This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at 1851 Columbia Road, Washington, D.C., this 15th day of April, 1935, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [882], Active Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Hugh Lynn Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [882].
R E A D I N G
Born August 11, 1875, in Washington, D.C. Time of Reading 3:10 to 4:00 P. 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 [882]; and those records that have been made, are being made, by the entity in the experience in the earth.
2. In giving that as may be helpful to the entity in meeting those experiences through which it has passed and must pass in its activities in the earth, it is well that all take note of what the entity has accomplished IN self in this experience. For few there be who have gained the concept of an active patience as the entity has. This the entity will find will bear fruit even in the associations in the present. Be not, then, overcome with those things that in the material may make for doubts and fears, but rather know in that thou hast believed is the ability to keep that thou hast committed unto Him against any experience.
3. While these that make for experiences when doubts and fears and anxieties arise are apparent, these are not beyond that thou art able to bear if thou dost not trust alone in thine own strength. Know that He, who has promised to bear the burden with thee, will not allow thee to stand alone but will bring comfort, aid, and that right speedily.
4. In the astrological sojourns, we find these as those that have made for the visioning of the experiences that have presented and do present themselves innately in the experience of the entity:
5. Jupiter makes for those periods when there have been great expectations in the hopes mentally, in the visions of association, and making for the activities of the entity in every phase of its experience as of a broad field of vision. Yet in the last few years, as Jupiter has been in adverse
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influence with the entity, there has come in the material expression those things that have wrought much in the MENTAL and the material forces of the entity that has brought questionings. And if Mercury and Venus had not been in a benevolent influence, there would have been those periods that have come at times - when burdens were as most too much for the mental body. Yet in the mercies of those influences that have come in the sojourns and activities of the entity, and in the application of that in which the entity has made for during these experiences the light breaks, the dawn is at hand for the entity, and those benevolent influences of Jupiter with Venus and Mercury make for the next three and a half to four years - beginning almost at once - periods when the greater awakening from the spiritual impulses, the spiritual life, will come. And, as has been experienced again and again, and as may be realized in the understanding of the entity, those that be on the Lord's side, those whom the Lord would favor, WHO may say aught against same? KNOW within thine inner self thou hast run the life well; He is at hand.
6. In Mercury we have the high mental abilities; as in Venus the great love influence, and at times in the entity's experience that of indulgence because of the love, the indulgence because of the greater feeling, has at times made for - later - those experiences that have made for some wonderments and feelings as of doubting self as to what were the proper precautions or the proper attitudes to take. Yet these may be found as an answer in much that may be in the experience of the entity in the coming year and years, for as ye mete so is it meted to thee again. And as His promises have been, and as His judgements are upon the sons of men, "As ye do it unto the least of my little ones, ye do it unto me." So shall thy inner influence show that, though these may have questioned, thy friendships, thy loves, shall not forsake thee, nor shall any make thee afraid.
7. As to the appearances in the earth and those that influence the entity in the present, we find these:
8. Before this we find the entity was in the land of the present nativity, during those early years when there was the establishing of the settlements in this land; when from the English land and from the adjoining lands there were those brought to the land that were to become as the helpmeets for the natives.
9. The entity was among those that came, and was chosen by those in activity and among those with whom the entity has in the present been the closely - the closer even - associated, made for the activities that through the
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experience brought both developments and retardments; those periods when there were the questionings and those periods when there were the buildings for the inner and soul selves of those peoples beginning in a new land.
10. In the name then of Aesuewell in the experience, the entity made for the activities that established for customs of a new people, those that separated those activities from the activities in other portions of the same land; making for those periods when there was a development of a national or state influence (or both) of those groups among whom the entity was associated.
11. We will find from that experience in the present that there have been those associations, those activities of the entity when those questions of state or of national importance have been discussed; or that were to be discussed or presented by varied groups, have been in the provisions of the entity. As to whether these were or are taken as a portion of the entity's activity has been the choice of the entity. And in these same associations may much of that by word of mouth, by tenet, by BEING that which makes for the promptings of others in their activities or their associations as one to another, make for a growth in the entity's experience.
