This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at 1867 Kalorama Road, Washington, D.C., this 19th day of February, 1935, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [833], new Active Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mr. [699].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [833] and Mr. [699].
R E A D I N G
Born February 28, 1864, in Blue Earth, Minnesota. Time of Reading 10:35 to 11:20 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. Washington, D.C. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes, we have the entity and those records of the entity now known as [833].
2. In giving that which may be helpful to the entity in the present and in the application of those experiences in the earth, it is well that the entity consider the sources of such information and how that given is applicable in the experience of self in the present.
3. As it is understood and seen, all force, all matter, is motivative by force known as spiritual. While the body is made up of elements that are atomic, super atomic, gas, influences that combine, all give off their radiation, both as to the mental reaction and what the body-mind does about that reaction, and it is recorded or becomes a portion of the whole radiation of that phase or manifestation in which the entity is conscious at such a period. And it is recorded upon that known or experienced by a conscious mind as time and space. And it may be read even as the records of a printed page. Hence that which has been the thought, the activity of the entity throughout its experience in matter, in the gaseous forces, in the atomic influences, is part and parcel of the entity's being. Thus we are, then, the sum, the substance, of that we do, we have, or may think and do. For each entity has that imprint of the Creative Energies or Force that makes of it an influence that is seen, known, felt, throughout the universe. For it, the entity, is a part of same, with the attributes of Creative Forces or Energies. And in the material it is endowed with that to apply same.
4. The source, then, is the reading of that the entity has accomplished in the earth, and the influences that are activating upon same by its sojourns in the environments of the earth's associations IN time and space.
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5. As to the influences, then, from astrological sojourns, we find the greater spiritual forces that arise from Venus and Jupiter ruling the entity's INNATE experience in the present. Hence we find these as influences controlling or giving their influence in the experience in the present:
6. Duty, love, honor, position, and INDEPENDENCE! Not in self, not of self, but rather that which may at TIMES - and has at times in the present - become a stumblingblock. Not that independence, honor, love, charity or faith are not a part of the spiritual influences that make for growth. For they ARE the manifestations OF the spirit of truth. But the independence, the faith, the hope, the charity, may to self become an obscession, or of such an influence that one may overlook the application of same in one's experience.
7. The greater lesson, then, to be learned by the entity in this experience is PATIENCE! For in patience one becomes aware of one's soul and of its continuity of existence, of awareness, of consciousness, in every sphere of activity. And as the promise has been in Him, and FROM Him, in patience ye become aware. And when this is not as an activative force of being still, of being quiet, not as an ACTIVE influence, one may find those impelling forces that make it aware of those influences that have impelled, do promote activity, even from the beginning.
8. As to the appearances in the earth and those that influence the entity in its activative force in the present, we find it was during those experiences in the land now known as the English, about that place now known as Cornwall. And in the name then Durhan, the entity saw, experienced, much of mental turmoil in seeing those about self giving themselves for an ideal. And the zealousness of many of those about the entity became a stumblingblock to the entity's concept, to the entity's awareness of truth and light. For the entity was left, as it were, by those that went out in the Crusade activities among those that would raise their voice against those in the Holy Land, in the holy grounds.
9. From that the entity finds in the present experience the anxieties that come from not wholly comprehending whether in a place, in a certain rote, in a certain activity, one finds the results in this or that; or as to whether such become necessary. These are innate and oft find their expressions in word and at times in acts respecting same. The entity naturally from those experiences is inclined towards things pertaining to historical activities in those places for the religious fervors or those things that impel individuals from the geographical positions and activities, that make
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for influences in the experience of those that have espoused a cause. And the constant fear of being left alone, the constant fear of being not understood, finds expression in the experience of the self through this present sojourn.
10. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Grecian, when there were those changes wrought in the thought of those peoples by the journeyings of many to the city in the hills and in the plains of the Arabian and Persian land.
11. The entity was among those that were loath to go, loath to accept a new order of things as pertaining to the moral, the mental or the religious thought, as would be termed in those words today. Yet when the entity finally acceded to the wishes of those about the entity and came, and saw, and heard, and experienced that being accomplished under many varied phases of activity as related to the relations of individuals to peoples of other tongue, of other climes, of other experiences, the entity embraced same and became outspoken in its activities, in its relationships. Yet it suffered under same from ridicule by those that were in authority, and later it saw the own peoples, the own activities, attempt - by force of manpower - to quell or change or overrun those activities. This brought consternation, turmoils in the mental and the spiritual experience of the entity during that sojourn, as Xentia.
12. In the present from that experience we find the entity loath oft to change in its associations, its activity, and it finds its expression rather in being slow of speech or of EXPRESSION of self as respecting ideas that may be presented in the varied experiences in a material world. Yet when once embracing an ideal the entity is just as loath to change.
13. Before that we find the entity was in what is now known as the Egyptian period just previous to the incoming of that ruler from the Caucasian and Persian lands.
