This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 5th day of May, 1939, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [1872], new Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended through N.Y. meetings and Association literature.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Born August 8, 1908, in Hoboken, N.J. Time of Reading 4:00 to 4:35 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., N.J.
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 the years from present - " - '36 - very bad - '35 - not so good - '33 - very good - '29 ' many changes - " etc., on back to birth date.)
3. EC: We have the records here of that entity now known as [1872].
4. The visions and experiences of the entity in the present are not as hopeful as might be expected, even from the interpretations of the records as we find them here - and the abilities, and the qualifications - as might be termed - in the broader sense.
5. However, there YET may be happiness, hope, and an experience that will make for continued developments through this sojourn, if there will be the application of those tenets that are of a constructive nature in a part of the experience.
6. Hence in choosing those portions of the life's record to be interpreted from the records as we find them here, these are chosen with the desire to make the experience one that may be helpful in the present period of confusion.
7. In giving the interpretations then, we find these - but irrespective of what the entity has done or may do about same - as the urges arising from the attempted coordinations between the astral experiences as well as the material sojourns in the earth:
8. One that easily adapts itself, ordinarily, to any
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condition - if it is a hopeful one; yet one that easily becomes discouraged with confusion and the lack of love and CONSTRUCTIVE thinking or experiences about the entity.
9. One that has many virtues that are adaptable to clean, clear thinking.
10. One that desires to express emotion in material as well as in spiritual ways and manners.
11. One interested in all influences of a religious, emotional or a metaphysical nature. Hence psychic, occult influences or forces are a part of the experience of the entity.
12. Oft is the entity inclined to explain same away by that termed by others as rational thinking.
13. In giving the interpretation of the records here, we find one coming - from the astrological aspects - under the influence of Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, Saturn - these as combined with the Uranian forces.
14. For the entity is an Atlantean - hence one that becomes very eccentric in the experiences of activity with others at times, or an extremist.
15. In Venus we find the adaptability - the home loving, - the ability to create a beautiful environ; and adapting itself to circumstances, conditions - if they are, as indicated, of a hopeful nature.
16. In Venus, as combined WITH the Jupiterian, we find influences that have to do with individuals but AFFECTING larger groups, or the masses, through individual activity.
17. Hence in that of home building, and in the vocational capacity as secretary or statistician, may the entity find the outlets for its abilities and influences from the Mercurian sojourn.
18. For the high mental efficiency, clean and clear thinking are a part of the entity's activity.
19. In the Uranian influence, as indicated, we find the extremes, as well as in the influences from Saturn that will bring changes of an extreme nature in the influence of this entity.
20. As we find, these also are in the extremes through the Venus or home influence, and the Saturn and Uranian; bringing periods when there will be - as in the present - estrangements in marital relationships. Indeed these may arise to such an extent that extreme measures may be necessary to be taken, for not only the safety of the material health but for the bringing of greater opportunities for active service in the creative influences and forces in self's experience.
21. Hence these, as combined with the experiences of the
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entity through the material sojourns (as will be given here), may indicate the activities necessary for the entity to accomplish in the present experience the conditions and forces necessary for the greater developments.
22. As to the appearances or sojourns in the earth - these, as we find, while not so many in number as to individual appearances, are quite varied; and have decided effects upon the innate and manifested urges in the experience of the entity in the present:
23. Before this we find the entity was in the land of the present nativity, during those periods of what is now called the American Revolution - or independence.
24. In the experience the entity was active during those periods of hardship brought about by the activities in the land of the soldiery; bringing about disturbing forces not only to self but anxieties as to the general OUTCOME of the activities and associations.
25. The name then was Florence Etterworth, and the entity was among those of a family very close to the activities of - and favoring - the Crown; yet the ASSOCIATIONS and activities of the entity were among those who were FOR the freedom - and the union by the wedding brought those disturbing influences for the entity.
26. Yet with the period of reconstruction, we find that the entity was active in saving much of those influences that were wrought by the changes in the family associations.
27. Hence, in the present we find the innate desire to preserve those influences that are hopeful - as related to the home; and yet, as in that experience, portions of the family (as are a part of the self in family in the present) made such activities as to bring the NECESSITY of the entity declaring itself to join in the better forces for its OWN offspring.
