This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 16th day of January, 1940, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [2079], new Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mrs. [1602].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Born July 10, 1897, in Richmond, Indiana. Time of Reading ... Street, 10:50 to 11:25 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. New York, N.Y.
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: Yes - we have the records here of that entity now known as, or called, [2079].
3. (In undertone: "These swell with self-assertiveness.")
4. In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them here, these are chosen with the desire that they may be a helpful experience for the entity. These are the interpretations of the records that have been made by the entity in its sojourn through materiality, as well as the astrological aspects; as the activities and studies, and much of the pompousness that is innate and manifested in the activity of the entity, would indicate.
5. Hence it might be well to give the premise from which THESE reckonings are taken, as they are quite at variance to those that are close to the entity's own interpretations of same.
6. An entity, or soul, is a spark - or a portion - of the Whole, the First Cause; and thus is a co-worker with that First Cause, or Purpose, which is the creative influence or force that is manifested in materiality.
7. Each entity, each soul, is endowed with self-will; that which is the force that makes it able, or gives it the capacity, to be the law, and yet complying with a universal purpose.
8. Thus, whether the activities or consciousnesses are in the material expression or in the universal cosmic
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expression in the spirit, these are ever a part of the entity's expression - for either development or retardment.
9. As may be seen, then, the activities or entrances of an entity into materiality and out of materiality are not so much governed by the stars or planets as they are by what the entity has done respecting the law of its relationships to same!
10. Thus it may be said, as the entity or soul - a soul - is a part of the Creative Forces, the positions of the stars or planets do not influence the entity so much as the entity has influenced, and does influence, the affairs of a universal consciousness!
11. Thus we have a premise from which such reckoning, then, is given.
12. As we find here in the experience of this entity, the astrological aspects are as urges because of the sojourn, or the consciousness, of the individual entity or soul IN those environs. Thus the urges may oft be in opposition to those which have been accredited to the activities of certain astrological aspects.
13. Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, Uranus - these we find are those from which the entity's urges, innate and manifested, become as the motivating forces.
14. The beauty of expression, the activities, the studies of universal consciousness and universal activities become naturally the latent and manifested influences - not only because of the sojourns in materiality but because of the application of self through those sojourns experienced; as related to what the entity sets AS its ideal in its relationships to the Whole, or its (as everyone else's) first cause.
15. If it is for self-expression, self-indulgence, self-glorification, self-gratification, the inclinations become in a direction away from, and not toward an at-onement with, the Whole.
16. Yet, being of the Whole, and with the Creative Forces manifesting in the entity, it gives expression in its own phase, own environs, own surroundings.
17. For, indeed each entity, each soul, is in the process of evolution towards the First Cause. Much becomes evolution, - much may become involution.
18. From these aspects mentioned, we find that the entity becomes the student - one with the ability to give expression, to make pronouncements; and all too often there is the inclination, in the entity's application - as will be seen, to feel or to give expression in such a manner as to carry the impression into the consciousness of others that
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the self is the last word - in whatever activity the entity may be engaged, or in whatever purpose that may be chosen by the entity for giving its expression.
19. As to the appearances of the entity in the earth, - these, as we find, have been rather far afield as considered from the nature of the present environs, present activities.
20. Hence we find the lack of emotions arising from the consciousness of physical forces, and yet attuned oft to same by the great intuitive force - from the often long sojourn in a UNIVERSAL consciousness or awareness.
21. Thus we find the entity oft losing itself in physical consciousness to the extent that it is termed by others as lacking in consistency, or as being impractical in its application in the material affairs of individuals.
22. Before this, then, the greater portion of the entity's activity was in being an aid to those who directed sailing crafts, or as a director himself of sailing crafts that came to the land of the present nativity.
23. The entity was among those peoples who settled toward the North; and was a navigator, or one who gave directions, - taking its directions or reckonings from the position of planets, stars, and those reckonings that were a part of the such charting of experiences during that particular period.
24. Then the name was Laurensen Cen. In the experience the entity MENTALLY gained - spiritually became as a materialist; and yet in a material application it became one through whom a great deal of power was gained, through the ability to cause others to depend upon much of the activity and individual choices of the entity.
25. Thus the entity was a landowner by the very right of personal possession, and contentions with various groups and various individuals arose through the experience.
