This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 19th day of June, 1938, in accordance with request made by self - Mrs. [1472], Active Member of the Association for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Hugh Lynn Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading Set bet. 10:30 to 11:30 A. M. Taken 12:40 to 1:30 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. N.Y.C.
1. GC: You will have before you the entity [1472] born May 5, 1880 in Bowling Green, Va., and who is in her apartment at the ..., New York City. This entity seeks enlightenment and help in her work, in her human relationships and problems which are presented. She seeks release from her present duties for the utilization of her gifts and talents along lines more in accord with her training and abilities. In answering the questions which she has submitted, give both the retarding and developing factors in her relationships that the entity may serve more and find the greatest possible development in this experience.
2. EC: Yes, we have the records of the entity here, now called [1472]; with the information that has been given respecting same.
3. In the study or the analysis of the conditions and circumstances that are a portion of the entity's experience, if these are still considered problems, detriments, because here or there there is a latent or manifested aversion, then these will - with the under standing, as the entity should have - still remain problems; and little there may be done to release self so long as there is the recognition of problems, of animosities, of likes or dislikes as related to the purposes
4. This has been a portion of the entity's training, and yet the entity seeks for the use of that in which it has been trained?
5. How readest thou those conditions that were a part of thy development through those periods in which the entity as the teacher, as the prophetess, sought to prepare its peoples, those with whom it came in contact, for those lessons that were and are a part of the experience of each and every soul that enters the material sojourn for a purposeful life?
6. Have ye learned that as He gave, and as ye proclaimed as the manner and way in which paths would be made straight?
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that if thine enemy smite thee, turn the other cheek? and he that looketh on a body to lust has already done those things that are not in keeping with true, pure lives? or if ye listen to those who would tempt thee for this or that purpose wherein it might make thy activities of ease and comfort without the thought of that it would bring into the experiences of others?
7. What meaneth these? As He gave - love alone begetteth love; purity alone begetteth purity. These things then should be cultivated in thy experience, and in thy dealings with thy fellow man.
8. Do ye have one standard for he whom thou likest and to whom ye are drawn, and another standard for they that would despitefully use you? Do ye have one measurement for those who would praise, and another for those who would counsel or rebuke thee?
9. Have ye forgotten that whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, He purgeth? even as His own, in those experiences through which He was led, in those associations and relations with those He loved as His companions, as His neighbors?
10. These are all a part of thy own experience, and in thy dealings with thy fellow man these must become not only tenets, not only for the use and application in the experiences of others but they must enter into, they must be a part of thy own dealings with problems (as ye call them), situations (if ye like), stumbling-stones (if ye set them up as such).
11. Rather let them be that upon which ye will rise as upon the wings of thought, that make for that building into the experiences as to bring those awakenings, those awarenesses of Him whom ye proclaimed so thoroughly, into the hearts and minds.
12. For as Mind is the Builder, that ye dwell upon, that ye cultivate, THAT is the manner of fruit ye bear in thy daily life.
13. For the fruits of the spirit - yea, that as is sought; and to be loved in thy own life - are peace, harmony; not at the expense of thy Lord, but with Him keep the paths straight! "For if ye love me, I and the Father will come and abide with thee."
14. These are not mere words. They may be thy own experience, they may be thy very life!
15. Seek not for the fame or the fortune that alone makes for those things that hinder and belittle humbleness and service. For he that is the greatest is indeed the servant of all. He that would have life must indeed give life, if
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he would know that life is indeed the expression of that we worship as the Father-God.
16. Ready for questions.
17. (Q) In answering all the questions asked regarding my work in both my former readings I was given great spiritual impetus and valued it - (A) [Interrupting] Then USE it! Then apply it! Then keep it, and cherish it!
18. (Q) [Continuing] but what I most want and seem to need at present is guidance and help as to how I may break the continuous obstruction to my writing and to my radio work. Can you advise and instruct me in the matter? (A) What you WANT and what you have may be entirely different! Then change that ye want to be in keeping with THAT He would have thee do! Not the prayer, "Lord, do this - do that - for I am thine!" Rather let thy prayer be, "Here am I, Thy servant, Thy handmaid - USE ME in the fields of service, in the fields of activity where THOU seest, O God, I may be the greater service to my fellow man!"
