This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the home of David E. Kahn, 20 Woods Lane, Scarsdale, N.Y., this 27th day of November, 1936, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [1298], new Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., Virginia Beach, Va., recommended by her cousin, Miss [873].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Miss [1298], Miss [873] and Mrs. [903].
R E A D I N G
Born December 10, 1892, in East Smethport, Penn. Time of Reading 4:00 to 5:15 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. New York City. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [1298].
2. What a record!
3. In giving the interpretations as we find for this entity, so much enters in from the sojourns in the earth that little of the astrological aspects become of value. Yet these must be considered by the entity as a portion of the whole.
4. For these interims of consciousness of the soul-entity in the interims oft bring those experiences for the innate forces of the body to produce confusion, unless their relative influence is taken into consideration.
5. For oft there are the feelings or emotions of doubt and fear, from a material experience, unless purposes for the varied environs, the varied activities are taken into consideration as creating the whole, or that which is the pattern or the ideal of the soul through its sojourns in material consciousness or into dimensions where body, mind, soul are at a union but at war one with another.
6. And know, rationality or consciousness of materiality as materiality bringing those influences of self-indulgence, self-aggrandizement or egotism in any phase, cannot remain in spirit but must conform to dimensions that they may be lost in the divine purpose of man's advent into materiality.
7. These then are merely given for the entity's consideration.
8. For the entity has realized, but from its material sojourn has oft at periods lost sight of divine purpose in the advent of a soul into materiality or dimension as seen and visioned in the present sojourn.
9. From the astrological urges then, these may only be referred to - for this entity - as the higher emotions, or
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super-sensitiveness, or intuition.
10. Thus it is through such that there is an awareness of being of a complex emotional nature, responding to influences that may partake of habit as of a greater than body-habit, but national or international in its scope and influence.
11. Thus we find, as in the Mercurian, that innate desire for expressions in concrete form - or not merely a shadow, but as a desire for it to bring emotions that respond to something in material life.
12. As in Saturn's, that makes for those innate desires for the old, the new; those experiences that must find a counterpart in that which has been, because it IS and ever was!
13. In Venus there is the making for those innate, oft so greater than material manifestations; but the deeper feelings of appreciation of those influences in individual lives that produce that which IS the fruit. Not the tree, not the vine, not the branches, but the fruit of the spirit - Love, Patience, Longsuffering, Brotherly love, Kindness - that brings into the consciousness of each soul that material things are after all but the shadows rather than the reality; and that what may be purposed or purchased with other than the soul and blood of itself is but naught in eternity - that to which is bound each soul as with the cords of divinity itself.
14. For man IS flesh, as man is of divine origin. And the mind of man, though it may - through the prunings, the trainings, the guidings in that direction for ages upon ages - become somewhat purified, only that portion of the mind that IS divine can know, does know, that Life IS the manifestation of God in motion; and that the beauties of nature, the loveliness and the dirtiness, the darkness and the light are one when the mind of God makes them purposeful in the experience of each soul, that it may have companionship with Divinity; knowing itself to be a part yet aware of its ability of choice.
15. As the entity has chosen in this experience, there then stands out in its inner consciousness, in its inner self, the awareness of that gained and lost. Thus, as it has been well put, that ye have given in the strength of thy might, in the weakness of thy physical self and body and mind, but in the strength of thy divine being, thou hast held. That thou hast lost ye seek. That thou hast thrown away ye have never possessed but have only become aware of the lack of same, that ye may be whole in Him - again.
16. In the summing of these, then, we will find that while
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many have been the experiences of the entity in the earthly sojourn, those that stand foremost in the experience are where from heights and close to the divine to the depths of the gates of hell itself the entity has known those visions of ALL!
17. For as elementals are the warp and woof of materiality, so divinity is the warp and woof of spirituality in the experience of human beings.
18. For only divinity hath known flesh. Evil only creates fear and hate and sorrow and the lack of tolerance, the lack of faith and the lack of patience, the lack of hope, the lack of love and longsuffering and brotherly kindness. These only have their shadows in the activity of individuals toward their fellow man. DIVINITY blossoms as in the morning sun of light and hope of immortality, bringing to the mind of man that hope springing anew from the experiences of old - as of this entity, bringing with same that longing, that desire for the closer walk with that which if cultivated becomes that which is the purpose of man's advent into the material or dimensional forces in earth.
