This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the Kahn home, 44 West 77th St., Apt. 14-W, New York City, this 9th day of April, 1936, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [1096], Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [1096].
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 12:00 to 12:30 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Fla. (Entity, who seeks interpretation and clarification of the records concerning her mental and spiritual development through former incarnations in the earth, and their application in the present. Especial suggestions are desired that will aid her in carrying forward the work on her book, "Vashti." You will answer the questions which may be asked.)
1. EC: Yes, we have the entity now known as or called [1096], present in this room; also those developments and experiences of the entity through the activities in the earth.
2. Not that this may become burdensome, but that there may be for the entity a more perfect understanding:
3. Each soul is a portion of the divine. Motivating that soul-body is the spirit of divinity. The soul is a companion of, a motivative influence in, the activities of an entity throughout its experiences in whatever sphere of consciousness it may attain perception.
4. Hence each soul is a universe in itself.
5. This entity came into an experience during those early activities of Ahasuerus, or Xerxes as called by the Grecians, that there might be during those experiences a fulfilling of the promises that had been made to a peculiar people.
6. Hence each soul finds itself ever in the hands of a LIVING Intelligence, a living God.
7. Not that it, the entity, hasn't its own free will, but it - the entity or soul - develops either to a oneness with that Universal Consciousness or in opposition to same.
8. At times there may be a paralleling of purposes. There may be experiences that this entity or that entity may be at a tangent to the Universal Consciousness.
9. In that experience, though belittled by those that were in a development of a PERSONAL ego, those activities of the
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entity FILLED a parallel with that universality of love in holding to that which made for the elevating of the activities of others to that which cries aloud in its seeking for expression - that all souls, men AND women, stand as ONE before that Universal Consciousness, that Throne of grace, of mercy that has brought the souls of men into materiality in body, that there might be an awareness more and more of THEIR relationship - yea, their kinship to that SOURCE of right, justice, mercy, patience, longsuffering, love.
10. Hence the entity in that particular experience found itself in that position of championing the cause of those that had through the timidity of the activities from the expressions been kept in that way of woman being the weaker vessel. Yet in the very activity there came to the forefront that expression which found its CROWNING when the virgin gave birth to Him who became the Savior of men!
11. In those surroundings of egotism, then, in those surroundings of faults and faultfindings, the entity GAVE to those peoples, to the world, a concrete example of the FREEING of the souls of those that, though in body they be joined to those in power or authority, seek - their individualities, their souls, their entities seek and make expressions in a material world!
12. Then, in making application of same in the present, naturally there arise those questionings within self, as to how, why should THIS entity at THIS time again manifest and seek expression, when there is being given to the activities of the earth the thoughts of the sons of men, the thoughts and the delving into the abilities of the daughters of men? That it AGAIN may give expression to the FREEDOM of the soul even under the laws that have been made by man, for these be not the laws of the Universal Love.
13. Ready for questions.
14. (Q) Please explain the urges which affect me in the present from the Vashti period. (A) The freedom of speech, the freedom of activity, the thought and the expressions as indicated.
15. (Q) Have I started correctly on the book, or is my idea of the book the way to proceed? (A) The ideas will come, naturally flow through self when there is given or being given not only the backgrounds for those periods, but there will be - through the ideas and through those expressions that will naturally arise - that which will FREE man!
16. (Q) In the book should I include the Dutch appearance, or just the three parts - Vashti, Esther Clermont, and my
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present appearance? (A) The three. While all depend one upon another, we find that the three phases of human experience, the three phases - body, mind, soul - the three phases that come for the freedom of same - knowledge, interpretation, application - all of these work together from those experiences; crowning themselves, as it were, in those activities of Vashti.
17. (Q) What took place in the soul, that caused me to return to the earth under the name Esther? following the Vashti incarnation? (A) That as is natural, or may be illustrated in this: When there is the expression of an activity in the MIND of an individual, there is the resounding, the re-vibration to that effect created in that sphere of expression, see? Hence the natural activities from the physical period were - having been considered by some as an abasement - for the entity or soul to seek those experiences through the activities of such individuals as to bring their natural requiem in the name Esther, known of.
18. (Q) How may my book bring clarification in the minds of many regarding that period of Vashti? (A) As indicated, as held by the traditions of a people who have through their very urges kept alive rather the abasement of woman's position in the relations, in the activities as subservient to the orders of men, the entity may use those activities in the present to give expression to that variation that is thrown off now as having been a yoke that was set by man's vanity, not God's purposes!
19. (Q) How may the Jewish race be presented, to show the development - cause and result in the present? (A) That as comes from the natural inference, as just indicated, and as indicated by those attempts upon the part of those for their activity in the earth today. And that man and his companion as from the beginning must stand as ONE before not ONLY MAN'S made law but as they do in God's holy law!
20. (Q) Is the German-Jewish situation a result of conditions which began in the Vashti-Esther period? (A) Might be said to be related, but these arise rather from OTHER expressions of an activity in the entities or souls finding expression.
21. (Q) Can anything be given about Esther Clermont? (A) Much might be given; we would seek that from its record there. These do not appear with Vashti, save as RELATIVE - as we have indicated.
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Keep the mind OPEN! As ye make for that expression. For this expression thou art making becomes promised for a revelation to the world!
22. We are through for the present. Copy to Self - Air Mail " " Ass'n file