This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 2nd day of August, 1936, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [1238], new Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mr. [257].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. L. B. Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Born March 14th or 15th, or April 14th or 15th, around 50 yrs. ago, in Machnifka, Bardichaf, Russia. Time of Reading 11:05 to 11:50 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. Chicago, Ill. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes. As we find, the entity now known as or called [1238] was born on March (what we would term March now) 15, 1887 (but quite a different name). [GD's note: A simplified version of his Russian name which, he later said, was unpronounceable.]
2. In giving the interpretation of those influences in the experience of this entity, whether from the astrological aspects from the sojourns through the interims between the earthly appearances or from the sojourns in the earth that make for urges through the sensory forces or the sensing, we find:
3. As indicated astrologically, manifestedly, the entity is a very highly SENSITIVE individual. And the experiences of supersensitiveness have at times in its experience in the earth stood it in good stead; while at others they have become at times rather embarrassing; at others they have produced differences and gradually built up barriers that the entity would like - if it would analyze itself - to eradicate.
4. Hence as in all experiences, for this entity as with others, there are constantly the periods - mentally, materially - in which choice is to be made.
5. There are those influences that are to be governed by that which is the ideal, mentally, morally, spiritually.
6. For the experiences of each soul, as with this, are to be judged according to that which is the purpose in self as in relationships to the ideal.
7. Hence we have found in the entity's experience that in varied activities in the present the entity has judged according to that which has brought to the entity conveniences, satisfying experiences in the physical body AT TIMES of rather a selfish nature. Yet the very intuitive
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forces have through these experiences prompted the entity to attempt to here and there do that in relationships to others which would within self at least satisfy, atone for that. And this has kept a sensitiveness to the individual experience of the entity. For each soul attempts to justify itself in whatever may be the dealings with its fellow man.
8. Either then does the justification arise in that self is sufficient, and that which will add to the satisfying of the longings, whether mental or material, self-indulgence or self-aggrandizement, or that adds to that as will draw in the experience that which is held as the entity's spiritual ideal.
9. Hence with this entity, as with most, self needs to be understood, to analyze self as to what HAS been, what is being sought, in this material experience in the present. Is it that the way may be made easy for self in its appetites for its body? Or is there a mental and spiritual ideal? and that there is the desire that those forces, those activities in its relationships to its fellow man still draw those principles of equity and justice and peace and harmony and mercy and understanding? Or is it for self ALONE, IRRESPECTIVE of others' disturbances, duties or obligations?
10. Hence the entity's abilities, as indicated from those very experiences through which the entity has passed when it has in the least turned to the introspective self and looked into the heart of self or as to the motivative forces, are such that there ARE obligations, there ARE duties, there ARE those things in which the self may hold self in check. For there has come into the consciousness of the entity, though oft it has been held in abeyance, that there IS a way that seemeth right unto a man but the end thereof is confusion, the end thereof is death, the end thereof is turmoils and strife.
11. Thus does it behoove the entity to take stock of self and see in what direction the sails of its own life have been set, in what manner the vine of thine understanding has been trained; that the fruits of thy life shall be trailed in the dust of the earth or proclaimed - not as laudation to thee as an individual or personality, but rather that what thou hast accomplished in the hands of thy fellow man is worthy of acceptation, and is that which may be taught to the young of the earth that they - too - may look up and know that the Father of Fathers, the Lord of Lords, the God of heaven and of earth, has taken cognizance and hath said, "Well done!"
12. These be those first principles in which the entity must
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FIND its relationships to its Creator and its relationships to its fellow man. And when this is sought, the END will be - if correctly pointed, correctly guided - that it is as has been given of old, "Know, O Israel, the Lord thy God is ONE!"
13. For, "As ye have done and as ye do it unto the least of thy brethren, ye do it unto me, thy God!"
14. In the aspects of the astrological forces, we find a home loving individual. And this as a part of the entity's experience in the present is that hope that some day, somewhere, somehow, there might be that place that the entity, that the self might call "and this is home."
15. Then in the choice of a companion it is seen that it becomes necessary to choose one whose purpose in such would become or BE as one with the entity's; and not such an one that would tear down such a place. Choose one who also seeks for a home; not rest, not convenience alone, not that which is an excuse for the activities of satisfying the bodily needs, the bodily ambitions for fame, fortune, position, or the exploitations of its worldly knowledge, but that at such a fireside, at such a place, in such a home, there might be peace and harmony and an understanding of those influences that make for the creating of that which becomes as the material or earthly representation of that called a haven, a heaven, a place of rest; a place where the turmoils of the world, the cares of the days may be for the moment laid aside and there be visioned rather that hope, that promise which has been ever in the hearts of men since it has been given, "Be ye fruitful, multiply, establish thyself in the earth; for thou art lord of the earth and not lord of one another." Never has been the command to man to lord over his brother. For indeed he is his brother's keeper.
