This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 25th day of September, 1939, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [2012], new Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by his mother, Mrs. [1663].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Edgar Evans Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Born January 6, 1913, in Grand Forks, N.D. Time of Reading ... Avenue, 3:45 to 4:30 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., New York.
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 he has submitted, as I ask them:
2. EC: (In going back over years from present - " - '37 - yes, the expansion - '35 - " etc., on back to birth date.)
3. Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [2012].
4. An Atlantean, of the first water; and one that may bring into the experience of itself and fellow-man that which may add to his weal or the woe of human experience during his sojourn, dependent upon the application of self respecting those influences which are innate and manifested in this entity.
5. One of unusual abilities, in that it is rarely interested in anything that bespeaks of other than that which may be proven by measurement, weight or figures; and yet not a materialist in the sense that the gain for power or the gain for fame is put before the abilities and welfare of self and others.
6. This phase of the urges in the entity, though, will need cultivation, in the experiences that will arise during the next five to six years, and that ideal which is ALMOST a part of the entity made to be such in its WHOLE experience.
7. As to the urges that arise - these as we find come more from sojourns than from what may be called the astrological urges. Hence that which the entity has builded in the experiences through the earthly sojourns outweighs the
2012-1 Page 2
innate urges from the astrological sojourns. Yet the astrological influences weigh upon the dreams or visions or hopes - yea, even the fears of the entity.
8. There is little of sentiment, as sentiment. As a duty, as a necessity - these become more as the latent and manifested urges.
9. Not that there has been a great number of the sojourns of the entity in the earth, but these have their influence. And as the entity has attempted in the experiences through the sojourns to give that which was and is beneficial in the experience of man, so does that latent urge make for those activities in the present experiences of the entity.
10. There have been creative forces through the astrological sojourns. Hence these are manifested in the present experience not because of the position of a planet or of the sun or stars at the time of birth, but - as may be called - being absent from a consciousness of a physical experience is to be present with that which has been the urge, the spiritual force that has carried on.
11. Thus the ability to create those things that relate to vibration, those that would have to do with harmonious inter-relation of things and conditions, of experiences as they relate one to another.
12. Hence the entity is an analyst - of an analytical mind or temperament or tendency.
13. Jupiter, then, is the greater ruling force astrologically by the urges that arise from such a sojourn, - and these in more of the benevolent nature.
14. Do not OVERDO, or waste the strength. Then, budget rather the time for work, for recreation, for enlightenment in all its phases. Know, it isn't all of life to live, nor yet all of death to die. Life is creative, and is the manifestation of that Energy, that oneness, which may never be WHOLLY discerned or discovered in materiality - and yet is the basis of all motivative forces and influences in the experiences of an individual.
15. Only those who seek become aware of that which IS the motivative force of any condition, phase or stage of development in the spiritual, the mental or the material.
16. Man finds himself, then, body, mind, soul - as representatives of a three-dimensional world; and hence his physical self, his mental self, his spiritual self is explained in three-dimensional terms only.
17. And these - as ye seek them, ye may find them.
18. As to the appearances or sojourns of the entity in the material plane:
19. Before this we find the entity was that one who
2012-1 Page 3
symbolized to the land of the entity's present sojourn the ability to separate the good from the bad in cotton, as well as that which stabilized parts for moving mechanical instruments, as well as guns and ammunitions and parts for same.
20. These were the work of the entity through that experience or sojourn - as one Whitney.
21. In the experience the entity gained and lost - gained throughout in the desire to make for creative influences and forces in the experiences of others, without the thought of the great material gains for self. Those as were of constructive creation brought creative forces. Those as brought destructive influences brought negative forces in the experience of the entity.
22. These, as we see, are the disturbing forces which arise in the experiences of the entity in the present - as to just what IS that relationship with things and conditions that may not become a whole part and parcel of self, and yet can be worked with, controlled or directed.
23. Hold, then, to that which IS of constructive forces. But as ye find in the analyzing of principles that go to make up things, in their relationships one to another, there are principles that are assumed or declared as being the positive and negative forces in such. So in thy spiritual relationship and thought, know: They that would know spirit just believe it is, and as they seek for some, in the same way and manner there is sought the positive and negative forces in matter, it may be found - JUST as positive and JUST as negative as all that becomes manifested in this material world!
24. For, returning to the first principle - as there are those forces that move one within another to bring harmony, as for light or color, or sound, or motion, all of these are but the variation of movement, vibration. What is the First Cause? That from which all emanates, the SPIRIT of the force or influence itself; breaking itself upon the atomic structures about same, bringing those influences as it associates itself one with another in its varied forms of atomic structure.
25. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Roman, in those periods when there were the expansions of the activities of that land; not only in the forms of power or might but in the greater basic forces that turned those peoples or lands that were subdued or conquered into lands which provided productive forces for greater constructive activities - that were the basic forces of those influences through the periods when Julius Caesar made
2012-1 Page 4
such conquests.
