This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 9th day of February, 1939, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [1724], 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. Hugh Lynn Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Born July 13, 1898, in Traverse City, Michigan. Time of Reading 3:40 to 4:05 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. New York City.
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 which may be submitted, as I ask them:
2. EC: (In going back over years from present - " - '39 - yes - beginnings of expansions to that as should lead to a great deal of money coming into the entity's experience - '38, '37, '36 - lean years - '35, '34, '33 - many changes - " etc., on back to birth date.)
3. Yes, we have the records of that entity now known as or called [1724].
4. In giving the interpretations of the records here, these are being chosen with the desire that the experience may be a helpful influence in the activities of the entity during this particular cycle of sojourn.
5. These influences we find as a combination between the astrological and the material sojourns, but irrespective of what the entity has done about same; these appear as personalities or individualities (or both) of the entity:
6. One that is well versed in many fields of endeavor or activity.
7. One that is rather idealistic in many ways and manners, and yet very material at times.
8. One that seeks rather the unusual, the out of the ordinary affairs or associations.
9. One that is well read, or inclined to be the bookworm; yet CAN be, when the occasion necessitates, very practical.
10. One whose abilities in musical activities are very pronounced, or in things pertaining to the artistic force;
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and may be applied at some experience or at some time in the experience of the entity in a very concrete, very definite manner.
11. One that would make rather a good application of self and self's abilities as an analyst; whether as a physicist or psychologist or physician. For the entity will find himself seeking data and information in all of such fields.
12. One who will travel or have change in its environ and activity, or have those inclinations to do so; and in such travels would seek, does seek the unusual. And in or among a group, in any activity where there is the viewing or experiencing of a view of activities of others or of things, the entity would see or notice those UNUSUAL things about such a gathering, or such an activity, when others would not.
13. In the astrological aspects we find that these are not from the angle that they influence the entity because of the birth at such and such a position of the sun, moon, stars or planets, or even the zodiacal experience; but rather they are an influence, or the entity is influenced because of the environmental forces of same through those interims between the sojourns in the earth.
14. The sun is a great influence in the experience of the entity.
15. Hence the more the entity will find himself associated with those influences or forces that direct the activities or the policies of great undertakings, the better will be the environ for the entity, and greater may there be an expression of the abilities of the entity in all of its phases.
16. In Jupiter and Venus we find the benevolent as well as periods of a contrast in the experience of the entity.
17. For great disappointments have come or may come in associations and affiliations, in promises that have been made or may be made by others in whom the entity may have a great deal of confidence, or with whom he may have an influence, but owing to what would appear to be circumstance, disappointments may arise.
18. These, as will be seen from the astrological aspects, produce those influences as we will see derived from the manner in which the entity INNATELY within self meets such situations - from the material sojourns in the earth.
19. From the Uranian sojourn we find the extremes; one that is naturally aristocratic in its tendencies, yet very democratic in its manner of expression.
20. These extremes as we find are in the influence of the entity according to the temperament or the environment in
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which the activities or motivative forces have brought about or increased the activities or choices of the entity.
21. Hence for the entity, there may be given from these, this:
22. KNOW what is thy ideal! Not only from the material but from the mental and the spiritual. And let all that is chosen as thy ideal, of associations or activities, be spiritual in its concept.
23. These are the weakest influences in the entity's endeavor or the entity's activity in the material plane, as will be seen from its material sojourns.
24. As to the appearances in the earth, these we find quite varied - as might be gathered from the general influence or aspects seen as being innate influences in the experience of the entity, considering both the material AND the astrological aspects.
25. Before this we find the entity was in the land close or nigh unto that of the present nativity, or birth; but during those periods when there were many changes in the activities of the peoples of the land; some given to trade, others to building up of the land, others to exchange between the various groups.
26. There we find the entity was rather in the position of one who would be called the barterer, or one given to trade between the natives of the land and the newcomers; delving into the mysteries.
