This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at David E. Kahn home, 44 West 77th St., Apt. 14-W, New York City, this 20th day of October, 1935, in accordance with request made by the self - through her aunt, Miss [813], Active Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Born March 18, 1918, in Johnstown, New York. Time of Reading 4:20 to 5:00 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., New York. (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 the entity now called [1043].
2. These are the records that we find of the entity in its experience in the earth and the sojourns in the astrological environs about the earth. We have these as the indications from the astrological sojourns that are innate and become manifested by the application of the entity's will in respect to urges that arise within.
3. Some here we would offer as warnings. Some, we will find, become as constructive experiences for the entity.
4. In Venus we find the ruling influence of the entity's experience in the present, yet in a manner in which warnings may come in respect to same. For the sojourn here (in Venus) for this entity has made for a temperament rather exceptional.
5. Those urges that are of a biological nature, as sometimes termed, have - through the innate experience or expression in the experience - made for an indifference in directions that ordinarily have made and do make for, in the individual experience, an active influence that in the expression in THIS entity finds rather that of an INDIFFERENCE. Yet INNATELY there is a longing within for companionship, for friendships. Yet there is felt as within self that few understand. And there arises, through the close friendships, an innate tendency towards jealousies - of the nature as to make for miserable experiences in the mental reaction of the entity at times.
6. These as warnings, then, would come in this manner:
7. KNOW, when there are those associations, that the affection, the love, WILL be deep, lasting. To be sure, provided that the association with the opposite sex becomes with one born in the latter portion of November or December.
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These are those astrological sojourn influences that would make for the better associations.
8. As a warning to others: Do not interfere or make objections in such a nature that would BECOME as a stumblingblock to the experience of the entity.
9. The Venus sojourn also makes for these as innate experiences:
10. Through gentleness, kindness - these apparently have a peculiar effect upon the entity. Yet that upon which the entity can or does lavish its affections becomes almost as a portion of the entity's experience, or a part of self.
11. These are conditions, then, to be warned of; yet taken advantage of in the manners as indicated:
12. Beware of those that would say or do those things to prey or play upon the affections or love of the entity. Rather let such be as the answering from within. Be patient with self, with others. Judge not harshly, but be not driven nor persuaded; nor induced even by that which some may attempt to term as duty, to bring about or make associations or coalitions with individuals or groups that do not answer from something deeper within.
13. In Mercury we find the mental forces of that nature as to become centered in varied directions. And oft apparently in opposition to that in which the entity would indulge or make for the training of self.
14. Hence we find subjects in its studies become as stumblingblocks. But if there would be included in same more respecting those things of the mental nature; that is, the impelling influences in individuals' lives, as pertaining to religious trainings or those things of the spiritual nature that affect the lives of groups, of homes, of states, of nations, these will become rather a great advantage to the entity; especially in preparing itself in a field of activity in which it may serve in the capacity as a datastician or statistician respecting missionary activities, Christian discipleship, or such. These would be the fields that would also bring about relationships with others, through the activities of the entity, and with the home. For THESE be the fields in which, through the innate activities or astrological forces, there may be brought in the experience the opportunities for the greater developments.
15. The Saturn influence, in conjunction with Jupiter, we find making for sudden changes in the experience; sudden differentiations in ideas as may come to the entity in these periods of development, these periods of finding self.
16. Yet, if there will be those studies that may be had from
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the application of self in relationships to scriptural interpretations, these will aid the entity in allocating to self and to others the RESPECTIVE fields of activity and relationships to self and others.
17. The thirtieth (30th) chapter of [Deut.?] Genesis, the forty second (42nd) Psalm; the fourteenth (14th), fifteenth (15th), sixteenth (16th), seventeenth (17th) chapters of St. John; the twelfth (12th) chapter of Romans; the thirteenth (13th) chapter of I. Corinthians; these study. Not as rote, but read and study these oft. For in them may this entity find those answers to much that disturbs the entity oft when it MUSES alone.
18. As to the appearances in the earth and those that influence the entity's activity from the emotions, or from the physical or material side of the entity more in the present, we find:
19. Snow and ice have ever had much to do in the various experiences of the entity.
20. Before this we find the entity was in the land about what is now known as Cooga Lake [?] [Caroga Lake?]; or the portions of New York, Vermont and New Hampshire, when there were the BEGINNINGS of those turmoils that came to be known as the French and Indian Wars - when the first of the turmoils of the colonies were in those lands.
