This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 28th day of December, 1934, in accordance with request made by the wife - Mrs. [757], Active Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mildred Davis and L. B. Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Born August 6, 1872, in St. Louis, Mo. Time of Reading 3:50 to 4:15 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Calif. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes, we have the entity and those relationships with the universe and universal forces, that influence the individual entity now known as [909].
2. In giving that which may be helpful in the experience of the entity in the present, there is seen - from the natural inclinations, from the combination of the earth's sojourn with the astrological influences - that there have been some very definite periods of change in the present experience of the entity. There have been periods when things pertaining to the CHANCE, especially with racing and of such natures, have been an influence in the entity's experience. These in this period do not combine with the numerological and astrological influences in the entity, yet there has ever been that innate desire and innate experience of "taking the chance" at this, that and the other.
3. As to the astrological influence from the sojourn of the entity, we find these are as innate and manifested influences according to the activity of the will in relationship to same. For while one may be under the influence of this or that experience, the will is that factor which makes man different from the rest of the animal kingdom - or that which makes him in the position where he may be lord over creation in a material world, so far as the earth's sojourn is concerned. Yet influences from environs, heredity, and the experiences through which an entity or soul may pass, all have their effect upon that which makes for the entity's abilities in certain directions. It is the choice that makes for that towards its destiny in any given experience, or that commonly called what "the fates hold in store" for an entity. In this entity then, [909], we find:
4. The sojourn in Jupiter makes for the extremes in its relationships with conditions and individuals. Those of
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very high and very low estate have been the companionships and associations; those whereunto there might be - from the material standpoint - exceptional opportunities in many directions; and those that have made for MANY questioning things arising with many of the associations. This influence has made for the peculiarity of the kind and character of friendships that the entity makes; there having been periods when - it might be said - there have been a great many ups and again a great many downs, in the material, the mental and the spiritual outlook of the entity upon that which the activities in a material plane mean in the experience of the entity. Dealings with things that have to do with great value to many individuals as to their relationships; dealings with things having to do with the health or the evaluation of life as an experience in the affairs of others in its relationships to the world. These have and do become a portion of the entity's innate and manifested experience. Their activity depends upon how the entity WILLS, and has willed, to act in relationship to such conditions.
5. From Mars do we find the adverse and also favorable influences in the experience of the entity; making for times when the entity - it may be said - gained by the inactivity of others, and other times when those in whom the entity had depended have failed - and thus brought adverse conditions and experiences in the associations and activities of the entity.
6. The influences in Neptune make for interests in activities of individuals as to their own prowess, their own abilities in given fields; whether in the political, religious, musical, commercial, or in what form. Especially ADVANCED individuals have been of interest to the entity, and oft in the associations with same - rather than that ordinarily termed which comes from the attributed valuations of indwelling in Neptune influence (of water); yet rather water has played, does and WILL always play, an important part in the material activities of the entity, rather than its life or sojourn near or upon water; and brings also some of those periods when there have been accidents in or near water, or near accidents that have been a portion of the entity's experience.
7. As to the appearances in the earth and their effect upon the entity in the present, we find:
8. Before this the entity was in the land of present nativity, in and about what is now known as the eastern portions of Pennsylvania - during the periods when there were the settlings of the land by those peoples who came
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from persecutions on account of their religious beliefs and activities.
9. The entity was among those in the name of Minor, or known as Muller Minor in that experience; and gained in its activities. For the appreciations of the evaluations of friendships became a portion of the activities of the entity during the sojourn, by its associations and affiliations with those in far command; yet being as one superintending over the tilling of, the harvesting of, the preparation of the fruits of the soil, that made the entity one upon whom many depended for their sustenance in those periods of distress. In the position the entity gained and lost; gained where not mere friendships but the love for the evaluation of life and its activities in the earth were concerned; lost in those periods when there were the oppressions and tendencies towards a holding of those influences to force individuals into the way of thinking as the entity did. Yet making, as on the whole, a life or an experience of advancement.
10. Before that we find the entity was in those lands and periods when there were the buildings in what is now known as the Persian and Arabian, when there were the separations of those on account of the activities known as violent arising from infectious forces in the combination of individuals, through the inattention to their own sanitary relationships and activities.
11. The entity then was in conjunction with those peoples in that land and in that period who were the teachers, the healers, the leaders, and became a portion of that very activity in making those separations. Hence in the period the entity - as it may be termed - was the physician, or the co-helper in the physicians' activity with the leaders in that experience; forming for those lands the first activities whereunto the drosses and the material things might be disposed of in such ways as to be the most beneficial.
12. Hence in the present experience things are of especial interest where the health of individuals is concerned, the health of communities, and the health of peoples of great numbers; and also where there are ever those changes or combinations of things or influences that reflect upon such a relationship.
13. Yet from that experience also in the present comes the interest in things pertaining to speculative relationships, not only as to the whys and wherefores from the mental activity but material expression in same.
14. The name then was Ulanjel, and among those peoples from
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the native land about same.
15. Before that we find the entity was in what is now known as or called the Egyptian land, during those periods when there were the disseminations and the gathering together of those that were to aid in setting out and sending out the tenets and truths, especially as to the relationships of the hospitalizations that were established during those periods - and in the teachings and ministerings to the physical needs of individuals in hospitalizations. And the entity became among those - it may be said - who had supervision over the combination of school and hospital, which combination would be well in the present - and which should be a part of the training in every institution of learning; not only the hygiene and economics but the combination of PREVENTATIVE medicines should be a portion of every curriculum, in not only the advanced but the beginnings of institutions of learning.
16. And the entity has in many respects held many of these things in the innate activity, and has had the desire and expressed self in these directions.
17. Then, as to the abilities of the entity and that to which it may attain, and how:
18. Think never that the opportunities have passed; for ever is there set before thee a choice to make, and has always been given "TODAY is the acceptable year, the acceptable day, of the Lord!" It is never too late to begin, even in an experience; for Life in its experience is a continued, a continuous effort - in making, in starting, the associations which bring what has ever been given as the way whereby man may justify himself before the throne of grace in a material world: "Inasmuch as ye do it unto the least of these, my little ones, ye do it unto me."
19. When there is, then, that activity whereunto there is made known more and more in the minds and hearts and experiences of all that whereunto they have been called for a purpose in a material manifestation, greater and greater becomes and grows - the possibility, the capability, of advancement.
20. Hence the entity should give out, little by little, in these directions as indicated - in clarifying these situations in the experiences of individuals, groups and masses; that the body is the temple of the living soul and there should be made and kept that whereunto it may become the more beautiful place for the worshipfulness in its every function, in its every organ, to glorify those purposes whereunto each organ, each functioning, has been set for the glorifying of the spirit of creative forces in a material
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world.
21. Keep, then, the faith that thou hast builded in many; not as thine OWN, but as unto the glorifying of the Creative Forces that may manifest in a material world.
22. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file " of portions contributed to Study Group #1 lesson on Destiny, which is now being compiled