This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the David E. Kahn home, 20 Woods Lane, Scarsdale, N.Y., this 23rd day of November, 1937, in accordance with request made by the self, through her friend, Mr. [1173], sponsored by his sister, Mrs. [1158], 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 January 31, 1909, Akron, Ohio. Time of Reading 11:35 to 12:15 Noon - Eastern Standard Time. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: (In going back to birth date - "1909 - Yes, another Atlantean")
2. Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [1483].
3. In giving the interpretation of the influences from the astrological aspects which become the latent or innate urges, that at times become the intuitive influences, as well as those from the material or earthly sojourns, it should be understood that these are merely urges.
4. These are urges that have been builded by the entity according to the application of the WILL, or CHOICE - that gift to the sons and daughters of men from the Creator.
5. And it is the will or the choice to apply self in relationship to the influences of the divine nature in the experience that makes for the growth, the development; rather than the application of self being chosen from material urges that may arise.
6. For ever the purpose of the entrance into materiality is to manifest the love of the Father as it may become a material application to the children of men; or the whole purpose may be included in these words: "As ye do it unto these, thy brethren, ye do it unto me."
7. Hence the purposes in an experience are for the development of those forces and influences as to make or cause the whole of the entity's being - soul-body, soul-mind - to become more God-like, Christ-like, Christo - Christ-like, or Son-like.
8. For we each are not aliens but sons and daughters of the Father, and we should manifest ourselves in such measures as to be worthy of same - even as has been shown in Him, Jesus the man, Jesus the Christ; by the activities, by that meted to the world.
9. Though the world rejected Him oft, He gave all.
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10. His activities then are ensamples. Hence He is the way. And these the individual soul must manifest.
11. As to the urges then, that are things of which the entity may be forewarned, these we present in that manner as we find which - if they are but applied - may become instructive and constructive in the experience of self.
12. The entity's inclinations astrologically, then, are from Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Mars; and these are the innate forces.
13. Headstrong, yes - at times, to its own consternation.
14. The activities have to do with peoples rather than things. Hence the influences as teaching, writing, those channels through which the activities may give the entity the opportunities for expression of that which has been builded by the very activities through the Mercurian for the high mental forces - if they are ever tempered with spiritual constructiveness - become as the means for not only giving of self in service in such a manner, but by the very application grow more and more in that consciousness of the self and soul being unfolded to the awareness of the divine within.
15. From the Venus influences that arise, with Mars, we find the inclinations for periods of great sympathy - as is also received from the application in the material or earthly sojourn of Atlantis, that becomes a portion (in these very influences) of where anger or wrath may at times - not in self, but that as may be attracted about the entity - bring very disturbing influences and forces. And the entity becomes SO sensitive, by the very forces from the Venus sojourn of love and sympathy, friendship and the like, as to become cross at times at those insinuations that are not intended by others; or to insinuate in its very self those influences that arouse or cause disturbances in the minds of others. And the entity, though unaware, has thus allowed SELF to be expressed rather than the purposefulness of its experience in its associations with others.
16. As to the appearances in the earth:
17. While these we find not so great in number, they are very distinctive forces - and very varied, as it were - for the developments of those influences arising that become known in the material expressions as the emotional forces of the entity-soul, or entity itself.
18. Before this, then, we find the activities of the entity were in the land of its present nativity during those periods or ages when there were the settlings in and about what is now the southernmost portion of Erie, the southernmost portion of Cleveland, and those portions about
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what was later known as Dearborn.
19. Hence a pioneer, yes; one endeavoring through the very material and physical activities to bring peace and harmony out of chaos, out of the newness of activity, the opportunities to give self-expression without the confining influences of those things that were held as the natures of custom or the natures of prudence.
20. Hence we find the entity becomes in the present experience quite radical at times in activities of individuals, and that that is custom, and those things that have to do with rote or routine. These arise in the experience of the entity AS influences over which the entity must oft manifest its ideal for its better judgments or developments.
21. The name then was Eva Sulcer.
22. It may be said that the entity through the experience gained, lost, gained; in that there came those periods when there were the desires for self-aggrandizement rather than of the whole - as to that to which the entity made acclamation rather than proclamation during the experience.
