This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 29th day of June, 1942, in accordance with request made by his sponsor, Mrs. [2523], 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 July 18, 1913, in Battleboro, North Carolina. (% A.P.O. San Fran., Time of Reading Ca.) ... Barracks, 10:30 to 10:55 A. M. Eastern War Time. ..., Hawaii.
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 - " - '42 - yes, unusual experiences - '41 - '40 changes in the environ - '39 - " etc., on back to birth date.)
3. Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [2776].
4. In giving an interpretation of the records as we find them here, much about the entity in the present might tend to influence same; yet the general character and characteristics as a unit or as the whole of the entity would be more desirable, if this information would be a helpful influence in the experience of the entity through this sojourn in the earth.
5. We give this interpretation with the desire that it may enable the entity, with the application of the tenets indicated, to better fulfillthose purposes for which the entity entered this present sojourn.
6. From a composite analysis of astrological aspects as well as material sojourns, we find these - though these approach manifestation through varied sources in the experience of the entity:
7. One of a very high-minded nature, very exact.
8. One who would succeed in most any endeavor in which it would attempt to give the material expression at this time; especially given to literature and good reading.
9. One very precise as to its dress.
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10. One that would be very much interested in screen or stage, and very positive at all times.
11. As to those urges related to the activities of the entity through the mental thought - these we find in Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter.
12. Jupiter and Mercury are the greater influence, as also Neptune - which will have to do with much travel of the entity over water, in strange places and unusual circumstance. But the abilities that are latent and manifested will enable the entity to meet those problems as they arise in the experience; as may be indicated from the stresses that should be put in their correct places - in the spiritual life.
13. Not that this is to be stressed to that of excess, of course, of the mental and material (for they are one), yet the basis of all should arise from the spiritual.
14. High mental abilities arise from the Mercurian influence. The abilities and tendencies are indicated as a writer, as an actor, as pertaining to the screen; which beauty may be expressed in word as well as activity in the experience of the entity in relationships with conditions as well as individuals.
15. The Jupiterian indication is that the entity will have rather to do with a universal consciousness, or the fact of the activities may influence great numbers of peoples though finding expression from the individual standpoint - or individual associations.
16. These are the general characteristics and influences from the mental forces.
17. As to the appearances of the entity in the earth - all of these may not be indicated; merely those that find expression especially in the present.
18. Before this, then, the entity was in the land of the present nativity, or birth, during the early settlings in the land. It was when there were those problems of dealing with those peoples of the land, the Indians and the settlers that were for the varied activities; the problems that had to do with a form of piracy to which the entity was subjugated by the activities during that particular sojourn.
19. Then in the name Rouman Curtis, the entity gained and lost; gained in the attempts to universalize the principles and purposes as of the universal brotherhood of man, lost in those attempts of applying same in a dictatorial way and manner.
20. Thus problems, and the abilities also as may arise in the present experience of the entity, as well as the effect upon those things having to do with water - as well as
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strange activities and strange associations.
21. But if the principles of the brotherhood are maintained, as to the one purpose, the entity will meet all of these, and may use those experiences as the basis for activities of future reactions in this particular sojourn.
22. Before this the entity was in the Roman land, being active as related to portions of Africa and Palestine and also the islands of the sea, and England; though the entity's activities through that experience were more in Egypt or northern Africa, or northern Egypt and Africa, and Persia and Palestine.
23. For, the entity then acted in the capacity of a representative or emissary of the government of Rome, as a keeper of the guard, or as a judge or protectorate in the various groups; supervising those activities where there were the bases established for the preserving of order as well as the collecting of customs for those activities.
24. There will be the influence of such activities upon the entity in the present, where there will be much of foreign activity or associations with those who speak not the tongue or who have not the normal actions or reactions in the daily life as has been the custom of the entity. And unusual customs will be a part of the experience.
25. These, too, may be put to use in the description as a writer, or as the basis of plays or associations and activities as would relate to the diplomatic service that may arise later in the experience, as the entity represents some government in its dealing or relationships one to another.
26. These, as we find, all become parts of the entity's experience in the present.
27. The name then was Kedward.
28. Before that the entity was in the Egyptian land, during those periods of reconstruction, when there was the unification of those from the Atlantean land and the Natives under the direction of the Priest that had been banished and then reestablished in the land.
29. The entity then was active as a recorder of the actions in various groups and of various periods; thus becoming a writer, keeping the records for those in authority in other lands as well as for the entity's own activities in relationships to the government he represented.
30. The entity gained; and thus the ability in a great many fields of activity will be a part of the entity's natal or inner influence.
31. The name then was Arsha-Ed-Eled.
32. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, that
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to which it may attain, and how:
33. We have indicated the natal or natural abilities. The application of these becomes, then, the problems in the experience of the entity.
34. Find thy ideal, spiritually, mentally and materially. Know that all force has its expression first in spirit. True, mind is the control - through that activity comes the material expression of same.
35. Study, then, to show thyself approved unto thy God, that is thy ideal; rightly dividing the words of truth, keeping self unspotted from condemnation - either of self or of others.
36. Let thy watchword ever be, "Use me, O Lord, for the help, for the sustenance of truth and light and understanding in the hearts of men everywhere."
37. Ready for questions.
38. (Q) May any information be given regarding the entity in the present environ? (A) As has been indicated, the entity is meeting the problems in the present.
39. We are through for the present. Two copies to Mrs. [2523] Copy to Ass'n file e