This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at The Oakland, 2006 Columbia Road, Washington, D.C., this 18th day of October, 1934, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [699], new Active Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by the Cayce lecture at Willard Hotel on October 5th, and Mrs. [694].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mr. [699].
R E A D I N G
Born July 29, 1900, 98th St. & Central Pk. W., New York City. Time of Reading 10:50 to 11:40 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 [699].
2. It would be well for the changes, for the vibrations that may be brought to the entity through same, that the name ever be used or signed as [initial of first name and full middle name - [699]].
3. In entering this present experience, while we find the entity is meeting in this experience much of what may be called or termed karmic conditions, the entity may know - and, most of all, experience in self - that truth in the promise that has been given, "And I will remember their sin no more." This should be the experience of every entity in the activities in the earth; yet - as understood, and as will be shown and given - it is always a promise that is dependent upon the activity of the entity, of the soul, in experience. For the laws, the love, the actions in a consciousness before each soul are ever tempered with the mercy the entity itself shows. Yet there may be the experience in each entity that, as thou hast forgiven and as thou dost forgive thine brother, so may THY trespasses against thy God in thyself be forgiven thee.
4. Then, in giving those influences that are active in either the impulses latent within or those that are more of the motivative nature in the impulse through the senses of the entity, these may be given; that in the applying of that thou knowest within thine inner self ye may grow IN the understanding, IN the grace, in the knowledge that knowledge is power only as it is of a constructive nature as ye apply
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it in thine own soul's development, towards being a greater and a better and a more hopeful channel of blessing to thy fellow man.
5. As to the astrological sojourns of the entity, these we find come rather as the innate - and are from the sojourn of the entity between those material manifestations of the soul body, or are an activity of the mental body with the soul body in those planes of experience.
6. As in Jupiter, we find one making for broad vision and experience of the entity in the material plane, meeting, consorting, gathering together with those of many varied or wide experiences, that have been, that are effective in the realm of materiality, of mentality, of spirituality. Thus there should come in the experience of the entity in a portion of the present sojourn (though we do not find the entity, without a great deal of preparation, holding to same) great quantities of material things; as a great deal of monies, responsibilities, places of power or position.
7. We find the influences in Saturn with Mars as innate experiences, changes of sudden and indeterminate origin coming within the experience of the entity; the more often through wrath, anger, ire, or pure cussedness on the part of individuals that have lost their way and become meddlers in the experiences of individuals' activity. These have brought, will bring - though innately, dependent upon the activities of the entity as to the EFFECT upon the purposes, the aims, the desires - such changes and such conditions into the life. Well that this be as a basic principle in self, in the spiritual and in the mental: "Man looketh on the outward expression but God looketh on the heart." Evil, then, is to him that thinketh evil. The purposes, the desires, the aims, are (as unto Abraham, a consort of the entity in an experience) counted as faith through that of righteousness in the purpose, in the heart. Not that it fails, or does not bring the experiences as even to thine friend in the earth then - as misinterpreting; yet it is that to which many may come for aid, succor, understanding, seeking the way. And the entity that holds to such in self, in the creative forces, may become the guiding post, the shining star, the light to many.
8. From the influences in sojourns in Uranus with Neptune in the ascendancy, we find that interest in those things pertaining to the mysteries of the expression we call life; as to the delving into the unseen influences that become activative in the experience of human individuals - and this from those things that have to do with those who have crossed bodies of water, or near unto those ports from which
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ships go to the utmost parts of the earth may the entity - in such an environ - find that quiet within self that may enable self - through those studies, and through those meditations in self, and of what has been the experience of others - to gain, in such a surrounding, a deeper meaning, a deeper understanding. For, as has been in the experience, and as is partially understood by the entity, everything in motion, everything that has taken on materiality as to become expressive in any kingdom in the material world, is BY the VIBRATIONS that are the motions - or those positive and negative influences that make for that differentiation that man has called matter in its various stages of evolution into material things. For it enters and it passes through. For - as is the better understood, and as will be proclaimed (and the entity may be able to aid in same) - all vibration must eventually, as it materializes into matter, pass through a stage of evolution and out. For it rises in its emanations and descends also. Hence the cycle, or circle, or arc, that is as a description of all influence in the experience of man. And very few do they come at angles!
