This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at 1867 Kalorama Road, Washington, D.C., this 11th day of February, 1935, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [823], new Active Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mrs. [264].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [823].
R E A D I N G
Born May 12, 1881, in Ellendale, North Dakota. Time of Reading 11:15 to 12:10 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 entity now known as or called Alice [823], (This should have been Alyne).
2. In giving that which may be helpful or beneficial to the entity in the present, in making the application of those things that are innate and manifested in the entity in this experience, the entity should know the sources from which such may emanate. For, as given, no soul has been left without that access to the throne of mercy and grace through which each soul - as the promise has been given - may be at-one with those Creative Forces that are found in Him who has given, "If ye love me ye will keep my commandments, and I will come and abide with thee," and ye shall have peace in thine inner self that passeth understanding to those that know Him not.
3. That urges arise from sojourns in the astrological atmosphere or environ, also the emotional influences from the sojourns in the earth, is apparent to all that will have eyes to see, ears to hear, the glorious announcing through the inner self of the approach to those sources from which the urges come.
4. From the astrological aspects, then, in and with this entity, [823], we find:
5. Venus makes for that urge wherein innately the emotions and the duties are at a oneness with the purposes and desires respecting friendships, associations, material love, and - most of all - that which is builded that makes for that understanding where the entity judges others not, save as is the EXPERIENCE of self in the same direction. This makes in the present experience for a development that has passed much that has been experienced in some of the other
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sojourns in the earth. For, as we find, these have come under diverse circumstance, and the experiences that influence the entity in the present have been fraught and weighted with their own urge for self-protection, rather than self-indulgences.
6. In this we find conflicting influences also, through those periods of the sojourn in Saturn - that changeable influence, that environ to which all insufficient matter in earth is cast, that environ which is soon to rule in the experience of the entity. And if it were not for those benevolent influences in Jupiter, we find, it would bring those periods of depression that would weigh heavily upon the entity's urge as respecting some friendships in which a great deal of confidence and faith has been put as a friend. Yet, as we find from these sojourns, they will be rather as those experiences which - if they are used in the proper way and directions - may become as stepping-stones to a greater understanding. O that all would learn those lessons that, though there may be the periods of trial, temptation, when all the experiences seem fraught with disappointments in the associations, the love influence, the confidences that have been placed, in Him we may find that which will be rather as the NECESSITY of experience that the real self may grow in understanding, in knowing how others may view us! yet without judging their motives, without judging their purposes, we may gain that which is helpful; and these experiences become stepping-stones for the larger life.
7. We find the Jupiterian influence coming at a period when, it might be said, it is needed most in the entity's experience, bringing to light much in the material, the mental and the social life that will be HELPFUL, boostful to the entity in those experiences that make for the broadening of the vision of activity in all of its relationships with this particular period or experience. And with those lessons that may be gained within the next fourteen weeks, in the present, if these are applied in the experience of the entity, there will be opened for the entity the consciousness, the awareness, of the divine influences that may be had through the knowledge of the Christ Consciousness abiding near to thee. These Jupiterian experiences will come as the benevolent influence in April and May of this year, lasting through a period of nearly three years as a benevolent influence in the experiences of those who have sojourned in that environ. Hence those things that must shortly come to bear in the entity's awakening. These are periods of awakening, then, to greater possibilities; fraught, yes, with some disappointments in individuals, yet
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the greater knowledge that there must be the self at-one with the greater ruling influence for the better activity, the better understanding, for the better ABILITIES for self to expand and grow and become the greater channel through which others may know more and more of those manners in which the manifested love of an All-Wise, All-Merciful Father may make known to His children the fact that He has not left them comfortless. Neither has He turned His ear from their pleas.
8. These are the influences we may find that are builded INNATELY within the experience of the entity, but irrespective of what the entity has done or does do about such things, experiences or associations:
9. One with an exceptional ability for evaluating associations and conditions to their proper sphere of activity.
10. One that has learned, as it were, and innately finds in self those expressions of love in its greater, in its larger, in its more comprehensive meaning; not without those tinges of resentment that arise at times, but through the application has come those abilities to be patient - which is the greater lesson for each and every soul to gain in materiality. For, in patience do ye possess your souls. For, in UNDERSTANDING do ye become patient with thy neighbor, thy brother, thy associates, thy surroundings, thy fellow man. And as ye do it unto the least of these ye do it unto thy Lord, thy Master.
11. One that is given to good works; INNATELY possessed with those abilities to bring harmonious expressions in the experiences of others, not only by counsel, not only by tenets, but by the very presence that emanates love in its HEALING influence upon those to whom the entity may be drawn the closer. These need to find greater and greater expression; for he that would have life must GIVE life; he that would have understanding must learn to understand; he that would know the Lord must SHOW himself lovely, must be as lordly, as regal, as those that would show themselves as BEING in walk and in talk with Love itself!
