This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 22nd day of April, 1926, in accordance with request made by his mother, Mrs. [979].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Born September 25, 1903, Ashland, Kentucky. Time of Reading 3:50 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 entity, giving the abilities of the present entity and to that which it may attain, and how.
2. EC: Yes, we have the entity and those influences from the Universal Forces, as are latent and exhibited in the present earth's plane.
3. In taking the position in the earth's plane, we find the entity coming under the influence of Jupiter, Venus, Mercury, then Uranus. Hence we find one of many exceptional qualities, and one that may qualify self for many good things in life, and for many of the conditions that will aid many peoples; the greater influences being those of that which keeps the highest principle, the highest forces of endeavor, in the rule of the entity's influence.
4. One that is high minded; sociable, yet too much of the recluse for the best interests in the entity's physical life. Let not that self-condemnation overcome the good that may be accomplished in the life of self and of others.
5. One that is not an eye servant.
6. One that is given to do all that is required of self, and more.
7. One that may become much of a leader, will the entity but leave off self-condemnation and the timidity that is given to find expression, through that of the fear of being criticized by superiors in the service.
8. One that may go far in the line of endeavor in which the entity is now engaged; that portion, however, as pertains to the detail, and especially of the secretarial work, or that of the higher office man, should be made the endeavor and aim of the entity.
9. One that with using the principles as are innate and as
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seek to find self expression, bring to the self much of world's goods, and to be depended upon is to be the highest servant, and he that would gain must lose self in service. One that, through this service, will bring much honor to self and to those who will be dependent upon this entity. The love of home should ever be paramount in the efforts of the entity, and one that should use that early training as the criterion for the efforts to be expended, whether towards physical labors, or mental endeavors, towards friendships, or towards acquaintances.
10. As to the appearances, and the influence same bears in the urges in the entity:
11. In the one before this we find in that of the settler in the regions near where the entity born, in the name then of Allen Dale, and the entity gained in that period, though rugged was the life, and under many hardships in those frontier days, yet the service as given to others brought the greatest satisfaction to the entity. The urge as is seen from this is the lover of outdoors, especially of wood and dale, and the inclinations to become secretive in many actions are felt from these urges, yet this, as has been given, should, through will's force, be much overcome.
12. In the one before this we find in those days when the Roman rule was over-riding that of the Promise Land. The entity then among those officers under that rule, in the days when the persecution was to those of the Master's followers, and the entity then became a convert to those tenets, and under the name Antaphahas, and the entity gained in the latter rule of the sojourn in that country, and the urge as is seen in the innate love of the Master's teaching, and the attempt to make this the basis of the entity's life. Then, the entity should NEVER gainsay this urge, in any way and manner, for in Him is life, and through the correct understanding of self and self's desires, and in making self One with Him and His tenets, there will come that ability, that condition, that will give that in the life which brings the greatest satisfaction in physical, in mental, in moral, and in spiritual welfare, for to the Giver the entity must give self, and in the services as may be rendered to the fellow man the entity lends unto the Giver.
13. As to that which the entity may attain, and how; as given, make of self that channel through which these former lessons in the present earth's plane, and those that are the deeper portion of the entity's being, become manifestations of those principles in the daily life, as applied to the office, to the shop, and especially to that position as of secretary, and of office man, may there be brought into the
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life, through this channel, and through this adhering to those teachings and those tenets, that which is of the nature that gives joy, peace, satisfaction, in the earth's plane, and the crown of life in the transition. Be thou faithful, then, and keep in that straight and narrow way. Through the study, as is seen, through the mental abilities of the entity, even through the work days, may the entity apply self and so fit self as to be able to occupy that place as the manager of those higher offices, through those same channels. Be then in the way that the understanding of self, and be thou in the way as to walk with Him.
14. We are through for the present.