This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 14th day of September, 1936, in accordance with request made by the self - through Active Membership of his father, Mr. [779], in the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. L. B. Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Born November 21, 1917, between 6:00 and 6:30 P. M., at 4 Union Street, Selma, Alabama. Time of Reading 11:40 to 12:10 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Alabama. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes, we have the entity now known as or called [781], and those relationships with the universe and universal forces that are a part of the records of the entity in its relationships to the experiences or sojourns in the earth and the manifestations in those environs about same.
2. These, or the union of these, naturally make for inclinations and tendencies; yet no urge may surpass the will of the entity, especially if there is the desire upon the part of the entity to conduct self in its attributes of life's experience in the light of an ideal spiritual in its nature. Yet the latent urges are manifest, and these with this particular entity would come rather as warnings in the coalition of material and other environs' experience.
3. A tendency to find fault with others, the inclinations to speak rather quickly, the inclination to find the disturbing factors and the inclination to be a tattle tale, as would be called, or to see the darker side rather than the higher or ennobling. These though, warned against and turned into constructive activity, may become as stepping-stones rather than hindrances in the experience of the entity.
4. In the astrological aspects that make for latent urges from the mental or intuitive forces, we find:
5. The Mercurian influence makes for one of a very high mental ability. And while those studies of certain natures - as those of figures or facts - become as a hardship, these once attained are held as a portion of the entity's experience. Thus the entity may become or may be a very good conversationalist, and especially given to that ability of imitating or mimicking others, aping others; the ability to speak, to act, those things that make the activities of others sound, or look, ridiculous. Or, as may be said, the
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ability to be a very good cheer leader, a very good activity in any of those experiences where there is the patterning of others, or the desire to arouse a great interest in the weakness of others.
6. Hence there will be the greater necessity upon the part of the entity to hold to that which is ideal and not idealistic only but practical idealism, that there may be no influence that would become such as for the entity to become an exaggerator or one to make conditions or experiences appear or seem that they are not.
7. The experiences in the influences of Jupiter we find would have to do or deal with other individuals, or groups of individuals. And as we find, then, these channels become as openings for either the developing or studies in those directions that would make for a leader. The choice is by the entity in that as the barrister or lawyer, or in those things pertaining to public speech or the political associations and affiliations, or those things dealing with the stage or the screen in that of the funny man, or the buffoon, or the mimic, or the announcer or correlater of the activities of others.
8. In these fields may the entity find an expression of self, if there is the tendency or the inclination in the entity through the application of will to prepare self for such an activity.
9. The experiences in Saturn make for a tendency to be rather changeable, or always starting something new, or inclinations for "Today I would like to do this," and tomorrow, "Well, I would like something else." These are inclinations. Hence must be met in the mental and the spiritual forces of self.
10. As to the appearances in the earth and those that have to do with influencing the activities of the entity in the present, we find:
11. Before this the entity was in the land of its nativity in the present, during those early portions of the settling of the land, during those periods when there were the first establishings of the governments of the land.
12. The entity then was among those that were the chief spokesmen that rallied about an individual or a group of those that made for the separation of the group or colony to a state, as to an activity. Not in those capacities as may be said to be a lawyer, or as a real estate executive, or an activity in those that would insure those influences. Yet in a combination of all of these did the entity become active, as one Samuel Hustonson.
13. And there might be found in the capital or old capital
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of this land, or this state, the records of the entity's PHYSICAL-abiding in those environs.
14. In the developments through the experience the entity may be said to have gained and lost, gained through the services as to others and through the applications of self in the thought and the expressions of others; losing in self-indulgence and in self-aggrandizement and those tendencies to create disturbances with others - or to produce unfavorable conditions or factional conditions that caused the termination of the activity of the entity during that sojourn.
15. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Promised Land, or in those periods about the Palestine land when there were the Romans that were of the soldiery, of the guards, of the various activities that made that land as a protectorate for the Roman experience.
