This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 11th day of September, 1936, in accordance with request made by his uncle - Mr. [261], Active Research Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
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 September 21, 1913, at 57 Lake St., Cooperstown, N.Y. Time of Reading 3:40 to 4:10 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes, we have those records of the entity now known as or called [1260]. Few with such an array of names need them; this entity will. Directed aright, they may be emblazoned upon many places of interest; otherwise they will be well to use as aliases.
2. In giving the interpretation of the records as we find here of this entity, it would be well - as the inclinations and tendencies are of a psychic nature, owing to those peculiar visions, as dreams, experiences that have from time to time become a part of the experience - that the entity make a study of psychic forces; but from the SPIRITUAL angle, using the holy writ as the standard by which all judgments on same may be gained.
3. Then, in giving these interpretations, if these are adhered to, that as may be interpreted from the records here will become more and more worth while, more and more helpful in the experience of the entity.
4. From the astrological sojourns as combined with the application of the experiences and sojourns in the earth, we find these as inclinations, as tendencies:
5. First, the entity has a very good memory; apt towards things of a historical nature; lover of art, of beautiful paintings, drawings - whether archeological or pastoral or life studies or still life, all are of particular interest to the entity.
6. The entity should apply itself in this experience first in preparing itself through courses in journalism and writing to become a writer. Though there may be in the beginning many rejections, if the entity will adhere to same there may be surpassed even the experience of one of the entity's compatriots once - Jack London!
7. As to the astrological aspects that make for urges latent and manifested through the application of will for weal or
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woe in the experience, we find:
8. Venus makes for that inclination towards those things that are lovely, whether they bespeak of the material, the mental or spiritual aspects of individuals, things, circumstances or conditions. These then will make for those influences in the experience where the entity, unless keeping self in a line of service or duty, may become upset by those of the opposite sex.
9. We find the Jupiterian experiences, applications or influences or activities having to do with groups, with large numbers of peoples, rather than the individual; using individual application as in self in drawing upon its imaginative forces but the influence the activities of the entity will be rather in the associations with large numbers of groups and masses rather than the few - in its MATERIAL application.
10. Those forces from the Uranian experience or sojourn make for the periods of extremes, when the entity may be very optimistic; others it may be very morose or pessimistic. These inclinations, these tendencies, these urges must be met BY THE ENTITY in applying self in whatever may be the mood - that is, not in cooperation with self's MOOD but in cooperation with self's ideal.
11. Hence first know thy ideal, and - as has been intimated for its judgments upon its own studies and its own parallels for experiences - there comes little that is better in the experience of man than the Scripture; not merely as the spiritual but as a light to the feet, as direction to the eye, as expression of thought and speech, as in relationships to its fellow man. And this done in accordance with those tenets, not as history, not as rote, not merely as that to be manifested on days or on certain seasons or periods, but to be LIVED day by day. FROM THAT gain thine ideal.
12. As to the appearances in the earth, while few in number in the present make for an influence in the experiences of the present sojourn, later - dependent upon the direction or activity - others may make for greater influence in the material activity.
13. Before this, then, we find the entity was in the earth during those periods when there were the preparations in England for those that would journey for a cause, for a purpose, in what have been termed as the Holy Wars.
14. The entity was among those that during the experience, it may be said, as Georgus Goodwill, was coerced or persuaded to join in with those that not only prepared for but that made journeys towards the Holy Land.
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15. With those activities, with the changing scenes, with the variations of the influences when there were the establishings of the entity with the companions in the Holy Land (and there London was), the entity gained much in the history, in the study, in the history of peoples, the history of tribes, those things of tribal rites, those things that may be called belonging or pertaining to groups that have been termed races. For they are all one; there's no races, they are all one - they either have enjoined or have separated themselves, and as has been indicated from times back the environmental influences have made for changes in the color, or the food or the activity has produced those various things and as to how much of the animal was in the various periods left out of the inner man.
16. In that experience, then, the entity from the material, from the mental, gained much. As for the SOUL forces, as for the purposes or ideals, not so much.
17. Hence we will find in the present experience not only from the material and the mental the influences from that period, but the entity will be faced oft with the necessity of drawing upon that as is its ideal from the moral, from the mental, from the spiritual, from the material angles in its associations and dealings with its fellow man.
18. Hence the injunction KNOW Thyself and thy Ideal!
19. We find that in the experience before that the entity was in the land now known as the Persian and Arabian, and among those peoples from the Grecian land that came into the land for first spying it out, as it were.
20. The entity was among those that made the journeys; hence came prepared into the land as one capable of making suggestions in those things pertaining to economics, political power and influence and force that made great impressions upon those peoples that were so simple, so trusting. As has ever been, as ever will be, the simple life, the simple experience, the trusting mind, the trusting body, is the best.
21. These made for destructive forces until the material or physical ills came into the experience of the entity as Ecceeco [Echo?].
22. In the experience the entity in the latter portion gained much, and became as one who attempted to undo much that had been begun by itself, by its associates and those activities of the peoples during that experience.
23. From that sojourn, those activities, there comes in the present the desire for travel; which should be a part of the experience, naturally, in the preparations for its material work and labors at this time. That should be a part of the
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experience, but make thine own way. Then in thy travels either by a cycle trip, a walking trip, or any that makes for an experience from place to place, there may be the gains necessary for the MATERIAL needs of that day.
24. Before that we find the entity was in the land now called the Egyptian, during those periods of the raising up of those for activities as emissaries, missionaries, or activities among those when there had been the attempts to correlate the tenets and truths of many lands.
25. Again the entity was an emissary, to the Carpathian and Gobi lands.
26. Hence those portions of the country will have an especial interest for the entity.
27. Then the entity was among the Egyptian peoples; not natives, but those that came from the Persian land and of the Egyptian peoples - in the name Tu-pu-tup.
28. As to the abilities, then - WRITE!
29. In the activities, then - WRITE!
30. In the influences for the preparations of same, history, English, languages, journalism. And let the journalism EVER be the SCRIPTURE. Not as a Sunday worship; not as an Easter or a Holy Week - but as a LIVING thing!
31. Do that.
32. Ready for questions.
33. (Q) Should he take any post graduate courses? (A) In journalism.
34. (Q) Should he continue his musical education? (A) May be well for a background - but WRITE!
35. (Q) Any other advice at this time? (A) Do those things first, that are first. Know self. Prepare self.
36. We are through for the present. Copy to Mr. [261] " " Ass'n file