This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at 1851 Columbia Road, Washington, D.C., this 9th day of April, 1935, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [884], new Active Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Dr. [688].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Hugh Lynn Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [884] and Mr. [707].
R E A D I N G
Born July 8, 1875, in Buckingham County, Virginia. Time of Reading 11:20 to 12:15 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. Washington, D.C. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: (Going back over the years - "'89 - '88 - Phenomena body had then! - '88 - '87 - '86" etc., on back to birth date)
2. Yes, we have the entity and those relations with the universe and universal forces, that are latent and manifested in the personalities of the present entity, [884] and recorded here in the activities of the entity in the earth's sojourn - as well as in the astrological influences about the earth.
3. In giving, then, that which may be helpful for the entity in the present experience, and in making the application in the experiences of self for the greater soul development, we find:
4. It is known and may be experienced by the entity that not mere knowledge makes for understanding, but the application of what may be given that it, the experience, becomes a portion of the entity, of the soul, IN application, makes for the growth. For the knowledge of the Creative Forces, the knowledge of God, is a growth. For ye grow in grace, in knowledge, in understanding, in the application of that thou hast experienced and dost experience in thy relationships to thy fellow man.
5. Many are the experiences of the entity in the earth that influence the entity in the present. Many have been the sojourns and those influences from the astrological aspects in the experience. Yet, as we find, there have been periods when - as would be termed from the parlance of the day - there have been many ups and downs in the earthly experience.
6. Those influences that arise from the astrological influences are as signs innate; they are as feelings that find expression through the responses the entity makes from
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within to those things with which it comes in contact in the mental and material world. As is seen these offer, then, opportunities; opportunity then being ever open to each and every individual soul in its sojourn in the earth, as in the promises that have come in His words; "Honor thy father, thy mother, that thy days may be long in the earth, which the Lord, thy God, giveth thee," that thy opportunities for the manifestations of that thou hast conceived in thine inner self may be of greater import in each material experience.
7. So we find, from this entity's sojourns in the earth and astrologically, these:
8. From Jupiter we find the entity having high ennobling impulses with many opportunities for making contacts in many phases or walks of life. Individuals in high and low estates, as judged from the material world, have been, will be, the associates of the entity.
9. And in the present year, from the benevolent influences that arise in Jupiter's children - or Jupiter's sojourners, will come the greater opportunity for spiritual enlightenment, spiritual emolument of the influences and abilities of the entity in the direction of making material application of same in the associations of the entity with its fellow man. And these we find especially in this particular or individual period called this year.
10. In this association we also find the Uranian influence or sojourn of the entity making for periods when there have been sudden changes in the affairs of the entity in its material relationships with its family, in material relationships with individuals that were as strangers to the entity; bringing in the last two years the periods especially when sudden changes, accidents, or those things pertaining to that in which resentments might be builded or that in which love might be shown. For it is from that influence in the astrological sojourns where there is a division, where wars as with the infinite forces within self are ever waged - as one with another.
11. This also makes for those influences that have come into the experience of the entity, as in those years of the teen ages of the entity - especially in those periods when the entity, in the thirteenth to sixteenth year, had visions that were to the entity not wholly understood; yet brought emotions from within that yet remain within the entity in its inner self as visions of floating upon clouds, visions as of being in the storms that waged about self. These were particularly in those years of 1885-6-7 and 8, and made for lasting influences; making for the interest that has been and is aroused in the mysterious, spiritual influence,
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spiritual import, occult and mystic influences. These are as a portion of the entity. And the entity might have applied self, or may apply self in these directions as a channel - rather than a medium; one who may turn within and record in the conscious self much of what the soul may experience in its communion with the outer influences that are yet ever so near. For in the mind of man in material world those things that bespeak of the inter-between are as being without, when they - the spiritual forces - are the closer, ever, with all. These, the entity has found, have brought periods of doubts and fears, longings and hopes; periods when oppression arose, or when the entity was evilspoken of by those that understood not. Yet they have brought to the entity, in its developing through these expressions in this experience, a longing more and more to know and experience within self the gracious influences of the spiritual life.
