This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 29th day of December, 1934, in accordance with request made by the mother - Mrs. [489], 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 July 16, 1915, in Wilmington, Delaware. Time of Reading 11:25 to 12:00 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., N.Y. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: [In undertone], Yes - [775] - Yes, some changes!
2. We have the entity here, [775].
3. In entering the present experience we find there are those things from the astrological angle, as well as from the mental and psychic forces, of which the body should be warned; as well as those in that direction in which commendation and recommendations might be in order.
4. From the astrological we find these as innate, and that will bring their manifestations in the experience of the entity. And it depends upon what the body-conscious-mind in its application does about the urges, and the opportunities, as to what the soul development may be in the present experience.
5. Then, the influence from Mercury makes for a mental development for this particular entity in more than the ordinary manner. For the mental abilities will apply in EVERY element the entity seeks as an applicable knowledge for understanding in the experience; whether from the purely material angles, a scientific turn, from a mental aspect, or from the more spiritual and elemental forces. These all would open to the entity. For through much has the entity passed in its developing in the material and mental experience.
6. In Jupiter we find rather the adverse, WITH Venus with Jupiter making for rather the complimentary; or bringing in the experience opportunities that will come through the two angles of the entity's experience. Those in which the entity has recognized, and does through its own application of those influences recognized, as love, peace, harmony, charity, faith and hope, bring opportunities for the expansion of the entity's abilities in many directions. However, from the adverse Jupiterian influence, there is brought what may be expressed more through the social
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positions of the entity in its relationships to these SAME characters of opportunities. Hence, to ever have before the entity the choice in self - that should necessarily be made from the spiritual force that is expressed or manifested by self, will ever be the safer influence.
7. From Mars and Uranus we find conflicting influences in the experience of the entity in the present sojourn, yet by the application of will - by that which may be builded within self - these may be turned into that channel or direction where there may be soul, mental and material developments from these very experiences in the entity's sojourn at this particular time. Mars - through anger, strife, animosities, changes in the experiences of those of the entity's association - would bring changes in the environmental influences in the present experience of the entity; yet in those very changes would come the more helpful, hopeful influence from the activity in the Uranian experience; making for that which is of the mystic and the occult force or psychic activity, making for the abilities of the entity to enter within self and there make for a sensitive reaction in which there may come the greater abilities in the expansion of those influences that are seen in the constructive forces of the Mercurian or mental - with the Venus - so as to make for the greater developments in the entity's experience.
8. Then, innately from these, we find these as the constructive forces:
9. One that is naturally within self charitable to all.
10. One that is naturally within self far from finding fault with those that do not wholly agree with the mental aptitudes or decisions of the entity. But, should the entity find ITSELF that these apply in its own experience, hold fast to that choice that may be made when ye have entered into thine inner self - and be assured of same.
11. The combined influences from Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Mars, Uranus, make for one that is a "sensitive" within self's own abilities. One that may, then, develop its own psychic influence or force by the meditative method, and the preparation of same being made in accord with that which prompts self in laying aside the material things, purifying, consecrating self for the act or the deed as it seeks for the understanding of same.
12. From these same influences we find that music, art, money, activities as related to the pictures - or moving pictures - would be those in which the entity might prepare itself as a collaborator of what may be used as the text, or one co-laboring with those as to the PRESENTATION of the
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text in ITS application to those that it would reflect upon viewing same.
13. As to the appearances, then, and their influence in the present experience of this entity, we find:
14. Before this the entity was in that land nigh unto the native activity in the present, or in what is known as the 'city of brotherly love' - called Philadelphia, when there were the establishings of that land through the activities of the individuals newly gathered together for the purpose of preparing and building for themselves and those who might be gathered there.
15. The entity was among the first of the children that were born in that particular settlement, in the name then Josie Pheulen. In the experience the entity gained; for those about the entity and in the associations during the sojourn made practical applications of those experiences and tenets that had been and were adopted by those peoples.
16. In the present from that sojourn there is the innate and manifested ORDERLINESS of the entity, and the practicability of the entity; and the ability for COOPERATIVENESS; for the entity not only to be a good leader but a good follower, yet giving expression most when the enthusiasm of the subject or the act - or that to which it would apply itself - appeals to the entity as being a HELPFULNESS towards some individual or group.
17. Before that we find the entity was in that known as the Roman land, during those periods when there were the activities in what is now the Palestine or Holy Land, when the Master walked in the earth.
18. The entity then was among those of the same sex as in the present, but with the soldiery of the Romans that were encamped and engarrisoned in that particular portion of Palestine where there were the activities of Herod during the periods of destruction of the children that there might be the carrying away of those that were supposed to be of that line from which there would be the calling of the ruler. For only the children of the household of David in Judah were destroyed.
19. That experience, then, caused the entity - in the name Salonica - to study that particular or peculiar people, or the Jewish race. For the entity then adopted not, but became very closely associated with some of those that aided in the preservation of those that were questioned as to which household they belonged, Ephraim or Judah, Benjamin or Issachar - and this caused those interests to become accentuated.
20. Coming later in contact with those people that became
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the followers of that teacher, the Master, the entity joined with those and forsook rather the teachings of the Romans that were being adhered to by the various sects of people from the Athenian land. And when there was the return to the Roman land, the entity aided those people; especially Paul, Titus, Timothy, in the latter portion of the entity's sojourn.
21. Throughout the experience the entity gained; and in the present by entering into the inner self there may be found in self much that may accord with those particular activities of those individuals with whom the entity assisted much in their ministering and their activities among those particularly of the Roman and Grecian lands.
22. Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as the Egyptian, during those periods when there was the rebuilding of what had been hindered by the rebellions and the casting away of those activities instituted by the Priest in the land.
23. The entity then was among those people who came from the exiled land, joining with the Priest and those very close in his activities, until there was the reestablishing of the various activities in the application of the tenets for the material mind, the relationships with individuals to their fellow man and the relationships of the individuals to the Creative Forces that were established during that period. Then the entity became a teacher of that portion dealing with the actions, or what may be called the ROTE in the Temple activity in the Temple of Sacrifice. The entity aided in establishing the customs in the various centers to which emissaries were sent; or was that one - as may be called - who INSTRUCTED those who went as the teachers or the leaders; or what would be called in the present the prompter to the real actors upon either the stage of life or that which would depict an epoch or an era or an activity in same.
24. Then, in the name She-Hepht, the entity gained throughout; and in the present may be seen the abilities not only to direct others in material activities but in whatever direction there may be the choice of others. And as the mental forces in the material make application, the entity may be the instructor in these directions.
25. As to what the entity may attain, and how:
26. In the application of self in those things that not only make for the material but the mental and soul development, the entity may become an instructor in any of those activities or fields indicated; whether in writing of the skit, in applying of same, or in the fields of music with
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same.
27. Ready for questions.
28. (Q) What could she best do to make a living? (A) Make preparations for the abilities as indicated, that are latent and manifested in its INNER self.
29. (Q) Is her health in good condition? (A) Those warnings would be respecting the throat and the soft tissue in the head and nasal passages. These corrected, as we find, would make for a greater activity that will enable the body to go far in the present experience.
30. (Q) In what line of endeavor would she find happiness and usefulness? (A) As indicated; in music or in collaborating in those things associated with the cinema, or those things associated with the activities that make for the DIRECTIONS of same, would be the field of activity.
31. We are through for the present. Copy to Mother " " Ass'n file