This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the home of David E. Kahn, 20 Woods Lane, Scarsdale, N.Y., this 8th day of November, 1936, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [1286], sponsored by Mr. Thomas Sugrue, Active Member of the Ass''n for Research and Enlightenment, Inc.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Miss [1286] and Thomas Sugrue.
R E A D I N G
Born August 5, 1906, in Alliance, Ohio. Time of Reading 5:30 to 6:15 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. New York City. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: (In going back over the years to the birth date - "1912, 11, 10 - Yes, an experience then - '09, '08, '07," etc., on back to birth date.)
2. Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as [1286].
3. In giving the interpretation of the experiences of the entity in the sojourns in the earth and the interims, and those experiences about the environs of the earth, we find these as innate or mental and those from the earthly sojourns as those from the emotional nature of the entity. As the emotions and the sensitive forces in the entity's experience are predominant, we will find rather that the material surroundings, the environs, the associations, the mental applications of self do influence the entity more than the astrological aspects. However, these remain as innate urges and may be aroused by the entity's application of self to turning within for divine guidance.
4. For as has been given, as ye trust in that divinity within, there may be given thee those things that have been thy experience from the foundations of the earth.
5. The astrological and the material sojourns then are urges. These do not go beyond the will, that is the birthright of each soul that it, the entity, may choose within itself that which is to be the guiding influence in the experience.
6. For, ever is that injunction before each soul in the daily experiences of life, or of a sojourn, "Today is set before thee life, death, good, evil, choose thou." For only in the choice does the soul make itself one with the Creative Forces or defy same in the love, the law, the promise as given to each soul, "Be my child, I will be thy God."
7. From the astrological aspects these urges as we find make
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for an innate influence. And where they have been applied in the experience become manifested as a portion of the entity's experience.
8. In Venus we find the innate longing for a companionship that is as an answer to a longing within self, as will be seen from a material as well as a spiritual experience of the entity. Those whom the entity chooses as friends are few, yet those who may claim the friendship of the entity may find indeed a true friend in the associations of the entity. Yet that innate tenderness of love, affection or sympathy is as an expression of the entity's experience in the material associations. And oft does the entity find that it has required, does require the putting away of the feelings that are seeking expressions in relationships with individuals that become a portion of the entity's experience.
9. From Mercury and Mars we find a confusing experience in the mental or innate forces of the entity. Yet it tends to make for a judgement in the experiences of things, of people, of circumstance. Oft with those activities in others that are the outcome of wrath, turmoil or differences, does the entity find its judgements bringing for itself a FEELING, an expression of safety in that which the entity has taken, or in which the entity itself HAS taken counsel or refuge.
10. Hence we find while the Mercurian influences as of wrath and war have oft made and do make for changes in the material experiences, these have oft proven and do prove in the experience of the entity to be those things wherein self may use same as beneficial experiences.
11. In Jupiter we find those influences of the activities as in associations with others, as inclined to that which deals with things in its MATERIAL application; as in things pertaining to an activity in the material influences for not so much conditions as of EXPERIENCES for individuals; in the activity of the entity in relationships to things, as in experiences of those things pertaining to application of influences in the experiences of the life or activity of individuals.
12. Hence the entity's associations become rather as a universal association but as individual in its application without the universal association.
13. Thus we find, from this universality of activity, there is made again the expression of those influences from Venus as of oft loneliness within the very expression of self. Seeking then for not that as of a universal force but as of an individual activity.
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14. As from those forces in the very month of birth experience, these bring for the entity that of care as necessary in the health of the body as related to things having to do with the pulmonary system. And warnings should be ever taken in these directions. For the very nature of this influence makes for weakness in those portions of the physical body, or the tendencies. And only the application of self in the prevention of same may be the precaution pertaining to the laws of the very nature of the influence.
15. As to the appearances of the entity in the earth, these in the present we find while not so great in number as has been indicated, they do have a particular and a very definite influence in the MATERIAL sojourn of the entity, and in its activities in the material plane in the sojourn at present.
16. Before this, then, we find the entity was in the English land, during those periods when there was a great change in the religious activities of the peoples during the period of the studies of some of the religious forces that followed after those periods of the gatherings of groups for the defense, or in the Holy Wars.
