This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 18th day of December, 1939, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [1646], Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Enid Smith.
R E A D I N G
Born January 12, 1880, Germantown, Philadelphia, Penna. Time of Reading 3:45 to 4:30 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. Philadelphia, Pa.
1. GC: You will give the relation of this entity and the universe, and the universal forces, giving the conditions which are as personalities, latent and exhibited in the present life; also the former appearances in the earth plane, giving time, place and the name, and that in each 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. You will answer the questions, as I ask them:
2. EC: (In going back over years from present - " - '28 - yes - changes - '26 - " etc., on back to birth date.)
3. Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called Mr. [1646].
4. In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them here - all may not be given at once, nor all of the appearances or sojourns of the entity in the earth.
5. But these are chosen with the desire and purpose that the experience be a helpful one for the entity in understanding the purposes for which each soul is given the opportunity through a sojourn in the earth's plane; that there may be the magnifying of that which may be the ideal of the entity through a given experience.
6. Thus the entity, the soul, may grow more and more to the awareness of its ideal relationships to Creative Forces, or God; and magnify, glorify, that purpose, that experience of the entity's awareness in material sojourn.
7. From the astrological aspects, as well as the material sojourns, we find urges latent and manifested that are inhibitions, or a part of the entity's experience; just as knowledge that may be acquired regarding any subject is a part of an entity's being only as such an entity applies same in his relationships to others.
8. Thus, as has been indicated and given, they who KNOW to do good and do it not, to them it is sin. Then, they who
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are aware of the needs of another, or of that necessary for the experience or expression of another, and fail or falter in giving expression to same are unmindful of the opportunities that are being accorded to their experience in any material sojourn.
9. As to the astrological sojourns of the entity in environs about the earth (called astrological aspects), we find that the indication of such sojourns does not necessarily indicate that an entity has dwelt AS an individual personality in that particular environ - but in the sense that each activity, each phase of man's expression or manifestation, or the spirit of man, is accredited to the planetary aspects.
10. Thus it may be said that the entity, through the experiences other than material manifestations, has dwelt in, or developed, or manifested, in those environs.
11. In this entity we find Venus and Jupiter manifesting as benevolent forces; for the expression of same brings latently (not in the emotional sense - for the emotions arise from the material sojourns) the urges within the deeper mental or cosmic forces of the entity in its expression.
12. Thus we find that beauty, orderliness, the abilities to associate with influences that have their import in the lives of groups or masses, become a part of the entity's experience.
13. The love of things that are more of the spiritual-minded nature is latent, and may be manifested or - by the will of the entity - closed from the entity's experience.
14. From Mercury we find rather the inclination for the high mental abilities - also the rather stubborn nature, that is considered by others to be a part of the latent influence within the experience.
15. Oft the entity becomes, or is considered by others as being, "heady," or head-minded, or bull-headed - as some would say, to give it an expressive feeling or emotion.
16. These are a part of the entity's experience. As to whether or not such urges become material manifestations depends upon the manner in which the will entertains such within the experience of the entity, or how those opportunities are used that may be given for the expression of such, by the associations of the entity in the material sojourns in relationships to others.
17. For, will is that factor in the experience of each entity in material manifestation which gives the ability to choose that as may be for the development or the retardment. For, as has so oft been indicated, there is today - now -
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set before each and every entity, every soul, that which is life and death, good and evil. Each entity, each soul, chooses in its manifestations. Because of urges latent or manifested, it is the expression of the WILL of the entity.
18. Thus, as there is expressed less and less of self, and more of an ideal as may be found in Him - who is the way, the truth and the life - in the relationships one to another, whether in the mental or material experience, - there becomes the developing of an individual entity.
19. Then, latently, these as urges are those things with which the entity here has to reckon. What ye will do about them depends upon what is thy ideal - not an ideal in the material alone, nor mental alone; but as the entity finds self manifesting mentally, spiritually, physically, with choices to be made in each phase, so there must be the ideal of the experience in each phase - not merely idealistic, nor merely form.
20. For, as will be seen from other experiences and sojourns, such expressions are inclined to take the place of the real activity in the experience of the entity. FORM alone has its influence, but it may be merely the shadow of that which is real.
21. For in the same manner ye mete to thy brother day by day, ye meter to thy Maker. For, "Inasmuch as ye do it unto the least of my brethren, ye do it unto me" said He - that is the truth, the way, the life.
22. As to the appearances or sojourns in the earth - these are given that there may be seen the virtues as well as the vices that are in the emotional nature of the entity. As to what ye shall, or will, do about same will depend upon what is thy ideal in relationship to same. For, IDEAL is not so much what others may do for you, but what you may do for others!
23. Consider the Creative Forces, as to how they give life, light and immortality; and as to how He - who manifested same - fulfilled the law. Thinkest thou that thou are better than He?
24. How readest thou? Not one jot nor one tittle of the law shall pass away! and the servant is not greater than the master; yet He thought it not robbery to make Himself equal with the Father.
25. Thus each soul, each entity measures up to that which is its ideal, in all phases of its experience.
26. As to the appearances, then:
27. Before this we find the entity was in the land of its present nativity, during the early settlings of the land, - in those periods when the brethren were dividing or
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parceling the land.
