This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 25th day of May, 1936, in accordance with request made by the father - Dr. [1135], 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.
R E A D I N G
Born March 31, 1923, in Peking, China. Time of Reading 11:00 to 11:40 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., N.Y. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: (In going back over years from present to birth date - " - '36, '35, '34, '33, '32 - What a change! - '31, '30," etc. on back to birth date.)
2. Yes, we have the entity now called [1177], and those relations with the universe and universal forces that are latent and manifested in the personalities of the present entity.
3. Here, as we find from the records, much of that which is the study of those associated in this undertaking may be studied as firsthand. For THIS entity, now called [1177], entered the earth's plane in the previous experience for only a few weeks, yet on the 28th of March, 1911, 8:30 in the evening, departing on May 17th at 11:15. The mother would know in the present; if there were the associations they would bring an experience to each that to THEIR minds and those studying same could not be refuted. [See 1177-1, Par. R1.]
4. In giving then that as may be helpful, as was seen from that experience in the earth under those environs there was not the greater development for the soul, for there was too great a disturbance in the mind and the experience during that period of gestation for the soul to remain in that experience. Yet in the present the days are fulfilled when a knowledge and an association of same would bring helpful experiences in the development of the soul of this entity.
5. As to those environs that are from the astrological sojourn, or the environs about the earth, these - as the appearances in the present - are many; yet none may for the entity equal that as may be the development or the retardment of the entity in this experience.
6. Those things that are of the mechanical nature, those things that tend to a study of or research work into those things that deal with insects, flowers or the like, may find an answering call within the latent forces of the entity in
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the present; as ALSO those that are of an electrical nature, that deal with an influence as related to aviation or its KINDRED associations in gases with same.
7. These come from the astrological experiences about the earth; hence will deal with those as from Jupiter and Mars. For these experiences from the last sojourn were made during those periods of the fast approach of that environment to the earth. Hence disturbances of every nature that have had to deal and do deal with individuals' misunderstandings, those of groups and nations and states. Yet these have had and will have only a bearing for environmental forces upon the entity; as will those influences that make for that tendency wherein there must in the physical aspects of the body be cautions taken as to the assimilating system, especially as to a tendency towards a colonic or colon disturbance of a nature that tends to make for congestions through same in the form of those natures that become as accumulations - not only of gases but of matter, as to make for disturbing forces in the mucous membranes of same. Be warned of these, and those tendencies in those directions that create for a latent disturbance in the caecum and the appendicial area; that there be not a cutting short of the opportunities for the entity, through the knowledge of those weaknesses that exist as a material draw or overlap from other experiences in the earth.
8. As to the appearances in the earth then, save the activities as indicated, we find:
9. Before that the entity was in the land of its present sojourn, in the experiences when there were the reconstructions after the American Revolution - as it is termed in thine periodicals or experiences of note.
10. The entity then was among those that were in and about the Boston land, when those of that particular period made for the drawing of the reconstructions.
11. Then the entity acted in the capacity of one close to the Adams', close to the Hamiltons, close to those in authority.
12. In a secretarial position, as would be termed in the present, the entity then - in the name Samuel Samuelson - gave of self in activities that made for much that has come down as a helpful nature in the construction of the mechanical forces in parliamentary ruling; as in the actual rulings respecting the financial handlings and activities in the experience.
13. Thus did the entity gain in the mental and in the material things during the experience.
14. And thus in the present those that are in authority to
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the entity are not always as bugaboos or tabu, but are as those that are to be considered for their real abilities - as to whether the motivative forces are as for the whole or for individual interests.
15. For the ideals of the entity naturally, or through its experiences, are high; and these directed through its formative years when there are the meetings with those that are in authority in vested rights of individuals as to the dealings with the fellow man, whether it be in political, in financial, in social, or in the spiritual or the church nature, will make for a great deal of influence upon the activities of the entity in its future experiences and developments during THIS sojourn.
