This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 18th day of July, 1935, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [954], new Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Miss Lillian Barclay.
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 November 8, 1897, just before 9 P.M., ... St., N.W., Washington, D.C. Time of Reading 3:45 to 4:40 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. New York City. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes, we have the entity now known as or called [954].
2. In entering the present experience we find the entity coming under some adverse as well as benevolent aspects of the astrological sojourns, as well as innate those experiences in the earth that may show the karmic influence which is in the experience of many.
3. In giving that interpretation of the records here, it may be well that the sources be considered, that there may be an application in the experience of the entity in the present to make for such information being of aid or help at this time.
4. Life IS! Each soul is an offspring of the Creative Force called God, and is innately - and manifestedly by application - the result in the experience of how or the manner it has manifested that prerogative of will.
5. The soul IS, and lives on; making its record in the building influence, or that stream in the experience of the body, the mind, the soul, called the mental life of an entity.
6. Entity, then, is the soul in its spiritual form, the mental body in or of its mental form, the physical that is the material manifestation of the two in the earth experiences.
7. How may one see and know these, then? Only through the turning within and recognizing those influences in self's experience.
8. These then may become as the phenomenon of life by the application in the experience of the attributes of the spirit, that which IS creative. Love, hope, charity, all those things that make for the BUILDING of that called hope, faith, into the experience of an entity, a mind, a soul, a
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body, through those USAGES of same.
9. When these are turned into self-indulgences, or habits that bespeak of same in any form of manifestation, they become that which must be met as karmic influences. Then the body is subject to same in its relationships with its fellow man, by the very essence of that awareness or the conscious consciousness OF same in the experience.
10. As to this entity's urges, then, that arise from sojourns in the environments about the earth:
11. Why, it may be asked, does an entity from one experience find itself aware or conscious in that environ called Venus, or Jupiter, or Mars, or Saturn, or Mercury, Uranus or Neptune, the Sun, the Moon, or ANY of the environs about the earth that have their position in this PARTICULAR solar system?
12. Each of these conditions or places named becomes as an element that partakes of the characteristics of the mind, the body, the mental forces of those who experience same; and has been accredited with certain influences.
13. For those having seen (not by the physical eye, but as these records are read) that which has been the experience of an entity, a soul, or the mind of an entity in those environs, may see and comprehend the forms that arise as urges innate and manifested in the experience of a given entity.
14. Hence such are accredited or given to indicate certain characteristics in a given entity. Yet let this be understood: NO EXPERIENCE, no urge, no environ, may be greater than the WILL OF an entity. For the will, the soul and the will, made one with Him - the Creative Force as is promised IN Him - may overcome, may change, may alter that which may come to pass in the experience.
15. Hence such forces or influences are merely INDICATIONS of what WOULD happen, as the effect OF a cause, if there is not the application of the will towards the spiritual or the creative influence.
16. But as to what this or any entity may do is another question!
17. We find this entity, then, coming under the influence of Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, Uranus, Neptune. In the order named, it might be said, do the influences arise in the experience; yet they are EVER as an heterogeneous influence in the experience.
18. From Venus we have the influence of making friendships easily; for those experiences good and bad, according to the evaluation the entity or soul has put upon an experience in its dealings and associations with individuals in the
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MATERIAL affairs, the MATERIAL experiences, MATERIAL expressions of LOVE, faith, hope, in their relationships one to another. Those things entering in that are called the biological experience of a body are EMOTIONS, and not of the soul. In the usage of same they may make for an environ that may stir up, may belittle, may undo, much of that which is prompted in the experience - but are of the earth-earthy.
19. Jupiter makes for the great expanse of experience, the periods in the experience of the entity that would be called or termed by some "lucky periods."
20. And as we find, while the last three to five years have been in an ADVERSE influence from the Jupiterian experience, beginning with April of the present year and lasting for a period of three to five years for this entity, there should be rather the BENEVOLENT influences. So, the associations, the affiliations of the entity with INDIVIDUALS will be more satisfying or more of a satisfactory nature in its material expression. But this is dependent, to be sure, upon what the entity as an ENTITY does ABOUT same. However, the OPPORTUNITIES, the experiencing of opportunities will be the more numerous for a benevolent influence in its associations. This is in reference to the material world as related to finances, the social life, and the abilities for the analysis of conditions and experiences - in which the entity is gifted.
21. The experience from Mercury makes for high mental abilities, the visioning, and the abilities to picturize or visualize those things in the experience of others that may make for the emotions arising in the activities of individuals.
22. And these influences combined should make for that wherein the entity should succeed.
23. Hence the story writing, the book that it may write during the next two and a half or three years or five years, should be the GREATER in its ability to be of value in the experiences of others FOR GOOD!
24. The Uranus influence with Neptune makes for water and those recently crossing bodies of water to be of those vibrations in their activities as to be of special interest and of value to the experience of the entity.
25. Also the interest in SPIRITUAL things and those promptings of same in the experience of individuals.
26. This information may be rather a conglomerate mass at first. "THINK on these things."
27. For here ye may find not only the key to thine nature but that which may unlock the mysterious mysteries of life itself in relationship to thy dealing with thy fellow man.
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28. What, then?
29. When grudges, when anxieties, when those things that make for barriers in thine relationships to thy fellow man are held as a portion of thine inner self, it builds barriers to the best that thou mayest accomplish in thine experience.
30. And truly hath He said, Love thine enemies, those even that would do thee harm, those that would abuse thee, those that would use thee. Love them as ye love thyself. For in so doing ye create, through the creative energies and forces of the power of Right, the ability to succeed over those things that are of error or of belittlement in such measures that not only does the life and its experiences become more and more beautiful, but there are the abilities to mete to thy fellow man those judgements that may give THEM hope; that they, too, may see the sunlight of love upon the hills of their experience, and taking hope may bless thee in thine own life!
