This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the David E. Kahn home, 20 Woods Lane, Scarsdale, N.Y., this 18th day of November, 1937, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [1472] new 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. Mrs. [1472].
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 3:55 to 4:50 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. New York City.
1. GC: You will have before you the entity, Mrs. [1472], born ..., who seeks detailed information concerning her Palestine sojourn as Judy, covering her biographical life, work and associations throughout that experience, from the entity's entrance to her departure. You will also give the developing or retarding associations and influences of that plane which bear on the present life, and how they may be best used in the present experience for the entity's highest development and service. You will then answer the questions she will submit, as I ask them, concerning her present life and associations.
2. EC: Yes, we have the records here of that entity now called Mrs. [1472]!
3. Here we may give even portions of the records as scribed by the entity called Judy, as the teacher, as the healer, as the prophetess through that experience.
4. Some four and twenty years before the advent of that entity, that soul-entrance into material plane called Jesus, we find Phinehas (?) and Elkatma (?) making those activities among those of the depleted group of the prophets in Mt. Carmel; that begun by Samuel, Elisha, Elijah, Saul, and those during those early experiences.
5. Because of the divisions that had arisen among the peoples into sects, as the Pharisee, the Sadducee and their divisions, there had arisen the Essenes that had cherished not merely the conditions that had come as word of mouth but had kept the records of the periods when individuals had been visited with the supernatural or out of the ordinary experiences; whether in dreams, visions, voices, or what not that had been and were felt by these students of the customs, of the law, of the activities throughout the experiences of this peculiar people - the promises and the many ways these had been interpreted by those to whom the preservation of same had been committed.
6. Hence we find Phinehas and the companion, both having
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received the experience similar to that received by Hannah and Elkanah, had drawn aside from many of the other groups.
7. And then as in answer to that promise, the child - Judy - was born.
8. That the entity was a daughter, rather than being a male, brought some disturbance, some confusion in the minds of many.
9. Yet the life, the experiences of the parents had been such that still - fulfilling their promise - they brought the life of their child, Judy, and dedicated it to the study and the application of self to the study of those things that had been handed down as a part of the EXPERIENCES of those who had received visitations from the unseen, the unknown - or that worshiped as the Divine Spirit moving into the activities of man.
10. Hence we find the entity Judy was brought up in that environment; not of disputations, not of argumentations, but rather as that of rote and writ - as was considered necessary for the development, the influences, the activities of the life, to induce or to bring about those experiences.
11. That much had been to that period as tradition rather than as record, appeared - from the activity of the entity, Judy - to have made a great impression.
12. So there was the setting about to seek means and manners for the preservation, and for the making of records of that which had been handed down as word of mouth, as tradition. Such channels and ways were sought out. And eventually the manner was chosen in which records were being kept in Egypt rather than in Persia, from which much of the tradition arose - of course - because of the very indwelling of the peoples in that land.
13. Hence not only the manners of the recording but also the traditions of Egypt, the traditions from India, the conditions and traditions from many of the Persian lands and from many of the borders about same, became a part of the studies and the seeking of the entity Judy early in the attempts to make, keep and preserve such records.
14. The manners of communication being adverse, owing to the political situations that gradually arose due to the Roman influence in the land, made more and more a recluse of the entity in its early periods; until there were those visitations by what ye call the Wise Men of the East - one from Persia, one from India, one from the Egyptian land.
15. These reasoned with the Brethren, but more was sought from the studies of the entity Judy at that experience.
16. Then there was the report by the Wise Men to the king.
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Has it been thought of, or have you heard it reasoned as to why the Wise Men went to Herod, who was only second or third in authority rather than to the Romans who were ALL authority in the land?
17. Because of Judy; knowing that this would arouse in the heart and mind of this debased ruler - that only sought for the aggrandizement of self - such reactions as to bring to him, this despot, turmoils with those then in authority.
18. Why? There was not the proclamation by the Wise Men, neither by Judy nor the Essenes, that this new king was to replace Rome! It was to replace the Jewish authority in the land!
19. Thus we find, as it would be termed in the present, attention was called or pointed to the activity of the Essenes such that a little later - during those periods of the sojourn of the Child in Egypt because of same - Herod issued the edict for the destruction.
