This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 2nd day of December, 1939, in accordance with request made by the parents, Mr. [2385] and Mrs. [2336], through Mrs. [1523].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Hugh Lynn Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [2336] and Mrs. [1523].
R E A D I N G
Born August 7, 1937, in Pittsburgh, Penna. Time of Reading 4:10 to 4:50 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Va.
1. HLC: 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 which may be submitted, as I ask them:
2. EC: Yes, we have the entity here, and those records that are a part of the entity's experience through the earth's plane, as well as through those interims of sojourn in the environs about the earth.
3. In giving the interpretations of these records, these are chosen with the desire and purpose that this may be helpful to those guiding the development of the entity's abilities through the formative years - in choosing that channel through which the entity may gain the greater concept in its spiritual, mental and material manifestations.
4. As indicated here, the entity has accomplished much in varied manners, and in varied ways, through sojourns. While, according to judgments as might be passed in the present, the activities might not have been such as to constitute what man's knowledge would consider a great soul's activity, we find that the abilities in the present may be directed in such ways and measures that much may be gained.
5. Much of that which was the experience of the entity in the earthly sojourn before this should be adhered to, in the signs or symbols. Not that there should be the attempt to force the entity into activities in any direction where there is not an answering cause or purpose from within, yet with the awareness of these abilities there may be brought the awareness of much in those directions during the
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developing periods.
6. In the astrological aspects we find that, through influences from sojourns in the Venus environs, the entity is a lover of beauty; especially of song.
7. And there should be given training and development, and the awakening for the entity in those influences pertaining to a knowledge of, and the channel for the expression of, the abilities for the use of the entity's voice in PRAISE and in thanksgiving - rather than in those pertaining to the emotions of body or the arousing of those influences that would direct same in such channels.
8. Hence all things that have to do with phases of man's ability of expression in beautiful ways and manners will be of interest to the entity - whether pertaining to nature, to voice or song, or even to art subjects.
9. These will need, then, the directing in those channels that will bring an appreciation, more and more, of those things that were attempted in the experiences through the sojourns in the earth.
10. From the Jupiterian sojourn we find not only the benevolent but the adverse forces. For, while Venus WITH the Jupiterian brings the enjoyment of the beautiful in ways that would pertain to a universal consciousness or activity, the adverse in Mars indicates that wrath or anger or temper, or such, may bring those things that will cause the influence to be in a reverse manner, as it were, in relation to the entity's APPLICATION of abilities in these directions.
11. The Uranian aspects - as combined with the negative Jupiterian forces - show that sudden changes may be brought about by the activities at such periods when the entity comes under those influences, unless the entity is well grounded in the purposes and aims as from a spiritual nature, rather than from that of a material success.
12. From the Uranian influences we find the extremes, which may be indicated even in the present at times in the activity - or the response the entity makes to things of various characters that attract the entity.
13. Hence the needs for those directions as indicated, in the formative years or periods of the entity.
14. As to the appearances in the earth, and the influence they may bear upon the entity's activities in the present, - these being many (as will be indicated - that is, as compared to others), the influences will bring, as may be seen even in these formative years, a very definite emotional nature.
15. For, as indicated - or as he gives expression in the
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present - what the entity wants to do, he wants to do NOW! and to do it of a sudden, and in the way that is indicated by the entity! and there isn't a question as to what is desired to be done, either!
16. Before this we find the entity was in the lands west of the entity's present nativity, during those periods just prior to and after the destruction of what was known as the Fort Dearborn period.
17. There we find the entity was in the capacity of a teacher, a priest, a minister to the needs of the peoples; in the name Jerry Shaughnessy - Father Shaughnessy.
18. In the experience we find that the entity gained throughout, for the activities in the experience brought the entity in contact with those of every walk of life. And the manners in which the entity acted in meeting the various experiences and conditions brought the understanding to many as to how kindness, gentleness, patience, brings its reward in friendships and hopes, and the banishment of fear - that is the experience of man in his sojourn in materiality.
19. Thus we find that through the formative years the directions as should be indicated for the entity should be close in touch with the teachings of the church - not that as of a dogmatic influence, but for its beauty, its truth, its basic forces, that should be the principle in each and EVERY life.
20. Hence the entity should be active in those phases of same to which he gave his activities in that sojourn - as a leader of song, as a director of the lives of individuals through the ability to set to music, as it were, the experiences of individuals in their walks of life.
21. And many of the songs of that period were due to the activities of the entity - even portions of the natives or the Red Men, in making chants, owed their abilities to the activities of the entity through that sojourn.
22. Before that we find the entity was in the French period designated as the Crusade experience, when there were the ideals and purposes of the peoples of that land for the defense of an ideal.
23. Hence in the very natures of the entity, as may be indicated at times in the formative years of activity, there will be seen the abilities of the entity as a leader, as a director of custom; and yet the ability to "fight" physically for a cause, and the determinations and the purposefulness with which the entity will direct itself.
24. Yet, as indicated, these should be tempered with a purposefulness for the creative influence and force within the life, rather than just because of the satisfying or
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gratifying of the physical, or the desire to be in power and authority.
25. Those who are given such, to be sure, have the greater opportunities; but in the trainings for those individuals who may come to such by the natural tend or trend or bent, these should be in such ways that those WITH same use such to the glory of that influence and force for which each entity enters a material experience, rather than for the glorifying of self or the aggrandizement of individual purposes, individual fame or fortune.
26. Then we find the entity was in the name Abbe' Endeun (Rene). In the experience the entity gained, the entity lost. In the purposefulness, and for the cause, gained. In the application of the entity in the experience did the entity lose.
