This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Va. Beach, Va., this 22nd day of July, 1932, in accordance with request made by self - Mrs. [1917], new Active Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Miss [307].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [1917], Miss [307] and Mildred Davis.
R E A D I N G
Born May 15, 1896, in Aulander, Birtie Co., N.C. Time of Reading 3:30 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Va. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes, we have the entity and those relations with the universe and universal forces, that are latent and manifested in the present entity.
2. In entering the earth's experience we find the entity coming under the influence astrologically of Venus and Jupiter, in both the ascending and descending influence; also those influences in Uranus and Mercury.
3. While astrological influences may be impulses in the experience of the entity, each should know that these are ONLY influences. What the self does about them makes the developing or retarding. So, an entity from experience to experience in the earth's plane may have astrological directions, yet KNOW by the ideal held what may be done with these in or under any experience that may arise in any given period.
4. The astrological influences then, irrespective of WILL, are as these:
5. Venus makes for an ability to attract, or to withdraw from, associations and friendships, in a manner that has oft been termed by others as peculiar to self. This is the influence that arises from the sojourn or experience of the entity under the Venus influence. As to what the entity may do about its associations its understanding, its attractions for individuals or groups, then, depends much upon that which may become the active influence in the experience of the entity at such a period. This makes for an influence wherein, throughout the experience of the entity in the present, the entity may become a leader of groups or of individuals AS it chooses, and - as has been seen - has been chosen or selected in many conditions or experiences when to self, or even to others in associations or groups, there was the feeling that there were others equally as capable, or more capable, of filling such a place; yet there is that
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natural ability, dependent upon the application the entity makes respecting it. This naturally makes for an influence wherein the high IDEALS of the entity are controlled by love, rather than other influences in the experience of the entity.
6. From Jupiter there are those high ennobling influences, with the abilities to attract NUMBERS - and to be meek in associations with a number of peoples. Hence it may be said of the entity, the association or acquaintance is as large as the entity CHOOSES same to be! Also, as has been seen, this makes for the adverse influences in the experience of the entity. When there were periods when there should be expected the greatest blessings in material conditions in the experience of the entity to be the outcome, adverse conditions arose almost immediately. These depend, them, upon what the entity may DO respecting same, as will be seen from the influences in the earth's experience - which make for such conditions in the astrological intent or IMPULSE in the entity's experience in the present. This also, with those periods when Jupiter is in the position of the greater benevolent influences in the experience of the entity, makes for the periods when the greater opportunities - or the greater abilities AND opportunities of the entity will be in the present experience. As is seen in the coming period when Jupiter, Venus AND Uranus are in those positions of the greater benevolent influence, the greater love influence, the greater occult or mystic influences in the earth. This begins in October of the present year. Hence in the present year, or latter portion, and especially until May of thirty-three ('33), there will be a period of advancement in the mental and spiritual influences in the entity's present experience. ONE of the greater periods. Not that there will not be adverse conditions arising, as will be seen from other influences, yet the opportunities for expansion are the greater during this period for several years to come.
7. The influences or impulses from Uranus make for the interest that is held by the entity in those things pertaining to the occult or the spiritual influences in the entity's activities. These, as we find, make oft for those conditions that are termed by others as not being altogether orthodox in their activity; yet there is the ever seeking for those conditions that must answer to that something which seeks from within. Hence psychic or spiritual intuitive forces are manifest through those periods in the entity's experience when Uranus WITH Venus is at that place of the greater influence upon the earth's peoples, and especially upon this entity. These periods, as we find, may
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come rather as specific PERIODS of an influence, until there is such development from within, FROM those experiences and sojourns in the earth, as for self to control rather those influences that would give to the entity the abilities for expressions in these directions. In those influences also, we will find that, as these are the RULING influences in the entity, then should the entity so desire there may be those DEVELOPMENTS that may be of exceptional or unusual importance in its relationships, in its activities, to large groups of individuals, as well as the activities of self in the control of the influences in the entity's experience in the earth's plane.
