This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 30th day of July, 1940, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [2305], Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Born December 24, 1857, in San Francisco, Calif. Time of Reading 11:25 to 12:05 Noon - Eastern Standard Time. ..., 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 [2305].
3. In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them here, the most interesting are the usages to which the entity has put its opportunities and its privileges through the present experience.
4. For, while there have been periods of trials and turmoils, this has been a developing experience for the entity - through the determinations that were set in other sojourns.
5. We find that for this entity the astrological aspects would be of little effect, other than the indications of a long life and a pleasant one, if the entity would use the influences and abilities as indicated in the experience, using same in a constructive choice for its development.
6. The life's seal of the entity is of particular interest, being the scroll upon which would be embroidered, as it were, or raised, the figure of a white rose; with a shield in the upper left corner; with the unicorn upon either side of same. This would be not too prominent, but a figure - as will be seen in the interpreting of same - that indicates the united strength of the mental and the spiritual self.
7. In the lower right corner (which would be the long end of the scroll, as the upper is the long end also on the left side) would be put the fish with the two hieroglyphics above and below representing EL - which would be a cross straight
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up and down in the upper portion, and the lazy X on the lower.
8. This would represent the beauty that is manifested in the abilities of the entity in the present, to see some good in the experience of every soul that has been and is a part of the entity's experience.
9. Patience has the entity gained, in measures seldom indicated in material experiences.
10. The entity is gifted in high mental abilities, and good storytelling, a conversationalist above the ordinary; and making each of such an optimistic outlook as to bring smiles or cheer to most whom the entity would meet, or with whom it might come in contact.
11. In giving the analysis of the astrological sojourns, - as indicated, these are of little influence save as we have outlined.
12. Thus we find the material sojourns filling the greater portion of what, as we find, would prove of a helpful force in the present experience.
13. But to analyze same, and to undertake to tell the entity what to do with its abilities, its choices, its determinations, its desires, aspirations and hopes, would be as attempting to tell a rose that because of its beauty, its aroma, it must not be given except to those who are worthy of same. Or it would be as attempting to tell that whose nature is to give off sweetness how to be sweet, or as telling the bee - with all of its abilities for gathering God's beauty and holiness, as expressed in the various forms from which it gathers sweetness - how to do its job.
14. So, the entity has the natural tendency or trend for wit; the ability to draw out others, who may have determined in their minds to "get even" with this or that individual, and to make them feel in the presence of the entity ashamed and athwarted - not as of being hindered, but as of the desire for such being eradicated. And others are caused to forget their disturbances in aiding the entity to enjoy the beauty of the moment, in whatever environment this may occur.
15. As to the appearances, then:
16. Before this the entity was in the English land, during those periods when many of those of the more virile had determined to explore, or to know themselves if, that new land in which the entity finds its expression in the present.
17. The entity then was among those who saw the loved ones leave on that journey; for the entity even saw that one leave to whom it had hoped to be wed. And there was the
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determination within self that some day, somewhere, somehow, it would know the fruits of that land born and maintained through the greater portion of the entity's experience.
18. Then the name was Mildred Longacre. Through the experience the entity felt mentally thwarted or hindered; yet knowing it should, and feeling, determining in self to make the best of whatever might be the happenings of the experience; living and acting in such a manner as to spread and to give to others that hope also.
19. Before that the entity was in what is now known as the Promised Land, during those periods when there was the reestablishing of the land as an abode of a peoples for a definite purpose to reconstruct that which had been as hearsay to most.
20. Only those who had held themselves close to the tenets and the precepts which had been handed down from father, mother, to son and daughter, were able to really know the joy, the beauty in service to a living God.
21. The entity was among those who were the early births in that land, and in the household of Ezra, the scribe, as his daughter by Athelie - and the name of the entity through that sojourn was Astedoth.
22. The entity aided much in the interpreting of the parchments or scrolls that were found, translated and written for the peoples of the period.
23. Thus the entity in the present would find the abilities to WRITE - EVEN YET - of those things, conditions and experiences which would enable individuals and groups to see and to foster and to cherish the BETTER experiences in their activities through this material plane.
24. Before that the entity was in the Arabian and Persian land, during those periods when there were the tenets of the teacher Uhjltd being spread abroad among the peoples of all nations who had of themselves come to hear, to see, to experience the recreating of purposes and hopes within the experiences of individuals, no matter what their station in life had been or was.
25. The entity was among the children of those who had been taken in raids by the leader's own people - then in the name Usula.
26. In the experience the entity determined to know much of the habits of peoples of varied lands that came for the different purposes; and, attempting to correlate these, aided in creating the records which became a part of the experience of many.
27. Thus the entity is not only the conversationalist, but one rather gifted in the languages chosen to be a portion of
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the experience in the present.
28. The entity had a great family in that sojourn, not only of its own but those whom it gathered around it; for there the entity was the companion of that one who has been its companion in this present sojourn. And most of the children in the present were a part of that experience, either as the own children or those under the direction of the entity.
29. Before that the entity was in the Egyptian land, and from the peoples of the Atlantean experience; being among those chosen to help in the hospitalization, or the attempts to prepare places, circumstances and surroundings for individuals who preferred that the changes be wrought - even in the appendages, as well as in disease or dis-ease considered in those periods, as in the present, hopeless - or as a part of the experience of an entity.
30. The entity arose to one in authority, through that experience; aiding not only her own peoples but the priest and those who would further such activities in that material experience.
31. In the present - that to which the entity may attain, and how:
32. Keep that thou hast purposed in thy heart.
33. If there is the choice, the desire, to leave other than that which has been builded in the minds, hearts and experiences of those who have come in contact with the entity - then dictate those experiences of the entity under the varied hardships, or that appeared to be such, for the edifying and instruction of those who feel, who are persuaded by their lack of vision, that they have the hardest time of all.
34. For, in and through such there may be given a vision, a help to others.
35. Ready for questions.
36. (Q) Should this be as an autobiography or novel? (A) Rather as short stories, or storiettes, than autobiography or a novel. Stories - short stories.
37. (Q) Was I associated in the past with the entity who is now my osteopath? (A) In the Egyptian experience, the entity directed rather that entity who is now the doctor; as one who might, if there were the proper applications, add much to the comfort of others. As a friend and associate.
38. (Q) Was I in Atlantis? (A) Of the Atlanteans, not in Atlantis.
39. (Q) India?
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(A) Not in India other than as an emissary or visitor.
40. (Q) How was I associated in the past with the following individuals: My husband [...]? (A) As indicated, in the Persian as well as in the English; as the companion in the Persian; as the friend - or hoped for companion - in the English.
41. (Q) My daughter [...]? (A) Associate in the Arabian, and in the Egyptian.
42. (Q) My son [...]? (A) In the Persian.
43. (Q) My son [...]? (A) In the Persian.
44. (Q) My son [...]? (A) In the Persian and in the English land.
45. (Q) Is it indicated that my son [...] will be married again? (A) We haven't the records of that entity, except as related to the entity itself here, but we find this very probable.
46. (Q) Have I made any progression in life? (A) As indicated.
47. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file file