This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 9th day of August, 1935, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [987], Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., via Mr. [257] and Mrs. [903].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [987].
R E A D I N G
Born December 27, 1887, in Northville, Michigan. Time of Reading 3:50 to 4:50 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. New York City. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes, we have the entity and those relations with the universe and universal forces; that are latent and manifested in the personalities of the entity now known as or called [987].
2. A golden cord runs through the astrological, the numerological and the earth's experiences of this entity. The entity may complete its earth's experience in the present, if it so chooses. [See Par. 14-A re this in husband's 1021-2.]
3. Then, in giving that which may be helpful or beneficial to the entity in making application of those things that have and do become a part of its present experience, it is well that much that may be given be kept, be presented to others, that they, too, may take hope, may know there is STILL that hope in the LIVING of those influences, those creative energies that bring into the experiences of man the knowledge of the at-oneness with that Creative Force, that Mighty I AM Presence that exists, which the Giver of the good gifts has given to all.
4. We find that the astrological influences have very little to do with this entity, yet may be seen as urges in the experience and how the entity has applied those urges in the material manifestations of same.
5. For all in matter, all in form, first began in the urge of the mental or the spiritual influence, that PROMPTED same to come into manifestations under the influence of a guiding hand.
6. In the entity we find that Jupiter is the ruling force, with Venus; which combination makes for beauty of attainment and the longing - as it is the experience of the entity - to present to others that phase, that part of the experience that is beautiful, that is better. Not to exaggeration, but rather as the entity has experienced that which is of error,
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that which is of shame, that which is of disrupting forces, becomes negligible unless given power by the thought, by the activity on the part of some mind. Not that denying alone makes for non-existence, but rather that those things presenting themselves as errors, as a faux pas, as a disrupting influence, may be used as the stepping-stones for the creating of those atmospheres, those environs in which each and every soul may find IN a trial, IN a temptation, in a hardship even, that of beauty. For through the things which He suffered He became the King of kings, the Lord of lords. So in man, that has named a Name that is above every name, it is found that with the using of experiences there may be brought into his consciousness that harmony, which is another name for peace, another name for good, another name for joy, which will be crowned in glory.
7. In the urge arising from these influences we find that there is the necessity for the entity to learn a little more of Patience. For Selfishness is not a portion of the entity's own being; rather is it the lack of the Patience; not with others but the more with self. For as He gave, it is in patience that ye become aware of thy soul!
8. So in its associations with others the entity needs to forget those things that have made for hardships, that have made for misunderstandings in relationships as one to another - whether with individuals or with groups; though the entity may find oft that it requires that self turn within, that the consciousness of His Presence abiding may direct. Thus may there be brought peace and patience, as an ACTIVE force; not as a passive influence in the experience of self but as an ACTIVE influence!
9. This has brought into self that association where tolerance has not ALWAYS been felt, as may be seen through the appearances of the entity in the earth; not tolerance as a passive thing but tolerance as an active force! For while each soul, each expression may have the right of its own opinion and its own activity, it should not only say so but act in such a manner; knowing that each soul is destined to become a portion again of the First Cause, or back to its Maker. And as there is the awareness of its individuality, its ability to apply its portion, the SOUL-portion of the Creative Forces or Energies or God within itself, it builds that in a soul-body which may be One with that Creative Force.
10. For while flesh and blood that is of the earth-earthy may not gain or know glory, the body - the REAL body; not the superficial but the REAL body - may become aware of its presence in the Presence of the body of God and among its
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brethren, and a portion of that Whole.
11. So does there become the awareness of tolerance in faith, that is the activity of this entity in the present, to become that which may make the ability in the entity or soul experience to use that IN HAND as the influences for such an awareness that the body-soul may not need to know flesh save as it chooses same for its own missions for that Creative Energy.
12. In Jupiter we find the influences making for abilities of specific natures in the experience of the entity; as in constructive thinking for individuals and for groups, whether this be for writing or for instruction in this or that form. It will find that in the application of self there may be much given to others, in the form of papers, in the form of charts, in the form of instruction that may become - as it were - a light set on a hill for many who grope in darkness and in doubt, who are fearful. For that quieting through the gaining of patience in self may enable the entity to give that light and that instruction necessary for the guiding of many.
13. Venus makes for close friendships with those whom the entity finds in its experience; not only as a great love for its fellow man but in making for ties that hold, of the spirit rather than of the flesh. Hence kindred souls in all walks of life may find in associations with the entity much that becomes as a complement, as a helpment [helper? helpmate? helpmeet?] to their own struggles. This is expressed in a truth He gave: "Who is my brother? Who is my mother? Who is my sister? They that do the will of my father in heaven, the same are my mother, my brother, my sister."
14. THIS is the love that all should come to know, even as it has been attained in a great measure by this entity through the experiences it has gained in its sojourns. And more and more will the entity become aware of same in ACTIVE tolerance and ACTIVE patience.
