This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 24th day of August, 1937, in accordance with request made by the New York Study Group #5 of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Hugh Lynn Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 3:40 to 4:00 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. (Physical Suggestion)
1. GC: We, the members of the N.Y. Group of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, engaged in a project to investigate reincarnation, have read and discussed the reading given us thru this channel June 29, 1937 [5753-2], advising us as individuals and as a group how we are to proceed in this work. We accept the instruction with the proper ideal as we understand it. We now ask for further guidance.
2. The members of the group actively seeking information are: [1058], [954], [1000], [189], [903], [255], [5416], [520], [1210], [165], [257], [1192].
3. We hope at this time to gain a better understanding of spiritual values through information on the lives of [1210], [759], [189], and [257] as these entities expressed themselves during the American Revolutionary period.
4. We first ask information concerning the activities and the remaining evidences of activities during the American Revolutionary period of the entity now known as [1210] - known at that time as McQuade or Quer and by the first name of Herman.
5. You will have before you the enquiring mind of the entity [1210], born Nov. 4, 1881, Niagara Falls, N.Y., and now of ... St., N.Y.C., who seeks information on his past incarnation in the American Revolutionary period. You will answer the questions which have been submitted.
6. EC: (Not responding to first suggestion, had to be repeated - and then only responding to last paragraph of suggestion - "Enquiring mind of [1210], born Nov. 4, 1881 - Aug. 24, 1937 - '36, '35 - " etc., on back to birth date.
7. Yes - much better were these presented from the information that has been given, and its period, or else there is to be sought the reflection of the whole of the experience as from the beginning. We will seek here. (Mumbling over name, birth date, place of birth, etc.)
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8. Yes, we have the records of that entity now known as [1210]; this with the interpretations as we have had here before.
9. In considering the experience of the entity during that period of the American Revolution, we find that the entity served especially in those activities or campaigns about portions of Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland.
10. The entity then, as we have indicated, was in the name McQuade - Quer - McQuade - Herman; born then in the experience in what is now a portion of Connecticut; and the training and the activities just prior to the Revolution were in a partial medical course. Then the activities during the Revolution were in what would be called in the present the caring for the protective forces about the camps as respecting the health. The entity, to be sure, was among the forces that served under Washington; more direct under Lee [Henry Lee, American general, called "Light Horse Harry"], who was active in the campaign in that particular portion of the land; yet coming as a supervisor or superintendent of many of the various sites or camps, or especially during the distress of the armies of the colonists at the time.
11. Hence as has been indicated, we find arising from the experiences of the entity during that sojourn the capacities in the attempting to cast out fear. For it was experienced by the entity during that period that when there could be aroused within the minds and the hearts and the experiences of the emotional forces of the individuals the awareness that there were purposes greater or beyond the self, these brought the possibilities, the abilities, the activities that made for the sustaining influences. And much of that was imbued into the minds of those during the trying periods, when the fires of patriotism burned low during that severe winter in Valley Forge.
12. And these are the parts, the principles then that should be studied, if there would be knowledge gained of a nature that becomes a constructive experience in the activities of those in the present; that which is creative GROWS, that which is destructive is already deteriorating.
13. Thus these live as those influences WITHIN the innate forces of the soul's expression through experiences in the earth, and give rise to that which surrounds the activity of an individual entity.
14. Thus, as has been indicated, we have continually before us good, evil; life, death - a choice to be made.
15. And ever is the choice according to the IDEALS of the entity, as it gives expression of the forces and influences
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in its experience.
16. The entity then was among those that endured until after the periods of the Brandywine, when there were those effective activities; yet to the entity the injuries that were brought made for the ending of the physical experience of Herman McQuade - or Quer - in or during that portion of the latter part of the southern Pennsylvania or the New Jersey campaign, just before the change from Lee's rebuke and the activities in the Maryland land and the rise to the arousing through the activities of Sumter.
17. In the period then, as to days, as to that which may be a record: We find in the cemetery, in what is a Trenton station or near to same, H. McQuade - 1779 - 17 - No, it's nearly erased here - Herman McQuade, H. McQuade - H. McQuade - 1777-9 - 177 - seventeen seventy?
18. Ready for questions.
19. (Q) Please correctly spell the name. (A) Q-u-a-d-e.
20. (Q) Where is this name recorded in a document which we can find now? (A) In the rebuke of Lee by Washington. Library - Washington.
21. (Q) Under what commanding officers did he serve? (A) As given.
22. (Q) In what encampments did he serve? (A) As given.
23. (Q) Can we find any evidences of these sites and where? (A) No evidences as we find at the sites.
24. (Q) In what battles was he engaged? (A) Not so much in the battles save as in Brandywine when the injury came that brought dissolution.
25. (Q) Was he an officer and of what rank? (A) Not as an officer but what would be called today as in the quartermaster division, or the superintendent of the health.
26. (Q) Follow for us the movements of the entity with the American Revolutionary Army giving us various points or battlefields. At which, if any, of these can we find remaining evidences and what? (A) We have given these. Connecticut born; activities there; and when there was the abandoning of New York moved with the armies to then the Jersey and Pennsylvania and later a portion of the Maryland campaign; following through those periods of Valley Forge - or to the activities of Brandywine - and then the death there.
27. (Q) Is there a record of baptism? (A) We do not find same.
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28. (Q) Where did he make his home in the Colonies? (A) In Connecticut.
29. (Q) How and when did McQuade die? (A) From injuries received in Brandywine.
30. We are through for the present.