This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Artic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 5th day of September, 1938, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [1678], 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.
R E A D I N G
Born December 1, 1890, in Englewood, New Jersey. Time of Reading 3:55 to 4:35 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Mich.
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 plane, giving time, place and the name, and that in each life which built or retarded the development of the entity; giving the abilities of the present entity, and that to which it may attain, and how. You will answer the questions that may be asked.
2. EC: (In going back over years from present - "1894 - during these periods danger in environments - '93 - " etc., on back to birth date.)
3. Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as [1678].
4. In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them here, that is chosen which will - with study - make experiences for the entity that will assist and aid in bringing a better understanding of the relationships of the entity to its environs, and those influences that make for urges of every nature arising within the experience of the entity.
5. As a whole, but without reference to that the entity has applied in the choice in itself during this experience, we find:
6. One quiet, yet very positive; disliking to receive corrections without their being administered in a very diplomatic way and manner. Not desirous of meddling into other people's affairs, preferring that they each find themselves without being influenced by arguments from the entity. Yet one capable of so expressing self as to become an influence upon those it may meet day by day.
7. One that desires love, and hence manifests such in its relationships to others in a way and manner that makes for the entity becoming the center of its associates in a social or in any manner that would be as a movement - whether of a
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civic, social, political or religious nature.
8. Irrespective of what the entity has done, and as to how much these have been accentuated - whether as faults or virtues - they are a part of the entity's innate self.
9. In giving the astrological urges - these as we find are in the mental or spiritual sense the inheritance; while the material sojourns make for the urges of environs for the entity.
10. Thus we find the astrological urges are from those periods of the entity's sojourn between the earthly appearances.
11. Hence we find Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus all a part of the experiences. Thus we find innately an appreciation of the beautiful. This is innate, irrespective of whether it is a material thing, a mental or a spiritual aspect.
12. Hence all nature and things of nature are of an interest. There are the abilities of the entity to make friends and to hold them, that the entity may be influenced by or influence such relationships.
13. Beauty in the depicting of beauty, the beauty of song or music, the beauties of nature - all of these have an urge within the experience of the entity; as do things that have an influence from their very association - whether political, historic or pure sentiment - ALL are portions of the entity's innate feelings; and as to the expression are within the bonds of the entity's own choice.
14. In Jupiter we find the influence rather as of the group, or the interests that are of a national or a local nature, that would have to do with the masses. Though the entity or individual may be slow or recreant in giving great expression of same, it FEELS the whole of same and gives forth - in its manners of expression peculiar to itself - that which would be a prompting in either submerging or lifting such movements to greater activity.
15. From Mercury we find the high mental sense of honor, yet recreant in accusing or blaming others with faults. Far from fault-finding then is the natural innate manifestation of the entity's innate self.
16. The influence from Uranus makes for the interests the entity has in those things that are of mysterious nature, those of a spiritual import; yet not becoming an extremist - as is ordinarily indicated in the Uranian; but very positive and very determined.
17. Hence as we find in a whole, the entity is very capable in any field of endeavor or activity which it might undertake. And especially is the entity gifted in the
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ability to make a home, and to maintain same in such a way and manner as for it to be home of those that are of many minds, or quite varied in their likes and dislikes.
18. As to the influences from appearances in the earth, these - too - as we find - are approached more through the emotional nature of the entity; as indicated from environmental urges.
19. Oft the entity is accused of not being over-enthusiastic; but very determined, very positive as to the whys, as to the natures. For there must be the answer as within self as to whether a thing is correct or not, no matter the nature of the experience - whether in home, in social, in religious, in state, county or nation circles. All such are as a unison of activity on the part of this entity.
20. Then, as to the appearances in the earth and the influence these have upon the emotions of the entity in the present:
21. Before this the entity was in the land of its present sojourn, in the early portions of the settlings of the land; during what might be called the pioneer days.
22. There we find the entity was in a capacity as a teacher, or an administrator of helpful influences in education - not merely of the R's but rather the practicality of the application of self to the character of environs in which the individuals found themselves, with whom the entity was associated; that they might become the more helpful in their relationships, their environs, as well as to their associates.
