This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 1st day of June, 1936, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [1183], new Active Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Dr. [688].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. [1183], [1182] and [707].
R E A D I N G
Born April 19, 1881, in Washington, D.C. Time of Reading 3:00 to 3:45 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. Washington, D.C. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes, we have the records here and those relations with the universe and universal forces, that are latent and manifested in the records of that entity now known as or called [1183].
2. In giving that as we find may be helpful to the entity in the present experience, know that while there are urges innate and manifested from the experiences in the earth, as well as those that are innate expressions from the environs about the earth or those called by some astrological influences, these are as signs, as omens. And it is rather what the entity does about that which IS in the KNOWLEDGE of self that counts. And no influence is greater than the will of self, that given as the birthright to each soul in its sojourns through its experience in seeking to find its way back; to become a companion with the Creative Forces, the purposes for which it, the soul, came into being.
3. And in whatever environ, whether in body or out of the body, the consciousness or awareness of the experiences as in relationship to Creative Forces makes for that which draws the entity nearer to its oneness with its source or else through its own self it separates self. For as has been given, there is nothing in heaven, in earth, that may separate a soul from its Maker but the entity itself.
4. In giving then these signs, these omens for the entity, for this entity it will be found that there are days - as in astrological, as in numerological experience; there are flowers, there are jewels, there are those things in its experience that add to the INFLUENCES in and about the entity. And how much the ENTITY accredits or GIVES the force of power TO those influences depends upon how much they come to mean in the experience of the entity.
5. Just so in the astrological aspects. In so far as the entity allows itself to be influenced by same, they have the
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influence upon the entity.
6. For as He has given, he that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet receives the PROPHET'S reward.
7. He then that accredits those influences that are as omens, as signs, as inclinations, as indications of being the ruling forces, is ruled by same.
8. Destiny then is indeed in the hands of the INDIVIDUAL, for He hath given, "Though ye be far, if ye call I will hear." If ye be unto thy brethren, unto thy associates, unto those about thee as a channel of blessings, then He thy Father, thy God, will direct thee in the ways thou should go.
9. Learn ye then to KNOW Him as thy personal, as thine own Father; to whom ye may go in joy, in sorrow, in distress. In whatever may be thy experience let thy light, thy self, so shine before thy fellow man that others may know that ye walk oft with Him. He that climbeth up some other way deceiveth self and gives credit where little credit is due.
10. The natural inclinations from the period, the birth period, indicate the sources from which the entity in entering the earth plane took its position; in Venus, Mercury, Uranus, Mars, Saturn.
11. These become then, as is accredited by self or by others, a representation in thine experience, in thine activities, of certain emotions, certain influences that react upon thyself.
12. As in Venus, making for a sympathetic, a close relationship to those to whom the entity is drawn.
13. Though there are the influences of the Mercurian forces as of judgement, oft we find that sentiment rules.
14. Mars makes for a temperament that, when the entity has indicated within self that this or that is true, no matter the amount of evidence, to the entity that stand as taken must remain. Not as hardheaded but rather as stern. This tends to make for antagonistic influences in the very inner self, and self loses patience at times with self for doing this or that which has been ruled by sentiment when the judgements or the feelings have within self been overridden. Yet those are WELL if the experiences are used as stepping-stones and not allowed to become hindrances or debarments from seeing the situations, the experiences, the relations as a whole.
15. Remember, the Lord thy God is ONE! Thy experiences through the earth then are one. The activities of thy body, thy mind, thy soul SHOULD be then as one. And each experience to thine self comes as those influences that make for regeneration, uplift, the experience which if taken into
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the activities of self becomes as the means for bringing harmony and peace in the inner self.
16. Turn within and not without, as the inclinations are at times when thy disturbances arise; and know that He hath promised to meet thee in thy temple. And thy body IS the temple of thy soul, the temple of the living God. And there He hath promised to meet thee. And His promises are sure, if ye will but allow thyself to draw upon them in joy alike as in sorrow, in the ups as well as the downs. For He thy God is not a God of wrath, nor of hate, but a God of love; for He IS love. And not only in thine distresses praise Him, thank Him, but be consistent in thine experiences, in thine seeking; and ye shall find that thy relationships and thy tendencies that arise - even from the unitarian forces in thine own activities - may bring that which will not be the extremes. For the natural tendency is to go to the extremes. And the entity is oft very much elated over what? That which is bubbling as it were from within, that which is growing as from within. For remember, as ye sow so shall ye reap. And when that thou hast sown in thine mind (for thine mind is the builder) has grown to fruitage it brings that thou hast sown; some sixty, some forty, yea some an hundredfold. For a kindness, a gentleness to a fellow person brings more harmony into self than some great deed that may be wellspoken of. For this is soon forgotten, but the fruits of the spirit - as may be experienced in thy daily life - become as wells of living water, springing up within thine self to bring that joy, that harmony that comes from walking oft with Him.
17. As to the appearances in the earth, while as we find the entity is what may be termed an old soul, seldom have the experiences in the earth been in such close proximity as to lap one upon another. Hence a confusion of emotions at times that arise. For the expressions or experiences of the soul-entity in the earth in entering flesh become the emotional body and its reflections in the mental self and the emotions that are created by the activities. For under such varied experiences have these been that they bring for the entity, then, a confusion.
18. Remember, then, that all is ONE, and look into SELF if ye would understand thy neighbor, thy friend, yea thy foe. For that ye do TO thy friend, thy neighbor, yea thy foe, is a reflection of what THOU THINKEST of thy Creator!
19. Hence the injunction has been oft to remain fervent and constant in prayer. Oft in meditation seek, not what this or that INFLUENCE might indicate, but as He has promised, what thy God would direct thee to do!
