This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 322 Grafton Avenue, Dayton, Ohio, this 1st day of August, 1925, in accordance with request made by her daughter, Miss [288].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Born January 6, 1879, in Perry County, Alabama, about 10 miles N. of Marion, Alabama, near what is now known as Sprott, Alabama. Time of Reading 12:20 Noon - Dayton Savings Time. ..., Alabama.
1. GC: You will give the relation of this entity and the Universe, and the Universal Forces, giving the conditions that are as personalities, latent and exhibited, in the present life. Also the former appearances in the earth's plane, giving time, place, and the name, and that in that life which built or retarded the development for the entity, giving the abilities of the present entity and to that which it may attain, and how.
2. EC: (While going back over the dates - "Henry the 8th, [Was born again 8/1/90?] August 1, 1890.") [GD's note: No questions were asked in regard to Mr. Cayce saying "Henry the 8th, August 1, 1890", for fear of breaking into Mrs. [1187]'s reading.]
3. Yes, we have the entity here, and those relations with the Universal Forces as are latent and manifest in the present earth's existence, with those conditions as do appear as personalities and individualities in the present earth's plane, and those Universal Forces as bring such urges and such conditions as show how such relations are reached in the present plane and from which these emanate.
4. In the taking then of the present position in the earth's plane, we find the entity came from that of Venus, with Mars, Neptune, Jupiter, and with the influences in Saturn and in Moon's forces. Hence we find one with many of the cares of earth's influence and these conditions that do bring those of the earthly influences in the life of the present entity.
5. One slow of wrath.
6. One that is ever forgiving and forgetting those conditions that would be the detrimental forces towards self in connection with any action of others toward self.
7. One whose greater ruling passion is love for those whom the entity may assist, whether of the physical, mental or spiritual forces of self.
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8. One we find who gives much to the assistance of those whom it contacts, through the ever willingness to be subservient, in a manner, to the will of others. This has often, as we see, brought much of the disconsolation and of the trouble and worry, physically and mentally, to the body.
9. One whose higher urges lies in that of the educational nature, and the entity, with the taking of the conditions as first presented, would have made a wonderful success for self in that of an educator. One who would have been able, through such forces, to have brought much of the higher forces in the educational field to self and those dependent upon same. One whose endeavors should have been in the Eastern portion of the country (United States). One who would, when the opportunity was offered to have travelled to the East, have been much benefited by same. One whose greater influence now lies in the abilities as that of dietetics and of aid to those pertaining to those conditions about hospital, or of such culinary operations as regarding same.
10. Then, as to how these urges are received, and the elements that have brought the changes in the life's work and endeavors, we see come much from planetary effects through sojourn in same, with environ-mental force as has played and given its part.
11. In the one, then, before this, we find the entity in the days of Louis the 16th. Was the sister to that ruler and the attendant in the last days of that ruler's life to that body, and the entity in the later days of that existence gained much of the fortitude as is manifested in the present sphere, and through which the entity fought and found much development. In the earlier portions, we find this not so used, which became the drudge to the individual in that plane. Then in the name of Angelica.
12. In the one before this we find in the days of the Roman rule, when in the name then of Octaviao. The entity then in the Courts of the ruler in that land, and in the house of the first in command of the soldiers when the expulsions of the peoples were demanded for those that rebelled against the then authority. The entity then did not develop in the plane, for it rebelled against the dictates of the then force over same. Hence the urge as we find in the present of seeking to aid others in their endeavors, whether of mental, moral or physical, yet looking ever on that side wherein the best is thought of the conditions attending same. This becomes questionable to others at times, see?
13. In the one before this we find in the days of the rule when the Persian forces were being separated by the warring
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of the Arabians (now), or the Nomads then, and the entity then in the tents of the Nomads, and the name Idoah, being then an assistant to the second in command of the forces then making war on the now Persian rule.
14. In the one before this, we find in the days of the second rule in the Egyptian forces, when the laws were being given to the peoples as pertaining to the worship of the spiritual forces manifested in earth's plane, and the temples being reared or prepared. The entity then in the household of the ruler in Iconium, and in the name of Ousou. The entity then we find followed much in that way of the educational teachers of the day. Hence the urge for all about the entity to acquire knowledge and power, and the urge as is, and has been, to become the instructor in such elements. The entity both developed and retarded, for in the days when the banishment of the Priest, the entity sided with the Priest forces and this became detrimental, in the binding and imprisonment of the entity.
15. In the one before this, we find in the days when the rule in the land of the Atlantean forces. The entity then the one that served the foods to the high priests of that day. Then in the name of Altza, and the entity seeks, then, in the urge as is seen in present, towards those things pertaining to preparations of various characters for the use in the service of the inner man and the sustenances of the physical. This, then, as we find, coming in the urge wherein through and with the use of the mental forces and will in the present sphere, may become that element to which the entity may at the present bring its highest development in that of the dietetics, or of the assistant to those who prepare such for those who would gain in physical in health-giving flow to the body.
16. Then, in using these, for the entity may prepare self, through will's forces, in assistance, as has been given and as is given, to others through the endeavors of the entity, and about which the entity has drawn those influences for self, apply same in the manner that will ever be first and foremost well pleasing to Him, the Giver of all good and perfect Gifts, for the will must be made One with His, would the Spirit of the Father be manifest through His creatures.
17. We are through for the present.