This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 14th day of September, 1936, in accordance with request made by the mother - Mrs. [2003], new Active Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Miss [380].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Shirley J. and [1261] and [380], and Connie Crockett.
R E A D I N G
Born November 3, 1919, in Georgetown Hospital, 35th & N St., Washington, D.C. Time of reading 3:40 to 4:20 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. Washington, D.C. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [1261].
2. In giving the interpretations of the records as we find here of the sojourns in the earth, the activities of the entity in the environs about the earth, these are rather inclinations. And the will of self in its activity as regards that the entity sets as its ideal makes for the developments or retardments in the present experience. What the entity has been makes an influence about the same as what an entity studies inclines or induces the trend of thought, or the thinking becomes along given lines, controlled by will and the ideal as chosen by the entity.
3. Hence with this entity in the present we find from the combination of the earthly sojourns and the influences in the entity's experiences about the earth, one of an exceptional nature, choosing for itself the more often the exceptional things. And unless these are to the entity those that accord with its own ideas and ideals, these become as naught to the entity.
4. Hence the entity needs those influences where there may be not only the choosing of an ideal of a spiritual nature but must of self exercise same and not condemn others but live within self that as an example that the entity would have others be. And the entity will find, as those influences have been given, these will awaken the natural tendencies towards those influences that have been exercised in the earth towards that of a jurist or the law, or those things not that make for judgements but as to how peace may be kept between individuals for their own better comprehension and understanding.
5. Hence not those things of the criminal code but rather
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those as of the nature that make for a better association between the employer and employee. These as corporations, these as associations, these as organizations would be and are in keeping, as will be seen, with the experiences of the entity in the earth.
6. Oft those experiences arise where for the moment, as it were, there are interferences, those conditions hard to be met owing to circumstances that apparently have little to do with the entity's own mental self. But remember that self in the experience is the result of the application of the ideals in self.
7. Hence each entity, each soul, is responsible to its own better self. For that is the birthright to each soul, in an experience in the earth. And to judge or to condemn another for thine own environment, thine own influence, is only to shame self; for that has been builded in self.
8. In the astrological influences from those experiences of the entity or soul outside the earthly environment, we find the astrological aspects making for the Sun, the Moon, Neptune, Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, all being a portion of the experiences of the entity.
9. In Neptune we find the watery sign, or those influences through which the entity made for those experiences which bring what others may term peculiarities, oddities; or the entity apparently takes a peculiar attitude or unusual attitude towards things, conditions, people, and the likes and dislikes in respect to these arise from oft that the entity may not in itself know the cause for, but is innate; yet in the application of self and self's own mental force (that is the builder), apply according to thine ideal. And let not thine condemnation bring upon thee that ye hate. For that ye hate ye become. This is the law.
10. In the Sun, the Moon, we have strength, we have weakness. Oft those very influences that some would succumb to, the entity has little or no difficulty in meeting; and yet those little things that arise from associations, whether they be family, friend or those environs that apparently should make ties, they become as the stumblingstones for the entity in its consideration. Yet when it has taken thought and the strength again is urged forth by the will, all of these take their rightful place in the experience as they should. Exercise these, then.
11. For in thy mental self, as in Mercury, makes for the high mental abilities, good judgements as of peoples. And use same, not for self but rather that thy own vision, thy own scope of judgements may be broadened by the exercising of those very forces. For how hath it been given? As the
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man thinketh in his heart, so is he. That is an ideal, that is a living experience for each entity.
12. In Jupiter we find the influences that make for groups, peoples, large numbers of peoples, being influenced by the activities of the entity. Know that as thy service is a portion of the Creative Energy or God, as it is exercised it influences the pulse - as it were - of the universe. Hence not only is there beauty, strength, glory in the living of an experience, but the more in the exercising of the birthright in relationship to same especially in one endowed, as by one engendered with the abilities to become a worth while experience for the many.
13. As to the appearances in the earth, we find:
14. Before this the entity lived in the earth during those periods when there were those meetings again and again through the various colonists, the various groups that would exercise those privileges of becoming free and independent again.