20. This brought to those that were close to the entity those periods that were best described by the entity itself, in the cry of Rachel for her children that were being born into a period of opportunity - yet the destructive forces, by the very edict of this tyrant, made them as naught.
21. Hence during those periods of the ministry of John, and then of Jesus, more and more questioning was brought upon the recorder - or Judy - by the Roman authorities, or the Roman spies, or those who were the directors of those who collected and who registered taxes of those peoples for the Roman collection.
22. Consequently, we find the entity came in contact with the Medes, the Persians, the Indian influence of authority - because of the commercial association as well as the influence that had been upon the world by those activities of Saneid and those that were known during the periods of Brahma and Buddha.
23. These brought to the experience of the entity the weighing of the counsels from the traditions of the Egyptians and of her own kind - and then that new understanding.
24. Hence we find the entity in those periods soon after the Crucifixion not only giving comfort but a better interpretation to the Twelve, to the Holy Women; an understanding as to how Woman was redeemed from a place of obscurity to her place in the activities of the affairs of the race, of the world, of the empire - yea, of the home itself.
25. Those all became a part of the entity's experiences during that portion.
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26. Hence we find many have been, many are, the contacts the entity has made and must make in this present experience.
27. For, as then, the evolution of man's experiences is for the individual purpose of becoming more and more acquainted with those activities in the relationships with the fellow man, as an exemplification, as a manifestation of Divine Love - as was shown by the Son of man, Jesus; that EACH and every soul MUST BECOME, MUST BE, the SAVIOR of some soul! to even COMPREHEND the purpose of the entrance of the Son INTO the earth - that man might have the closer walk with, yea the open door to, the very heart of the living God!
28. The entity's activities during the persecutions aroused much in the minds of those that made war again and again upon the followers of the Nazarene, of Jesus, of the Apostles here and there.
29. And the entity, as would be termed, was hounded, yea was persecuted the more and more; yet remaining until what ye would call the sixty-seventh year AFTER the Crucifixion; or until Time itself began to be counted from same.
30. For the records as were borne by the entity, it will be found, were BEGUN by the activities of the entity during what ye would term a period sixty years AFTER the Crucifixion.
31. And then they were reckoned first by the peoples of Carmel, and then by the brethren in Antioch, then a portion of Jerusalem, then to Smyrna, Philadelphia, and those places where these were becoming more active.
32. The entity - though receiving rebuffs, yea even stripes in the body - died a natural death in that experience; at the age then of ninety-one.
33. As to the associations, the lessons that are to be gained in the applications of self from that experience:
34. Many are the urges that arise, as indicated; many are the impulses oft to feel that the very knowledge puts self in a position to condemn.
35. But condemn not, even as He did not condemn.
36. Again there are the inclinations that arise for abilities to present, to correlate, subjects that are truths hidden in tradition, hidden in prejudice of race, hidden in tradition of the patriotic influences that are accredited by the very spirit of a nation of people, or a custom, or a condition that has set itself in order as organizations.
37. But gathering these, do not condemn. For know, there is only ONE SPIRIT - that is the Spirit of Truth that has growth within same! For if there is the spirit of strife, or the spirit of any activities that bring about contention or turmoils, it takes hold upon those very fires that ye
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have so WELL put away; yet that keep giving - urges that are spoken of, even as He that ye KNOW, that the prince of this world is as a raging lion, going about seeking whom he may destroy!
38. What is this spirit then of unrest but that very cry, as He gave in that triumphal entry, "If ye did not cry Hosanna, glory to the Lord, the king of kings, the very stones would cry out!"
39. That these overreach themselves, ye have seen in the great white light of thine understanding, of the many VARIED feelings, yea the very varied approaches ye have seen.
40. Does it become any wonder to thee, knowing, feeling that ye have known these experiences, that ye have heard many a voice raised here and there, crying "Lo, here am I - LO, here is the way - LO - Listen!"
41. But rather as those promises, yea as thy very self hath PRONOUNCED, "It is the still small voice within that finds communion with that Spirit that beareth witness that thy interpretation be true," that all the prophets pronounced Him as that star spoken of, as that voice raised in the wilderness, as the star of Jacob, yea of the household of David, yea as of Judah that lion that will bring that as He declared unto the world - "My peace I leave with thee."