26. In the present we find that oft there are a great many controversial subjects within the entity's experience; also we find the ability of writing, especially that may be expressed in the way of guides for those who would seek through the accrediting of certain activities to individual experiences. These are very well - but spiritualize self, that these may not take their course away from Creative Forces, but towards same; not to materiality alone, and it dependent upon same.
27. For, as the body finds itself as body, mind and soul, all phases, all experiences, all expressions should take this fact into consideration; and that the spirit or purpose alone is eternal.
28. GOOD lives on. The other becomes dross eventually in the experience of each soul.
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29. For, His laws will not be mocked, and what any individual sows, that it eventually reaps.
30. Before that the entity was in the Abyssinian land; among the soothsayers, or the leaders in the reading of the activities through the sands, as well as the interpreting of records of the ancient ritualisms of a people - whether of the East, the North or the South.
31. There the entity was dreaded by many, loved by many; for the entity within himself was almost as a sultan, and when he said "Go," they went, and when he said "Come," they came.
32. These abilities, or powers, are well within the experience of an individual, if there is the consideration of the purposes, the intents, the desires of Creative Forces - so that the activities of self are in keeping with same, or God, and not for self-expression alone.
33. Hence in the present we find that all those things pertaining to the mysteries of alchemy, and those things bordering between the material and the spiritual, those things pertaining to the activity of the elements about the earth, and about the moon, and that become a part of same, are a part of the experience of the entity.
34. The name then was Ahbudah. In the experience the entity lost and gained; gained when there was the application of those forces and abilities towards bringing, or sowing, seeds of hope and faith and patience and longsuffering in the experiences of others; losing when such abilities were turned in the direction for the development or the aggrandizing of appetites, or material forces or sources in its own experience.
35. Before that we find the entity was in the Atlantean land, during those periods just before the second breaking up of the land - or when there was the application of the destructive conditions, or when creative forces were turned into destructive elements.
36. For the entity was among those who were of the children of the Law of One, but applying much in its own experience to the latent and hidden forces of the children of the sons of Belial. These as we find brought an innate deeper sensing of the influences and forces, in the present - yet most of these are often - too oft - accredited to the powers of concentration, of study, and of mental and material experience, and not to the sources of creative influences and forces.
37. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, and that to which it may attain, and how:
38. Study to show thyself approved unto God, not to self but the God within self, and not self-asserting or
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self-indulging; but giving - giving - of strength and power to the bringing of creative forces through the hope, or the seed of the spirit of truth - which lies in brotherly love, and patience, and that of virtue for its own creative influence in the experiences of others.
39. In the field of writing the entity may find an outlet for its abilities, and yet these must be tempered with those forces which bring hope and not self-indulgence; else they will turn as that which would sap the soul of the entity itself.
40. Ready for questions.
41. (Q) If writing is my forte, what type of writing should I specialize in and where and to whom should I go for correct contacts in regard to publication? (A) Those influences or forces that bring about the understanding of the mysteries that have been accredited with a power or influence in the experiences or lives of men; but in such measures and manners, as we have indicated, that they are creative and not self-assertive. When these are in such a way and manner as to bring the creative reaction, then through any of those channels through which such writings may be published as helpful forces, contacts may be made. There are many that are given to just such a study and application. Holt is very well.
42. (Q) In regard to the Encyclopaedia of Astrology which I have completed, where should I go for the financial backing and where should it be published? (A) Is it worthy of being published, if you analyze thyself and what it purports to give into the experiences of others? Rather, we would give - study self more, in its relationships to the Creative Forces, and its influence among its fellow men, in the light of that which we have indicated here; and we will find there will be the necessity of compiling from another angle much of that which has been written. THEN this may be published, and may be sought by ANYONE seeking to give information to a waiting world.
43. (Q) Is there any particular individual whom I should meet in regard to publishing the novels, stories and essays which I have written? (A) Such matters as these are a part of self's choice, and are not to be directed from here - that ye might pick them as blossoms in a land of plenty.
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When the writings are in a position that they are more of a helpful force, these may be easily sought - among those, any of those, who give themselves to the publishing of that which is a HELPFUL thing, because of its appeal to those who would better themselves and their fellow men.
44. (Q) Is there another name that I should use when signing myself as "author"? (A) Choose that as ye should. This also should be a matter of thine own self-expression and choice.
45. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file " Ass'n file