This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 29th day of December, 1938, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [1770], Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., via Mrs. [1468].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [1770].
R E A D I N G
Born March 21, 1889, in Roxbury, Mass. Time of Reading 11:15 to 12:15 Noon - Eastern Standard Time. ..., N.Y.
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's 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 submits, as I ask them:
2. EC: (In going back over years from present - " - '38 - been an unusual year! '30 - changes wrought in mental attitudes and environs - '27 - wonderment - '21 - glorious experiences - '89 [1889] - the 21st - ")
3. Yes, we have the record here of that entity now known as or called [1770].
4. It is well with this entity that in the sounding of the name, in the writing of same, it always all be included. The vibration, the harmonious effect of same becomes almost as a shield in the entity's experience; as well as in the numerological effects and their vibrations upon those the entity may approach.
5. And this is ever a part of the entity's experience as an emissary or messenger to others. Hence it is well that its own mental and material and spiritual self there be kept that balance.
6. In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them here, for this entity there will be chosen the interpretations with the desire that it may be a helpful experience. Yet this will be almost, as ye would call, a brief of that which MIGHT be the interpreting of all of that which has been, which is to be, part of the entity's experience through the sojourns in this material plane.
7. As is seen, all phases of activity are seen in the manner, the means, the way that each influence or force
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becomes a part of the entity. For as it is in a three-dimensional plane, it receives those influences or environs, or those that are as signs and omens from all phases of that which is without self.
8. For instance, the astrological influences are not in the form or manner as has been so oft and is so oft judged by the purely astrological aspects from records. For the shifting, the changes that have been wrought in the zodiac as well as the signs and positions of this material sphere in relationship to the whole have been misjudged. But rather is this judgement drawn from the EXPERIENCE of the ENTITY, as an entity, in that environ.
9. And as there has been and is attributed to the planetary influences about this present solar system or environ, these become a part of the experience of the entity - the innate, the soul self.
10. Through the use or application of any influence then does it become so much a part of a soul, or a soul-entity.
11. Hence we find these as signs or omens - as also the numerological, the vibratory forces of color, or those of the mineral as may be crystallized in material forces.
12. Hence the bloodstone or the ruby is well to ever be about the entity, upon its body; so that the very vibratory forces of same give - with that of thought in constructive force - creative environs or vibrations for the entity in its use or application. [See 1770-2, Par. R13.]
13. Then in making the choice of these, we find Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, as with the Sun and Moon, become a part of the entity in its abilities, as well as in its faults or failures, or weaknesses - in its virtues as well as its graces.
14. For it is as an entity, in giving expression of that as thought or felt or experienced, makes the application in its own experience that the development or retardment comes.
15. Venus makes for the tenderness, gentleness, the love; and yet having in same that influence in which the extremes may arise as in conjunction with the Uranian forces; so that any experience of emotional or love nature - be it material, mental or what - may be or appear to the entity as more of an experience than to many; as may the sorrow of same.
16. Yet these are a part of the entity's experiences; so that disappointments have been as a part of the entity's experience, that have been much overcome by the application of self towards constructive or creative forces.
17. For as is sought by this entity, and as should be the beauties of most, the application of self in a material plane is purposeful; not merely a chance but each day, each
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association, each activity is an opportunity for the expression of that which is the ideal of the soul.
18. As the entity has advanced and does advance in its concept of or awareness of the creative influences within its experience, then those things that have been and are as a part of the mental self are to be met or overcome or conquered, or used; and there is the understanding of how to use then, as it were, the tools of righteousness or of salvation in a material plane.
19. These oft become very delicate in their nature (if words were to be used to express their influence or motivating power within the experience of an entity), yet they ARE the tools of righteousness.
20. For the will is that with which each soul makes or loses the opportunities which are its birthright in each experience. For He hath not willed that any soul should perish, and it is not by chance that the soul is in the environ but that in the use of its concept of that creative force of which it is a part it is brought along that line, that sphere, that awareness, that consciousness in which it finds itself.
21. In Jupiter we find the great NUMBERS who will be influenced - the breadth of vision, the joy of service, the activities in which the body-mind and soul may find the greater universal consciousness.
22. Just as in the Saturn influences we find the changes which have been and may be wrought in the experience. If these are allowed to become stumbling-stones rather than stepping-stones, they are because of the misconception or misapplication, or the unused influences that are each soul's, each entity's.
23. Use each then in the constructive manner, that we may bring the greater joy. For as ye do it unto the least of thy brethren, ye do it unto thy Maker.
24. In the Uranian influence we find interests in the occult, the psychic, the soul - or the greater concept of other influences or dimensions than that as may be experienced in the truly or only material-minded individual or entity.
25. Also we find the extremes which arise, and the abilities for the innate expressions through these.
26. And as Jupiter, Venus, Uranus are to be the closer in the conjunction through those periods when there are to be such extremes in the affairs of the world, they may be used as a MEANS for this entity in bringing greater harmonies in the experiences of self and those whom the entity may contact - through '40 (forty) and '41 (forty-one)
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especially; beginning in the latter portion of '39 (thirty-nine).
