This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Virginia, this 16th day of March, 1935, in accordance with request made by the mother, Mrs. [587], Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Born April 10, 1916, in New York City. Time of Reading ..., Florida. 11:15 to 11:50 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., L.I., N.Y. (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 [858].
2. The records are here. The interpretation of same, that they may be helpful or beneficial to the entity in the present, while not obscure, requires not only on the part of the entity interpreting same but upon the entity that receives same the due consideration that life in its essence is of a spiritual force, IS a spiritual force, and is continuous. And it must be, for the proper understanding, interpreted as a continuous experience. The varied portions here and there, as this life, find expression in matter, again in spirit, again in soul force, as may be had without the body; yet the Mind is that moving force which is of the universal, yet so individual, so personal as to be one with and yet aware of its individuality in that Creative Force which is worshiped or known as God.
3. Then, considering from this angle, from this expression, know that what is to be given is for thine instruction, for thine understanding.
4. In the astrological aspects, only in a GENERAL manner do these affect the body, yet remain as urges - as it would upon the physical-mental mind to be aware of a language or dialect of a people and to be unaware of such a speech or dialect and be in the environ where same is in common use. So does the influence of an astrological sojourn affect the mental CAPACITIES, the mental abilities of an entity when there are those astrological influences from the sojourns in which the entity HAS EXPERIENCED something that is a portion of the whole environ itself.
5. As in earth one finds materiality and the expressions of materiality in all of its phases, yet one visions occasionally beauty, love, kindness, patience and the like
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that are not of the earth-earthy - yet may find expressions in the earth. So, the entity's indwellings in an environment such as Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Uranus, all have their OWN expression of that soul force. So, rather than saying that the soul of this entity is controlled by the star, the planet, the conditions in the zodiac, the entity controls THEM by what the entity does ABOUT the urges from such! Would one say that one who uses incorrect English is governed by his knowledge of English, or what he does about the application of same? So it is with one's use of urges by an association. If one from a mental-material urge, as of any phase of human experience in the earth, allows the urge to overcome and be controlled by same, who is the stronger - the soul urge or the materiality? That becomes, EVIDENTLY, sin; yet such exists.
6. We find Jupiter making for these urges, then, in this entity of [858] as known in the present:
7. That of a high ennobling influence, doing those things for others, in associations of others, that are for the good of many.
8. The influences from Mercury make for the high MENTAL abilities.
9. From the Uranian influence we find those eccentricities at times; being influenced at times by what appear to be hunches, urges, visions or emotions. Hence by some it may be termed one that is superstitious, or giving or accrediting those powers or influences to unseen forces that may rule or act upon an entity. It is correct that these forces are activative in the experience, but what they BECOME depends upon how the entity or an individual soul RESPONDS or REACTS to same. It depends upon what one does about an urge as to what it makes, whether towards a constructive force or not.
10. The influence from Venus as combined with the Uranian makes for those urges that are to the arts, to love, to the expressions, to the abilities of the entity to write or to give detailed accounts, to know the emotions, to be emotional in itself; and yet from those very influences such emotions may at times fall very flat, or they may become - by the time they are attained - as but dust or as but wanton in the hands, or the experience.
11. These are natural INCLINATIONS. What one does about same either makes for the development or the retardment. These arise from the INNATE forces; as do the greater emotions arise from the earthly sojourns of the entity.
12. As to the earthly sojourns, then, these we read - that have the influence upon the experiences of the entity in the
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present:
13. Before this we find the entity was in the earth during those early periods of activity in the land of present nativity, but rather in and about those environs that were called "the brethren," or about what is now known as the "city of brotherly love," or Philadelphia.
14. There we find the entity was among the earlier individuals that came into the experience in that land; and in the name then of Edith Connell, the entity was very demure, very shy, gaining much through the experiences in those lessons of patience. Although in the earlier portion of the young womanhood the entity REBELLED much, it aided in that which later became in this country, in this new land, the writing, the engraving, the bookmarks, bookmaking. The entity's activities were in the application of printing in its forms of the period. Being subjugated as to its associations with the opposite sex, the entity turned itself to the crafts of the day; and in those expressions it found an activity, later making for those associations in which it may be said that the entity indeed had an experience worthy of a great soul. For even though turmoils and strifes arose, in the experiences of those roundabout, that gentleness of the experience brought for the entity a contentment, a harmony that was not well understood by many.
