This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 14th day of June, 1944, in accordance with request made by self, Mr. [5252], Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research and Enlightenment, Inc.
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 August 24, 1914, in Canton, Ohio. Time of Reading Set bet. 10:30 to 11:30 A.M. Eastern War Time. New York City.
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 [5252].
3. In giving an interpretation of the records, we would choose from these that which may be helpful in the experience of the entity, which may bring to the entity those activities in which it may contribute the greater to the influences it may have upon human experience in the present.
4. The sojourns of the entity in the earth have so far outweighed those experiences of the entity through the interims that we find the entity interested in, and anxious about, many varied phases of human experience.
5. Thus an entity who may contribute a great deal to human activities, if there is the clinging close to the spiritual awakening which is the innate desire of the individual soul-entity. For there is that urge towards principle, religious principle, that is seeking expressions.
6. The interest in children, and the manner in which their developing or unfolding minds may be directed, is a part of the consciousness of the entity.
7. Unusual places, as the manners in which the ancients worshipped in temples, and why and where, these are not idle curiosities but rather there is that innate feeling that there was a purpose, there was a cause for individuals indicating conditions through those various stages.
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8. We find the entity a good reader and one who should read a great deal, and yet should be directed more by the voice within self than just following only the directions others have found of interest.
9. In the choosing, then, of the directions, we would magnify the virtues; we would minimize the faults. That the entity should do in others, that the entity should do in that it reads. This precludes the idea that first the entity will have attained to an ideal in purpose, in aim, in desire. These the entity will have a measuring stick that is unquestionable. These to self are never to be doubted, and to which we would point, as set in the example of Jesus of Nazareth, who became the Christ, the Son of God, as each soul as a son of God; but He was the first; the light, the way, the truth; the high priest of the soul of men, the brother in mind and body; that we as individuals might know the Father-God. He was with the Father from the beginning, and He in the earth manifested a material expression. Not that any attains to perfection other than by passing through the earth without error, without fault. Each in self attains to perfection even as He. While the judgment from material things brought death and thus it was judged from the court of Herod, from those activities of the high priest, as error, but in the sight of God, in the sight of truth, in the sight of law, He was perfect, without fault, without blemish.
10. So in the judgments, as indicated, magnify virtues, minimize faults.
11. As to the appearances in the earth, these have been quite varied. The most outstanding are those in the Incal land, but:
12. Before this we find the entity was in the land now known as the one of the present sojourn but in and about what is now the "city of brotherly love."
13. The entity was among those who were in the counsel to that leader and thus one of the brethren; in the name then Barnes.
14. In the experience the entity was a zealous individual; yet keeping true to the principles, and yet harsh judgment at times.
15. In the application of those tenets and lessons, learn, if ye would, that others should do to you and not too much the letter of the law but more of the spirit of the law. For the letter killeth, but the spirit maketh alive.
16. Before that we find the entity was in the Roman land and the Holy Land. The entity was among those who were sent from the Roman land as an overseer, supervisor; not in the
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soldiery but in the supervising of the collection of the custom or the tax; and thus the individual entity was interested in people's abilities to pay, as well as in their contributing, rather of their free will, which did not work so well in the beginning; but as is the law of the Lord, "Ye will find the seed produceth its own kind." The gentleness with which the entity, as Louan active with the peoples in Silicia, Sudan and those portions about the Holy Land, brought results, and there was peace and harmony between those peoples from Antioch. The entity, through its own counsel, even brought the political advisor to the knowledge of the tenets of Jesus. Thus the zealousness with which the entity holds to principles and ideals. But find them first. Not by that which ye hold in your mind, put them in black and white. Put them in writing. They may mean much to others also.
17. Before that we find the entity's greater activity was in the Inca Land. The entity was among those who went from the Atlantean land to what is the Peruvian or Incal land.
18. By the very ability and prestige the entity brought new life, new hope, to the people with the journeying from the land before the upheavals.
19. The entity became the leader for, and was interested in, the young people. For the young are the hope of the world.
20. And all sorts and forms, then, as in the activities of young peoples, as scouts, as formation of the 4-H Clubs, all of these are of interest to the entity.
21. In the name then Schiin.
22. As to the abilities of the entity, then, those things which may be are almost unlimited, dependent upon that chosen as the ideals of the entity.
23. But we would interest self in anything, everything, which has to do with equipping, aiding young men, young people for their place in the material world.
24. We will find greater material success in South America, but these must be choices of the entity.
25. Ready for questions.
26. (Q) Would making toys and models for confined children be the answer to my desire to aid fellow man? (A) This would be one of them.
27. (Q) Should I after the war, go into partnership with Rollin E. Priest in N.J. or work for John Coronel in S.A.? (A) As we find, South America.
28. (Q) What should my profession in life be, that I may fill my purpose for coming into the earth at this time? (A) As has been indicated, as a helper, as a reformer, as a "builder-upper" for bettered conditions of man everywhere.
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29. (Q) What part does human error, mistakes, carelessness and accidents play in our present experience? (A) That depends upon the approach. Read what has been indicated. We will understand there are accidents even in creation. There is carelessness, which may be sin or it may be negligence, thoughtlessness. Not necessarily sin but lack of being awake. These are not all error. They are not all sin, dependent upon the judgment.
30. (Q) Are accidents the results of sin? (A) Read just what has been given. There are accidents in creation.
31. (Q) How can a person be free from mistakes? (A) There isn't such a thing in a person. It has just been indicated that in passing through the law we may become perfect, but not in materiality. For who is to judge?
32. We are through with this reading. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file " for indexing