This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the home of Mr. David E. Kahn, 20 Woods Lane, Scarsdale, N.Y., this 14th day of November, 1940, in accordance with request made by the cousin - Baroness [2331], 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 June 27, 1899, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Time of Reading 11:30 to 12:10 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 entity in the present, 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 - " - '30 - many changes - '19 - yes, turmoil - " etc., on back to birth date.)
3. Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [2399].
4. In interpreting the records as we find them, many varied phases of the earthly experiences - as well as of experiences during the interims between the earthly sojourns - present themselves upon these records. But these are chosen with the desire and purpose that this may be a helpful experience for the entity; enabling it to better fulfillthat purpose for which it entered this present sojourn.
5. These records, to be sure, may be read from varied angles; and many of those in the earthly sojourns appear as important - and might be interpreted in varied manners. We find that these may be analyzed by the entity, correlating same with the innate desires and purposes in such a way and manner as to magnify the virtues, and more and more minimize the faults.
6. That the entity in the present experience has altered much in the influences of environment, and the manner and means of activity, has had and does give an impetus to the manner of discernments in the mental and material experiences.
7. Yet the entity should - and does at times - realize that
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it isn't all of life to live, in one experience. For, life is continued; life itself is a consciousness, a gift of an infinite influence we may call God.
8. Thus does man comprehend that, it is in Him one lives and moves and has one's being; and that we as individuals may be co-workers with Creative Forces or God, or we may become egotists and thus magnify self and self's own abilities, self's own purposes, to such measures as to become at variance to those creative forces. Thus we shut ourselves away from the real birthright of each soul - that is, to know its relationships to this creative force or energy, and the manners or means of manifesting same by and through its daily relationships with the fellowmen.
9. The astrological aspects, or the influences from the cosmic or astrological sojourns during the interims between material sojourns are presented first; for they are innate forces, and manifest in the longings, the dreams, the hopes, those things that appear - as from nowhere - within the consciousness of the entity; activated, to be sure, through the very mental abilities. But mind is merely a way in which the spiritual, mental and material aspects of relationships or conditions find material manifestations, - much in the same manner as words - in any and every language - become a manner, a means of communicating wishes, hopes, desires, longings, fears, doubts, and the like, one to another. The reaction upon an individual entity is according to the manner, the way, chosen as the IDEAL of the entity - and its sources.
10. Uranus, Venus and Mars become the ruling influences. Thus the interest in occult or mystical forces. The great changes wrought by circumstance become the influences that have to deal with the material and mental activities of the entity; the spiritual being dependent upon what is the spiritual ideal.
11. In Venus we find the intenseness of the entity, but at times tempered - to be sure - with those extremes that become a part of the ruling forces. Hence judgments are often taken of others, or others oft take judgments upon the entity as being dilatory and not embracing opportunities oft - as others would see them in the experience of the entity.
12. The entity's choice of such is ever tempered with the manner in which choices are made; yet at times intense, at others dilatory, at others only seeing the surface or the easier way, seeking same; and at others ever apparently the hard way for the approach to any experience becomes part of the entity's activity.
13. Mars - anger, wrath, madness at times have been the
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experiences that have caused those temperamental influences which have arisen in the entity's experience during this particular sojourn.
14. As to the appearances in the earth - these are not all, to be sure; but these are chosen as the indication of the trend or manner in which the entity approaches the problems, as well as the good and bad influences that may be manifested in the experience:
15. Before this the entity, according to history, was in the land of the entity's present sojourn during the early periods of adjustments.
16. The name then was Al Zevoden - among those of the venturesome who sought to prove or disprove the activities of one who had reported the new land, the new route, the new undertakings.
17. Thus the entity was a seaman, as a representative of a people, a nation, a group who would prove to others the fallacy or truth of that which had been proclaimed from other lands.
18. The entity then journeyed to what is now known as the southernmost portion of the land - in what is now St. Augustine the entity found the activities among the peoples who first set about to establish associations and communications, and to deal with the peoples for commercial benefits, or the adding of supply for the bodily needs of individuals of other lands and other groups, as well as the means or search for health, as well as gold or a medium of exchange to give one authority or power over other groups.
19. With that sentiment, with that activity, the greater portion of the entity's experience was taken up during that sojourn; perishing eventually upon the seas.
20. Hence, we have in the present experience much to be met as regarding those activities, and the manners and ways of dealings with others, or with the fellowmen.
21. Thus in those activities in which there is commercial exchange made with other lands, or with things that have to do with other lands, the entity may find the greater outlet; that is, mediums of exchange, or the selling or contracting for products of different lands, of that which has come from over waters, or from activities respecting same - these are the channels for material activity. In these the entity may find the greatest satisfaction, but they should eventually lead to the greater establishing of the medium of exchange between such lands in means or manners other than represented by coin - rather by manners of exchange.
22. Before that the entity was in the land of his present nativity, but in the southernmost portion of same, or in
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those areas that are now the Ukraine land - but affiliated or associated with those activities when there were the mediums of exchange or the establishing of relationships of commercial natures between the lands across that sea, or the areas of Syria, and those activities that had been a part of Xenophon and his associates and followers or cohorts.
23. Those were periods in which the entity established self as a great leader - in the name then Krenzkien.
24. The entity gained throughout that experience. For, there was that correlating of tenets of the spiritual natures as presented by teachers from and in the lands to which the entity went, making same applicable in the manners of dealings with those of the land as well as the lands to which such exchange or such commodities were brought.
25. These - as may be seen from the analysis of self's purposes or desires - may be the basis upon which the entity may find the means of bringing into the consciousness of self greater contentment, greater harmony, greater periods of material as well as other advantages in its association with its fellowmen.
26. Before that the entity was in the land now known as Egypt, during those periods when there were those entering from the Atlantean land for the preserving of self from the turmoils which had arisen through the upheavals, or the destruction of Atlantis.
27. The entity was an Atlantean - to be sure of the sons of the Law of One, and among those who were called the leaders or the rulers, or the governing class of those peoples.
28. Thus, though the entity was quiet in manner and mien, the entity yielded a great influence upon those peoples to which the entity came, and then many of those who were verbose in their expressions as to the needs and as to that desire to conquer the land.
29. For, the entity gained there - in that counsel, the working together for the good of all, was better than making for self-assertiveness in such a way as to so change the manner of activities of others as to eventually bring unrest in the land.
30. For the entity, as among those of its associates, found plenty of unrest at the period - because of the rebellions wrought.
31. And thus through those manners - with the return of the Priest and the reestablishing of order - the entity became as one committed to those activities which brought better relationships with other groups.
32. There again we find the entity was active as to judgments of commodities of various districts, and their
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needs, and the credit as administered for the various groups that were employed in such for the supplying of the needs for the greater number of people of the land.
33. The name then was Aszah.
34. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, - that to which it may attain, and how:
35. First - analyze self, self's purposes and desires. Realize within self as to what ye believe, and as to WHO is the author of thy beliefs and thy faiths. Know that they must be of a spiritual import if there would ever be constructive forces in the experience, and for the common good of all.
36. The field of physical endeavor would be as the salesman, - in making communications or means of exchanges as to those things grown in varied lands, and their needs and their supply in other lands; and these are to be done in a manner in keeping with the ideals as have been found latent and manifested within self.
37. Condemn not, that ye be not condemned. This applies in mental, in spiritual, in material relationships.
38. Let that which prompts thee in thy activities be founded in the truth of Him - Who gave, "If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments."
39. We are through for the present. Copy to Self, thru [2331] " " Ass'n file " Ass'n file