This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 13th day of July, 1939, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [1747], 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 October 30, 1904, in Youngstown, Ohio. Time of Reading 11:00 to 11:30 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Ohio.
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 - " - '37 - yes, changes of a mental nature came about - '31 - yes, others of a mental, not so good - '20 - such aspirations - " etc., on back to birth date.)
3. Yes, we have the records of that entity now known as or called [1747] - among the Atlanteans to whom mechanics and things of that nature become almost an obsession.
4. The entity has had, does have ideas as to mechanical appliances, that might be added to or taken from, to become more practical in the experience; and one of the few of her sex that might patent such appliances - if there would be the application of self towards these.
5. That they would have mechanical application of electrical forces, to be sure, is another of those indications of not only the Uranian but the Atlantean experiences of the entity.
6. The life chart of the entity might very well be set in a symbol - a circle, with this divided by two straight lines, one crossing the other - being a representation or presentation of the fourfold life. In the upper left hand there would be the od or cloud, which would represent God. Across from same, in the upper right hand, would be the cross - or a rosary, but cross on the chain and the figure in same. In the left lower corner there would be that of self, the
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own ego, as might be expressed by a face - but such as in the face of the moon in its first quarter. In the lower right hand there would be what might be called a view of the earth by night, with the stars, with a little of clouds, with a panorama representing earth, sky, sea and land.
7. These, to be sure, would mean more to the entity than to anyone else; though, as signified, the od or God is as the First Cause; the cross is as the way, the manner; the self is shown as in relationship to not only the earth but materiality - an expression of creation - and these are indicated as a whole - they are in one and yet they are separated in the mind of the individual; yet must be kept in their relationships as one to another.
8. A beautiful symbol, ...
9. In choosing from the records here for this entity, they are taken with the desire to make the experience one of a helpful influence in the relationships and activities of the entity in the present sojourn.
10. For the entity in the astrological aspects finds itself as one that is oft a dreamer, yet romantic in mind and yet not affectionate in material nature.
11. One that is very much given to dreams and visualization, yet in its application - whether to things or individuals, time, place or space, the entity becomes all too practical for a dreamer - yet is a dreamer.
12. As indicated, then, mechanical things especially with the motivative forces of electrical energies, or things that would have to do with same, may be a channel through which the entity may find a real expression and give not only to the world a convenience that would be helpful in the experience of the homes of mothers and wives, but would make for the remuneration that would give the opportunity for the entity to give its expression in its desire to travel, to see new environs, to study under the very shadows of not only historical facts and figures but places that through their very vibrations carry an emotion for the body.
13. CULTIVATE more that of affection. For if ye would have friends, be friendly; if ye would have love, show thyself lovely. These are natural laws - that is, they apply in spirituality and spiritual things as well as in materiality and material things, and of personal associations.
14. In the astrological aspects then, as from indications, we find Venus, Uranus, Mercury and Jupiter become the greater ruling influences. Of course, the Uranian makes for the variations and the extremes as experiences in the relationships to other emotions that arise from the mental aspects of the entity's urges.
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15. Love is a thing apart, yet is sought and yet feared by the entity.
16. Mental forces are the reasoning, and so oft the emotions of the influences are lost sight of because of the very attempt to reason; and yet the extremes which arise through the influences of Uranus in these experiences also give the entity what might be said to be experiences in which it doubts itself in either choice or direction it would take.
17. Venus with Jupiter makes for the mechanics as well as Jupiter with Mercury AND Uranus.
18. As to the appearances in the earth, these are - in the influences that appear in the present - so far apart that the entity appears so oft to be in a maze. For so many urges for changes are apparent, yet the entity has reasoned so many things for itself as well as the influences upon human relationships, that these all become a part of the emotions.
19. For, of course, the influences from the sojourns in the earth are manifested more in the emotions, or the awarenesses through sight, sound, taste, smell and the like.
