This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 21st day of February, 1944, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [3674], 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; Gladys Davis, Conductor and Steno. [3674] and [5002].
R E A D I N G
Born January 7, 1911, 8:00 A. M., Preston, Idaho. Time of Reading 11:15 to 11:50 A. M. Eastern War Time. ..., Washington.
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 are given the records here of that entity now known as or called [3674].
3. In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them, these we choose with the desire that this information may be a helpful experience for the entity; enabling the entity to better fulfill the purposes for which it entered this present sojourn.
4. We would magnify the virtues, we would minimize the faults - but faults there are, virtues there are. For there is so much good in the worst, it doesn't behoove any of us to speak unkindly of the worst of us. For he is indeed blessed whom the Lord hath given consciousness in this present period of changes in thought in the world.
5. Then it is only that each individual would be warned, would be given that which may enable him as an individual, as an entity, to carry on to the glory of God and to the honor of self.
6. Then who is to be the judge? Only self may answer that within self. For as has been summarized by the lawgiver, "Say not, Who will descend from heaven to bring me a message that I may know, or who would come from over the seas. For Lo, it is within thee. Today, now, there is set before thee good and evil, life and death. Choose thou."
7. As to the urges latent and exhibited - we find these as
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the combination of those efforts, those urges arising from a composite of the earthly or material experiences and the application in other dimensions, or through the periods of transition in the earth.
8. Thus we find an entity pleasing in personality, troubled in individuality. One tempered in the lack of patience, overemotinal in those things pertaining to likes and dislikes, and yet with abilities to lead, to direct others; not merely by a set form but in principle. But the practice must first be in self.
9. The astrological aspects are not as ordinarily termed, for here we find tendencies but many of these have been and are being changed in the entity's experience.
10. In Mercury and in Venus, that is adverse to Jupiter, in Uranus and in Saturn we find the greater influences from the latent forces, or in expression in the dreams and in the thoughts of the entity.
11. We find in Mercury the high mental abilities, in Venus the music, the expression in voice.
12. The adverse influence from Jupiter is expressed in not looking far enough ahead at times, forgetting the experiences - even in self - for the moment.
13. In Uranus we find the extremes, and the entity becomes very, very much given to being an extremist.
14. We find in Saturn the sudden changes in the experiences, in the materialization of activities.
15. According to abilities the entity should have been a minister, a singer, or an exhortationist in any of those things wherein there is the use of the voice, the use of the personality to sway, change, direct, help, aid the fellow man.
16. These are the channels through which the entity may find the greater outlet for its abilities in the present.
17. But learn first to apply self. Ask not of others that ye do not do thyself.
18. As to the appearances in the earth and the influence these have in the present experiences of the entity:
19. Before this the entity was among those in what is now called Indiana who journeyed towards the west in the search for gold; Colorado, then California.
20. These, then, have a particular call to the entity; things pertaining to either of these States and in these directions call to the entity, yet the abilities may find a greater outlet at this period of activity in the eastern seaboard area, or in New England or in such as New Orleans.
21. In those expressions the entity became as the leader for the various groups as they united in their efforts for the
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common hardships of the groups.
22. The name then was Carlton Carruth, and ye will find something of the happenings still recorded in some of those places in California.
23. Before that the entity was in the English land during the period of the Second Crusade. There the entity was a zealous individual for causes and purposes.
24. Thus we find that overanxiety which comes at times for causes or purposes, or the extremes to which the entity will find itself going in its analyzing of itself.
25. Those were periods of anxiety for many, yet again the entity proved itself worthy in leadership.
26. Thus as expressed in that indicated, the entity's abilities should be used as a leader in song, a leader in that direction as a minister or teacher, as a director of groups, organizations, or those activities pertaining to communications, radio, or where messages are to be delivered to individual groups, or where there is the need for spreading propaganda.
27. It would be well for the entity, from that experience, to seek activities, governmental activities in South Africa for the reclamations.
28. The name then was Carlesteun.
29. Before that the entity was in the Persian and Arabian land, when there were those activities in the 'city in the hills and plains.'
30. The entity was among the merchants who passed that way, as one in active service between the city of gold (in what is now French China, or Indo-China) and the Egyptian land.
31. Changes came to the entity with the activities as a result of stopping in the 'city in the hills and the plains'. For the entity then carried those messages to the peoples of Egypt and to the Far East, as to the tenets and truths that became a part of that new regime builded from the teaching in the 'city in the hills and the plains'.
32. The name then was Pasha-Duen.
33. From that sojourn we find the abilities to meet the needs of groups in various activities, groups in various thoughts and in various schools of activity. These again would be a contributing factor to the entity in governmental representation, if chosen in those directions.
34. Before that the entity was in the Egyptian land, when there were those turmoils and when those activities came about in which emissaries were sent to various lands by the King, by the sanction of the Priest.
35. The entity then was among those prepared first in the Temple of Sacrifice, again in the Temple Beautiful, for an
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emissary to the land of Saad and to the Gobi land.
36. Thus things pertaining to the orient find lodgment in the mind and in the purpose of the entity.
37. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, that to which it may attain, and how:
38. First, find self. Know thine own ideal. Know that you have just begun to live. While there is a past, put it behind thee. Begin where you are today. There, and in that direction, use thy life, thy purpose, thy will - if it will be dedicated to God and to thy fellow man.
39. Ready for questions.
40. (Q) Through what channels shall I find my life work? (A) As just indicated. It may be through the ministry, if there is the choosing by the entity. As a singer, as a radio action or counsel, or better still through the government activity in Africa for the rebuilding of same - as an agent in those fields of service.
41. (Q) Whom should I contact to get into such work? (A) Especially Lehman, who has charge of those fields.
42. (Q) What have been my past associations with these two individuals, and which of these (if either) would be the proper life companion in the present: [...] [his present wife], Miss [5002] [the other girl]... (A) (Interrupting) As indicated, forget the past. Forget - forgive, and begin where you are. Look not back - remember Lot's wife.
43. We are through. Copy to Self (two copies to self - one for Mr. David E. Kahn, 244 Madison Ave., N.Y.C.) " " Ass'n file