This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 26th day of July, 1935, in accordance with request made by the mother, Mrs. [967], through Associate Membership of her husband, Dr. [961], in 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 November 14, 1919, 1:55 P. M., at Utica, N.Y. Time of Reading 10:50 to 11:35 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. Jordanville, N.Y. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes, we have the entity here and those relations with the universe and universal forces, that are latent and manifested in the personalities of [963].
2. We find that the entity responds to coral red, and that arbutus flowers should be about the entity. Also numbers and their changes are indicated, but these are only influences.
3. As we find, the entity comes into this experience in SOME adverse influences; that must be met in the WILL and in the application of will respecting those tendencies that arise.
4. From the astrological aspects we have innate mental urges.
5. From sojourns in the earth we have what may be termed rather the emotional urges.
6. These at times coincide; at others we find they are conflicting. Hence the training or tending of the developing mind of an entity in its appearance in the earth has much to do with these factors in the entity's experience or development in any given appearance. Especially is this true save when those urges arise that are so INTENSE, that are correlated by their earthly sojourns and their astrological urges, as to make the individuals become of the genius variety - or those especially gifted in some particular direction.
7. Such individuals are more often of the artist turn, especially in music - as musicians. For music, as may be seen, arises through not only the temperament of the urge innate but finds a means or manner of expression through the emotions and through the sensory forces.
8. But the more often it is found that in training such individuals they lose these abilities.
9. This entity, it may be said, was on the verge of being
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such an individual, or of having such an experience; but with the training, with those tendencies for the music or color, there may be the supersensitive development in the occult or mystic forces. For these have an expression in the entity's experiences, as will be seen both astrologically and through the earthly sojourns.
10. While these have conflicted in part, if they are kept in an at-onement in the developing and through the formative years of the entity in the present, they may be made to coordinate in a more cooperative way and manner.
11. But keep the SPIRITUAL aspect as the purposes before the entity ever; not just being honest for the being well-spoken of, but for being CLEAN in thought, in body; not just doing that there may be received reward, but that it creates that balance necessary for the making of harmonious experiences in the activities, enabling the body-mind to meet not only emergencies but those experiences that arise from the VARIED forms of the activities that are from the environmental actions or influence of the entity.
12. As to the astrological influences that make for a point or urge, we find these in the experience of this entity:
13. In Mercury we find a MENTAL APTITUDE rather than high MENTAL abilities; yet the APTITUDE is in such a way or manner as to make for a very close OBSERVER of detail, of those things or experiences that to others are oft of little value.
14. In Mars we find that of wrath or madness; a high temper oft is an urge to be supersensitive to those things that may make for DIRECT control or those things pertaining to persons or to those as RELATED to the persons.
15. Hence duty and obligations are a portion of the entity's experience, and it is sensitive to such. Hence this requires the necessity for sureness of purpose in the entity and a judgment in the entity of those that speak in one manner and act in another. These are temperaments to be reckoned with in the experience, and NECESSITATING the spiritual imprint upon the purposes and aims and how that LAW is LOVE and LOVE is LAW in the spiritual world, the MENTAL application and the physical experience.
16. In Venus we find a sensitiveness to emotions, that arise by contact with certain characters or natures. Hence not only should there be, for the greater development of the entity, the companionship well-chosen but WHY the companionship should be well-chosen; and these should be balanced in a coordinant manner between those individuals of the entity's own age as well as those advanced in years, as WELL as those that through the training of the entity may be
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dependent upon the ENTITY as its activities, ITS conversations, its manner of treatments to those of younger years.
17. The entity is not what might be termed as an OUTSTANDING leader, and not ALWAYS a good follower. For those conflicting emotions from sentiment and from anger, or from those experiences in Mars with the peculiar nature of activities in Mercury, make for these CONFLICTING emotions.
18. These are innate, and - as their expression comes to materialization in the physical activities of the entity - will be seen by one who studies or analyzes the developing mind of the entity.
19. In Neptune we find the love of the mystery, the tendency for hero worship; but out of what is termed the ordinary sense; rather as to decided likes and dislikes in the characters of the individuals about whom the entity may study or read.
20. These then necessitate a selection and a choice for not an orthodox balance, as in the ordinary term of the spiritual import, but as a student of the Scripture itself FOR itself - and not told to believe this or that! And let the entity study FIRST Proverbs; THEN read John; then the whole Book!
21. As to the appearances in the earth, these - as we find - are those that influence the entity the most in the present. However, AFTER that period of the twenty-third year, there will be a different influence, or an urge arising from OTHER experiences in the earth. Remember these are formative, and are dependent upon the manner in which there is the directing of the developing between the coordination of the physical mind and the spiritual mind. Not that they are separate, but they become stressed by the TRAINING or by their use; just as do different muscles in the body by their use; or just as the constant sounding of a certain tone gives the tenor in music; or just as the use of certain vibrations in color gives tone and temperament to an artist's concept of nature.
