This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest W. Zentgraf, 400 St. Paul's Ave., Stapleton, S.I., N.Y., this 15th day of January, 1934, in accordance with request made by self - Mr. [282], Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Hugh Lynn Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mr. [282], Mrs. [255], Misses [275] and [276].

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1. EC: Yes, we have the entity and the soul mind, with those experiences in Egypt during the rebellions - [282]. When the peoples had come into the land that began the establishing of the civilization, as we would term today, or the turning toward the one God, the entity then - as indicated - was in the name Ra-La-Ral, and the son of the Priest. When the rebellions arose and there was the banishment of the Priest, Ra-La-Ral remained in the land and was with the priest that was raised to act in the capacity of the priest or spiritual advisor. Hence, active rebellions only affected the body in the experience as the varied leaders or rebellion leaders attempted to draw the various ones acting in the temples (that were being builded), and in the capacity of the spiritual advisors, to join in their forces. This entity remained with the young king in his activities. Hence, the entity was not with or among some of those that went either into the rebellions of the natives or of the king's household that rebelled and established with some of the minor priests the kingdom in Ibex. Later we find the entity associated in same.
2. Acting in the capacity of the advisor spiritually morally, the entity then grew to be one of power - as from this position or association. With the king and the peoples finally returning the Priest with those who had followed and who from the land of banishment came, the entity then aided the priest in the establishing of those conditions that made for the mental activities, made for the building for the records, the buildings for making the associations between those peoples that entered in the land as an aid to those that builded in the experience; acting, in a portion of the first activity in building, as the interpreter to those from the Atlantean land.
3. When the daughters of the Priest had returned from banishment, the entity then became wed to the older of these daughters that were born in banishment, and through the associations came those that made - during the later portion of the experience - those of the household or family of the entity, and those of the later ones who tempted the entity in the rebellions of the Ibex, where there was the losing of the entity's development; or the losing materially in power, broken in spirit, made for the retardments to the entity's development.
4. Ready for questions.
5. (Q) Do we understand correctly that the entity was the son of Ra-Ta by his first wife?
   (A) Son of Ra-Ta by the wife that came WITH Ra-Ta the Priest into Egypt [369]; while the companion or wife [301] was the daughter of the priestess [538] that was with the priest in banishment.
6. (Q) Is there any influence upon the present of the entity's Egyptian life?
   (A) The abilities innately and that may be manifested through the entity's forces by turning within, for there may be seen much that may become helpful to the entity, to the associates and those whom the entity might aid. The influence, then, is rather that which is of the soul development.
7. (Q) Is there any period in the present when this influence will be particularly important?
   (A) In the present is it found to be of particular importance in the development of the entity, as to its innate abilities, to bring spiritual understanding to self and to associates.
8. (Q) What astrological forces are influencing the entity in the present, and how?
   (A) Jupiter. Through the sojourn in that environ is there the influence upon the innate or soul activities by its sojourn there. Hence we find, as may be termed from material or from some aspects, is at variance to some principles of the entity; yet these are for spiritual - or periods of spiritual and mental advancement.
9. (Q) What are the entity's flower and tree?
   (A) The flower is the rose called, or that has been called, the Rose of Sharon, which - as seen - is of certain color and of certain sizes. The tree is the apple.
10. (Q) What are the entity's stone, mineral and metal?
    (A) These are rather the same; for in the kingdom that the influences of an entity have developed with or acted as concerning, that has made for its advancement or retardment and is to be an influence in its experience in the varied activities to which and through which the entity may be influenced by that association in its mental forces. We find near the same, as in MOST individuals - and as the stone, would be the bloodstone - or moonstone.
11. (Q) Give suggestions for entity's periods of meditation.
    (A) In keeping self, or in developing self, the entity's abilities lie in those directions as may be indicated from the experiences in the sojourn concerning which information has been sought; that the high spiritual aspirations and desires and activities and exemplification brought much of abilities innately in the soul's activity, for the opening self and drawing the influences from the God-forces into self's own use. Hence in the present it would be rather uncomely to attempt to give that which would raise its own self, yet we would give that the entity should ever keep that known in self as to how the Prince of Peace is ever the way through which each soul may know the ways that the body should walk in every experience. And then surrounding self with that consciousness of His presence may there come into the experience of the entity the glories of the Father that the Son had before the world was. And in that the entity may interpret to the sons of men may much be given that will aid them in joining oft in seeking His ways. Keep the body, the mind, the heart, in His praises each day.
