This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 18th day of August, 1937, in accordance with request made by the father - Mr. [...], new Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mr. [257].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Born June 19, 1926, 1:50 P. M., in New York City. Time of Reading ... Drive, 3:30 to 4:00 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. Chicago, Ill. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes, we have the records of that entity now known as or called [1426]. ("What a record!")
2. In giving the interpretations of the records here, that which may be constructive - as is viewed from here - is given.
3. While the astrological sojourns have their influence, as well as the material sojourns, these are urges - and one training, one advising or counseling with the entity will need to study the urges well; if this experience will be made a constructive life or experience.
4. For the inclination is for the entity to become a soldier of fortune, or a drifter. Yet if there is the application of the urges and the inclinations in DIRECTING these, this energy, this perspective, this seeking that is innate may be made a constructive experience.
5. This must, then, have its foundation in spirituality. Not rote, not formality; for the entity tends to abhor formality that becomes rote - and rote becomes drudgery.
6. Unless there is given the entity then the WHYS and the WHEREFORES, by precept and application as well, this entity may become set in a tendency for roving.
7. In giving then the astrological urges, we find Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune making for the greater innate urge in the mental forces of the entity.
8. Hence we find from the Martian influence one very determined; one very set, one very decided in likes and dislikes; one that makes friendships easily and just as easily breaks them unless they carry on; and is naturally, to be sure, a leader in its material and its mental associations.
9. In Jupiter we find protection, and thus the entity will ACCOMPLISH things in its experience; and it will very probably accumulate or earn or gain a great deal of money. As to whether this will be spent as easily as gained depends
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upon the next few years of direction in molding the ideals of the entity.
10. And if the ideals are only in material things, these may become stumbling-stones; unless they be founded in that which is right for Right's sake, virtue for Virtue's sake, goodness not only because it makes for Creative Forces but satisfies the longings within the breast for assurance of eternal forces being activative in the experience ever.
11. In Saturn we find the inclinations for changes, as to this, that or the other; and to muddle a great many things together in the activity.
12. Hence that injunction as given by the sages of old, "The merchant is never the student; neither is the student ever the merchant," should be as a part of the entity's program in its choice of its activity in this experience.
13. As an orator or as a diplomat, or in the capacities where the entity may follow many of those influences through the material experiences as a representative of individuals and countries and nations in their relationships with others, the entity may have an active experience - and these may be a part of the entity's experience. But if this ability would be turned into that which would deal with law, upon which the entity might give full vent, it would be the better.
14. In Neptune we find the inclinations for things that have to do with water and over water and to be on waters and upon waters. These then give an urge again, as through Saturn, for change of scene and change of environment - and the desire for travel; desire for those things that are exciting, and those things that pertain to the heroic and hero worship. This urge must ever be tempered, then, with directing the entity to the character of ideals that should be held by the heroes that the entity follows in the very activities of its study and its progress.
15. As to the appearances in the earth that as we find bear out many of those influences that are seen innate and manifested in the mental forces of the entity, we find that these become the emotional nature.
16. Hence in the directing of the entity through these formative periods of its gaining its balance and its equilibrium as to its outlook upon the experiences of life:
17. LISTEN well to all the plans of the entity and do not discard them as but mere thoughts of the imagination. For to the entity these are REAL, and the entity will tend to make them a part of the experience.
18. And forget not that determination that is innate and manifested in the experience!
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19. Then hear him out, and bear with him in the directing not by force but by drawing the comparisons as to that way in which the plans of the entity may have been set.
20. Before this we find the entity was in the land of the present nativity during what has been called the American Revolution.
21. The entity then was in the capacity of one in the Intelligence Department, or one making the associations and arrangements whereby there might be advantages taken in the activity.
22. Belonging to the English, the entity - Major Andrae - made the associations with Arnold, with Greene, and with most of the southern activities as well as the activities through the Virginia peninsula campaign.
