This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 18th day of September, 1941, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [263], Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [263] and Mrs. [303].

TEXT

1. GC: You will have before you, present here, born April 16, 1911, near Murfreesboro, N.C. You will give specific and definite information of her former experience as Jane Wentworth, in and around Fort Sumpter and Charleston, S.C., together with the influences and urges of that experience, and how they may be met in the present experience. Also the influences of any other incarnation that particularly affects her at this time. You will advise her regarding her mental and spiritual development and answer the questions she will submit regarding past incarnations and associations.
2. EC: Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [263], Jane Wentworth.
3. In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them, something of the activities during that experience should be interpreted or understood.
4. Then there may be a better analysis of what has been indicated, of how the entity developed in some phases of its experience, lost in some others; and as to how this influence produces a definite urge, latent and manifested, under certain circumstances in the present experience of the entity.
5. We find that the entity in that experience was among the elite, as would be called, or the first families of the land; during that particular period when the social prestiges of those groups (in an especially gifted manner) were as pronounced as in the present, or even more so.
6. The associations of the entity were with the civil as well as military groups; for in that period, in and about Charleston and Sumpter was a place of special importance as to a national defense or national understanding.
7. The special friend of the entity at the period was of the group that later was a part of the Federal groups. Thus when there appeared or came about the first disputations, the entity was then about nineteen years of age and very romantic - at the period.
8. When there was the recall of those associated with the Federal group, this caused a great deal of anxiety on the part of the entity, owing to that friend being AMONG those first fired upon; and the acquaintances of the entity were among those firing upon those who were returning to the activities - that began the first outbreak of the Civil struggle.
9. This produced then in the experience of the entity those animosities, those doubtful opinions. While the entity deep or innate within self was avowed to the cause of the South, and was very sure that if there had been the opportunity for the friend to have understood the causes of this misinterpretation there need not have been the shedding of that blood or the life lost at that particular period, still the entity held resentment against those of its own groups.
10. Throughout the experience, then, the entity hovered, as might be termed, between the dictates of the conscience - as related to the general cause - and the activities that had frustrated or brought the individual or peculiar sadness in the experience.
11. And to "get even" is a dangerous thing, as the entity experienced, has experienced, may experience in the present - to even determine it in the mental self, and much worse to attempt to materialize it in the material sense, and is a disregard of spiritual growth and development.
12. Thus, in analyzing this, one may interpret or understand that such conditions as have at times appeared in the experience of the entity arise from the determining to have the own way, or to become as one that would seek vengeance because of some condition of a mental or of a material nature that had produced sorrow in the physical experience.
13. As has been indicated, through the experience the entity gained materially. For, these brought determining factors, owing to the prominence of the peoples.
14. Thus, as indicated, there may still be found among the records of those individuals during that particular period of history, the name Jane Wentworth - among the peoples in the social register at that particular time.
15. In the using of this in the present, in the experiences that arise, - determine in self the truth of what has been aptly stated: "Seek not to avenge thine self - judge ye not, if ye would not be judged." For these experiences have given and do give those activities of such natures that constantly, in the seeking, there appear periods when it seemingly becomes necessary the more to rub out and begin over again.
16. Ready for questions.
17. (Q) At what place, and whom should I contact to get the records of that experience?
    (A) You have the records here. For the verification, see the list among those at that period.
18. (Q) From the information received from this source, I am from Arcturian influences. What is this influence in my present experience?
    (A) As just indicated, and is as a part of that. For Arcturus is that junction between the spheres of activity as related to cosmic force, and is that about which this particular environ or sphere of activity rotates, or is a relative source of activity. The entity's appearance, then, is as a beginning, with those determining factors to be made. As those influences as first indicated in Atlantis were as a beginning, so Arcturus in the present might be termed as a beginning.
19. (Q) Give name of man that lost his life and have I been associated with him in this experience.
    (A) Do you want this, or the rest of thine self?
    The name of the man as indicated in that experience was Archie Godby, one in command of the Federal forces that were entering at that period.
20. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. 3/06/35 She obtained Life Rdg. 263-4 and on 12/16/40 she obtained Mental-Spiritual Rdg. 263-13 expanding on her Life Rdg. and physical-mental problems arising in the present.
2. 9/18/41 She and her mother were present, submitting questions, including: "In all of my experiences in the earth plane that have been given, I came in just before a war. What's the cause of this? Was I in the Holy Land during the time of the Master? If so, who was I? Please give me my seal, with colors and interpretations. In what experience in the earth plane was I associated with my present husband [1467], and what is it that we have to work out together? I had, some years ago, a vision in which I heard my name called and saw the face of the Master. Please give me the significance of this vision. During meditation one night I was told to read 2nd Kings 2:2. What was the significance of this? Where was I associated with my present son, [415]? What particular work should I do at this time that will help me mentally, physically and spiritually? Give me some spiritual advice and counsel, please."

REPORTS

1. Subsequently she obtained Ck. Physical Rdgs.
2. See subsequent notations under Life Rdg. 263-4 Reports.

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