19. As to the appearances of the entity, then - though the entity's own messages seek more of expression than what may be merely the story of its experience as interpreted from its activity in the environs in the various spheres - we find:
20. Before this (among those appearances that have an influence in the present) we find the entity was in the land of its present nativity, in what is now known as the southernmost portion - or in Florida; during those periods when there were those settlings from the Yucatan, from the lands of On (?) or the Inca, from the Norse land, when there were the beginners of the Mound Builders and those that gathered upon what is now the east portion of Alabama and Florida - though it was quite different then in its structure, outwardly.
21. The entity's sojourns then were with those of a race of unusual height, unusual proportions to what might be termed in the present. For they were then the lords of the land, as would be termed, that issued to the other lands, the other environs about same, the instructions for their moral, their religious, their penal codes.
22. Then the entity was among those that were the more lenient in that lording; for the entity sought rather to bring that activity, that development where all under the Lord - as law - are ONE.
23. Hence the experiences were made to become rather severe,
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rather strained in those activities. For there were the harkenings to those periods that stand first in the experience of the entity in the present, as well as those sojourns in Egypt and Atlantis and those activities that brought the lack of consideration of those that were - STILL in THOSE experiences in Egypt and Atlantis - with their beast appendages, their hindrances; which made for that which has been and is so much a part of the animal, that has signified and does signify the very natures of same.
24. Those the entity abhorred, as in the present - yet so little apparently gained, yet how great in the soul's developments itself!
25. The name then was what would be termed in the present Alta, that meant a NEW life!
26. In the application of that experience in the present sojourn, the entity will find its desire to bring the greater consciousness of the healing forces within the body-mind and consciousness of individuals to aid themselves. And from the divine within rather than from the outer forces; while the outer forces are divine when and if they are applied with the glory to the Creator rather than to the self-knowledge of man!
27. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Persian, or that is a portion of Tibet and that land between, when there were those changes wrought in the minds and experiences of those individuals who were in authority or power; being persuaded that there might be in the hearts and minds of individuals that which might make for a concept of their relationships to a Creative Force.
28. Hence the entity's close associations with that which made for that plea to the King, "Let my people go!"
29. The entity then was Esther to Ahasuerus, close with those activities that have made for that upon which a peoples have worshipped not the individual but the purposes as wrought in the heart and activities of an individual, as directed by a man of God - Mordecai!
30. Those brought in the experience of the entity the closer concept of the ideals, and yet the very act and fact that the entity itself enjoyed not those privileges of seeing the re-establishing of the temple, nor the peace offerings to the inner self before those altars, brought longings and dreads in the experience of the entity - that find in the present that longing for an expression in some manner in which the application of that which has been gained may be the more individual and NOT so much national - yet national in its scope; which may be brought by the entity's application, as was done in those periods - by its writings
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of that which prompted those beseechings that a people be allowed to worship according to the dictates of their own conscience. For there the entity learned TOLERANCE, which so few possess in ANY experience in the earth!
31. Selflessness is the greater tolerance. For when self seeks exaltation, beware!
32. Before that we find the greater urge, when the entity was in that land now known as a portion of the Mongoloid, or in those parts now known as Siam or the Indo region - that were then a small portion of that great Mongoloid land.
33. It was during those periods when there were those attempts being made to correlate the tenets of those that were from the Indian land of Saneid, from Wu (?) in the Mongoloid or Gobi land, Ra-Ta in Egypt.
34. There the entity was the priestess and the wife of that leader who established that boundary between those of Saneid and those of Wu (?) in the northern land.
35. Hence the longings for those experiences that come as the rising sun, the emblazonment upon the hearts and minds of the individuals for THEIR OWN CONCEPT of right and wrong, their OWN concept of that which answers within their daily relationships with their fellow man, to that as they would worship in that they would set as their guide, their god, their ideal.