8. As to those influences which make for the personality that has been developed in the present experience of the entity, there is a great home influence; yet making for an association that has constantly been in those positions of arguing with self as to whether that accorded in same was the greater, or the influence that might be had in a broader association. Also those influences in Jupiter make for the abilities of the entity as a director or advisor in capacities that would deal with the larger conditions in the economic or business relationships of individuals or groups. There has been often seen in the entity's experience that had plans been carried out that were made in the business relationships by the entity, there would have been a much better advantage to those associated with the entity; yet WITH the influence in Jupiter, the influence adverse in same, and with those seen in Uranus and in Mercury as the mental abilities, such conditions at times have made for tumultuous conditions in the mental forces of the entity, but the ability to control self - while not ALWAYS as active, or the ability as great as might be desired - has made for a harmony that has been exceptional in the experience of the entity. Then, from Mercury also we find those influences that make for the personality of the entity, in the capacity of understanding that which may be gained from the associations of the entity in most ANY capacity, whether in the home, in the religious life, in the commercial world, or purely in the mental world. This has made for a great expanse of vision, by the associations the entity has attained in the present experience through its visions through the eyes of others as well as self.
9. As to the appearances and their influences upon the present experience of the entity:
10. In the one before this we find during that period when there was the settling in the land now known as Vinland, or the New England lands. The entity was then among those who
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settled for the reasons of persecutions in the religious life. The entity was then among those whose peoples were persecuted, and there was brought through this experience the greater ability to not condone, but not condemn others for their beliefs that pertain to their mental, their moral, or their spiritual life. Hence we find in the present those periods through which the entity has passed when these have been as pointed at in the activities of the entity, yet with those experiences that have brought about that which satisfied the desire of the entity as towards its own ideal, these have made for some conditions when doubts and fears arose; yet the contentment that has come with the finding of the abilities within self to commune with the divine within self has brought many satisfactions that have not been found in other experiences in the present. Hence this experience has been as a development, as will be seen, that may - with those experiences that are to come with the great inflow of those seeking through many channels for the understanding of selves - enable the entity to be an aid to many. In the name, then, Elda John.
11. In the one before this we find in that period where there were divisions in the land now known as France, or during those periods when there was the overrunning of the land by those in the north and south portions of same. The entity then was among those peoples who were persecuted for their allegiance to the western portion of the land. In that period when the Huns joined with those developments for both the commercial and religious life of those peoples then so aided. The entity then in the name Zendor. In this experience the entity gained and lost. In those periods when there were the persecutions the entity gained. With those settlings that brought the periods of the easier social and home life there were the aggrandizings of selfish interests as related to others, that brought about a servitude to those the entity contacted in many ways and manners. In the present there is from this found those abilities to judge WELL between that which is true and that which is false; yet this has oft made for the entity in the present those doubts in friend and foe alike, that have made for hardships in deciding issues that might have been to the advantage in a mental or a spiritual advancement for the entity. FEAR, then, being that which may be said to have been developed for the entity in the MENTAL self.
12. In the one before this we find in that land known now as the Arabian or Persian, during that period when there was the building up of those people in the plain, when there were large groups of individuals who were being drawn
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together for those influences that were being given to the peoples by the leader on the plain. The entity then came under the influence of those aiding in the preparation of those who were being raised for leaders, and those who were to be sent as emissaries. The entity then may be said to have been schooled by those in that position, as Inxa led those people in that experience, and the entity was in the name Zezo. In this experience the entity gained throughout, for with those experiences under the influences of these people there was gotten the urge to SERVE, irrespective of what might be brought into the experience that would make for misunderstandings. With the ideal once set before self did the entity gain and rise to a position of power in those circles that gave out to the peoples in many various lands. Hence in the present does the entity seek far and wide, the desire of travel, the ability to easily visualize many places the entity may read about or may hear of, and the abilities to - as it were - carry self THROUGH the experiences of those who may enjoy the pleasures, either mental or of material things, in far distant lands.
