This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the David E. Kahn home, 44 West 77th St., Apt. 14-W, New York City, this 30th day of March, 1935, in accordance with request made by the self, Dr. [872], New Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mr. [257].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Hugh Lynn Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [872].
R E A D I N G
Born June 4, 1893, in Brownsville, Tennessee. Time of Reading 11:40 to 12:30 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. New York City. (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 personality of the present entity, [872]; and the records that have been made by the entity in the earth and is those experiences or sojourns or interims.
2. In entering the present experience we find the entity coming rather under a benevolent influence throughout. And there should be, from the records here, a great soul development of the entity throughout this experience; while there are periods when the entity from its mental angle will be longing and lonesome and alone in its seeking. And much that is within the latent influences of the entity is not always understood by those about the entity, making for these experiences that to the entity find expression in such. Yet there is a growth and a satisfaction that may be gained in the present, that will make for peace, harmony, and in the next experience bring for the entity a period of manifestation when few will surpass the entity either in the mental, the material or the spiritual life that will be experienced.
3. As to the astrological aspects in the present, we find the entity coming under those that have brought in the present experience many varied kinds of experiences; some high (as may be judged from the material), some low, some that have been most satisfactory, others that have made for many, many questionings in the experience of the entity. However, from the astrological sojourns we find these coming as innate expressions:
4. Jupiter - a high ennobling influence, with periods when individuals, peoples or groups of various strata or status of society or life, in their various strata of the material
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world, the mental world, the spiritual world, have been and are the associations or activities of the entity. Hence this has brought, does bring, experiences of wonderment, awe at times; and this loneliness that occurs within, deep within the inner self at times. Yet if the entity turns to the within and raises the spiritual forces, we will find that the entity may experience in the present much of that which has been by many forgotten - the promises that He, the Father, will abide with those that earnestly, sincerely, seek Him from within theirselves. Not by might nor by power, but by my name saith the Lord of hosts.
5. The entity has had the experience of being both cold and hot as respecting the spiritual portion of its experience. Yet the entity will find, as will others, the more reliance there is put not in people and their reaction to the spiritual truths but in those promises of that divine within each human soul that seeks for expression in its relationships with its fellow man, the greater will come the awakening; and there will come those experiences that will make for a great advancement for the entity in this present sojourn.
6. As to the appearances in the earth and those that influence the entity in the present, we find:
7. Before this the entity was in the land of the present nativity, during those periods when there were the first settlings of the land in the North Carolinian and Georgian territory; during those periods when there was the pushing forward of those into the interior - or into portions of now Kentucky and Tennessee.
8. The entity then was of those people who journeyed thither, in the name then (changed as they made for their activities in the land) Goldberg.
9. And about the first of the settlements in that place then called Boonesboro, the entity was the first of the white children born there - Amy being the name.
10. The entity grew to a useful activity during that sojourn. Many were the hardships of the peoples, yet the entity gained through the manner or the directions in which she aided not only her people but the natives and those activities where there was the preserving of those things that would make for the tempering of the suffering for those that had the various activities or the various conditions and experiences during the sojourn in the land.
11. And many came far and near for the healings which the entity made or prepared for those peoples during that sojourn.
12. In the whole of the experience the entity may be said to
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have gained throughout. Although there were turmoils as to its relationships with others, both as to the spiritual life and as to the material associations, the entity made for that which brought to self the satisfaction of knowing self was expended in a service that others might have a greater understanding. The entity not only brought ease and comfort from suffering, but made for the expressions of fellowship, love, faith, hope and patience - which are the seed of the spirit, and that bring in the experience of all who manifest same that of a harmony that passeth understanding.
13. In the present there is the longing for knowledge, the longing for the abilities to give greater expression of self, which - as is felt innately, as is known within self - arises from those activities during that sojourn; making for the greater ability in helping, aiding others. Yet, as we find, in the present experience, in those lands closer to the waters from which the entity's people left for the entering into the inner lands would the entity find greater peace, greater harmony, greater understanding.
14. Before that we find the entity was in the Holy Land, when the chosen peoples made for the first return to the rebuilding of the city and of the temple, when Xerxes had given the authority to those peoples that they might return to their own land.
15. And as Zerubbabel set out for the long journey again to the city in the hills there in Jerusalem, the entity was among those of that company; and with the entering in aided in the setting of the home life again to the ordinances of the homes as of old.
16. The entity aided in keeping the records for those peoples; being of the priestly tribe and among those that had been set in the offices of such, though these, to be sure, were rather the leaders of the heads of the household - and the entity aided such in giving to those people an understanding in the preserving of that INNATE in her peoples as to the NECESSITY - in the material law as well as in the moral law - of preserving of self in cleanliness as well as in godliness; the preserving not only of the letter of the law but the spirit of the law. And truly, indeed, it may be said of the entity then, as Ashai, that the people under her aid builded with a WILL; for they MINDED the things that pertained to God.