9. As to the application of these innate influences in this manifested body, as we find, [699] we are speaking of, the emotional forces - or the expressions from the sojourns, have had and do have their influence as to how this expression may be raised in the experience of the entity in its expression or experience of same in this present sojourn.
10. Then, before this we find the entity was in the immediate land of its present nativity, during those periods when there were the first of those attempts on the part of individuals in this same land to make application of those things pertaining to putting into activity the motions from without to motivate forces from within activities in relation to material things. Or as J. Worthington (also a helpmate of Fulton), the entity - though one of prestige and power - was AFRAID almost for the expressions of activity with that entity Fulton, that rose not of itself but through much of that aid the entity gave - though being in self afraid of "What will people say?"
11. And still in the present does the entity find that element of fear so often entering. Not that there is the EXPRESSION of same, but innately the emotions pass through the self that create a portion of fear of what others will say. Not so much of what they do, but of what others will say! For the strength when it is in the open, in self, is well - when it is known; but that fear INNATE as to what will be the expression keeps those conditions as of the lack
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of wholly the best of self being expressed - from fear. Remember, "Perfect love casteth out fear." Not of thyself alone may ye conquer same, but through that same emotion that thou hast felt when thou hast forgiven an unkindness said here or there. So may that spirit of truth bear witness with thine inner self that THAT truth will guide, THAT truth has forgiven, and that love - which is known through the knowledge of same - casteth out fear.
12. Before that we find the entity was in those lands known as the English, during the periods when there were many of those turmoils in a disturbed land respecting those things that made for the motivating forces of the new emotions that were aroused by the teachings of a new teacher in the east; and when there were the gatherings of those that would go to subdue, to retake the lands; or during those periods of the Second - yea, the THIRD - war of the Crusades did the entity then, in the name Captain (yes, that's the name, Captain) - Jahn - sometimes written Iahn.
13. In that experience the entity passed through periods of many changes in the emotional portion of its experience, as well as in the physical life. For the entity through that sojourn gained much, and much that has to do or deals with the experiences of the entity in the present. For there were turmoils and strifes not only of the physical but of the material life, and the meeting with and the failures in the abilities of those who had gone out as of high hand, with purposes that were as with the songs that would carry on. Hence we find the ability of voice in the present, to make for the intonations that may arise within self; and will make for expressions in others, the abilities to HOLD in their activities to the thought of expressions in self.
14. Also there was in the experience, as it were, a reversal of the thoughts as to the purposes for which the entity came out, with a greater understanding of the things that were presented by the Mohammedans and by the sages of the east and the Brahmans. The entity gained a different insight, and hence that ability in the present to listen well to all those influences that are the experiences of an individual as to the motivative expressions of self from within. Or tolerance is a portion or may be said to be a virtue that the entity has gained. And yet at times it seems to bring to the entity, through its very tolerance of those expressions, something of an unsettledness not always satisfactory; as to WHEN and where tolerance for its OWN ideas and ideals should begin or stop.
15. In the experience the entity made for the abilities in the applications of the material forces in nature for the
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healing of the body; the applications of clay, oils, drugs, waters, and the quieting from within through the laying on of hands.
16. In the application then in the present in these fields of activity should the entity find that channel for not only the greater expression of self that has been gained through its sojourns in the earth, but the greater contentment in that which will make for - in contentment - a growth. While storms and trials are necessary in every soul, as we see manifested in nature, only in contentment does GROWTH make manifest. Not contentment to that point of satisfaction, for a satisfied mind or soul ceases to seek. But only in contentment may it receive and give out. In GIVING does a soul grow, even as a tree, even as a rock, even as a sunset, even as a world GROWS in its influence upon that about it. So has that force grown that we find manifested in the earth that we worship as constructive influence of God, as to the All-Wise purpose, or as to the Holy Spirit, or as to those influences that make alive in giving, in MAKING itself manifest. So are ye gods in the making, saith He that walked among men as the greater teacher of all experiences and ages.
17. Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as the Palestine land, during the periods when that patriarch of old walked in the land, whose life and experience was recorded by the writers of old - in Abraham's day.
