This Psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 25th day of November, 1938, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [1754], new Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., through her mother, Mrs. [...], recommended by Mr. [...].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Miss [1754] and her mother.
R E A D I N G
Born October 16, 1918, in Fort Pierce, Florida. Time of Reading 11:45 to 12:35 Noon - Eastern Standard Time. ..., Virginia.
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 she has submitted, as I ask them:
2. EC: (In going back over years from present - " - '37 - not such a good experience! - '35 - unusual - " etc., on back to birth date.)
3. Yes, we have the records of the entity now called [1754].
4. In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them, these are chosen from the records with the desire to make the knowledge and the experience one that may be helpful and hopeful.
5. These, as will be seen, are rather of an unusual nature.
6. The entity is such an extremist in a manner; and with the abilities to make for those experiences in which this sojourn may be a GLORIOUS one - either materially or socially, or in those efforts to become a channel through which a great many blessings may come to many.
7. The choice as to which course is to be taken must rest with this body. It will NOT do both - be a social success and attain material things in a great measure, and be a spiritual channel for creative forces or God's purpose to manifest through the experience.
8. We find that the astrological aspects for the entity are rather out of the ordinary. For we have both conflicting influences and purposes which become crosswise in varied experiences of the entity.
9. For we have Venus at both an adverse and a benevolent
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experience. So joyous, so happy is the entity in the attaining of some associations - and yet these may turn to vinegar in the very experience of the entity.
10. Also in the same influence we find the abilities as one that may make the activities in a career, if they are directed in the LIGHTER phases as pertaining to music, to voice, to art, to dancing.
11. Yet we find more benevolent in the SAME in that of making the home.
12. These of themselves indicate the true Uranian influences in the experience of the entity. And these make for those influences in which the entity has been in those positions where the listening to counsel of some has been an influence that has caused, that may cause a great deal of anxiety, a great deal of those influences which bring periods of distress.
13. Yet the very BRIGHT, the brilliant nature of the entity makes or produces those influences when such may be cast aside, apparently. But deep within the self is a submerging of that which may be the more beautiful.
14. Hence, this counsel might be given in respect to same:
15. Turn rather within. Know that whatever experience ye have in the material sojourns for a purpose. Know that it is not by chance that ye are in a material or earthly consciousness in the present. For know that all activities of the mind, of the body, must be based upon SPIRITUAL things. This does not mean goody-goody, but the PURPOSE, the ideal - unless it is founded in that which is constructive, which is CREATIVE, this experience may become - under these extremes - a torment throughout.
16. Yet if thy ideals, if thy purposes, if thy desires are set in that which IS creative, we may make a glorious experience of this sojourn in this material plane.
17. The natural inclinations which arise from the Uranian give an interest in the unusual, in the mystic forces and influences, in the spiritual things.
18. Cultivate them. For know, though thy body, thy mind, thy soul be as the triune, they are one; with each endowed, by the Maker, with each attribute of the various phases of the experience.
19. The body-physical with the emotions of same is physical and spiritual; the body-mental with its desires is both carnal and very spiritual. The SPIRIT is willing. The spirit desires, the spirit seeks the greater understanding, the greater knowledge of thy relationships to the Creative Forces or God.
20. Then cultivate - in thy mind, in thy body - those
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attributes which are endowed with that seeking for the knowledge of the true relationship of every soul with its Maker.
21. For as in the godhead there is the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost - so then each may be termed, the Body as the First Cause, the Mind as the Son (Which is the Way, which is the Manner, which is the builder in thy consciousness of the manifestations which are thy daily experience).
22. And it is according to thy own choice as to whether these are constantly constructive, creative, or for the satisfying of material appetites.
23. For know, it is ever as He hath given - Today, NOW, there is set before thee good and evil, life and death, - Choose thou!
24. It is through that factor of Will, then, that the Choice is made - according to thine own Ideal.
25. WHAT IS thy ideal? in spirit, in mind, in body?
26. What is thy ideal relationship to thy home, to thy father, to thy mother, to thy friends? Are these creative? Are these in keeping with that which is the messenger of thy own life - thy Mind?
27. Has not rather the lack of thy choice brought into thy experience, because these were not considered, that disturbing force which arises within thy experience in the present?
28. Do two wrongs make ANYTHING right? Have ye lived, will ye and do ye live day by day as ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them?
29. This is the law, this is the IDEAL. Not merely idealistic, but the Way of Life!
30. And as in thine abilities, in thine INNATE desire, - NONE may be more beautiful in purpose, in the life, in the ability to GIVE to others joy, peace, contentment - with all the attributes of the earthly things combined, - passion, with all of its material loves, all of its material desires. These ye know well; but unless these be tempered with thine ideal, thy WILL may lead thee in the paths that become troublesome, dark and disagreeable!
31. Know, then - He, thy Lord, thy God, thy Christ, is in that position - "If ye will be my child, I will be thy God."
32. Determine then Whom ye will serve. That of thine own self that may bring discouragements, despairs? Or Him who hath promised, "My peace I give - not as the world giveth peace, but that which is love, and hope, and kindness, and godliness."
33. These are such as are creative in thy experience.
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34. As to the appearances in the earth - these as we find have much more to do with the emotions and the materialization of same in the present experience - or that as from which ye may draw comparisons.