15. The entity then was among those peoples or colonists in what is now called Jersey, one William Armstrong, and aided in rounding out - as it were - the first of the meetings for those developments that became the constitutional privileges, the constitutional rights for those peoples in that particular group.
16. In the experience the entity gained through those activities of service. When there was a rejecting, and the entity took offense by some of those things said by those that were more glib with their tongue than their brain (as Franklin), these brought a period of submerging. But with the acceptance, with the building of the conditions later, the entity rose to one of authority, one of power, one of service.
17. Know, he that would be the greater among his fellow man IS, will be, the servant of the more; serving not as for self-exaltation, not as for self-indulgence but that the glory of thy ideal may be made the more manifest in the lives, the experiences of thy fellow man. For as ye do it in word or deed unto the least of thy brethren, ye do it unto thy Maker.
18. Before that we find the entity was in the land now called the Roman, during those periods when there was much given to the undertakings for the bringing into being those rules and regulations that governed not only the home land but so many of those of the Protectorate.
19. The entity then was among those of that group that spoke oft before that Council, in the name then Philos.
20. In the experience the entity gained throughout, for as
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the entity held to the representation of ALL the peoples at ALL times before not only the civil, not only the national but all of the greater influences, there grew into the rules, the orders of those periods that activity as was set in motion by the entity during those experiences.
21. These applied in the present may become again as the greater influences in state, national, international influences. Not as name for self but that the glory of RIGHT because it IS Right before the Maker, the Creator of Right. These are the principles that must ever guide the entity.
22. Then before that we find the entity was in the Atlantean land, when there were those periods of the oppressions by the sons of Belial and the children of the Law of One, and those peoples in the lesser position or the laboring class.
23. The entity assisted its companion then to STAND FOR those that were being the greater taxed, the greater oppressed, those that were being given less and less privileges for the enjoyments of the associations of their own families, the associations of the fruits of their own labors. And the entity then, in Ai-jakn, made for those stands that became to Ajax, to Asanain (?), to Alta, the principles for the preservation of the records that were set by the entity then in its stand when even destruction came for the material things of the land.
24. In this again, STAND FAST for that as is thy ideal. For choose today. For there is set before thee good and evil, life and death; choose thou. For the spirit of truth maketh alive. Fear, doubt, condemnation, bringeth doubt, illness, fear, and then dissolution (disillusion?); and the hill to be climbed again.
25. Ready for questions.
26. (Q) What causes me to be antagonistic or resentful of advice from my mother [2003]? (A) The mother is not an exception, as has been indicated. Because of the close association, he exercises that prerogative of making the exception. As has been indicated, this must be met in self. To condemn others or to condemn self, or to condemn circumstance, is only to make for greater disturbance within self. Not as a passive attitude, no; but smile and the world smiles with you - frown and it turns its back upon you!
27. (Q) What were our relationships in the past, and what is to be met in the present? (A) These would have to come from another relationship. These as we find have been at least twice.
28. (Q) How can I overcome this?
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(A) As has been indicated. Choose thine ideal. Hew to the line. Do not demand of another that you do not exercise thyself! and you won't have much trouble with your mother!
29. (Q) What vocation am I best fitted for? (A) Law.
30. (Q) What college should I go to? (A) This may be exercised by own self. The choice of self would be in a Jersey school - Princeton.
31. (Q) What course of study should I take this year? (A) The more or greater preparations for whatever is chosen as the study. These will in part, of course, lead to writings - but these will be rather as the jurist, or as a compendium upon individual cases. And it's certainly needed in that state!
32. (Q) Should I go to work after I finish High School and go to college at night, or should I go to college in the day? (A) As we find this will adjust itself as developments go. For he that has chosen and has a will to work will find the education and the work at hand.
33. (Q) Should I go to work next summer or take a business course? (A) We would work part of the time and take a business course part of the time. Know self and self's relationship to the Creative Forces, for they are a part of thee. In thy activity, thy dealings with thy fellow man, show forth thy concept of thyself and thy God.
34. We are through. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file