13. In the one before this we find in that period when there was the building up of those people in that land now known as the Egyptian, when there had been the rebuilding of many of the material and mental forces, as were for the developments in the land. The entity then was among the younger people who were brought into the services that had to do with the temple then called Beautiful. Hence to the entity, ROTE - as it were - is a portion of the entity's being. Hence the entity is at times matter of fact, yes - at others is seen to be rather as that things must be kept in things' places, as well as people kept in peoples' places. These are well, if not carried to the extreme in either direction. The entity was then in the name Isdis. In the experience the entity gained and lost. Gained through the services that were rendered in those associations in the temples with the people of the land, and the people who came for counsel, and the people who were sent abroad. Lost in turning those things into secular uses, as developments came for the larger inflow of peoples that brought about detrimental influences through the use of that gained in the application of self, rather than for service of others.
14. Then, in the abilities of the entity in the present, and that to which it may attain and how:
15. As seen from those analyses of the experiences, the abilities lie in being a leader or director in the way of groups, of masses, or classes of individuals, that the
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individuality of entities may be developed, with the personalities being made according to those influences that will compare well to that set as ideals for individuals, rather than individual setting up for self an ideal; for as developments come these must be in those ways that make for the continuity of experience, and that conform with the law of Love as seen in the Creative Forces that make for the oneness of purpose in individual entities' relationships with the Creative Energy, or the Oneness of the Creative Force with the oneness of purpose in self brings for the individual entity a contentment that may not be found in any other channel.
16. Ready for questions.
17. (Q) Please help me to know how I may attain spiritual and mental development. (A) As seen from the experiences of the entity, this is rather the NATURAL heritage of the entity, save where fear has entered in. Especially will there be the period for the mental and spiritual development of the entity with the experiences that may be the entity's by the natural inclinations, through influences in the life beginning soon, and with that constant association of self's purposes, self's aims, to be used by and for Him, the Giver of all good and perfect gifts, will bring to the entity that awakening as to how self may be used as HE would see fit. With this constantly kept, then, in the inmost force of self-expression, "Not as I will. Let me rather be the channel, and use as Thou wilt, O Lord."
18. (Q) While in meditation about two months ago, I was warned of a serious trouble that would come to me in this month (July). What was the significance of this warning? (A) Rather as indicated, that self was WARRING WITH self as to the associations and relations of the body, as respecting its physical, mental and spiritual self. Keep self warred about by those influences that may be had in Him, and only as He would have thee be used; for, as He has given, "I will not LEAVE thee comfortless" and "I will give my angels charge concerning thee" and "Will ye be my people I will be your God." The face of the self's OWN angel is ever before the Throne. Commune oft with Him.
19. (Q) Please advise me as to the best way I should pursue in order to help my daughter [...] to develop into a useful and serviceable woman. (A) In aiding to give the spiritual foundation for the expressions of the mental and physical body, of magnifying the love of the spiritual life in whatever channel it may take in the experience of the entity; that is, whatever may
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be used of the physical attributes in a service to Him is as directed by Him in the activities. Those used for expressions in an indifferent manner, or in a satisfaction of desires that are of the mental-mental rather than of the spiritual, bring discontent - see?
20. (Q) What work am I best fitted to do and how may I get into a position to do it? (A) This has been well outlined in the abilities of the entity, and that to which it may attain. It may best fit itself for a leader of groups, classes or masses, and to fit self physically, mentally, materially, is to commune oft in the silent watches with Him.
21. (Q) Would it be to my advantage and usefulness to study voice with a view of becoming a professional singer? (A) That it may be used in connection with, or in the attunement of others to those vibrations that may be aroused with such, would be well; but keep in the line of the SPIRITUAL song, rather than those that might be turned into expressions of attributes that lead to lusts of the flesh.
22. (Q) Why do I often fear when I am asked to sing for the public? How may this be overcome? (A) As given, the fear impulse has been, and is in the experience of the entity, through those activities in the material world. The trust that may be created in the inner self, through the associations of self with that attained in many experiences, will overcome this. There is oft felt in the inner self that when alone the entity might dare to do anything! yet when among others fear comes in. Not as of any PHYSICAL fear, but rather of being LIGHTLY spoken of. Then put the trust more and more in Him who GIVES ALL good and perfect gifts.
23. We are through.