17. The entity then took upon itself, with those of the younger forces or younger peoples, to become what is termed in the present a recluse - for the very activities in doing penance. And with the hands the greater labors were wrought.
18. Thus as may be seen in the experiences of the present, while those activities then made for oft the toil, the trial, the unsightly work of the hands even from the material angle of same, that which is as the promise to each and every soul in its expression; that whereunto there has been the service, whereunto there has been the expression of duty, love, patience, longsuffering, of an activity in a way and manner as to bring about in the experience of the soul-body the promises of the fruit of the spirit, may be brought and seen in the experiences the beauty in the hands, in the activities of same in the present.
19. The name then was Helaine Resnau, and there may be seen even yet, in some of the abbeys of the English land, the activities and preservations and influences of the Sister Helaine Resnau in those experiences.
20. In the application of self in these in the present, know - as was experienced then - the greater influence that may be brought to bear upon the associations and activities is in rather what the entity does about same; and how, in what manner one uses or applies self - and the prompting force that IMPELS same! For what, first, is thy ideal? Is it in the spiritual, in the mental, in the material? For He, that
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is the Giver of all good and perfect gifts, may bring in thy experience the glories, the beauties, the understandings of a purified, a glorified body, in the service of Him that is the Giver.
21. Before that, then, we find the entity was in the Persian experience when Ahasuerus was in power, and when there were turmoils, when there were strifes owing to the renouncing of the queen and the elevating of one of another peoples to one in authority.
22. The entity then was a waiting person, a companion person to the DETHRONED QUEEN; and with those associations, those activities, an influence was created that has ever been held not as an aversion yet AS an aversion - not as a material expression yet as of an innate aversion, as necessitated for the expression in the material plane and in the material activity, in the expression sense of an aversion to peoples of that particular class, group or race.
23. Hence in the experiences in the present, as has been found or has become necessary in the associations and in the activities to know, there is no respecter of persons in the eyes of Him who gives to all life, love, hope, truth, liberty, and understanding. For He is Lord of all.
24. The entity then, in the name Hoeleon, may be said to have gained and lost, to have gained; and yet to have found necessary within the experiences and the expressions that followed with the activities of the entity in that sojourn the dealing with the activities of those in material authority with a spiritual understanding.
25. Hence the entity has known, the entity will know, associations with individuals who are in authority, who are close to those that are the rulers of peoples, those that are to influence and will influence the thought of peoples in all walks of life.
26. It behooves the entity, then, to so live in its own inner self as to express the ideals that are ever a portion of each soul.
27. Before that we find the entity was in the land of the present nativity, during those periods when there were the spreadings of those teachings that had come from the lands from which those peoples came that were known as the Lost Tribes, as well as from Atlantis, Yucatan, the Inca, and the land of On [?]. [Og?]
28. They were portions of the entity's people then, in that part of the land now known as the central portion of Ohio, during the early portion of the Mound Builders.
29. There the entity was a priestess of those peoples that were a part of the experiences there of those peoples. For
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while confusions arose from the tenets of the Hebraic as well as the Atlantean, as well as the Inca, these became centralized or localized in the expressions of those peoples and those groups in that particular period of their activity.
30. Yet the greater blessings that the entity in its activity rendered the people in that experience were in the building of individual homes.
31. And this will become a part of the entity's experience in this sojourn. For within the next two and a half to three years there should come into the experience that association, the relations with one who was as a helpmeet to the entity during that sojourn.
32. For, as has been indicated from the innate experience as well as from the longings within, a home - HOME - with all its deeper, inner meanings, is a portion of the entity's desire; to know, to experience, to have the "feel" of, to have the surroundings of that implied by the word HOME! Is it any wonder then that in all of thy meditation, Ohm - O-h-m-mmmmm has ever been, is ever a portion of that which raises self to the highest influence and the highest vibrations throughout its whole being that may be experienced by the entity?
