This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 29th day of March, 1944, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [3344], Active Member of the Ass''n for Research & 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 10, 1897, in Paradise, Penna. Time of Reading Set bet. 10:30 to 11:30 A. M. Taken 11:25 to 11:40 A. M. Eastern War Time. ..., Penna.
1. GC: You will have before you the life existence in the earth plane of [3344], born October 10, 1897, in ..., Penna., and the earthly existence of this entity as Philas in that period following the Master's walk in the earth. You will give a biographical life of the entity in that day and plane of earthly existence, from entrance - and how - into the earth's plane, and the entity's departure, giving the development or retarding points in such an existence. You will answer the questions, as I ask them:
2. EC: Yes, we have the records here of that entity now called [3344] and the earthly experience of the entity as Philas in the Holy Land, and the activities there.
3. In giving the biographical outline, and as to how the entity may use the lessons or those shortcomings from that experience in the present, it would be well to give something of an outline of conditions during those particular periods of activity.
4. We find that the entity Philas was of that group of people from Seleucia who came to Jerusalem during those days of the Pentecost when there was an outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles who had been warned to tarry in Jerusalem until that day.
5. The entity was among those who were students of the law, those who were interested in the activities having to do with questionings pertaining to the law that had been interpreted from the priests and rabbis of the day pertaining to the Mosaic law, and the interesting facts and fancies that had come from the eastern lands, from which the Wise Men had come. These, as parts of the teachings, had become adopted by those groups of the Essenes of which John and Joseph and Mary had been a part before the entering of the Master, Jesus in the earth.
6. With Stephen, Philip and others, the entity was among
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those chosen, of the young men; Philas at the time being only a little past nineteen years of age.
7. Thus we find the entity was not acquainted directly with the individuals until this period who had been associated with the Master as Disciples, now Apostles, or those who has been close to the activity.
8. As a student, though, the entity was aroused to the possibilities and probabilities of the activities to which the individuals might give themselves or contribute to, or gain something from, as to add to the interest in living.
9. Philas was of a group not wholly Jewish or Grecian but one interested in same because of the background genealogically of the things happening. The entity journeyed to Jerusalem because of the interest aroused by hearsay and the expectancy among the peoples, the great throngs. On the journey the entity became closely identified or associated with Stephen, who after the joining of so many to the efforts of the Disciples or Apostles on the day of the Pentecost became the treasurer of the organization that became a necessity, in that record keepers had to be appointed because of the great amount of contributions of various natures to those peoples. Stephen and Philip and Philas, and others, had been chosen by the Disciples or Apostles to attend to the needs of the great throngs of people.
10. There were those chosen who were entirely of the circumcision. There were those chosen who were of the uncircumcised group, yet were identified with services in various forms, in that which has been adopted by the Samaritan Jews as well as Grecian Jews, who were only part Jews. Some of these facts became the problems (that were unnecessary in their particular activity or for their beliefs) in the teachings of Peter, John and James, who were the chief spokesman during those periods following the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost.
11. With these activities there became for the entity questions, with some of the Apostles, in that the entity, Philas, used the position to which he had been appointed, as a means for social relationships with the various groups of women, the girls that were a part of the activities through those particular periods. These brought questionings. They also brought into the experience of the entity some of those very conditions that are a part of the entity's present experience - as to the sincerity of purposes in the oaths taken and the living up to same, because of seeming negligence on the part of either or both concerned in the marital relationships.
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12. Hence the entity is meeting its own self in the present.
13. In some groups there was not just the one factor but rather a questioning as there had been among many of those in the early church, in portions of the land from which the entity came; as In Laodicea, Thyatira, as in all of those where there were the mixed relationships of Greeks, Romans, Jews, Syrophenicians or the followers of the eastern tenets of those peoples as to their relationship with the opposite sex.
14. These, then, are the problems to be met. These were the problems causing the questionings, rather than the honesty or sincerity in which the entity as Philas administered the contributions. The greater disturbance arose after the martyrdom of Stephen. This drew the entity closer and closer to the needs of the people, but because of the persecution many of the groups were scattered throughout the various lands and the entity returned to its own land; becoming engaged in those activities that brought about a greater contribution. For the entity was engaged in the tilling of the soil, the usage of teachings or tenets of both the old and new dispensations, as well as the legends of the East.
15. We would continue later.
16. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file " under case number for indexing