This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Virginia, this 29th day of June, 1938, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [1626], new Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Dr. Henry Hardwicke at N.Y. meeting with Hugh Lynn Cayce.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. [1626] and husband [1610].
R E A D I N G
Born August 11, 1908, in New York City. Time of Reading ... Avenue, 11:15 to 12:05 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., N.Y. (Life Reading)
1. EC: Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [1626].
2. In giving the interpretations of the records (and these we find will be most interesting, some portions rather spectacular in the activities of the entity), that given is chosen with the hope and purpose that the experience and the knowledge of same may be in the activities of the entity in the present a helpful, hopeful thing.
3. Being forewarned, be forearmed. Being given that which may attune, use and apply it in a discrete manner and way. Being given that as a proof as helpful forces, and the knowledge of the experiences, use them as stepping-stones and not letting them become stumbling-stones in thy experience.
4. As to the influences from astrological aspects, numerology, colors, vibrations - we find that all of these to the entity have a meaning, have a purpose in the experience. But ever know, deep within self, these are but urges - yea, as but weather vanes that would indicate the trend of the mind, as the builder; of the desires, as that which may be patterned with the hopes upon which all may be builded.
5. First, then, we would give these as we find indicated that have an influence, and then as to where, how they become a part of the experience; and as to how, in what manner, they may be used in the material applications of the entity in the present.
6. As to stones - rather of ivory, as may be with any colored stone; preferably the chrysolite or amethyst; should be a part of that which would be about the entity - because of the very natural vibrations for the entity. For they will bring as an attunement the quieting, and the entity
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will find that whenever there is a feeling of physical depression, physical reactions that are as dis-ease in the body, the colors in any of these natures or forms will bring quietness to the body; as in having about the body the chrysolite or the amethyst color, in cloth, in drapery, in hangings.
7. These then, understood, are as sympathetic conditions, that to which they bring then the influences of harmony in the experience of the entity mentally, physically, spiritually. These may be seen from activities in the material sojourns of this entity.
8. As to the activities from the astrological aspects, we find Venus oft in the experience of the entity. Hence one that makes friends; one that is BEAUTIFUL in its relationships with duties, obligations, friendships and the like. One given to an experience of expressing these in movements of the body, as in the dance, or as in portions of song or in a line of verse. All of these become as it were a manner, a means of the emotional, spiritual forces of the entity finding expression.
9. Hence we will find that in the experiences during the present sojourn there will be friendships that will be builded that have such a vital force of influence as to become a part of the entity's very expression; though some of these may be for apart in their physical relationships.
10. And there will be or there have been or may be close physical relationships that have gradually or may drift far, far apart in their material or physical activities. All of these arise from the inclinations or tendencies as indicated from the Venus sojourn or Venus experiences.
11. Also we find Mars, Mercury, Uranus AND Neptune as a part of the experiences. And these become, as in their order:
12. At times wrath enters.
13. Then the lessons in the present, as may be a part of the experience; do not let grudges, petty malices, little hates GROW! Wipe them away with the love that is found in the manner of expressions through love itself.
14. From the Mercurian influences we find the high mental abilities; tendencies in which the teaching or the abilities to impart to others become as a natural flow. Yet in the experience there are periods in which the entity will feel as if "I have so little to give," just for the moment; but others when it is overflowing with the emotions to give expression.
15. And these as arise from the Uranian influence bring the associations of the occult, as well as the mystical, from the Uranian and the activities from the Neptune sojourn.
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16. Hence water, parts and portions especially of RUNNING water, rather than sea water or stagnant water, may be an important portion - as has been the experience of the entity materially a portion of the activities in the present sojourn.
17. In summing the influences from the astrological sojourns, then - which arise, as may be said, from the innate:
18. The entity is sensitive, owing to the high mental as well as the artistic abilities. For the influences from Venus as well as the sensitive forces from the mystical Neptune, and the occult from the Uranian and the extremes, become a part of the entity's activities.
19. Hence keep them attuned to an ideal. Not as energies but as purposes within thine own self. And ye will find that ye will grow in the knowledge of, as well as in the ability to apply the beauties not only of nature but the expression of same in the human emotions - just as the experiences in the earthly sojourns give rather the expression through the emotional influences.
20. For ye are body, mind, soul. The astrological express or manifest through thy mind the impressions, thought, influences as may waft themselves by emotions expressed in others.
