This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 6th day of April, 1944, in accordance with request made by the self - [4071], new Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research and 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.)
R E A D I N G
Born December 27, 1881, in De Kalb, Illinois. Time of Reading Set bet. 10:30 to 11:30 A. M. Taken 11:20 to 11:40 A. M. Eastern War Time. ..., Arizona.
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 or called [4071].
3. In giving the interpretations of the records as well as the urges latent and manifested in the personality of the entity, we find that there is much from which to choose. We would magnify the virtues and minimize the faults. At times the entity finds in its consciousness the abilities to interpret mysteries, dreams, visions, experiences that are of unusual and strange natures as associated with individuals. These the entity at times has found to be most helpful, but so oft has the entity found that such were unappreciated or that so little confidence has been given or gained in the minds of others that it has tended to cause a good deal of resentment. Thus the entity has resorted to compiling such that might be absorbed by some here and there. This is very well, but as we find, if there is a better analysis of self, and if there is the creating by its own activity confidence, and by its whole trust in the inner visions, the inner experiences of self, there may be added much not only to the manuscripts being prepared but a great deal more may be accomplished personally by the entity. Also there will be the ability to increase the possibilities of sufficient distribution of those being prepared as to
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become a real value or help in the conditions that the body in its own mental self would contribute to the welfare of its fellow man.
4. These should be analyzed and studied. This is not condemnation, it is rather exhortation; that the entity not abuse but not lose the real abilities. For if there is the abuse or the condemning of self or of others, because of that received or experienced by the entity in its analysis, either by intuition or by numbers or astrology, or the study of the ancient wisdom of every tongue, how may there come the help to others. For only as the individual entity brings help to another may there be added help, or that which may answer to that within the individual who would apply such suggestions in self's own experience, receiving self's individual reactions and experiences from same. Or to put it in other words, "My spirit beareth witness with thy spirit."
5. Thus it behooves the entity first in itself to learn the law of the Lord; not as interpreted by any of those of other lands. For "Think not who would descend from heaven to bring thee a message, or who would come from over the sea that ye might know and understand; for lo, the answer is within thine own self, thine own consciousness." These laws are eternal and not of man's making. For the law of the Lord is perfect and converts the soul, the purpose, making straight the pathway, making understandable the way and the truth and the light as from the beginning.
6. As to the appearances in the earth, not all of these would be indicated. The entity has passed by many of these, but these we would give as those that indicate something of the pattern, as well as the warning, as well as the recommendations due the entity. Know that the Lord is mindful of thee, and that it is God's way that ye be ever creative; not man's formula, not man's passion, not man's sacrifice even. For these, too, must be more often directed by the consciousness within and from the spirit that the individual entity entertains.
7. Greater, then, in grace and in knowledge and in understanding, if ye would apply even those tenets that ye, thyself, have gained.
8. For in the experience before this the entity was among the early settlers of the land near what is now Provincetown or Salem, when there were the questionings of those visions had by others, when there was revised and an interpreting of the laws within the individual entity.
9. Then in the name Sarah Wheeller the entity was oft disturbed by doubts and the persecutions brought. Yet the
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entity knew within self that it was honest in itself, and tended to condemn others.
10. This is part of thine own experience. Condemn not if ye would not be condemned. For with what measure ye mete, it is measured to thee again.
11. Before that the entity was in the earth during the period of the Master's teachings, during those periods when there were the first proclamations, the first sermons on teachings of the Apostles. The entity became acquainted with such, as an outsider, as one of the peoples of Parthenia who came into the consciousness of those things that had taken place. They aroused an interest. They brought study, they brought the abilities which the entity finds latent in self to interpret symbols, to interpret figures, to interpret the mysteries of other lands.
12. Yet these in their application are not to supplant His teachings, any more than in those early periods. For who is the way, the truth and the light? They who climb up some other way are those who belittle themselves, who make the paths crooked rather than straight.
13. Then in the name Araymth, the entity gained, the entity lost, the entity gained; gained as it applied the universal truths, lost when these were applied for material gains to self and associates; gained when there was the consciousness that the law of the Lord as manifested in the man called Jesus gives the perfect way.
14. Before that the entity was in the Holy Land among those who entered with the sons of Naphtali, when there were the interpretations of the varied experiences of individuals.
15. The entity came in closer contact with the teachers of the law that brought some disputations.
16. The name then was Ellenn.
17. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, that to which it may attain and how:
18. Study self, study self's relationships to the Creative Forces and as to how well the entity applies in its own life that it would teach others to do. Be ye a doer of the word, then, not a hearer or an instructor only. For that thou hast attempted is well, provided it is in accord with the universal consciousness that is in the truth and the way which was manifested in Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus who became the Christ.
19. Ready for questions.
20. (Q) Please explain my conviction that I must pass on my story, "An Untraveled Road," in order to turn popular thought to the conception of life presented in The Ancient Wisdom? (A) Read what has just been given.
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21. (Q) When would be the best time for my book, "An Untraveled Road," to be published, to be most effective? (A) As indicated there must be much application in self and then a reviewing of that which has been prepared in manuscript. When corrected we find that this would be published in England, and must come after the war.
22. (Q) Does my deep interest in the spiritual and particularly in The Ancient Wisdom have its roots in another life or lives? (A) Read what has just been given. It has, but don't be overcome by self-consciousness or become condemning because others reject.
23. We are through with this reading. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file " under case number for indexing