This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 21st day of December, 1934, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [768], Active Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., through her sister, Miss [630].
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 May 15, 1916, between 12:00 noon and 1:30, in Pensacola, Florida. Time of Reading 11:00 to 11:35 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Alabama. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes, we have the entity here, and those relations with the universe and the universal forces, that are latent and manifested in the personalities of the present entity, called [768].
2. As to the influences that affect this body (in the material experience), we find these arise very much - it might be termed - as a picturization of a bud's growth out of its normal environment, but cared for, tended in such manners as to make that which may either become a very beautiful or a stunted plant - or a growing backward of that purposed from within.
3. First, from the astrological sojourns, we find these do not conform altogether with that which is accredited to even those influences of the planetary sojourns or the environs about the earth (and this would be one that might be visualized or drawn on from an entirely different angle).
4. These, however, are the inclinations as we find that may be interpreted from the planetary environ:
5. Mercury, with the afflictions in Mars, makes for the mental expressions and experiences that are innate in the entity's material expression. Yet in the attempts often of the entity to give that expression of its experience in mental development, it is slow in such measures and manners as to often be termed by others as being dull. Yet innately and within self the mental experience and the abilities of the entity are there! but fail at times to find expression (unless the entity gets very mad, and then it can tell you just what it thinks of you!).
6. From the experiences In Venus, we find that love, kindness, gentleness, may bring out that which is best in the entity's self, innately - and in the abilities to DO things. And while affection is a portion of the entity's
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inner self, this to the entity must be rather a bubbling over than just words or expressions. Hence we see conflicting influences in the entity's experience, partaking of that which is in the manifested form both good and bad. Yet the entity and those about the entity will find that when the body-mind is fired, as it were, by some special deep desire for an activity on the part of the body, or by anger - as being riled by someone else, the better and greater expressions of abilities for manifestations arise in the entity's experience. Not, then, that the entity should be continually making self mad - or that others about self should continue to produce such experiences for the entity, but rather with the high deep purposefulness that arises from having sought, having made determinations within the own self - and being impelled by the very will of self for the mental forces to be made, as it were, in a systematic manner - attain to those inner urges that arise as INNATE influences in the entity. For, we will find, while the entity goes to extremes at times, much of these arise from the inability to have drawn upon the environmental influences in the material plane to supply from same in the physical body as perfect a balanced condition in the physical as there should be. Hence in the physical we would add those elements that would bring a greater quantity not of animal influence by the emanations from same, but the higher, greater quantity of those vitamin influences that may be had from taking internally beef juices - without the meat; and the vitamins in cod liver oil; yet tempering same with that compound from the activities of the elements within the body itself known as Tonicine, to change those vibrations as to make the normal activities in the relationships to the organs of the body. These will be MOST helpful.
7. As to the appearances in the earth, there are not a great many that influence in the present; yet there will be found that - if the changes are wrought in the physical and material surroundings - the expressions and abilities will be magnified and other sojourns will become a portion of the entity's experience in the present.
8. First, as we will see, for the better vibrations of self - and the relationships during those sojourns in the earth that have affected and do affect the body in the present experience - it would be a great advantage, and make for that which would be more helpful in all of the entity's associations or connections, to change the name to Marge Louise.
9. Before this we find the entity was in the lands of the
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present nativity, when there were the settlings of the land, and when there were the agreements and pacts being made between those people who were the dwellers in the land during that experience.
10. The entity was among those of the household and family of one Clausen, and in the name Marg - Maggie - Margie - called Mag.
11. In the experience the entity, from the material things, lost; in the spiritual and mental gained. For by the very activities and associations there were FEARS created in the body and mind through the associations and happenings in relationships to others of various characters and tribes, and the relationships to the opposite sex. And these have brought, with the present experience, some fears that are DEEP in the innate experiences of the entity. Not that these should be cast aside, yet if there will be builded in the material conditions of the body - through the types of suggestions - that strength which is so often sought, the abilities to find expressions in the activities of self in out of door games, in associations of various kinds where an athletic expression is sought - much of this will be overcome, and there may be the entering into such with such a way and manner as to overcome much of the PHYSICAL fear that exists in the innate experience from that sojourn.
12. From the experience also the entity gains the expression in self for the study of those things that are of special interest when the entity is alone. Not that it does not desire companionship - for the fear itself calls for companionships in every way and in every expression; yet when there are decisions, when there is to be the better understanding of those things it would read, those things it would contemplate, those things that it would make the most of in self's expressions or self's experience, these had best and are best done alone.
13. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Persian or Arabian, during those periods when there were the gatherings of many to the city in the hills and plains.
14. The entity then was of those peoples that were of the very tribes or bands of the leader in that experience. Suffering under anxiety, persecution, turmoils, the entity - for the very safety sake in body - sought and came under those experiences when there were the seekings of an understanding in the mental and material and spiritual things. And the entity, in the name Tulegeue, made the associations with the leaders that had been set upon the own tribes, and yet aided in bringing to them a more perfect
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understanding, in the nursing, in the helping, of those that were ill in body, in mind, of those that had been unable to overcome prejudices that had arisen by those very activities among those peoples.
15. In the present from that experience there is the ADAPTABILITY of self in being an aid and a help as a nurse, or in things pertaining to the records of such things. And in this field of activity may the entity find the greater expressions of self; not only for the developments of the abilities innate and natural within self but for the preparations for the surroundings and environs in the days and the experience to come in the earth in this sojourn.
16. Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as the Egyptian, during those periods of sojourn when there were the activities as to distributing and classifying as to the aiding of many through the tenets of the emissaries, the missionaries that were sent to the varied lands.
17. The entity during the experience was among those that were as the messengers that went from place to place to aid in the rebuilding and strengthening, in body and in mind, those that were acting in the capacity of teachers and aiders in the varied environs, being in the name then of Maggge.
18. In the present from that sojourn there are the abilities not only to keep secrets but to be rather reserved, and a good listener; yet with the body-mind developed, with the environs about self altered by the changes that naturally arise from same, much may the entity gain by the capacities of that experience being manifested in the activities in the present.
19. Then, as the the abilities of the entity and that to which it may attain, and how:
20. First the physical, then the inner self, then the seeking for what is its ideal. Then we may find that in those activities of the preparations for self for the caring for those who are ill, or in keeping the records of same, or in those things that pertain to the ARTISTIC temperaments from other sojourns, the entity may bring into the experience that which will make for the greater mental and soul development of the entity Marge Louise - [...] Margaret - [...].
21. Ready for questions.
22. (Q) Just what specific line of work should she take up in college for her best advancement? (A) That which will enable her to act in the secretarial direction, or that which is inclined towards kindred
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subjects.
23. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file (GD's note: See directions [which were enclosed] for making pure beef juice. We would suggest that you take the cod liver oil in the form of White's Cod Liver Oil tablets, as directed on bottle. The Tonicine is prepared by Reed & Carnrick, Jersey City, N.J., but I think you can get it from any drug store.)