36. For as the entity experienced, until the beautiful or the beauty of a Creator may be seen in the vilest of the vile that is expressed in mortal body, there is little pure concept of the relationships of the souls of men with God, with the universe.
37. For as the earth is ONLY a portion of a mighty array of forces and influences in our OWN little solar system, so man - though but a speck upon the earth and only as a grain in the universe - is a portion of that divinity that urges ON and ON and ON and ON! that makes for that eternal hope, that spark of light, that thread of soul in infinity itself!
38. Words fail to come to give those experiences of the entity in that experience, as words would fail to give that as to how the entity besmeared itself with the vileness of men!
39. In the experience the entity gained and lost; lost in self-indulgence.
40. Learn the difference, then, between self-indulgence and tolerance. One may be tolerant and yet self-indulgent, even in tolerance - to the extent that one becomes lacking in those very forces that may make for holding to the image of Him that must be in every heart, soul, experience, if one is to keep in the Way.
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41. There the entity was in the name that may be found among those effects in that land; for there we have a strange, an unseeming experience to a great people. For as man may find even in this day and generation, the insect becomes the defeater of man's purposes in many of his endeavors.
42. For, because of those activities, there came upon the land that horde of those forces that brought to the peoples that DREAD activity in the body that EMPTIED the land of its peoples!
43. In the experience the entity gained and lost. In the experience the entity held sway over thousands - yea, tens of thousands - through those very activities of the companion.
44. In that experience then does the entity seek in the present to establish that upon which it may BUILD so that the greater expression as given in its own land may be individual yet just as collective as in those experiences.
45. Before that we find the entity was in the Atlantean land, when there were those periods just after the second of the breaking-ups of the land owing to the misapplications of divine laws upon those things of nature or of earth; when there were the eruptions from the second using of those influences that were for man's OWN development, yet becoming as destructive forces to flesh when misapplied.
46. Then in the name Ameeame, the entity was among those peoples of the Law of One; and there, too, the entity sought to make the applications the more universal, yet the sons of Belial and of Bul (?) made for the misapplication of the trusts the entity gave.
47. Hence the mistrust the entity holds, even in tolerance, even in the faith; and seeking for that which is not as a sign but as may be practical in the experience of all.
48. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, and that to which it may attain, and how:
49. Thou hast gained, thou hast lost, thou hast known the rise of nations, thou hast known the downfall of individual rulers, of individual nations, owing to their misapplication of divine TRUTH, divine love, divine law; turning them into self-indulgence, self-glorification.
50. Thou knowest INNATELY the Way. Thou knowest from personal, soul application. Hold FAST to that which is good. Give - that ye may have - of self.
51. In warnings, not as of a fear - other than a godly fear. What a variation! Fear as known to man, even in his own wordly wisdom, is one thing; while fear of a godly nature is another. One is the fear to use, the other is the fear not to have.
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52. In the application of self, then, hold fast; knowing godliness by its applicableness in thy daily experience with thy fellow man. Give to others that they may know, if they would know Him, if they would know the divine within, they must express same in their dealings with their fellow man! For indeed is true the law, "As ye do it to the least of these thy brethren, ye do it unto me," saith the Lord - the LAW - yea, love!
53. Show thyself lovely, that ye may have love in thine experience. Not as a possession but as a gift to thy fellow man. Show thyself friendly with the unfriendly, that ye may have friends. Not as possessions but rather as that that makes for the greater channel, that there may be the flow of infinite love as thou hast shed upon thy peoples - yea, thy brethren - yea, thy great ones - yea, thy lowly ones; that they, too, may know they have a friend IN God, within themselves!
54. Ready for questions.
55. (Q) What is my important work of this life? (A) As has just been given; that ye may teach, ye may minister; that ye may heal the ills of many of those that are wandering, lost in the maze of confusing opinions; that ye may make godliness PRACTICAL in the experience of individuals. Not as a selfish motive but rather as that His glory may be manifested among the children of men. Writing, teaching, exhorting, and - most of all - LIVING it!
