This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 19th day of June, 1939, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [1770], 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. Mr. [1770].
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading Flushing, L.I., 4:00 to 4:45 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. New York.
1. GC: You will have before you the life existence in the earth plane of [1770], born March 21, 1889, in Roxbury, Mass., and the earthly existence of this entity as Gracia Albright in the land of Massachusetts and Connecticut, etc., during the early settlings. You will give a biographical life of the entity in that day and plane of earthly existence - and how - into the earth's plane, and the entity's departure, giving the developing or retarding points, and how the mistakes made then can be corrected now. You will then answer the questions she submits, as I ask them, concerning her present life's work, according to associations and environs merited from relationships in the past, and the best procedure for the highest spiritual development.
2. EC: Yes, we have the records of the entity now known as or called [1770] - as Gracia Albright.
3. In interpreting an early experience, or biographical activity of the entity - the conditions, the promptings of the activities as to the early settlings, and their attempts to sue their activities as a manifesting of their relationships to Creative Forces - this information is given with the desire to make the experience, or the knowledge of same, as a helpful, hopeful influence.
4. There we find the entity, Gracia Albright, was in the environ or home life not of what would be termed the real backwoodsmen days, as would be inferred from saying "early" periods - but rather in the vicinity and environs where there were the NEW applications of old principles among those of the household.
5. Being in a household of five at that period, we find the entity was the third; hence becoming numerologically that which should have been as the greater blessings to the whole of the household.
6. In the early period coming under the influence of those activities where the very abilities of the FAMILY indicated
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the need of help from the outside - or servants that were of the superstitious nature, as called in the present - the entity was close to the activities of the unusual nature that were the experience in part of most of the young, especially in that period so close to the race that was a portion of the Atlantean's reaction, and the peoples who were making for the finding of new undertakings, new understandings.
7. The lack of comprehension on the part of those of the household brought the temptings to use or apply the natural sources of communicative activities to such an extent as to be used as the determining factors in the associations and activities of others throughout the land. And then there came the natural changes as wrought by the change of environ, by the different character of peoples.
8. For, as is understood, those that were of the Roger Williams group and the Puritan group were quite varied in their interpretation of that necessary for the conformance to the laws pertaining to the relationships in which man should act towards that which he set as a classified religion, or the relationships to the Creative Forces or Energies.
9. Being of those temperaments and tenets - from the greater experiences that had been a portion of the entity's activity under a powerful influence - in the abilities to heal, the abilities to rule, the abilities to use such activities, brought persecutions in some respects. But in that new land, with its freedom, such tenets - as might be said - became the influences that brought about the disturbing or defeating of the purposes of the soul-activity during the greater portion of the experience. For the entity abused the liberty in spiritual and in mental thought as pertaining to the relationships individuals would bear one towards another, as the proof of conditions as were to be the manifestations of the relationships of spiritual forces to the physical activities of groups.
10. However, the entity grew in the abilities for all the relationships to make for the widening of the circle of friends, the widening of the abilities in the use of the natural sources for the impending, as well as dependent influences; thus bringing greater opportunities for the application in abuse of those very principles as indicated that became active for self and selfish natures, - indulgences of the natures that made for the prompting being the satisfying of material desires rather than the spiritual and higher mental forces of the entity during that sojourn.
11. The abilities were such, as we have indicated, that in
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the present - as indicated - there should be the application of self FROM the corrective forces - in bringing about greater DEPENDENCE upon the true spiritual nature of conditions as may relate to all activities and associations through the present sojourn, in meeting individuals to whom its activities brought in that experience the expression rather of self or selfish natures.
12. THOSE, then, are the lessons the entity is to apply in the present - that the freedom which is found in the realization of the at-onement with Creative Forces is never to be turned into those channels in which there becomes the gratifying of material emotions in any form or manner alone.
13. Not that there is to be no recognition of such, but the evaluation of these, or the laudation of those activities in which self or self- indulgence of any nature may be overcome, is to be the principal or main activity - whether as to learning, as to lore, as to healing, as to beauty of any nature or character, these are to be accredited to their source - and that self and self's activities are rather the channel through which such manifestation may come, and not the source of such actions or even such manifestations.
14. For it is much like the principles that have been indicated in Him - that it is in Him ye live and move and have thy being, and not of self. For as He gave, "Of myself I can do nothing." This does not imply that the abilities to accept or reject the sources of knowledge and power are to be belittled or not used, in any phase of experience of the sojourn through the material plane.
15. But the promptings of the entity became rather the sources, and the channels through which the awareness of the retardments came.
16. In the application in the present, then - it has just been indicated as to the manner, the means, the way in which these abilities are to be used, and the retardments met - as there are the relationships with others in the varied activities of the experience.
17. The entity changed oft in its activity of sojourn, owing to the material benefits - as would be called from the material standpoint, as well as from the activities of the household of the entity. Yet the entity grew to be one in power, one in authority, THROUGH the very channels that it used.
