This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 322 Grafton Avenue, Dayton, Ohio, this 23rd day of April, 1925, in accordance with request made by her first husband, Mr. [953].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Born Nov. 22, 1870, near the inland village of Spring Garden, Miller County, Mo. Time of Reading 10:45 A. M. Dayton Time.
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: Yes, we have the entity here and those conditions relating to the earth plane as regards the entity and those conditions as have been meted, merited and exhibited in the entity in its sojourn through the earth's plane.
3. In the present plane we find the entity takes its position from that of Uranus, with Saturn, Mercury and Mars in the ascendancy. Influences in the early life in present earth plane of Jupiter's influence and of Venus. Hence we have in the present earth's plane one that is in many respects to others often contradictory to self and self purpose. One whose conditions in mental and in every manner of mental conditions have changed from that begun in the developing of the body. Some have been for good. Some have been for retrogression rather than developing.
4. One we find that has grown towards the mysterious and recluse in thought and in expression of same. One who would find greater development in study of the occult forces in their proper sphere, rather than through the mystic forces as pertain to mental from within, for the entity, through the influences as received in other appearances and in the present plane, is unable to at present [to] co-relate conditions with circumstance.
5. In the development in present earth's plane, one we find that in the change has left off many of those conditions that would develop the mind in the channel as to give greater expansion of thought and of deed, and of help to
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others.
6. One we find whose appearances, and the circumstance during same, have more to do with the present conditions in earth's plane than those of the first days in present earth's plane, for we find the elements of the conditions as bring co-related conditions in astronomical effect coming in the present plane, though a gradual, recently, development in a better co-related manner - since October last year.
7. As to the appearances:
8. In the one before this [the entity was] in that of Matilda Warren, in the days of Puritan forces in East of the present continent, or Massachusetts as was then, and now near Lynn. In that we find the entity then given very much to the study of those conditions as related to spiritual development of those passed into the Beyond, and the entity then [was] persecuted for those beliefs. In the present earth's plane we find this urge coming to the entity: That of the right to give expression of self's conviction toward the spiritual indwelling from within, especially related towards the religious life.
9. In the one before this, we find in the country now Spain, and in the household of the ones who in later years became the backers, or the purposeful ones to assist in the discovering of country now occupied by entity. Then in the name Florence Deode and in the household of the ruler in Spain. In the present earth's plane we find the urge of the desire for the things concerning higher conditions of royalty or position. This we find gradually losing its effect, with present study and development, which brings many contending forces in present plane to the body.
10. In the one before this, we find in the Holy City, among those who were left in the country, and was a caretaker of those coming to rebuild the City at that time. In that plane we find the entity in that of Narza, and in the present we find the urge of the desire to know the history of any and every condition as is studied in any manner by the individual.
11. In the one before this, we find in the Egyptian forces, during the first of the peoples gathered in the country as nations, in the name then as Dodo, and the entity then a rule or governess of the educational forces of that peoples. Then the entity gained the greater force and urge, as is and has been exhibited in the earth's plane for development. In the present we find one that gives the thought and study but little understood by any. [6/2/25 Reading 341-10, Par. 12-A says she was an associate of [953], councillor to king, during period of high priest Ra-Ta.]
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12. As to the abilities of the entity, would have been in that direction of artist, or art teacher, and of one controlling in the way of those of recluse [nature] who study the beautiful things in life to build toward the higher in the spiritual life.
13. We are through for the present.