This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 3rd day of February, 1938, in accordance with request made by the self - through recommendation and sponsorship of Mr. [437], Active Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., and Miss [1101].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Born October 23, 1914, in New York City. Time of Reading 11:25 to 12:05 Noon - Eastern Standard Time. ..., N.C. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called Mr. [1528].
2. In giving the interpretations of the records here, the import is to be helpful in the entity's fulfilling the purposes for its entrance into materiality in the present experience.
3. Hence for this entity warnings as well as praise may be given.
4. It is not merely that one is to be successful in an economic, social OR in ANY manner, but that there may be such an adherence to ideals - that are of the creative nature - as to make a growth of the soul; as well as magnifying the mental influences and forces of the entity in an experience.
5. For as it hath been well said, what benefits if one gain the whole world yet loses his own soul?
6. Then in interpreting the records here of the entity, we find the entity is affected - or influenced - by astrological sojourns that find expression in the material experience through the INNATE or soul-expression; as in visions, as in that which arises from the inner self; as well as the influences from the material experiences that find greater manifestations in the emotional or physical-emotional self - which become, in the experience of many, those things that - if allowed to become the subjugations to habits that are not CONSTRUCTIVE become detrimental forces in the way of the attempt of the self to gratify material desire.
7. In giving then that as may be helpful:
8. As indicated, both praise and warning will be a part of the experience here. Use these, do not pass over them lightly; for they may become blessings, applied in this present experience.
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9. From the astrological aspects:
10. We find Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune as the ruling influence; though Neptune as detrimental, from a material angle, rather than beneficent. These produce - though without regard to the application of the urges - these influences:
11. One that will most always receive praise and such from the opposite sex. But this may be used or applied in such manners as may be beneficial or detrimental, dependent upon the manner and the SINCERITY of the self as to treating, meeting all such advances in a manner as ye would desire to be done by.
12. This influence also produces an artistic temperament - and in the field of the unusual, or MECHANICAL APPLICATIONS IN THOSE DIRECTIONS would be the fields for the greater expression. Yet the abilities to make same creative in their influence upon the human experience may be praiseworthy, if that purpose is kept.
13. Hence in those fields where there is the requiem of patience, persistence and the like may the entity find means and channels of not only bringing into the experience of self that needed as a means for self-development in patience, but through same bring into being those things that are and will be beneficial not only for their BEAUTY but for their EFFECT upon the activities and the relationships that many individuals bear one towards another.
14. As in the study of the effect of fungi on grain in its fruiting or mating. Or the effect of the unfoldment of the blossom as it may be affected by the activity of the insect world in ITS becoming fruit or flower or blossom.
15. Not as the botanist, not as the ornithologist, but rather as one that may picturize or photograph such IN its relationships to ESTABLISH the EFFECTS of same UPON its relation to the human needs or to man's development.
16. These abilities arise from the very nature of the activities of the entity in the Venus forces.
17. Hence there will be required that patience and persistence be the key to the developments of such. The abilities are existent, but do not become impatient because of things that might be said by others as to the slowness of progress that might MATERIALLY be made. Look upon, then, the benefits that may accrue from the efforts to the many, rather than the FIRST premise being that of MATERIAL gain to self.
18. Through the Jupiterian influence we find the effect of the activities in such fields of endeavor becoming rather of
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a universal nature than individual, but affecting the masses; though the activity is INDIVIDUAL within self rather than individual within groups OF masses.
19. The inclination from Saturn will make for the interests in many fields of endeavor. Or because of the mental abilities of the entity, the entity may be attracted to this, that or the other FORM of endeavor. But in those fields as indicated may we find the greater material and mental successes, as well as the eventual material (worldly called) success.
20. Let, then, material success be the outcome of SINCERE endeavor to be constructive and creative in the applications of abilities, rather than the first premise of the activities in any field.
21. As to the warnings; that come from the Neptune influence:
22. Do not invest moneys in any field that has to do with boats or maritime affairs, or things upon the water. Be very careful of water, or in endangering self by many trips in small crafts over same. Or else we will find its demands upon the PHYSICAL abilities, the physical effect of the body itself.
23. Make precautions during the thirty-third (33rd) year especially, for then there may be - through the adverse influence of these forces or influences - that which may take away the MATERIAL efforts of the entity to that time. Be not overcome by disappointments or failures, but rather use each failure as a STEPPING-STONE for MAKING the corrections in the endeavors.
24. Know that the field chosen is correct; then labor therein.
25. Well that there be carried on the person the sardonyx stone (that is, in its semi-precious state); either in statuettes, pins, buttons, or a piece of same carried. Not as a protection but rather for the vibratory forces that influence the choices made by the mental forces of the entity itself. Statuettes, frames or the like are well. Much of the same vibrations may be obtained from using those combinations of stone made from the soya bean; that may act in much the same capacity. Figures made of same are well to have about the entity's SLEEPING quarters or abode.