16. The entity was of the natives of the land that were among the tax gatherers of the land for the Roman peoples.
17. Hence the entity stood at times in a position of authority over those who disliked the authority exercised by the individual; also in those positions at times of authority for those lands and groups whom the entity represented, yet because of the nativity of the entity NOT in good standing with those that were of a sect or group among those peoples.
18. Then in the name of Juahn, and of a Grecian and a Roman- Grecian descent, but active in the lands or the surrounding lands of Jerusalem and Bethany and Nazareth and Capernaum - all of these were portions of the entity's sojourn.
19. Hence the study of those even of those periods when the Master walked in the earth become of a peculiar interest, and oft has the entity visioned some of those experiences where there are given as the journeys from the upper to the lower portions of the land, to the mountains or about the sea; for these were related to the entity during those experiences, though the entity came not in actual or physical contact with the Master AS an individual then, but the teachers, the disciples, the apostles, many of these the entity knew. Not wholly did the entity embrace the tenets during those experiences, nor was there the giving of the whole self towards the Jewish faith nor those activities among the own peoples, the Grecians; yet these in themselves made for turmoils. And as will be experienced in the entity in the
20. Hence the necessity of the entity finding its own ideal, its present, there will come those periods when as to ideals in relationship to spiritual forces and influences will
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become as entanglements in the experience of the entity. own application of itself to that as is its own moral standard, in relationship to that chosen as its spiritual guide and activity. Hence the study especially of those portions, of the gospel of John and Luke, especially in those portions where there are the descriptions of the purposes, as also in Jude and in Revelations, in such may the entity find those ideals. Set them down in black and white, but bind them upon thine heart-purposes. For the religion of Christ is a practical, everyday living, and not a tenet or a thing to be taken lightly but is to bring life, purpose, peace and harmony by its application in its relationships to the fellow man.
21. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Egyptian, during those periods when there were the preparations for the activities as related to the buildings and the preparations for the temples, and those activities as related to individuals of the various groups - as those that returned with the Priest, the natives, and those that sojourned from other lands.
22. The entity was among those that may be said to have been the builders, yet it was later that individual or entity that led in the attempts to induce individuals by the speech, the activity, the various influences to unite in a single purpose. Hence while those influences brought to the individual in the experience disturbing forces, owing to the uprisings as arose, if these will be held to in the present through the influences of will as applied to an ideal in self, the greater help may come to the entity in the present experience.
23. The name then was Su-se-den.
24. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, and that to which it may attain, and how:
25. First know self, know its relationships to the Creative Forces as may manifest through the activities of self in a material world. Know thy ideal as to thy relationships to thy fellow man. Then keep the faith, applying self either in those expressions that would make for a lawyer or those professions as pertain to same, or in the abilities to give a message through the activity upon the stage or screen, or those activities in the funny man, or the buffoon, or those that may give in very ludicrous terms at times lessons that reach only those that look for mirth and joy in their seeking for satisfying of a material desire.
26. Ready for questions.
27. (Q) What important lessons have I learned from past incarnations? (A) As has been indicated, in the sojourn of the present
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land - not to wrangle; yet there is the tendency and inclination to find fault and to speak lightly often of others. Forget it, or study to show thyself approved unto thy Maker, a workman not ashamed, rightly dividing the words of truth and keeping self unspotted from the world. In the Palestine, that there cannot be carried water on the both shoulders - or the attempt to be something and to live another life. Neither can there be oppression to make for understanding. For it's not by might nor by power but by the Spirit of Truth, which is of God. These the entity has learned, the entity now MUST apply.
28. (Q) Under the present circumstances, what type of work and study should be taken up at this time? (A) As has been indicated, either the law or the stage or screen. The choice should be made by self.
29. (Q) Explain the manner in which to prepare, begin, and carry on my life work? (A) These may be sought and as it is understood or applied day by day, then the next step is given. Do not look for the end in the beginning. Find the way and then the end is as the ideal as is set.
30. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file