This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 14th day of June, 1938, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [1616], new Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by a friend who heard Mr. Hugh Lynn Cayce at N. Y. meeting in May.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Born March 6, 1894, in Habana, Cuba. Time of Reading 10:55 to 11:25 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. New York City. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: (In going back over years from present, "1919 - a change in environ and surrounding - '12, '9 - " etc., on back to birth date.)
2. Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called Miss [1616].
3. In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them here, these are chosen with the intent and purpose that if there is the application of the counsel that may be given this entity, there will be the finding of self and its relationships to the Creative Forces as may be manifested through the application of the abilities and talents towards its fellow man; to make for peace, contentment throughout the rest of the present sojourn.
4. As we find from the records, the entity may be said to be "sensitive" to many varying influences. And owing to the choices the entity has experienced a great deal of turmoil through the last few years, for the very fact of intuition - or going as it might be said AGAINST intuition, or to the advice of others without really analyzing the motivative influences in the experience - has brought confusion.
5. These as we find are as influences; not that these BRING conditions to pass, but they are channels, vibrations that are created about the entity that may have their impression upon the imaginative forces and influence them within the entity for greater or better activity.
6. DO NOT lay aside the rosary! Have about the entity stones that are red; as the bloodstone, the ruby, or everything of that nature - in stone but NOT in hangings or draperies.
7. The odors of sandalwood or orris and violet are well; for these, when the entity meditates, create an environment for the entity.
8. For as the entity muses - and as will be seen through the
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experiences as well as the abilities that have in a manner had their training - the entity should WRITE; poetry or song, both fact and fiction.
9. Data that may be gathered by others may be analyzed by the entity and so arranged as to be made a helpful experience in the lives of others.
10. Hence books of poems, especially as of Barrett-Browning. For the entity has a close drawing to the abilities as rested in each; and associated in other experiences as a hopefulness one to another.
11. In those activities then, do not become embroiled in arguments with others. Let the intuition and the truths that are the thought of the self be rather the guiding; studying all things that pertain to the relationships of individuals to others AS a manifestation of God's love to the fellow man.
12. Hence as ye study - in thine OWN counsel - the lives of those who had, yea that manifested, a mission in the earth, and by their activity have changed the map as it were, opened the way for the prayer that He gave, "May I and the world (not of the world, but) be one, even as Thou and I are one," these will offer channels through which the entity will find peace; yea, find joy in a service.
13. In giving then the interpretations of the astrological aspects, these as we find have been very contrary as it were. For the entity has listened to voices without, and has not realized or held to that inner knowledge that thy body is indeed the temple of the living God, and that it is there - in the recesses of thine own heart, in the holy of holies of thy consciousness - He has promised to speak with thee, and direct thee in the ways thou should go.
14. Know as the psalmist that when others have forsaken thee, the Lord will bear thee up, and will cover thee with His promises of love. And it is then thy measure of faith, yea thy measure of service that ye just be patient and kind, even to those who have at times so despitefully used thee.
15. Thus ye will find that the answer to thy problems comes in that promise as He gave, "Take then my yoke upon thee and learn of me, for my yoke is easy, my burden is light; to those who abide in the household of faith."
16. As we find in the astrological influences, then; Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, Mercury have been a part of the experience.
17. The entity has loved well materially; not always wisely. For being so intuitive, so loving as to be taken advantage of, the results have not been in keeping with the intent. Hence it has been given to such, "Be ye wise as serpents but harmless as doves," speaking evil of none; finding whereunto
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there is rather the COOPERATIVE point of contact with each phase of human experience and human endeavor, knowing and realizing that no power exists save as is allowable by the Father.
18. And he whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and purgeth every one; that they may bear fruit indeed in Him. Not such that the teeth of the children of men are set on edge by the sourness of their lives, but rather that there is the stimulation to activity.
19. Not neglectful of the little things, not unmindful of the humbleness necessary. Knowing He is not a respecter of persons. For he that is the greatest is indeed the servant of all.
20. Jupiter is the protective influence; and if there is the application of self in the directions indicated - when Jupiter and Venus enter a conjunction through the latter portions of the present year - there should begin an unfoldment for the entity that may become as beautiful as the harts upon the hills and as the ripple of the many waters; that bring the joy in their life-giving forces as well as their purging of body and mind for a more beautiful service to Him.
