This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 1st day of February, 1944, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [3656], new Associate member of the Ass''n for Research and Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mrs. R. N. Wingate.
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 September 21, 1909, in Salisbury, North Carolina. Time of Reading 3:45 to 4:15 P. M. Eastern War Time. ..., North Carolina.
1. GC: You will give the relations of this entity and the universe, and the universal forces; giving the conditions which are a 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 of that entity now known as or called, [3656].
3. In giving the interpretation of the records as we find them here, there are many manners in which interpretations might be drawn from the records here. These we choose from same with the desire and purpose that this be a helpful experience for the entity, enabling the entity to better fulfill those purposes for which it entered this present sojourn.
4. There are those conditions that are personalities, and there are those conditions that are individualities of this entity. These in their application are choices the entity must make. There are many virtues, there are many vices. There are purposes, aims, hopes and desires that are the promptings or the basis of the motivating forces that manifest with each entity.
5. These we find as latent and yet those that should be the greater manifestation. For we have an imaginative mind, a speculative mind, a wondering mind with this entity.
6. Thus there are necessarily those ideals that should be chosen by the entity. These must answer to those promptings within self, if they would be applied in a constructive way and manner.
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7. The entity should write. For the entity is in that pattern in which the greater expressions as to propaganda, as to history, as to tenets or truths, have been experiences of the entity - each of these in their own phases. Hence these are a part of the entity's consciousness.
8. Then the preparation should be made for applying same in this particular experience. For the way to write is to WRITE! And as there are ideals and purposes, and the desires to emulate the ideals, the entity may apply self in the way in which these can be not only channels for bringing blessings to others, but give self a greater comprehension of those purposes for which man enters a material plane.
9. From the astrological aspects we find Mercury, Venus and Jupiter; with Uranus as the latent urges and manifested urges in the experience of the entity.
10. Thus those experiences from Mercury indicate mental abilities, and yet these in the realm of Uranus make for extremes - in which the entity may be very gracious at one time and very dictatorial, very selfish at other times. These must be (selfishness, dictatorship), eliminated entirely from the entity's application of relationships with others, replacing them with the fruits of the spirit - patience, longsuffering, brotherly love, kindness. Think - as ye would that others should do to you, do ye even so to them; this not only by precept but by the example and the application of self in relationships to others.
11. In Venus we find the abilities to visualize, picture, or describe for others, things, conditions, emotions - whether the emotions are from a father or mother beholding their offspring for the first time, or the connoisseur tasting his liquor, or the bird intent upon its care and feeding of its young, or color as it may take tone in the sunset or the sunrise - though the tendency is to see it set much more often than to watch it rise! These, then, are inclinations, tendencies, to use those energies towards the application of visualizing, picturing those things that are creative, constructive, purposeful. These should be the trend for the activities of the entity.
12. In Jupiter we find the benevolent experiences or feelings, or emotions. And these, too, may be experienced mentally. In Uranus we find that the entity may be very magnanimous in some experience and then as hard as flint in another, or variable even to that of pessimism or criticism. Then the entity could be and is a good critic, but would you wish others to criticize you? That is the attitude, the tendency.
13. Interest in things of the occult is also indicated from
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Uranus.
14. These, then, are the emotions latent and manifested in the personality and individuality of the entity.
15. As to appearances in the earth plane, these we find quite varied; but these are the tendencies or purposes indicated from the varied experiences:
16. Before this the entity was in the land of the present nativity during the reconstruction period after the Revolution.
17. The entity then in the name of William Cowann, was a journalist, a writer of stories, an interpreter of new experiences in the lives of individuals making contributions to the creating of conveniences for others.
18. Thus the abilities of the entity to visualize, depict, or portray activities of certain groups, certain sects of people, or those activities pertaining to the relationships to creative or speculative activities, or for the advancement toward a universal brotherhood.
19. Before that the entity was active in the period when the Master walked in the earth.
20. There the entity was among those who carried messages back and forth to the various groups that were seeking to persecute the Master, as well as being in closer touch with those groups that were the closer in accord with the entity's activities and with the Master's activity.
21. Then the entity was among those who were personal friends to Lazarus, whom the Master raised from the dead. The entity then was inconsistent, until the experience of seeing his friend again return to his place in relationships not only with the family but with the friends round about.
22. The entity was among those who started the first stories as to the experiences of Lazarus during the four days in the tomb. But with the teachings that arose after the Master's resurrection, there came changes in the experience of the entity.
23. Thus the abilities to tell unusual stories, of unusual happenings, yet never as a correspondent, but as one contributing to the classics as well as certain types of magazines that may depict experiences in out-of-the-way places of the earth. These would be well for the entity to use as the basis or background for a series of stories pertaining to such.
24. The name then was Thardal.
25. Before that the entity was in the Egyptian land during those periods when there were preparations for the relationships to be established with other lands, when there were preparations for individuals to become emissaries,
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teacher or representatives of the land.
26. The entity was among those who were trained to become diplomats in other lands.
27. Thus those things of the orient, things pertaining to out-of-the-way places are of special interest to the entity - but the abilities to gain and to show rather the experiences of others to become a helpful influence in people half way to all the way around the earth.
28. The name then was At-el-arn.
29. As to the abilities of the entity, the patterns that have been and are a part of those influences in and through which the entity has been a contributor to the thought, beliefs, tenets, teachings of men through the earth, are those that have been chosen and given here.
30. Then, do apply self in this field of activity, in which the entity may excel in many way and manners.
31. Ready for questions.
32. (Q) Should I give up my present employment? (A) Begin in the present employment.
33. (Q) What is the meaning of the dark aspects in my horoscope? (A) These are tendencies for the warnings that have been indicated, that there are those virtues and vices. Hence the need for the ideals to be set in creative forces. Whose is the earth? Then keep the ideals in the correct way and manner, and shadowy expectations should be eliminated by the truth and of life itself.
34. We are through with this reading. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file