26. As to the appearances of the entity in the material plane, and those that affect the entity in the present:
27. Before this we find the entity's experience was cut short in just those periods when there were the beginnings of the activities; by wrath (in part), and the desire to be ALONE in part; and forcing self upon the great waterways.
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28. The entity was one above the ordinary - Shelley; Hamilton Shelley; and was in the land of the present nativity, following close in those activities of song, poetry that meant or proclaimed an ability that would bring great understanding, great renown. Yet by the very indulgences, by the very desires of keeping aloof, keeping alone, there was brought a watery grave - in what is now off the coasts of Providence and Newport, Rhode Island, as it is called.
29. In the experience the entity made for gains, for losses.
30. But those warnings as for water, those warnings concerning the periods when the astrological forces (of Neptune) are adverse to its material gains, those warnings as for its activities in the PHYSICAL protection, arise from the experiences in that sojourn.
31. Before that we find the entity was in the Roman land, during those periods when there were the greater attempts of the Romans to overcome or to apply much of the activities from the Grecians in their games, in those things that grew to be material hardships in the experience physically of many.
32. Yet the entity was among those that were rather of the artist type; being the teacher and the trainer among those, then, in the name Eldeun.
33. In the experience the entity gained, for there were those applications, there were those tenets proclaimed that the preservation of the body - in its beauty, in its activity - was not only for the material gain but for that MENTAL condition which it produced within the experience of the individual; which becomes so akin to the constructive forces as of the building within the experience of each and every soul.
34. Some call such GOODNESS, some call such GODLIKE, some call such SELF-PRESERVATION; but it is rather the natural law of the spiritual influences within the higher moral and mental influences among the children of men! and comes from without - and by having an ideal that is not material but spiritual in its essence, and being and living true and sincere to same.
35. Before that we find the entity was in the "city in the hills and the plains," the Persian and the Arabian land; when there were those teachings of the leader Uhjltd, and when there were many of those that were gathered to and against the activities there - because of the very actions that had been brought about by the natives of which the leader or the teacher Uhjltd was a part, and because of the material things that arose from the activities from the
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Persian throne and those conditions roundabout.
36. The entity then was one of those leaders of the peoples that gathered with Uhjltd, yet attempted first to take away the influence and the power of that teacher in the early periods of his activity; and the entity was SECOND in command, becoming a power among the nomad peoples in the experience.
37. Some of the experiences were used for self-gain, by raids made upon the caravans turned that way. Later these abilities were turned into the activities that brought about the concept of right and wrong; not for that which satisfied the bodily desires but being equal as one with another.
38. The name then was Ebesus, and the entity was an artist - one that read from the MARKS in the sand during its latter periods, because of the associations with the leader and the raising up of its position after the injuries in the raid were healed by the leader of its own group.
39. Before that we find the entity was in the Egyptian land, now known; when there was the separating of the people into their activities in the varied fields of commerce, law, order; when there were the teachings, the developings, the activities following or during the periods of the high development.
40. The entity was one that was what would be called now the architect, or the artist, or the planner of those things that were put into execution in the varied fields; whether stonecutting, erecting of pyramids, or designing of ships, or those things pertaining to means, modes and manners of transportation, and the building of storehouses and the manner of the receiving and the exchange of such wares.
41. Then the name was Is-Tud-Ella; and the entity rose to one in authority; and his services were sought not only by the people of its own land but by those of many lands.
42. And the only influence in which the detrimental forces came was in the attempts of the entity to SEPARATE the sex [sects?] in their activities as related to the services from the Temple Beautiful.
43. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, and that to which it may attain, and how:
44. First, be true to self - its inner self. Know that the Lord thy God has promised to meet thee within thine own self. Look then oft within as to what are thy purposes, thy desires. Are they for secular purposes only, without the thought of the effect they may have upon thy fellow man? or for the gain of fortune or fame without respect to the good that may be given through thy efforts?
45. For that ye give, that alone will ye possess.
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46. Keep the body, the mind, the purpose CLEAN! Seek to know what thy Father-God would have thee to do, and ye may through thy efforts, in seeking the unusual for the beneficent effects in the affairs and conditions of men, bring to thyself peace and harmony - as well as material gains.
47. For without the peace and harmony in the inner self, with all the gains life indeed is a failure.
48. With peace and harmony, and the beauty of the nature of THINGS and conditions and affairs kept in thy purposes, ALL may come to thee that is good.
49. Keep the warnings, keep the purposes.
50. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Mr. [437], Air Mail to ..., Calif. " " Miss [1101], ..., N.Y.C. " " Ass'n file