This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 27th day of March, 1940, in accordance with request made by the self, through parents, Mr. [462] and Mrs. [404], Active Members of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [404] and [2157].
R E A D I N G
Born December 13, 1920, in Norfolk, Virginia. Time of Reading 3:30 to 4:00 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Virginia.
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 are given the record here of that entity now known as [2157] - high up!
3. In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them here, these are chosen with the desire and purpose that this may be a helpful experience for the entity.
4. For the entity, while in the material experiences accomplished a very great deal in some phases of the activity, at times there has been a lacking in those things as might stabilize same.
5. Thus in the present we will find periods when apparently there is failure to arrive at those points of contact or conclusions as desired. Yet if these are carried in the spiritual as well as the mental, the material import and material application, there will come those experiences wherein the entity will again be quoted as an authority respecting phases of that which as we find will prove the greater channel of activity of the entity during this experience - aviation.
6. Then, as to activities that arise as urges - these come as we find from Venus, Mars, Mercury and Neptune. These in their variations, or as to accredited activity, bring quite a varied form of urge or latent influence in the experience.
7. For, from THIS entity's experience in Venus we find ofttimes those influences that are adverse; that is, the entity easily makes friends, and this can be both a virtue
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and a fault. For, in all such activities there must be that which is purposeful in each experience, but not to that of vainglory nor for self-indulgence or aggrandizements.
8. In Mercury we find the high mental abilities, especially as related to facts, figures, and MECHANICAL appliances, - especially as related to gas or gas appliances, or gas machines or the like; and these will be the outlet or channels in which the entity would find the greater satisfaction, or the greater outlet for the abilities.
9. For we will find from Mars not only those inclinations for anger, madness, ire to arise, but also the inclination for the inventiveness, the daringness - as will be seen from the experiences of the entity in the earthly sojourns in other fields of activity.
10. From Neptune also we find the aversion to water and waterways, water activities; and yet there has not been a greater entity to sail the seas than this entity - in the experiences through the sojourn just previous to the present.
11. Hence, as may be gathered, there are the needs for the tempering of the mental abilities, the physical prowess as will be a part of the entity's activity in this sojourn, with the SPIRITUAL imports - if there will be the carrying forward of those activities to the material or mental successes which the entity is capable of accomplishing during this sojourn.
12. These also we find are indicated in the previous sojourns in the earth.
13. Hence we find, while these have not been so great in number as many, they have been as definite influences, definite activities that bear upon the deeper emotions, deeper inclinations and tendencies of the entity in the present.
14. At times there is direct rebellion to authority; and yet tenderhearted, sympathetic in its nature; yet at times chafing under the restraint of things that it desires innately to do, and yet never in defiance of counsel or advice. These as we find are both good and bad - dependent upon the manner, the purposes, or the spiritual import with which such activity or such changes may come into the experience of this entity.
15. As to the sojourns in the earth, we find:
16. Before this the entity was in the Norse land, and among those who were the daring, as the sailors; and the entity was Eric [See 2157-1, Par. R13 giving Norse incarnations for entire family.], as called through that experience; journeying to or settling in the land of its present
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nativity.
17. Yet with the experiences through the latter portion of its sojourn, and the activities from which it returned in the period or interim, the entity in the present - as indicated - is averse to water, waterways, water carriers.
18. Hence the daring now is exhibited more in the air, or in ships of the air - arising from another sojourn, as will be seen.
19. In that experience the entity gained, the entity lost; for there were periods of defiance of not only its associates and companions but of its home life, and the superiors under which the entity acted or labored.
20. Hence there are the needs in the present for the closer counsel as to choices of associations or activities.
21. Before that the entity was in the Persian and Arabian land, during those periods when there were the many activities through the various groups and individuals who gathered in the "city in the hills and the plains."
22. With the developing of that city as a center from which many of the lands sought exchange, the entity acted in the capacity of an agent, as would be termed in the present, for the exchange company in that particular experience.
23. Hence the desire to see strange lands, strange places, unusual surroundings, unusual environs, has been and is a part of the entity innately. If that channel of activity is carried forward in which the entity may make for the greater outlet of abilities, such will be the entity's experience in this sojourn - but in quite a different way than the ships of the desert or the ships of the sea!
24. The name then was Abduel-eenh.
25. Before that the entity was in the Atlantean land, during those periods when the second destruction had brought so many of the islands, and when the Poseidian land was the greater in power; when there were the meetings called for those of many lands, to determine means or manners in which there would be the control or handling of the animals that were destructive to many of the lands.
26. The entity then acted in the capacity of one who guided the ships that sailed both in the air and under water; also was the maker of that which produced the elevators and the connecting tubes that were used by compressed air and steam and the metals in their emanations. All of these were a part of the entity's experience and development, especially as to things controlled by the facet for the radiation activity from the sun upon metals, and the control of such, as well as the manner of airships through that sojourn.
27. Then the name was Alenor.
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28. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, and that to which it may attain, and how:
29. In those fields of service as indicated are the channels through which greater abilities may be expanded, greater growth may be had in the mental and the material ways.
30. However, these must be tempered with the spiritual import, and never as destructive instruments for the activities among the fellow men.
31. Hence as we find, the entity should choose some of those plants where such machines are made. Make application there; become active in the manufacture and the finishing of such; and in same the entity should develop especially the CONTROLS as related to communications, and the abilities of ships - with the manufacture of which the entity will be associated - in their rise and their descent.
32. So, apply self in those fields of service; remembering, these must ever be tempered with a spiritual import.
33. Ready for questions.
34. (Q) Should I have some special training before making application for such work? (A) Not necessarily special training; though this, of course, is a matter of study or analyzing within the experiences of self, for that is the manner in which the greater understanding and schooling may be had - where they are manufactured!
35. (Q) To what special plants would you advise making application? (A) Either in the Balliance [?] or Baltimore [aircraft plant?], or Dayton, Ohio vicinity.
36. (Q) What about Norfolk Navy Yard? (A) Keep away from water; rather those of land than ocean going.
37. (Q) Please tell me what to have as a hobby. (A) Anything pertaining to nature; as birds, animals or the like.
38. (Q) Please give my seal and its colors, also interpretation. (A) The basis would be almost the form of the fleur de lis; with the chalice on the one side, however, and the rose upon the other. These were the emblems, and also the seal, of both Eric AND Alenor. These represent strength, might and power, but with REVERENCE to its duties to others, as well as consideration of their material and physical welfare.
39. (Q) In the Norse land experiences, how often and in what years did I cross the ocean? (A) In 1552, 1509 and 1502.
40. (Q) What was accomplished in that life, either for my own country or for this country? (A) In this country there were the settlements in the
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northwestern lands; portions even of Montana were reached by the entity - because the entrance then was through the St. Lawrence, through the Lakes. Hence the west always has a call, still, for the entity, - and yet the dread of it.
41. (Q) Are there any proofs to be found now in this country, that might prove it? (A) They have just been uncovered by a recent expedition there in Wisconsin!
42. (Q) What would I find there that belongs to me personally? (A) Among the knives and stones that were found, one of those was Eric's!
43. (Q) Any spiritual advice? (A) As indicated through the experiences and sojourns, those variations that have come in the astrological urges are from the lack of the spiritual application of the truths known. Do not make such a failure in this experience.
44. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file s'n file