This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 16th day of October, 1930, in accordance with request made by self, through his father - Mr. [1734].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. L. B. Cayce and Hugh Lynn Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Born December 16, 1915, Cedarhurst, Long Island, N.Y. Time of Reading 11:20 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. New York City. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: We have the entity and those relations with the universal forces, as are latent and exhibited in the present entity, [1735].
2. In entering astrologically, we find the entity's influence in Uranus, with Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, and Mars. In the afflictions - those of Neptune and of Vulcan. In that as appears in the astrological influence, these are only as urges - when related with the mental, and will bring for and through environmentals changes; dependent upon, however, the manner in which the entity applies the will's influence as respecting same.
3. One, then, without respects the will's application, that love and mystery will play a most important part in the experiences, in the manner in which the imaginative forces of the body may be awakened, in which those of constructive forces or destructive forces may be awakened to the possibilities as lie in the exercising of a mental force within self, respecting influences as come from without or from within. Oft will be the experience of the entity during its early period of experience in the earth's plane of knowing, feeling, experiencing, that which to many will be considered rather vague, uncanny, unseemly. These will be as intuitive forces, when awakened by bonds of sympathy or of that awakening as comes with maternal, material, sexual, or changing loves' influence. These GUIDED, these studied, these applied aright in the entity's experience, may be made for developments - and while the body mental may be termed the EXCEPTIONAL in mental abilities, these should be guided in the proper channels and kept as of a UNIT of whole expression; knowing that to sidetrack, to accentuate, any one portion of experiences in the mental or physical forces of the body is to prevent the well rounded development as is necessary for an individual to apply in its mental, moral, physical, and spiritual development in
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the material plane.
4. In the influences as seen through Jupiter as WITH those in Uranian and Venus, will make of the higher ennobling characterizations - and the entity becomes something of the hero worshiper; those that have accomplished things, especially those in the fields of mental forces - and ESPECIALLY those in the line of chemistry, or of the influence that bears upon the chemistry - not so much of material things, but those of fumes, as of odors, gases, as of destructive influences, elixirs as of preventative measures - and in this field should the entity, when well balanced in self's own estimation in its greater field of endeavor, expend its physical and material efforts; for, applied properly, may bring much that will redound to that as will bring fame, fortune, honor, and those elements as accompany same. Used in destructive forces, will bring contempt for self, for the litigations as would arise with same will bring those that make for fear. Let thine yeas be yea, and thine nays be nay; knowing that the ideal must be set, and one must BUILD towards that, would those of material things, those of the mental forces, those of the spiritual directions, be kept in accord. When the MENTAL is balanced with those of the spiritual that are CONSTRUCTIVE, developments MUST come. When the mental is attuned to those that become of a self-exaltation, of a self-aggrandizement of those forces as build for material, or those that build for the gratification of selfish - or of self's desire, irrespective of the other - these MUST become destructive in their final analysis.
5. In the influences that bring for warnings, as seen in Mars and Vulcan - beware of fire, and especially of firearms, or explosives that take the form of body in same, as powders or of such elements. These may bring destructive influences. Rather remain true to those of the odor, the gas, the elements that make in THESE directions. Beware of wrath in self, and in grudges as may be builded through wrath's influences in the relationships of the fellow man; for discontent comes first within self by what is the seeming cutting off of the privileges, or of the freedom of self's movements in that thought as of self's interests. Weigh same well. Take counsel oft of self, as to whether those desires are in keeping with creative forces that are of a spiritual understanding, or have they become of the secular nature that build for CARNAL forces rather than spiritual. Keep self attuned to that love force, even as in the occult influences. Beware of those that are of the forces as make through chance, or of a force that through
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certain influences, by oft being done, as of cabalistic or paleozoistic influences. These to the entity would become too near that as would bring for self the wonderments that bring destructive influence.
6. In the flux, then, of life - keep thine paths in the way of sound judgment, as is reasoned with the love's influence in the experience of self.
7. In the appearances and the influences these have upon the entity in the present experience, [1735].
8. In the one before this we find in that land known as the Roman, and during those periods when there were the expansions - especially to those of the new land, or in Brittany. The entity then among those who went in search and in the establishment of the rule in that land. Not so much of the soldier as of the counsellor and of the REPRESENTATIVE of that force. In the name Comwel. The entity gained and lost through this experience. Gained in the service rendered, not only to the peoples represented but also to the peoples to whom the entity came as a counsellor and judge with, not of. In this the entity gained, and in the establishing of the new minerals found - in the usage of those did the entity excel. Only in the latter period, when those of the opposite sex in the life brought unseeming influences, did the entity fail self and others. In the present experience we find those of the travel, those of unexpected places, of the unusual situations, of the unusual affairs and conditions of peoples in places, as well as of things, interest the entity - and from each the entity may gain, in its moulding of itself's experience in the present, a lesson - which is as experience to the ENTITY as a whole. Not by the influence of the whole of an experience, but as that correlated or paralleled with the experience of the inner man.
9. In the one before this we find in that land known as the Egyptian land, and during those periods when the invasions of the peoples from the hill land came in, and in the establishing of the rules, in the establishing of the schools, in the establishing of the distribution of those forces as man applied in what became religious thought, what became the aiding in the physical body, those as became the schooling of the mental forces and the understanding of the relationships of man to man, and man to the creative forces. The entity aided in that school, and especially in the line of the exploration of the gases as were found in the hills below this land did the entity give much to the peoples. In the name (for the entity became a ruler in the latter portion of the life) Phar-Se-Irs. In the present, much of
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the expansions in the mental forces will come, DO come, through association of ideas by the entity or the body mind, and exceptional in this direction is the entity's abilities.
10. In the one before this we find in the Atlantean period, when at that time before the first of the destructive forces, and the usages of the influences as were gathered by the peoples to the lands about, when the entity builded those that made for the carrying of those machines of destruction that sailed both through the air and under the water, did the entity carry on in this period - and the entity gained through this experience, gaining in that given and in the attempt to influence the PEOPLES, the ENTITIES OF the period, to use - rather than abuse; for many climes, many lands, sought for the INFLUENCE, for the counsel, of the entity Smla, that their lands might be blessed.
11. In the abilities in the present - these lie, as given, in first the training of self's control of self through the formative periods, or period. In the field of odors, gases, and such, may the entity excel - keeping self's purpose as of being of SERVICE, and not abusing the privileges of the mental and moral development as may be gained in self; for when the purposes of self are in keeping with the creative forces - or that as is CONSTRUCTIVE development - the at-onement and the attunement of self may develop. When turned for gratification of selfish purpose, whether of power within self or whether that of gaining fame within one's own eyes, position or what, these must eventually bring DISCORD, DISCONTENT, discernment the greater force in an understanding. Keep thine heart pure, thine body strong, thine mind open. Attune thine inner man to the harps and the chords of the universe, and harken to the love that brings service - service - to all.
12. We are through. Copy to Father Two copies to Ass'n office