23. The entity gained through the greater portion of the experience. While the entity became disillusioned owing to the feelings that the efforts and the activities accomplished were not appreciated (or the body so felt), in the minds of his superiors; yet the very purposes - or the SINCERITY of purpose, rather than the purpose - made for that which is determination in the entity's experience in the present.
24. Hence routine, the lack of rote, becomes a part of the entity's individuality in the present. Hence we will never find things apparently very straight about the entity's wardrobe, or about the entity's room; save those things upon which he may be working out an individual or personal program as to changes in this or that which has been set.
25. These tend then to make the entity inclined to improve upon many of the activities of others.
26. Take these not as attempts to lord over; rather is it the leadership manifesting itself in the entity's activities.
27. Before that we find the entity was in the Roman land during those periods of the early portion of the rule of the first Caesars, when there were the orators that made for the declarations during the periods of those activities in which there was the sending out of those as emissaries.
28. The entity then, in the name Aqualus, was among those who were active among the Grecians and Romans; and in Iconium - in all of those activities that made the preparations for that which was so well presented by the orators of that period.
29. The entity was active in the capacity of an emissary, or as a representative of other peoples; and one in authority, yet a leader among his own group.
30. During the experience the entity lost and gained; yet
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from same in the present we find that those experiences there as to law, as to oratory, as to speech-making, letter writing, composition and essays and the like, may be made a part of the entity's experience; and we may find EXCELLENT activities in these directions that will hold and make in the present that which may become constructive rather than detrimental or destructive in the experience of the entity.
31. Before that we find the entity living in the earth during those periods when there were the journeyings of the children of promise to captivity, when Nebuchadnezzar made for the removal of Hezekiah and all the gold of the temple, and the waylaying of same.
32. The entity then was among the soldiery that made up what would be termed the guard; the entity not being what would commonly be called a guard but rather a commander of the guard; then in the name Telemus.
33. In the experience the entity gained, for many of those things that were a portion of the priest's activity in his authority were given out as rebukes to the entity for his activity; yet these became as stepping-stones for the entity in the dealings with the fellow man.
34. Hence again that injunction that has been indicated; let the entity's activities and ideals be founded in spiritual things, for these alone are eternal; and in those experiences there these made for the great advancement in the abilities of the entity to lay the foundation for that upon which years and years later Cyrus issued the decrees.
35. These same principles and spiritual ideals will be a part of the entity's experience in the present if the spiritual forces are held to in the activities in the present in dealing with the fellow man.
36. For "As ye do it unto the least of thy brethren, ye do it unto thy Maker."
37. Before that we find the entity was in the Atlantean land, during those periods when there were the journeyings to many another land.
38. The entity was among those who were sent as the directors to what became the Yucatan land, and in the setting up of the temple and the temple service, the temple of worship, the temple of differentiation in the laborer and the ruler.
39. Then in the name Ikunle, the entity made for a great service to a great people; that made for the bringing about of the preservation of much that may some day make for a unifying of the understandings as to the relationships of man to the Creative Forces.
40. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then,
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and that to which it may attain, and how:
41. These, as has been indicated, are only limited to the WILL of the entity; and this dependent much upon the manner of guiding or counseling during these years of formative activity - for either the constructive teacher, the liberator; or the wanderer, with help here, there, everywhere, without any particular purpose.
42. In the preparing, then, follow close with that which has been indicated. These urges are, as we find, innate - and are manifesting themselves.
43. Then, study the mind, the abilities; and guide them aright.
44. Ready for questions.
45. (Q) Through what channels should his education be directed to accomplish this? (A) Through those channels where a great deal of attention is given of a personal nature, to that pertaining to the guiding of the young minds - or in vocational guidance.
46. (Q) What warnings should he have to guide him? (A) As given.
47. (Q) What can his parents do to aid him to fulfillhis life's destiny? (A) Listen, counsel, and direct in the spiritual sides of the experience; not by precept but by ACTIVITY!
48. We are through for the present. Copy to Father " " Ass'n file " " Mr. [257]