22. Then:
23. Before this we find the entity was in Salem or Provincetown, during those periods of the perversion of ideas.
24. The entity then was a minister, Isaac Cassidy, that abhorred those who would claim powers that should have been the possession of him alone who was ORDAINED for such judgments!
25. In that experience the entity brought disturbing factors, and much misunderstanding. Though the entity
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attempted to withdraw from many of the stands it took, it may be said to have caused much disturbance that it must meet in JUST being kind and patient and showing brotherly love in this experience. For these are the fruits of the spirit that beget and bring about much of the meeting of karmic forces, that are pressed by so many and so little understood!
26. In the experience the entity was both far advanced and yet backward. Hence ALL of such must be met.
27. And the interests and the abilities arise somewhat in the present from those experiences, but cause RATHER slurs to be thought, indifferences to be expressed by those who participate in speaking with or acting towards those who claim to or who do possess unusual abilities in those directions manifested then.
28. Before that we find the entity was in that now known as the Holy Land, or the Palestine land; during those periods when there was the establishing of those who followed close in the footsteps and teachings of the Nazarite, those who followed the Master in the day.
29. The entity came as a boy into that environ, being the son then of Simon Peter's sister, in the name then Haniah; young, but blessed by the Master when only a few months old, and grew to know much of those things that transpired AFTER the Crucifixion, and the persecution of those that followed in the way.
30. The entity then did not live long in that experience; only to early young manhood, or to the age of nineteen, when by choice the entity passed on to those activities in Venus.
31. In the application of that experience in the present, there is all the more need for the training; and especially in the insistence at first upon the entity reading of those happenings of that day. Then be sure these do not become as loadstones to the entity at that age of nineteen.
32. In the lessons gained, in the lessons that may be applied in the abilities which may be made manifest, much will be recalled by the entity; if these books are studied and these meditations are followed closely.
33. Let the meditation be oft, "FATHER, GOD, IN ME, OPEN THOU MY MIND, MY UNDERSTANDING, THAT I MAY SEE, MAY KNOW, THE TOUCH OF HIS HAND!"
34. Before that we find the entity was in that now called the Egyptian land, during those periods when there were the rebellions and the uprisings, during that period when the Priest was banished to the Abyssinian land.
35. The entity was among those peoples who CHOSE to go, yet as a young personage by force was the entity taken as a
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young child. Yet with those years of development there, with those activities in which the entity engaged, with the return to activity by the Priest and those in power, the entity gained much.
36. Those TENDENCIES for the use of the powers and influences gained for self's own indulgence brought disruption and disorder at times, yet strength AND POWER were in the entity's activities throughout that sojourn; and ESPECIALLY in the application of those powers that made for the study of those things pertaining to the distributions of tenets that were correlated with the activities of peoples in varied lands.
37. Hence in the present the entity may find that with the proper training, and with those developments that may make for the developing of the abilities, the field of ministering those tenets of others, or as a seller of books, a distributor of those things that are as truths, may become the greater work for the entity; as combined WITH the abilities in raising within the self the abilities to help in that which may bring health and greater understanding through the developing of the psychic forces of the entity.
38. In the abilities, these are the leading factors and influences then to which the entity, as we find, may develop in the present.
39. Keep the body, the mind, CLEAN; that there may be those reactions of the entity as the nephew of Peter.
40. Ready for questions.
41. (Q) What life work will be the proper one for him? (A) As indicated; either a distributor or seller of books, tracts, or those things that are of particular value - as combined WITH the development of the psychic forces of the entity.
42. (Q) Should he attend college or not? (A) This should be rather that as would be the OUTCOME of the innate DESIRES and PURPOSES of the entity. For if these desires arise from that innate within the ENTITY, the ways will be opened for same. If they are from the desires of others to train or implant certain activities, they become drudges - and ESPECIALLY to this entity, as has been indicated.
43. (Q) Is this entity a sensitive, and if so of what type? (A) As indicated; one who may hear, who may see - or that of clairaudience and clairvoyance.
44. (Q) How should he attempt to develop same? (A) This has been specifically outlined. Read the Scripture! MEDITATE to KNOW the whereof, the wherefore, and NOT from self-aggrandizement! or from curiosity, or to
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satisfy this in someone else!
45. (Q) If desired, what college would be best for the entity? (A) This must again necessitate the choice of the entity. But as we find, that in Ithaca.
46. (Q) What was his paternal grandfather and great grandfather's name (Christian) and where - (A) (Interrupting) We do not have those here.
47. We are through for the present. Copy to Mrs. [967] " " Ass'n file