16. Hence the entity's tendencies for the present will be in those directions of looking upon those in authority in every sphere and walk of life and judging same according to that which is innate within self as its ideal. Not a great hero worshipper, even in its formative years; yet able to give to those that may ask or seek for SELF'S own understanding that which was the motivative influence in the experiences of many who became leaders in many fields of activity.
17. Before that we find the entity was among those who sojourned in the land when the Master walked in the earth, during those periods when there were the gatherings of many for the teachings of the lowly Nazarene.
18. The entity was among the children of one Bartellius (not Bartaemus), in the name David; and was blessed by the Master.
19. And the entity was among those that later in the experience suffered material hardships for the causes not only of those of its own peoples and its parentage but for those tenets as held by self.
20. And much might be given as to the experiences mentally and physically of the entity during that sojourn.
21. In the application of self in the present respecting same, as its ideals are high, as its tenets and the inspirational experiences of the entity arise from much of those forces, these become rather as a thing afar in the present unless the material experiences bring closer to the activities of the entity those things that are not forced by the hands of others in these directions but arise rather from those influences that prompt same by hearing, experiencing and applying in self's experience those tenets of that teaching.
22. Before that we find the entity was in that now known as the Egyptian land.
23. There the entity was among those who journeyed with the
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peoples from the Atlantean land. Though young in years when journeying into Egypt, with the developments for the mechanical appliances for the cuttings of stone, the study of nature, the mechanical appliances in the use of the worship, in the temples of service as well as the temples of sacrifice, the entity aided in the MECHANICS of same.
24. Hence in the present experience those things pertaining to such natures, though of a much higher order, make for particular experiences at times to the entity; as does music - upon the whole of the bodily forces, as it were.
25. THESE may be used as tuning self physically and mentally for special experiences, as the studies of the thoughts of those of old may be attuned by music of that particular nature that is as the drone or the sounding of not only the vocals of Ar-e-i-i-i (?) but of the consonants with same.
26. The name then was Aarth-Elth. This, to be sure, was the Egyptian name for a consecrated teacher in the temple service then.
27. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, that to which it may attain, and how:
28. As indicated, many may be the experiences of those that would study the phenomena as manifested in the experiences of souls in the earth under the varied environments; yea, for the material and the mental and soul development. The environment for the entity not of material but of the MENTAL nature will have much to do with the choices BY the individual of spiritual and material things.
29. Those influences for those natures as indicated that exist, innate and manifestedly, may be developed for the better development in material, in soul and in spiritual forces.
30. THESE should aid the entity in first knowing its own self, its own weaknesses physically, its own abilities mentally; coordinating same with that which is a prompting experience from the spiritual natures that should be the ideal; and thus in a coordinated consecrated effort may GREAT experiences come to the entity in this sojourn.
31. Ready for questions.
32. (Q) Are there serious faults in his upbringing and if so how can his parents correct them? (A) No serious faults; only those warnings in the material things, keeping a spiritual atmosphere. Not as of rote but as of promptings within would be well.
33. (Q) Is the father's relationship with his boy all it should be; and if not what should he do about it? (A) This would require or need the consideration of many conditions that exist in the experience of each.
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There are always the needs of the guiding hand, yet the entity itself may be called oft as a lone one, seeking - yet the periods of associations should be of such natures that there comes not as an imposing of the personalities one upon another, but rather as of a guiding hand in those things as they unfold and develop in the experiences of the body in its every phase of its life. These periods should be extended as to the physical associations not so oft but sufficient that there is a union of purpose.
34. (Q) What school and college would be best for him? (A) Those that are of the southern portion of the land AS an environment; those that are not secular in nature (or sectional in nature, rather than secular), but those whose import and whose background are of a spiritual nature.
35. (Q) What should the life work of the entity be? (A) As indicated, more than one field is open. As the body-mind develops, each of these branches should be offered as an opportunity for an outlet: Those of mechanical natures; those of a musical background in same; or those of a biological nature that would include the insect life and its effect upon man's environ.
36. We are through for the present. Copy to Father " " Ass'n File