This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office of the Association for Research and Enlightenment, Inc., Virginia Beach, Va., at the Seventh Annual Congress of the A.R.E., this 27th day of June, 1938, in pursuant to request made by those present.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Hugh Lynn Cayce, Gladys & Chas. Dillman from Youngstown, O., Maud M. Lewis from Greenville, Ala., Anna E. Hendley & Edna B. Harrell from D.C., Lillian McLaughlin, Gladys & Thos. Jenkins, Reginia Dunn, Florence Evylinn Campbell, Mary A. Miller, Alice M. Eddy, Irene Harrison, Louise Chisholm, Henry Hardwicke, Jennie Moore and Leslie Savage from N.Y., Mabel M. Applewhite from Newport News, Va., Frances Y. Morrow, Edith & Florence Edmonds, Hannah Miller, Ruth LeNoir, Helen Ellington, Margaret Wilkins, Esther Wynne, Abbie Kemp & Malcolm H. Allen from Norfolk, Va. & Helen Williams, Louise Tatum, Mara Edmonstone, Mrs. R. G. Barr, Mrs. W. T. Sawyer, Grace and Geo. Ross from Virginia Beach.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 3:35 to 4:20 P. M.
1. GC: In all Life Readings given through this channel there are references to sojourns of the soul-entity between incarnations on the earth plane, in various planes of consciousness represented by the other planets in our solar system. You will give at this time a discourse which will explain what takes place in soul development in each of these states of consciousness in their order relative to the evolution of the soul; explaining what laws govern this movement from plane to plane, their influence on life in this earth plane and what if any relationship these planes have to astrology. Questions.
2. EC: Yes, we have the information and sources from which same may be obtained as to individual experiences, sojourns and their influence.
3. As we find, in attempting to give a coherent explanation of that as may be sought, or as may be made applicable in the experience of individuals who seek to apply such information, it is well that an individual soul-entity, the record of whose astrological and earthly sojourns you have, be used as an example.
4. Then a comparison may be drawn for those who would judge same from the astrological aspects, as well as from the astrological or planetary sojourns of such individuals.
5. What better example may be used, then, than this entity
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with whom you are dealing [EC]? [Case [294]]
6. Rather than the aspects of the material sojourn, then, we would give them from the astrological:
7. From an astrological aspect, then, the greater influence at the entrance of this entity that ye call Cayce was from Uranus. Here we find the extremes. The sojourn in Uranus was arrived at from what type of experience or activity of the entity? As Bainbridge, the entity in the material sojourn was a wastrel, one who considered only self; having to know the extremes in the own experience as well as others. Hence the entity was drawn to that environ. Or, how did the Master put it? "As the tree falls, so does it lie." [Eccl. 11:3 by Solomon. Where did Jesus say it?] Then in the Uranian sojourn there are the influences from the astrological aspects of EXTREMES; and counted in thy own days from the very position of that attunement, that tone, that color. For it is not strange that music, color, vibration are all a part of the planets, just as the planets are a part - and a pattern - of the whole universe. Hence to that attunement which it had merited, which it had meted in itself, was the entity drawn for the experience. What form, what shape?
8. The birth of the entity into Uranus was not from the earth into Uranus, but from those stages of consciousness through which each entity or soul passes. It passes into oblivion as it were, save for its consciousness that there is a way, there is a light, there is an understanding, there have been failures and there are needs for help. Then help CONSCIOUSLY is sought!
9. Hence the entity passes along those stages that some have seen as planes, some have seen as steps, some have seen as cycles, and some have experienced as places.
10. How far? How far is tomorrow to any soul? How far is yesterday from thy consciousness?
11. You are IN same (that is, all time as one time), yet become gradually aware of it; passing through, then, as it were, God's record or book of consciousness or of remembrance; for meeting, being measured out as it were to that to which thou hast attained.
12. Who hath sought? Who hath understood?
13. Only they that seek shall find!
14. Then, born in what body? That as befits that plane of consciousness; the EXTREMES, as ye would term same.
15. As to what body - what has thou abused? What hast thou used? What hast thou applied? What has thou neglected in thy extremes, thy extremities?
16. These are consciousnesses, these are bodies.
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17. To give them form or shape - you have no word, you have no form in a three-dimensional world or plane of consciousness to give it to one in the seventh - have you?
18. Hence that's the form - we might say - "Have You?"
19. What is the form of this in thy consciousness? It rather indicates that everyone is questioned, "Have you? - Have You?"
20. That might be called the form. It is that which is thy concept of that being asked thyself - not that ye have formed of another.
21. With that sojourn then the entity finds need for, as it were, the giving expression of same again (the answering of "Have You?") in that sphere of consciousness in which there is a way in and through which one may become aware of the experience, the expression and the manifesting of same in a three-dimensional plane.
22. Hence the entity was born into the earth under what signs? Pisces, ye say. Yet astrologically from the records, these are some two signs off in thy reckoning.
23. Then from what is the influence drawn? Not merely because Pisces is accredited with an influence of such a nature, but because it IS! And the "Have You" becomes then "There Is" or "I Am" in materiality or flesh, or material forces - even as He who has passed this way!
24. The entity as Bainbridge was born in the English land under the SIGN, as ye would term, of Scorpio; or from Venus as the second influence.
