This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 14th day of January, 1937, in accordance with request made by the self - through sponsorship of Mrs. [268], Associate 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 [1318], Mrs. [268], and Richard Jones.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 4:10 to 4:50 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Ill. (Life Reading Suggestion - [1318], entity, present; born on Nov. 16th in Alexandria, Egypt (the year of birth not given because of oath taken when becoming a spiritual teacher in the orient.)) [In going back to birth date, went to 1900, maybe farther back.]
1. EC: We have the records of the entity as called [1318], in the present.
2. In giving that as we find that may be helpful to this entity in applying those abilities, in meeting self in the varied temptations, in acquiring that understanding of self's relationships to the universe, and in the application of that, first there would be given to the entity:
3. Remember thou the vows thou hast given. Depart not from them even under the stress of emergencies. For thou hast met and art meeting thyself continuously. For know that life is a continuity. And because of personal or material urges, unless the individuality is manifesting the Son of the Father IN the self - not a person or personality but thou the son, the daughter as an individuality - thou art losing thine hold upon that as would make thee as one with the Creative Forces; as each soul may manifest in the earth.
4. Those influences from the astrological aspects become not as impelling or imposing, but as signs along the way.
5. So Jupiter as the ruling force makes for the influence for the entity's associations with the great numbers, or the public, through individual activity. And in the present year it should make for those periods when the greater opportunities for the activity may be had, especially in the metaphysical, IN the associations with others in the South - as in Florida; that should bring for the experience of the entity the greater opportunity in this present cycle - if those ideals as given are kept for the entity.
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6. It is not the knowledge, not the power or might, but the simplicity of application that is the wisdom of the sages, the understanding of Creative Forces, the activity of individuals made to become fruitful in their experiences and in their gift to their fellow men.
7. The entity's application in self also in Venus, as related to those things that become material, has brought and does bring about strange and unusual associations. If this makes for the application of self in its imports of love as of a divine unit and not of the secular forces, it will bring also - during the next two and a half years - the associations wherein there may be the greater activities of the entity, and the return to the harmony that has existed in the experience of the entity and has become in part at least confusion owing to its attempts to adapt the knowledge at the moment. But peace and harmony are within, and are states of CONSCIOUSNESS that bring to the abilities of self those great influences for the use of the metaphysical as from the vibratory forces of color, of sound, of speech, of place, of environmental forces for the entity's harmony if kept in faith.
8. For when an individual in its applications in self is insecure in that of certainty owing to material environs, these bring confusion.
9. But the assurance that He meeteth thee in the temple of thine own body, in the quietness of thine own vibrations - if there is brought the oneness of self with the consciousness of the divine within - creates harmony and peace AND a certainty that is in the experience of the soul.
10. And though there may be turmoils in the body-conscious, though there may be in the physical environs disappointments, the assurance of the oneness of that divine within with the purpose of self in its relationships to thy fellow man brings harmony.
11. Harmony there must be in the experience of the entity if it will accomplish, if it will find rest in itself, if it will bring the best to its fellow man.
12. For as ye mete to thy fellow man, so ye mete to the divine within thine inner self. So may ye find that as will bring into the experience of self a consciousness of the indwelling of the God-within.
13. As to the appearances in the earth, while not great in number that make for an influence upon the experiences of the entity in the present, as it passes its fifth cycle and comes to the sixth we will find THESE rather bringing into the associations, into the activities of the entity in the present earthly sojourn the greater part of the influence:
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14. Before this we find the expression or activity of the entity in the earlier portion of the American experience has brought, does bring to the entity its activities in this experience in the present; in and about what is now known as Salem and Provincetown, during those early portions of that activity when the entity - then Priscilla - made for that which has become as a poem, given to the peoples of the experience as in love, faith, hope; though questioned by those that were of that intent to impel by man-made laws the activities of individuals, of group associations.
15. Hence we find in the experience of the entity in the present those abilities for the analyzing of associations with individuals, whether in the home or whether in their relationships in the material activities, are a part of the entity's MENTAL abilities.
16. Hence in giving of thine experiences to others, give rather that of the constructive from the spiritual source than those from the material. For the earth IS the Lord's and the fulness thereof, and those that seek Him and find Him may have all of these things added in their place, their season, their time.
