This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 4th day of September, 1926, in accordance with request made by self - Mr. [5712], via intimate friends of Mr. [953].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Dr. T. B. House and Hugh Lynn Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Born June 21, 1888, Chicago, Ill. Time of Reading 3:40 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Colorado.
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 to that which it may attain, and how.
2. EC: Yes, we have the entity, and those relations with Universe and Universal Forces, as are latent and exhibited in the present earth's plane.
3. In the entrance into the earth's plane, we find the entity comes under the influence of Scorpio, Leo, and of Jupiter, Uranus, Mercury, and of Venus. Hence we find there are many contrariwise influences, as it were, in the influence in the present earth's plane - that is, many influences that, just when the entity would succeed in the physical plane, or in a physical manner, or in a material or financial manner, or in a social manner, or in social position, or in gaining for self fame, or in winning those things that come through the earthly influences, there seems to step in that something preventing the entity gaining the full benefits from same. Hence we find a life full of disappointments in many ways, yet those conditions that have to do with that benevolent influence in Jupiter, those eccentricities as have to do with those in Uranus, and those beloving influences as we find through that of Venus, often act as the saving grace, or day, as it were, for the entity.
4. Then, as to that personality as is exhibited in the present earth's plane:
5. One who holds every influence in the highest order.
6. One that brings much good to many.
7. One that is over true to friends, and may be ever counted upon to do that which is right and just in the eyes of all. Never belittling self, then, in any manner, save when
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seemingly bad judgement is taken, rather than the will to do that error.
8. In the influence, then, of Scorpio and of Leo, we find with those of Mercury, one of strong heart, strong willed, yet often weakened by bodily afflictions, and by accidents of the minor nature.
9. One, however, who will have many days in the present earth's plane, for the influences in the life, and the experiences in the present life, are such that will bring many days of usefulness, will the entity apply that knowledge as is being gained day by day.
10. As to the personal influence, irrespective of the will:
11. One we find of high mental character - one whose abilities in any field of endeavor requiring mental forces will succeed, yet the weaknesses in the flesh body often seem to hinder.
12. One who will find that there will come changes to the body in the present year. Being under the influence of Uranus and Jupiter, there will appear this change - these conditions, or those set about that will offer these changes, and be well for the entity to accept, about the 15th to 20th of October, in the present year.
13. As to those appearances, and the urges as are seen from same.
14. In the one before this we find during that period in the settling of this present country. The entity among those who first landed in that country now known as Massachusetts, and among those called the Puritans. Then in the name John Dain*, and the entity gained in that period, through the service rendered to others, and through the application of self to the building in body, in mind, in the structures for the body and for the mind, as the entity endured during that period much suffering. The urge as is seen from this - that of the natural builder, especially in those of mechanical natures - the love for those conditions that apply to nature, in its ability to give to man material benefits in that of those that act as aids to man's influence.
15. In the one before this we find in that country now known as England, and the entity among those who studied in the monasteries, and in that capacity the entity both gained and lost, for coming under the influence of those chemical changes, as were wrought in the study in these channels, the entity allowed the desires and weaknesses of the flesh to overcome the better knowledge, and will's force became lost and submerged to those conditions as are heir of flesh conditions. In the urge then as is seen from this - the skepticism in many ways as pertaining to religious cults
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that would give aid, either to body or to mind. Not that the entity is a skeptic, or that the entity adverse to religious influence, yet the air of looking askant at any condition offering too much is ever questionable in the entity's inmost being.
16. In the one before this we find in the days when the walls of the Holy City being rebuilt. The entity then among those who labored on the walls of same. Then in the name Hoseah, and the entity gave much then to the peoples in the manner of teaching and of keeping those precepts as were set about as the tenets of the people in this rebuilding. The entity gained through that period in giving of self in body and in mind to others. The urge as is seen in the same is that again of the builder, for the entity would have made in the present experience a wonderful architect or civil engineer.
17. In the one before this we find in that period when the divisions were in that land now known as Egypt, in that of Church and State, as would be termed in the present day. The entity then among those who acted as the scribe, and assisted in the records as were kept during those periods, and many of that called hieroglyphics may be yet seen in the land as prepared by the entity. Then in the name Ahaiar, and the entity gained in that period, being in that position of the record keeper for conditions then being happenings, the entity gained in truth of the record as kept, wavering neither to the right nor the left during that troublesome period as was to the then known world. In the urge as is seen from same is that of the necessity of every condition or act in which the entity has hand to be correct, as far as is possible through mind or hand.
18. As to the present abilities, and that to which the entity may attain, there is seen there are many fields, and the change, as is seen, will be offered to the entity in the present year. In the application of will's force lies the development. As is seen, service to others, and the greater service is rendered to self through serving others, in body, in mind, for in service to fellow man is lending to the Lord. Keep thy paths straight. Direct thy footsteps in Him, for in Him is Truth, and the Truth maketh none afraid.
19. We are through for the present.
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* JT's note: See 5712-2, R4 for historical documentation of this past life identity. The spelling of the name is * actually John Dane.