19. (Q) How may I break the continuous obstruction to my writing and to my radio work? (A) Just in the manner as indicated. Let that be held and cultivated, "Where Thou seest, O God, that it may be of service - and that I may serve - use it in the way and manner as Thou seest." And as ye open your body and your mind and your heart to these probabilities and possibilities, then ye become imbued with that power. It is not what is said, it is the spirit and the purpose for which it is sought and said. He that would break down, he that can stumble for Christ's sake, he that can be made ashamed for His sake winneth that which fame or fortune or power may NOT bring - the consciousness of His presence abiding within! Tear aside, as it were, the veil that separates thee from the pure white light of the Christ-Consciousness. Ye have experienced it again and again. Then harken not to the fleshpots that would make thy way easy, for Easy Sake. Trust wholly in Him, and He will do thee good!
20. (Q) Will I ever have sufficient financial freedom to enable me to work without consideration of money, and if so when? (A) This of course - as to every one MINDED of material welfare - presents a problem. When self is turned entirely loose, and the reliance is upon Him - . How did He give? Consider the lilies of the valley. They
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toil not, neither do they spin; yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed as one of these! When taking thought of the morrow, do you add one cubit to your stature? do you add one hope? Rather you add one stumbling stone or a stepping-stone. Consider, as He gave, the birds of the air they are His and He provideth for them. Did He not give you these? Do you hold to the world and to spiritual truths also? Or do you apply them in thy hopes, in thy problems, in thy activities? Yea, ye call this impractical - for ye are in a practical and a commercial and a business world, and these must be considerations. Yea - but how usest thou them? Yes, it will come to thee if ye apply thyself. Whose IS the silver and the gold? Whose IS the power, the might, the light, the hope? Who is the giver of these? They that serve Him. These are lent to those who are His. They are opportunities, then, in thy own experience.
21. (Q) Should I withdraw the money I have for investment with the Young Management Corporation, or leave it there? (A) For the present, leave it there. After October, remove it.
22. (Q) If, as you stated, I have always come to the earth plane at periods of great awakenings to forward the progress of the human race, how can I best achieve this purpose in my present incarnation? (A) By making practical daily application of the knowledge thou hast in hand.
23. (Q) Have I ever been, or will I ever be the wife of the entity now known as [1151], and if so when and where? (A) We do not find the entity having been. As to whether there will be - this is a possibility but not a probability, unless there are great changes in the experiences of each. For the ways and manners take different directions of activity.
24. (Q) When, where, and what was my relationship to my daughter, the entity now known as [...] in any other incarnations, and why are our concepts and purposes so far apart in this present earth sojourn? (A) There may have been many. There is this association that arises from the activities that have gradually grown to be a portion of the problems (as ye make them) in the present: In the Palestine sojourn, then the daughter was the sister -
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and averse to the entity's making those activities in associations with the sect or group with which the entity was then affiliated or associated. Hence we find the greater problems have been between self and daughter in the present regarding individuals and associations with groups or corporations and the activities of same. One is an outgrowth, the other an ingrowth from the applications of those experiences during that particular sojourn. [See 1472-13, Par. 20-A.]
25. (Q) Have I ever had a former relationship with my two grandchildren, the entities now known as [...], [...] and if so when, what and where? (A) These we find again, in that same experience, as friends or associates; and helpful experiences. And as ye find, to the one ye wish to give all; to the other ye wish to continue to correct in the choices - which is the outgrowth of the experiences and activities that were a part of that sojourn. [See 1472-13, Par. 19-A.]
26. (Q) When, where and what was my relationship in other incarnations with the entity now known as [2505] and what is the purpose of my present association with him? (A) This as we find might best be had by the paralleling of the activities of [2505]. As we find from thy own associations - in the Palestine experience the entity [2505] was one who DIRECTED the entity in a portion of its training. We may find in the present, then, the attempts to deflect the entity's activities into those fields that may to the entity often be questionable ones; yet they may be demonstrated in manners in which in the last day may be such as: "Did we not in thy name do this and that?" and He will say, "I never knew you."
27. (Q) Do I understand that I should develop or curtail the association? (A) Just being forewarned, be forearmed. Running away or hiding from contacts or associations that are met through the activities does not alter the situations; nor does it alter the problems. For to hide from one only makes it more concentrated in another. Being forewarned, then, be forearmed. How did He give? He that is aware of the thief that would break in would be prepared for same. [See 2505-1, 5/21/41.]
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28. (Q) Will the conference regarding a moving picture contract I recently had in Hollywood bring satisfactory results, and if so how soon will the arrangement be concluded? (A) As we find, it may bring offers not satisfactory in their first premise. Later, if changes are brought about, these may bring about associations and relations that may prove to be an OUTLET for the entity's abilities in many directions. But not before the beginning of another cycle or year.