35. Before this we find the entity was in the land of the present sojourn.
36. It is not then by chance, or that as merely happened, that ye are in this environ in the present. For here before ye found both the good and the bad - in that during that known as the American Revolution, in this environ ye made for those peoples both wonderment and helpfulness, as well as disappointments - in the name Carol Fannenshaw.
37. The entity was in the environs of what is now Jamestown, Yorktown, Williamsburg and the like. For the entity was among those whose hand, whose company, whose associations were sought by many - and at times, and during a portion of the experience, too easily obtained.
38. However, we find the entity in the experience gaining and losing, and gaining; according to that as was manifested in the experience in keeping with the ideal, or in the gratifying of the material and the desires of self without regard to the mind, the purpose, or what people would say.
39. In the application of self in the present ye will find disappointments in individuals; as ye caused disappointments in the minds, in the experience of others. For know, this is an immutable law - "As ye sow, so shall ye reap!" And it is not only others, but thy SELF and the sorrow and the disappointment ye have caused in others that ye meet IN OTHERS in thy experience.
40. But, showing mercy, asking judgement, being patient, ye may overcome. For as He has given, "In mercy and patience possess ye your souls."
41. Then, in the beauty of thy strength, in the virtue of thy wisdom, in the love of thy GOD, LEARN, KNOW what these MEAN - in relationships to others!
42. Before that we find the entity was in the land known as the Roman, during that time when there were the words, when there were those being influenced by the teachings of Him who had walked in Galilee - He that is thy Lord!
43. There ye heard much from those of that land. For thy associations, thy environs during the experience brought thee in close associations with many of those of both sexes in authority in that land. For ye heard from the lips of Pilate's wife of how He healed her son that was a lunatic, an epileptic as ye would call. These made impressions upon thy mind during that experience, that sojourn. And ye wavered oft as to what would be thy choice, as to which
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group ye would join thyself when there were those as Paul, as Peter, who came - Titus, Philemon. For ye were in the household of that family in which Philemon was a servant.
44. The name then was Teleman - BEAUTIFUL in body, in mind, in purpose; but the ways of the world drew hard upon thine environs, thine experience! Yet with the knowledge of the teachings of Titus, ye became a supporter - not only with thy material but with thy mind, thyself.
45. Then study, read carefully the messages sent to Titus and Philemon by Paul; and ye will learn - if ye will meditate upon same - much that has escaped thy understanding. For in such ye may find joy and happiness, - not longfacedness but JOY - in knowing that thy life, thyself is spent in being a channel through which blessings may come to those ye meet day by day.
46. Let no day then pass that ye do not speak a CHEERY and an encouraging word to someone! And ye will find thine own heart uplifted, thine own life opened, thy love appreciated, thy purposes understood!
47. Before that we find the entity was in both of the lands now known as the Persian - there more than once; and during those periods when there were the Grecian as well as the Persian influence upon the 'city in the hills and the plains.'
48. There we find the entity gaining knowledge of and defeating the purposes of many of the Grecian activities.
49. Yet the ability to become a beautiful dancer, the ability to use thy activities as a reader, as the voice, arise from those experiences. Through such the entity, if it chooses, may make a career - but NOT a career AND a home!
50. Hence we find both good and bad - as is ever present in materiality - active in the influence of the entity - then known as Esthma.
51. And those things that are of the oriental nature in dance, as of the Grecians, are especially of interest to the body in the present. And the cultivating of these may bring those influences and activities in which MATERIAL things may be thy part.
52. Before that we find the entity was in the Egyptian land, when there were those who were offering themselves in the dedicatory activities from the Temple of Sacrifice and the Temple Beautiful.
53. There the entity, under the direction of the Priest, became one of those who led in the activities in the Temple Beautiful - in which there was a correlating of all those activities in which there were the body movements, as of the
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dance and as of song, were a part of the ritualistic work of those preparing themselves through that activity.
54. And the entity was among those who led in same.
55. Hence the confusing forces which arise in the experience of the entity in the present.
56. The name then was Tel-Ka-Le.
57. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, and that to which it may attain, and how:
58. If there is first the analyzing of self and its purposes and its desires, what a beautiful, what a lovely life this experience may be! Either in the home or in the making of those things in which material gains may be had. But choose thou!
59. Let thy life then express, in its activities, that ye would have thy brother, thy friend think of THY Lord, thy Master!
60. Ready for questions.
61. (Q) What have been my past associations with [E...] and what are the urges brought forward in the present life? (A) In the experience before this there was an association that was both disappointing and yet happy in portions of same. Hence there are the natural urges in the present for closer associations, yet these - if they are followed from that of the purely EMOTIONAL self - will only bring disorder.
62. (Q) Would it be best for me to marry him, if he agrees? (A) Never!
63. (Q) You mean I should never marry him, or he would never agree? (A) It would be best NEVER to marry him - thy ideals will be destroyed!
64. (Q) Just what would you advise regarding the suit we have just brought against him? (A) Such as these must be choices within thine own self. WE would press same, because of the DIVISIONS it will materially make.
65. (Q) What is meant by "the divisions it will materially make"? (A) They would separate! What is meant by "divide"?
66. (Q) What should be my attitude towards him and the whole situation? (A) As ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them! Can there be any other, and be right in the sight of God?
67. We are through. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file
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