This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 13th day of January, 1942, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [2647], new Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended and sponsored by Mrs. [2174].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Born May 8, 1902, in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada. Time of Reading 10:20 to 10:50 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Ontario.
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, 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 " - '40 - changes - '36 - some awakening - better outlook - '34 - etc., on back to birth date.)
3. Yes - we have the records here (What a web!) of that entity now known as [2647].
4. In giving the interpretations of the records as we find, many various phases of same are complex. Yet these we choose with the desire and purpose that this information may be a helpful, hopeful influence in the experience of the entity.
5. For, here we find an entity with unusual abilities - yet the moroseness, the pessimism, the indecisions of the entity have not only interfered with the mental and spiritual awakening but have interfered with the physical well being of the body.
6. Not that there are not material disturbances in the physical forces, but these to a great measure have been brought on.
7. The entity should attempt - seriously, prayerfully, spiritually - to see even that as might be called the ridiculous side of every question - the humor in same. Remember that a good laugh, an arousing even to what might in some be called hilariousness, is good for the body, physically, mentally, and gives the opportunity for greater mental and spiritual awakening.
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8. That seriousness with which the body (and mind) takes on the material as well as the mental and social relationships is not good. While the happenings, the experiences even in the material sojourn may have at times tended to convince the body of the seriousness of living, know that life should be joyous, happy, open, and ALL that brings hope.
9. For, in the seriousness of it all, know that the very fact of consciousness itself, the very fact of an awareness of self and self's emotions, is an expression of the awareness within of the divine and of His (God's) hope for thee. And if He be with thee, what matters what others think or say - in the material world?
10. In giving the urges that are latent and manifested, - these are approached from the sojourns during the interims between the entrances into the earth, as well as from material sojourns. However, we find that the astrological aspects - as called - have little to do with the material expressions in this entity's present experience.
11. Thus we find one rather inclined to be controlled or urged through the emotions. Thus the experience of the proverbial artist or rhymer or poet or musician. These are the fields. These are the manners in which the entity seeks expression in this material sojourn.
12. So the entity oft feels it is misunderstood, that under a different environ all things would be different.
13. USE THAT THOU HAST IN HAND! This might well be said to this entity, in arousing itself to those expressions wherein the great abilities of the entity may bring that awakening which may SOME DAY (if there is the attempt to find self) make the entity SUDDENLY famous. Let it not be notorious.
14. Astrological influences, then, mean little. But Venus, Mercury and Jupiter are a part of the experience; the high mental ability, the artistic temperament, and the emotions or relationships with many.
15. For this particular entity, never take or play the game of chances. It is too serious a business for this entity, and the emotions that arise from same oppress, submerge, rather than arouse to activity as they may in the experience of some.
16. Be MINDFUL of the little things, but DO see the humor, do see the laughable side, and not always the tears, the drab, hard sides. For, there is more than one phase of any problem, any condition, any relationship. Life IS of the Creative Forces, and an individual uses same for weal or woe.
17. As to the appearances in the earth - we find that these are the means of greater emotions. Not all may be given
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here, for many have been the experiences. These few are given as indications of how the emotions may affect the physical, the mental and the spiritual body, here and now. Thus may the entity see self.
18. Magnify always the virtues, in others and in self. Minimize the faults, minimize the problems of life, - physically AND mentally.
19. Have an ideal. This too oft has almost escaped the purposes of the entity in the expressions in this experience. Yet, great are the abilities and the possibilities in the entity contributing to the welfare of mankind - its brethren - in this experience, to such measures as to bring hope, peace, harmony into the experience of the entity.
20. Before this, then, we find that the entity was in the land of the present nativity, during those periods of the struggles in the early settlings of the land.
21. With the activities that brought about turmoils, the entity knowing of and being under discipline found that desire for "SOMEWHERE else." These brought dissatisfaction, and that innate expression which so oft finds activity in the innate forces of the entity, "If things were different, how much better I could do. If I were in the position or place of some entity that appears fortunate, how well I might do."
22. This is lack of self-confidence. This is lack of the IDEAL that is spiritual. For, know, all things material have first their inception in the spiritual. Then they give or take form in the mental, finding expression in the material. Illustrate this in that as brings to mind the concept of the music of nature, the music of the spheres, the music of the birds, the poetic expressions that oft rise to thy mind. These gradually give impressions.
23. Thus may the entity find in this analysis the greater abilities for the outlets for greater expression - in relationships to groups, to problems, to prospective activities. As a member of a group, good, but working better alone for those expressions as a part of groups.
24. The name then was Armed Helmann. In the experience the entity gained, the entity lost, the entity gained.
25. Thus the seeking of relationships in other lands, those abilities to use the relationships in the varied temperaments - all become a part of this entity's consciousness in the present.
26. Before that the entity was (among those that find manifestation in the present) in the Grecian-Persian land; being among those that were of the temperamental poetic
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expressions, and yet brought into that activity in which there was the subtle conformity to other rules which the associates of the entity attempted.
27. Those influences brought into the entity's experience the fear of idealistic movements, the fear of spiritualistic intents - and yet a hope, a vision of something that finds its expression in music or in poetry.
28. These were the activities during that period in Greece and in the Persian-Arabian land; seeking and desiring to make those expressions that would answer to the emotions of the common people (as would be termed in the present), the emotions that are of a creative nature in the lives of a community, a state, a nation.
29. The name then was Hekla. In the experience the entity gained, yet the entity was called impractical by those in association with him; the dreamer, and yet made the foundations for those things in which awakenings came to others.
30. Before that the entity was in the Egyptian land, when there was the recreating of outlets for the emotions of the people of that period; following the period of rebellion - and during the periods of reconstruction when varied groups were in those fields of activity that set individuals for a particular service or work.
31. There the entity was among those in the word creative groups for those activities in the Temple of Sacrifice, the Temple Beautiful - the building of homes, the segregating of those from the attempts of the state to control the offspring of a nation. These then were in teaching, in music, in song.
32. Then the entity was in the name Tek-Ton.
33. As to the abilities of the entity in the present:
34. First find self. Awake to the joy in the earth, even under trial ye give expression of same. Manifest it in thy life, rather than the sorrow. This will need cultivating. But Life itself is a cultivating of the joy, of laughter, of those things that bring hope - and attempting this will not only bring those things that are of a creative influence in the experience of the entity but a joy in same.
35. In those fields of poetry or song or music of ANY nature, especially of the reeded instruments, the entity may find the outlet and the joy in expression here.
36. Let that light which is of the Creative Force guide thee, and don't guide the light.
37. Let that mind be in thee as was in Him, who thought it not robbery to make Himself equal with God, that ye, too, might be one with Him. For, as His son, ye are an heir of
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His kingdom. Do ye accept or reject same?
38. Ready for questions.
39. (Q) Is my health largely a matter of my state of mind, or is there some organic disturbance? (A) As has been indicated.
40. (Q) Does my most useful future lie in the United States or in my own country (Canada)? (A) As we find, in the United States - as with those activities in the reconstruction, which may carry the entity back and forth, and even to other lands; but be creative, in music, in song, in verse.
41. (Q) What have been my former associations with [2174] and considering our complete cooperation in educational work, will it return? (A) In the Grecian as well as the Egyptian experience the associations were creative and in the educational field. These may be rebuilded, if there is the attempt on the part of the entity to laugh - not cry - about it all.
42. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Mrs. [2174] " " Ass'n file 'n file