21. In Uranus we find the extremes; but know that ONLY in the Christ do extremes meet. Hence weigh well - as ye analyze thy activities, thy associations; and know that good emanates from good intent and purpose. For as ye sow, so ye reap. And as ye cultivate the promptings of giving the cup of water, so may thy life be filled with the water of truth and light in which no one thirsteth that drinketh deep of those purposes that prompt same - for HIS love.
22. We find from Mercury the mental abilities and the beautiful visions that have opened at times to the entity in the abilities when there appeared as if the affluence of the environ of self might arise and bring into the associations that which was materially beautiful.
23. All the beauty, all the love is of the Father. All the selfishness, all the hate, all the spite are of those things that make us aware of our facing the shadows rather than the light.
24. Then right about face and keep thy face TOWARD the sunlight of truth, as is shown in Him; and the shadows will fall far behind.
25. As to the appearances in the earth, we find these not great in numbers in the present influencing the experience. Though far and varied in their activities, we find these ARE mindful in the influences they bear upon thyself in the present.
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26. Before this we find the entity was in the land now known as the Mexican and Yucatan land, during those periods when there were the voices of the peoples in the land proclaiming that there had come a new revelation to those that had been strangers in a portion of the land.
27. The entity was among the priestesses of the Mayan experience. It was just before that period when those as from the east had come, and there were the beginnings of the unfoldments of the understanding that there were other portions of the same land, or those that were visiting from other worlds or planets. [GD's note: Psychic experiences of prehistory? Space Ships, flying saucers?]
28. The entity journeyed with those from her own abode, where there were those attempts for the closer communion, and the material things had brought distortions in the experience.
29. For blood had been spilled in sacrifice, and these were as torments to the entity; yet the counselors and those in the positions of trust had ordered thus.
30. Hence we find in the present experience those things that require the spilling of blood, as of sacrifices that take hold upon the destruction of others, become as torments as it were to the entity.
31. Yet we find how and why, from those experiences, the entity seeks to delve into the mysteries of those who have set this or that as a pattern of rote to and through which minds may be bent or trained to acquiring certain EXPERIENCES in their material life.
32. The name then was Mu-el.
33. Before that we find the entity was in the earth during the days when the Master walked in the earth, and in and about those portions where there were the journeyings of the Master into strange lands - or out of the Palestine or Galilean land.
34. The entity was among those who heard, yea that saw the activities when the influences were driven from the man in the Gadarene land.
35. There the entity caught hold upon the very foundations of that as He gave, "Father, God!" Those were new experiences to the entity, yea to those influences during that experience. For hate and recompense, and sacrifice to satisfy the appetites, had been the tenets of the entity.
36. Yet as Sarai, in the experience the entity set about the teachings and gatherings of the young as well as the stranger, to give those tenets and lessons that were gathered here and there by that visit into that land.
37. Hence we find the entity holding and the entity losing.
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38. Hold on to that as He, the man, stood for; and as He the author and finisher of faith may stand for in the experience of the entity in the present.
39. Let thy activities then be in the present through thy writing, through thy counseling with those who are of the ages not only of unfoldment but when they have reached that age in the material experiences when that which is behind is misunderstood, and that which is ahead becomes as great, great problems. To these ages may the entity appeal in the greater way and manner.
40. Before that we find the entity was in the Egyptian land, when there were those activities that had caused the Priest to be banished.
41. The entity, a native of the land to which the Priest was banished, returned with the Priest into the Egyptian land; offering - in body and mind - ALL of self in service for those principles, those tenets which had been embraced by the teachings of that Priest.
42. Hence we find the entity arising to a place of trust in the manner and means of counseling with those who presented themselves to those Temples; to those conditions wherein there was the choice to lay aside the appurtenances and the things that may be said to weaken the will in the gratifying of the body rather than in the purifying of the mind for a growth into spiritual understanding.
43. There the entity gave great aid and counsel, and many, many called Ab-Alban blessed. For the entity was among those who had the ability to change the color, change the activities, through the vibrations of stone as well as the odors, as were about the body.
44. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then:
45. Study self, and His promises to thee. Outline thy life in the ways and manners that have been indicated. Do not be pulled hither and yon. For a purpose ye have been called into a land not of thine own nativity. Ye have a place to fill.
46. Then let Him guide thee in thy counsel, through thy writing, through thy activities; whether in music, prose, poetry or song. All of these may be a part of thy experience.
47. And let thy meditation ever be, "HERE AM I, O Lord! Send me!"
48. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file