This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 20th day of January, 1944, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [3574], new 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.) Harmon Bro.
R E A D I N G
Born August 8, 1888, in Westmoreland County, near Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania. Time of Reading 4:35 to 4:55 P. M. Eastern War Time. ..., Ohio.
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. There are made ready here the records of this entity, [3574]. And unless there are those measures taken to make the value of life count (for life is a manifestation of God) unless the value of life and those opportunities offered the soul are made to count, you won't keep it through this year.
3. But ye may keep the entity many moons and many seasons yet, if ye will change thy attitude towards others.
4. In giving the interpretations of the records here, we would minimize the faults, we would magnify the virtues.
5. The entity has been and is in its abilities and in its urges almost a contradictory individual. For that oft it would do, it does not, or that it preaches, it does not practice too well in its own experience.
6. That it would require of others, is it not guilty of the same in its own self, else how would it know to find the fault in the other fellow? The faults ye find in the other fellow are as in the looking-glass of that concept of thy Maker, and ye know ye are already in error when ye find.
7. As to urges latent and manifested from the experiences in the earth, and the sojourns in the astrological realms, (so called) these are at times at variance. And these are the contradictory influences that arise in the experience of the
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entity, in body and in mind.
8. Thus the entity finds itself unstable as to what is to the entity truth indeed. Truth is the unalterable, unchangeable law, ever. What is truth? Law! What is Law? Love. What is love? God. What is God? Law and love. These are as the cycle of truth itself. And wherever ye are, in whatever clime, its ever the same. For, as it is said of him, He is the same yesterday, today and forever - unalterable! Not as the Medes and Persians that were built upon fallible conditions, but as: I AM THAT I AM! That is true. Search it in thy inner self. Cultivate it in thy mind and it will alter the results in thy physical being. Yes, ye will have much to live for. For everyone will be your friend, as ye have something to give to everyone. Not as that which brings fault or brings want, and indeed makes an individual poor, but that which is a blessing to the mind and to the soul, by giving grains of truth that take from no one, but add something to everyone.
9. Astrologically we find rather Mars and Neptune only. Thus the interest in the mystical, and being a busybody about it at that. These are very well, but know in what spirit ye do everything, and that in the spirit of truth - and find it in thine own self. For there it may indeed be put to work for good.
10. As to the experiences of the entity in the earth, while not all, these we would give in the present:
11. Before this the entity was among those in the land of the present sojourn when there were ideals and ideas among those gathering as the brethren.
12. The entity was among those who helped to apply the tenets and truths, but when there was unfaithfulness in the relationships because of neglect, it brought doubts and fears - and eventually the condemning of self. Hence in the present ye find unfaithfulness, as ye proclaim, in others near to thee. These are the reflections of thine own doings. Love them! Not in the manner that ye embrace them, but know that which is endeared to thee, by the very activities, may bring a peace that passeth understanding. These are lessons to learn.
13. The name then was Eda Earlenger.
14. Before that the entity was in the French land when there were those activities having desire for an ideal.
15. The entity was in the opposite sex, and went as one of those in the defense of an ideal - and yet precautions taken would appear just the opposite to an ideal in its relationship with its own companion.
16. The entity found its fault when there were just
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kindnesses shown by those who were considered as the heathen, as the breakers of the law.
17. Then in the name Schmellenzar, the entity gained in mind and in purpose. In application, it eventually became among those to embrace the different principles in relationships to worship, which has brought those periods in the present in which the entity has been very sure - and then combined with that, its doubt in its own faithfulness has created confusion.
18. Before that the entity was in the Spanish land when there were those individual groups taking refuge from Atlantis.
19. The entity was among those Atlanteans who remained. Thus again the interest in things psychic, things mysterious, things unseen. For the entity then was among those who were the interpreters of the seal through which the elements were used for heat, for power, for electrical forces.
20. Thus none of the modern conveniences to the entity are a mystery at all, even though they may not be understood. For the entity has ever expected to see same again.
21. The name then was Real.
22. As to the abilities of the entity:
23. Right about face in thine own concept or application of the concept of things of the spirit. Read very carefully the 30th of Deuteronomy. Compare it with the things Paul indicated in the 3rd of the Romans. Then turn to John 14, and there find thy self, and the relationship to the Maker. Thus ye will find greater joy in living, greater harmony in the experience may be thine.
24. Let the law of the Lord direct thee.
25. Ready for questions.
26. (Q) Since I wish to know how to dispose of my things, will I or my husband go first from the earth? (A) Why dispose of them, if you have need of them? It depends upon self! Dost thou desire to use them in the service of thy Maker? Or dost thou desire to take them along with you? Then give them to someone who doesn't care!
27. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file