Edgar Cayce Readings, 283-4

(Life Reading Suggestion)

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EC: (While going back over the years to birthdate - "Right sick in '86, here.")
We have the entity and those relations with the universe and universal forces, that are latent and manifested, latently and in the personality of the entity now called [283].
In entering from the astrological aspects, we find that these - from the ordinary term - run rather smoothly at times, and at others at a great cross angle of same.
Then, these would be better understood were the influences considered from the standpoint of urges from the experiences of the entity in the environs, than were they considered wholly from the position of the planet of the activities of an astrological influence only.
For, as may be determined by one of high mental abilities (even as this entity, in the present), those influencing us most are the things we entertain with our mental bodies or have thrust upon us from the needs or requirements of the physical attributes of our bodies.
Hence, a sojourn is an environment that (when in the aspect of influencing an active mental body) is being entertained by the body. Hence the will of an entity is that attribute making for abilities to develop in every phase of experience, to be one with the Creative Forces from which every entity emerges in its beginning.
If the will has been used in those aspects that are for self-indulgence, self-gratification alone, then it has builded away from the expressing or manifesting of that love which brought the soul - in its inception - into being.
Not that any soul is not to live its own experience, and be that portion of the whole that is the developing of the soul. Not to be lost wholly in the oneness of the Father, but with the abilities to know self to be one WITH - yet OF - the Father.
Then, as to that seen from those influences:
In Mercury we find the mental attributes that are so well manifest in the abilities of the entity in the present, in its association with problems that concern others, in developments of mental abilities of others.
Yet, from the application of self in past experiences, the entity is often at a wit's end, as it may be said, when the greater condition to be considered is self alone.
Hence the entity may be said to work better, or manifest the better, in association or cooperation with others. Not as groups or large bodies, but rather small or individual groups.
From Mercury also there are those abilities for the judgment and discernment of the entity, as it were, in the present.
Jupiter's influences make for the broad vision, or the large numbers of contacts often necessary for the entity to find those varied conditions necessary for the carrying on of those determined influences in the experience.
Hence the entity may be said to be one of very set ways or manners. Not too easily influenced by others, yet often the more necessary for others to assist the entity in making its own decisions.
From Saturn and Uranus we find those determinations oft take the form of continued rubbing out and beginning over again, as it were.
Not satisfied is the entity (in the present we are speaking of) to build upon failures, yet often does the entity hold to influences when others would say the efforts had been a failure. The entity will make, or does make, successes - in the better, broader sense - from those conditions, or at those positions (better would it be to say), where others would - and do falter or become discouraged.
Then, the entity is not easily discouraged when there has once been set within self those purposes as being correct in line, or leading towards that which has been set by self as the ideal or the better way.
As to the appearances and their influence in the present experience, these that influence from the present activities are those given. There WERE some in a portion of the experience that may be said to have been withdrawn from, or by sheer will put aside from influencing the activities or abilities of the entity in the present.
The one before this we find the entity was in that period when changes came about, with the indwelling of those of royalty from a foreign land, during the period when Charles the 2nd was an exile in France.
The entity then was among those contacted by this influence, and that aided in arousing not only the people where this entity lived, dwelt, or went among the peoples, but arousing also those of the ruler's native land to the necessity of the royalist movements at that particular period.
In that experience the developments were helpful and also detrimental; for in the present the set ways and manners, that almost at times reach that stage called stubbornness without reason save self's own will, arise from those influences in that experience.
Yet abilities also in the direction of considering the ones not as fortunate in body conditions or in the mental surroundings, and the abilities to meet people in all walks of experience, arise from the influence in that particular period.
The entity was then in the name Murieuex.
From the activities in that experience may be seen in the present much of the sensitiveness, to a degree where there may be often the detection of ideas that are attempted to be kept hidden by individuals whom the entity meets. Or, the entity may be said to possess the faculty of ferreting out, in an uncanny manner at times, the impelling influences in the lives of those the entity contacts from time to time.
We find that in the one before this the entity was in that land now known as the Persian or Arabian, during that period when many were gathering to hear and understand the teachings of one that led, or influenced many peoples of many lands, during that particular experience.
The entity then was rather of the royal household in the Persian land, then nearer to the Chaldean activity; yet the entity sought to know that influence that was carrying so many under the spell, as it were, of this individual.
And the entity gained through the association, and throughout that experience; gaining (in the present) those abilities that may be as latent and the manifested in many respects; the ability to teach and to hold the interest of developing minds; music - and especially that relating to the characterization of same in story, folklore, or the like, and the abilities that are worth while come much from this experience as Cordellii. Also the inability to at any or at all times TRUST the opposite sex, or to put the wholehearted confidence in the abilities of those who would seek through associations to carry on any particular line of work.
The one before this the entity was in that land now commonly termed the Egyptian, during those periods when the uprisings or divisions made for turmoils, before the settling into the general advance by the people who arose to be such a might in the affairs of not only the world, but the worlds and worlds.
The entity was then among those of the king's household, that came into the land, and was associated closely with the young king who was made the ruler; yet joining with the activities of the native that was raised to the council, and was of those that were separated when the priest returned to the activities in the land.
The entity gained and lost through the experience, for it was through this association or influence - with those that would build upon the activities of others - that the entity lost so much faith in those that were called or termed by the entity as pretenders.
Hence in the present we find those deeper feelings that are aroused by sincerity from whatever quarter it may present itself.
Then the entity was in the name Ptl-Orrt, as seen, taking the closer companionship with the natives.
In the present there is found that much of the love, or the judgment as pertaining to not only civil, civic, state, but national affairs are always of interest. And the entity, INNATELY, then, is a student of those impelling forces that are of a POLITICAL nature.
As to the abilities of the entity in the present, and that to which it may attain and how:
Study those things that hindered, those conditions that made for those innate feelings that come as impulses. Knowing that which has been chosen as the ideal, work towards correcting same, in same; or study to know self, and being true to self in the fields of activity that enable self to give that impulse or that activity in the minds and hearts of others, will also raise self in all forms of developments.
Ready for questions.
We are through for the present.
Copy to Self
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BACKGROUND

2/12/33 "My friend Miss [2842] has aroused in me a desire to have a Life Reading also. May I ask any questions or does my letter convey psychically what I desire to know?"

REPORTS

6/03/33 Letter: "I have been studying my reading over of my past incarnations which was rendered by Mr. Cayce and find it very helpful in establishing the origin of some tendencies and actions in my present life. I have often wondered what he meant and where Mr. Cayce pointed when he said 'Right sick in '86, HERE.' I heartily approve [of your work] and wish all success to your Association in its work and trust that I may be able to show it in a substantial way when it is possible."
10/12/34 Miss [283] and Miss [2842] were referred to in 691-1, Par. 24, as being able to assist in research re. [691]'s Salem incarnation.
9/16/37 Miss [1471] had Physical Reading via Miss [283]'s recommendation.
9/38 Miss [283] referred Miss [1749] for readings.
11/26/60 Letter: "I treasure my contact with Edgar Cayce, though it was only by correspondence - which was SO interesting and unconventional. He used to write so spontaneously that he used no punctuation, and his I's were small letters, showing his utter unself-consciousness and modesty..." [See Paras. R1 and R4 of her physical readings at end of 283-3.]