12. Before that we find the entity was in the English land, during those periods of the one called Alfred the Great.
13. The entity then was among those that were of the household, or in those environs of the household of that ruler; making for an activity in which there were many changes as to the relationships of those that were in the various stations of life, as of those that served and those that were of the serving, as those that were of the laboring people, as those who were of the directing peoples. And as to the moral, the mental and the spiritual life did the entity induce many to make for those establishings in that period of the justice among many, rather than the voice or the dictates of one individual. Hence as is in the experience and has been in the experience of the entity in the present, oft there have come those questions when there must be the judgement of many, or as of custom or as of those of position, or as those of state; and the entity has oft been resorted to or come to as one to make decisions in such experiences. The name then was Lilian.
14. The experience before that was in the Grecian land, when there were changes being made in the studies of the activities of individuals in other lands, when there were the wars among those in the isles of the sea, when there was the descending of those of that civilization that arose from
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an Egyptian association with those in the isle of Crete, of Malta. These the entity saw during those activities, when there were the rejoicings for the new activities that arose by the activities that brought those isles under those associations of the proletariat and the protectorate of that group. For the entity then was among the rulers of the land, aiding in those activities; and in establishing that period which began as of the higher culture in art, in music, in the various developments in that particular land.
15. The entity made for the advancements in giving out to those of all stages of activity the benefits of that gained by those sojournings in those other lands, in the name then Xerces.
16. In the present those things that pertain to many of the lost arts, as were established by those peoples, are of particular interest. Those things that have to do with the Grecian culture, the Grecian architecture of those periods, are of particular interest to the entity. And the deeper forces of giving to others that which will be of the helpful influence in their advancement also arise from those experiences.
17. Before that we find the entity was in the Egyptian land, as now known, during those periods when there were turmoils and strifes through those upheavals by the rebellions in the land; during those periods when the Atlanteans were entering, and when those of the now called Arabian and Persian lands were seeking for an entrance.
18. The entity was among the natives of the land that were in the associations and activities of the king deposed, but rather among the princesses of that land. As the rebellions and changes came about, the entity embraced the activities of the Atlanteans' experience, the Atlanteans' teachings, and later - with the reestablishing of the Priest, with the beginning of the disseminations of those activities - where there were those understandings of the relationships with the material things that partook of health-giving forces to the body, those things as of the air and water that make for the health-giving to the mental forces and the influences of the fire or the purifying began to be understood - the entity then made for great activities among those associated in the Temple service, the Temple activities.
19. Hence customs, symbols, omens, are a portion of the entity's innate and manifested self from experience to experience.
20. And these may bring into the experience in the present a greater understanding of those relationships of the souls of men to the Creative Forces in its activities through those
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forces of flesh and mind that make known the mysteries of nature, the mysteries of the spiritual forces in and among the sons of men.
21. The name then was Jah-ptel.
22. As to the abilities in the present and that to which it may attain, and how:
23. These are in applying first that insight as it has gained through the application of those same tenets as gained from Egypt, as applied in self in the present; also those activities in those sojourns in making for influences in the experiences of others - that may not be as pleasures alone but as developments for the INNER man.
24. In giving expression to such, in living, in being, that as is known innately within self in these directions, will make for the manners in which the greater blessings may come to self; and make for that harmony within self that passeth understanding to those that have not attained that of meeting Him within the inner temple. For as He has given, "There I shall meet thee, in the mount of thyself." For thy body indeed is the temple of the living God; there He may meet thee as ye turn within. There ye may find the greater understanding; for He hath not left His children empty-handed; for He has prepared the way. And, as He has given, "As ye do unto these, the least of my children, ye do it unto me."
25. So, in the application lean upon Him; for He IS the way, the truth and the light.
26. Ready for questions.
27. (Q) Should the entity keep up music? (A) Keep up music by all means; for much is found there that lifts thee, even in the inner self. Keep rather to that which is of the type that is of the ancients.
28. (Q) Is there anything special that the entity should do, or some particular line of activity? (A) In the manner in which ye give out here and there, a little here, a little there; these are indeed the greater glories for Him. Speak gently, speak kindly to all. As to the lines, do what thy hands find to do, where thou art, day by day. These may be little in the sight of many, yet in Him, and in thyself, these will grow and grow to become those things in which thy awakening, thy soul, shall find repose.
29. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file