This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Earnest W. Zentgraf, 400 St. Paul's Ave., Stapleton, Staten Island, N.Y., this 16th day of January, 1934, in accordance with request made by Miss [275], Active Member of ths Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Hugh Lynn Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. [255], [282], [275], [276], and - latter portion - [378].

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1. HLC: Give in great detail the history of the period of the priest Ra-Ta in Egypt, bringing in the actions and incidents of the following characters, bringing in the time and age of each when they entered the scene, and giving all the connecting links so that a story may be written: Hept-supht - now [378]; Iszeiu - now [255]; Hi-La-Pti - now [452]; Ra-La-Ral - now [282]; Issiun - now [457]; El-Tpan - now [488]; Ai-Si - now [275]; Valtui - now [276]; Isibio - now [301]; Ariecel - now [412]; Araaraart - now [341]; Iso - now [288].
2. EC: Yes, we have the periods here, as in each. That this may be translated into the experience that makes for the cause of the associations of each individual in the present, it may be given in the manner as to how they each in the present find not only their associations but their own name and activity. For, as given in that respecting the influence, the teaching of the priest, there was left with each entity a mark, either in body as expressed physically or in the name, that they each are called in their experiences. So, in the present we will give an outline showing what took place, if it were translated into the present view of experience of individuals. All of these are the modern names, you see.
3. The king or leader of the peoples in Arabia [165] led the whole of his land into Egypt. Among this group we find [452], who was of those peoples, and one in purpose with that to be accomplished by the entering into the land. There was found the declining years of a very weak ruler in the land that had turned the greater portion into the hands of the peoples to do as they chose, so long as they did not bother him.
4. With the entering of the group, or of this clan, little or no resistance was made by the natives as to the establishing of order until there began to be set up the laws as to what was the contribution or tax on peoples in the native land. And some native, and natives, raised questions - which made for first the political positions of groups in the land. Among the daughters of the political leaders was [255].
5. In the establishing by the priest that of moral law, and the beginning of the undertakings of the establishing of what we term in the present as religious activities or as service in rote by individuals that join themselves to such activities - at this time there was the coming into the land the Atlantean peoples. These were going back and forth, for the periods of the rebellious influences, the activities of varied individuals in the Atlantean land were active in this period. Among those that came in and became native, we find [378]. He, with the modern ideas among a peoples that were attempting to adjust themselves to the varying conditions, joined with the priest in bringing something of order in the laws and in the direction of conditions in the period.
6. With the rebellion of the natives, the elder king [165] put the son [341] on the throne to match wits politically with the native [900], in the establishing of the political powers and rule in the land. And with this establishing came that period when the priest [294] broke the law that was set by him concerning the number of wives accorded or given to the priest. And this brought first the political uprising. Then the religious war. And the priest with the princess [538] was banished, with all those that adhered to the priest's activity, including the aid to the priest [378] - to the Libyan land. There we find the first establishings of the land as a place for carrying on that the priest had given in the way of man's knowing his relationships to the Creative Forces. In this activity [275] and [488], natives of the Libyan land, became followers of the priest. The children of the priest, [282], [288], were left in the land of Egypt as political hostages, and religious hostages. The activities of the native [255], in gathering much from that which had been given by the Atlanteans, established what would be termed today a school and an orphanage for the children of the land; hence applying much that had been given as the relationships between individuals as exemplifying the relationships between the Creator and the creature in material manifestations. Hence these were under the care of this director in the land.
7. After the turmoils, the return first of the Atlantean through the political influences brought to bear by the numbers of Atlanteans that were sojourning and entering into the land, as there were evidences and prophecies of Atlantis being broken up, and Egypt was chosen as one of those places where the records of that activity or peoples were to be established. Hence the Atlantean or [378] returned after only three years in banishment. And the union with the instructor and teacher, as man and wife, began much of that which has been given of the messages sent to and from Egypt and Abyssinia during the exile of the priest.
8. Conditions settling somewhat, after political rebellions and native rebellions, and in the rebellions in those of the family by the peoples that were both native and of the Arart or [165] clan, and among them [457], and these acted in Ibex with the king's brother, who became a stumbling block to many.
9. When the recall of the priest came, the preparations and the return, including not only the household of the priest - wherein was the wife with the children born to them in exile, among - or the older of which was that one who became the wife of the son of the priest, as they came back into activity in Egypt - [301]. This occurring, however, many years later.
10. The return brought for all a new era of associations and activities.
11. [452], becoming associated in the priest activities - that during the years of decline, before regeneration, acted in the capacity of making the lessons or tenets applicable in the experiences of other peoples, as demonstrated by the activity in the Arabian land where [276] was the ruler that came into the land of Egypt to be initiated into the activities through the temple, through the various associations of the necessary activities of the groups that were taught by the priest, by [275], [488], [378], in their varied positions that have been indicated in that given.
