This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 9th day of May, 1935, in accordance with request made by the husband - Mr. [877], Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., and sister, Miss [906].
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 August 1, 1886, in London, Ontario, Canada. Time of Reading 11:00 to 11:30 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., N.Y. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes, we have the entity and those records as made by same, in dwelling in the earth and in those environs about the earth. (So much crowds in to be told as respecting the place of records, as respecting the environments of the earth.) Also we have those relations with the universal forces that are latent and manifested in the personality and individuality of the entity, [920] as called in the present.
2. In entering the present experience, we find the astrological aspects meaning little in the experience save as innate urges; yet these have been applied in such manners in the present as to make the astrological alone mean but little. For, as has been indicated oft, it is not knowledge alone, not understanding even alone, but the application of the opportunities that present themselves, which makes for the destinies, makes for those conditions that arise in the experience of each soul. It is not that the law alone is set and then the soul set adrift upon the sea of time or space, but the ever abiding presence of the love of the Maker for the creature abides - if it will but turn to same for its sorrows, its gladness, its hopes, its fears. For in Him is love indeed, and it casteth out fear.
3. The astrological aspects, then, make for rather that as may have been, but in the application the entity has met much in its associations, in that it has met much in itself; not as a condemnation, but rather as that wherein the expression of self has given those whom the entity has contacted a glimpse of that which has made hopefulness, faithfulness, sincerity, verity, and virtue, as those things that are so much a portion of the soul and spiritual self that the entity to many is as a mystery - yet, as all beautiful things to the human mind, remains something to be sought.
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4. As to the appearances in the earth, then, and those that affect or come as urges in the emotional forces of the entity, we find - while not great in number - the soul's activity has oft been in such ways and manners as to bring definite urges in the present, as well as abilities.
5. Before this we find the entity was in the land of the present nativity, when there were turmoils and strifes in the land, as respecting the natives' activities, as respecting the French (for the entity then was of the French descent), and those activities that were made between the English-speaking, the French-speaking, and the natives.
6. The entity then was of the household of a ruler or landowner, Laskazar (Madge was the name), and aided much in making for - the helpfulness to those that had espoused the cause of the defense of the land, and in making interpretations for those of many tongues, many groups of varied activities, many groups under varied conditions that - to them in their experience - meant their hopes, their firesides, their homes, their aspirations, their desires in what to them was the new yet a very definite purpose in their activity.
7. Through the greater portion of the experience the entity gained, in making for the helpfulness in the teachings, in the assisting of those that were fearful as to their own personal safety and as to their homes and as to their own political as well as their own economic and their own national activities.
8. In the present we find the abilities from same in making for the coordination of whatever the environment; the entity may make - for an easing of situations for many that are strained - whether in the social side of the experience, in the economic, in the political, in those that would be social climbers, or in those that would have social aspirations that are out of question or even line. The entity in any clime, among any people, makes for that ease of the personal speech, the personal application of the niceties of experience. Also it brings for the entity the love of travel, the love of unusual associations, unusual experiences. And the FEARS only arise from that as arose from those experiences, whether it be right in the stand as taken or not.
9. Before that we find the entity was in the Arabian and Persian land, when in the city in the hills and in the plains the Grecian peoples (of which the entity was a portion) came - first curious, and to establish, as it were, the commercial relationships with those peoples in that city to which had come so many from so many lands.
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10. The entity then was among those of the real basis, or the real brains - as would be called - of those Grecian peoples; beautiful in body, in mind, and in application of same. Yet under the teachings of those in that new land the entity changed much, becoming rather closely associated in the records of those conditions that made for the application of the tenets to the peoples of many lands. Hence in the present the entity may find languages, experiences of individuals of all climes, not only of interest but the ability of the entity to help those that are stumbling in their associations and activities in such experiences and such relationships. So, there is rather the ability to be diplomatic in its relationships with others; not only in the home, not only in the social aspects, but in affairs of state, affairs of country, affairs of the various lands. These become as a portion of the entity's abilities from such an experience. Yet those tenets as gained there have made for that urge which arises oft in the innate experience of the entity for those that are the basic promptings of activities of those whom the entity may meet. Also the entity is rather a judge of human nature, or of the promptings of individuals.
11. The name then was Edesse.
12. Before that we find the entity was in that now known as the Egyptian land, among those peoples that were of the priestesses from the Atlantean land. The entity came and made for much disturbance among those peoples in the Egyptian land. For the entity attempted to establish self as a priestess there, making for first the attempts to use the powers as had the sons of Belial in the Atlantean and Poseidian land. Yet, with the activative forces of the Priest and those that were of the Temple of Sacrifice and Temple Beautiful activities, and leaders in same, and where the associations of the present companion of the entity became so strong, there were the regenerations brought about. For those applications made for the disseminations of the truths rather in the teachings as propounded or given by the Priest and associates in that particular experience.
13. So, during the first portion of the entity's sojourn it lost; during the latter portion it gained much in the activities and in the associations with the peoples of that land as well as of many another.
14. The name then was Checho.
15. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, and that to which it may attain, and how:
16. In those things that pertain to teaching, story telling, furnishing illustrations of this or that as a beautiful
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conversationalist, or in aiding in the records that may be had for any where there is the necessity for detail, the entity may make application of self.
17. And remember much that was gained in Edesse in the Persian and Arabian land; that there are the soul's activities from without as well as from within. For thy spirit beareth witness with His Spirit, whether ye be in accord, in attune in at-oneness with that which is ever constructive and creative in thine own experience.
18. Study, then, to show thyself approved upon those promptings that come from meeting the divine within, that is of self, that is self - if it is made one with Him, that gives Life, Light, Immortality to the very being, the very soul of each entity; being one with Him, yet knowing thyself to be of Him.
19. Keep the way. Know in whom thou hast believed, and that He is able to keep that ye commit into His care. For His promises are sure.
20. Ready for questions.
21. (Q) In what way can I best cooperate with my husband in carrying out his life work? (A) In supplying the conversation oft in those aids of helping others find themselves; in supplying oft that as the illustration in the various associations or mind's activity from its varied angles of its surroundings or its impelling influence. Teaching others to listen, to harken. These may offer the better channels in which the greater service may be rendered, and in which the greater contentment may come in thine own experience.
22. (Q) In what way can I best serve God and fulfillthe real purpose of my life? (A) Studying to show thyself approved into Him, rightly divining the words of truth, keeping self unspotted from the world. Use that ability thou hast in hand and the next step, my child, is given thee.
23. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file