This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 20th day of July, 1935, in accordance with request made by the wife - Mrs. [587], Active Research 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 June 4, 1884, in Louisville, Ky. Time of Reading 11:00 to 11:25 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. New York. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes, we have the entity and those records of same, one now known as [955].
2. In entering the present experience we find from the astrological aspects that which makes for many confusions, or their indications of confusions in the experiences of the entity. Yet some very definite urges arise from the astrological sojourns.
3. Coming under those greater influences in Jupiter, these make in the present experience for the broadness of vision, with those tendencies for the creative expressions in the experience of the entity. This may apply not only in the activities in a material manner but in a social, yet innate tendency for the recluse in part WHILE the creative forces are active.
4. Those tendencies for speculative influences also arise from these experiences, as they do from the earthly sojourns; making, as will be seen by the comparison, some confusion at times.
5. From Mercury we have the high mental abilities, aptness in WHATEVER may be chosen as the direction of the application of self.
6. The Uranus influence makes for those interests in that which is of an EXTREME temperament; as may be seen at times in the body being very economical, at others quite a spendthrift, at times tendency towards those things of the nature of the spiritual attributes while at others there is an abhorrence to anything that would be binding, even going to the extreme of being communistic in its ideas or tendencies at times.
7. These are given to show the tendencies for EXTREMES in the experience of the entity.
8. In the application of self as respecting these, arising from mental urges there is required that not only those
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about the entity but the entity APPLY self in a Patience that is more of the active nature.
9. Persistence is WONDERFUL, as is attained by the entity, but IMPATIENCE may destroy all the persistency; for the attributes of PATIENCE arise from the spiritual, while a great deal of persistency may be trained.
10. As to the appearances in the earth and those that influence the entity in the activities at this particular time, we find:
11. Before this the entity was one descended from an early period of the Teutonic or German activities, named Hans Andersen.
12. The entity applied self a great deal in the writing of characterizations, being a student into the mysteries and into the things pertaining to the motivative forces in the activities of individuals; those pertaining to the various stories, tales or activities from groups under a specific environment. And the drawings or cartoonings of same, especially of those written by self, made for a development for the entity in the mental manner.
13. With the adverse criticism that arose particularly from those of the more orthodox faith of the teachings during that experience, there was brought a period of subjection to authority.
14. Thus there has remained with the mental urges of the entity the lack of the desire to restrain self. Or that tendency arises to countenance only what may be of a constructive measure from the entity's own ideals in the way as would constrain. So this has made for the tendencies to the more often be inclined to build an axiom, that there is more than one way to "get even" with others. And there are the tendencies for the entity to strive or to attempt to use not only the social and political conditions but the abilities of self to visualize or build before others that which will make for the furthering of those tendencies for the "getting even" under this, that or the other experience of the entity.
15. This made for that aversion which arose in the latter portion of the experience to those things pertaining to orthodoxy, whether in the ecclesiastical associations, in the rule of ones in control and power, or the home. All these made for this tendency.
16. It gained then in the first portion, lost in much that is to be met in the present experience and activities of the entity.
17. This, as we find, becomes one of the greater RULING influences in the MATERIAL applications in the present.
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There is much to be met in self as well as in its relationships to others.
18. Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as the Roman, during the periods when there was the spreading of the authority of the Roman land into northern Africa; now called portions of Palestine, Gaul and Spain.
19. The entity then was among the friends, councillors or companions to the Caesar then in authority or power; and made for much of the contriving of the strategies used in the various campaigns during that period of expression; becoming what was LATER known in many lands as the one to keep the king, monarch or ruler in the more pleasant frame of mind - or the court jester.
20. Yet in that particular period the entity was above such; although the story telling, the drawing of the peculiar situations that arose in the various lands make for the abilities in the cartooning or drawing, or visualization or picturization that is a portion of the entity's experience or activity in the present.
21. But there comes that same element of the lack of RESTRAINT. Oft there have been periods when the entity has been ready to "chuck it all," as it were, to use the slang expression and make for the understanding of the attitude of the entity in its abilities in every direction.
22. Hence the friendships, the relations, these activities of the entity are well-CHOSEN, as it were, by the entity itself. And these are chosen for their ABILITIES in some SPECIFIC or given direction. Hence the same friendships for those who would spend an evening in a game are not the same friends the entity would choose to see or act in the capacity of an aide in the study of some particular subject or some particular activity of the entity in a recreational manner outside, or the study of some particular phase of man's experience. This is indicated as arising from the experiences of the entity in that Roman land; then in the name Romolouen, man close to Caesar Augustus.
23. Before that we find the entity was in that now known as the Atlantean or Egyptian land; for the entity was in both, being the one who conducted, as it were, those in authority of the Law of One to the Egyptian land for the sojournings of the peoples there, at the time of or just previous to the last destruction of the Atlantean land.
24. The entity then was in the capacity of the director of the expedition; yet not until the latter portion of the sojourn or experience did the entity ever join in with those activities of that peoples in the Egyptian land, and then was in that particular phase of ADORNING the buildings
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especially with the gems or precious stones of that day.
25. And the entity's interests come and go in such things in the present; those oddities that arise, not from their intrinsic value or even from the sentimental value, but oddities. This is the urge that arises from the activities of the entity during that sojourn.
26. Hence the decorations in the temples, the homes, the associations in the activity during that particular experience and sojourn, were planned or advised with the entity then, in the name At-Lais.
27. As to the abilities in the present, then, and that to which the entity may attain, and how:
28. The field of activity of the entity in the present, as indicated, may be in speculative forces, or pertaining to the artistic temperament; the drawings for some particular representation of the experience or activities in the individual lives.
29. The urges are to be subjugated or DIRECTED in such channels that less and less is there the tendency for the grudge, for the communistic idea or the separations into groups or the separations into varied activities. For ALL are one.
30. Let the entity, then, first find self and that from the spiritual forces which urges from within; for the spiritual forces are the source of the supply in ALL abilities. And unless there be builded in self that from the spiritual import, the end thereof must still be confusion.
31. We are through for the present. Copy to Wife - Registered " " Ass'n file