This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 5th day of May, 1944, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [5055], Active Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, J. Fitch, Stenos.
R E A D I N G
Born November 16, 1899, in Pocahontas, Arkansas. Time of Reading 4311 Avenue C, Set bet. 10:30 to 11:30 A.M. Eastern War Time. Austin, Texas.
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: Pocahontas, Arkansas - not a bad place! Yes we are given the records here of that entity now known as or called [5055].
3. In giving the interpretation of the records as we find them, these we choose with the desire and purpose that this information may be a helpful experience for the entity; enabling the entity to use its abilities and shun the environs which may lead to temptation; and to apply self as a channel to the glory of thy Maker, that thy purpose in the earth may find fruitage and that ye may indeed bring forth fruit in thy labors worthy of that ye innately feel and outwardly express in thy experience.
4. For the entity has great abilities. While we would magnify the virtues, we would minimize the faults, we find that what is error to one individual may be help for others, while that which is expressed at times, that which is food for one, may be poison for another.
5. In the urges which are latent and manifest, we find the entity having, as might be called, the combination of urges from material sojourns and from the activities in realms of other consciousnesses; being an entity gifted with great imagination, one given to giving detail, as of picturization
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of mind and purposes through illustrations which may be drawn from life as well as from the imaginative system.
6. Thus the entity would be found to be one well gifted to write, to speak on the children's life. Do not attempt in such to combine the various stages and yet it would be well to follow through with the stories first for preparation by those who would make of themselves channels that souls might find expression in a material world. The preparations for motherhood, the periods of gestation, the periods for the formative years or the six to eight to ten to twelve years, and then as the mind and body expand to the expressions of the physical attributes and the growth itself to being a channel for regeneration. These should be the characters of preparation for that to which the entity may give itself in greater measure in its activity in the earth, and it will be seen from sojourns in the earth how these as patterns, may be drawn.
7. The entity is oft quite lonely, for few individuals fully comprehend the depth of thought that the entity finds in even the conversation with others. For the mind of the entity moves on much faster than even words or activities can give expression to.
8. Nature and communing with nature is well for the body. But there must be particular choices of those with whom such communions would be had or made. Not everyone would be agreeable or helpful as companions for the entity under such environs.
9. Nature and its activities are the storehouse, though, for observation and for the manner in which thought and its expression or finding expression may be illustrated in that the entity chooses to prepare for others.
10. In Mercury, in Venus, in Mars, in Jupiter, are the greater urges of the entity.
11. High mental abilities, beauty, love and love life are very necessary in the entity. It must have its expression and yet here we would find an entity who would have quite a varied idea as to the moral activities that would be criterion to others. For the entity it would be merely a means or outlet for expression, and thus, as has been indicated, who is to judge becomes dependent upon the standards which are set.
12. Be true to thy standards.
13. As to the appearances in the earth, these have been quite varied and yet these indicate a pattern through the experiences of the entity.
14. Before this the entity was among those who were the early settlers in what is now portions of central and
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western Alabama. Then, the changes which came about, when there were the exchanges made such that the natives chose to go into the land of the entity's present nativity.
15. The entity chose to go with those peoples, this indicating something of the nature of associations for purposes, associations for activities, the study of nature and the keeping of records.
16. For as the entity was one who had to learn to keep agreements which were a part of the changes wrought, the entity was entrusted with these and thus was a companion to that entity who became chief of the tribe in the Arkansas area, or that changed to Arkansas by law.
17. In the experience the entity gained throughout, in the union of purposes, the oneness of ideals, and yet giving expression to same in manners determined by many as of a lowly way.
18. In the experience the entity was known as Mary Clark.
19. Before that the entity was in the Holy Land when the young were in the throng and groups which came to Jerusalem upon the day of Pentecost, when there were those experiences of great throngs of peoples hearing and seeing the outpouring of the Holy Spirit as the Disciples spoke to the throngs and were silenced by the very happenings of all the doubts which had been a part of many of the people's experiences.
20. The entity seeing these unusual things carried them away in her mind to a different land, a different clime. For the entity lived in the land beyond to the east of Damascus.
21. Thus we find the entity becoming as it were, a teacher, an emissary, an instructor in the manners in which there were the communications with the varied groups, and we find that in the environs were some of the Disciples taken care of when there were those persecutions which began in Jerusalem.
22. Thus we find those separations as being parts of the persecution, as in its own household, as being separate and apart in the present experience. In the name Lydia, the entity gained throughout those periods, and in same, there were associations with many who are a part of the own experience in the present. As with the sons, as well as with the companion, the father of the children of the entity.
23. Before that the entity was in the land now known as the Egyptian.
24. The entity was among those who were the teachers in the activities in the Temple Beautiful, and thus the abilities of the entity to compose, as well as be active in music, and
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activities in which the various grades or groups of individuals may grow.
25. The entity was then in the name Aulda.
26. As to the abilities of the entity then, in the present, that to which it may attain and how:
27. As indicated the channels of expression are in speaking and teaching for the very young. Assisting mothers in how to express to their young the basis and principles of life, and of the necessity of keeping body clean, of learning things from nature itself. For the laws of nature are changed only by man's imprint upon same, for it is the law of survival and of evolution in its real state.
28. In the activities keep true to self and to that which is the ideal and principle. Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman not ashamed, rightly dividing the words of truth and keeping self unspotted from condemnation or of judgment of others.
29. Ready for questions.
30. (Q) What should be the first steps in getting into this kind of work? (A) Commence where you are.
31. (Q) Should it be alone or with someone? (A) As has been indicated, these must be alone. That there may be the companions or co-author, as there is the study, may be well, but it will be hard to find.
32. (Q) Could I succeed as an artist's agent or writing children's books? (A) You may do both, but writing of the children's books may be the greater opportunity for the abilities of the entity.
33. (Q) Would it be better for me to have both my boys with me and not try to do any outside work? (A) When these have reached, as they have, that stage in which they may contribute the more by advice and counsel, they must stand on those principles. You may instill in their minds separately.
34. (Q) In what place should we live? (A) In the environs where there were the activities. Arkansas is not bad. Texas may be better.
35. (Q) In what manner could I be of help to Association for Research and Enlightenment? (A) These activities must come later. Ye may be active with same as you were with Andrew in the Persian land.
36. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file
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