56. (Q) Should I go on the expedition to Siam with Dr. Van Stein Callenfels? (A) Yea, this may bring - as has been indicated - not merely a satisfying of self's longings for the righting of a wrong felt innate that must be met (for is not man so constantly meeting himself in every word, every thought, every act throughout time and space?), but there ye may find a material - yes, a concrete demonstration that not only ye LIVED but that ye executed judgments (which is not always wise, as was the experience); but that indeed Life is continuous in God, and only in the knowledge that ye are one with Him can it be an awareness in whatever sphere ye may be conscious in.
57. (Q) Will I write anything of importance in this life? (A) If attempted, it will be important.
58. (Q) Has there ever been a Prince Attakawa of Cambodia in my life? [See 5/21/54 letter [1298-1, Par. R8].] (A) As the husband in that life in the experience there, and in the City of the Dead. Beware - in the sojourn there - of that insect; not what ye
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know as or call the mosquito, but rather that as is of a BORING nature. For only do the long dead bring into experience the activities of those things there - as thine own bodily forces. Carry, then, those properties of atomic iodine, or Atomidine, in sufficient quantities that such solution may not only be used for bathing or sponging the body but for taking internally. And ye will find, as it aids in these, ye will find much as ye meditate within upon those fires of nature as express themselves in thy body. But as ye meditate upon the fires of the Lord, there will be opened before thine own eyes - among thine own effects - the glory of the Lord, that is in man's consciousness to know if he will live and BE a channel of blessing to his fellow man!
59. (Q) What injury did I do to him, and how may I meet it in this life? (A) Was it not met rather in those things denied Esther? Was it not met rather in Him that may stand in thy stead if ye will look to that within, that is ever as not only the Cross but the Resurrection of the divine in thine self to know, to be a channel? But go that the self may be aware of those very effects as has been given, that Life is continuous, that there IS divinity in the soul of man, that the training of the spiritual consciousness of the mind is as necessary as the training of the physical consciousness to enjoy even the conveniences of the day. So to enjoy the glories rather than conveniences of the holy spirit within, train thy spiritual self to know - even as ye forgive ye are forgiven. For this is law, this is love, this is divine - that ye meet every whit, yea, but IN HIM! God no longer seeketh the sacrifice, but the Sacrifice once being made for all is ever present in thine own inner soul! For thy body is indeed the temple of the living God, and in same He meets thee! THERE not to demand, there not to COMMAND, but there to COOPERATE with the divine IN THEE! And as the face then answereth to the face in the mirrors of life - yea, as ye are born of water and of blood - so are the forgiving forces in thee magnified by thy forgiving thy brother. And they be blotted away! Not that these do not bear an influence, but relatively so - depending upon how great is thy seeking to become the channel of blessing to a soul! For his sake, not for thine!
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For, gave He life for His own sake? For, gave He breath and all the beauties of a universe, or even of a peoples or of nations, for Himself? Rather that ye may see in all of these His love for thee, that ye might be one with Him!
60. (Q) What debt do I owe John J. Martin? (A) Only that that ye build in thine own consciousness. For every soul, as every tub, must stand upon its own self. And the soul that holds resentment owes the soul to whom it is held, much! Hast thou forgiven him the wrong done thee? Then thou owest naught!
61. (Q) Why did I have to go through the painful experiences with Maurice Fox? (A) Because ye had held, because ye had known, hate and fear. These ye met, and these ye know - as in thine experiences - may become lost in the river of doubt by gaining that shore of security in GOD'S love.
62. (Q) Why did I have to go through this life with facial paralysis? (A) Because thou didst lose in the beauties of thy own experience, in the beauties as the queen, in the beauties as the princess - or as she to whom much conscience was given, that ye besmeared in the first and that ye feared in the second. They only find expressions that in the present become rather those things in patience, in tolerance, in hope, in longsuffering - that ye may know indeed the true light.
63. (Q) Just what should be my particular connection in this life with Maynard Knerim? (A) This, as we find, will develop rather AS there are those experiences that bring again, rather those activities that bring about the bringing out of those experiences of the past - as in the Atlantean, as in the Persian, and the like. These are to be seen. But, as has been given, meet them in thy loving God, rather than in the fear; and ye will find, as ye have healed, as ye have brought understanding - ye may find it thyself.
64. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file