21. Then, this might be a warning as to those with whom the entity associates, or may associate: Do not choose as companions those too highly emotional. Do not choose those influences that are too highly influenced by the Martian forces, or Mars or wrath or extremes in the activities, who indulge in gratifying of material forces. And see in those with whom the entity may associate, and look for, the harmonies as may be expressed in the mental emotions; rather than the physical emotions of the body.
22. As to the appearances then through the material sojourns, we find - as indicated - some of these rather of a spectacular nature. While all are not given, these are those that as we find through this cycle from thirty-eight ('38) to forty-four ('44) will be the greater influences in the experiences of the material sojourn.
23. Before this, then, we find the entity was in the land of the present nativity; upon a stream - Skyskill (?) or Skillskile (?) - in the land of present nativity [born in New York City]. [Schuylkill - river in Pennsylvania?]
24. The entity was among the early settlers, yet born in this land. Hence the entity was acquainted with much of the hardships and fears as came from associations and activities in a frontiers life - as proverbially called; yet in the
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mental and the real, all of beauty to the entity.
25. And the entity was well acquainted with many of the natives. Hence we will find there is oft in its deeper meditations from the material, a harkening to the voices of those who were as the playmates during those experiences.
26. These ye call materially Indians, but they were thy own brethren in other experiences - as we shall see.
27. Then water, the mill, the ability to dance as it were by the moonlight, the expression of the emotional dance, became as a part of the entity's experience in its early life then.
28. Hardships, through the preparation for the Revolution; then in the latter portion of its sojourn there was a teaching, when there was the application of not only the expressions in what we may term reading or writing or the like, but MECHANICAL activities; as weaving, spinning, knitting, basket weaving - yes, even pottery.
29. And we will find various shapes of such have a peculiar fascination for the entity, if they are colored especially.
30. We may say that the entity gained in the experience throughout. For those harmonious forces as created made for the desires to bring not only comforts but hope into the experiences of those with whom the entity was associated, or with whom it worked or labored.
31. During that experience the entity was married, and had quite a large family - even for those periods of activity - some that rose to quite a position of influence in the activities that came about; and they were as the seeds sown by the entity, as Sarah Putnam - P-u-t-n-a-h-m.
32. Before that we find the entity was in the land when the Master walked in the earth, or during those periods that preceded same.
33. There we find the entity was among those peoples of the land, and associated with those activities about the court of Herod; though not OF the thought nor the purpose of same. The entity was among the dancers before Herod; acquainted with Salome, and with all of those activities.
34. Those periods were as drudgeries oft to the entity. For coming of those peoples that were in authority, yet within self seeing the miserableness from that of self-indulgence, the appetites gratified for bodily forces alone produced revulsions in the experience of the entity.
35. Hence, as has been the warning, do not call in associations or have as thy associates those who oft indulge in gratifying of appetites; or we will find such revulsions arising as to make the experiences and the beauties of life become hardships and stumbling-stones.
36. The entity was acquainted then not only with the
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ministry of John but with the work of Judy [1472] and the activities of the Holy Mother, and the teachings of the Master.
37. Hence we find a comprehension in the experience of the entity in the present of those activities where many varied forms of PROFESSED religious experiences are given.
38. There the entity learned tolerance. Well to hold to that ye gained. The entity gained and lost during the experience, but he that hath gained somewhat even of tolerance - without losing hold on purpose and principle, and ideal - hath gained much.
39. Then the entity, as would be the interpretation in the present, was named Viola, but called rather Vi.
40. In the application of self respecting influences as arise, we will find that types of music suddenly become repulsive to the entity; others - we will find will become as sudden changes, a portion of the extremes in the experience of the entity.
41. These are to be used, not abused in the present.
42. Before that we find the entity was in the land now called the Chaldean, or a portion of Arabia - and a portion of what is called India.
43. There the entity was then a close associate of Esther and Ahasuerus (or Xerxes), in those periods when there was a great deal of revelry, a great deal of bodily indulgences.
44. The entity was close in the activities of the kingdom, though not a part of the revelry. Rather the entity, as would be called, was one that kept peace; not only in the harems but in the King's own household. Not as a supervisor; rather an instructor - especially in the exercises and the types of baths and ornaments and decorations.
45. Hence we will find in the present experience that the activities in which there is the dance or bodily adornments, or the appreciation and the beauty of the body-beautiful, become as a part of the entity's INNATE expressions and manifestations; especially in the ability of handling the hands and the feet and the limbs, the arms. All of these become a part.
46. For as the activities and the beauties of these were the very lessons which the entity made as a part of the experience, these grew into a portion of the emotional forces of the entity.