27. And there is innately, as is experienced in the influence of the entity in the present, a feeling as respecting Indian lore - that has an influence such that the entity becomes very much attuned to the elemental forces - as of water, as of earth, as of air. And in attuning self to same the entity may gain much; as in its experiences as Amos Goff, during the periods preceding and after those disturbing factors in the days about old Dearborn.
28. There we find the entity gained those activities with the natives through the abilities to match wits, as it were, with the medicine men; AGAIN through the abilities to trade well with the new settlers, in aiding them.
29. The entity gained, the entity lost; gained in so far as the abilities were used in constructive experiences; lost when they were turned into self-indulgence, self-aggrandizement, and taking advantage of the weaknesses or the ignorance of others.
30. Yet we find the ability in the present to associate with the laymen as well as those in authority, or the aristocrat and the laboring man.
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31. Before that we find the experience was in quite a varied activity; during those periods in the Roman land when there was the distribution of the activities, or when there was the gathering of many lines of activities through the early Caesars - and especially in those periods covering the Palestine sojourn of the Master and the early portion of the same activities in the Alexandrian experience.
32. The entity was rather in the capacity of what would be termed now the recorder for those in the high authority; keeping the tab or the tabulation on the amounts - not in the capacity of what would be called today a bookkeeper, but rather the supervisor of those who kept the amounts in weight of the various commodities that were sent into the lands - as to the various taxes gathered from the lands, - as to the various sources and means of exchange.
33. There we find the entity was closely associated with those in authority UNDER the ruler of the day; where pomp and show were a part of the entity's experience.
34. And through same the entity lost, yet there were the abilities to meet the influences through those things which befell the entity during the experience. For the entity was raised to authority by those who were in the capacity of the gatherers of data for the king or the emperor IN other lands.
35. The entity then became much acquainted with the influence in the Alexandrian land, and there we find the activities or interests were in the unusual, the mysteries, those things which delved into the abilities of individuals to use the unseen forces; or to work in what would be called by some MAGIC, by others those influences in which the elementals were used for activities upon the higher tension of the mental forces of individuals.
36. Again we find the entity slipped into those things in which self-indulgence and self-aggrandizement brought disappointing forces to the entity. And the entity was raised only by its associations with those in authority to the better activities during the experience.
37. The abilities then as a writer, the abilities as a musician, the abilities as a delver into the mysterious forces, arise in the present experience INNATELY and manifestedly according to the harkening within from those experiences through the Roman, the Palestine and the Alexandrian lands; in the name then of Zebuden.
38. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as or called the Egyptian, when there were those turmoils and strifes which arose with the banishment of the Priest.
39. In those experiences we find the entity acted in the
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capacities as the informant for the King, as well as the attempted informant to those in the banishment group. Thus we find the entity not playing the traitor to either, but rather as one who made for those developments for each IN the latter part of that sojourn, or when there was the return of the Priest for the greater activities in the mental and spiritual as well as the material things of the land.
40. The name then was Ip-kta. In the experience the entity gained, and throughout the sojourns we find the greater forces from that experience.
41. And as the contacts of the entity in the present bring those experiences in which the greater spiritual ideals are developed in the present, there may be brought to the entity through those periods opening for self in the present, in this cycle of activity, between the years of thirty-nine and forty-two ('39 and '42), the greater abilities for expansions. For AFTER that there will be the waiting for other periods of development.
42. As to the abilities of the entity then, these, as we have indicated, are varied.
43. But crystalize those in the forms of giving of data, of expression to those in all walks of life; that there may be a union of purpose, a development of ideals and not merely ideas; and that the ideals must be founded in that which IS everlasting, which is only the spirit of truth!
44. Be true then to thyself and thou wilt not be false to any.
45. Ready for questions.
46. (Q) Through what medium should the entity work the most during the next few years? (A) As just indicated, in the gathering and giving of data to those to create a union between those in high places and those in low; whether it is in books, in periodicals, in script, in scroll, or what - the UNION of purpose under an IDEAL!
47. We are through for the present. Copy to Self - Special Delivery " " Ass'n file file