15. In Uranus we find the extremist influences, that have been experienced by the entity in the present and that come as urges in the experiences day by day. Oft, from that sojourn or environ in the Uranian experience, does the entity find itself IMPELLED - as it were - to do this or that; which may be entirely at variance to what reason or cold reason would tell the entity. And it makes for those experiences with its friendships, or a certain portion of same, wherein the entity seems to be - or appears to others to be - SOMEWHAT peculiar or odd in its choice of this or that activity in relationships to its associations, its
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reading, its study, its line of endeavor in this or that manner of recreation.
16. All of these become a portion of the entity's urge and experience; as does also the interest in things that are psychic or occult or mystic, these have a part in the urges in the experience of the entity. Hence mystical signs, mystical numbers, mystical conditions have much to do with the entity at times. And these may come in the VISION and in the dreams (that have been for the time set aside), more and more as the entity turns to those PATIENCE applications.
17. For, as will be seen, the entity made FOR the priest the Urim and the Thummim!
18. And the entity may give much of that which comes as an influence in the experiences through the deeper meditation; much constructive counsel to those that seek into the mysteries that are hidden in the activities of those who would give their expression of that they have conceived from the Spirit, that MOTIVATES them in their activities.
19. Then, in these do we find the greater influences from the astrological sojourns.
20. As to the appearances in the earth and those that influence the entity in the present, we find - while far apart in their activity - these have been those that bring to the entity much of the urges that arise through the emotional nature of the entity in THIS PRESENT manifestation, or materialization:
21. Before this we find the entity was in the land of the present nativity, but in and about that known as the Vinland [Vineland - See 261-21, Par. 28-A on 4/28/36 giving correct location as now 987-2 Salem, Mass., then all of what is now Cape Cod area, Providence & Newport, Rhode Island] or about Provincetown and Salem, during the early periods of those activities when the persecutions arose for those who heard the unusual, who experienced the moving of an influence or force from without themselves. 22 The ENTITY then was close to many of those who were beset by such experiences; hearing, knowing, experiencing many sides of the material manifestations; hearing and knowing many sides of the influences in the experiences of those that HAD the meetings and were acquainted with such activities.
23. Then the entity was close to, and the companion of, the minister in the Salem activity; one Nancy Donnelly.
24. In the experience the entity gained; yet those things that made for the fear of material suffering, the fear of what people said in criticism, builded much that was hard to
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be borne in the experience of the entity during that sojourn. Yet the entity, it may be said, gained in the mental and spiritual experience; and has brought to this present sojourn that influence wherein the entity hears much that others would say or would give of their activity, of their experience, and has judged oft well, has judged oft according to those experiences as the minister's helper.
25. This is a portion that must be met in that activity of tolerance, in that active patience in self.
26. The abilities from that sojourn are towards the setting down of data pertaining to the intricate activities or details of an experience; these become a portion of the entity in its greater activity.
27. The entity's social life, its marital life, its relations with its blood IN the present have arisen much from those experiences.
28. The weirdness of Salem, also the weirdness of the vault or any of those places wherein the dead have buried their dead, finds a gloom within the entity's experience. Yet those places of beauty where there is honor for memory, the trust is in the living God, bring an uplifting in the inmost being of the entity. These are from those experiences, as it heard the sound of those calls during that Provincetown period.
29. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Persian or Arabian, when there were the gatherings of many to the city in the hills and in the plains.
30. The entity was of those Persian peoples, or the first of the Croesus'; being in the relations to or in the household of the king.
31. And as there came to be the greater understanding of the tenets and truths given by the teacher Uhjltd, that brought not only health in body but a balance in the mental minds of those that came to the city in the plains for instructive forces, the entity was one who rose to the position of the Princess after the destruction of the king's daughter in the raid.
32. Then the entity rose to power, through the healing that was brought in the body from the leader in the tented city.
33. And as it made application of those tenets, as it gathered those of its own household and of its own kingdom for the profession and application of those things that had been gathered from the teacher, much came to the entity and to the surroundings of same, in power, in glory, in the beautiful things that were builded in that land.
34. From that experience in the present the entity finds
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that those things oriental, those things pertaining to the Persian plaids and Persian silks, those brocaded conditions that were made by many of the entity's associates for their helpfulness in bringing beauty to those peoples, become - as it were - an influence in the entity's present experience.
35. And those tenets held as we have indicated will make for harmonious experience and the joy of same; as do certain sounds of music, certain sounds of chant, certain sounds of activity, bring to the entity an awakening and a consciousness of a movement from within that awakens something as the entity experienced during that sojourn.
36. Before that we find the entity was in that land, that period, when the chosen people were being given upon the holy mount the manner of their exercise in the temple, or in the service before the tabernacle.
37. The entity then was among the daughters of Levi, and those chosen to make the vestment of the priest. And to the entity, because of its own abilities, there was given the preparation of the settings of the breastplate and the putting of the stones thereon, and the preparation of the Urim and Thummim for the interpretations of the movements that came upon the high priest in the holy of holies to be given to his people in or from the door of the tabernacle.