18. The entity then was in the name Abimelech, or the ruler of those people in the lands that lay between the Egyptian and Syro-Phoenician lands. The entity then gained, even through those experiences and associations. Yet from those very activities there were brought those desires on the part of the entity, Abimelech, to bring to the knowledge of those who were as servants - or those whom the entity served in the capacity of the king of that land - that, "He that would be the greatest among all would be the servant of all." While the entity had much in its experience and through that sojourn, that in the material and the moral life in the present would be questioned, yet the purposes, the aims, the desires, the activities were rather as the growth throughout that sojourn.
19. And the abilities of the entity in the present to apply same are in the innate influences that impel and make for a growth in the SOUL, or in the ENTITY - which is the combination of all its experiences with its soul also - that may make for not only the material but the mental and spiritual growth that comes to a greater and better
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knowledge, understanding, of those things in the earth.
20. Before that we find the entity was in that land we now call the Egyptian, in those periods when there were the reestablishings of those tenets that had been begun after the turmoils and strifes that had arisen between the natives and those that had subdued the land; or those strifes between the material-internal influences or rebellions owing to the activities on the part of the Priest.
21. The entity was among the native peoples that were aiding with the applications of those things found by what would be called in the present the DOCTORINGS, or the hospital, in those places of retreat where the various applications were made. And the entity was especially endowed with those abilities to draw from stones, from the clouds, from the elements, an influence that would QUICKEN the activity of nature in its application to man; or what we call electrical forces in the present. In the name then Hin-pt-el, the entity lost and gained.
22. In the application in the present we may find much that may aid the entity in applying that in the experiences of others that may make for its LIFE work.
23. Then, as to the abilities of the entity in the present and that to which it may attain, and how:
24. WONDERS may be accomplished, my friend, in thine application of that thou hast here gained, in how thou hast used thine self and thine Lord and thine peoples - yea, help will come by seeking from within to know the ways thou may be guided the better.
25. In making self, then, as an individual that may apply the electrical therapeutics that are associated with hydrotherapy therapeutics, the entity may find in self a channel for the restoration of self in a perfected physical body, and THROUGH same give much of those teachings that thou hast of old, with that thou may render as a servant to thy fellow man, who through the weaknesses of the flesh have faltered in their application of the tenets of truth as manifested day by day before them. And ye will grow in grace, in knowledge and in UNDERSTANDING; making for self the greater contentment that means GROWTH in thine own experience.
26. Study, then, that thou hast in hand, that ye may be endowed with those visions of power, of choice, of right and wrong, even as thou wert with thine friend Abram.
27. Ready for questions.
28. (Q) Should I continue to work with the doctors this next year, or look for something else? (A) Continue to work with the doctors this next year, and
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during that time make an effort, and not only an effort but make self thorough in electro-therapeutics and hydrotherapeutics, as applied to the HUMAN ills.
29. (Q) Will any success materialize for me from Salter's electric furnace? (A) We don't have that in association with the life's work. We find there is an association, and - as we find - if the adaption of this is for a GREATER activity it may be made a success; not in the iron end but rather that which will make for the abilities of separations of some of the elements that are being sought. Uranium has something to do with it. Look to that end of separation - Uranium; for you will find another element coming in, from the abilities of this electrical furnace, in this relationship. See? Not from the iron end, rather from the uranium - for we will make a new metal with this. Follow this out.
30. (Q) What should I do about my father in New York City, for the future? (A) We haven't the father, but this is an obligation and a duty - a privilege. As ye are shown to do from within, considering all, weigh thy judgments well - and let thine conscience be thy guide.
31. (Q) How long will my mother live? (A) This is also a problem, but depends upon the application of that which is in the experience of each. In the next year, yes, she will pass.
32. (Q) During the next year? (A) During thirty-five.
33. (Q) Should I bring her to Washington with my sister? (A) Deal rather with these questions, my friend, from thine inner self, than from those directions here. Take thou into consideration what has been given thee. Thou must! How has it been given? "As ye have done it unto these, ye have done it unto me." And, "Who is my father, who is my mother? He that doeth the will of the Father, the same is my father, my mother, my brother."
34. We are through. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file