25. We find that the activity of the same entity in the earthly experience before that, in a French sojourn, followed the entrance into Venus.
26. What was the life there? How the application?
27. A child of love! A child of love - the most hopeful of all experiences of any that may come into a material existence; and to some in the earth that most dreaded, that most feared!
28. (These side remarks become more overburdening than what you are trying to obtain! but you've opened a big subject, haven't you?)
29. In Venus the body-form is near to that in the three dimensional plane. For it is what may be said to be rather ALL-inclusive! For it is that ye would call love - which, to be sure, may be licentious, selfish; which also may be so large, so inclusive as to take on the less of self and more of the ideal, more of that which is GIVING.
30. What is love? Then what is Venus? It is beauty, love, hope, charity - yet all of these have their extremes. But these extremes are not in the expressive nature or manner as
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may be found in that tone or attunement of Uranus; for they (in Venus) are more in the order that they blend as one with another.
31. So the entity passed through that experience, and on entering into materiality abused same; as the wastrel who sought those expressions of same in the loveliness for self alone, without giving - giving of self in return for same.
32. Hence we find the influences wielded in the sojourn of the entity from the astrological aspects or emotions of the mental nature are the ruling, yet must be governed by a standard.
33. And when self is the standard, it becomes very distorted in materiality.
34. Before that we find the influence was drawn for a universality of activity from Jupiter; in those experiences of the entity's sojourn or activity as the minister or teacher in Lucius. For the entity gave for the gospel's sake, a love, an activity and a hope through things that had become as of a universal nature.
35. Yet coming into the Roman influence from the earthly sojourn in Troy, we find that the entity through the Jupiterian environment was trained - as we understand - by being tempered to give self from the very universality, the very bigness of those activities in Jupiter.
36. For the sojourn in Troy was as the soldier, the carrying out of the order given, with a claim for activities pertaining to world affairs - a spreading.
37. What form, ye ask, did he take? That which may be described as in the circle with the dot, in which there is the turning within ever if ye will know the answer to thy problems; no matter in what stage of thy consciousness ye may be. For "Lo, I meet thee WITHIN thy holy temple," is the promise.
38. And the pattern is ever, "have you?" In other words, have you love? or the circle within, and not for self? but that He that giveth power, that meeteth within, may be magnified? Have you rather abased self that the glory may be magnified that thou didst have with Him before the worlds were, before a division of consciousness came?
39. These become as it were a part of thy experiences, then, through the astrological sojourns or environs from which all take their turn, their attunement.
40. And we find that the experience of the entity before that, as Uhjltd, was from even without the sphere of thine own orb; for the entity came from those centers about which thine own solar system moves - in Arcturus.
41. For there had come from those activities, in Uhjltd, the
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knowledge of the oneness, and of those forces and powers that would set as it were the universality of its relationships, through its unity of purpose in all spheres of human experience; by the entity becoming how? Not aliens, then - not bastards before the Lord - but sons - co-heirs with Him in the Father's kingdom.
42. Yet the quick return to the earthly sojourn in Troy, and the abuse of these, the turning of these for self - in the activities attempted - brought about the changes that were wrought.
43. But the entrance into the Ra-Ta experience, when there was the journeying from materiality - or the being translated in materiality as Ra-Ta - was from the infinity forces, or from the Sun; with those influences that draw upon the planet itself, the earth and all those about same.
44. Is it any wonder that in the ignorance of the earth the activities of that entity were turned into that influence called the sun worshippers? This was because of the abilities of its influences in the experiences of each individual, and the effect upon those things of the earth in nature itself; because of the atmosphere, the forces as they take form from the vapors created even by same; and the very natures or influences upon vegetation!
45. The very natures or influences from the elemental forces themselves were drawn in those activities of the elements within the earth, that could give off their vibrations because of the influences that attracted or draw away from one another.
46. This was produced by that which had come into the experiences in materiality, or into being, as the very nature of water with the sun's rays; or the ruler of thy own little solar system, thy own little nature in the form ye may see in the earth!
47. Hence we find how, as ye draw your patterns from these, that they become a part of the whole. For ye are RELATIVELY related to all that ye have contacted in materiality, mentality, spirituality! All of these are a portion of thyself in the material plane.
48. In taking form they become a mental body with its longings for its home, with right and righteousness.
49. Then that ye know as thy mental self is the form taken, with all of its variations as combined from the things it has been within, without, and in relationship to the activities in materiality as well as in the spheres or various consciousness of "Have you - love, the circle, the Son?"
50. These become then as the signs of the entity, and ye may
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draw these from the pattern which has been set. Just as the desert experience, the lines drawn in the temple as represented by the pyramid, the sun, the water, the well, the sea and the ships upon same - because of the very nature of expression - become the PATTERN of the entity in this material plane.
51. Draw ye then from that which has been shown ye by the paralleling of thy own experiences in the earth. For they each take their form, their symbol, their sound, their color, their stone. For they all bear a relationship one to another, according to what they have done about, "The Lord is in his holy temple, let all the earth keep silent!"
52. He that would know his own way, his own relationships to Creative Forces or God, may seek through the promises in Him; as set in Jesus of Nazareth - He passeth by! Will ye have Him enter and sup with thee?
53. OPEN then thy heart, thy consciousness, for HE would tarry with thee!
54. We are through.