in song, in writing, in verse, in painting, those things that partake of the HIGHER VIBRATIONS in expressions are the FIELDS of activity for the entity in the present.
19. Keep in self that which was given in the holy mount of initiation; that what is constructive and of spiritual import must find expression in aiding others to find themselves and their relationships to the Creative Forces - or God.
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20. Ready for questions.
21. (Q) Were Marvin J. and I connected in a past life and for what purpose were we brought together in this life? (A) In those periods in the Grecian sojourn were the activities brought together in the earth. In the present, those things that come as a STRENGTH from one to another through the faith, the confidence one may have WITH another. Too oft are confidences and hope and trust UPON another, but it should be WITH another.
22. (Q) From what source shall I get financial aid so that I can continue my present work without strain? (A) As we find, in the present application of self there should - through the very channels in which the entity engages self - be found those that will aid in assisting farther development in these directions. That is, there are groups, there are channels that are prepared for such aid for such individuals' activity. Seek through those channels.
23. (Q) To what channels do you refer, or to what groups? (A) Those organized for the purpose of assisting individuals with their talents in those directions to carry on, without strain.
24. (Q) Would you name one of these? (A) Seek something for self!
25. (Q) Shall I be connected in any way with Father Divine in the near future? (A) This depends upon the choices that are made in the directions of the activities of the entity. As we find, this would be the greater choice for the associations - would be well.
26. (Q) Shall I have a physical reading? (A) Inasmuch as it has been indicated it was necessary for the entity in its greater development in the past, so in the present may the regeneration that may come from the motivative forces from the body itself make for the creation of a better channel for the experiences or activities of the vibrations that may be raised within self. It would be well.
27. (Q) What line of work is the most important just now? (A) Its preparations for the expansions in other fields of endeavor. That it may branch out more, that it may be farther-reaching in its influence upon others.
28. (Q) Should the entity stay in Washington or go to New York, for the better self-expression? (A) Stay in Washington until Spring, and then to New York - or to Boston.
29. (Q) Are there any other suggestions for the better
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spiritual development of the entity? (A) Keep the faith thou hast in those influences and forces that guide from within. Keep the emblems of truth before thee in the vibrations of color and stones about thee; those of the pearl and of the blue should ever be close to the body.
30. We are through. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file