This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 11th day of January, 1943, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [1942], 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.
R E A D I N G
Born July 22, 1869, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Time of Reading 10:45 to 11:20 A. M. Eastern War Time. ..., Illinois.
1. GC: You will give the relations 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, that to which it may attain, and how. You will answer the questions, as I ask them:
2. EC: (In going back over years from the present - " - '36 - some changes in associations, connections - '28 - expectancies - '18 - activities altered - '16 - '98 - in stations of activity - '77 - an illness - " etc., on back to birth date.)
3. Yes, we are given the records here of that entity now known as or called [1942].
4. In giving an interpretation of the records as we find them here, varied interpretations might be made. But we would choose these as a desire and purpose that these might be a helpful experience for the entity; enabling the entity - in the application of the knowledge in same - to better fulfillthe purposes for which it entered this present sojourn.
5. As each entity should, we would minimize the faults and magnify the virtues.
6. As each entity enters a material experience, it does so with urges latent and manifested in some phase of that to be accomplished or attained through that individual experience, or to gain a lesson. And thus it comes into consciousness with these as part of its karma, its experience, its cosmic purpose. According to that chosen by the free will of the entity, as to its ideals, comes those lines, those conditions through which application is made; thus enabling the entity to know what to meet and how, proving a helpful influence for the entity.
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7. When considered from a universal consciousness of past experiences, these are innate, and find manifestations under the varied conflicts or urges that arise, and that have arisen in the experience of the entity through this particular sojourn:
8. One very much given to sincerity of purpose. What the entity promises it fulfill, whether it be to friend or to foe. Yet there are periods when the entity (from an aspect we will see indicated) becomes rather inclined to see or feel the dark side, or to become pessimistic in its views; and it may at others be just as optimistic.
9. These tend to make for conflictions at times in its associations with others, as individuals.
10. Literature and writings have been and are those interests of the entity. Beautiful speech or phrases that sound not only beautiful to the ear but respond to the mental and spiritual being are of particular interest, and an activity of this entity.
11. These, while not all, give an outline of reactions of this particular entity from the astrological aspects, - though not in the term that is oft used, for these are only urges. And what one does about an urge in relationship to that the innate soul or ego has chosen for its ideal depends upon whether there is growth or retardment in the experience of the entity.
12. Jupiter is a ruling influence. Thus a universal consciousness, the abilities to do for and to consider the whole rather than the individual, are as the latent urges and as a fact in the experience of the entity.
13. In Venus we find the beauty, the orderly experiences of the life, the necessity of things being in their relative relationships one to another in the experience of the entity.
14. We find in Uranus the extremes. Thus the innate forces, dependent upon the application of such urges in its relationships to others. For, each soul is under those forces of law. And law is love. Law is God. God is love. God is law. These are as the urges in the experience of this entity.
15. As to the sojourns in the earth - while only a few of these may be given in this particular period, these should indicate for the entity urges that are coincidental with the activities that have been and are a part of the experience. While not all, these we choose to give as the forces giving expression in the experience of the entity in this present period of its activity:
16. Before this the entity was in the period of expansion,
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or the closer relationships between the Roman and the Grecian students. The entity was active as a writer, in Ovid.
17. This indicates not only the abilities of the entity but of the mind and soul searching, using the experience of individuals, by their physical and mental activity, to picturize in words those activities of mind.
18. Through those experiences the entity gained, lost, and gained. As may be gathered from that indicated as to the higher purpose, when these were applied for the expression of individual or soul, there were gains. When they were applied for selfish activity, there were retarding forces.
19. Before that the entity was in the 'city in the hills and the plains.'
20. There the entity was among those leaders of the groups that made intercourse or trade between the varied lands, eventually coming to use the 'city in the hills' as a place of exchange between those activities in the Indian and Indo-China land and Egypt.
21. The entity became interested in the activities in the 'city in the plains' as a teaching influence, as applied in a practical manner in physical as well as mental and spiritual well-being of individuals.
22. Establishing a center there, the entity came under the influence that aided in many manners, hindered in others, in the activities by the teacher in the 'city in the hills.'
23. Those were periods when many changes were made; thus indicating the interest of the entity in those influences from varied lands upon the activities of individuals under a different environment. That as expressed in the present environmental and hereditary forces still has a part in the experience mentally of the entity, in soul or mental or material developments of individuals. This brought the closer associations of the entity in group as well as individual unfoldment.
24. It may be said that the entity was a tradesman and also a philosopher through that period of experience.
25. The name then was Astrada.
26. Before that the entity was in the Egyptian and Abyssinian land. For, the entity was among those peoples that were in the land to which the Priest was banished, during those periods of turmoil and strife in the land.
27. Becoming associated with the activities of the Priest, the entity returned to Egypt when there was the recall. And thus began that period of activity in which the entity became a part of that group attempting to aid in the preservation of the teachings of the various groups
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represented in that period of change wrought in that particular period.
28. Thus the study of the Atlanteans, the periods of rebellion, the periods of the interchange between the teachers and lecturers from the land of Said and from the Gobi land, were a part of the entity's activities through that particular period.
29. Though the entity saw much of the upheavals, much of the changes wrought, the entity kept rather aloof, and able to be used or to use the various groups as a means for the gathering of its data, as well as the education and the directing of those who became exponents of same.
30. The name then was Armeda.
31. Before that the entity was in the Atlantean land, during those periods just before the greater upheaval or the first destruction of that land.
32. The entity was among the children of the Law of One, and there the entity set its ideal and purpose to the keeping of those peoples that represented the pure in body as well as the pure in purpose.
33. In those periods the entity had ideals that are the basis upon which much of the latent and manifested desires are based in the present, as well as purposes, and objections - too - oft.
34. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, - that to which it may attain, and how:
35. First, know thyself. Know thy ideal, spiritually, mentally, materially. They each have their part in that as may be accomplished.
36. Study to show thyself approved unto they ideal, rightly dividing - divining - the words of truth. Keep self unspotted from condemnation - of self as well as of others.
37. As ye would be forgiven, so forgive others. As ye find that thy hands may do, do with thy might.
38. In the field of literature, in the field of the gathering of data, in the field of distribution of same, the entity may gain the more.
39. Ready for questions.
40. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file