12. As to the appearances in the earth, then, and those that influence the entity in the present, we find:
13. Before this we find the entity was in that land of the present nativity, during those periods when there were the settlings in the land, and particularly in those adjacent lands to what is now Fort Dearborn or Chicago.
14. These lands, these experiences, make oft within the entity conflicting emotions when in and about same; for as the entity may pass even over these lands there is, as it
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were, a harking to a something that is as the voice of mighty winds, as the voice of mighty waters, as the voice of the distance. For those turmoils and strifes that arose among those peoples, in their attempt to make for the greater associations in the establishing there of homes, and then the uprisings and the turmoils and strifes that were built by those individuals who aroused the natives of the northwest and of the north for their own selfish purposes, brought to the entity and the associations material hardships.
15. The entity gained in the greater portion of the experience, yet resorting to many of those activities that to many - in the present experience as in that - would bring questionable purposes and aims; yet the entity found patience, even with those that would persecute, with those that would question - and these have made for developments in the present experience. The name then was Amy Owens.
16. In the present the entity finds that there are those continued questionings within self as to what causes individuals or groups to speak unkindly of others who are outwardly and manifestedly in a service for that which they deem ideal or redeeming influences in the experiences of others; yet the entity holds not so much as a grudge to anyone, having learned lessons there as of patience. Also there are those abilities innately, and that may be more manifested in the experience of the entity, to reason and counsel with those that the entity may aid in the material blessings that may come through healing influences in the entity's experience. If the entity will enter into the silence with the divine influences thrown about self, that there may be no hindrances from outside influences that would possess or would direct, other than from that promise in Him, "As ye ask in my name, believing, so shall it be in thine experience," there may be the purification of self - as the entity surrounds self with that which is innately an expression of purification, of dedication, of making for an at-oneness with the purposes in Creative Forces and Energies - such that there may flow in and through and out to others that which has been the promise; that the laying on of hands, and the prayers of those that have found patience, may save many from the turmoils and strifes of a dis-ease in a material body.
17. Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as the French, during those periods when there were the gatherings of many of different lands for the activities as to the Crusades, that were to drive out the infidel individuals from their activities in the Holy Land. These
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brought for the entity periods of turmoils and strifes, for the very activities of the associations in that period to the entity - as it sought for expression of self belied the words and the activities in other directions. And in that period it may be said the entity lost through its sojourn, for it made for the loss of faith and hope in those that in the material associations were the closest to same; and made for those periods when that of rote became as a stumblingblock to the entity. And INNATELY from those very experiences, when there were those turmoils in the inner self and those from the outward manifestations, doubts arise in the inner self from those that boast to THIS entity. For the entity was left in the land by those of its own household, but in such measures and ways and manners that brought to the body shame, brought to the mental expression doubts, brought to the activities in all of those associations during the sojourn what has become in the present the wonderment of finding the expression of spiritual truths in the activity of individuals that lay claim or boast of their abilities in directions.
18. In the name then Maribeauen, the entity - near to that now known as Bordeaux gained and lost through the experience; gaining in that which may be applied as a lesson, learning more and more the experience of patience in its application of those things felt innately and manifestedly in the present - for the greater lessons may come from same.
19. Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as the Persian or Arabian, during those periods when there were the gatherings of many that would learn much of those tenets and understandings that came in those experiences.
20. The entity then was nigh unto him that was as the emissary to those of the Indian and the Persian land; for the entity was of the household then of the LORDS of Croesus.
21. Through the experience the entity gained, until left by those in whom the entity had put its material and its mental faith and confidence. Then did the entity join with the Grecians that overran the land, and was carried away by the promises of those that came to destroy.
22. The entity gained through the experience and lost, and we find in the present the love of open spaces; yet a combination of same as from change here and there; the love of travel, yet the love of knowing for the common peoples arises from those experiences not only in the city in the hills and the plains but in the cities along the Grecian
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country during that experience. The name then was Anenien.
23. In the present there may be seen those innate feelings as respecting the reports, rather than the visitation, concerning INDIAN activity; the DESIRE for something Persian; the immediate associations and likes of those that are Grecian in their manifested form are INNATE portions, and are those seeking expressions in the emotional force of the body. The Grecian dance, the Grecian legend, the Grecian activities find an innate expression in the self. There the entity lost, yet gained in the latter portion of its sojourn.
24. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Atlantean, and many were the sojourns; for there the entity oft laid aside the physical body to become regenerated in its activities in the material associations, even from those periods of the beginnings of the destructive influences that arose from the sons of Belial through the activities of Beelzebub.