21. The entity then was young in years, and while gaining little in the experience through material application it made advancement much in the mental and soul development.
22. Then in the name Louelen Allan, the entity lost the life in a raid in the snow - or the winter, through the perils brought onto the entity's people in that land.
23. There is a peculiar feeling that arises in the entity through the crunching of ice, the walking in snow; and things that pertain to same arise as shudders at times. Yet there is a LOOSENING of emotion IN the entity IN snow, sleet and hail.
24. Also there are the innate expressions from that experience in the fears of what others may say; those fears innate that have to do with the darkness or the roll of UNSEEN influences, these arise as urges or as emotions rather than urges, from that experience.
25. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Roman, during those periods when there were the presentations to the people in authority through the reports by the soldiery and those in command of soldiery from other lands; pagan or religious, Grecian or Jewish or Egyptian.
26. All of those became a portion of the entity's thought during the sojourn in the Roman period, when the first and
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second of the Caesars were in command in that NOW known as Rome.
27. There were those things that brought fear, until - in the latter portion of the experience - there were those teachings or tenets that had been presented by one Tutilius(?) [Tertullianus?], an officer and a kinsman of the ruling forces. The acceptance through the teachings of Titus, or those that had followed in the way, brought for the entity an awakening; and an application of those experiences.
28. Thus there were the abilities of the entity innately and actively during the period, to become as an instructress to the young - and to those that were seeking for knowledge as to practical application of the tenets taught by those teachers or leaders during the day. Then the entity was in the name Claudiuss.
29. In the present from that sojourn we find that certain characters of history are of interest; also certain stories of travel, certain trials pertaining to the nature of overcoming - and making for activities such as Stanley or Marconi, or peoples that have become leaders in fields of activity in unseen places or portions of the earth - these are of interest. These may inspire the entity, if they are tempered (such studies) with those studies of the admonitions of Moses, the instructions of the Psalmist, the directions of the Teacher, and the admonitions of Paul.
30. These may become, under such guidance, as influences that may aid in producing harmony and strength and understanding in the inner self.
31. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Egyptian, during those periods when there were the preparations for those - through their purifyings in the Temple of Sacrifice, through their consecration in the Temples of Service, or the Temple Beautiful - for definite activities that were proclaimed or given by such preparations.
32. The entity then was among those peoples who made such preparation to assist directly in what would be termed the nursing and ministering to those that were injured in body, or those that were mentally weak in their resistances to temptation. And there were many of such in that day, owing to their close relationships to those things that were the application of the influences of the sons of Belial.
33. Through that experience the entity gained. Though hardships, turmoils and strifes arose.
34. For as the entity meditates and muses, and especially when looking into the depths of the pools of water, or into
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the mirror when along, or into the pools and depths of its OWN vision, there appear oft those hills through which the entity passed in its preparation for those things that brought contentment and joy, as well as sorrow, in its relationships to the progeny of the activities the entity wrought.
35. Hence again from that experience we find the entity's turn that arose from the entity's sojourn in Venus, and its choice for KNOWING all through its sojourn there.
36. In the present, making the applications of those tenets, of those principles that arise from the study of those particular or individual texts shown, the entity may come first to analyze self and self's desires.
37. KNOW - as thou art enabled through thine meditation, thine studies - what within self, from its experiences in the earth, is PROMPTING the desires of the heart.
38. For that which becomes manifested in materiality is first a creation of the desire of the heart, and BUILDED upon by the mind, the mental attributes that draw upon the experiences of the soul, the experiences of the body, the experiences of the mind, for that which may build in the MATERIAL experience those things that bring a growth to the inner self.
39. And thus knowing, understanding, comprehending; build grace, beauty, peace, harmony, in the relationships to all. See that which is of the Creative Forces, that it may bring these beauties in thine experience.
40. Ready for questions.
41. (Q) What was the date of my death in the last incarnation? (A) December 12, 1736.
42. (Q) What was my profession or occupation in the last incarnation? (A) As a child, and not having an occupation materially. In the one previous to that the entity was a teacher. Before that the entity was an instructor and a minister in the nursing. In the present, then, from those sojourns, make of thine self a home RULER. But in the earlier portions the activity may be as a datastician or statistician to groups who make for spiritual advancement in varied places, or the missionary of ANY nature; whether to one presenting self as a consul, or in the consulate service, or any activity that makes for a religious influence or force to groups that present any activity that bespeaks of the spiritual, the mental, the commercial development of a people.
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43. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file