This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 3rd day of September, 1943, in accordance with request made by the self - [3189], 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. (Notes read to and transcribed by Jeanette Fitch.)
R E A D I N G
Born October 18, 1863, in New Point, Indiana. Time of Reading 10:45 to 11:25 A. M. Eastern War Time. ..., Nebraska.
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 over the years from the present - " - '30 - years of fulfillment - '18 preparations - '93 moves and changes - '90 - " etc. on back to birth date.)
3. Yes - what a particular life pattern!
4. In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them here, these we would chose with the desire not only to verify the promptings that have impelled the entity in much of his experience in the earth but that this information may be a helpful force; enabling the entity to better complete and experience that has been unusual in this particular sojourn.
5. The records are taken from those impelling forces, those ideals and purposes, and the application of the entity in relationship to same, as written upon the skein of time and space.
6. Thus we would magnify the virtues and minimize the faults. For, there is ever present before each entity opportunities, and day by day there is indeed set before the entity good and evil, life and death. As to whether an individual soul-entity advances or retards, or just remains stagnant depends upon the manner in which the entity applies choice in relationship to its ideal.
7. Here we find in the experience of this entity that which may be well fulfilled or completed in the first law that pertains to a promise. Again, in portions of the entity's
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experience at least, it might be said that there is taken the fuller, the broader, meaning of same: "Who is my father, my mother, my sister, my brother? He that doeth the will of the Father, the same is my mother, my brother, my sister."
8. This, then, indicates the character that has been builded in the experience in the entity in the present. Thus it may be fulfilled that "Thy days may be long in the earth which the Lord thy God giveth thee." In analyzing the urges that have prompted the individual entity many things or conditions enter therein. The premise from which this information is drawn as it is a part of the record upon time, is that very influence as related one to another, even as man in the elements of the body is of the earth-earthy. For, it was made from that which was already a part of God's evolution. Thus the physical body is oft subject to those things and influences, those related things. Thus in the physical body radiation, water and mind urge, play an important part. The entity may thus so raise the consciousness of the mental and spiritual self as has been the experience at times of this entity, to "put away" or overcome those influences that may have been about the urge. For, the law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul. This is truly applicable here.
9. Astrologically, or from those experiences of the entity through the periods between earthly sojourns, we find Jupiter, Mercury and Venus are the ruling forces. Hence the entity has ever been given to what is termed "good words," or the whole of universal energies related to benevolence, brotherly love, consistency.
10. These have appeared to be problems at times in the experience of the entity. Yet - as in Venus and Mercury - these have been drawn forth. Not that all men are friends of the entity, for water and fire produce another element, as does hate and love. And they are as effective as either of these that produced same may be in the experience of an entity; bringing turmoils of spirit, destructive forces to body in the elements of hate and love, as they manifest in the experiences of individuals.
11. As to the appearances in the earth - these have been quite varied. While the entity has passed through many experiences that have brought associations with varied individuals that have been a part of the life pattern of the entity in the earth, these given in the present are those influencing in this special cycle of experience and do not include all by any means; yet these indicate the character, characteristics, and trends of the body-mind.
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12. Before this the entity was among those coming to the land of the entity's present nativity; as a land, however. For the entity landed in what is now called Philadelphia, being among those groups who sought freedom of worship, freedom of body thought, freedom of the application of their relationships with individuals and groups.
13. Thus we find there is builded innately and manifestly in the experience of this entity in the present, very decided likes and dislikes. Yet there are the abilities within self to give and to take and to be considerate of other people's opinions - unless they conflict too much with the entity's experience. This, through the sojourn in this experience, has given the entity that broad expanse of consideration, as well as of individual activities. Through a portion of the life period, or life pattern it has brought adventure, the experiences is unchartered lands or unchartered activities. The venturing into commercial as well as social and material life of those that might be questioned by others, but ever kept by the entity as an experience and not too much condemnation to self - but the inclination, whether acting upon same or not to question other's abilities and choices.
14. Throughout the greater part of that experience the entity gained, for it considered the fellow man. And ever, where there is the consideration of the tenets, "others, Lord," it becomes a stepping stone for an activity that will bring comfort, satisfaction in the entity's material relationships with many.
15. The name then was Ezra Killen.
16. Before that the entity was in the Persian and Arabian land, during those periods when there were those activities in the "city in the hills and plains" wherein the entity eventually joined. For the entity then acted in the capacity of a tradesman between the East Indian and Egyptian lands.
17. Thus there have been experiences and activities of the entity with tradesmen of many different lines of endeavor, as well as in the mediums of exchange that have become a part or the whole of the entity's experience in this latter portion of its activity.
18. With the establishing of the "city in the hills and the plains" the entity was among the first to establish a center there, for it was this entity's caravan that dropped off many of those that were healed by the teacher in the "city in the hills and plains."
19. Thus a friendship grew between the teacher and the tradesman, and eventually - with the establishing of those activities from the Grecian land - the entity set up a
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center to placate or to overcome or meet some of those experiences that were being brought about. This made a period of helpfulness, a period of questioning, and a period of faultfinding.
20. And these are a part of the experience of the entity in the present. There are certain individual groups in certain trade lines that are not wholly abhorrent but are questioned very much by the entity; those especially that have a great influence upon the groups of people as they pass through certain stages of their life experience in the earth's plane. These are a part of the characteristics of the entity arising from that sojourn.
21. The name then was Haszelth. From that experience we find good and bad in the latent urges of the entity's experience, but ever the Jupiterian influences of the universal nature become benevolent influences in the experience of the entity in the present.
22. Before that the entity was in the Egyptian land being the son of the king deposed by those groups that came in from the Persian land or Carpathia led by the Priest.
23. These made for combative experiences with the entity, for the entity attempted to arouse various natives to rebellion. With the ceasing of the rebellions, the entity went into a portion of the upper country or the southernmost portions of Egypt; and established a kingdom of its own.
24. The activities were ever at variance with those influences wrought by the developings in the Egyptian land, and in the latter portion of the entity's experience there were overtures made that eventually - in the second generation of the entity's experience - brought the undermining of the attempts of Ra-Ta in that land.
25. Here we will ever find difference, then, and yet a workable experience - if there are the attempts to unify that wherein there are agreements and not the magnifying of disagreements.
26. The name then was Tkelupan.
27. These were the experiences that affected the entity in the present and in this present cycle of its activity.
28. As to the abilities of the entity, then, these are only limited by the application of the self to its ideal.
29. Then, that injunction would be; - first analyze thyself; know thy ideal, spiritually, mentally, materially. Know in WHOM ye believe as well as in what ye believe and as to WHO is the author of thy tenets. For as given, to thee ever shall it be, "The law of the Lord is perfect."
30. Seek, then, to know the universal law of God, not of nature - for it is a reflection and is interpreted in the
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individual experiences. Not that of any particular element, for know that the Lord thy God is one.
31. Keep the faith in self; not to that as of selfishness but rather in the manifestation of selflessness; looking ever not to that of justification by deeds in the body but rather in the body activities ever to the glorification of Him who is the way and the truth and the light.
32. Keep in those activities that have been a part of thy experience. And keep the faith.
33. Ready for questions.
34. (Q) What would be a wise course for me to pursue in regard to my various business interests, in view of my life expectancy? (A) It might be said to thee as to the rich young ruler; keep the faith, keep the tenets; but follow closely in the way of the Lord. Not as to disposing of all, no - but the using of same to the glory and for the honor of God.
35. (Q) In view of economic conditions would it be advisable for me to reduce my present standard of living? (A) Not at all, so long as it is not jeopardizing others. For, though art thy brother's keeper.
36. We are through with this reading. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file