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20. Before this we find the entity was in the land now known as or called the English land, during those periods when there were the wars in the Holy Land - called the Crusades.
21. Those preparations of those peoples, of those that were drawn into such activities, brought into the experience of the entity disturbing factors; for the entity gained in those experiences this: The individual's life and the individual's words should at least be compatible one with the other. Yet those influences of being drawn by rote, by ritual, by peculiar dress, by peculiar habits, have their influence. Not that the entity doesn't find that it has lost patience with those that apparently do this or that for show, or go through regular routines for the expression of that which in the entity's self is to be seen rather of men than considering those forces from which the motivative influence springs. These are urges from those experiences, as Marion Lang.
22. In that experience the entity gained and lost, and gained. For those periods when there were, as it were, the desertion or the leaving for the lands, the entity was left with the activities for the upkeep of the home.
23. Loneliness then has a peculiar influence upon the entity, and there are moments when in the larger groups or crowds loneliness overcomes the entity.
24. Know that this seeking then, this loneliness, may be filled only by that as may prompt the self for its activities.
25. Before that we find (that is activative as an influence in the entity) the entity was in the now called Arabian or Persian land, during those periods when there were the gatherings of many that made for the interpretation, the understanding of the teacher in the 'city in the hills.'
26. Those teachings the entity embraced, for HEALING came to the entity through the activities there.
27. The entity then was of the Persian peoples. Hence in the present experience the sensitiveness, as of a mediumistic influence; the healing forces that arise within the entity's experience; the abilities for the entity to counsel with those that are weak or sick, those that are not understood by others, arise from those experiences.
28. Cultivate these, then, in thine own experience; when thou hast, though, first found patience in self and with others. Then cultivate that ability for counsel to those that seek from loneliness, from fear, from the turmoils of their experiences with others, those that feel slighted, those that are disappointed in the experiences of material affairs.
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Turn their minds rather - through thine own feelings for same - to those things that endure forever. For only the spiritual forces for thine soul endure forever. And those lessons that each individual learns by its disappointments, fears, sorrows, are not as tiers that make for a weakening but rather as tiers that may be builded up to climb to greater heights, and greater understandings - if they will but be put or brought into those forces where - in the temple of self - where the own God may give the individual peace. Not as the world giveth peace but as only the knowledge that thy soul, thy inner self is in accord and at-oneness with Him.
29. Then in the name Marmarce.
30. Before that we find the entity was in that land of the entity's present nativity, during those periods when there were the destructions of the Atlantean land.
31. The entity was among those that journeyed to the land of the Incal as now called, but then to the land of Oz and Og. For the entity then was a princess that lost its way from the daughters of the Law of one of those that made for the aggrandizing of the bodily forces and influences for position and power, the temples of fame, the temples of beauty, the hoarding of wealth, the hoarding of those mediums of exchange that were not only beautiful in their own selves but as to the light, as to the influence same had upon the minds of others.
32. There the entity lost. Hence in the experiences of the entity there have been the fears of those that set themselves to be in high places, or those that look rather upon the material manifestations than upon the spiritual things. These have at times in the religious experiences brought destructive or detrimental forces in the activities of the entity.
33. The entity then was in the name Alsia or Amammia - for it was named both. And there may be found yet, among the temples in the Andean experience, the records of the entity's activities in the storehouse of wealth of the earth - in golds!
34. Before that we find the entity was in the land of the long ago, in the Lemurian land, when there were the many changes coming about in the surface of the earth; even when there were those interpretations between the sons and the daughters of men and the sons of [and?] the daughters of God.
35. For they partook rather of those things when those expressions or periods of the injection of thought form and forces took their activity in the earth, and produced then
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in other portions of the earth's surface the monsters that would destroy, the periods when it is given "and in those days there were giants in the earth."
36. The entity then was among those that were of the daughters of the sons of God, those that with their physical bodies presented those influences and forces that made for that period of regeneration when not only the bodies must be presented as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto Him, but that through these the soul and the mind - being a portion of the Universal Forces - express themselves.
37. Then in the name rather that would be sounded as ne-um-um or em-um.
38. As to the abilities of the entity in the present and that to which it may attain and how:
39. First, as has been indicated, LEARN to see, to know, the effect of the application of patience, persistence, brotherly love, longsuffering, fellowship, in thine OWN self.
40. Then give of that which thou obtainest within self to others, in aiding them who are sorrowful, aiding those who are fearful, in assisting those that find the way of life hard. For these that come are directed as an opportunity for thyself, for He hath given, he that saves a soul hath covered a multitude of errors in self. For, "As ye do it unto the least of these, my brethren, ye do it unto me" saith the Lord of hosts!
41. Ready for questions.
42. (Q) Where do I vibrate best (that is, in what locality)? (A) Where thou ART! For the vibrations should be from WITHIN, rather than from WITHOUT! And so create within thine inner self those closer relationships that where thy body is, THERE may be found succor and aid and help and love for others.
43. (Q) Why do I feel as if I shall marry again, or as if there is another mate for me? (A) Perhaps there be; for as ye seek His ways and He directs thy ways and thine interpretations, then there will be many who will seek thy hand.
44. (Q) Why did I know I would marry my present husband when I first met him? (A) Consider those experiences as has been indicated, and then that feeling, that knowledge, that intuition, should be rather as an interpretation of that as has been given - that it is all ONE.
45. (Q) Why did I think of Christ when I looked at my mother? (A) For she was oft with Him.
46. (Q) Why did my father antagonize me?
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(A) For thou also antagonized him!
47. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file