12. (Q) Has the entity any motto?
    (A) That is rather builded from experience to experience. Rather would it be said of each soul, each soul has a chorus. It is not always the motto; for some say "lousy" when they mean much that is in opposition to same, but becomes a chorus - while the entity's motto has in itself rather that which makes for the opening of the self to the forces of the Christ-Consciousness in the earth - and the chorus of self is rather, "Thy will be done in me." Hence there may never be, unless self allows self to become led far astray, any periods when oppression or depression may ever influence the real abilities of the entity in a material or spiritual activity.
13. (Q) Describe the family life of this entity in Egypt, showing the relationship -
    (A) As given, the entity was of the sons of Ra-Ta, the Priest, and in the family life was raised to the activity of the priest. With the union of the mate - and well to remember that for which the entity, the Priest, was banished, hence the entity Ra-La-Ral may be said to have set as the rule that of only one wife.
    In this relation and association, then, it brought the activities that made for condemning as well as laudation on the part of priest or associates in the experience, but the household as builded by the priest [282] had two daughters and two sons.
14. (Q) Describe the first meeting of the entity with his wife.
    (A) As the Priest, Ra-Ta, with his retinue or his companions were brought back to the kingdom there was much rejoicing on the part of many of the peoples, and - as would be termed in the present - rather the gala occasion, and the priest, Ra-La-Ral with the peoples that had become adherents to the faith of the Priest in the banishment led the way with the king's own guard, see? while the household of the Priest with those that were in attendance to same were among those in the closer association with the Priest; the Priest acting in the capacity of the leader in the experience and the entity - as the Priest's son - accepted or received the priest at the place of abode, and here the meeting in the experience of the entity with the one becoming the entity's companion [301]. The embrace, the kisses in this meeting, were as the making for the entity in the sight of that as was preached or given by him - the joining them in the union as one.
    The entity at this time or period was in years what would today be called eighteen, while the bride - as would be called, or the half-sister that was accepted as the companion - was only eight.
15. (Q) Describe in detail the causes and results of the conflict with the Ibex.
    (A) In the latter portion of the entity's experience or sojourn, as indicated, those of the household had grown to positions that were among the ministers to the peoples in the various portions of the land. The priests and their sons acting in the capacity of the ministers to those in various sections or various portions of the land.
    The entity's son then, in the name Loi-Pthl, was the minister or the one to accept the activities of the peoples in that particular portion of the land; and the Prince of Ibex, who had rebelled - and while the rebellion had been withdrawn or subsided, the activities within self as resentment to the kingdom or the activities of the Priest, and there was the retaining or keeping of this Loi in this action, and then the entity acted in a manner that brought rebellious influences and the necessitating of the political activities of the soldiery, that to the self and to the associates brought falling away from that which had been set as the entity's or soul's ideal; and the entity then went into retirement for a period, where the companion had been born [in Nubia]. [Libya]
16. (Q) What was the relationship at that time with his present father, [378]?
    (A) As indicated, rather a very close relationship, for he acted much as the interpreter of that brought to the land as tenets in every force or every way of action, whether in the religious or the soul or the commercial life. The interpretations went through the priests, and particularly this entity, for the use or the application of same in the peoples' lives.
17. (Q) What was the relationship in Egypt with his present mother, [255]?
    (A) In the actual activities in the temple, much that was in relationship to being cared for or instructed and directed by that entity as the [foster] mother, during the period of the priest's banishment.
18. (Q) What was the relationship of the entity with [341], now?
    (A) As indicated, staying with the king rather than going even with the father; for he sided with the king as to the tenets that made for this rebellion, for the Priest making the law was to him the law, and broke the law; and the son, though in tender years, with the Council, rebelled.
19. We are through.

    Two copies to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. See Life Rdg. 282-2 on 3/20/31 and subsequent Ck. Life Rdgs. expanding on the information and answering questions on all phases.
2. 1/15/34 He was present, with his mother [255], his sisters [275] and [276] for a detailed reading on his Egyptian sojourn.

REPORTS

1. 4/16/34 See sister's rdg. 275-38 in re relationships in Egypt to [282] and rest of the family.
2. See subsequent notations under 282-2 Reports.

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