This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 3rd day of January, 1940, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [2072], new Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mr. [1861].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Born March 25, 1910, in Attica, Indiana. Time of Reading 11:45 to 12:20 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Calif.
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, as I ask them:
2. EC: (In undertone "This isn't the name!") Yes, we have the records here of that entity now called [2072].
3. In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them here, these are chosen with the desire and purpose that this be a helpful experience for the entity.
4. Whether these records are considered from the influence exerted upon the emotional forces of the entity in the mental and spiritual, or the emotions from the material sojourns in the earth, they become rather unusual.
5. Thus we find the entity is rather a supersensitive individual; with very decided likes and dislikes - that are often not expressed wholly or entirely, as to the feelings or emotions respecting influences which impel activity in the entity's experience, owing to training, or to that the entity has set as its idea or ideal, or owing to circumstances.
6. Being of those groups of the Atlanteans, to be sure there are those forces brought to bear upon the entity so that it might be termed a true Uranian type.
7. Thus at times there is the experience of the extremes. While the desires for material activity may come under the extreme of physical emotion, the high spiritual import or intent may be hampered by the material environs and surroundings to such an extent as to cause at times much confusion.
8. And, under such experiences, any form of activity of a
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routine nature becomes drudgery to the entity.
9. As to the astrological aspects - know that there is no emotion, no urge, that rises above the will force of the entity. Though astrological influences may often be very strong in the experience, the entity experiences - as indicated - that the emotions of either the high mental or the purely emotional from the physical have been and are subdued, because of those intents and purposes which rise above every other force within human experience.
10. From the astrological sojourns, then, we find Uranus as the greater force. Hence beauty, the interest in the occult and in things of mystery - and in the influences that such may have upon the emotions of others - the desire to seek out those influences which are latent within every form of material or mental nature.
11. These have been a part of the experience; yet home, home environs (almost the opposite), wields such a power upon the emotions of the entity that oft in its own self it has given suggestive forces to have a home, to be quiet, to rule not as a might or power but in love, in grace, in honor, in kindness, in gentleness, in patience. This to the entity becomes the great emotion, the great force and power in its experience; that this should be that impelling force that should rule and bring the abilities of the entity to the forefront in its activity, rather than any commercial field of activity, or any order of action.
12. For the entity in its social, associate life or activity may give a great deal of harmony in the experiences of others, and become gradually such a power in the lives of all its associates as to act as the leaven that leaveneth the whole lump.
13. In Venus we find the love emotion, and beauty, becoming that sought - and those things dreamed of in the experiences of the entity; a bond of sympathy with every phase of expression that is of a mental or spiritual emotion or nature.
14. These have at times brought, and do bring, periods of quietude to such an extent that many consider the activities of the entity as almost a recluse, or as one having so little to say at times - yet seeming so deep, and so "knowing" in its inner experiences of things, conditions and peoples and relationships!
15. These arise from the experiences of the entity not only in the material sojourns but also from the astrological aspects.
16. Few there be who are so tied up in emotions from both material sojourns and astrological sojourns.
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17. As to the sojourns in the earth - these - as may be indicated from the highly emotional nature - have been oft close together, and oft in periods of long extremes. Hence these have brought, do bring, those influences that may be applied as helpful or become stumbling-stones to the entity's progress in material sojourns.
18. For, each sojourn is of a purposeful nature; not by chance, but that there may be the fulfilling of that purpose for which each soul enters into a material experience, - that is, to be a channel of blessings to others in the ways and manners that the soul may take hold upon eternal life, in those manners that have been exemplified through Him, - who is the way and the life in the earth, in the heavens, in all forces of same.
19. Before this, then, we find that the entity was of tender years when it passed from material sojourn - in the western portion of that now known as Kentucky.
20. Thus we find there has been at times the innate desire to know of the frontiersmen, and the active life, and the associated influences of those peoples from that particular land. Yet these have been in a manner and in a way oft denied the entity - though they have been a great influence.
21. Through those experiences the entity saw the extremes in the life and associations of its parents, and those things pertaining to the social orders - yet of the natures that stood for, or proclaimed, the activities for the belief in directing the better forces in the lives of individuals and groups.
22. The name then was Anna Seay, and the entity gained - even though of tender years, for the period of sojourn was only twelve and two.