31. Seek and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you.
32. As to the appearances in the earth, these - as we find - have a definite place, a definite urge in the experience of the entity; in that the like and dislikes that arise in the emotional nature of the body-physical at times come, as it were, from those experiences in the earth - that INFLUENCE in the present. Not that all are given here, but those that have builded much in this way and manner in the present. Then:
33. Before this we find the entity lived in the earth during those periods when there were the formings of the ideals and ideas for the separations from the motherland, or England, through oppressions that were both material and had their concept in the selfishnesses of others.
34. The entity then was among those people in and about what is now known as or called Williamsburg (Williamstown). In that experience the entity was then in close associations with SOME of those who rose later to be powers in the formation of the ideas and ideals of the land, now known as thine OWN motherland.
35. Then in the name Jennie Williams, the entity was in closer association with the foundations of the schools, or the school that was and is a portion of that environ. The entity dealt rather with that portion of same which gathered data to be sent to the varied other groups or colonists that had to do with the UNITED strength necessary for the throwing off of its allegiance to the other lands.
36. In the experience in the mental the entity gained, much
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of that held in the innate self as resentment for either intentional wrongs or imaginative wrongs in the associations with groups or those in authority, or those in high positions.
37. There arises also in the present much from that sojourn the abilities of the entity in the teaching, the writing, the conversationalist, the gathering of data or the statistician, the mathematician. These arise from those experiences as innate, MENTAL-PHYSICAL forces that arise and also urges and effects of the conditions in the experience of the entity.
38. If these are conceived and grown in the SPIRITUAL import, rather than of self, they will make for the harvest of the spiritual truths. And the spiritual truths give material manifestations in more of the beautiful things in life in the earth. Not of ease altogether, but satisfaction, blessedness and the beauty of life becomes more and more apparent in the experience by their usage.
39. Before that we find the entity was in that period just after the Prince of Peace came into the land.
40. The entity was then of the Galilean land, of a Samaritan peoples that were misunderstood by their Jewish neighbors, by their associations in the theological experiences and the power of state in Rome.
41. Hence we find oft in the experience of the entity in the present it has been a disliker of some influences in the Jewish experiences of others; and yet holding to much that from a SPIRITUAL import has been and is the finer self of those peoples as a race.
42. Also there have been those experiences when communistic thought has been a portion of the entity's urge latent within; and the study of the communistic thoughts and free experiences of others becomes a portion of the entity's inner urge. There is the dislike of those that show their pomp, their power, because of their position, either political, social or from money.
43. These come from that experience. Yet that innate urge has come from the quieting, by the closer communion with the inner self, from those lessons the entity - as Patricia in that experience - gained from those who had been in the company with Him who walked in Galilee. If THIS is magnified in the experience it may bring a NEW hope, a new purpose, a new experience in the inner self and the outward manifestation of same - to the entity.
44. HOLD FAST, then, to the faith that is latent within, and to that of thy MOTHER FAITH!
45. Before that we find the entity was in that now known as
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or called the Egyptian experience, when there were the disseminatings of the truths that had been and were being correlated by the teachers of many lands; in the first seminaries, in the diffusion of the powers and forces of men and women.
46. The entity then, in the name Ileano, made for the greater advancement in its EARTHLY experience, through the dissemination of those tenets that the Priest and those of that period had given and did give to many peoples.
47. Then the entity was what would today be termed a reporter of many activities in many lands; going to those people in Abyssinia, Persia, India, Mongolia, Carpathia, Portugal, and Atlantis just before the destruction.
48. So the entity finds in the present that things of travel are of interest, and especially those partaking of the motivative forces towards the home life of the peoples in and under varied environs - both from their home life and from their religious life. These become from that experience the leading thoughts in the entity's application of same.
49. Keep those in the experience that make for constructive forces through the application of the fruits of the spirit: Faith, hope, fellowship, kindness, gentleness. And put away those things that easily beset, pressing on to the mark of the higher calling as set in Him who has promised to meet thee in thine inner temple. Pray oft; not to a God far away, but for the wakening of the I AM Presence within thine inner self where He has promised to meet thee.
50. Keeping these, and in this manner, ye may meet thy problems; yet may come to know the greater love, the greater understandings in thine experience.
51. Ready for questions.
52. (Q) Can I make good at fiction? (A) Can! And especially that phase showing the characterizations in the home and the prompting towards the spiritual life.
53. (Q) How and where should I contact with current manuscripts? (A) Through those regular channels that are set for same are the better influences or better channels for the assurance of their proper consideration, if such channels are well chosen. How may ye choose? Enter into thine inner self and seek.
54. (Q) How can I arrange time and physical strength to do more writing of my own as differentiated from business? (A) By budgeting the time in all things. This is well. While thy life, thy experiences are orderly in part, if
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there are the regular periods given for the work, the play, the recreation, the entertainment, the activities in all the various phases of necessary experiences, these will find their place in the experience.
55. (Q) Should I strive for new full time business connections, dropping present ones? (A) Not in the immediate present. Rather try out THIS (that is, what has been indicated for the self here); holding fast to those new associations BEING made.
56. (Q) Shall I persevere in the surprising new contact just made with Norman Moore? (A) This is well. Hold fast to same. Do not rely too greatly upon same until the surer footing is established.
57. (Q) Shall I build a house on my mountain? (A) In the latter portion of '36 this may be considered seriously, but not until after the 16th of September of that year.
58. That is all the questions.
59. Let the light of His countenance guide thee. He, thy Lord, is willing; if ye will put your body, your mind, your abilities as a CHANNEL of expression of and for Him.
60. We are through for the present. Copy to Self - Special Delivery " " Ass'n file