12. As to the lives or the family associations, which, as we shall see, led to those activities, those marks as indicated, as set by the adherents to the principles of that taught by the priest, as making for marks that in body-physical or soul or both drew them together.
13. In the household of the Atlantean, or [378], [255], were few of those of bodily drawing, save of others. Hence there and then, in their desire, those in their varied activities in themselves asked for, desired, sought, that they might influence those in their expression or opportunity for their activities in a material world. Hence we find those in the present of their own household, their own activity, to mete to them in the present experience that which may furnish each with their own experience that of establishing that tenet as found to be the answer for an ideal in their experience in that association.
14. With those we find in each activity [452], as the priest, only one as a companion or wife, that if sought and found in the present may make for a true union in this material world. And such as have in an experience found an ideal may be said to be soul mates, and no marriages made in heaven nor by the Father save as each do His biddings. For His sons, His daughters, His mothers, His fathers, are they that do His will in the earth.
15. In this union there came only three, as to make for activities in their associations in the home life, acting, as the emissary, much activity that has been indicated or may be given specifically was in the affairs of that entity in the experience, which may be likened unto the evangelist in the present.
16. In the home of [457], as indicated, in the rebellious forces of the Ibex, yet coming under the influence with the establishing of the schools, the hospital activities (of which the entity that had been of the natives, or [255], might be said to have supervised), she came to know [412] in relationships in that association, yet each wending its own way without either ever being wed in the experience - and may be called, as in the present, each ever mindful, but never physically completed in their relationship.
17. In the life or home life of [488], acting as one that aided or came with - or among the 167 souls that returned with the priest from Abyssinia, being of powerful physique, what would be called copper colored in the present, yet coming under the influence - with his abilities, with his activities in the land, both with the sister [275] in the experience, brought such of an activity as related to the athletics in the action of those that were developed by all the associations from the state, from the religious forces, or from the activities in all the relationships, made for a strong influence upon this phase of the development in the experience. But going as an emissary, under the influence then of the one acting as as the evangelist - or [378], as has been given - lost in self when making relationships with those in the land that has since disappeared, that brought family troubles. And the pity, the love as expressed by those in power, drew him as among the fold in the present.
18. The sister [275] in the temple service as the one that not only aided in the sacrificial temple, where the initiations through fire in the cleansing of the body of desires for carnal influences, as well as the activities and services in the Temple Beautiful that made for the setting in order in the plaques that as would demonstrate or illustrate to the entity or individual that necessary for the purifying or keeping before them for the purification and in keeping same in their experience; joined with one in wedded life in the temple service, and when these relationships - are they established from that as was set before the the entity in the activities of those that have become the father, the mother in the present experience - may make for the home life in the present that will bring a blessing to self and the activities with and among others, joys and understandings.
19. In the life as in the relationships of [282], [301], as established in that experience, makes for what may be looked upon by many in the present as the ideal relationships when viewed from that as of man and wife in the present. Let each hold more to that as may come to them in those experiences of knowing that the counsel to those that are given activity in their care, that the words and directions in each counsel may be in keeping with Him who loved little children, who blessed them and said "of such is the kingdom of heaven", and there may be builded in the experience of those that again come to their protection that which will make for the greater development in those souls that again seek through THIS channel for a manifestation in a material world.
20. In that in [276], as given in that as was given by the entity in its application of unconsciously applying spiritual law in material world to the things that became much of a blessing to mankind in the application of the spiritual laws as gained under the supervisions in the Egyptian land of those that are as companions in the present, that as aided in giving to a people the blessings of the consciousness of their souls in themselves, and a duty and an obligation and a service that needs be rendered to the Giver of life, or the Giver of expression in consciousness, in life, in its relationships to its fellow creatures and to its Maker. The life in the experience separated, yet a household that grew too large - for only twenty souls entered in the experience through the entity-body in its relationships to its peoples.
21. In that as brought then these in their relationships in the present, as has been indicated, first the desire upon the part of souls that had consecrated themselves in body, in mind, to be a channel of blessings to souls that they had through experience, in manifested form, seen struggling in their own various spheres.
22. As to the relationship of the king [341] to this whole group, that as one that may in the present VIEW that of an ideal set in many, that will self be cleansed and kept in that as has been experience of self in its sojourns, that as it chose to enter in the present for the experience, may look, may listen, and by meditation with its ideal forces as set in Him make for an application in self as to the use of the knowledge as respecting their relationships in a material world.
