This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 25th day of May, 1931, in accordance with request made by self - [2887], via Dr. [1924].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Born July 28, 1873, in Avondale, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati. Time of Reading 11:30 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., N.J. (Life Reading Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes, we have the entity, [2887] and those relations with the universe and universal forces, as are latent and exhibited in the present entity.
2. In entering astrologically, we would find that in the present position or status, physically AND mentally, these would coincide very little with an astrological horoscope as is ordinarily given for one born on this date, or under those astrological influences as existed. While we WOULD find in the present experience, that from the astrological aspects in the PRESENT, these are in the PRESENT PERIOD an influence more apparent than from one that would HAVE been cast in the beginning. A natural question to the entity would be concerning this change. This, as may be termed, may be read in the RECORD as HAS been made by the entity, in that the entity has followed more closely influences of PLANETARY or astrological SOJOURN than astrological or from the horoscope standpoint influence. Hence, as the entity has made use OF these influences in the mental and spiritual life, these become more effective by the natural relativity of INFLUENCE.
3. In the present, then, we find THESE rather as the influence as has been builded by the entity IN the present experience, than the relative position of either the planetary influence, the earth's position among those of the zodiacal signs, or phases of sun or the moon; for with a sojourn has there been builded much in the manner of the sojourn in that land, or the environs of the nativity of the present ENTITY; being in that MATERIAL or physical environ of the position of an intermediate, or inter-between position - not north, not south, yet more influenced by northern thought than southern thought - the applications of the surroundings to the entity created that as of a line of thought to the entity, and in its activity - as the body and mental forces developed - tended to bring about certain
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influences, or MANIFESTED influences in the activity as related to individuals; as to whether they be of a certain cult, or a certain physical training in certain musical lines, or lines as pertain to certain positions in life. So, in the same manner have the influences - as the entity has used them - whether as to its relations to those influences in the Mercurian, the Neptune, those of Jupiter and Venus - been those that have brought RELATIVE positions to the entity's environs in a MENTAL way and manner; so that the tendency of THOUGHT of the entity in the present experience has developed as the entity has applied self to its MENTAL environs, in the same way and manner as the entity applied its mental abilities in its physical or MATERIAL environs from its place of birth.
4. In this respect, then, we find these influences as personalities have been builded for the PRESENT status of the entity, [2887] we are speaking of:
5. In the present we find as one interested in those of the occult and of the mystery influence, more through the mysterious ritual forces through which one must pass to attune self in a state of physical being that the mental forces may manifest, rather than that in which the body physical may attain or GAIN through PHYSICAL training for PHYSICAL abilities of the body. More recent has been rather that of the COMBINATION of these, as is taught or experienced by the entity in its ability to present those various forces or forms of activity of individuals as pertaining to care, or efficiency in care of the body, or efficiency in the care of the mental aptitudes or attitudes of the body as to its relationships to things outside of things, or things within its individual self. These are builded from those EXPERIENCES in which the entity has gained through sojourns in those of Mercury, those of Neptune, those of the influences in JUPITER as related to Venus.
6. In these influences, we find these have brought in the Venus and Jupiter influence a great EXPANSION - as it were - of abilities to ATTRACT and DETRACT in physical attributes of self as related to the opposite sex. These, as we will find, also HAVE their relations which are of an influence WIELDED in same through the EXPERIENCES in the earth's plane; these having been many, yet THESE may be given - as they show the aptitude of the entity in the PRESENT to its present experience and present surroundings:
7. In the appearances, then, and their influence as has been, is, and will be upon the entity in this present experience:
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8. In the one before this we find in that period when there were the divisions in the land of the entity's then sojourn, now known as England, during that period when there were troublesome times in the earth - or that land - as respecting the division of State and Church; or as the Peoples versus the ability of the Ruler to DICTATE policies, whether as pertaining to religious beliefs or as pertaining to physical activities of individuals, whether as pertaining to that necessary to be paid as tribute or that necessary to be paid as tribute in a manner of living as RESPECTING the peoples and the rulers. During that period when Cromwell and Charles warred, as it were, one against the other. The entity then lived in that land known as Cornwall, and in the name then Gretchel. The entity was then of a household of one of the leaders under Cromwell who was among those that took sides when the beheading came about. The entity then was of high mental ability as Gretchel, and gave much in the way of an outward expression of the ideas and attitudes of individuals that should be assumed or taken by the peoples, and spurred many an individual on to activities that were aroused by the abilities of the entity to present a man's cause against those in power; and the entity gained AND lost through this experience. GAINED so long as the attitude was in that of service to the other fellow, irrespective of that brought to the individual as to material things; losing when that as was COUNSELLED BY the entity turned into the aggrandizing of selfish interests as to its relation to those people in power, as well as those in the position to minister to individuals as to their physical and mental and spiritual needs. In the present the abilities as have LONG been with the entity as to a beautiful writer, composer, and ESPECIALLY as one with abilities to present a good argument to the masses, and to sway masses with the own speech; this arousing in self that personality that OFTEN may be used even to an overshadowing of others. Used ARIGHT, and AS a service, the entity may GAIN. Used as to ABUSE the rights or the abilities of others, the entity STILL may use same to self's own detriment.