20. These, then, as we find, give such a variation which as combined with the others makes the entity so oft LONELY within itself; and the more lonely, the more people there are about the entity. Yet there is the urge to seek companionship and associations in crowds and in places and in influences of things and conditions where emotions have been the activity that has given fame or vibration, or even a name, to the place or the condition.
21. Before this, then, we find the entity was in the Palestine land when there was great turmoil. For the entity was then born in that period when the earth trembled from the very happening upon Golgotha.
22. Hence those experiences of the entity as Martha, of the household of those who were akin to Martha and Mary and Lazarus, and those akin to the mother of John the Baptist as well as of other disciples.
23. Hence in that environment of awe the entity grew, and became the more fearful with those periods when in the younger years the persecutions arose and the cousin James was beheaded. Then, fear and doubt arise innately in the experience. And the awareness that must be aroused in the very soul of the entity is that as was given to those of old: "I AM the resurrection, the life. I TOLD thee to destroy the body and in three days I would raise it again." This must become a fact. Then it is understood how the emblem represents God, the way, the cross, self, the world, - as to how there is the activity through same.
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24. The entity gained through the experience, for it learned to aid not only from material angles but materially - though the entity kept very quiet.
25. In the expressions of self in the present, then, have more activity, more appreciation of the body because of its being the temple of the soul; and BEING a channel through which the awarenesses of the other influences may be felt - the world, the flesh and the spirit, as well as evil. And as these are applied in the experience of the entity, we find there may be the greater and greater understanding, the greater abilities for the relationships becoming more worth while.
26. Before that we find the entity was a man, and among the sons of the children of Israel who were endowed with abilities for building in the preparation especially of the ark of the covenant.
27. Hence those abilities to overlay, to work with metal as well as with wood, and the activity of the various chemicals upon the metals, were a part of the entity's experience in that sojourn.
28. There the entity was very active, though very quiet.
29. And from same in the present there are those activities in which the entity finds there are certain influences or forces, certain things to be done at certain times, that become of themselves as a sacred duty to the entity - as of certain times of day, certain days, certain associations with the active service of the altar or of any of the relationships to Creative Forces that give the expression, or to which man gives expression in his attempt to show his thought of the outside forces or influences in his experience.
30. The name then was Barthuel.
31. In the experience the entity gained, the entity retarded - and in the present there are the experiences as indicated: Show more affection.
32. Before that we find the entity was in the Atlantean experience, when there were those activities in which there were separations of the land into individual groups for the varied activities in other lands.
33. There we find the entity was among those of the children of the Law of One, yet materially was pulled between many an influence. For there was a division of the entity's affections in that experience, for the varied settlements that were brought about.
34. Hence in that part of the experience the entity lost, for it longed for and determined within itself it would never again in material experiences love those that could
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disappoint and bring experiences that would cause the heartache in the flesh. Yet the entity was a princess and one able to adapt the mechanical appliances in those periods, and those activities in many lands came from the abilities of the entity in using those forces of nature itself for the convenience of man in material plane.
35. Hence these things come as not only those things that separate the material affections, but those that produce a wonderment in the experience of the entity in the present.
36. As to the abilities of the entity, then:
37. As has been indicated, cultivate more the material associations - not for the hurts that such might bring, - not for the overcoming of the fears so much - but for the needs that such might supply within self as well as in the lives and experiences of those ye will meet day by day.
38. As to the perfecting of those things that have been merely as dreams - because of thy sex ye have left them all aside. Develop them, for they will give an outlet, as well as bring material security, and offer the opportunities for the entity's doing the things in many varied lands and varied circumstances for which the inner self calls.
39. But in such - in thy travels, in thy experiences - show that affection which came from love for Love's sake.
40. Ready for questions.
41. (Q) Is there any other special field that I should take up? (A) Any field that would have to do with the use of the imagination, of course; as writing, as music, as artistic temperament - but the great activity will be the perfecting of that which has been innately in the mind so oft.
42. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file Ass'n file