15. Yet it makes for in the present experience its friendships, of the entity, as those that are chosen; rather than being chosen by others.
16. The experience before that, we find, was in the Grecian land, during those periods when there were the advancements through great discussions, great turmoils in many lands. It was at and preceding those periods of the activities when the philosophy of the Grecians, the artistry and the preparations of those things were preserved in stone.
17. The entity was then among those that were accounted as unusual because of their abilities (as a woman) to write. This brought many discouraging reactions in the experience of the entity; for it was able to reason and to hold itself in the discussions with those leaders of the day, though they suppressed much that the entity - as Ithdinna - gave to the people. For the entity presented much that had to do with the formations of the various characterizations, and especially inn that in which the Grecians set in the home as the manner in which the influences in the experience of the mother preceding the birth of her child were to be. The ENTITY then partook of those activities that PRESENTED this. And because it was presented most by a woman, eventually it was discarded. O that it had been kept on and on!
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18. In the experience the entity knew much of art, much of music; for it interpreted much that was presented by the first of the oratory, then the minstrelsy, then much that depicted the life of the experiences of others in the theatre. This made for that which was an expression, and is an expression in the present, of the entity's interest in the outdoor sports, games - those that partake more of the GRECIAN games, the Grecian activities, rather than the Roman; though the entity knew much of the Roman activities during the experience.
19. In the present application of same the entity may gain through the self's entering into the silence for those visions that may be brought of those experiences in the Grecian activity.
20. The Grecian dance, the Grecian dress, the Grecian activities are of special interest then to the entity, as WELL as much of the Grecian INDIFFERENCE.
21. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as or called the Egyptian, when there were the gatherings of those understandings of the many peoples with the Priest's return and the Priest's activities after regeneration. As there were builded during the experience the relationships of man to man, as well as the relationships to the Creative Forces, and finding and giving expressions, the entity was among those in that activity of the Temple Beautiful that made for the preparations of the initiates that were to become the teachers or the leaders.
22. The entity then, in the name Hap-Cishe, came to be known among those with the greater insight of human experience.
23. The natural tendency in the present is to be of the analytical turn, through intuition and intuitive forces. And few there be whom the entity will not be able to fathom as to their real worth as the entity is associated with same. Hence a judge of human nature, a judge of human endeavor arises in the experience of the entity from that particular sojourn. This may be used as a portion of the entity's activity in the present, either for its own satisfaction or for the help that it may give to others. Use it for the help to others.
24. The experience before that was in Atlantis when there were the activities of much communication with other lands being attempted to begun.
25. The entity was rather averse to the interchange of activities; being among those that studied of the Law of One, and the Priestess in that particular experience, the entity lost AND gained.
26. As Ameelia, the entity made more of the individual
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application in the arts or in the experiences of individuals arising from their various estates of activity in their relationships to what might have been seen - or was seen in the developments from the lower estate of human form to the divine as seen in the perfect body, rid of those encumbrances that were experienced by many in such a sojourn.
27. As to the abilities of the entity then in the present, and that to which it may attain, and how:
28. As an interpreter, or a critic for the artistic temperament of others, or as a critic of the stage activities or of BOOKS, the entity may gain in self the greater development from the mental angle.
29. If it holds to those intuitive forces from its experiences in the activities in the earth where it brought the help to others, through the associations of the Creative Forces in the divine to the activities in the material, it may bring the greater awakening in the soul influences of itself.
30. Then, first know in what thou hast believed from the spiritual angle or standpoint; knowing as to what is the import from within self. And as thou hast seen and do see in the motivative forces or experiences of others, ye may be able to help and aid in THEIR awakening for the hopes, the joys, the aspirations not in only self-indulgences but in the greater aspirations of bringing harmony and peace, beauty and love into the experience of others.
31. Ready for questions.
32. We are through for the present. Copy to Mother " " Ass'n file