This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 26th day of August, 1942, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [2799], new Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mrs. [2185].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Born October 19, 1901, Sat., 4:30 P. M., in Pleasant Mills, Indiana. Time of Reading 4:00 to 4:40 P. M. Eastern War Time. ..., New York.
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 - " - '39 - seeking - '30 - " etc., on back to birth date.)
3. Yes - we are given the records here of that entity now known as or called [2799].
4. In giving the interpretations of the records here, much may be gained if there will be applying of those influences which have been and are a part of the entity's experience through the material sojourns.
5. To be sure, there are urges from the sojourns during the interims between earthly manifestations, but the seeking, searching entity has through its experiences in the earth lived them so thoroughly as to almost eliminate that phase of experience that one may call the other side of self during material expression.
6. Not that the entity has exceeded the needs, or beyond the needs of a material experience. For that whereunto one has gained is a part of one's experience. Not that things will happen irrespective of what one does, but the urge for an individual to be drawn into that experience is existent, or into that expression or phase of activity as it attracts or is attracted by its activities in human relationships.
7. Then, in interpreting the records, these we choose from same. Not that many might not be interpreted differently, but these we choose with the desire that this information
2799-1 Page 2
may indeed be a blessing; enabling the entity to fulfillthe purpose for which it chose an entrance at this experience.
8. We would minimize the faults, we would magnify the virtues.
9. Astrologically, we find Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune at variance; the Sun as the saving influence in same. But, as we have indicated, the entity through material experiences has so thoroughly applied self as to be urged, impelled or controlled more from those journeyings in the material expression of a well developed soul-entity.
10. One that finds these as latent abilities, as may be seen from the activities of the entity in the appearances that may be chosen from the entity's expressions in the earth that are at this particular period affecting or influencing the urges.
11. The entity has abilities for any form of activity it may choose, whether of a political or a religious nature; as a lecturer, as a teacher, as a student or as a professor of any subjects it might choose. Through such the entity may make not only a success from the mental angle but from the material also.
12. Thus it behooves the entity in this particular period of expression to keep a well balanced self. Extremes, or the severity of the use of self, might be well at times; but it is well also to keep quiet.
13. As a newspaper reporter, as a lecturer, as a teacher, - then, the entity may gain in this experience; as a student or teacher of the ancient philosophies of Egypt, India, Mongolia, Persia, Arabia - any of these. For these have their particular influence upon the entity's way or manner of expression, from those experiences as were had by the entity in those varied sojourns.
14. While not all of the former sojourns in the earth may be given, these are those influencing or giving rise to urges in the present:
15. Before this the entity was in the land of the present nativity; during those periods when there were those turmoils in what was then Fort Dearborn, in those experiences when the entity with many others fled for safety to the east and the south.
16. The entity's losing of its life (as did many) in what is now the Ohio, causes a latent dread of water; and combined with the Neptune forces, to which it brought the activities of the entity, makes for that latent fear, though the body-mind desires such.
17. So, the entity's experience was cut short, though it had through that sojourn - as Bertha Baldwin - gained in its
2799-1 Page 3
search for that in the tenets and teachings of the time of the spiritual nature, to interpret in self its relationship to the whole, as had been a part of the experience before that.
18. For, the entity before that was in earthly manifestation when the Master walked in the earth. Through those periods of activity the entity was not only acquainted with but in touch with those periods when the Master taught the multitudes; being of those peoples that were in relationships with several of the disciples.
19. The entity then was a daughter of Zebedee's sister, and thus was related to James and John; acquainted with Peter and Andrew, Mathias or Matthew, and Thomas.
20. Though not always adhered to, those teachings meant much. As with most of those people of that particular period, there was not the complete awareness of what had happened until He was taken from them - when there began to be the appearances or experiences which He had promised would come about.
21. The entity was in those circles in which some of the family were acquainted with those in political as well as religious authority; bringing about experiences in which there was something of the social ideals.
22. But becoming acquainted with Luke, after the Crucifixion, the naturalness of the ability to report a happening or an experience, a lecture, a teacher's thought, as a fact, makes for those abilities as a speaker, as a teacher, as a reporter, as a writer.
23. And such activities in any of those influences or groups where the entity has become deep within self convinced of their sincerity, or the sincerity of the individual or group or teacher, may bring an outlet for the entity which will enable it to develop the more through this particular sojourn.