23. The experience before that we find was during those periods when there was the returning of many of those from foreign lands to what is known as the Roman experience, during those periods of the establishment of churches of the Christian faith.
24. The entity was among those of the royal household, yea among those of Caesars - being of those households that arose to power through the death of the Caesar without physical issue.
25. That period was not so good in soul development of the entity. For the ability to lord over others, by the natural position to which the entity arose, created the lack of desire for service; rather the desire to be served than to serve. Rather there was the desire for preference to be shown, rather than meting to those with whom the entity was associated the influences that might become hopeful, helpful, constructive in the experiences and the activities.
26. We find the entity's name then was Eulalia, as would be interpreted or in the present, though by those of the period it was called Algia [?].
27. The entity did not gain through the experience. The entity will meet self oft in the activities in the present from that sojourn.
28. Hence there must be in the present the decision, the choice, as to WHAT is the ideal.
29. Yet from the material angle we find those activities enable the entity to be a leader, to be a director. Yet
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these must NOT be, these SHOULD not be for self-exploitation, or for the exploitation of others for self's satisfaction, in ANY sense - if there is to be the development for self, soul development for self, in the present.
30. Service, then, is that to which the entity must arise as a key to the every mental, material and spiritual accomplishment in the present.
31. Before that we find the entity was in those lands in the 'city in the hills and the plains,' being among the Persians who made acclamation for and who were active in the "city" that arose for commercial understanding and accomplishments, as well as for teaching, ministering.
32. There the entity gained and lost in its activities. For with the rise to the positions that allowed the opportunities for preferences because of position, because of accumulations of material things, the entity lost.
33. Then the entity was known as Vesta.
34. In the present experience from that sojourn we find that judgments along the lines of things and conditions and peoples become a part of the entity's innate self, and there are the abilities to SENSE conditions in the activities and lives of others.
35. Used aright, these become a constructive thing; used in error they may become destructive in the application.
36. Before that we find the entity was in the Atlantean land, when there were the choices to be made between the sons of the Law of One and the sons of Belial.
37. There the entity attempted all too oft to play, as it were, the influences and activities of the one as against the other; or to carry the material blessings and the spiritual understandings without thought as to that being builded in the inner self.
38. Hence those activities there, as Ex-ela, made for periods when many wondered at, many made moves for, and trusted and acted in, the associations of the entity; when - as it would be termed today - the entity proved faithless rather than faithful.
39. But from that experience we find that the greater understanding and comprehension may come in the present, if those tenets of Him who is the light, the hope, the way, are sought and applied.
40. Keep in that light, in EVERY way, that there may come the closer walks with Him, the closer concepts of spiritual understanding and application in the dealings with thy fellow man.
41. Ready for questions.
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42. (Q) Have I known the entity [1173] in a previous experience, and, if so, in what relationship? (A) In those experiences in the land about the frontiers, as has been indicated, the entity was close associated - or the wife of the friend whom the entity [1173] visited oft.
43. (Q) The entity Moon Trail, now on spirit side, has stated positively through his medium in trance, Horace Hambling, that it is correct for me to marry the entity [1173]. Is this positive approval justified? (A) There is much to be met in the present, it is true, from those activities in that experience. As to how there is to be the meeting of same, well - the choice must be made - there must come the answer to that within. To say that such should be the relationship would be assuming the responsibility that rests with the individual choice. There is much that is hindering in these directions, for that which would be the best in either.
44. (Q) Why does the entity [1173] continue so long uncertain? (A) When the conditions of the experience just previous are viewed from the faithlessness that existed then, is there a wonder?
45. (Q) Were they associated then? (A) As has just been indicated.
46. (Q) What should he do to arrive at an understanding? (A) Seek within self.
47. (Q) How much longer should I wait for him to arrive at an understanding? (A) Choose thou thine OWN self to arrive at an understanding. There are others with whom [1173] would be MUCH happier. As to whether there are others with whom there is more to be worked out, is a question; but the choices must be made in self.
48. (Q) Any further advice to me in the working out of this problem? (A) Keep thy heart and mind in the love of the Christ-Consciousness. This will bring the greater joys in thine own material experience.
49. We are through for the present. Two copies to [1173] Copy to Ass'n file