17. This, too, practice in thine own associations, thine own relationships.
18. Another experience that we find now becomes again as a part of the entity's activities is that in the Roman land, when the entity then was among those peoples in authority; that made for those judgements as according to the peoples of the entity's own environment, from the northernmost portions of now Africa, from those portions of Palestine, from those portions of Greece.
19. The entity then was in the name Canopieus; giving counsel to those in authority, to those that were to be as judges upon those in other lands.
20. The entity gained and lost through the experience. For self-aggrandizement and the needs for material things brought the periods when the lack of those activities made for judgements upon those who had proclaimed a faith in that which to many in authority had become as foolishness of man in his relationships as one to another.
21. In another we find the entity experiencing those tenets and truths which may be used to advantage in the present.
22. This was in the Egyptian land, in the Temple Beautiful. There the entity was the priestess to whom many paid much in endeavor, many paid much in its associations and activities for the giving of that which brought the periods of exaltations of the truths, the tenets, and those influences of the higher initiates in those experiences.
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23. And from that the entity may draw the greater in the present, if it will hold to that as has been indicated - those vows to keep involiate that as committed within the inner recesses of its own experience, save that as may be constructive in the relationships of the individuals to the Creative Forces in their relationships to the activity of the individual.
24. As to the abilities of the entity then in the present, and that to which it may attain, and how:
25. Study first to show thyself approved unto thy ideal thou hast set in thine inner consciousness. Know it is not WHAT ye believe that counts but in WHOM ye have believed. And know that is able to keep thee against every experience that may arise in thine associations.
26. For thine abilities, thine attainments are within thine own self in thy fields of associations in metaphysics, and its interpretation to man in his relationships as one to another.
27. For that is the criterion of the relationships of that soul, that entity to its Maker.
28. Ready for questions.
29. (Q) Where should I go at the present time, to do the most and have the best health? (A) As indicated, as we find in the immediate, portions of Florida or the South coast.
30. (Q) Why have Washington and Virginia Beach affected me as they have, through the sinus and vision and pressure? (A) The relationships of those vibrations in same to thy higher vibrations and activities that have not been attuned to such relationships. Hence as we find, in Miami, Palm Beach or Clearwater would be the better IN the present; and a clearing for physical as well as the vibratory forces for the body.
31. (Q) Do you see conditions opening up for me to return to Va. Beach this summer? (A) As the associations or environs of the body have been as close associations during the Roman period, these should make for - during those months of July, August or September - a better vibratory influence for each and for all associated, and a helpful experience for all.
32. (Q) Would there be any atmospheric reactions then? (A) The vibrations for numbers (as necessary in the astrological aspects) will be so changed as to make for not only the atmospheric but the etheric forces being in much greater accord with the entity's purposes and aims and desires.
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33. (Q) In what previous incarnations have I, where and how, been associated with [268], present in this room? (A) As has been indicated, a sister in the Roman experience.
34. (Q) What should be our relationship in the present? (A) As helpmeets one for another. As those associations in that experience brought differences, why should they not be welded or overcome or met in the present?
35. (Q) What association in the past have I had with Mrs. [286]'s present little dog, Mona? (A) We do not find same.
36. (Q) Why has little Mona been so attracted to me? (A) The vibratory forces of the high vibrations of each.
37. (Q) Of what effect or benefit is my rate of vibration in the [268] home as regards the entity [280]? (A) These are at times VERY quieting, harmonious; at others very aggravating. But if they are kept as in attune to those as indicated for the entity in its applications of its abilities in self, these should be more and more harmonious.
38. (Q) Through my visit and in the next few months can there be a general readjustments for Mrs. [268]? (A) Within the year, not a few months [See 1318-1, Par. R1]. Remember, as is the experience of the entity, as is the knowledge within - such changes are a GROWTH; they are not a shedding, for they are a growth; and require the adjustments, vibratorially, in every form and every nature. Let thy yeas be yea, ever.
39. (Q) What can I do to immediately reconstruct my financial status, and not be hindered so much through health conditions? (A) As has been indicated, in those activities in the South that begin almost immediately - or can be begun - through the teachings or classes in metaphysical understanding of the vibrations of the orient of the east to those of the occidental or the west.
40. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file