27. DO NOT let that which is beautiful, or as a helping to self, lose its influence or its associations with thy activities; not as of the emotions but as a stimuli to the best that is within self. But if they are of selfish nature, or for self-indulgence, leave them alone.
28. As to the appearances of the entity in the earth's plane, these we find vary as to their associations, their activities - if they are drawn or compared to the experiences of the entity in the present. Yet there may be seen a thread of continuity which explains why the entity feels, experiences - even emotionally - much of that which has been and is a part of self in the present from these that may be chosen of the many sojourns of the entity in materiality:
29. Before this we find the entity was in the land of the present nativity, during the period of the early settlings; when that purpose for which changes were wrought was the paramount influence in the peoples of the land to which the entity came for an experience - in the name Gracia Albright.
30. There we find the thought of freedom, the experience of each individual to think for itself, to worship that as is or was its ideal, according to the dictates of its own conscience, was so much a part of the entity as to be INNATELY felt in the present.
31. And the fear at times of suppressing or altering or changing the environs of others about the entity has refrained the entity at times in this experience from speaking that which might have brought the full awareness to some seeking soul.
32. Then - not that there is the intent or purpose of impelling; but merely making aware should be the intent and purpose of the entity in its associations and activities with others in the present.
33. Through that sojourn we find the entity was in a portion of the land now known as Massachusetts, Connecticut, and a part of the present environ or land of sojourn.
34. Hence these hold a rather peculiar feeling for this entity; as being far away when away, and yet when present not altogether satisfied with the field about self - as if something was amiss.
35. For the entity through that experience gained and lost. For there the entity turned some of those abilities, in its activities through the experience, into self's OWN desires. But the greater portion was spent in that of cultivating the
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minds, the purposes of others; for the entity's activities were as a teacher, a minister, a writer. And in giving to others the thread or line of hope, the development came to self, the awakening as to WHY - WHY each soul finds an expression in the material things.
36. Before that we find the entity was in the sojourn which has made for the greater of all the opportunities in the material plane; for it was during those periods when the Master walked in the earth, and among those who were blessed by Him when feeding the five thousand upon the mountain and by the lake.
37. The entity was among those peoples in the Galilean land.
38. When there is then found within self that feeling of the supply, that feeling of the abilities through the application of self to meet whatever may be the needs, let this grow within thine inner being. For know, as ye live and move and have thy being in Him, so He is the supply - whether it be material, the mental, the spiritual.
39. For these are the representation within the awareness or consciousness of the individual of the Godhead - the Body, the Father; the Mind, the Christ, the Son; the Soul, the Holy Spirit through which all approach is made.
40. For even as the Spirit moved, matter came into being. So as the Mind became the way, the truth, the light in materiality - as ye apply same in thy experiences day by day ye become aware.
41. Then as He hath given, and as ye heard so oft, "The kingdom is within." Turn ye within, for there in the temple of thine own body is the temple of the living God, where He hath promised to meet thee, to commune with thee, and to give thee the supply of ALL that may be needed within thine experience!
42. For as indeed He manifested, truth needs not justification but the glorification in the manner in which the love is dealt to thy fellow man.
43. As indeed ye heard as a child, indeed as ye heard as ye grew into active service through the experiences with many of those of the period, there IS the way that may seem right to a man, but the end thereof may be death.
44. But if the heart is open, He will come and abide with thee. And He in thee, as He in the Father, may know the truth that will make thee free indeed.
45. Throughout the activities in that experience the entity remained as one among those who grew into active service with the disciples and Apostles, and the women of renown; the acquaintanceship with the holy family, the leaders. These then are not a mystery to the entity, yet as a thing a
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bit afar; yet may be made a material experience.
46. Look then again upon the light that shines within thine own heart, as ye read of how He called the lad. For the lad was thy brother - and thy associate that is close to thee through thy experiences in the present.
47. Before that we find the entity was in the land called 'the city in the hills and the plains.'
48. There we find the entity was among the Grecians who came into that Persian and Arabian land for the purpose of setting at naught, or of conquering as it were the activities of that teacher Uhjltd in the 'city in the hills and the plains.'
49. Yet when the entity came under the influence of the healing of body, of mind - seeing hope and love, brotherly kindness and gentleness and patience shown among those where turmoils and strifes so often arose, it - as many another - joined with those activities; as Ameleo.
50. And as the entity aided those peoples in separating the various tenets for the application of the various groups who journeyed through that particular land, the entity grew in grace, in knowledge, in understanding.
51. Just so in the present, as the entity applies the seed of the spirit - patience, faith, hope, love, gentleness, kindness - it may see the fruit thereof in its own environs as well as in the activities of others.
