This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 23rd day of April, 1935, in accordance with request made by the father - Mr. [776], 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. L. B. Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Born May 29, 1916, about 7:30 A. M., in Babylon, N.Y. Time of Reading 3:00 to 3:35 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., L.I. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes, we have the entity and those relations with the universe and universal forces, as are latent and manifested in the personalities as the records have of the entity called now [904].
2. In entering the present experience from that environ or sojourn of Venus, we have one by nature or tendency to be double-minded or very seldom making up its own mind; yet at times would be termed by some as dissatisfied with whoever or whatever the choice was. And whether for weal or for woe, or whether for up or for down, the blame is for and on someone else, innate. These are tendencies to be met, to be dealt with, by the entity. Not as conditions that are as tasks, but rather in the mental and spiritual self USE these as judgments. Not as passive thinking, but rather in a constructive, in a positive manner. For much of that which is to the eye or to the body pleasant will be the experience of the entity in or during this sojourn. These may easily become stumblingblocks to the entity, as may be seen from the sojourns and the applications of the entity in those experiences in the earth, and the associations at that period that are tended to make for grudges and for those conditions where there is the tendency for such to be in the experience of the entity. And these must be met, must be made into ACTIVATIVE forces and not passive; not combative to circumstances or experiences but as a man's man, meeting the material conditions, meeting the experiences in the active way and manner; yet with an IDEAL. For lest there be destructive forces entering in the present experience, there must be the foundation of the mental forces in the experience for love, mercy, justice, honor, fellowship, brotherly love, tolerance, faith, hope, and charity. For these are the fruits or the attributes. Not mere words, that pertain to the basis of desire, of activity, of
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experience, in the mental forces. For the Mental IS the Builder; and these must become active forces in the experience lest troubles overtake thee.
3. Make, then, the decided activity in the self that will make for the using of opportunities, the using of those probabilities in the experience as constructive forces. For as God is, and as He is the rewarder of those that in an humble, contrite manner approach the thrones of mercy and activity, then let the inner self and the inner ideal be founded in same; that there may be not only the days in the earth extended but that there may come in the inner self the consciousness that the life, the experience in the earth in the present, may be more and more worth while.
4. For, Venus is in an adverse influence, Mars is in an adverse influence; yet Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, are in benevolent influences. And if they are then prompted in the mental and spiritual self with these constructive attributes of the spirit of truth, just so as He is, so will there be definite results in the experience and activities of the entity during this particular sojourn.
5. Then, as to the appearances in the earth that have an influence in the present, we find:
6. Before this the entity was in those periods when there were those activities during the Revolution in the land of the present nativity; when there were those various influences that were brought about and that prompted Andre and the one who sold his country.
7. The entity then was an associate in a portion of those undertakings, and - as Warren P. Baker - found wonderments; and was saved by the love of one of the opposite sex. For, except for her pleadings he would have become embroiled in the activities of Arnold and Andre.
8. Hence we find an experience in which there were doubts and fears as respecting the material associations, the mental attitude or stand, and material conditions that brought the tendencies which express themselves in the present to blame others. Not to the point of being dishonest with self, but lacking in that stability necessary to turn circumstance - that may be for the weal or the woe - into that wherein the spirit of truth may be the directing factor in the promptings of the inner self. Not to that point of indulgences, yet easily would these - once given into - become a portion of those influences in the activities.
9. Hence refrain from any associations in the present in which there may be an activity as related to municipality or state or in any office of same; but rather establish self in
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a service in any manner in which there may be the constructive activity or manufacturing of that upon which many may be dependent for the promptness and the decidedness of the entity. For obligations or duties that are undertaken may become those things that are the most worth while in the experience of the entity, if these are applied correctly.
10. From that sojourn, in the present it is demanded that self's activities be in surroundings where there is somewhat of rote, but rote as for a purpose - of strength either in body or in mind or both.