29. (Q) Will I ever get into the moving picture field, and if so will I be successful in it? (A) Will I ever get in the way of an automobile, or go up in a balloon? This depends upon choices as are made by and through opportunities sought the application of the mind in those directions! As has just been given, there will be presented an agreement - or an OPPORTUNITY. As given, it will NOT be in keeping with the greater desires but later may be changed. Then, if the choice is to do or to keep in the way that has been set - this is a matter of today, now, CONTINUALLY meeting the opportunities that are set. But what is thy measuring stick? What are thy desires? What are thy purposes?
30. (Q) Why was my microphone program in ... discontinued, and what can I do to get it continued? (A) As we find, fear was the basis of the cause. How many reported to thee favorably on the program? That same number may ask for its continuance. If only one-tenth answer, it will be continued.
31. (Q) What work can I do to lessen the crimes and injustices against the children of the world? (A) Whose children are they? These problems are only - ye may sow the seed day by day and leave the results of their growth to Him that doeth all things well. Great is the inclination in many - and it groweth in thee - "I would see that I would do come to full POWER in the moment!" The knowledge of God, the correction of things and conditions, is a growth. He then that would be the greater must be content - not satisfied, but content - in doing today; wherever it may be spoken, wherever it may be written AGAINST such - not as Ye
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deem a crime, but that which is against the tenets of His "Suffer little children to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of God." Only in that attitude and that approach. He careth for them. All of thy boasting, all of thy ranting or raving may not change one. It is only what ye do with those ye meet day by day. As ye speak to those even that are CONSIDERED not capable of thinking, ye may do so in such a manner that the crimes against the young in every walk and phase may take root and grow to be miracles or crimes! That ye have become cognizant of it shows that ye must do something about it! Not that ye may make laws, not that ye may control laws; but ye can LIVE that ye believe! [See 1472-3 Reports, letter of 8/1/39 in re children and karmic relationship.]
32. (Q) Before my spiritual awakening I had ample opportunity to use my writing ability. Since I have been thus enlightened the utilization of this gift has seemed blocked in every direction. Why is this and what can I do to regain that opportunity? (A) Whom He loveth He chasteneth, and He purgeth every one - that they may bring forth MORE fruit, BETTER fruit! Or how did He give? The children of this world APPEAR to be wiser, in their OWN generation, than the children of light. Are ye not able, are ye not willing to drink of the cup of which ye have taken hold?
33. (Q) If, as you have said, I was a prophetess, healer, teacher and writer in my Palestine sojourn, why does so-called sacred history give no record of me or my work? (A) Ye were of the Essenes; not of the Jews nor even the Samaritans!
34. (Q) Please explain the discrepancies in the dates given me in my Palestine reading. If, as stated, I was 24 when Jesus was born; he was 33 when He began His ministry, and I lived 67 years after his crucifixion, I would have been 124 when I died - instead of 91 as given. (A) It's the change in the period from which the reckoning was counted. Or as ye have 24, this SHOULD be 4 - and then the change in the reckonings.
35. (Q) You stated in my Palestine reading that I am now called to proclaim by word of mouth and through my writing
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the truths I presented to the world two thousand years ago, yet I am functioning in a largely commercial job with the avenues for both my writing and radio work closed. Can you explain this seeming contradiction and tell me what to do about it? (A) Where, in what and in whom do the extremes or contradictions meet? Only in one - Jesus, the Christ! the Christ-Consciousness representing what in thy daily experience, thy daily contacts? whether in the street, in the commercial life, in the world of every nature? MIND! In the expressing then of those tenets, one WORD in the associations may change - as ye have so well presented from time to time. Lay hold on that thou hast in hand and KNOW - how did He give to Pilate? that no one hath power of ANY nature except it is allowed by or of God! Then where thou ART, sow the seed - by word, by writing. These will come to mean that in the experience of the many, as they did in thy experiences in Judea.
36. (Q) When, where, and what was my relationship to the entity now known as [1158] in any other incarnations? (A) All of these should be known by the paralleling and the studying of that given, which should explain every When, Where and What! But these should be kept in their proper relationship! Remember, these are RELATIVE! With this individual we do not find a contact.
37. (Q) Have you any further instructions or suggestions you would care to give me for my work and service? (A) We would care to give you all! Will ye take hold of that ye have today? Then turn within and take thyself to task. Not as to whether ye may eat tomorrow or not, but say to thy soul - not to thy body, "[1472], where leadest thou thy neighbor?"
38. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file