23. In that as of the abandoned child of the priest, [288], may in its association, in its relations in the present, find that as may make for that in material forces set as an example for the clean, the moral, the Christian principles and ideals in a material life.
24. Ready for questions.
25. (Q) Exactly to whom was [275] wedded?
    (A) When she finds him she will know!
26. (Q) What was meant by marks being placed upon the body, in those ways and manners that may only be known to those who are in that physical and spiritual attunement with Ra-Ta as they pass through the material or earth's spheres together?
    (A) As has been indicated, their names as set, their titles as given to each.
27. (Q) Exactly to whom was [276] wed?
    (A) One of her own peoples, an Arabian - and you will find him, but don't catch him wild!
28. (Q) What ideals from that time prompted us to come together now in this present relationship?
    (A) As has been indicated. The ideals as set by those in their union, and each soul finding the channel, the opportunity for the expression in this experience for that needed in its own soul development as related to each of the others in this experience.
    Not only that as has been called karma, for these - as seen by that given - have to deal with and to do with what individuals have done with their knowledge of their opportunities in experiences TO the Creative forces as manifested by the environ in that experience. It's well for you all to analyze that!
29. (Q) Describe the physical appearance of each at their height of spiritual development.
    (A) The priest in body, [294], as has been given, in the height of the development was at the regeneration, or when over a hundred years (or light years) in the earth. Six feet one inch tall, weighing - what in the present would be called - a hundred and eighty-one pounds. Fair of face, not too much hair on the head nor too much on the face or body. In color nearly white, only sun or air tanned.
    The king five feet eleven inches tall, [341], weighing a hundred and seventy pounds. Fair of face. No hair on the head in the latter portion, or at the height of the development in the experience. Keen of eye, blue in color; and of speech rather quick.
    The Atlantean [378] five feet ten inches, weighing a hundred and sixty pounds; color as of GOLD that is burnished; yet keen of eye, gray in color. Hair as golden as the body. In activity alert, keen, piercing in vision, and of influence on those that approached.
    [255] as one fair in body, of beautiful face and figure; hair black; eyes dark brown, nearly black. Impressive in manner, and IMPELLING in speech and manner.
    [452], of the natives in Arabia - five feet ten inches in height, and a hundred and fifty pounds, dark but not black - but rather that as of the American Indian in its native color or state, with the type of nose as the Roman. Not thick of lip, but eyes blue; and of activity, as would be said, studied in every movement.
    [282] - five feet ten and a half inches, a hundred and fifty pounds, and among those peoples of the men the fairer of skin, with dark hair and gray eyes; in manner quick and alert.
    [457] - tall, nearly six feet, weighing a hundred and thirty pounds; fair hair, though not golden. Activities quick, piercing - ever ready for dispute - that often occurred, yet active in all its associations, physical or mental.
    [488], as given.
    [275] - five feet four inches in height. Bronze when beginning in the service, the pure white when cleansed, in color. In the cleansing the conditions cleansed from body. Fair of hair, blue eyes, ever active in all its associations - as needs be for the activities in the experience.
    [276] - strong of body, five feet four and a half inches in height, a hundred and twenty-five pounds. Fair of hair, the color then as of tanned white. In its activities always as indicated by its abilities with peoples, with things, with animals, ever wary of every one.
    The child [288] fair of body, of hair - only four and a half when passing on, through sorrow of separation.
    [412] - fair of body for a native of the land, five feet eleven inches in height, a hundred and sixty pounds in weight. Slow in movement, yet earnest in activity.
    [301] - as indicated, fair of face, of body. Red hair, and eyes blue. The activities ever those of alertness, of keen activity. Yet may be said to have been more of the joviality than of any.
    As to the dress of the day, whether in the temple service or otherwise, this was always of linen - and in the manner as indicated, in the color as indicated, white and purple. The men and women were not much different in the manner of dress, save as in the Atlanteans who wore trousers when they came and coats, though much shorter or longer according to their class or distinction of their class. The king in his better moments was clad in the linens and the purples, and in the higher developments no change from the subjects at service.
30. (Q) In what kind of vehicles did the priest and his retinue return to Egypt after the banishment?
    (A) In what would be called chariots driven by the gases; for the Atlanteans prepared those that brought these back. The followers were on the camels and the animals that were used in the service during that period. The camel, the donkey, the horse were later in this land, and introduced by the Arabians.
31. (Q) What was the climatic condition of the country at this time?
    (A) More fertile than even in the present with the overflow as occurs, for only about a third of the present Sahara was there, though it was sandy loam with silt - in the use of the agricultural portions.
32. We are through for the present.

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BACKGROUND

1. 12/12/33 She obtained Ck. Life giving further information on her Egyptian incarnation. [275-36]
2. 1/16/34 She and members of her family were present, submitting further questions.

REPORTS

1. 1/31/34 She obtained Mental-Spiritual Rdg. 275-39, in re purpose for entrance into the earth, and guidance for development of psychic or soul faculties for the highest spiritual development in this life.

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