This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 28th day of December, 1934, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [757], 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. Mildred Davis and L. B. Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Born September 22, 1888, about daybreak, at Waterloo, Ill. Time of Reading 11:10 to 11:50 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Calif. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: [GD's note: In repeating the suggestion EC kept saying "Sarah" instead of "Mary." Her first name was Mary but she was called by her middle name, [757], NOT Sarah. However, the SOUND of the second syllable of her middle name was somewhat like "Sarah".] (In undertone, while going back over the years to locate the birth, etc. - "Sarah [757] - Mary. Very interesting to notice the difference here in the environment or elemental forces that make for emanations in the various portions of the environs of the earth to which the souls of humans may be drawn or attracted by those very conditions which have been experienced by them in their indwelling in such an environ in previous experience - ... [757] ...")
2. Yes, we have the entity 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 - [757], as recorded by the experiences in the soul's activity and journey through the environs that make for those impressions - or those that become manifested influences or forces in the experience of an entity in its present sojourn in the earth.
3. Questions naturally arise in this particular experience of this entity as to how or in what manner the records are made of an entity's sojourn or activity in a sphere or space, so that there are the abilities of one to read or interpret same. Are they as letters written? Are they as pictures of the experiences of an entity? Are they in forms as of omens or characters that represent certain influences or activities about the earth? Yea, all of these, my friend, and more; for they are as but the skein of life itself, the expression of a divine force from the God-Father itself, making manifestations in forms that become manifestations in a material experience. For truly to be
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absent from the body is to be present with those infinite influences and forces that may act upon and be acted upon, from the emanations of divine influences that may be either visions as picturized, written as thought in characterizations from the various influences through which such entities make for the communication - whether in ideas or in characters that represent those ideas in their expressions as one to another. As in all forms of communicative influences from one entity or soul to another - in a look, in an expression of some portion of the anatomical influences or form, or from word, or from the turn as from the cut or form of eye, shape or form of mouth, the rising of the brow, or in any communicative influences - these either bespeak of those things that are for the aggrandizement of self's own motives or impulses, or are the expressions of that purpose, that desire, whereunto such a soul or expression or entity has been called. These are forms or manners through which such are written, as in the Book of Life; and may be read and known of men. For that which is done in secret is proclaimed from the housetop.
4. In the entering of this entity into this present experience, we find the entity coming with those influences from sojourns not only in the earth but from those environs about the earth, that are interpreted by the sages of old as the astrological aspects in an entity's experience. For, as each entity has that which is the material body, the mental body, the soul body, so does each state, county, country, city, sphere, have its body, its mental attitude or aptitude that may be said to become or be a portion of the whole, as also its own spirit or soul, as builded by those influences that have to do or bear upon the expression of a manifestation - whether city, state, nation or individual relationships to others, in its own sphere or as acted upon by those spheres of activity about same.
5. Then, as to the influences that are brought in the present experience of the entity, [757], known in this experience, we find:
6. From the sojourns in Mercury there is a high mental ability, with the aptitudes that make for a natural analytical and mathematical mind; becoming not wholly methodical in its expressions yet desiring that law and order have its place not only in the household, in its relationships to others, but in the GENERAL outlook upon all associations and relations.
7. Also the sojourn of the entity in Venus, combined with the mental activities, makes for an influence as one tenderhearted in its relationships with the individuals or
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groups about self; yet calling for or demanding that duties be a portion of sentiment, not sentiment a duty. Quite a variation!
8. The aspects and sojourns in Uranus and Arcturus bring those interests in the mental expressions in a varied line of endeavor; yet there may be seen throughout the associations and the developments in this the material plane that methodical manner - even in mental, occult or mystical subjects these find their influence and affinity in the very activities of the soul-entity's developments in the sojourns throughout space or time, or in the earth for the material expressions. Hence, as we find, there are variations in experiences that come from afar; things that are hidden to many become a portion of the entity's activity or sojourn. Unexpected happenings that may deal with the emotions or with even the relationships of individuals become a portion of the material experience of the entity throughout this sojourn. Relationships that deal with mystical subjects - not only of gases, chemistry, the elementals of the earth, the elements of space, of the universe, those sojournings into such fields of activity - make for particular interest in the mental sojourn. Also the delving into the realm of the questionable scientific subjects, whether it be in regard to explorations in the material far corners of the earth or the sojourning or delving into the ether, these are subjects that become of special interest to the entity; making for abilities in certain directions that will be seen by the material applications of these experiences of the entity in specific or direct directions in its relationships with others.
9. As to the appearances in the earth and those that deal with the activities of the entity in the present, we find:
10. Before this the entity was in what is now known as the northwestern or central portion of the entity's present native land - or about Ft. Dearborn, during those periods of the internal turmoil and strife - when there were the accumulations of the seven nations to make for the ridding of the country of those that to those peoples were oppressing and overrunning the land.
