This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 11th day of May, 1943, in accordance with request made by the self - [2998], Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research and 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 April 10, 1907, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Time of Reading 3:35 to 4:00 P. M. Eastern War Time. Memphis, Tennessee.
1. GC: You will give the relations 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 to the place and time of birth - " - Hattiesburg - yes - first experience about the city vibration - ")
3. Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [2998].
4. In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them, these we choose from same with the desire and purpose that this information may be a helpful experience for the entity; enabling the entity to better fulfill those purposes for which it entered this present sojourn.
5. As we find, when a composite is drawn of the entity's urges from that we call astrology, and from the material sojourns in the earth, there are very definite characteristics.
6. One that is rather intense, and at times very severe with others.
7. One that is gifted towards a religious tendency. Hence in those things pertaining to Y.M.C.A. work, Red Cross drives, anything pertaining to a helpful force for a great number of people, there would be found interesting facts and fancies for this entity. And either as a lawyer or a Y.M.C.A. worker the entity might find the greater outlet for the greater abilities that are manifested.
8. That to be warned of is an intenseness that causes the entity to grow cold or hot. For, the entity will not be a mediocre individual. He will either excel or he will be a
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complete failure - from the material angle.
9. The entity is itself oft its own worst enemy, being in that tend "If I can't have what I want, I don't want anything!" These are not good policies, as the entity has found, and yet those tendencies for the gratifying of self or of self's appetites at times betray these characteristics of the entity.
10. In giving urges that are manifested and latent from the interims of sojourn between material appearances, or in those consciousnesses from which the entity enters the various experiences in the earth - we find Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus all a part of the entity's experience.
11. A high mental ability. A good orator. A good reader. These are the things, conditions and circumstances the entity should apply in its experience. But let its ideals, its purposes, its hopes, its fears - both for good and bad - be founded more in the spiritual truths with which the entity tends to become associated, and let them be the foundations for those ideals spiritual, mental and material. And we will find better activities.
12. In a larger city than the present might the entity succeed the better - as Atlanta, Dallas, Newark, New York, Boston, Indianapolis, Cincinnati. Any of these, and especially the first two would be excellent ground for activities, and the vibrations are more in keeping with the activities of the entity. But let it come through choices as of groups, corporations, organizations that would call the entity in activities in one or the other of those environs indicated.
13. Jupiter gives the universal consciousness. Thus a tendency towards uplift, a religious thought or purpose. But make it the reality, make it a practical experience. And these will become more and more overcoming of the "Do it or die!" But know that in whatever state ye find yourself, there the Lord hath need of thee. There apply thyself; never being satisfied, but ever being content; never casting judgment upon self nor upon others. For it is with what measure ye mete that it is to be measured to thee again, and the manner in which ye treat thy fellow man is the manner in which ye are treating thy Maker, thy Savior.
14. As to the appearances in the earth - these we find quite varied. While all may not be given here, these show the characteristics of the entity, and the latent urges, and those manifested activities in the urges of the mental as well as the spiritual self of this entity, [2998], called in the present.
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15. Before this the entity was in those activities in which there were the settlings in the land of the present nativity, of those peoples following the fall of Napoleon.
16. The entity was among the French that came into this land, and the entity remained, though others that were among those groups with which the entity came did return to the homeland.
17. The entity became rather as one in authority, as a judge, as an interpreter of the laws for the various groups of peoples under the varied activities that were a part of the customs in that period and in that land.
18. Then in the name Renee Danele, the entity - while having hardships - had his way, and applied self in that manner. The entity gained, until disputes arose when there were other groups that would form part of state, or form a part of another organization. Then, because the own way was not had, there set in the detrimental forces and the giving way to a gratifying of appetites of the body which were not good.
19. As indicated, these become problems - as much in the environs of the entity at times as in self. Yet these may be conquered, if the mind of the entity is set to do so. For, there are the abilities to control by reason and by the power of the mind, and the associations of self in mind, in body, in soul, with the sources of power and strength.
20. For, from Whom doth power and strength arise? The spirit within! What spirit, then, do ye worship with? Thine own, or others? or His that is the way and the truth and the light?
21. Before that the entity was in the Roman land, during those periods when there were those combinations of groups and individuals put in authority through the various portions of the lands that were paying tribute to the Roman land.
22. The entity spent portions of the time in what is now North Africa, and other portions in the Holy Land; coming in contact with some of those problems that were a portion of the Jewish problem as well as the Roman, as well as those problems that arose in the church.
23. These, then, make for that tendency within the experiences of the entity in the present to be closely affiliated oft with the various groups where there is a great difference in the social status of the individuals involved. These become parts of the problems of the entity.
24. There the entity was closely affiliated with some of those activities that were a part of Cornelius in Caesarea, and the entity then may become associated or affiliated,
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directly or indirectly under the same activities in the present of that entity, [1848] - through the political interests and those having to do with certain organizations or certain groups.
25. Before that the entity was in the Persian and Arabian land. There the entity was the counselor to the Persian king at that particular period, and was acquainted with the activities in the 'city in the hills and plains' because of those affiliations that gradually arose through the activities there.
26. Thus the entity became a mediator between those of the various groups, and the interest manifested in the present from that experience - as Pelegus - is shown in not too much of the orthodox, but the ability to think as it chooses, even though it may be wrong, or be a part of a body of a very close organization.
27. Before that the entity was in the Holy Land, when those groups of people were entering from the Egyptian land.
28. The entity then was among those who made overtures for a united effort in making peace with the leader of those groups, and thus - as termed by some - caused even Joshua to falter.
29. Yet these abilities make in the present for that ability to make peace, and to make for organized effort where the spirit of the law, rather than the letter of the law, may be applied in its relationships and its dealings with others.
30. The name then was Jabeliel.
31. Before that the entity was in the Egyptian land, when there were those preparations being made for the uniting of efforts of the various groups with the return of the Priest.
32. We find there the entity acted as the peacemaker among the counselors to the King, making those overtures through the Natives as well as the Atlantean groups.
33. Thus those extremes in part to which the entity goes at times to carry on the efforts. These made sincere, or purposeful, may bring those abilities again into active forces in the experience of this entity.
34. The name then was El-Arar-Ie.
35. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, that to which it may attain, and how:
36. First, find self. Know thy ideal - spiritually, mentally, materially. Study to show thyself approved unto that ideal, a workman not ashamed, but putting stress where stress is due, and not to have thine own way alone.
37. Keep thine self unspotted from condemnation. Love the Lord and His ways; He will guide thee aright.
38. Ready for questions.
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39. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file ile