16. Those influences then that arise from the sojourns in Venus make for a loving, a sympathetic, a patient entity. Yet these qualities or virtues (as may be termed) have oft been stretched to its own breaking point, that MIGHT and POWER of possession and of "MY this and MY that" have brought those periods when it has sought within itself - to make rather that activity as penance - which has only debased self; but atonement is an activity in the relationships to its fellow man.
17. These make for quite a variation in the experience of man's mind and soul and body; for atonement and penance are as far as the poles of the earth in their influence in the experiences. For no one may buy himself into the good graces of his friend, his foe, much less of his God. But as
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ye sow, so shall ye reap. And with what measure ye mete to thy fellow man, to thyself is it measured to thee again.
18. For the Lord is not slack in His judgements. Neither doth He forget those that would do good, though they be hindered in their material efforts.
19. As to the appearances in the earth and their activities or their influence in the emotional forces of the entity, we find these few as compared to many; yet an old soul, and one that has meted judgements to his fellow man not always wisely, not always well.
20. Before this, then, we find the entity was in the land of its present sojourn, during those periods when there were the clearings of the land and when there was the comprehension that the plainsland - in what is now Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska - would produce grains; or when there were the provisions that the other lands were to become a portion of the whole.
21. The entity then was a landowner, and in the name then of Gilbert Koskukei - though KNOWN as Gilbert Kirk. And the entity made for those activities that brought for his fellow man the opportunities for expressions in the preparations and the makings of homes, and of those things that dealt with that as provided for places of sustenance and places of preparations. Or as would be called in the present day, a real estate agent - or a dealer in bread and in lands.
22. In the present the entity will find that the activity and the associations that deal with those things used in homes, used upon the lands, and in preparations for such should be that in which the mind, the mental self, the activities of self will find the greater expansion; not only of the abilities to help but to bring material gains, to bring that wherewithal there may be the using of same FOR the satisfying of the higher desires as well as those that are earthly.
23. Beware of the use of same, then; that it is used as an ensample that ye would stand with as before the throne of mercy and grace and justice. For as ye mete it is measured again.
24. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Promised Land, during those days and periods when there was the return of the children of promise from the heathen land; during those days when Nehemiah led, as it were, the third of those peoples back to the land for the reestablishing not only of the temple service but the rebuilding of the walls of the city, the reestablishing within the hearts of men and in the experiences those longings that had been the cry of a mighty peoples for lo,
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those many, many, many days.
25. The entity then was as a scribe to Ezra, Nehemiah and Zerubbabel, or as one that made the lists for the needs and the abilities of the peoples of the land to give - and of those to whom they were needed to be given.
26. Thus from those experiences of the entity then, as Medekiah, the entity obtains its seeking of freedom - from its earliest memory; and yet the feelings of the necessity of establishing the spiritual relationships to the influences from without and of being as one who is a helper to his brother that is not so fortunate as self either in body, in mind, in material gains or in affluence with those in authority.
27. Hence these have been, as were builded in that experience, that which has been the saving grace. And count it not as of thy wisdom; rather that ye have done that which was prompted from thine inner self, the REAL self, and God hath prospered thee that ye may be the greater light to thy brethren in many, many lands.
28. Before that we find the entity was in the earth during those days and periods when this chosen people from the Egyptian land journeyed towards a land of promise, and when Moses chose the seventy elders that were to be judges among thy brethren.
29. The entity then was of the household of Reuben, chosen as among those that acted in these capacities; in the name Eleasiah.
30. In this capacity, judgements were not always the best. And when those days came when Beth-Korah(?) made for rebellions, we find the entity was among those who were not called but who gave his counsel, being moved by the promptings that had been in the experience through the very associations of those experiences in the mount.
31. Thus we find those changes coming over the entity then, and the later days were spent in what has often been felt within self; whether it is to be an atonement, at-onement, or penance.
32. Choose rather the LIVING way, that ye may know Him. For God hath not mocked man, but the promises have ever been, "When ye call, I will hear," if ye are in earnest; if ye are in doubt - FEAR has crept in!
33. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, and that to which it may attain, and how:
34. First know self. Hold fast to the faith of thy fathers, as thou hast HEARD in thine inner self proclaimed even from the Holy Mount, as thou hast seen established in the City and in the re-reading, the re-writing, the re-establishing
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of the law of the Lord; for it is one - "Love the Lord, thy God, with all thy mind, thy body, thy soul; thy neighbor as thyself."
35. In this and in those fields of service or activity that may bring this awareness more, and in establishing it about the home, the greater joy and peace may come.
36. Ready for questions.
37. (Q) What should [1238] and [...] know to make their life happy and content with each other? (A) As has been indicated, if there are the purposes as to a home and as to what such a place stands for - ONE; if their conceptions are at an at-onement, and of penance; and if their hopes and obligations and duties, joys and sorrows, peace and understanding, are ONE, these may then know that their lives are joined in a singleness of service. For as He hath given of old, "Those that are united as one in God's service, let man keep his hands away."
38. We are through. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file