28. The entity was among those who kept the records of such, and as to the means and manners in which changes were to be made so that the various groups under varied circumstances might be the better helped, and the better aid one to another.
29. Thus we find the entity in the present especially fitted, especially endowed, to be a lender of money, a keeper of records, and exchanger of properties or real estate, or to be active in such measures or manners.
30. This is a latent power or development that may be manifested. As to whether it is to be kept in the ideal manner which has been set as to how such individuals shall deal with their brethren, depends upon what is thy pattern, what is thy ideal.
31. For in same there are opportunities for self-indulgence, self-glory, self-power; and yet in same there is the opportunity for being patient, kind, gentle, for showing brotherly love, for showing those things that are indeed fruits of the spirit.
32. Sow the fruits of the spirit in thy dealings with thy fellow man, and leave the increase, leave the results to Him, who alone may give increase - in the spirit, in the mental, in the material.
33. For, man may sow, man may reap - God alone may give the increase, whether it be in spirit, in mind, or in material things.
34. Be thou likened unto thy own inner self AS Japeth Woodson (the name then); for ye gained through that experience.
35. Thus in the present there are greater opportunities given for using that which is a material expression in thy relationships with thy fellow man to the GLORY of the Father-God.
36. Before that we find the entity was in the Roman land, or a portion rather of the Grecian and Roman land. For in the period, that portion of Greece or of the Promised Land division was under the supervision of the entity in its material manifestations and activities.
37. For the entity was set as one to oversee or direct the activities of that portion of the kingdom, during the entity's sojourn in that experience, in the procurator of Cyprus.
38. In that experience the entity gained and lost. The nationalism, or the patriotism for a national cause, was not wholly in keeping with that of a universal love, or in accord with same. This brought into the experience
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selfishness, rather than the selflessness that makes for the accrediting of the power, the strength, the might as made manifest in any experience, to the source from which it alone may come to any.
39. Thus the entity brought disputations in the latter portion of its sojourn.
40. In the present it will be found that when self's own exaltation or self's own laws or purposes are held to as stubbornness, they will become stumblingstones rather than a stepping-stone in the experience.
41. Before that we find that the entity was in the land through the periods when the children of promise were under bondship to the Persian king, Ahasuerus.
42. There we find the entity was among the offspring, or household, of Mordecai - who became to the peoples of that time and place as a lord, as a prophet.
43. For, through the influences as may bear upon the entity even in the present, Esther brought those places of position and power to the kinsmen of Mordecai and of herself, when she - Esther - became the Queen.
44. Thus we find that in the present experience the entity may find fame and position in high places bringing to the entity in the present, even as then, those inclinations for quite questionable influences in the thoughts of self as well as others. [See 12/27/39 Letter, 1646-2, Par. R1.]
45. The name then was Te-huran.
46. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Egyptian, during those periods when there was the reconstruction following the upheavals, and the entrance of those activities from the Atlantean land.
47. There we find the entity was among those of the land to which the Priest was banished - coming in with the Priest as a believer, and being appointed to places of authority for the collecting of materials as well as individuals for special and definite service in the activities of the land.
48. The name then was Hule-On.
49. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, and that to which it may attain, and how:
50. First, analyze thyself. What is thy ideal?
51. Then, study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman not ashamed, rightly dividing the words of truth, and keeping self unspotted from condemnation on thine own part, - or from others.
52. Let not thy good be evilspoken of. Do all things in decency and in order, creating about thee the creative influences - not only through thy words but rather by what ye ARE day by day! For what ye are speaks so loud, seldom
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is what ye say heard by thy fellow man!
53. As ye would that others should do to you, do ye even so to them.
54. As for abilities - these, as indicated, are in fields where there may be the lending of things, of moneys, of activities in which help may be given to those needing that encouragement physically, mentally, spiritually. Withhold it not; doing all in decency and order.
55. In those fields of activity in the mental realm, - healing becomes a part of thy abilities or vibrations; but only to those measures that ye measure UP thyself - in that thy advice, thy counsel, thy admonition, is consistent with thy daily activity.
56. As to developments - these are limited only to thy purposes.
57. Keep Him - who is the way, the truth, the light, - first and foremost in thy thought, in thy activity, in thy dealings with thy fellow man.
58. Ready for questions.
59. (Q) How may I be most useful to Jesus Christ? (A) In applying principles. He spoke not in individual cases, but principles. These, too, ye may apply in thy daily life in dealing with thy fellow men.
60. (Q) Please indicate present trends or coming events in my life for which I should especially prepare? (A) These have been indicated, in the manner of dealings with thy fellow man, and in the abilities to measure up in the lives and experiences of others who have lost hope in one direction or another; keeping each field of activity and service in its own phase of the experiences of the body, the mind and the mental, or soul.
61. (Q) Please indicate trends of character in or from previous incarnations affecting me in my present life. (A) These have been indicated in their various angles, and how urges arise within the entity for expression in the present. As to what ye should, or will, do about same - choose thou - with thine own ideal.
62. (Q) Who is there in my present life with whom I have been associated in previous lives, and how? (A) These should be, and may be, paralleled best by giving the activities of individuals through THEIR sojourns in previous activities in the earth.
63. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file
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