47. The entity gained throughout the experience, in the name Shumuni.
48. Before that we find the entity was in the Egyptian land, during those periods when there were the greater dispersings
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of the activities of the Priest and those who had begun to disseminate the tenets and truths and activities, especially through the Temple Beautiful.
49. There the entity again, as might be said, was an instructor; in the last of the stations through which the would-be-mothers passed; among the teachers, the ministers.
50. For remember, that portion of the activity was the preparation of the bodies for the presenting of the more perfect bodies to the activities in the material world, through which the spiritual and mental might express.
51. The entity was closely associated and affiliated with all of the activities of the Priest Ra-Ta in that experience, and counseled with the entity often did the Priest - as well as all of those in the activities of the Temple of Sacrifice AND the Temple Beautiful.
52. There the entity gained, and the greater influence in the present MAY be applied from the activities of the entity in THAT particular experience.
53. For as ye sow - body, mind, soul - so does the growth come to that portion of the material experience or body that is continuous, or is the real continuity of consciousness of an individual entity.
54. Before that we find the entity was in the Atlantean land, when there were those activities just prior to the second upheaval in that land.
55. The entity was among the children of the Law of One - a princess; MOST beautiful in its activities as well as in its purposes and desires for those in the land who were but the workers or the drudgeries in those periods of activities.
56. The entity lost some of its favor with a portion of the rulers owing to its sympathy with and its desire to help those of the field, and the activities in the laboring peoples.
57. Yet its beauty, its strength of expression in the manners in which it dealt gentleness and kindness to all, brought great favor among the lowly peoples of the experience.
58. The name then was Mele.
59. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, and that to which it may attain, and how:
60. First, study not in an idle manner - but what ye accomplished through those experiences and sojourns in the material plane and in the material associations. Note especially how, in what manner and with what purpose ye handled the situations through thy associations; and with what thy ideal, or thy star, was directed.
61. And ye will find that thy abilities to bring the greater
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hope in the experiences of others, through the ability of them to express in body - whether in dance, in song, or in the preparations for bringing the young into the earth - will become channels through which souls might give an expression. This ye will not only find this experience in the earth as a joyous period in thy journey through eternity, but joy, peace, harmony, and the light as ye saw in Him through even those turmoils in thy sojourn in Palestine - as the light that leads to the greater crowning of glory in all of thy experiences and thy expressions.
62. Hold to Him as thy light, thy standard; and ye will find peace such as He alone gives, and such as ye will find that is obtained and a part of thee by expressing same and bringing it into the experiences of the hearts and minds of others.
63. The Lord bless thee, the Lord keep thee - cause His face to shine upon thee, and bring thee peace!
64. Ready for questions.
65. (Q) What was my purpose for entering the earth plane for this life? (A) To better fit self for service and in the glory of the EXPRESSING of same.
66. (Q) What have been my relationships in past lives, what urges come from these associations and what may I do to bring about a mutual development with the following, as I name them: [1610], my husband? (A) In the experience just before this, as husband and wife. In the experiences through Atlantis, very much opposed one to another - and in the present do not let the dislikes between each become stumbling-stones. Then magnify rather thy agreements, than disagreements.
67. (Q) [1608] - my sister? (A) Very close associate especially in the experience before this; not sisters but very close associates. During the experience in the Promised Land, again very close associates and kinsmen.
68. (Q) [...] - my daughter? (A) The daughter was the mother in an experience through the activities in the Chaldean or Arabian or Persian Land, and a very close associate in the Egyptian experience.
69. (Q) [...] - former husband? (A) Especially in the Palestine experience; for he was then the companion and associate. These have been worked out. Do not disturb thyself.
70. (Q) What is my seal? (A) The shield as the center; raised, though, rather at the points than in the center, see? and upon same the berry -
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as a snowberry - as chrysolite in color, and the purple as a portion of the outer part - or as the border upon same. The interpretation: The shield of purity in the purposes in the world.
71. (Q) Is there any particular type of dancing in which I should specialize in my teaching? (A) Rather as we find, as indicated, there are two particular forms. The expression of the emotions for the BEAUTY of same; and that preparing the body for motherhood.
72. (Q) Would I be more successful by stressing my work with any particular group such as children - or adults exclusively? (A) As might be drawn from just what is given; children in the expressive dance; adults - or the older - in their preparation for motherhood. For there are movements, there are portions of activities in dance which better fit for such than all the rubbings that may be given!
73. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file