28. So may it become a part of the experience in the present to arouse those forces in others for greater activity towards a social, a political and an economic order.
29. Before that we find the entity was again in those periods of reconstruction, but under a different order, - when the edicts of the King in the Persian land made it possible for the return of the children of promise to the Hold Land for the rebuilding, the reestablishing of the temple as well as the city of promise.
30. We find the entity was among those who came with the earlier portion, or under Zerubbabel. And while there were periods of turmoil, periods of anxiety, there was builded the greater service in the temple and its activities - in the closer associations with those who would establish the
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home first, as might be called, or the altar in the home.
31. And these brought into the experience of the entity then, as Shumel, the great abilities of creative forces as to the establishing of home, the establishing of associations with others in their aids to build better environments for children, for the teaching of others for activity in individual service - as in vocational training and activities.
32. Hence all of these influences will become in the present sojourn a part of the entity's activity and choice; that there first must come the analyzing of self and its desires, its hopes, its aspirations.
33. And know that these, as in that experience, are founded upon constructive forces of a spiritual import; and that the activities and associations with others may bring - as during those experiences - the greater regard for, the greater consistency in, NOT mere lip service but the actual heart and mind service towards spiritual things.
34. Before that we find the entity was in the Egyptian land, during those experiences when the young from the Atlantean land were brought into the Egyptian land. The entity was among those Atlanteans, but young in years when brought into the activities in the Egyptian land.
35. There we find the entity, with the correlation of the activities of the teachers of the Atlantean peoples, and the Priest who was restored to activity, became very close in associations with the Priest for the preparation of individuals for the greater service among not only its own peoples but the peoples of every land.
36. Hence we find the entity in that experience, as Te-Et-Aael, became one close to the Priest in KEEPING the stations, or wardrobe and stations of the Priest during that portion of its sojourn there; thus becoming as a helper in those activities when others were sent for service in other lands - as an instructor of those who went as ministers and emissaries for activities in other fields; acting in the capacity then of what would today be called a secretary to the Priest for the carrying out of other activities in other lands.
37. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, and that to which it may attain, and how:
38. First, study to show self approved unto God, in all good conscience, as to what IS thy ideal - in relationships to that form of service or activity as to God. What is thy ideal relationship as to home? For, know that such is as a pattern of that HOPED for in a heavenly home.
39. And if each entity would so live in this material
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sojourn as if it were for an eternal home, much more beauty, much more joy, much more peace would be attained.
40. If it requires, then, the severance of those present relationships for the acquiring of, or the attaining to such a relationship in this material sojourn, act IN that manner - as in all good conscience - that there may be the greater, the more beautiful, the more hopeful expression in the experience in the present.
41. Such a choice can only be made by self. Not as in a passive, but as in an ACTIVE way and manner.
42. As to the material activities - in the capacity of the homemaker may the greater joys and the greater expression of self come.
43. The channels for material service may come as a helpmeet in secretarial manners, or in activities where there may be used those ABILITIES in the directions of writing, of keeping accounts.
44. Ready for questions.
45. (Q) Is there anything I can do to make my husband fall in love with me again? (A) There needs to be rather those separations there, - unless physical conditions with the husband, in his idea OF material relationships, are changed by surgery.
46. (Q) Why do we seem to have so little in common, so little to talk about? (A) As indicated, these are the meeting of self from those experiences through the sojourn just previous to this, - when the relationships were rather as father and daughter; yet BROUGHT relationships where it required the separate activities for the greater benefit of each. And so it may become here, UNLESS those activities of a material nature - and physical conditions - are changed.
47. (Q) Why does he seem to have lost all physical love for me? (A) As indicated - it is a physical defect - a PHYSICAL condition in that body - the husband.
48. (Q) What has come between us? (A) As indicated, it is a physical defect - not a mental, not a purposeful one. But the entity must choose for itself, see? Do, then, that as indicated. Study within self, first: What is thy ideal, spiritually - thy ideal home? Not as to what is the ideal thing that OTHERS should do, but the ideal manner that YE should do! And do that!
49. We are through for the present.
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