23. From that sojourn we find the love of home, the love of fireside, the love of music; the love of dress, and especially of plumes - that have a peculiar effect upon the entity when it beholds the activities of these in the air.
24. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the French, during those periods when there were the Crusades.
25. The entity then was among the mothers of the land who were left by their men, or the male members of the family.
26. This brought discouragements, material hardships; but the love of pomp as manifested in those who would dare to do the right for a cause became a part of the entity's experience, as Marcelus Marrena.
27. In the experience the entity suffered materially, though accumulated material gains - and knew of, and turned oft in
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the mind, in the developing forces of itself, those influences which direct men and peoples in their courses of progress in a material world.
28. Thus only the sheer necessities of material life, and the obligations to others, prevent the entity from becoming more of the aesthetic type, or the dreamer. Yet these are influences, as the entity experiences, that are the real life, the real impelling forces in the experiences of individuals and groups - and oft such may direct the aims and activity of a whole country, nation, or the whole activity of many, many peoples.
29. Before that the entity was in the 'city of the hills and the plains,' during those experiences when many from many lands were a part of the activities in that city.
30. The entity, though, was among those peoples of the hills who were of those tribes of the leader's group, or that leader of that particular group in the 'city in the hills and the plains.'
31. Hence the entity became closely associated with the activities there, after the rebellions had been put down among those bedouin tribes, by the Persians rather than the followers of Uhjltd - the leader - in that particular experience.
32. The entity then became one who aided in the administration to the needs of the physical and spiritual, to those who might be termed wayfarers - at first; later, the entity was active in the hospitalization, or the caring for those who were ill or afflicted.
33. Thus the entity became a teacher, a home builder, an executive in those fields as related to same.
34. Hence language - whether the universal language as in music, or the universal interpretation as in etymology and the activities of same - becomes a part of the entity's innate and manifested expression in material gain, and in the material world.
35. In that experience the entity was known as Esmeldara, and the entity gained; losing only in the periods of holding to the aversion to peoples of certain races or classes.
36. And this becomes innate, yet taking the opposite extremes at times in the very nature of the entity in the present.
37. Before that we find the entity was in the Atlantean land, during those periods when turmoils and strifes arose because of the activities of the sons of Belial.
38. For the entity then was among the princesses, being of the children of the Law of One - and one through whom much of counsel and direction was obtained, through the very high
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spiritual development of the entity and the remaining true to the law of the children of One.
39. Hence we find the entity's activities were to assist, to aid, and to build into the experiences of those who were as THINGS, rather than expressing as human activities in the experience, though they were in the form of - and acted in the capacity of - servants. The entity rendered much aid to such beings, and thus brought on disturbances, that caused then the attempts of the sons of Belial (who had been a part of the experience, and who were in love with the entity, materially) to undermine and bring about destructive forces in the entity's experience.
40. In the present, then, we find that the entity is one of those that may indeed be said to be the consistent thinker and exponent of ALL FOR ONE, and ONE FOR ALL, in those things in which it has enjoined itself in active service.
41. These attitudes make for hardships at times in the material experience in the present.
42. But in those activities in which there may be the outlet for the greater home building, and the expression of same, may the entity find the greater field of service, the greater harmony, the greater outlook for peace and joy in the experience of this entity.
43. Ready for questions.
44. (Q) What possible latent expressions might help me to develop an expression for livelihood other than bookkeeping and clerical work? (A) It should be in that of home building; and thus an aid to, a director with the companion in those fields that bring more of the mystical activity - and yet spiritually so - in the experiences of those with whom the entity may be associated.
45. (Q) What relationship, in past lives, has existed between myself and that entity known as [1861], in this incarnation? What bond draws us so closely? (A) A daughter of [1861] in the experience before this. Thus there has been not only the association as the father, the mother, but the close feeling or attraction one for another in this expression, in this experience. Also in the 'city in the hills and the plains' we find that they were associated as companions, or what would be called in the present husband and wife.
46. (Q) Why do I feel smothered in the business world? (A) Compare same with that as we have indicated, as to the emotional nature of the entity, and it will be seen.
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BE the home, and IN the home; for the better expression.
47. We are through for the present. Copy to Self - Air Mail " " Ass'n file " Ass'n file