12. The influences from Venus we find have brought rather the unusual experiences in the relationships with those of its own sex, as well as the other; making for periods - with the Uranian activities - when there have been, according to the entity's training or experiences, peculiar relationships. Yet also there have been periods when friendships have stood for much more than the associations that through the material love should have been the duties or material obligations; for friendships have stood for much in the experience. These have been as innate; these have been as experiences in the MENTAL and inner self of the entity through this sojourn as [884].
13. For the Martian influences, through the changes in the activities among men in war, in wrath, in blood even, have brought changes for the entity, in the experience rather as oft from without, as it might appear. Yet the entity will find, if it turns within, these have had their portion in the experience in making opportunities for self-development, self-expression that others - too - might know of those wondrous experiences of self in knowing the inner influences that guide for those directing influence in the souls of men!
14. Mercury with Neptune has brought the HEALING influences in the experience. And during those years of vision if the entity had grasped, as it were, with even those harsh things being said by others, the abilities for the greater healing might have been in the experience for years in this sojourn. Yet in the present, if the entity holds to those promises that have been made, there may be brought in the experience during this year - and especially in this particular year,
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and for a period to come - the greater abilities for not only the laying on of hands but the abilities to analyze, to give to others much that to them may be as mysterious, yet will make for the awareness in their experience of the greater forces of the infinite working in and through the children of men.
15. As to the sojourns in the earth and those that make for the influences upon the entity in the present, we find:
16. Before this the entity was in the land of the present nativity, among the peoples of this particular land when there were the incomings of others that made the greater changes that were coming about in the experiences not only of those peoples but a returning and a making for the activities through the children of Belial that had escaped to the lands, and the children of the Law of One that were coming again into the closer relationships and contacts with these - through material things.
17. The entity then was a princess of the tribes of Powhatan, chief of many nations. Then in the name Narwaua (or Nancen) [?], the entity made for the closer relationships with the peoples that came to that particular portion of the entity's sojourning or abiding. And aid, help and strength came to the entity, and to those about the entity; not only in the healings but in how there was the use of those things from the field, the forest, the ground, the air, and their combinations, that might make for the changing or the meeting of the various experiences in health, accident, or in the expressions of same in the bodies of men. Not as a medicine man, but rather as one that aided in the gathering of the herbs of the field and the forest for the use of those things pertaining to the healing arts.
18. During that sojourn the entity made for material and mental advancement, yet in the latter portion of same the grudges - that were as conscience-built in the experience of the entity's people - made for turmoils and strifes that brought disorder and dissension to the entity's surroundings at the period. Yet the innate forces, the soul forces of the entity, advanced through the sojourn.
19. In the present from that sojourn may be seen the innate feelings of the entity especially as related to races, those things that make for the exchange of ideas in the experiences of individuals grown or reared under their varied environments. Yet the entity is able to make for, in the experience of self, a better understanding than is ordinarily experienced in those that had little or nothing of such a sojourn.
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20. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Roman, during those periods when there were those that were returning from other lands when the whole of the world - as it were - had been turned upside down by the teachings of those that had followed the lowly Nazarene.
21. The entity then was among those of the household of Cyrenius of the centurions that were in charge of some of those disciples and apostles that were entombed or jailed in the Roman periods just after those changes that were brought about by the new order of things under the Caesar that followed after Augustus.
22. And the entity listened oft to those psalms and songs of those that gathered for the making of praise; even for the bonds of the flesh, but for that which had released the spirit and soul of the speaker or the singer in the glorying of self being redeemed through those things that had been promised to Him and by Him that had opened the tomb and had spoken again to His fellows, to those of His brethren.
23. In the latter portion of its sojourn there, as Anniaus, the entity accepted those teachings and gave out to others what became a portion of her own experience in those things that had made for an arousing of an awareness in the experience of the entity. For the visions came, and were seen; and the healing influences that came with those visions enabled the entity to quiet the fears of the little ones, to relieve the temperatures in the bodies of those that were aroused not only by passion but by the poisons of those influences from the impurities that were taken within. The fevers of certain types responded to the gentleness of Anniaus as she worked in and among those of her own people; suffering in body only when the greater persecutions came, yet her own household became one that many resorted to for the encouraging influences that were ever about the activities of the entity.