14. The entity was among the natives that attempted to arouse those peoples to an activity that would PREVENT such changes coming about in the experience. For the entity then was the mother of the king or ruler of that land during the sojourn. And seeing those changes gradually coming about, seeing those activities of its own peoples and those acceptances by the peoples of the new order and new changes that made for the establishing of a variation in the relationships of the individuals to the Creative Forces, as well as the relationships of each one to another, or as man to man, these made for periods of depression in the mental, in the soul expression of the entity. Only after those
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periods of turmoils and strife that arose in the latter portion of the entity's sojourn in that land did the entity then accept or become an activative force in establishing the better relationships with the INDIAN land. For the entity in the latter portion of its sojourn during that experience went rather with its own peoples that journeyed toward the east for those activities that arose in those experiences.
15. Hence we find in the present those interests that are arising from the expressions from the eastern thought, as well as that which was established by those peoples in the Egyptian land that found the expression in the Law of One - in which He that walked in the Egyptian, the Indian, the Persian land, yet known as Him of Galilee, founded His material tenets.
16. In the experience in the present the entity finds that there oft comes within self the confusions as to the correlations of thoughts and ideals. Yet the material expressions find the evaluations in the activity of the entity.
17. As to the abilities in the present, then, and that to which the entity may attain, and how:
18. There was experienced from that sojourn which stands out the most in the present (those periods in Greece, or the Grecian land as called, and in the Persian influences) those little kindnesses, the little gentlenesses, the little activities that grow and grow in the experience of all. If these are but applied, IN PATIENCE there may come the greater growth, the greater understanding, the greater ability to apply that which is in the present to make for the greatest peace and harmony, making for more of hope, more of brotherly love, more of faith in that in which ALL move and have their being. For He IS a rewarder of those that love Him for HIS sake and not for self-indulgences, self-gratifications. But losing self in Him one becomes more and more aware of that love OF Him, FOR Him, TO Him in one's experience.
19. Ready for questions.
20. (Q) How can I be able to hear, see, or do, more abundantly on the spiritual plane, and to attain higher powers, to have an abiding faith and be of better service? (A) Just as indicated, as by turning within self, holding to those influences as indicated from the greater expression of self in the material plane in the hills and plains, that there may come the greater consciousness in patience, in hope, in PUTTING same into activity in the hearts of others. For if ye would be loved, show thyself lovely. If ye would
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have friends, be ye friendly. Not to those only of high estate, but those that are without friends.
21. (Q) What can I best do in this incarnation? (A) Show forth in thy dealings with thy fellow man thy concept of the love of God, that is manifested in the sons of men. First in being patient, in being gentle to thy fellow man. And in following that which thy inner self directs in thy relationships to others.
22. (Q) Please tell me of my most important past incarnations. (A) As given.
23. (Q) Please give my exact time of birth. (A) As this makes for a change in the time as would be reckoned in the present, and that which was reckoned in the experience or period when the entity entered this present experience, we would find that it would be counted in the present as nine-forty-seven (9:47) Central Standard Time in the present - A.M.
24. (Q) What should my son do to safeguard and increase the trust fund he created for me in 1927? (A) We haven't the son. The fund as created for self, if it is kept in the same tact and in the same associations and relations as in the present, as we find, would be the better.
25. (Q) How can I aid my son? (A) Being patient, being gentle. This may sound somewhat as being contradictory, yet as is seen in self, if thou art overanxious then so does it create that anxiety in those environs about him. Thus, NOT loving indifference, but rather as the appreciations of the opportunities that are given thee in having such a son, and in the glory to the Father for the gift of such an association. These create. For, "In blessing I will bless thee, saith the Lord." Then, as ye bless those in word, in deed, that thou hast found, that thou hast met, so does it increase about them those associations of the Creative Forces and influences of the Great God - LOVE! And thus - for thoughts are deeds, and as their currents run they become MIRACLES in the experiences of those in whom the love or the blessing is held.
26. (Q) How can I best cooperate with the radiation treatment I am now using? (A) This is well, for the activities within the body, for the tendencies that have been to make for the accumulations of those influences that hinder in the circulation and in the body itself. So the GREATER would be to be mindful of the diets that make for the carrying into the system that upon which the radial activity may make for not only a cleansing but an aid to rejuvenation of those influences in
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same.
27. (Q) How can I best present its idea to my friends. (A) As ye have received, so may ye give. As ye know that which has been and is being accomplished, so may ye give out to others. Speak gently. Do not ARGUE, but KNOW in what thou hast believed - and speak like it!
28. (Q) How can I increase my strength of mind and body? (A) By resting more and more in Him and meeting Him the more often in the tabernacle of thine inner being. For He has promised to meet thee within thine own inner self. And as ye open thy mind, thy body, thy soul, ye will find Him there; not in some other place, not as from without. For He is closer than thyself. For He would be thy very self. MEDITATE upon Him and what He would have thee do. Finally, let thy prayer ever be: "Here am I, Lord, use me as thou seest fit. Let my going in, my coming out, be acceptable in Thy sight. THINE, I am! Make my desires THY desires. Let MY desires be as thy desires."
29. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file