This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 24th day of May, 1944, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [5177], Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by the book, THERE IS A RIVER, and Mr. [1476].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis and Jeanette Fitch, Stenos.
R E A D I N G
Born December 5, 1878, in New York City. Time of Reading Set bet. 3:30 to 4:30 P. M. Eastern War Time. ..., N.Y.
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 [5177].
3. In giving an interpretation of the records, there is much to choose from, but these we choose with the desire and purpose that this entity may yet apply that which may be indicated to better fulfill the purpose for which this entity entered this present experience.
4. For know, there is that awareness that should be in self, that the very fact ye are conscious of thy activity in the material plane should be evidence that thy Father-God hath need of thy service in the earth, and that through the present activity ye are given the opportunity to be a channel of blessing to someone.
5. For, to obtain the consciousness and awareness of coming into His presence, or as one would call to heaven, it will be as if it were leaning on the arm of someone ye have tried to help. For as ye do it unto thy brother, ye do it unto thy Maker. Know they are immutable laws. God is, and ye as a daughter, as a servant of the most high God are His handmaid. Then act like it!
6. So live with others that ye can approach the throne of grace and call Him, Father, God. For, as has been indicated (and read this carefully, apply it personally as ye read it) in Exodus 19:5, know it is speaking as of thee; that ye may
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be one. For all are in the same relation: if they will accept that which is spoken there as their own relationship to the Creative Forces.
7. In analyzing urges there are those that are latent and manifested not only from the sojourns in the earth, but from the manner in which the entity, the self, has applied the lessons ye have gained from period to period in other realms. These are spoken of as astrological, but not as ordinary terms of astrology, but rather as an awareness in the dimensions. Thus, ye know the God-head in three dimensions. Thus ye know self in three dimensions; but in Jupiter, in Venus, in Saturn, ye know other dimensions than those in body-physical. Ye experience same, but as in a consciousness, comparable to that realm itself.
8. Thus ye have, as in Jupiter, the desire for helpfulness to others, hope for everyone; attracted by the experiences with others in other realms, as in closeness with thy friend in the present ye seek to be as a helper, as a "stayer" for those greater possibilities, because ye see in him possibilities from what? The experiences in the beauties of other sojourns. But remember, each soul stands the same before God. Should there, then, be preferences to such an extent that ye forget all others? For, as ye do it unto the least of thy brethren ye do it to thy Maker. Spread it more in a universal activity and you'll not be so badly disappointed in one. But the law of the Lord is perfect. Let it convert the soul.
9. In Saturn we find the changes which have come into thy experience in the present sojourn, quite different environments, individuals whom ye have trusted, individuals who have disappointed, individuals who have surprised you in their reaction to conditions and things and peoples, but if ye will keep the faith as ye were admonished and are admonished in the 30th of Deuteronomy; think not who will descend from heaven that ye may have a message or who would come from over the seas that ye may hear and know, for lo, it is within thine own heart.
10. All of God, then, that ye may know is that ye use and apply daily in thy relationships with others. For as ye do it unto others, ye do unto thy Maker. There is set before thee today and every day, good and evil, life and death, choose thou the Holy Way. For as ye keep His precepts, He hath promised, "thy body is indeed the temple of the living God", and He will meet thee there. As ye pray, as ye meditate, He may speak with thee. For He is the same yesterday, today and forever, and will be thy God if ye will be His people.
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11. As to the experiences in the earth, while all may not be given, these we would give that the pattern of thy life, yes that which ye may apply in the present may be indicated.
12. Before this, the entity was in the land of the present nativity during the early periods of settlings and changes in the land. These followed the periods of reconstruction when there was the American Revolution. The entity then came into this land from another land, yes from what is now the English land.
13. The entity was in the name then Rosa Baum. In the experience there were hardships, and yet ye held to the ideal of being free, not being licensed but rather as thy spirit of truth makes one free by the applying of same in the daily life. This brought, through the relationships of thy association, greater happiness for those who followed after.
14. Before that we find the entity was in the Holy Land during those periods when there were those returnings from captivity when there were the activities of Ezra, Nehemiah and Zerubbabel. The entity was among the daughters of Zerubbabel, who entered into the temple service and yet, with the periods when there were the upheavals brought about the changes when Nehemiah made those revolutionary edicts, the entity swore vengeance. And he who swears vengeance pays even unto the last farthing.* So it brought developments, retardments, for when there is jealousy, hate, things that do not make the soul of man free, these bring retardments to an individual in his activities in the earth. The entity was in the name then ADAR. * [GD's note: Could her grandson's [4013] condition be one result in her own karma from "swearing vengeance"?]
15. Before that we find the entity was in the Holy Land and among those of the land when the people of promise entered.
16. The entity was among the Canaanites who followed with the admonitions and the conversations kept between Moses and the Canaanites.
17. The entity eventually, through the periods of the judges, made closer relationships with the sons of Ephraim; and thus the entity entered in the tenth generation to the holy of holies, or in the women's courts.
18. As to the abilities of the entity, then, that to which it may attain and how:
19. In thy abilities as a writer, do keep that you have begun. Do have same edited by one in sympathy with thy ideals. Do keep faith with those promises you have made to thy associates. Do stay close to the Ark of the Covenant
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which is within thee; knowing the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost must move within and through thee if ye would bring thyself closer to the fullness of thy purposes in the earth.
20. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file " for indexing