This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 8th day of December, 1943, in accordance with request made by the self - Dr. [3394], 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.) Harmon Bro.
R E A D I N G
Born August 21, 1889, in Orrville, Ohio. Time of Reading 10:45 to 11:10 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: Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as [3394]. What an unusual form the record takes!
3. In giving the interpretation of the records as we find them, these we choose 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 the present sojourn. No soul-entity enters by chance. For God, having not willed that any soul should perish, has given the entity the will to choose that which if applied in the experience in the earth enables individuals to meet that wherein they have fallen short of the higher calling as set in Him. Thus an entity enters into life meeting self as an individual. And as the relationships are one with another, so is it met in the relationship to God. For as is illustrated, the debt the Son paid for the earth was in the earth and among men.
4. With this entity we find there have been some hard experiences in this material plane. Greater disappointments have come especially in the month of June. These have been sad to the entity, for there are urges latent and manifested in the experience from Saturn and Jupiter, Venus and Mars.
5. Great changes, then, have come. Again and again the entity has found itself determining in itself to correct
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physical and mental errors, as it has become aware of same.
6. In Jupiter an ennobling influence has made the entity ever mindful of the need of a universal consciousness towards the fellow man, even for material gains in the earth. There needs to be a warning that there be the more application for the spiritual needs, the spirit of the law of love and of friendship, rather than the letter of the law. For those who would have friends or who would succeed materially must begin with the spirit that is entertained. If the spirit is for self or is of a selfish nature, or one of spite or greed, it must eventually turn upon thee.
7. Then, let thy yeas be yea and thy nays be nay in the Lord.
8. As to the appearances that create urges manifested both in Saturn and Jupiter, as well as in Mars and Venus, we find that these make a peculiar combination. For the variations in these are such that the entity is not a lazy person at all, yet one always hoping for a "good break." But good breaks come by deserving of same. In these rest assured that the law of the Lord is perfect, it converteth the soul, it changeth the mind, it directeth the material; and the end thereof is seen when it is perceived or conceived by an individual entity.
9. Before this the entity was in the land of the present nativity, during those early settlings when there was the continual moving westward with progress.
10. The entity then, it might be said was ever an outsider - or one seeking the fortune by easy ways.
11. These brought disputations and disturbances, and thus we find that latent manifestations in the entity's self of wishing for changes. Know that peace and harmony, yea even success, must be had in self before it may be accomplished in the east, the west, or the north or the south. It must be had in self. For the result in the individual life is the fruiting of that the entity as an individual has held as the spirit with which it has undertaken that accomplished.
12. Thus ye seek first in self and then ye are able, then ye are fitted to bring it to pass in thy experience among thy fellow man.
13. The entity changed often its place of sojourn, eventually going into those areas where later many questionings came.
14. Then in the name John Ed Lewis the entity gained mentally, applied self in questionings. Thus there are still questionings within self as manners, means or ways of carrying on.
15. Before that the entity was in the English land during
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the early settlings, when disputations arose between the Norsemen and people of other climes.
16. The entity then was among those of the State who gathered about them a group with which to defend themselves.
17. So in the present it may be found there where there are coalitions with various groups that have the same tenets or faith or technique, there may be brought the better material outlines and help for the entity.
18. These are well if they are needed. And the entity will find also that associations in organizations or lodges or those things that the entity has shunned at times and yet uses in others, would be well for the entity - provided the first things are done first; finding brotherhood, patience, the things needed to be done in entertaining the proper attitude within self.
19. Then entity then was "rough and ready", yet gained much, contributing much to the welfare of the land during those early periods of the settling there.
20. The name then was Jonathan Dugan.
21. Before that the entity was in the Indian land when there were those activities being exchanged with Egypt, under the teachers Saad and Ra.
22. The entity was among the emissaries that came to the Egyptian land for the exchange of ideas and activities to form a larger increase in the brotherhood of man through those periods.
23. Then in the name Tesengholegueque. The entity was helpful in producing or bringing about the correlations and adding to self in the application of those tenets and things carried on in the Temple of Sacrifice.
24. Thus the interests of the entity in activities in which there may be the use of mechanical as well as other means for the correcting of deformities or those tents and truths of that organization in which the entity applies self - create the proper vibrations, coordinating the organs of the body-mind, and letting nature do the healing. By nature here we mean the natural sources, or God's sources. These are correct. Hold close to them.
25. As to the abilities of the entity in the present that to which it may attain and how:
26. As indicated, some hard lines have been and may be a part of the entity's experience. But first find that peace in self. Then apply self in those directions, "As ye would that ye would have others do to you, do ye to them." This is not to become one that would withdraw from the world, but make thy daily activities practical in the experience and ye will find greater harmony, greater material successes in thy
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activities.
27. Do go farther west - yes make the residence in California, especially those areas about - not within the environs itself but about - Los Angeles; and we will find that with the application of producing friends the abilities of the entity may be expended.
28. Ready for questions.
29. (Q) Is there any vocation that would be better for me? (A) This is the better, in body and in strength.
30. (Q) How can I improve my work in treating patients in order to save my strength? (A) If ye would save your strength that's the way you will lose it. If ye will give your strength in the aiding of others, in the manner ye would have them give to thee, ye will gain and save thy strength. But use all the mans, the manners, not outside but within thine own realm of application, and ye will find that ye will bring help to self as well as to others.
31. (Q) What unused talents or special abilities could I develop and use? (A) That of being true to self would be the better one, and then you will not be false to any. The talent is latent. Ye need to express it in a more definite, operative manner; not belittling the efforts nor the vows the entity has taken, but don't go back and have to take them over so often - as has been indicated. The way to a certain place is paved with good intentions, ye well know. Be on the straight and narrow way.
32. We are through with this reading. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file