This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 11th day of June, 1940, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [2279], new Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mrs. [1855] and Hugh Lynn Cayce.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Born December 4, 1899, in Memphis, Tennessee. Time of Reading 11:05 to 11:40 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. New York City.
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 going back over the years from present - " - '21 - years of experience - '19 - " etc., on back to birth date.)
3. Yes, we have the record here of that entity now known as or called [2279].
4. While the entity has held and does hold to a great many of the tenets of teachers - as respecting all phases of urges that arise in the experience of an individual entity, - we find that the very manner in which the entity in this present experience has USED all such has made the ordinary terms of astrological, numerological or otherwise influences almost null and void.
5. The entity is a seeker after truth, knowledge - and there is a difference in the two! As may be analyzed or determined, as one studies such, when one has analyzed all such urges, they are so oft found to be as shadows, and the grasping after same has become such as to cause them to disappear in the sunlight of truth.
6. For, no urge of any nature surpasses the birthright of each soul in a material experience.
7. Thus we find that the spirituality of each soul is such that - the purpose, the design, the desire, the application of self in any direction changes the urges and builds or lessens the emotions of the physical.
8. For, in the physical as from the mental, with what
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measure ye mete it is measured to thee again.
9. Hence, to give the astrological aspects would not become this entity; for these have failed, these have fitted, these have come according to manners in which the applications of self have been made as in relationships to the measure of spirituality and truth in same.
10. For, the spirit of any movement - any movement of any phase - is the life thereof.
11. Thus, the entity in the present has oft found itself confused - yea, by that many an individual attempts to express or give as his or her lesson, excuse, justification for activities in a material plane.
12. Not that the sojourns in the earth outweigh or become greater urges in the experience of this entity than the astrological sojourns; rather the urges are according to that measure in which the entity has lived, acted, met its fellow men - in that phase of its endeavor, its experience, - in keeping with that the entity has set, consciously or unconsciously, as its ideal.
13. THAT has brought the growth in the experience of the entity.
14. In a general manner the entity finds these as characteristics that have been lying latent within the experiences of the entity, and as it analyzes its use of that it has experienced in sojourns - whether in the material physical consciousness or otherwise, it finds that conditions and experiences have become more interesting or less of a hardship.
15. And as the entity has found, in the very manners that have been indicated, to be aware or conscious of an urge, or to have the ability to use a characteristic or an urge, a knowledge, one must apply it daily - and in every phase of its experience and association with others.
16. One that is oft called - or was in its youth - a tomboy, or one very eccentric, very peculiar; one with funny ideas; one with funny conditions or expressions of moral, mental and spiritual aspirations or desires.
17. These are a natural consequence of the experience of the entity through its activities in this material world, both in the present and in the experiences of the past.
18. Only a few of the past experiences become in the present as latent or manifested urges; though the natural consequences of these are seen in the "searcher out," the reporter, the writer; one who gets or says smart things, or presents whole sermons in a verse or a line; one with the ability to quote or to say, or to apply these in its associations with individuals or groups. These are a
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natural talent, a natural thing with the entity.
19. Thus if the entity will lend itself in the writing not only of what might be called the smart sayings of others, but in sermonettes that have been and are the experience of the entity, we will find an outlet for its ability; and an INCOME sufficient to meet the needs of the material things about the entity.
20. This should be combined with its activities in ANY form of reporting, any form of activity that gives expression from one group to another; enabling not the differences to be found or seen so much as the unity of the studies of the various groups who are seeking knowledge and understanding, - not only in the mysteries of the unseen but of the mind and of the spiritual imports and aspirations in groups. Correlate the points in which there is a unison of these, - seek these out, rather than their differences.
21. For, know the law - "Know, O Israel, the Lord thy God is one!" and that every form of manifestation, of expression of the spirit of a time, of a place, of a condition, or an individual, of a group, of a county, of a nation, IS the attempt of that individual group or nation to give expression of self or its God.
22. What then is thy God? Is it material things, mental things, or spiritual things - that have within themselves life, continuity, stability, truth!
23. There is the natural intent, natural inclination to search out things of an unusual nature; but let these be not so unusual as to not see, feel, make known to others - in thy interpreting of same - as to how all knit one with another; as does the unity of cell force, from the desire of the body, create by the will, the power of creation that which in its development furnishes a channel, a chamber, a body for expression of all the knowledge, the understanding, the truth in the universe.
24. For it is of a universal source, and moved by spirit, as the will of such is made in accord with the Divine Will, it is able to become all powerful in its passage through a material experience.
25. THAT is the form, that is the nature, the character, the type of spiritual or unseen forces the entity should analyze or study; knowing and keeping first and foremost - at the top of the list in its life, its association, its activity one with another - the fact that the Lord God is one!
26. As to the appearances - these are given that there may be the indication of the inclinations, the activities of the entity, as to how they have varied through the various sojourns that are to be interpreted in its experience in the
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immediate.
27. Before this the entity was in the land now known as Salem, during the experiences when there were many questions as to what the influences were that took hold of groups of individuals - as to whether they were dispossessed or disincarnate bodies or minds, or whether they were of a universal consciousness, or the attaining to an activity.
28. The entity then, in the name Elsie Pepper, through those attempts in that experience not only suffered but was questioned; being among those who defied those who, as termed by Him, were wolves in sheep's clothing. Such were the experiences.
29. Thus the interest in the present in all things of that nature; the ability as a teacher, as a writer, as an interpreter - and no wonder there have been the drams and visions, and the many experiences of that nature!
30. Before that the entity was in the Yucatan land, when there were those groups and individuals who sought places of refuge and shelter when there was the breaking up of the Atlantean land.
31. The entity was a priestess in the temple of the Mayans.
32. Hence in the present all things pertaining to symbols, numbers, and things of rote, have been and are innate and manifested, and a hope and an experience of the entity.
33. The name then was Shalmar.
34. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, that to which it may attain, and how:
35. Not merely as a saying - analyze self and self's purposes, and what then is thy ideal - spiritual, mental, material. Not as to what others should be alone, but what you would desire others to be - and then measure thyself to that.
36. And in those fields of service and activity as indicated may the greater harmony, the greater happiness come.
37. Ready for questions.
38. (Q) What is the karmic condition between my brother, [...] and myself? (A) This should be drawn from a paralleling of the own life with the life experiences of [...].
39. (Q) What is the karmic condition of "thought action" against my swifter public success in writing? (A) As has been indicated. And through those channels, those manners indicated, may the greater, the bigger, the better and more far-reaching success come.
40. (Q) Any information that will help me in my work and better general conditions? (A) As we find, if there is the analyzing of the
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conditions, and the finding in self not only of the faults but the virtues, there may be magnified the virtues and lessened the faults.
41. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file ss'n file