This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 26th day of August, 1940, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [2331], new Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mr. [1568].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Born July 31, 1879, in Tegerensee, Bavaria. Time of Reading 3:45 to 4:15 P. 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 years from the present - " - '37 - changes in the status and the relationships - '35 - '30 - changes in attitudes and ideals - '14 - reckonings, and longings - 1900 - yes, a great deal of change in social activities - '98 - '99 - " etc., on back to birth date.)
3. Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [2331].
4. In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them, these are chosen with the desire and purpose that this may be a helpful experience for the entity; enabling it to better analyze itself and its purpose and desire here in this experience. Thus the entity may be aided in magnifying the virtues, minimizing the faults; that it may fill those purposes for which it entered this material experience.
5. For, it is not by chance that an entity enters at some particular period or experience, but that it may be fulfilled in that promise - He hath not willed that any soul should perish, but hath with each temptation prepared a way, a manner.
6. Then each entity - as this - should accept the opportunities, the obligations, the duties - yes, make the duties privileges; that the entity may fill that purpose and thus find self growing in grace, in knowledge and in understanding.
7. In giving those influences which have been and are as urges latent and manifested in this experience, we find that
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the sojourns in the environs about the earth are as latent in the dreams, the visions, the real inner self; and thus have their part in the entity making its choices as to its activity, its relationships to others.
8. For, it is with what measure ye mete to thy fellow men day by day that ye mete to thy better self, thy Maker. For with what measure ye mete, it is measured to thee again.
9. Then, from the sojourns in the earth we find latent and manifested urges that find the greater expressions in the emotions, or the mental self the more often. These, too, indicate problems which arise in the day to day experience of the entity throughout this particular sojourn.
10. Hence we find the influence in Jupiter with Neptune makes for the innate expressions or desires of the entity to be a rover, a wanderer as it were - yet seeking ever an expression, or that something which is latent or "just beyond" the horizon.
11. Such an attitude at times brings into the experience doubts and fears of others as respecting the entity's purpose, the entity's attitude towards the real abilities that are a portion of the entity's experience.
12. Sincerity is the greater virtue of the entity, though not always interpreted as such by others; as will be seen by the sojourns in which attitudes or relationships assumed or taken brought into the experiences of others those fears or doubts as respecting the entity's adaptability to the environs, or consequences as would arise from choices taken, or from circumstances which arose.
13. From the Uranian influence we find the extremes that arise in the entity's experience in this material plane, as well as the interest in the occult or mystic forces that are a part of the entity's activity. These should be magnified; but hold to that sincerity of purpose in the seeking in same, that is innately and manifestedly a part of the entity's whole character.
14. In Neptune as combined with Venus, we find the intrigues that have been a part of the entity's experience in a social way, or in the activities with individuals and groups, as well as things pertaining to bodies of water, and oft desiring to be upon same. And the entity oft is able to think or choose better under water environs than in the higher altitudes, or those far from bodies of water.
15. As to the appearances of the entity in the earth, these as may be indicated have been many; though not all are given here. For, not all are latent or manifested as urges in the present experience. Some have passed, some are as yet to be attained to in this experience. These are chosen, however,
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that there may be the indications of the personality as well as the individual expressions or activities as respecting conditions or relationships in this sojourn.
16. Before this the entity was in the land of the present nativity, but during those periods when there was the organizing of groups for the journeying to the lands of a new understanding, and new purposes - when there were the religious persecutions.
17. The entity was among those groups who sought freedom of speech, and freedom of manner in those things pertaining to the worship of the unseen or spiritual forces.
18. Yet the entity did not attain to becoming one of those who journeyed thither, though those of its own household did, and brought into the experience those activities which later made for the special forces in the land to which they journeyed.
19. Throughout its experience the entity followed those activities as much as practical or possible, of those who did journey there. Thus the longing for travel, the longing for journeys, the longing for changes innate and manifested we find expressed in the material activities of the entity in the present.
20. The name then was Maria Koskuko. In the experience the entity gained little in the material, but in the mental and spiritual gained much - and in the application of those determining forces as were a part of the experience there may be the helpful expression for the entity through this portion of the present sojourn - that is, enabling others to appreciate their freedom in their spiritual and mental worship, as well as that sincerity of purpose which is so well magnified in the experience of this entity through this particular sojourn.
21. Before that the entity was in the Grecian land, during those periods when Xenophon was a leader in the eastern land, and when those turmoils arose from hardships that were wrought.
22. The entity was among those close to that leader through the experience, and - to be sure in the opposite sex - aided in the qualifying or classifying of the activities of the leaders of those armies; that, though they found destruction in a portion of their activity, they brought to the lands at that particular period some helpful forces in the determining factors as needed for the advancement and the greater benefit to the mass activity.
23. Hence again we find those latent activities as to the entity's interest in groups and mass activity, mass settlement, mass relationships, as a part of the entity's
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experience.
24. Thus in the present - as an organizer in whatever field of service the entity may choose, the entity may find helpful influences and urges in the experience. Thus the entity is a natural leader, though - as indicated - at times questioned as to its determining factors.
25. Before that the entity was in the Persian and Arabian land, though the entity then was a native of the land of Said, or the hill country of what is now the Indian land.
26. But under those activities which arose in the "city in the hills and the plains," the entity rose to a position in which it was of great helpful forces in that city, as an interpreter of the language of the east to those in the Egyptian and Carpathian and Persian lands. Thus the entity became as a teacher, an instructor to those various groups that arose through that particular land and period.
27. Coming under the direction of the teacher or leader, Uhjltd, in the city in the hills and the plains, it brought to the entity its particular interest in healing arts - as pertaining especially to swelling in feet and limbs, that arose from the diets and the activities in same.
28. The name then was Ese-bas.
29. In the present from that sojourn we find the various interests as of the occult, as well as the extremes, become a portion of the entity's innate expression; that as the entity looks for, and yet bides its time to attain to those innate desires.
30. Before that the entity was in the Egyptian land, during those periods of the turmoils and strifes which arose during those periods of rebellion - when there was the banishment of the Priest and those close in his activity.
31. The entity was among those who chose to be among those banished, and held close to those activities pertaining to the temple service when eventually reestablished with the Priest.
32. Thus in the Temple of Sacrifice we find the entity the more active, in enabling individuals in their preparations for particular service in the various lands, as well as the various departments in the land during that period.
33. The name then was Tek-aar-en.
34. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, and that to which it may attain, and how:
35. First, know thine own ideal - spiritual, mental and material; not as to what ye would have others do, but what ye would do for others.
36. Study to show thyself approved unto that ideal, in that sincerity ye demand of self and of others; keeping self
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unspotted from condemnation or question.
37. And be active in those channels in which ye may enable others to appreciate whatever is their lot, and to make the most of same.
38. For, those things that are as hindrances or troubles MUST be turned into stepping-stones, and not stumbling-stones; else a soul falls backward rather than progresses.
39. For, He leaves not those comfortless who seek to know His way.
40. SEEK and ye shall find; KNOCK and it shall be opened unto thee.
41. For the Lord keepeth His promises to those who love His coming.
42. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file ss'n file