33. Thus does it behoove the entity to find in those activities that which will bring about in the experience that which will make HOME - HOME - as a REALITY; close to nature. Not in the strife and turmoil, not in cities, not where there are the surroundings of those forces that bespeak of the commercial life, but that as of NATURE! That as was given by the entity then as the priestess of those peoples, that made for the dedicating of their lives, that which would bring into the experience of each soul its relationships to NATURE as it manifests itself in its defiance of, in its laws with, in its beauties of, in its troubles with humankind; as it meets same in the rain, the sun, the storm, the dew, the beauty of the sun and the moon and all the glories of nature itself become rather as the song of the entity in its experience; when the sons of God with the voices of the winds sang together of the heralding of the glory of the noonday to the sons of God! That became as the chant of the entity in that experience, in the name Tulu.
34. In the application of same, much might be said in these directions. For these become so much a portion of the entity; and in those closer relationships with nature, with heaven, with the earth, with all the toils and troubles of same, with all the activities that come with same may be
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found the greater peace and harmony.
35. For what becometh to this soul that seeks so beautiful and joyous as the music in the rain or in the babbling brook or in the moonlight or in the noonday sun or in the beauty of the rose or the smile of the child! These become as those that give to the entity the greater expressions of the love of a merciful heavenly Father. For they bespeak of the promise of the rest of a home, of an ohm [?] with Him.
36. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Egyptian, when there were the periods of the interpreting of the teachings from the varied lands.
37. The entity, from the activities in the Temple Beautiful, became an emissary to those in the Indian land, or in the land of Saneid, during those experiences when there was the correlating of those beauties of nature - yet applying same in the experiences of individual activity for that known as the conveniences; yet those that make for the glorifying of the gifts of same rather than indulging in the abuse of same for aggrandizement of appetites of the body.
38. In that experience the entity gained also, but lost in becoming as self-indulgent, self-aggrandizing in lording over those of not as perfect understanding.
39. Hence in those teachings, in those experiences may the entity find itself; yet in the application of that of Tulu as applied to the home may the entity find in this experience that which may bring the greater harmony, the greater joy. For the Lord is in His holy temple and has promised to meet thee in THY temple. As thou hast called oft for those in their individual associations to call upon the Mighty One of the hosts of the Heavenly One, so may thou in thy greater experience find within thine inner self and in thine ohm the glory of a living God.
40. Study then to show thyself approved, rightly dividing the words of truth, keeping self as an emblem of beauty to the world, of things, of affairs, of conditions. Build THOU a home!
41. Ready for questions.
42. (Q) How and when can this life work be best begun? (A) As has been indicated, it should be within the next two and a half years.
43. (Q) Is the proposed trip to California in January advisable, and should the entity plan to stay there? (A) This would be very well. For as we find this may bring about those associations and connections that would start - a home!
44. (Q) Is there any possibility of recouping the financial
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losses of the entity? (A) This, of course, depends upon the application of self. Rather should THIS become as the consciousness of the entity: That thou hast lost you never had. That thou hast given away thou only hast. That thou only desirest and art not willing to wait and work for, ye will never have.
45. (Q) What is the significance of the "M" left on the entity's writing pad two years ago? (A) As has been indicated as to the entity being "sensitive" to the influences about self, this is a sign, an omen of an influence outside of self that might become a destructive or a helpful influence. But ever is there the choice. This then is rather as the proof and as the understanding to the entity of such an influence.
46. (Q) Is there any chance of recovering the watch lost by the entity on Monday, Nov. 2, 1936? (A) This as we find, while entering into those of other influences - we will hold, we will give to those that have been the cause of the removal of same a troubled heart, and these may make for a return. Lest they reject those influences as brought to bear. Hope for, and then know if there is not the return - that it is best.
47. (Q) Is there, in spirit, an entity named Arnel who has a connection with the entity, [1286]? (A) Rather named Arhaniel [?], or Haynes [?]. You'll meet him; in the flesh, yes.
48. (Q) Any other advice for the entity at this time? (A) Let thy activities in the present, in all thy associations, in all thy relations, ever be in the preparation for those influences, those forces thou hast given so generously to man; that there may be built more and more in the hearts and minds of all to know the home and its meanings in the lives, the experiences. WRITE that which has been prompted oft in thy loneliness, of the home and the friend. And these expressions of same will assist in not only thy dedicating but consecrating of thy life to the joys that may materially be thine in thy home - in the west.
49. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file