11. As to the proper association for the developing body and mind, then, it should be rather in a semi-activity of the military influence or surroundings. This would be the preferable field or environment for the greater mental and material development, in the first portion of the entity's experience or associations with the material world.
12. Before that we find the entity lived in the earth during the periods of the First, the Second and a portion of the Third Crusades for an ideal activity upon the part of those that were leaders, or that were the prompters for same in leading others into an active service.
13. It is well that the self during the present experience enjoin itself with associations or organizations that have something of the ideals of Freemasonry. For these were a prompting in that experience which brought much that made for gains.
14. The name then was Bruce J. Eddington; and the entity gained. For as the ideals were set, though others failed in much of their accomplishments in these directions, the entity's activities were in such ways and manners as to make for the opening up of the commercial associations with its own land and other lands, and the various experiences necessary for the beneficent activities in all concerned.
15. Hence it is in that field the entity might find the activities bringing the greater development; dealing with groups, nations as a whole regarding trades or activities in the manufacture of things pertaining to the greater usage - especially in households; whether these would be electrically driven forces or kindred subjects that make for the interchange in the air lines, or air ways. These would be benevolent activities for the entity, provided the inner self as has been indicated - is prompted by the lifting up of the consciousness or the awareness of the true inner self being master of its ship, the maker of its destiny; the sojourner as would point the way for many in their stumbling manners, bound in flesh yet making for the material
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expressions in the associations of one group or one land with another.
16. Before that we find the entity was in that known as the Persian land. The sojourn there was not of such a great duration, for the entity was among the tribesmen from which the leader sprang; making for activities and counter- activities as to the relationships of the nomad peoples to an established routine in the city in the hills and the plains that gradually grew up not only from the cave dwellings or the places of abode in trees or the like during that experience, but rather the entity was enjoined to the abodes where groups banded together for not only self-preservation from the nomads of its own land but for the preservation of life, that expression of the Creative Forces in materiality; and for the protections in the material things that also arose from those combinations. And in such activities may the entity also find much that will become of interest in the experience in this sojourn.
17. The name then was Jeuen, and was - as oft called - a second cousin of the leader Uhjltd.
18. Before that we find the entity was in that now known as the Atlantean land, among those peoples that were not given into charge of the moral and religious life of the country just previous to the last destruction; but was rather among those of the upper classes that acted in the capacity of overseers or judges among the laboring periods or laboring activities of a portion of those people.
19. From that sojourn the entity finds in the present the innate urge to become a rover itself; the sea calling at times; at others the heights of the mountains that might be classed or called among those of the seeking in the present.
20. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, and that to which it may attain and how:
21. First set that which is its ideal; not as of a spiritual influence in the material lives for the bodily gain, not for an ideal in some material welfare, but rather as the promptings from the very life influence or force itself - which is as true a manifestation of the creative energies and forces themselves as those things that may be seen in nature. For they are of the ONE; the one influence that the entity acted upon or rebelled against in a portion, and studied in other experiences or used such that in the present the urges may become as stumbling-experiences for the entity. But let thy meditations and prayer ever be in line with those things of the greater spiritual Teacher in the experiences in the earth. And in so doing may there grow up in the inner force and fibre of the entity itself
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that which may guide, guard and direct aright much that may be to an advantage of those in the material world for the comforts of the material world. But if these are guided or prompted by the ideals as set in the spiritual influences or the spiritual life, as has been indicated, it will make for the greater development and the finding of self within those environs that become the prompting force of a developing soul through the earthly sojourn.
22. Study, then, to show thyself approved unto Him, a workman divining the words of truth, making in thy activity those corrections in the inner self first; keeping self unspotted from the world. And ye shall find a well-rounded, well-filled experience in this sojourn that may hear that, "Come ye higher; I will make you fishers of men!"
23. Ready for questions.
24. (Q) What school would it be best for him to attend? (A) That which is under discipline, or a portion of that of the military activity, see?
25. We are through for the present. Copy to Parents " " Ass'n file