This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 25th day of February, 1928, in accordance with request made by self - Mr. [1629].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mr. L. B. Cayce and Thos. B. House.
R E A D I N G
Born Nov. 24, 1882, or 1883, Jacuita, Miss. Time of Reading 3:50 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Ala.
1. GC: You will give the relation of this entity and the universe, and the universal forces, giving the conditions that are as personalities, latent and exhibited in the present life; also the former appearances in the earth's plane, giving time, place, and the name, and that in that life which built or retarded the development for the entity, giving the abilities of the present entity and that to which it may attain, and how.
2. EC: (In going back to birth date - "1883" - )
3. We have the body here, and those relations with the universal forces as are latent and exhibited in the present earth's plane.
4. In entering we find the entity coming under the influence of Uranus, Neptune, Jupiter, Venus, with Mercurian and Mars' influence in adverse conditions. Hence we find one, without respect to the will's influence in the life - which in the earth's plane especially is the developing or retarding influence in the life - one considered mysterious, yet one considered trustworthy.
5. One that has the more ennobling influence, yet seems to ever control by some mysterious unseen uncanny powers to many. This as influences, not as will's element, has controlled - speaking of the present experience in these directions.
6. One that is gifted rather in the occult forces, and especially in mysticism, as we shall see from the influences as seen in the various spheres and experiences through the earth's plane.
7. One that often - in wrath and in madness from others - has found both good and bad influences in the life, yet innately each condition has to the entity played an important part towards the proper development of the entity.
8. One that would have made an excellent detective, or plain clothes man; yet the conditions as surround the entity would have brought such changes in the development that many would
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have been the variations in the study by the entity. Hence much change would have been wrought.
9. One that, in the influence of Jupiter and in Venus - with Uranus - will find, after the forty-sixth year, will bring more changes into the present earthly experiences than has been in the past in the present experience; especially in the way of money, position, power, ability to lead - guide - teach - instruct, or direct others along the line of the occult forces - varying, the entity will find more of mysticism drawing or calling the attention; yet stabilizing self in the influences as will be manifest in the earth's plane upon those who have had an indwelling through Uranus and Neptune, the entity in the present experience will find stabilized conditions in the study of the occult and its application to the forces in the human life, rather than mysticism as related to the ethereal or the cosmic body.
10. In the variations as are brought by the appearances in the earth's plane, these we find are varied, and hence physical and mental variations appear to both high and low estate; yet, as given, in the present experience opportunities (as ever come) will be presented to the entity, through which self's own development may be advanced in the present experience to that of enabling self to assist much in the way and manner of understanding, and to give much to others - and in service to others (as every entity will gain that knowledge) is the development for self.
11. In the appearances, then:
12. In the one before this we find in that of the Roman period, during those periods when much war was being waged by the peoples for possession of lands in and about the country. The entity then a man of power and of physical prowess and physical strength, belittling self much by the use of same in directions that subjugated others to the will of the entity. Losing in such demonstration and such use of power. Gaining in the ability to serve, especially the opposite sex. Hence ever has the entity in the present experience found favor with those of the opposite sex, and ever seemed belittled or to suffer persecution on account of those conditions presented in physical prowess. In the name Juanctao, and the entity gained, lost, gained, lost, through the experience, and - as given - those innate existences as urges and - as conditions present themselves in the present experience.
13. In the one before this we find in that period just before the Prince of Peace came. The entity then among those who were in power in the land in which this took place. Then among the rulers in Herod's court and among
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those who carried out the search for the decree as was given for the beheading or the death of the male children in the land, when the cry went up to the powers on high for the weeping in Israel. The entity then in the name Quienllo. The entity lost and gained and lost through this experience, for in the service as rendered gain came. In the exercising of personal gain, through the oppressions brought, the entity lost. Through the ability to have presented that which was truth, and rejecting same for those of power, the entity lost. In the urge as is seen, ever these questions are presenting themselves to the entity for answer as to duty to self, to others, to country, to home, to those whom the entity would serve in any capacity that brings either the necessities of the hour or the necessities of the inner life. These are continual combative within self, and - as seen - may not be answerable until self's own position is set in the relation of an entity to the creative energy, or to its maker, finding that in that same source through which the entity might have gained knowledge of that relation as presented during that period. Only in that may the entity find the answer to that relation.
14. In the one before this during that period when the divisions arose in the land known as Egypt. The entity then among those who brought about the rejoining of the forces of those that would keep the king and those that would replace the deposed priest. The entity among those, then, that were of the council, and with the ability to coordinate, correlate, and to bring peace out of chaos, as apparently existed in the sensuous sense during that period. The urge then as seen, that of the continuing desire to bring together that which will correlate the various tenets of those that seek to understand the mysteries of the phenomenas of life, and in and through those channels that are being set in motion by those who occupied varied positions in that period will the entity be able to serve mankind and self and the brethren in the best in this experience. In the name Eaael.
15. In the one before this we find in the land when the highest civilization existed in that land known as Atlantis. The entity then among those who preserved the laws of the peoples as relating to the mysteries of the races. Hence the entity lost and gained through that experience, for in the application of same to selfish desire the entity brought destructive forces to self and self's inner being; yet innately the mysteries of numbers, races, places, shrines, stones, temples, and such, keep the entity - as it were - in innate fear of their meaning. Forget 'em! and apply rather
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that in the occult that gives the answer or the study of those same mysteries that will make same applicable to the mind of man as is present in the earth's plane.
16. As to the abilities, here we find again the entity must first find self and self's relation to the Creative Energy, or his relation to the Creator, as is established through His Son in the world, and in finding same apply in that same direction as was applied in the experience of bringing the study of man's relation, man's application of those relations to his fellow man.
17. We are through for the present.