23. The name then was Laura Eisman, and married to one Lawrence Elman - of the frontiers, and of the lands that had to do not only with those things made from nature and nature's storehouse, the supplying of the material things for physical sustenance, but those of the nature in which they might be turned into conveniences for individual use. All such were a part of the entity's experience in its associations with others.
24. As to the application of self in the present from those experiences, we find not only the close associates being those of its own household during that experience, but those abilities to make itself adaptable to many types or characters of environment. These in the present become a part of the entity's experience, and conditions to be reckoned with in its choice.
25. Especially certain characters of noises, as of nature, are evidenced in the entity's present experience from that particular sojourn as the voices of nature, as might be
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disturbed by the noises of the elements.
26. Before that, among those having the greater bearing upon the entity's choice of its thought and activities in relationship to others, we find the entity was a sojourner and one active in that now known as the Palestine land.
27. It was following those periods when there were persecutions of those who had become members of the new teaching, or when the Master had walked in the earth.
28. Because of those experiences and those tenets, the tenderness and the gentleness, the ability in the choice of approach to others under stress of many natures or characters, are a part of the entity's innate and manifested abilities in the present; and the beauty of the surroundings of the entity's mental self becomes a part of those experiences in the present environs and surroundings.
29. The name then was Cleopas - or what would today be called Dorothy Cleopas.
30. In the present from the activities during that sojourn we will find many of the abilities to become the helpful influence in the lives of those that are upon the borderland of doubt and fear, and make for those experiences in the lives of others when there is that fear of a choice between that which is duty and that which is conviction.
31. Hence the quietness and the abilities to give the many sides or phases of an activity become a part of the entity in the present.
32. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Persian and Arabian, when those from what is now known as the Grecian land came for the purposes of disseminating or destroying those activities of the teacher Uhjltd; or to learn the manner in which there might be control gained of those activities. The entity was a part of the movement, unaware.
33. Hence innately those things and those individuals who stoop to underhanded ways and manners, those who profess one thing and act another, are of particular abhorrence to the entity in the present experience.
34. Being beautiful of body and in mind and in abilities, the entity - coming under the influence of the teacher during those activities - joined rather in that of a UNIFIED service for those of the many lands who made those environs in the 'city in the hills and the plains' rather as a mecca for a study and for the clarifying of individuals for service in the various phases of human experience during that period.
35. Hence we will find also innately in the experience of the entity the abilities in the likings and dislikings of
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cloth, spices, odors, scents or things of that nature that were a part of the entity, as they innately manifest in the present. Yet the quiet demureness in giving expression of same, testing as it were such things in the own experience, rather than impelling or persuading others except by example and as to its own experience with such.
36. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Egyptian, and among those peoples of Atlantis that were chosen because of their abilities to direct, their abilities to aid especially in the Temple Beautiful.
37. There we find the entity occupying as it were the station that ye would call Number One, in the choices of those that were to become either emissaries or missionaries for activities in the various fields through which such influences were brought about - or those that were to be the mothers and fathers of the future generations - all of these were a part of the entity's experience through that sojourn.
38. The name then was Asme-ch.
39. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, and that to which it may attain, and how:
40. Hold fast to that thou has determined within thine own heart. For as He may walk with thee in the garden of thine own heart, so may thy directions be taken.
41. For He IS in the hearts and minds of those that open the door to His call. And as ye measure to those of thy fellow men day by day, so measure ye to thy Lord and thy Savior.
42. Keep then the faith. Know in whom ye have believed, as well as in what. For the Lord is in His holy temple, and thy body is the temple of thy soul, that seeks companionship with its Maker.
43. Let love then be without dissimulation; abhor that which is evil, cleaving to that which is good. KNOW that the Lord loveth those that become light bearers unto those who sit in darkness.
44. Ready for questions.
45. (Q) What have been my previous relationships to my present husband, [...]? (A) Very close in association in the appearance before this - one Lawrence. In the Persian activities we find again the close association, as the companion during those experiences; and in the Egyptian.
46. (Q) My son, [...]? (A) A friend - in the experience before this.
47. (Q) My son, [J...]? (A) One upon whom ye relied much during the Palestine experience, though ye suffered physically by some of the things or choices ye saw him make.
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48. (Q) My son, [1691]? (A) In the experience before this very close - in the same household. In the Egyptian, known of - and blessed by the associations and companionship.
49. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file