38. Then in the name Henriettah, the entity's activities were in a high force EQUAL TO the cousin, Miriam.
39. Throughout the experience the entity gained; for it reasoned with Nadab and Abihu; it counseled for Korah, yet did not allow self to become entangled in any of those influences that would have made for the rise to the position of fame. Rather did the entity choose to remain as one in the background that there might be given the greater understanding to that mighty people as they stood in the presence of the I AM that had brought them to the holy mount.
40. In the present from that sojourn, those things pertaining to the mysteries of the temple, the mysteries of numbers, of figures, and those things that have their hidden meaning, become as a portion of the entity. Yet oft does there arise that sudden change as to the fearfulness of people giving too great a power to such things that would lead them astray; as they did in the experience of the entity in the wilderness.
41. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Indian and Egyptian, during those periods when there were the gatherings of those from many of the lands for the correlating of the truths that were presented by Saneid in the Indian land, by Ra-Ta in the Egyptian land, by Ajax from
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the Atlantean land, by those from the Carpathian land, by those from the Pyrenees, by those from the Incal and those from the Oz lands, and by those from that activity which will again be uncovered in the Gobi land.
42. And HERE the entity may find a great interest, a great power, in the instructions and help that it may land to others in their choosing the places of seeking for that knowledge that may make for a more universality of thought THROUGHOUT the universe in spiritual lines.
43. Then the entity was among the natives of the Egyptian land, and rose to power through those cleansings in the Temple of Sacrifice; then becoming a portion of the activative service in the Temple Beautiful when it made for those abilities within self to mete out to many those things necessary in their physical and mental understanding.
44. And with the correlating of the thought, the entity became first as the representative of the Temple Beautiful in the Indian land; and later - and during the period of its greatest height - in the land of the Gobi, or the Mongoloid. THERE the entity was as the priestess in the Temple of Gold, which is still intact there.
45. The entity then, as Shu-shent, made for great development; and from those experiences in the present comes the abilities for the teachings, for the minsterings, for the leading of many.
46. As to the abilities of the entity in the present (though much more might be given, especially of the activities of the entity as Shu-shent - for they were many), we find this is the activity necessary:
47. Keep that faith thou INNATELY hast in the ONENESS of power in the Creative Forces as it makes for manifestations in the hearts and minds of men; and as ye do it in thy activities with thy fellow man, as ye do it in thy meditation, as ye do it in thy mind, so will it be meted to thee in thine inner self. For all must pass under the ROD; but He has tempered this with mercy and judgement. So must ye temper thine judgements, so must ye find thy patience, so must ye find those things within self that make for the answer of thyself before the Throne of grace. For if ye would have mercy ye must show mercy to thy fellow man; yea to thine very enemy, to those that despitefully use you. Laugh with those who laugh; mourn with those who mourn, in the Lord. KEEP thy paths straight, and ye will find GLORY - GLORY - unto thyself!
48. In the writing of books, in the ministry of tracts or tenets that may be helpful in song, in verse; in these are thy activities. But forsake not thy faith in the ONENESS of
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Truth!
49. Ready for questions.
50. (Q) Have I an inferiority complex, and what can I do to overcome it? (A) As we have indicated, through the urge from the Uranian influence we find experiences that make for individuals speaking so as to make the entity conscious that it has acted quickly without thought; that it has acted quickly by an urge from within; but not an inferiority complex. Rather is there the necessity, as we have indicated, to meet such experiences with patience; and to have TOLERANCE with those that misjudge. For say oft, "They know not what they do!"
51. (Q) What am I best fitted for, to make my life more interesting in the way of accomplishment? (A) As indicated in the preparation of tracts, in the preparation of data, in the preparation of songs, of music, in the preparation of rhythmical movements for those who are seeking. For it may be said of this entity as of very few, that in such preparations it would never allow those using same to lose sight of the oneness of power. And so few there be who write or meditate, or who give formulas for others, that do not let the FORMULA become the power RATHER than the influence being sought!
52. (Q) How can my husband [1021] be influenced to develop his spiritual nature? (A) Not by might nor by power, but "by my word, saith the Lord of hosts!" Be patient, be kind, be gentle. A hint here, an understanding there; and little by little will it be seen that the little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. Not by might would thou cause him to do this or that, but let thy activities and thy word be of such a nature, such a character, that they IMPEL - by the desire to be more and more in a oneness of accord with those in thine own surroundings.
53. (Q) How can I improve memory and concentration? (A) Study well that which has been given through these sources on Meditation. Through meditation may the greater help be gained. As it has been indicated oft to the body, DO IT and leave the results to the Creative Forces; for they are a part of thee. Let thy light so shine (for thou hast gone far on the highway) that others, seeing, may take hope and find that song, too, that springs oft within thy breast.
54. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file
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(See booklet [which was enclosed] on Meditation; also see lesson [which was enclosed] on Patience.)