This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 5th day of February, 1937, in accordance with request made by the father - Mr. [440], Active Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Born August 31, 1936, in Cambridge, Mass. Time of Reading 3:10 to 3:30 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Mass. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [1332].
2. In giving the interpretation of that as we find recorded here, it would be well that those who are responsible for this entity and its training and development realize the possibilities, the probabilities, and their obligations.
3. For the entity's sojourn in this experience depends much upon the training and the urges that are set before the entity in both precept and example, as to what the entity will do in this experience towards its own soul development.
4. There will be little possibility of the entity not making an unusual financial success in this experience. But if this is prompted and used as a means for self-indulgence, what matters that the whole world be gained and to lose the own soul?
5. Hence this depends upon the manner in which expressions are given during the developing years, as to what are ideals and what should be that as prompts the entity in its reaction to things mental as well as things material, as well as individuals.
6. It will be seen, as we find from the records here, that varied experiences of the entity in its developments through the cycle of its experience will be altered by the variation in the cycles of development; and that as may be given in the present as having the greater influence will during its seventh to fourteenth or fifteenth year be changed - as when it is twenty-one and twenty-eight; and THEN it will be determined as to whether it is to be the material or the mental and spiritual success to which this entity may make for its experiences in the present sojourn.
7. Those in references to law and order will be portions of the entity's training for a counsellor to many, with an artistic temperament - these will be the experiences of the entity.
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8. And it is very probable that a very early marriage or association with the opposite sex will change its whole experience during this sojourn, unless ideals are set for the entity - as has been indicated - and unless there may be the training and the developing, and the experiencing of the entity that the powers, the forces of a real experience, of a real development, lie within self.
9. Hence to analyze self and to take stock of self should be a part of the entity's training even in its early years.
10. Let the entity know why and the wherefore, and seek to know of the entity WHY. For the entity will ask many questions that will be hard to answer unless there be the trainings to turn within.
11. As to those appearances that will make for the greater influence in the experience during the first fourteen years of the experience, then, we find:
12. Before this the entity was known by the name Mercer, a general in or during the Revolution; an alien, yes - but one put in authority by the first commander-in-chief. And there was the strategy, the determination upon the part of the entity as Mercer to make for a stroke during those periods when the patriots of that period - when their fires of patriotism had burned low. That as executed and given in history as an exploit of the leader was planned by this entity.
13. Hence we will find the entity very determined and subtle in its ways and manners of having its own way; and seeking not so much of itself but - as naturally a leader - to make for the carrying on of that set by the entity to be a portion of the experience.
14. And the entity will be capable of carrying out - and will carry out - many of the programs that may be only a part of the entity's own thinking. Hence the necessity of directing, the necessity of guiding the mental forces in a creative development rather than in that which is of self-glory or self-indulgence of self-gratification in the experiences.
15. Before that (among those that will become a portion of the entity's experience) we find the entity was in the Roman period when there were the wars, when there was especially the overthrowing and the bringing of those of the Promised Land, of northern Egypt and portions of the Grecian land, under the rule of the Roman peoples.
16. The entity then was among those of the counsellors, in the name Gerlius. In the experience the entity counseled for peace to those who were made to become a part of the Roman rule that they might be used as influences for good,
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or as to become not a liability but an asset to the empire.
17. These counselings were oft overruled, for many were the exploits for the indulgences. But during those periods of Claudius the entity made such overtures that there was that peace enjoyed in Greece during the period, as well as in Palestine, and the settlings of the strifes in Alexandria and in the isles of the Mediterranean as called now.
18. Hence as a counsellor, as a statesman in the INNER workings of same, may be a portion of the entity's experience; yet the beauties of nature are a part also. And if these are guided aright they may make for many a saving grace, a saving experience for the entity during this sojourn - if they are not weakened by the influence of the fair sex that becomes more of indulgences for the entity than for thoughts of the peoples of a state or nation as a whole.
19. Before that we find the entity was in the Grecian land, and among those peoples who came to the 'city in the hills and the plains' for the overthrowing of that land, for the exploration of same.
20. The entity joined with those who destroyed much of the spiritual and mental activities of those peoples during that activity. Yet in the latter portion of the entity's sojourn, as Lededeo, it made for a saving of much of that as caused the separations of those peoples during that experience.
21. During that experience the entity lost and gained.
22. Before that we find the entity was in the Atlantean land (the period influencing the most in the present, even more than the period just preceding the present sojourn), the sojourn that becomes the greater active as the mental and the physical and the spiritual are made to coordinate in the experiences in this sojourn.
23. For there the entity joined with those in using the influences that made for destructive forces, in the use of those things for the directing in transportation, the directing in communications.
24. Hence in these there are the greater necessities for the training and the setting for a purposefulness in the developing periods of the entity's present sojourn.
25. Then the name was Eldedudo.
26. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, and that to which it may attain and how:
27. First these depend upon the manners in which there is the directing, by precept and example - and as to the purposefulness that becomes a part of the entity's experience.
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28. Then in the application of those abilities that are innate, that are natural forces of the soul and mental force of the entity - these applied in directing, in counseling the ways of many that will seek the entity for counsel, may make for the channels, the means, the ways for the greater mental and soul development for this entity during this sojourn.
29. Let, then, the counsel be that the promptings of the activities of the physical through the mental be not merely idealistic but constructive and creative in their import.
30. We are through for the present. Copy to Father " " Ass'n file