This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 12th day of June, 1944, in accordance with request made by self - Mr. [5249], new Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by his mother, [5366], and the book, THERE IS A RIVER.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Jeanette Fitch, Stenos.
R E A D I N G
Born October 26, 1919, in Cleveland, Ohio. Time of Reading Set bet. 10:30 to 11:30 A. M. Eastern War Time. ..., Mass.
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 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: [5249].
3. Quite an unusual record. A great many abilities if he doesn't get too big for his breeches.
4. An entity, an individual who desires to reform the whole world and every individual with whom he comes in contact. At present it is not egotism. It is a body-mind with a vision. The desire is to do this through political, through economic situations, but who made thee to be a judge of thy fellow man? There are abilities within self and in giving the interpretations of the records, the entity has made, in those abilities and the urges, the vices, the virtues, these we choose with the desire and hope that this may be made a helpful experience for the entity, that it may apply same in truth, in sincerity, first finding self and self's relationships to the sources of knowledge, the sources of help.
5. True, much has been builded in self, and all must be found within self. But who is the author? Not self, though self may apply.
6. As the entity would apply itself it may become one of the leading bankers of the nation, if it would apply itself in that direction, or in the field of engineering. But don't marry until you have learned to control yourself. For you
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would attempt to control the little woman, and you won't do it! For they are not to be controlled; they can be led but not driven, Mr.!
7. In choosing then of self and self's activities, first know what is thy ideal, not merely as a theory but set it down on paper. Draw three lines and under each heading put: body, mind, soul. Under each of these headings write thy ideal, spiritual, mental, material. God, the Father: God, the Son; God, the Holy Ghost. Write the ideals in each under those headings also. Then find thy ideal under each. It will require time and patience and study of self, not judgment from others. Ye are not a judge of thy fellow man. You can be a banker and tell him when he can borrow and when he can't, but don't become the judge!
8. Use mind and prayer, of constantly living that ye set or find as thy ideal. Ye will, ye can, ye may succeed. Spiritually, mentally and materially.
9. Keep your feet on the ground; that is, be in that attitude of ever finding helpful things for others, for self, for making the world a better place because ye have lived in it.
10. And as ye judge, and as ye find in self, sincerity is the keynote of every individual soul. Who is sincere? One in a million! Ye can be one of those ones, will ye? Try it!!
11. As to the appearances in the earth, these have been quite varied, as is indicated from the exceptional abilities.
12. The entity was among those who were of the children of the law of one in the Atlantean period. This, as indicated, will be given backward from that ordinarily indicated, for these may mean much, they may mean nothing to the entity, but unless ye find the answer in self, forget it. For ye can use it for a building up or a tearing down of thine own abilities.
13. That thy activities in the present are far afield from those intimated, know ye have plenty of time, use it! Don't abuse it!
14. Begin in the study of mathematics and those either for an engineer's degree, or an accountant, and work in a bank if the accountant is chosen.
15. As to the experiences, in the Atlantean land the entity was the timekeeper for those who were called things, or the servants, or the workers of the peoples and the entity felt latent and manifest, as in the present, the wanting to reform, to change things, so that every individual soul had the right to freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom
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of activity. For to the entity, even in those periods of man's unfoldment (for this was before Adam), the entity found during its activities the desire to improve, to make better those environs for the workers of that period. That alone brought into the entity's consciousness man's position, the need of a pattern. And the entity saw, the entity felt the need of God's hand in what evil, or Satan, had brought in the earth. Don't forget that! Whatever may be thy position in this present experience!
16. Through the experience the entity gained.
17. In the experience which followed this, we find the entity was in the Indian land or in those periods of Saad as the leader, the ruler. The entity was then what would be called the secretary of state, or in the inner group of the leader Saad, that made for contacts or associations with or agreements with other lands.
18. The entity then was among those who were of that group who gathered to rid the earth of the enormous animals which overran the earth, but ice, the entity found, nature, God, changed the poles and the animals were destroyed, though man attempted it in that activity of the meetings. [See EARTH CHANGES booklet pages 14--16 for geologist's report on prehistoric animals, etc.]
19. Later the entity indicated interest in the reforms being made in Egypt through the efforts of Ra Ta. The entity then, in the name Kudn, came into those experiences but during those periods when there was the banishment of the Priest, when these were being performed.
20. This brought confusion and the entity set its own undertaking for reformations in other lands. These did not succeed, for the peoples in the hills and the plains made war one with another.
21. In the experience following this we find the entity was in the Grecian land when there were those attempts for conquering of other peoples and other lands for the building up, for the easy-going experience for many, for the entity was one with Xenophon who attempted to change the activities, in the name then Xeron.
22. In this experience the entity gained spiritually, lost materially, and lost its hope on spirituality, condemning others. In that activity then, beware. Because of place or position, don't let it change the ideal.
23. In the experience which followed that, and just before this, we find the entity was in the land when the land of the present nativity was coming under the changes following the period of reconstruction in the Revolution.
24. The entity then acted in the capacities as the
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storekeeper, in those activities in what is now Toledo, Ohio. In the name then Thomas Cowen (the son changed it to "an"). The entity was helpful in the greater portion but, with oppressions from combined interests, there were brought destructive forces into the experience.
25. And thus the continued innate desire for making changes in activities through the earth.
26. Follow that indicated if the entity would find the better conditions for self and for leaving the earth a better place because of its having been in same.
27. We are through with this Reading. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file " for indexing