This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 1st day of April, 1927, in accordance with request made by his wife, Mrs. [979].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mr. [5648].
R E A D I N G
Born November 3, 1854, near Own Sound, Canada. Time of Reading 3:30 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Alabama.
1. GC: You will give the relation of this entity and the Universe, and the Universal Forces, giving the conditions that are as personalities, latent and exhibited, in the present life; also the former appearances in the earth's plane, giving time, place, and the name, and that in that 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.
2. EC: Yes, we have the entity and those relations with the Universe and Universal forces as appear in the present entity, and as related to those that are builded within the personality of the entity in the present sphere; for, as we find, the will's forces in the present entity have brought many of those conditions that are as the abilities of the entity. Some have been for weal, some for woe, and these will appear as the urges are seen, and - as seen - there are some urges, yet, as have not been carried to the point where the entity has applied same to the fullest.
3. In entering the earth's plane, we find the entity comes under the influence of Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, and the benevolent influences in Uranus. Hence we find, WITHOUT respect to will's influence, these are the urges as have been the characteristic conditions of the individual as has been manifest in the present earth's plane:
4. One of high moral issue always in the predominance by the entity.
5. One very emphatic, and one very emphatic at times to the entity's own undoing, for at times it (the condition) has reached that point wherein it (the condition) has brought that as was considered by others rather of mule-headed than good judgement.
6. In the conditions that are as the natural trend, then:
7. One studious of nature.
8. One whose abilities have been and do lie in bringing
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better conditions for others, and ever has there been the tendency to help the under dog.
9. One, then, of high moral fibre.
10. One of high temper also. One that has not ALWAYS controlled this!
11. One that tends to be the teacher, the leader, the director, and is of nature one that leads many peoples; not only in doing but in thought.
12. One that has developed, then, MUCH, as respecting the will's action in the life in the present experience.
13. One that has found many hardships in the present experience, some by the entity's trustfulness in others that have proven the detriment to the body's own best interest from the financial viewpoint, yet one that has not been hardened or become cynical by such actions, being grounded in that ennobling influence that brings to every mind the brighter and higher side of any condition.
14. As to the appearances, and the urges as are seen in the present earth's experience:
15. In the one before this we find in the days when the peoples were coming to this present land of sojourn. The entity was among those who first came as the settlers in the land now known as Rhode Island. The entity was among those then that settled near now Providence, and in the name Protoso, and the entity gained in that experience, even through the hardships suffered by the entity in the physical, for it was the intent and purpose as set by the entity to bring life and liberty in heart and in the action to self and to others. Hence, as is seen, that urge that has ever been with the entity, to have that higher, closer, feeling for those who are persecuted for ANY cause, and taking the side of the under dog.
16. In the one before this we find in that period when there was the persecution of that sect then in the Roman rule. The entity then among those who would shield that minister as came to that peoples, and then in the name Isabodd, and the entity being then in that of the tent maker, and in the service of those that were in power, yet brought much of the comforts to the teacher, Paul, and the entity finds in every experience in the present life that peace, that hope, in the message as was left by that individual in the earth's plane. Hence there is seen in the urge that of the love for that ministry to others, yet that temperamental condition as has been presented has made the entity - even in this at times - sometimes cold and sometimes hot.
17. In the one before this we find in that period when the
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peoples were being carried away in captivity from the Promise Land. The entity then among those carried into Abyssinia, and the entity then in the name Achiah, and the entity LOST during that sojourn, for in the carrying away the entity lost in the power to resist the temptations of the aggrandizement of the fleshly lusts. In the urge as is seen, the desire ever for those things just OUT of reach, yet the fear of those in power.
18. In the one before this we find in that rule when the laws were being made in now the Peruvian country. Then in the rule of Og (?). The entity brought to self and others much faith, much hope, and much destructive forces, for the entity then in the position of the ruler's guide, and in the name Joiael, and the urge as is seen is that of the fear of what OTHERS may think or say from the actions of the entity.
19. As to the abilities, and as to the application:
20. As is seen in that as given, the entity has reached that stage wherein the developments far outpass or class that retarding force in the urge of the entity. Remain, then, true to that calling as has been set in Him - for those words are true as are loved by the entity (those of Paul), in that "My course is run. I have fought the good fight. There is henceforth laid up for me the crown of righteousness, for in Him is the light, and the light shineth unto the dark places."
21. Keep, then, that light ever in the mind of those who come, and to whom the body may go, for in Him is the way that leadeth to everlasting life.
22. We are through for the present.