27. In the present the tendencies may be seen in the desire to dress, or parade; or those activities in which there is the following of the intent and purpose to direct those who would form a parade, or an organization - and the tendency towards organizations and clubs. And during the formative years, a little after the present age, the entity will find itself forming groups and clubs, and such.
28. Before that we find the entity was in the Promised Land, during those periods when there was the greater expression of the God-Love in the earth.
29. The entity was among those of the children of the household of those who became the leaders in Laodicea, or of those peoples of Lycia. And the entity was among those who were blessed as a child by the Master, on the way to the upper coasts of Galilee.
30. These the entity held to, in the activities in the early church in Perga and Pamphylia, and Laodicea; for the entity was a companion of Luke and Paul and Lucius, through portions of those periods of activity in all of that part of the Holy Land.
31. The entity was among those who were sent to the Roman experience for that activity in the church there; CHOSEN by those of the Romans who became converted to the doctrines of the church in Caesarea, Jerusalem and other lands.
32. Hence in portions of the activity there the entity ministered to the needs of the saints who were imprisoned before their demise in the experience.
33. As to the activities in the present from that sojourn, we will find the abilities of the entity as a statistician, or as a keeper of records for activities whether in a commercial or an ecclesiastical field; or any form of records being kept will be a channel through which the
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entity may find the greater expression in this experience.
34. The name then was Pebilus. In the experience the entity gained throughout; and much of same may be needed in the present to direct the entity in those activities in which the greater influences may find their expression.
35. Before that we find the entity was in the Persian land, as now known, during those periods when there were the activities of the teacher in the 'city in the hills and the plains.'
36. The entity then was in the household of Croesus, and a guard to the king's exchequer itself. And through those activities the entity became an active force for certain peoples who came under the direction of the activities of the teacher in the 'city in the hills and plains.'
37. There we find, in the latter portion of that experience, the entity became a power in the commercial service and activity in that 'city in the hills and the plains,' making for the mediums of exchange between the peoples of Egypt and India and Mongolia and all of the northern portions that brought caravans through that portion of the land.
38. The entity lost, the entity gained, the entity lost through that experience. When power and might came into the hands of the entity, the abilities to oppress, or to gain the material things through the power itself, brought destructive forces.
39. Hence those things as would pertain more to the spiritual should be impressed upon the entity through the developing years in this experience, if there would be the greater influences, forces or powers directed for good in the experience.
40. Before that we find the entity was in the Egyptian land, during that period when there were the reconstruction activities.
41. With the entrance of those from the Atlantean land, and the return of the Priest and the Natives which brought the influences for the greater advancement and development, the entity was among those chosen for a special service in the representation of the government.
42. Hence the entity rose to one of power in the political as well as in the religious forces of that experience.
43. And we will find an interest indicated by the entity in the activities of those natures, as may be magnified by the very influences and forces that may guide the entity to form groups, or secret orders, or activities of natures and of groups pertaining to a special service, as indicated from that experience.
44. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, and
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that to which it may attain, and how:
45. As indicated, much of the ability, as well as the forces that may direct the entity in this experience, will depend upon the training of the entity through the periods of its formative years.
46. This should be, as indicated, first in that of the church itself; not as an ecclesiastical direction, but RATHER as the purposefulness, and as to the desires and the promptings of the activities; and especially the voice training should be a part of the entity's experience. And then choose for itself, as to the directions in which these may be taken, AFTER its seventeenth or eighteenth year.
47. In that period of the seventh year, be mindful of those influences especially in which there might be injury to the extremities of the body - if there would be given the greater opportunity for the development throughout this experience.
48. Ready for questions.
49. (Q) Is the environment of the home life right for entity? (A) Who is to question such? If there were not the opportunity for all about the entity, it would not be in the environment! Those then upon whom the entity depends, not the entity but the home life and those about it, are to measure up to the standards to bring the greater opportunity for the entity's development.
50. (Q) In what church should the entity be taught? (A) There's only one church!
51. (Q) Give guiding advice to parents for correction of faults. (A) These have been indicated, in the things given to beware of, and as to the channel in which the vocational activities are to be directed.
52. (Q) What causes entity's apparent desire to molest animals, people and things? (A) The natural interest in those very influences, as indicated by the entity's activity in the experience before this in the wide open spaces! Might better ask why the entity likes to stay outdoors!
53. (Q) What section of the country will afford best physical and mental development? (A) That, of course, closer to the environs in which there were the activities of the entity in the former experience; but it does not depend so much on the place as on HOW the developments are indicated for the entity.
54. (Q) Has the entity any special talent for musical instruments? (A) As indicated, voice.
55. (Q) To what color, or colors, does the entity best vibrate?
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(A) Those of the somber natures or colors, or especially nature in the spring and fall. For if it will be noted, it will be seen that the entity gives special notice to all such.
56. (Q) What years will make period of greatest development for entity? (A) As indicated, the seventh and the eighteenth - these will be turning periods for the entity.
57. (Q) What have been the entity's past associations with his present aunt, [1523]? (A) The child in the Laodicea experience!
58. (Q) What are the urges brought forward in the present, and how may they be best used for their mutual development? (A) As may be indicated from the activity of each of these, they may be a prop one to the other.
59. (Q) What have been his past associations with his present mother [2336]? (A) In the experience before this very closely associated, being the brother in that period of the present mother. Companions in the French experience, and very close associations in the Egyptian experience of the same character as at present.
60. (Q) What were the past associations with the present father [2385]? (A) These have been in two or three experiences, as companions, and as father and son. Especially in the early years, keep the entity in those purposes, desires and activities as indicated; and especially in the trainings for the use of the voice in the expressing of that which is desired in its activity. Keep ever before the entity the emblems of the Jesuit! [See 1990-4, Par. 21-A, also 1523-15, Par. 18-A.]
61. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file Ass'n file