11. The entity then was with or in those activities within the Fort, in the name then Spooner. In the experience the entity gained, for there were the activities in the entity's sojourn to make for the better relationships in the associations whether for the commercial or mental and spiritual relationships.
12. Then the entity was particularly interested in those reports from other lands to the west. Hence there became a
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longing for the sounds of many waters, where there were the dividing of the lands that the entity sought for its own household. Yet when the persecutions and the turmoils came about, the entity - in a very reluctant manner - withdrew from those places of its habitations, and in the retreat (as was given by the entity would come about) suffered in body; yet coming through - as to those that later began the establishments of a settlement along the lower portions of the Ohio, that emptied into, or where it emptied into, the father of waters.
13. In the present experience from that sojourn we find that travel, records of such, those things that pertain to the activities of individuals where they may be of mental or material help to others through their associations or relations, though they may be to the utmost parts of the earth, become of special interest. Hence, as indicated from the astrological sojourns, the entity is a mathematically-minded person in the present experience. And also in languages and history; hence teaching in these directions may have been - and may be - a portion of the entity's activity through this present sojourn.
14. Before that (among those that we find active in the entity's experience in the present) the entity was during those periods of the seeking of the peoples in the English land for the turmoils that were brought about through the activities in the Holy War, or the Crusade activities.
15. The entity then suffered in body from apparent neglect, as would be called in the present, by those of its own household and surroundings - by being left alone. Hence we find in the present the desire ever for periods to be sure of aloneness, or to draw self - as it were - away; yet in the hours of darkness, in those periods of special occasions, in those periods when there are the happenings for certain celebrations or activity, there is the desire of crowds - or certain associations. And the entity seeks to choose such companions; for innately is there seen from those meditative influences that for certain periods or certain occasions the entity desires NOT the same individual surroundings or associations. The name, Lorna O'Doon.
16. Before that the entity was in that land now known as the Persian or Arabian, during those periods when there were the buildings of the city in the hills, in the plains, by the teacher that had gathered many peoples from many sources - yea, from many lands.
17. The entity then was among those from the Persian land that had been under or had seen some of the turmoils and strifes from the associations of Uhjltd. And the entity
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came as one seeking for not only word of those that had been carried away captive from those raids, but for the bodily satisfaction of knowing that which had - as it were - turned the heads of all the world towards seeking out that lonely nomad.
18. In the experience the entity then was one of the household, or the wife - or among the wives of the house of the RULER of the land, in the name Tashmia. And the entity was in a position of pomp, in finery, as would be interpreted in the present. While it partook of the things that satisfied for the body, that made for the exalting of the desires of the material surroundings and associations, coming under the influences of the teacher and those activities in the plains and hills the entity sought to turn self in those activities also. And coming again to its own peoples set much in motion that was an aid; returning in the latter days for a sojourn in the city in the edge of the hills; gaining throughout the experience.
19. And in the present does the entity find, with its applications of those abilities in the teachings of methods and the teachings of ways, in the teaching of the activities, a satisfaction that answers for that something which arises from within from that particular earthly sojourn. Those things in the material world of plaids, the weavings of an intricate and delicate nature, the things that bespeak of the Persian finery - as it may be termed, in filigree - the workings of gold in cloth and such, become as an innate thing; yet finding expressions in the activity oft of the entity in the present sojourn.
20. Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as the Egyptian, during those periods when there were many of those peoples that were journeying to that land for the reconstructions with the return of the Priest and the incomings of peoples from the varied lands.
21. The entity then was among those in what is now the desert land, and in the city of Nu (?) Enu (?) [GD's note: I didn't know whether he was spelling the city N-u or pronouncing it "Enu".] - being the queen of that particular city, making for the self that of a kingdom within a kingdom from the material standpoint. During the sojourn took for self and her own peoples not only the tenets of the Priest but of the Nubians, the Atlanteans, the Indians, and also of that land from which the people came who were in rule then in the Egyptian land. And the entity used these in the activities in her own kingdom or sojourn. Hence there may be seen today, even in the upper coast of that land along the great sea, that there are those who claim to be
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descendants of a mighty and powerful goddess that brought to her people a new understanding.
22. Through the experience the entity gained and lost, in the name Pth-She-Pii.
23. In the present from that experience may be seen the periods when, because of all those activities, the entity finds innately within self something calling for the knowledge of such a people, and a weighing together of all forms of thought - religious and mental - as to that which prompts the activities of peoples in MANY lands.
24. As to the abilities of the entity in the present and that to which it may attain, and how:
25. Apply self, then, in those things that make for the finding of self - as to what it uses as its own measuring stick of sincerity, of a standard of living. Then give to others in EVERY way, by precept, by example, by letters, by articles that may be prepared; making its contribution to the mental and mathematicalminded individuals that seek THROUGH such sources for an understanding.
26. Ready for questions.
27. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file