This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 18th day of October, 1943, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [3299], new Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by the book, THERE IS A RIVER.
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 7, 1896, in Chicago, Illinois. Time of Reading 3:40 to 4:20 A. M. Eastern War Time. ..., Ill.
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, or 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: Yes, we are given the records here of this entity now known as or called [3299]. (This entity has a special work to do.)
3. In interpreting the records as we find them here, there is much from which to draw. But these we choose with the desire and purpose that this information may be a helpful experience for the entity; enabling the entity to better fulfillthose purposes for which it entered this sojourn.
4. There are faults, there are virtues. We would minimize the faults, we would magnify the virtues.
5. As the entity should analyze in its own experience, ye must forgive as ye would be forgiven. While the judgments are good, in self they are questioned - and so by others. Know that ye live and move and have thy being in Him, who is the way, the truth, the light. As ye have seen, as ye experience in thy circle of admonition to others - ask not others to do that ye would not do in thine own experience. For the law of the Lord if perfect, it converteth the soul - if ye will give place to it in thy daily experience. It is not something to be taken out and looked at occasionally, it is to be applied constantly in they daily dealings with thy fellow man. As ye do it, the manner in which ye treat, the voice with which ye speak to others, ye speak to and do to thy God.
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6. In analyzing the records here of this entity, there are many urges latent and manifested in the experience. The entity oft finds itself efficient, but somewhat officious unto those that are in the environ of the entity. If you are sure you are right then go straight ahead.
7. Astrologically we find urges, not according to astrological terminology; but as ye are in this solar system ye are subject to the laws thereof. And the planets, the constellations, the sun and the moon each have their environs or their influences, dependent upon the manner of the entity's manifestation in same. Just as the environ of any section of the country carries with it the soliloquies of that particular portion of the country, so does the environ or consciousness of the entity as a whole carry with it the influence from its sojourn in that consciousness represented by the sun and moon, Mars and Jupiter, Venus and Neptune; according to the use which the entity has made of its experiences.
8. Saturn also has its day with the entity, which usually occurs on Thursdays.
9. From Mars we find the urges for activity, the intenseness with which the entity gives itself to that it chooses. Not that the entity has not also a temper of its own, and holds its grudge where it thinks it should - but no one has a right to hold any grudge. Would you ask the Father to hold a grudge against thee, or do you ask forgiveness daily?
10. In Jupiter we find abilities in a helpful, universal way and manner. Hence the entity is given to verboseness, as well as in abilities to depict situations, to analyze people and places, things and conditions. Thus may the entity be gifted in writing, lecturing, and in group direction.
11. And the entity would do well to one day write a book - THE CIRCLE OF THINGS - with a block circle, put on its cover would be well. For it would release much in the entity's consciousness that it good, that would be helpful to others, if properly prepared from the basis of the ideals that have been set, which may direct or control the characters the entity might depict. And the present environ, or the city as a whole, would be a background for such a volume.
12. In Saturn we find the sudden changes that have come.
13. We find in Neptune the interest in psychological effects, and the manner in which they influence individuals under varied environments.
14. These are the urges. These are the influences as the mental background of this entity.
15. One, then, full of wit, vim, vitality. Keep that wit. For, as ye have experienced, it has oft saved thy face in
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many a questioned circumstance.
16. As to the appearances in the earth, these have been quite varied. Thus, while all may not be given, these produce or bring - through the sensory self or the awareness latent and manifested in the present - certain characteristics and channels and associations in which the entity may accomplish the more.
17. Before this the entity was in the land of the present nativity, during those periods when Dearborn was destroyed.
18. The entity then was the noble innkeeper's wife; loud, strong of body and of mind and purpose, able to carry all the vicissitudes that became a portion of the experience when there were many questionings as to morality, as to the environs of the natives and of the peoples that warred against the order that was part of the experiences.
19. The entity journeyed with the greater group when there were those escaping before the massacre, in that particular period, by the Indian insurrection.
20. The entity then settled in those areas where Cincinnati now stands, being of those same people or families of the entity's maiden name in the present.
21. Then as Abbie (or Aggie) Blackburn, the entity was quite efficient in establishing its own household and in the ruling of same until they were able to carry on. Six sons and two daughters were of the family in that experience, and these are still felt in many portions of the land, as to the directions in the choice of associations in their present environs.
22. Thus we find the entity capable, and with a knowledge of management, direction. Thus, as indicated, writing - or directing of groups in their choice of activities - may be a part of the entity's present experience.
23. Before that the entity was in the Spanish land, when there were those activities setting many in authority in varied portions of the land.
24. The entity then was one close to those in authority being then in the household of the ruler of the land when there were those settlings in many portions of the activities in the then known world - as of authority by might.
25. Thus latently the entity has the ability of persuasion, not merely by might of thought but by position, as well as the ruling of appetites in individuals.
26. Then in the name Sophia, the entity was of the rulers in that early portion of the expansions of the land. Hence the entity is given to broad visions in its dreams, mentally and materially.
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27. Before that the entity was in the Holy Land, when the people were entering from Egypt.
28. The entity was not of the chosen people, but rather of the natives of the land, then in the name Helvitia, and became closely associated with many of those who eventually came to be in power and authority with entering into the lands from other lands.
29. Hence the entity finds latently the ability to direct others by its very power of persuasion mentally.
30. In the present, then, apply this in a constructive way and manner - if the ideal of spirit and mind and materiality or body is kept as one.
31. Before that the entity was in the Egyptian land, when those people were chosen by the activities of the Priest with the return to authority and power; when those were put in authority over the household of those who were to act in the capacity of becoming the mothers of the future generations.
32. The entity was one set in authority.
33. Thus the entity is one who may counsel with those of her own sex, in regard to the relationships of sex, morality, religion, household, and all of those things pertaining to womankind. The entity may through such powers of suggestion aid and direct many individuals towards better and more helpful things.
34. The name then was Ex-En-Ea.
35. As to the abilities of the entity, that to which it may attain and how:
36. First, know thyself. What are thy ideals? What are thy purposes? What is the ideal spiritually, mentally, materially?
37. Then make thy ideals conform in thy experiences and in thy activity.
38. Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman not ashamed, stressing the word where the stress is to be put, according to that ideal; remembering, ever, that the Lord thy God is one Lord. In all, then, there must be the answering to the law of nature, the law of mind, and the law of spirit.
39. The expression of self in writing would be the outlet best for the entity's unfoldment and advancement, and it would be well to begin in the present environ.
40. Do that.
41. Ready for questions.
42. We are through for the present. Copy to Self
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