This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 23rd day of April, 1927, in accordance with request made by his parents, Mr. [550] and Mrs. [639].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Born June 9, 1910, 6:30 A. M., Houston, Texas. Time of Reading 4:45 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Fla.
1. GC: You will give the relation of this entity and the Universe, and the Universal Forces, giving the conditions that are as personalities, latent and exhibited, in the present life; also the former appearances in the earth's plane, giving time, place, and the name, and that in that life which built or retarded the development for the entity, giving the abilities of the present entity and that to which it may attain, and how.
2. EC: We have the entity and those relations with the Universe and Universal Forces, as do appear in the present experience through the urges as are latent and as are being manifest through the will's forces as applied in the life.
3. In entering the earth's plane we find those coming under the influence of Leo, in Jupiter and Uranus, with the benevolent influence in Venus and in Mercury. Hence we have one that is an enigma to many, yet with these conditions turned in the correct channels the entity will go far towards establishing a name for self that will be remembered many days when this entity has passed from this experience.
4. One that has exceptional abilities, then, in many lines, and these may be turned into either good or bad, as is seen, though the influence in Leo gives the quick change in the entity's attitude towards conditions.
5. One, then, that is weak in bodily conditions at times, and again strong in mental and in activity of the physical.
6. One that has abilities that go in many directions in the action of the physical forces of the body.
7. One, then, well to be trained in athletics and in those conditions that have to do with the great outdoors.
8. One that would be well in the field of the civil engineer, or in that of the gatherer of data as pertaining to archaeological conditions, for these in a way and manner (and the cause will be seen) offer to the entity special interest.
9. In the elements as go to make up the changes, often the appearance to those viewing actions of the entity is that
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little of sentiment enters in the entity, yet very, very, often for the minor sentiments the entity is controlled in its actions.
10. In the influences then as seen in Jupiter and in Uranus, we find these show the ennobling influences in the life, yet these at times are turned in directions when the ability seems turned toward that which would bring very detrimental conditions to the body, in such, as has been seen in the manner and the way the entity appears to those who are as the pals or chums of the body.
11. Likes and dislikes, then, are very strong in the entity, and the usage of same is strong in the entity's application of likes and dislikes; that is, the entity turning to the usage of those, those disliked or those liked are an active force in the entity's own action - that is, the will of the entity and self supreme, to the entity's way of thinking. Hence, well that this be turned in the right channels, else the good may be evil spoken of, and these bring to the entity the other side of the life, which is as remorse to the entity, which is as destructive as physical disability would be.
12. In the appearances and the urges as seen from same:
13. In the one before this we find in that period when the peoples were embarking from the English shore for the new world. The entity then that one who kept the record of those that were sent from the prisons. Then in the name Alden, and the entity gained through that experience, for many were the favors shown in service to others, and the urge as is seen, the entity does not desire to see any suffer imprisonment, and is then opposed to capital punishment.
14. In the one before this we find in the Roman rule, the entity among those who builded in the hill when the city first established there as Rome [See 4840-1, Par. R6], and the entity then in the name Ignaus. The entity gained and lost, for the turning of the conditions of power into self's own interest without respecting others brought those detrimental conditions in the end in that experience. The urge as is seen, the study of outdoors, and the application of athletic forces towards physical prowess of the body is as worshipful to the entity, and the entity envies one of great physical strength. This may be turned, however, into gain, by the applying self to those conditions that will bring the better conditions of the physical body.
15. In the one before this we find in that land of the Chaldeans, when the peoples were called out to make a peculiar people. The entity then in the land that was the
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residence of him called, and a friend of same. Then in the name Uldian, and the entity gained through that period in the latter portion of the life or experience, for in the companionship of him called the entity gained in the better understanding of the relations between man and the Creative Forces as might be manifest in the earth plane. In the urge as is seen, that of the deep-seated love for those things that pertain to the spiritual, yet not satisfied with the ritual of same, or any service to the Most High through rote, and in this the entity may gain more through the personal application of self, even in those eccentricities as are shown in the present experience.
16. In the one before this we find in that period when the first conqueror from the North came into the land known now as the Egyptian country. The entity then among those who sought to explore those valleys and hills in which the old ruins were then being studied, and the entity then as the historian of that day. Gaining in the first, losing under oppression, and the urge as is seen is that of the desire to be free and loosened from every binding force, either in the manner of the physical or the spiritual mind, and in same will the entity find that the archaeological forces would offer the greater outlet for the development of the mind and of the satisfaction in gaining knowledge from same that would answer, and bring to the inmost self that peace and understanding as is being sought. Then in the name Idoullod.
17. In the abilities, then, as we find, these show that in the field of the outdoor, or in the study of hidden secrets or treasures, would the entity find the greatest field for the advancement of self in understanding and in giving to others through same the knowledge attained.
18. Serve the fellow man! for well that the entity ever keep first and foremost in the mind, the heart, the soul, that only in service to others may a body build from within that sureness that answers when the mind is to be eased from the turmoil of the life before or life as passed, for the service to man is the highest service as may be rendered to Him who gave that, "The earth is thine. Subdue same, magnifying my name in the earth."
19. We are through for the present.