25. The entity was among the priestesses of the Law of One, serving in the temples where there was the raising of the light in which the universal forces gave expression and brought for the body, the mind, the impelling influences. And the entity THEN (if it were to be expressed in the parlance of the present day) was not only the priestess but the physician, the doctor, for those peoples during that sojourn.
26. With the periods arising when there was the last of the destructions (for the entity sojourned in the Poseidian land, and about that temple there, in the spirit influences of the material activities, for some six thousand years - if counted as time now), the entity journeyed with those people for the Yucatan land, or the establishing of the temple there in which the entity aided. But with those inroads from the children of Om and the peoples from the Lemurian land, or Mu, the entity withdrew into itself; taking - as it were - its own flight into the lands of Jupiter.
27. As to the experience of the entity from that sojourn, there come the innate abilities to create the higher energies within self, as it were, that are stored up from the emotional forces of the body, those to find regenerations in the lower form of electrical vibrations. And if the body were to use for its own physical body the Radio-Active Appliance in the lower force to the extremities, it may keep its body in almost PERFECT accord for many - many - many - many - MANY days.
28. In this experience also the entity may apply more and more its abilities - not only in precept but example - in
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the healing forces to others.
29. That, then, to which the entity may attain, and how:
30. First, as was seen in the priestess in the Atlantean land, as the body-physical or the body-mental allows itself to be more and more - as it were - charged and re-charged with that spirit of the Christ, or the ONE, in and through itself (and in the material things only the LITTLE things count!), a kind word here, a gentle hint there, being happy and joyous through all of those things that may arise in the experience, will make the growth that brings HEALING in the presence of the entity. For when the face of Him that is Life has shone upon and through the lives of individuals, it becomes as Life itself!
31. In THESE ways and manners, then, may the entity raise itself for the greater help. Be, then, as a teacher, an instructor, to thy fellow man, here, there. KNOW in what thou hast believed, knowing He is able to keep that He has committed unto thee against any experience. Though the heavens fall, His word shall not pass away - "I in the Father and ye in me" - that ye in Him may know within yourself that as He would have thee do.
32. Ready for questions.
33. (Q) What form or line of truth teaching am I ready for? (A) That which is found, as in no other, in the 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th chapters of John. Or that which is now even being translated from thine own associations of thy loved ones in the present that during those same periods wrote of Him, which will be in the 10th, 11th and 12th chapters of Esabus [?]. [See 7/23/73 note under 823-1, Par. R8.]
34. (Q) And with what teacher? (A) The Master.
35. (Q) In what part of the country should I live and serve my fellow man? (A) The greater joy may be found in the south and west, where there were those things to be met - as thou fled from thine OWN land.
36. (Q) Should I live with relatives, friends or alone? (A) These may be divided; for there must be those periods - with thine opening of thine own self - when thou may find the greater joy in being alone, that ye may give that which may come THROUGH thee to thy fellow man, as the teacher.
37. (Q) In order to best carry out Life's plan for me, should I sell my home in ..., North Dakota, this year or next? (A) As we find, those conditions will be better in the latter portion of the present year or the first of next year. We would sell then.
38. (Q) Will the income from my "Mission" and East Texas
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wells be honestly administered, and thereby be enough for the necessities of life while preparing for continued self support? (A) As we find, with the changes that necessity demands that come about with these activities being increased, will make sufficient - yea, more than same.
39. (Q) Why was I so fearful in early childhood, especially of animals, spiders, and sharp knives - and STILL dislike to use or to SEE used a sharp knife? (A) Because of those experiences when thou wert bound about, in those periods in France, when thine associates bound thee for thine virtue, and those activities in the knives, the racks of torture that were all about the entity.
40. (Q) Why in early childhood did I dream so many times that the world was being destroyed, always seeing a black destructive cloud? (A) From the experience in the Atlantean land, when there were those destructive forces as indicated. The entity saw or lived through those experiences of at least two, yea three, of the destructive periods; saw the land breaking up, as it were.
41. (Q) Did I ever sing? (A) As the priestess; ever more the chant than the song; and the harmonies of many voices come as the experience of the entity.
42. (Q) What should have been my full name? (A) Added, as we have given, Alyne [...] - rather than Alice.
43. (Q) How should Alyne be spelled? (A) A-l-y-n-e.
44. (Q) Did my uncle, the late Dr. [...], possess U.S. Gov't. Bonds at the time of his death in Minneapolis - a part of which would come to my family and make for economic security while preparing for a fuller life? (A) They existed, and are in escrow there in one of the trust companies, you see.
45. (Q) Please give title of the loans to which they belonged - (A) (Interrupting) These should be sought out, rather through their regular channels.
46. (Q) Through what banks - (A) (Interrupting) The trust company there.
47. (Q) Will you give the name and - (A) (Interrupting) Trust company. Minneapolis.
48. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file
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