9. In the one before this we find in that land known as the Grecian, in that period when Xerxes reigned, and later when those peoples that were and had been overrun by the peoples of the east. The entity was then in the name Xenxeia, and gave an interpretation to the peoples in the care of the body, especially as to the relations of the offspring BY the care of body and the surroundings of same that made for physical attributes, as well as the beauties for a mental condition that gave MUCH to the peoples Of the period.
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Being in self Beauty, and beautiful in body, the entity gained through the service rendered to the peoples in that period, and in the present the abilities to attract, the abilities to give much to the peoples. Even of this period, in the same way and manner as was presented in that, may the entity add MUCH to self, much to self's own development towards that of the mark of the higher calling. Will these be turned, as they be taught, to that of the SPIRITUAL as the source, rather than of the desire to make for that satisfaction IN the material attributes of the BODY, greater still INDEED may be those developments of the entity; for when man, or woman, would give to those of the earth that understanding of care of mind or body and raise not the wherefore above that of the satisfying or gratifying of the abilities of the carnal FORCES of man, but rather becoming as circumspect to the relationships of the continuity of life forces THEMSELVES, or from the Spirit, they err; for all force, all power, comes from one source, and that lent to man must be kept as a reflection, rather of the Creator than the created.
10. In the one, then, before this, we find in that period, that land now known as the Egyptian, and during those periods when there was the entering in of those who later set up that memorial period when the highest point of contact during the period, or of Egypt, known to the developments of man's ability in his relationship to his fellow man and to his creator. The entity then was among those that came in with those peoples from the north land. Though young in years at the time, when the king later classifying or naming self the nomenclature of Ar-Aar-Aart came into power, the entity then in the household of that king and with the abilities and thought of adding to COLOR in body, in the paintings of the house, in the pigments that were gathered from the various silts as came from the mountains in the waters, as well as those gathered from the fishes in the sea, did the entity combine these in making many of those colors in that period; and RENOWNED in this respect was the name, for the entity was looked upon rather as one with SUPERNATURAL powers in these directions, and in the abilities to gather these together. The entity gained through the experience. Though tossed about much through the turmoils that later arose, the entity gave much in a GENTLE, EASY manner to those as there was the building up of the distribution of the abilities of man to register for self and to keep closer to those relationships of the Creator to the creature. Then in the name Ra-Aa-Ri. In the present those abilities to MATCH colors, to match those
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things that are necessary for pigment building in the body, for the adding of color in the dress, for the shadings of the colors, in the care for, the attending to those little things of the body that makes same attractive both to self and others; bringing a satisfaction for same, and the love for peculiar ODORS arises from this experience. These MIGHT have been made most VALUABLE in the chemist laboratory of the present day, and much yet may the entity aid in these directions through the innate, or through those sources of the occult and mystic ABILITIES of the mental forces of the body, even from that as from other experiences.
11. In the one, then, before this we find in that land known now as the Peruvian, and when there was the end of the Ohums [Aymaras] and their rule over the land. The entity was among those that came from the Atlantean lands and gave to the peoples much of the impulse of the added forces in a practical building up of MATERIAL things of life, as pertaining to court hangings, ritualistic forces, the adding-to by the entity then of the worship to the sun and the solar forces, even to that of the offering of human sacrifice; for the entity was the first high priestess to the sun in the land, making the first human sacrifice in that period. Losing and gaining through a service rendered, yet these that must come as sacrifices, have come as sacrifices in the present, that the entity itself has made, have been met in MANY a manner. Then in the name Rariru. In the present, and the ABILITIES of the entity in the present:
12. Add to that already gained a closer concept of the necessity of man's understanding the SPIRITUAL awakening within self, whether in the adding to physical or material adornments, or whether adding to the mental attributes of the body; for the MIND is the builder, whether building the soul or the physical body. As those are taught by the entity, whether in precept or example, let the spirit of the Creative Forces permeate that as is given to the other, that the awakening of each individual self may make for an expansion of that NOT MADE WITH HANDS, but eternal in EVERY element, EVERY force; for IT is Life itself, and in Him - even He that suffered BODILY in Gethsemane, or He that walked on the waters of Galilee - is the light, the way, and those that climb up some OTHER fail in the perfect understanding. Ready for questions.
13. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " File
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