26. Much more is heard and expressed of that in the experiences of men which became as the dramatic, or in the action as the warring. But there we find the entity, as a counselor, was among those groups that were in the position to bring into the lands of northern Africa and portions of Spain (as now known) and Greece and Asia the means and manners for creating helpful forces.
27. The entity then, as Antonan, made for the analyzing of the lands and their productiveness, as to the various forms of vegetation as well as natural growth, and advised or counseled those who did such.
28. Hence in the present we find the interests of the entity as to the sources of matters or influences or forces, or metals, or every form of nature that tends to make for the divisions of lands for their productiveness of such and such conditions that supply to the needs of man as to become a part of the experience.
29. Before that we find the entity was in the Atlantean land, when there were the constructive forces as to the activities of the children of the Law of One - in all of those influences during the periods when the land was being broken up.
30. We find the entity was as the leading influence for the considering of ways and means in which there would be the preserving of records, as well as ways, means and manners in which either the few or the numbers might be preserved from the destruction of the lands.
31. It would be well if this entity were to seek either of the three phases of the ways and means in which those records of the activities of individuals were preserved, - the one in the Atlantean land, that sank, which will rise and is rising again; another in the place of the records that leadeth from the Sphinx to the hall of records, in the Egyptian land; and another in the Aryan or Yucatan land, where the temple there is overshadowing same.
32. There we find the entity, in the name Oron, was as the leader of those influences to those that made for the escapes. And though the entity kept itself in the background, innately there is held the thought or feeling within the experience of the entity in the present that SOMEWHERE, somehow, there may be found that manner, that means, that way in which all of that which has BEEN may become a part of men's experience in the IMMEDIATE, now.
33. Know, all time is one - as is space, as is patience. Applying same in the experience of self in those directions, we may find much - if there is held that seeking for the
2012-1 Page 5
directing by the spirit of good, and not good that it may only be wellspoken of or thought of, but Thy will, acknowledging that He IS.
34. And in that way and manner may the entity, in the application of self to those opportunities as present themselves from period to period, find the greater satisfaction, the greater harmony, the greater outlet for self through this sojourn.
35. Ready for questions.
36. (Q) What life's work am I naturally most fitted for and talented in? (A) That which is creative in making for those things that appear NOT to be, to be used as means and manners for the preservation of life and light and understanding in ALL of its phases; or that as ye would call in the present the inventive genius. Let the application, though, be the preservation of that which brings greater harmony in the experiences of man.
37. (Q) In what kind of work am I most happy? (A) As just indicated, in that as we have outlined; and it would be well some day to search for those records as ye CAUSED to be put there.
38. (Q) Should I marry or not and why? (A) As has been indicated, this phase of the experience will be from some angles and phases a necessity; and thus, AS such, is a part of the entity's experience - that it may fill that necessary part of the experience that must find expression in procreative influence and activity. As to how this will be or what will be the outcome of same depends upon the choice of the mate. Choose one born in October!
39. (Q) Will my interests, habits, and viewpoints ever settle down? Will I ever remain interested in one pursuit, say in one specialized line of work or one girl or one school of thought? (A) Why SHOULD ye? These are all ONE. That there are various phases is as the body, the mind, the soul. They are phases of the one. They are the same, and yet have their urges as arise under varied phases of circumstance, conditions, environs, that bring or arouse other phases that are NAMED - but are still a part of the one and the whole. Follow along the lines as we have indicated, for the better conditions.
40. (Q) What is the relation between my esthetic and
2012-1 Page 6
scientific interests? (A) These are one. The separating of same in the consciousness is not that they are at variance, but they are set apart that they may be analyzed and understood. But know that these fit together in the pattern of the whole, as is represented by the experience of a span of consciousness in a three-dimensional plane.
41. (Q) Will I become rich; do I want to? (A) To become rich for the sake of the power is one thing. To become rich that there may be the greater efforts carried forward in fields of endeavor of research or scientific undertaking is another. These depend upon the choices that are to be made. Sufficient will be in the experience throughout this sojourn.
42. (Q) Will psychic phenomena ever, or within say 50 years, be accepted and provable on directly scientific measurements; that is on meters (instruments) and mathematics? If not, why? (A) When there is the same interest or study given to things or phases of mental and spiritual phenomena as has been and is given to the materialized or material phenomena, then it will become just as practical, as measurable, as meter-able, as any other phase of human experience. Ye did it before! Ye used it correctly - even though the whole world was against you: Would you again?
43. (Q) What has prevented "color organs" from becoming popular. By color organs I mean any combination of color patterns made to change in accordance with music, by mechanical or manual means. What promise has the future for this development? (A) The lack of the trained consciousness of groups or individuals sufficient to appreciate that which is manifested by such harmonious activity in the experience. Just as has been indicated regarding spirit communication or psychic phenomena, or soul-expression. Man, in his search for those things, has found that outside of himself for the satisfying, when only that within may answer to the influences without, to produce the more harmonious forces.
44. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Mother " " Ass'n file
2012-1 Page 7
2012-1 Page 7