18. That those things were seen that brought disturbing conditions in the lives of many, because of their holding to the affluence of things prompted by that impelling force of the entity's own personality during the experience, brought not even a fear - save that self would be lessened in its
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ability to control or direct others.
19. Yet because of the very tenets taught, the very lessons learned in the experience before, it became rather as He hath said - there was not a forgetting, but there was not the reminding - until the blessing had passed.
20. Thus there comes into the present activity of the entity the need to keep its surety in Him who hath given, "I am the way, the truth and the light - no man cometh unto the Father but by me." These are not idle nor boastful words of a mere individual, but of an individuality - having realized His station and position - declaring that which is the phase of experience that must come to each and every soul - that the fear of the Lord is fulfilled within the self. Not fear that makes one afraid in the sense of personal self, but the fear to do, to be, that as would bring any disturbing force in the experience of self or of anyone about same.
21. Through that experience or sojourn the entity lived in the environs of those lands as indicated, not faring forth into the western portions to a great extent, but becoming more and more acquainted or affiliated with the new thought of the period, or of those who were becoming more and more newcomers in that land; and lived to an age or determining period of sixty odd years.
22. Thus we have the activities of this entity in that experience and sojourn.
23. Ready for the questions on same.
24. (Q) What was the relationship in past incarnations with my late husband of the present life, [...]? (A) In those experiences of that particular sojourn as just indicated, we find the entity had the associations that were never consummated between the two; for they were as lovers in the material sense. Thus there existed throughout the experience of the entity's sojourn with the companion in the present, always that of expectancy. Also we find that in the Palestine land there was a friendship that was only consummated IN the associations of companionship. Through the Egyptian and Atlantean sojourn, we find that the relationships were then PARTIALLY - not entirely - as brother and sister.
25. (Q) Can I assist mankind through communications with him, progressing in clairvoyant powers? If so, what would be the procedure? (A) There may be assistance or assurance to self, and an aid to the companion by such.
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As to using such AS an aid to others, it would be a retarding to the companion.
26. (Q) What karmic debt did I pay, or what was the reason for my emotional suffering of the last few years? (A) Just that experience as indicated, or a part of same, - and the emotions that arose, in that ye misdirected. Not as that of pure desire to disturb, but to show self's power. Hence, as the emotional experience has been - more oft than otherwise ye were in the power of the emotions of others!
27. (Q) Would it be best for me to travel to the West Coast this fall, or remain in New York City? (A) As we find there may be a great awakening by the traveling to the West Coast, but DO NOT arrange or so entangle self as to REMAIN there. For remember, as has been indicated by that just given, there was NOT the journeying to the west in the experience before, but rather the aiding or attempting to use or to meet the new or incoming associations during the experience. Gain strength through such a visit, but let it be visit rather than contemplated residence.
28. (Q) Do I owe a debt of any kind to [...] [my former accompanist]. If so, how can I repay it? (A) Only in those manners that need to be measured to many, in meeting that which has been the experience through that association. Not a special karmic debt to the individual, see? but as an expressed one that needs to be measured to many.
29. (Q) Should I spend the summer at the Noyes School of Rhythm at Cobalt, Conn.? Would it enable me to render a service to others? or should I visit other friends who say they need me? (A) As we find, the more UNSELFISH way would be in this school, yet SUPPLYING to self an ability of an outlet that will later become - through the associations in other fields - of greater service. Hence as we find, it will be well. Beware of only one association that may be made there - a connection from Vermont. This does not mean to withdraw the skirts, or to draw the skirts about self as one that would be contaminated by that unusual environ or activity, but rather use same as a warning regarding that individual and leave the results to Him who IS the Giver of all good and perfect gifts.
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Know, as in thy application of self in the present, the more oft is there greater joy and help brought by sowing the seeds of truth - patience, longsuffering, gentleness, kindness, brotherly love; and then not becoming overanxious as to the results such would bring - knowing He alone may quicken such seed to bring forth the fruits thereof.
30. (Q) What is my seal? (A) That which has been a part, or sought to be a part of, that to represent the order and brotherhood of man; three links that would be joined, upward and downward - the three links set in such a manner, both up and across, as to form a cross. About same would be a wreath entwined with berries, thorns and white blossoms; not as a ribbon, but as a wreath [See 1770-3, Par. R1]. This would request not only that which is and has been the experience, but the strength in same to form the greater environs for greater service.
31. (Q) What relationship was [1921] to me in past incarnations? (A) Very closely associated - or what ye would term in the present as a sister-in-law in one; close in another as a friend; and in another as one rather pitted as it were against the other for favors of individuals. Let the seal as indicated be as an emblem - not in the form of something to be worn, but something to be studied each morning or evening when ye would analyze thyself and the motives of others. Then, as something of drawn work, or as a painting of sufficient size to indicate the union of the links as the three phases of man's experience, as crossed with the three phases of the relationships in the spiritual realm, as crowned by that which represents the purity as well as the blood and the fruit thereof.
32. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file " " Ass'n file