52. For know, ye can only labor in the vineyard of thy Lord, thy God. He alone may give the increase.
53. WHO then is thy Lord? Who IS thy God? What is thy belief? WHO is the author of same?
54. And unless it is founded - as in the experiences then, as in the experiences later - in the creative forces which arise from His desire that each soul would know its maker and become a companion to that which is the Creative Force, knowing itself to be itself and - as the Son - one with Him, - then it is not constructive.
55. In the experience then the entity gained much knowledge as to judgements of peoples, as to their purposes, their abilities - and the ways and manners to encourage them through HELPFUL suggestions that each soul or entity feels arise from within self.
56. For to help one to help himself is greater than giving, giving, without the ability of the one receiving to see.
57. Hence as indicated, it is better to give than to receive; for only that ye have given do ye possess!
58. Before that we find the entity was in the land now called the Egyptian, during those periods when turmoils and strifes arose with the banishment of the Priest.
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59. The entity then was among those who were close to the household of the King AND the Priest; and yet with the banishments sorrows materially came.
60. With the return, and with the healing of the body for the greater activities, the entity arose in its thought and power through its application especially in the Temple Beautiful.
61. And from same comes that interest in harmony, and color - as does the sounding of that as was the call from the station of the third position in the Temple Beautiful over which the entity, as Omuna, presided - sound within self, - O-oooo-ah-m-mmm-u-uuu-r-rrr-n--nn. [See 2072-10, Par. 24-A on 7/22/42 giving the sounds as "Ah---aum, see?"] These as they may be sounded within; not just the vocal box of the physical but as they rise along the centers from the bodily forces to unite the activities - the entity may bring greater harmony within the experience, as it did to many through the activities in that material sojourn.
62. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, and that to which it may attain, and how:
63. In keeping that thou hast purposed and may purpose within thy heart to do, to make known the way of thy Lord, thy God, in the hearts and ways of men; these be the fields as thy greater service may come in doing with the might what thy hands find to do - NOW!
64. As ye will find those of the varying purposes and influences, ye may bring into the activities of the various groups, the various centers, a stimulating of the UNITING of the efforts of the many - and NOT in finding the differences but the union of same!
65. For know, the greater lesson the world has ever known and may ever learn is, "Know, O ye peoples, the Lord thy God is One - ONE."
66. This is thy message, this is thy purpose! Proclaim and sow that seed of unity of purpose, that may be found WITHIN! And THAT is thy mission through these experiences.
67. May the grace thou hast known be claimed as thine own, and be given to others - As ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them!
68. If ye would have friends, show thyself lovely. For the love He expressed in blessing and bringing abundance to others through thy own preparation in the hands of thy brother may bring again that to the thousands, as then, - the awareness of the light of the life of the Christ.
69. Ready for questions.
70. (Q) What is my next move in life to be of service to others? (A) Aid in giving the greater understanding to others in
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the various groups as ye contact them; not only in thy one environ but in many - the united effort of all.
71. (Q) Where should I go? What city? (A) Begin where thou art; and as ye will find - soon - changes coming in thy experience, there will be, for the time, in '39 - especially the latter portion - many cities, communities, visited.
72. (Q) Why do I not feel at home in N.Y.? (A) Because, just as given, in that environ there is the feeling when away of a longing - when present, not quite satisfied. As we find, thy greater work will be there; though in the ENVIRONS of same - yet in many other places in this land also.
73. (Q) Would it be well to sublet my apartment in Flushing? If so, would I be able to secure a reliable tenant? (A) Look within self - you know as thou hast been, ye may find one in those that ye may meet who needs such. Yes, you will be able to find one - it will be well, after a bit, to sublet.
74. (Q) If so, where should I live - to be of the most service? (A) As indicated, after a bit there will be some travelling, and changing.
75. (Q) Are my days of singing in public over? or should I do something in that direction to help others? If so, how - and through whom? (A) Through those various groups or organizations or activities in which ye may serve the many for the UNITING of the efforts in the very many centers through the land.
76. (Q) Regarding my three-year friendship with Mr. [1821]: What have been our relationships in the past, and what are the urges brought forth in the present? (A) The brother in the Palestine sojourn. And do not lose that friendship! [GD's note: Mr. [1821] was the lad with loaves and fishes.]
77. (Q) Is there a karmic debt I owe him? (A) Rather that the united efforts may bring a greater service to the many.
78. (Q) Am I an old or a young soul in evolutionary growth? (A) ALL souls are from one. It is the application that has grown to be that which is termed old or young soul. For all souls were created in the one. The entity has applied self, the entity has kept self close in contact with many who have through the awareness of the oneness of God's purpose with man been attempting to bring him to that awareness; and hence an "Old" soul in service.
79. (Q) Should I continue the study of numerology? (A) Be well to lecture on same.
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80. (Q) Is Ariel Taylor the best teacher for me? (A) Very good. MOST all of these may be gained from the ONE BOOK - the Bible.
81. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file " " Self, additional copy made by Mae Verhoeven, 8/24/39 rhoeven, 8/24/39