17. In the experience the entity gained throughout; though there were hardships of travel, though there were hardships of privation during the early portions of the experience. Yet in the latter portion there was not only the satisfaction of seeing the restoring of the worship in the
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city and in the temple, but the satisfaction of seeing her own peoples raised to places of accomplishments in the affairs pertaining to the king and the city again established there.
18. There comes to the entity in the present, in the periods of the deeper meditation, those things that take hold upon the offices pertaining to temple service. These have at times been ruthlessly trod upon by others; and it has brought in the experience of the entity much that has made for a longing and a loneliness deep within.
19. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Egyptian, during those periods when there was the cry of a people going up to the Throne of grace because of the hardships as put upon them; for their burdens become heavy in those days.
20. The entity then was among those peoples again of that one chosen as the priestly tribe, when the law by the leader - by the lawgiver - was given later in the holy mount. But the entity aided in carrying out the periods of purifications during those days when there was the making for the hardening of the heart of the leader and the setting in the minds of those children of the chosen ones as to the purposes for which they as a people were being called forth.
21. Then in the name of Estrada, the entity was a niece of Aaron, the mouthpiece for the lawgiver. The entity gained and lost during the experience. For as there were the preparations, so did there come - during the periods in the journeys beyond the Red Sea - those periods of wonderment and rebellion in the experience of the entity.
22. Yet oft in the present the entity has felt that she has in some manner been a portion of many of those things that are recorded that others call but legendary tales. To the entity their truth may be made to mean, or does mean, much more than to many - if it will but let itself turn within.
23. Before that we find the entity was in the Egyptian land, among those during the period when there were the turmoils and the strifes from the rebellions that arose in the land when the Priest was banished.
24. The entity was among those of the Chaldean peoples that came to learn more of the teachings when there was the reestablishing of the Priest and the giving out of the tenets of same. The entity became one that might be termed today the alchemist or the druggist, as would be set for the hospitalizations during that experience; for the entity enjoined self with those particular activities, for its knowledge not only of people and the administering of those tendencies necessary for the aiding of those that were ill
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but for the knowledge of those things in the field that may be made a portion of such application - in the name then Asptha.
25. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, and that to which it may attain, and how:
26. First, as may be said from the beginning, there has been a call innately within the entity for the higher service towards its fellow man; in awakening here, there, the knowledge of the spirit of truth that may be awakened in every heart. Yet this finds itself expressed in the administrations for not only the ills of the body but of the mind, and of those things that make for fears arising in the experiences of others.
27. Through such channels, then, that the entity finds for labor in such fields, may not only come the greater good for others but the greater development within self. And let thy watchword be ever as thou dist hear oft from him whom thou didst love well in the days of old, "Let others do as they may, but as for me, I will serve a LIVING God."
28. Ready for questions.
29. (Q) What special field of activity would you advise for me, besides the work I am doing at present? (A) Expand upon that in those directions as just indicated.
30. (Q) Should I continue to keep my present office? (A) As indicated, while circumstances or surroundings in the present environ or associations would indicate this as the better, we find that in the southern country - as in that about Raleigh, Charleston, Savannah, Norfolk, Richmond - would be a much better, much greater channel for the expression of self.
31. (Q) What were my past relationships with my husband in the present incarnations? And what can I do to help him the most in the present? (A) As we find, the relationships just previous to this incarnation were as that of brother and sister. And while there were oft the turmoils, that arose in the activities regarding the entity's relationships with others, in the present the greater aid may come through giving that stamina, that necessary in the spiritual import of things in the experience of the companion.
32. (Q) What were my past relations with my daughter, and how can I help her the most in the present? (A) In the past relationships we find, during the latter portion of the Egyptian experience when there was the exit from that land of the entity's people, the daughter was the mother of the entity. Hence those relationships when there have been periods when the daughter would, or will, seek to
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counsel with thee as thou would counsel with her. Keep, then, those relationships as they were, as they are, in that of ever making for that union of strength in the relationships that may make for the greater growth.
33. (Q) Should I continue my present type of work and combine it with those things suggested? (A) And combine it with those suggested, yes.
34. (Q) Will you be more specific as to the field of the proper activity? (A) It has been given.
35. (Q) Is there any other counsel or advice for the entity at this time? (A) Know that the day of the Lord draweth nigh; that many of thine peoples, of the Lord's chosen, of the Lord's vineyard, need thee. Though others may speak lightly, know in thyself thou hast been chosen by Him - even as those of they peoples - for a special service in this particular period. Be patient; be gentle; be kind; railing not at others or at thine own seeming weakness. For He, thy Lord, they God, Jehovah, is thy strength, thy rock, thy salvation.
36. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file