This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 15th day of December, 1927, in accordance with request made by self - Mr. [2483].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Dr. Thos. B. House, and Mr. L. B. Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Born February 4, 1871, 12:00 noon, Saturday, five miles east of center of Indianapolis, Indiana, on National Road. Time of Reading 12:30 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. Brooklyn, N.Y. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: We have the entity and those relations with the universe and universal forces, as are latent and exhibited in the present earth's plane.
2. In entering the earth's plane we find the entity under the influences of Aries and Neptune, with Venus and Jupiter. In the adverse we find influences in Jupiter, with Mars and with Uranus. Hence we find many contradictory conditions in the present appearance as to the mental reaction of the entity to various conditions, peoples and tenets as the entity responds to in many different ways, with many of those influences from the appearance in the earth's plane bringing - with the varied conditions - many of those unstable and many ennobling (for they are at an at-variance with each other) influences in the life. Hence we find one constantly seeking a change; one constantly attempting to coordinate various experiences with experiences of others, and an untenetable concept of a standard as set in one direction. This in itself brings many adverse conditions through the relationships of the entity in the earth's plane, and at the same time brings the entity in the association or under the influence of many conditions, mental and spiritual, which - if studied aright - might bring many better conditions and many developments for the entity in this present experience.
3. In the appearances and those influences in the present life:
4. In the one before this we find in that land now known as Arabia. The entity then in the thirtieth (30th) year came under the influence of the teachings through a disciple of the Master - Andrew; and through this experience gained much. Being then in the time or period, as counted in the present, in the year forty-four (44). The entity gained,
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lost - lost, gained - through this appearance. Living to a great age, for the time and for the conditions surrounding the entity. First as the herdsman the entity gained, as the closeness to nature brought much retrospection for the entity. The surrounding conditions brought the keen insight into material conditions, and the association of the entity with the truths brought great power, great knowledge, great understanding. In the application, when these turned to those forces as are created by one being compatible with the law - bringing power, position, and the accompanying conditions with same - the entity LOST, when this was turned into secular resources or secular purposes for the satisfaction of satisfying fleshly desires for self. In the persecutions that followed (for he became the teacher and the power in that region), the entity lost - and again in coming under the influence of self's own bodily preservation against those truths as set before others by the entity. In the release and the change again, when alone, the entity GAINED in attempting to adjust self and self's conditions to that force as awakened through the contact of one reflecting so much of the Master. In the name Idoddxo. The entity - in the urge as seen from the experience, and from the sojourn from that experience in the Venus forces - finds many conditions presented in the present experience:
5. The love of association of self (these are as urges) with teachers and ministers of many varying tenets, yet an innate something harkening - as it were - to those principles, those expressions of the Master, and the especial sympathy also for Andrew is seen in the present experience. The love also of the real estate and property, and holdings, and again the love of those surroundings in the physical sense that show pomp, power, glory of a physical sense or physical urge as expressed in such surroundings.
6. Love of music and attractions for same.
7. In the application of these urges - as is seen from that combative force created in the life or experience through life of the entity - well that those tenets, those truths as proclaimed by Andrew respecting the Master's status in the relationship of man to the Creative Force, or God - well that these be set as a standard alone through will of self, and making the mind one with the Creative Energy, much of this world's powers would be turned into those channels in which the entity - in the physical sense - might again apply self towards that correct application of manifested power in worldly goods and in the surroundings of royal forces, royal powers, in state, in the social and economic conditions of man. These then would be - through those channels of the
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application of such truths - the greater force in the life, for mental, spiritual or economic success of the entity in the present experience.
8. In the one before this we find in that period when the division arose in the land now known as Egypt. In time (as counted) ten thousand five hundred (10,500) years before the Prince of Peace came into Egypt, in person. The entity then among those who were the builders in the physical sense of the homes and the palaces and the dwelling places of the peoples then in power. Not as the architect; not as the laborer. Rather as the overseer of those that labored, and representing both the native and the alien in their association one with another and the reports of same to the peoples in power. The entity in the name Arckhdlenr. In this experience we find the entity gaining, losing - gaining and gaining. As the various concepts of the real intent and purpose was set forth, compounded and comprehended and applied during the period, the entity gained or lost, depending upon the application of the tenets as held by entity as associated with those with whom the entity then associated. Being in a place of power, easily tempted, by the rise and fall of the powers as were disturbed through those conditions arising in the peoples' minds at this period; yet when coming under the full influence of those tenets, those truths as set forth by the scribe, or the interpreter of the truths as propounded by the priest - as impelled into the minds of the native, and the visitor, and the neighbors, by the ruler in power - the entity gained, when these concepts rose to the place of being able to manifest same in the appreciable manner when it applied both to the physical man and to the spiritual man, even of that day, from tenets which the foundation of those lessons as given by the Master were builded upon!
9. In the application of that earthly experience - in the innate and unexpressed forces of the body we find one slow in speech to express self; yet once launched in the proper direction showing even greater power than many teachers in any field the entity may choose to express self in.
10. In the application then of the experiences of the entity in the earth's plane, and this experience, innate in the entity from experiences in other planes:
11. Let thine heart be stable in the tenets of Him who gave, "Come unto me - for he that climbeth up some other way is the thief and the robber; for no man approaches the Father but by me." By that tenet as set in Him make thy paths straight. Applying self in the direction then of the teacher, or the associate with teacher or lecturer, or if
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perchance in the merchandise line - keep the heart, the mind, the words of the mouth in THAT same channel; for in compliance with the law - the universal law - that builded within self must be met. When self is made at an at-oneness with the universal law, or the first Creative Energy, or God, those things that are of the earthly nature are added unto thee. That thou hast builded is thine own possession and may not be taken away, and in the application of that attained, others of the storehouse of that Creative Energy, in all its phases, may be added unto the inner man. The PHYSICAL man receives that builded. Ready for questions.
12. (Q) Has this body the power to develop psychic phenomena of any kind? If so, how can it be developed? (A) Rather the ability as is shown through the experience of being the interpreter of that of the psychic or latent forces as are builded in man, as applied to physical application of same in and among men. In the applying of that within self, other powers are developed, or the talents are multiplied.
13. (Q) Which of the businesses now under consideration by this body is the most desirable and profitable to be undertaken? (A) Dependent upon what the entity considers profitable. That from the ability to develop towards the mark of high calling as set in Him would be in that of the association and of the explanation of psychic forces, psychic truths, psychic laws, as applied through any teacher, lecturer, or an APPLICANT of physical laws towards physical truths and spiritual laws towards spiritual truths. As this is builded, the MATERIAL things of life may be added. If considered from purely the MATERIAL standpoint, that of the merchant that would bring self in contact with others, that the entity may stand in the place of a truth - for, as is seen in the entity's life, ever has the entity stood in the place or as an exponent of an idea, or IDEAL. In the physical application these have never been correct in the full sense, whether in that of spiritual laws as applied to spiritual lessons or whether as a physical law applied to physical conditions; for when representative of a country, a peoples, a nation, or an individual, there must be kept A ONE STANDARD. An unstable man is a stumbling block to himself.
14. (Q) Where and how is the best way to promote the business? (A) The how and way best within self, if from the physical and the spiritual development. If from the material standpoint, in the center from which radiates the powers of the world - Washington.
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15. (Q) Give names of those whom I must see to promote the same? (A) Self is first applied in one. The others would be of material conditions. Apply those truths, those lessons given. Bring self first to that understanding of self, and in same gain physical, mental and spiritual understanding.
16. We are through.