This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 20th day of July, 1936, in accordance with request made by the daughter - Mrs. [1158], through Associate Membership of her husband in 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 January 23, 1866, in Willoughby, Ohio. Time of Reading 11:55 to 12:30 Noon - Eastern Standard Time. ..., Ohio. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes, we have the entity now known as or called [1224]; and those relationships that are recorded in the records here of the entity.
2. In making the application of those influences as we find in the experience of this entity in the present, little of the astrological aspects become as a part of same save in the indication as to how the entity has applied itself and the relationships that are borne between the will's force as regarding opportunities or experiences in relationship to Creative Forces.
3. For choice is ever made through the will's activity. Though urges may arise, and apparently there are circumstances and experiences that an entity passes through that would change, we find that the innate desire, the working against or working with Creative Forces under any environ makes for the developing force of an entity under any circumstance.
4. Hence, it is often spoken of that individuals have succeeded in the face of opposition, individuals have succeeded because of their opportunities and taking advantage of circumstance. These are rather still in their final analyses the will's force being directed by or with making of self one with Creative Forces, or that as held by the entity or soul itself as its ideal.
5. If the experiences are ever used for self-indulgence, self-aggrandizement, self-exaltation, each entity does so to its OWN undoing, or creates for self that as has been termed or called karma - and must be met. And in meeting every error, in meeting every trial, in meeting every temptation - whether these be mental or really physical experiences - the manner and purpose and approach to same should be ever in that attitude, "Not my will but Thine, O God, be done in and through me."
6. In this entity's experience we find rather the sojourns
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in the earth playing then the greater part, as it were. For the entity ever is a very busy, a very ACTIVE individual; and as a man in its environs would have been a great commercial personage. The ideas of business, the ideas of social life, the ideal of social relationships, the ideals as respecting the general work among individuals' activities in various spheres have ever been as a warring, as a question, as an experience in the entity's own self.
7. These influences are indicated from the astrological from those sojourns as would be interpreted in the Jupiterian forces; the greater number of changes in material circumstance, material relationships, choice of individuals and activities in their relationships, the very counselling to those influences from the activities about the entity, arise from those sojourns or experiences or latent forces in Saturn - as well as in Aries, and the basic forces as would be termed from that not ordinarily expressed yet of the entity's relationships in Hermes [?]. [Dictionary defines Hermes as "...Greek god identified by the Romans with Mercury..."]
8. As to the influences in the earth, the activities in those sojourns as make for its relationships with those forces or individuals' activities arise from these experiences:
9. Before this (that bears a great influence in the activity among relationships) we find the entity was in the earth during those periods when there were the first settlings in the land of the entity's present nativity, when those peoples were pushing forward as it were from the earlier settlers in the eastern portion of Pennsylvania.
10. The entity then in those activities, in those associations with one Hemingway, the entity's name being Lila Hemingway, was active in those experiences with the natives, with the combinations of some that had come from the trading posts. And the entity's activities were as a teacher, as a helper for those peoples; for the entity founded that which might be termed as among the first schools in those portions of the eastern part of Ohio during that period that were of the nature that not only economics, but home work was taught the natives as well as those early settlers.
11. And the creating of the influences and forces for the use of the products of the soil, the products of nature, the products of the forest for exchange with others were the greater portion of the entity's work during that experience.
12. Hence, the entity in its present experience finds it as second nature, as would be termed in common parlance, to be
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boss over every individual whom it may contact. Not as a boss for personal reasons, not as for self's own motives, but for the furtherance of ideas and purposes that have been innate and manifested in the experience of the entity.
13. These may be commended in the manner they have been used the greater portion of this experience. These must be condemned where they have been for the belittling of or creating in the experiences of some a tendency towards hiding their own abilities in the attempts to live the life or to experience those things expressed by the entity.
14. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Promised Land, during those periods when there were the teachings, the turmoils, the strifes between the Roman people, the natives, the people that used those conditions to exploit their activities and to present much of their teachings in the land.
15. The entity then was in a position of power, in a position of state, as it were; thus coming in MATERIAL applications as to a knowledge of, as to an interpreting in her own experience of the activities of individuals in political, in economic, in ruling influences of state, in ruling influences of religious forces, and those forces that made for oppressions upon those that were already burdened with material taxation, with those that were beset by doubts and fears by the various teachings that were being presented by the various leaders or teachers during that sojourn.
16. For the entity then was in the household of those in authority as of the Roman soldiery, but of rather a Grecian descent; thus those teachings of Greece, the beauties in some expressions of same were a part of the entity. For during that period those things that made for conveniences in the home, those things that made for the rules and laws became a portion of the entity's activity; and thus under an environment of Roman taxation, aesthetic Jewish reaction, the rebellious forces as combined made for periods through which the entity - though as the period indicated - made for the woman power to rule in the home rather than in positions of power, that made for an activity that changed many of those influences as related to the authority of those that were of the Jewish faith.
17. The entity then in the name Susanna gained and lost, and gained and lost, from the spiritual and mental activity. Yet the help that was rendered to many during those experiences and the associations that made for those activities have brought into the experience of the entity many in its own household, in its own surroundings, that make for those periods to be met in the spiritual ideals to be set. And as
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to the purposes and as to those influences, these are to be held as those that change not.
18. Before that we find the entity was in that now known as the Indian land, during those periods when there were the settlings by those peoples from the Carpathian, from the mountain area into the valleys of the Ganges, into those periods roundabout that have become to many - as to the ancients of old - as sacred.
19. The entity then was among those people that made for their womenfolk to become rather the rulers in that experience, and these set much as innate in the activities of the entity; the set ideas as to rule, as to direct, as to make for definite opinions in the experiences of the entity upon subjects pertaining to many relationships, whether political, economic, national, local, or of the household - all become as a part of the entity's experience.
20. For the entity then was a princess that made for counterrule to many of those that had accepted Saneid, and then when there came the correlations with those of the land of On [?], Og, Ra-Ta and Carpathia, the entity then made for the greater gains in the experience. For the entity then, as Susuan, became as a teacher also; dwelling in tents that were of the most beautiful.
21. Hence beauty, grace, things pertaining to the household have been, are, a portion of the entity's experience in the present.
22. As to the abilities of the entity, then, and that to which it may attain, and how:
23. First know thyself and thy relationships to Creative Forces. For the relationship of man and woman to God should be no different from the relationship to the fellowman. Seeing in the lowliest that thou would worship in the spirit of thy Creator. For He is Father of all, and the motivating force or life itself is an expression in the lowly as well as the high - of Him.
24. And then apply self in teaching, as has been throughout the sojourns of the entity in the earth, as to labor with the hands as well as with the mind, as well as by precept, by example. And the entity will find in these manners it will bring greater harmony, greater experience, greater joy in this experience in the earth.
25. Ready for questions.
26. (Q) Is it best for my son [1173] to have me go with him to ..., Long Island in August, or for him to go there under [1151]'s escort and me not go? (A) "Me not go."
27. (Q) How may I best be of help to my son [1173]?
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(A) In the manner as has been indicated, that knowing in self and the expression of Creative Forces for a purging of the body that the mind, the soul may be at an unison, as one with the Creative Force or God. And we will find THESE not as precepts but as by example; not by faith alone but by works. But keep the faith.
28. We are through. Copy to daughter, Mrs. [1158] " " Ass'n file