This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 3rd day of April, 1934, in accordance with request made by herself - Miss [275], Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mildred Davis and L. B. Cayce.

TEXT

1. GC: You will have before you [275], who was born January 17, 1913, at ..., N.Y.C., also her harp teacher, [4929], [Miss [4929] had no rdg. of her own; the number was given to preserve her identity.] born March 16, about 1905, in Wales, to Great Britain (County Glamorgan). You will give the relationship one to the other of these entities, and the universe, and the universal forces, giving the conditions and reasons that brought them together in the present relationship; also the former appearances in which they were together in the earth's plane, giving time, place, the name of each, and giving in detail the relationship in each experience, and that in each life which built or retarded the development of the entities; giving guidance that will help each to develop most in their relationship with one another, in the present. You will answer the questions which may be asked.
2. EC: Yes, we have the entities here; these in their relationships one with another may be given in associations, but as individuals they should be separated. For, while the activities of each have much in common through such associations that have brought or do bring their experiences in conjunction one with another, appearances of souls in the earth's plane in their own sphere of activity are for the soul development. Still, individuals in their development may depend upon one another, or may become as individuals that are complementary one to another for some definite purpose that may be paramount in the ideals of each. And thus such souls in their association in materiality, or in earth's experience, may unite in their efforts in such experience for some definite plan of activity by or through the united effort, and bring some special event, some special soul activity into what may be termed an experience or existence in such period of such relationships.
3. While these entities have been in their activities in the earth both as complementary one to the other, they also have in the present experience that to meet in themselves and in the association in the present which may be termed - in the present parlance as loss or lack of embracing opportunities in the experience.
4. For, as we find, they were associated in those experiences in that termed the Egyptian period, when there were the activities attempted in those periods of expression; when the one was the leader in the temple service, as the aide to those that would cleanse themselves from the appendages in material expressions that they had as individuals builded in material experiences. The entities then in their associations, the one lending much to the other in aiding the overcoming of the desires that made for the material demonstrations of what would be termed in the present as contentions in self's own inactivity, self's own indulgences in body as related to others. Then the priestess, in that entity known as [275], aided one of her own peoples to overcome that destructive influence in the experience, and to find expression in the music that was given in not only the periods of cleansing but in the periods of glorification of body and mind in the temples that were for the worshipfulness of the peoples to those influences or forces that made them whole in body and mind. This has made for that expression in the present of the abilities of the association to bring dependence, reliance, faithful administration and patience one with another.
5. Again in an experience when one was in power and in position of wealth, of worldly things, of position, of abilities to laud one over another; and their associations then were pleasant from the material standpoint, and sisters in the flesh, yet their own indiscretions and their loss of attitudes one to another owing to the ideas that were taken by each respecting the activities of those that had given selves in body and thought to the teachings of those in the period. The one coming to the expression as to bring in the physical forces lamentations for a body-physical not whole, and the other rather as a lauding - through the ability of expression in that which is of praise to holiness, purity, WITHOUT - in the present - the whole concept of how or why. For, in that expression, then, comes the abilities of these entities, these souls, to be knit in a friendship that may make for an aid one to the other, and yet each in their respective need finding that built within as to make their souls as one indeed WITH the IDEAL that may be set in each in the present.
6. Other than these associations in the earth we find little or nothing of note. Yet these in their activity in the experiences of each may be made, and may be used, for not only bringing each to the better comprehension of the purposes for the association, but for the purposes of the associations in the material things becoming or being the help one to the other.
7. Ready for questions.
8. Much, to be sure, might be given upon associations of varied individuals and their contacts one with another. Such questions might make, or would make, many perplexing problems to the minds of many; becoming rather as a maze. But, as may be seen in every soul activity, when there is given information respecting the records made by each soul in its journey through material forces, their lives as lived in material are a reflection of some portion of each experience, ESPECIALLY if such an experience has not been made one with that redeeming grace of the God-child, the Christ-life in the earth. When these are reflected, most of same becomes blurred. Unless materiality enters again. For, as He gave, he that returns as the sow to the wallow or the dog to his vomit becomes possessed rather with the many, many influences from without - and the last estate is indeed worse than the first.
9. As to that which may be constructive in the experiences of these souls, these entities, in their present experience:
10. The one aided the other and turned her towards that which purified in the vibrations of music, or the harp, and thus brought not only harmony to the soul but peace to the mental forces of each.
11. In the other, their estates or their experiences bearing fruit in the wills of each, make for periods when there may be brought from the association that TRUE fellowship, that true friendship that may make for the knitting together of purposes in such a way and manner as to be the prop, the aid, one for the other.
12. (Q) Give the musical relationship of the two in each life.
    (A) As given. In the first we find that the one induced the other to find self's attunement in the music, while in the other the music in each led each to become rather material-minded than expressing the music of the soul. Hence in their associations the MUSIC may be as the touchstone, as the link, as the chain that may make the associations the more beautiful, the sweeter, the more near to perfection.
13. (Q) Exactly what are [4929]'s psychic abilities?
    (A) Intuition, or the ability to strike attunements when there is the harking to the influences that have IMPELLED the soul activity.
14. (Q) How can she develop this, and should I be the one to help her in this?
    (A) As given, one is the aid to the other in such ways and manners that they stand as in true friendship, in fellowship, in the other's stead, in aiding in every direction.
    Use this given for the present.
15. We are through for the present.

    Two copies to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. 1/31/34 She obtained a Mental-Spiritual Rdg. in re her purpose for entering the earth plane, seeking guidance for awakening and developing her psychic soul faculties.

REPORTS

1. 4/16/34 She wrote: "I am so happy to have received my reading, now that you have returned [from Arizona]. I have been so drawn to Miss [4929] that I knew there had been a close connection, and now it is so wonderful to KNOW just how and why. I think it most interesting the way it mentioned the loss, or lack of embracing opportunities in the present. Did I tell you that after her father passed on, he would come to her bedroom just before she went to sleep, and talk with her, the way he did while he was on this earth? She couldn't stand it, got a nervous breakdown (she had been very close to him) and then came to this country (1929). She did not embrace the opportunity. I do so hope that I will be able to help her along these lines. She must feel the tie between us, otherwise she wouldn't relate this all to me.
   "Last week after all the other girls had left the room, after our ensemble practice, and she was left alone with [276] and myself, she said to me, 'You know, now that the others have left, and I am alone with you, I feel just as if we were sisters.'
   "I could take every sentence in the reading and illustrate it with some action or story of hers; and then to think that she is completely unaware of it all. I am going to try to interest her in a Physical Reading just as soon as the concert on May 5th is over. Her intuition comes out every minute I am with her, and I hope that our relationship will be greatly benefited through all of God's work."
2. See subsequent Ck. Physical Readings by Miss [275].
3. 4/01/35 She obtained Ck. Life Rdg. 275-43 on her incarnation in the Temple Beautiful in Egypt.

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