24. In the present there have been those experiences when the revival of those things, whether proclaimed by those that spoke from the heart or the soul of them or those that spoke from the lips only, has caused the entity to be raised in ecstasy at times to those teachings. Yet there was oft that which answered not to the desires of the heart, for it either stopped short or proclaimed that which answered not as the entity had experienced there.
25. Before that we find the entity was in what is now known as the Egyptian land, during those experiences when there were those being sent as the emissaries for the peoples in the various lands; where there had been and were the attempts to correlate the teachings of those in various
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portions of that eastern land.
26. The entity was among those that aided in the establishing of that in the Persian land, which later became as the tenets of that people from whom - many ages later - Melchisedek came. And the entity finds that when this is said within its inner self there is a response which makes for an opening of the greater promises from within; M-e-l-c-h-i-s-e-d-e-k, the great-great grandson of the entity, who came as without days, as without father or mother, yet as in desire of the entity that - as Sususus - created or begun the condition through its efforts. For it brought into the associations of those with whom the entity labored that which would make for peace, harmony; glorying in the acceptance of the truths from the Infinite - as it may express itself in the finite minds of men.
27. In the present there may be seen, from that sojourn, the longing - and longing - and longing - for experiences within self that would answer for that something which apparently has not answered as yet.
28. Take upon thyself those emblems as thou used in that day; the rod - as may blossom into the understandings of truths - just a plain small copper rod, rubbed upon the essence from the trees - the gum of same - will make for a raising within self of the vibrations that will answer to a cleansing of self for those periods of meditation that will open up before thee.
29. Before that we find the entity was in that land now known or spoken of as the Atlantean, during those days when there were the attempts of those to bring quiet, to bring order out of chaos by the destructive forces that had made for the eruptions in the land that had divided the lands and had changed not only the temperate but to a more torrid region by the shifting of the activities of the earth itself.
30. The entity then was among the princesses of those peoples when there were the divisions of those that were to be the rulers, those that were to be the laborers, those that were to administer the rulings of the ruler upon those that would be ruled.
31. Being among the princesses of him that made for the rulings over the land at the time, in the name Ahasus, the entity made for that of bringing to her own peoples the greater understandings, and especially those that had followed in the way of the Law of One - or that manifested in the present as the Christ Consciousness, or the sons of Adam that had joined themselves with the sons of God, and as the sons of Adam that - with Amilius - had made the records
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of those things whereby there might be the cleansing of the body from the pollutions of the world, or of the animal kingdom.
32. The entity aided in bringing not only material gains but the glories of the experience builded in the experience much of the abilities for purifying through harmonious music - those harmonious influences that were a portion of the entity's activities later in its Persian sojourn.
33. And in the present, even, there may be brought the greater regenerations for the body, the mind and the soul of the entity.
34. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, and that to which it may attain, and how:
35. The greater soul development may come by and through the meditation upon those influences that prompt the inner man. And with it there may be brought forth those powers not of divinations as of the world, but rather the application within self that may bring healing and health and aid to those that are sad in heart, weak in body, who are troubled in spirit. For these need - yea, seek - as the children of light - for a way, a path, to greater understanding.
36. Know then, in self, that thy Redeemer liveth. This thou hast seen in many of thy sojourns and thine activities in the earth; those things that made for the manifestations of His saving influence in the earth. So, teach it to thy fellow man.
37. Ready for questions.
38. (Q) For what life work am I best fitted for a livelihood? (A) Healing!
39. (Q) How should the body undertake this study? (A) As just iterated and iterated and iterated! First know in self, raising those powers within self, that spiritual healing may be the activities of the entity. Not through powers of any save of Him as the Savior of men!
40. (Q) What should I do regarding the suit which has been filed by my lawyer for damages as a result of an accident? (A) Press same. Press same. Not as of other than justice to those that wantonly made for the experiences that bereft the body in part from those things that are material necessities; but in love seek the ways for mediation, for these will be the proper manner.
41. (Q) What particular music will be of the most help to the entity? What type? (A) That as comes from chimes - as rods, as of that nature - that makes for the uuuuuuuuummm through the vibrations of same.
42. We are through for the present.
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