42. That ye declared, that hold to!
43. For there IS no other way than that each soul be awakened to that ye did proclaim to the earth, "Behold He cometh with power and might and ye shall know Him as He IS: for He convicts thee of thy purpose among thy fellow men!"
44. Ready for questions.
45. (Q) How close was my association with Jesus in my Palestine sojourn? (A) A portion of the experience the entity was the teacher! How close? So close that the very heart and purposes were proclaimed of those things that were traditions! For the entity sent Him to Persia, to Egypt, yea to India, that there might be completed the more perfect knowledge of the material ways in the activities of Him that became the Way, the Truth!
46. (Q) How can I extend the scope of my writing opportunity to use this ability in more important channels and wider service than at present? (A) As may be gathered from that as given, by putting into first thine own experience, thine own activity, those teachings of Him; not as tenets but as LIVING experiences! So manifesting same in the lives and minds of those whom the self may meet day by day, learning that lesson as He so well
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manifested, that it was not in the separation as John, not in the running away as Elijah, not as in sitting in high places as Isaiah, not as in that form of Jeremiah - mourning; not in that lording as Moses - but ALL THINGS UNTO ALL MEN! reaching them in their own plane of experience; and not with long-facedness! For as He - He wined, He dined with the rich, He consorted with the poor, He entered the temple on state occasions; yea He slept in the field with the shepherds, yea He walked by the seashore with the throngs, He preached to those in the mount - ALL THINGS; and yet ever ready to present the tenets, the truths, even in those forms of tales, yea parables, yea activities that took hold upon the LIVES OF MEN AND WOMEN in EVERY walk of human experience! So ye will find that the lessons ye gave then may be used today! Why? Because Truth is TRUTH, EVER - in WHATEVER STAGE, in whatever realm of evolution, in WHATEVER realm ye find same; it is as He gave - the little leaven. Think not, even as He, to do some great deed that would make the welkin ring throughout the earth. Rather KNOW it is the little line, the little precept, the little lesson given into the lives and experiences that brings the awareness into the hearts and souls of men and women; that consciousness of the NEARNESS in the still small voice within. For as proclaimed of old, it is not in the thunder or lightning, it is not in the storm, it is not in the loudness - but the still small voice within! So as ye write, so as ye talk, so as ye love - let it be in meekness of spirit, in PURPOSEFULNESS of service, in an activity and an eye single to the GLORY of the Father through those that are His children. For "Who is my mother, my brother, my sister? They that do the will of the Father, the same is my mother, my brother, my sister." What is the will? Love the Lord with all thy heart, thy mind, thy body; thy neighbor as thyself! SOW the seeds of kindness, helpfulness, longsuffering, gentleness, patience, brotherly love; and leave the INCREASE to the Father, who ALONE can give same either in the spirit, the mind OR the body!
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Being patient even as He. This is the manner in which ye may reach, O the whole earth, even as ye did - Judy - in thy counsel as given thee by thy father then in the flesh, as ye learned, as ye gathered from the counsel of the lessons from the patriarches of old, by the lessons of tradition that ye first - even as he - set to be in order; yea have heard as of old, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth; ye have heard he that does the good, do the good to him; but "I say, he that would smite thee on the right cheek, TURN THOU the other also! He that would sue thee and take away thy cloak, give him thy coat also." Did ye not set these as the very words given by Him who is the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings? For to him who hath overcome - and He standeth at the door and knocks - and YE, as all His servants, His children, His sisters, His brethren - may be co-laborers with Him in the harvest that is ripe.
47. (Q) What is the purpose of my present business position and when will I be freed from it? (A) That ye may reach the more. Each experience, as ye will learn the more and more - as ye see them, just as given - is that ye may serve the better. For how gave He? "He that is greatest among you is servant of all." When shall ye be free from same? When ye have attained, when ye have gained that next step that He may say, "Move on, now; that thy children, those ye have taught, may carry on. Ye are called to the greater service of making known again - by word of mouth or by the pen - the greater lessons of Truth."
48. We are through for the present. Copy to Self - Special Delivery " " Ass'n file