24. The name then was Ersa. In the present experience, as indicated, there are - to be sure - teachers and seekers. The entity is a seeker. And those things that bespeak of the eternal truths are the channels through which the entity may find the greater outlet for its material, its mental and its spiritual unfoldment.
25. One may grow in one's mental unfoldment. One may arrive in a spiritual consciousness that is ever present for each soul. For, the soul is of God to each entity. And one is no more precious than another; the preciousness being then in the individual.
26. Before that (among those that would be indicated) the entity was in the Persian land when there were those changes
2799-1 Page 4
being wrought in the status of the peoples who in their teachings were at variance to the Medes and Persians; when Cyrus issued the edicts.
27. The entity was not of the kingly place but, as might be said today, was acquainted with those of the same social sect or set; though not of the king's family nor of his warriors, but of his friends or counselors who were in political influence or power - as would be termed today.
28. Then in the name Cleo Poringedr, the entity gained, - the entity heard, the entity enquired. And the leaders, as Nehemiah, as Ezra, became acquaintances of the entity. And the eventual visit of the entity to Jerusalem aroused the entity to activities through that experience.
29. Things then oriental, things Egyptian, things that deal with the delving into the mysteries of the past - or the manners in which those in the position as students apply themselves in making a record of the happenings in such a manner as in symbols, in signs, in all phases of writings - are plainly written evidence. Yet only those capable of interpreting same learn the full meaning. These are of interest to the entity.
30. Thus the entity is a good questioner as well as a good conversationalist.
31. Before that the entity was in the Egyptian land. The entity was the queen, or the empress, or the ruling force in the land to which the Priest was banished. Coming under the influence then of the Priest that was banished from Egypt, the entity though in authority renounced its throne to become acquainted with the Priest's activities. And through that period the entity was known as the queen or princess of the temple to which the entity itself assigned itself, with the establishing of the Temple of Sacrifice and the Temple Beautiful.
32. The name then was It-Ta-Ba-Lo.
33. From that experience we again find the entity's interest in, and being a student of, archaeological findings. All of these became a part of the entity's activities in its preparation for those various groups set in the form and at certain periods or phases of moon and sun, when there were those changes in the astrological effect upon various portions of the body. All of these were a part of the entity's study and application in that experience.
34. Thus it might be said that the entity unconsciously was the founder of that form of Egyptian astrology, taken from its records many, many years later.
35. In such activities the entity may find an outlet, but rather in that channel as we have indicated should the
2799-1 Page 5
entity be most active, that has as its basis not the sun nor the moon nor any of the hosts of the universe nor the earth (which were the created focal points), but the Creator of these - who demonstrated His powers in the earth in His walk among men.
36. Before that the entity was in the Atlantean land, and there the entity was a priestess when there were the first periods of the misapplication of divine forces. While the entity was not directly responsible for the misuse, the negligence of the entity in requiring the full, complete reports as of periods and times, makes the entity at times overcautious as to reports of individuals.
37. Facts, to be sure, are facts, but they may be demonstrated. And they that would learn will learn from the experiences of others as well as the experience of self; knowing that the spirit answers to spirit in the material things as well as in the mental and spiritual.
38. The name then was Esdro-m.
39. As to the abilities of the entity, then:
40. First, study to show thyself approved unto that thou may choose as thine ideal. Know the author of thy faith, and of thy ideal. And have only that which is an answer to each phase of thy consciousness, physical, mental and spiritual.
41. In thy writing, in thy contribution to the teachings; in those activities in which thou hast found, thou, may find the answer to thyself and thy problems.
42. Study to show thyself approved, then; not ashamed; rightly contributing and emphasizing that in the experience of each that will draw all men unto the living Christ. For, as He gave, "If I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto me."
43. Aid thou in that lifting up; not as sacrifice, but as a love of service.
44. Ready for questions.
45. (Q) What is my specific job in this incarnation and just when will I be given my instructions? (A) As has been indicated; in choosing those channels through which effective work is being accomplished that presents the life of the Christ in its entirety. Be a teacher, be a writer, be an interpreter to lift up that which is the hope of the world.
46. (Q) Why am I always so exacting in my teaching, almost severe? (A) Study that which has been indicated, and it will be seen that each of these phases of thy consciousness is pointed out in its material expressions. This particular phase, to be sure, is from the Atlantean experience.
47. (Q) What instructions can you give me in connection
2799-1 Page 6
with my helping [2421] in his career? (A) Be a helpmeet in encouraging; never finding fault, but reasoning with - oft.
48. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file