This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 28th day of September, 1939, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [288], Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.

TEXT

1. GC: You will have before you the entity [288], born January 30, 1905, Centerville, Alabama, who now seeks enlightenment and expansion upon her Life Reading given November 20, 1923; especially in relationship to the statement made, "One who will find its greatest force in the home, and the dedication of its better self to the future generations of its own strain." Considering her desire to use her life in the channel, or channels, through which the greatest good may come, you will please clarify the present urges being felt and the manner in which she may completely express her life purpose. You will give any particular incarnations that are affecting her at the present time, and answer the questions she submits - as I ask them - regarding past associations in relation to present working out of destinies.
2. EC: Yes - quite a large order!
3. We have the records here, - also the information that has been indicated respecting the life's work, sojourns in the earth, the activities through same; and the subsequent information respecting the beginnings and the urges and latent influences respecting associations and activities of the entity, physical, mental and spiritual.
4. In giving the interpretations of that indicated in the statement respecting the home and that related to its own strain, - it would be well to analyze something of those experiences that bring naturally the urges which arise in the present experiences of the entity:
5. As has been indicated, these have been unusual in the many ways and manners; especially as to what may be considered as the first urge in the Atlantean sojourn, and the division of self for the satisfying or gratifying of itself, - in the indulgence within the relationships with its own forces or influences as might be termed of the procreative nature; as well as those influences or forces when, through those same divisions, the entity appeared as an active force in the Egyptian sojourn, thus becoming as a negative force to its own self; and then positive in its force in the Persian sojourn with its relationships with the same influences, in which there were from its own bodily forces the activities in which there was the production of an influence which brought the greater blessings to the many, - or the influences or forces in the earth during those experiences and activities in which the relationships and the influence of its force within itself were bound to those activities or forces of spiritual and mental and physical natures, - that brought greater relationships for the activities and urges as arise within the influence of itself in the present.
6. Thus we find the relationships in the Atlantean sojourn and the one through that period in the "city in the hills and the plains" as being the greater forces of influence in the present experience of the entity, - and the urges that arise from same as to giving the expression of self.
7. And, as has been indicated, then, the greater influence or force will be for home, or the creative influence of home for those forces of its own strain; as it has been and is accomplishing.
8. But SELF must be as eradicated from the activities of self, or in those relationships, - until there is sufficient of those influences to be willing for that which is the directing force to bring into the experience the relationships as would bring an activity that would be the influence for the greater conjunction of the latent and manifested activities in the experience.
9. And thus we find the influences bringing to the entity those urges for that of physical activity, and yet self must be effaced, - just as has been indicated by those experiences when self was, as it were, eliminated or eradicated in physical forces, as well as - in relationship to individual activity - being taken from its activities by the very influence and force of the entity in its desire for expressions.
10. Thus must come, "Not my will, but Thine, O Lord, be done in and through me, in those ways and manners in which Thou seest should be," for the greater blessings of others, - in that self may be eliminated that there may be the greater physical, mental and spiritual forces manifested through the activities of the entity in the present.
11. These as we find are the influences and forces that make for the greater urges. And hence the choices are to be made within self as to whether it is to be self that is to be satisfied, or the impulse or force that arises from being willing for Him - The Giver - to manifest.
12. Ready for questions.
13. (Q) Should I marry?
    (A) If so desired, marry!
14. (Q) If not, how may I express fully, or overcome, my great urge and desire for a son?
    (A) As just indicated, art thou willing to say in self (and act like that) "Thy will"? or wilt thou express thyself for the satisfying of physical desire?
15. (Q) What have been my past associations with the following individuals, what are the urges brought forth in the present, and how may I use them for our mutual development? First: Little nephew [1208?]:
    (A) In those experiences in the land of the "city in the hills and the plains," and the effect as created by the activity of the entity through those periods which followed that.
    For there we find the entity was the latent urge which brought about the ability for that entity to conquer the world, and never self! [See 1208-1 Reports.]
    Then, as seen in the present experience of self as in rela- tionships to same: These have brought and do bring material hardships, you see - physically manifested, - yet in the mental and spiritual those influences which have been, may and will be wrought, in the shaping of the purposes, the desires, the hopes. All of these are coming within the realm of the entity's activities through the being willing for self to be effaced, that the greater force or influence of the entity's abilities may be made manifest in the present.
16. (Q) [341?]: Why do I feel so close to him at times, and yet so far away or antagonistic at others? [See 341-9, Par. 16-A.]
    (A) These urges are especially from the influences and associations in the Egyptians sojourn, when there was the apparent care and attention; and yet the rebellious forces as arise from the effect of the effacements and activities during that experience.
    These are very well to be considered, then, in the same shape, form and activity as indicated in the relationships to others.
    Hold fast, then, to self; to self's purposes; and He, the Giver, may work in and through thee to bring that to pass that may satisfy or bring HARMONY - not satisfaction but harmony, contentment and peace within all phases of material, mental and SPIRITUAL expressions in this experience.
17. (Q) [538?]:
    (A) That of a protection; as a protectorate over those activities or influences that would bring either mental or physical hurt. These are the expressions, as from the experiences in the Egyptian sojourn as well as in the Persian and Arabian. [See 538-59, Par. 23-A, 24-A on 10/19/39.]
    Hence these may be cultivated in the way and manner in which they may be a strength or helpmeet one for the other.
18. (Q) Have I had a Palestine incarnation? [See 294-192 & 538-59, Par. 23-A--25-A.]
    (A) Very close to the activities of same, but within those realms of the spiritual rather than in the material manifestations; though close, and an impelling influence in the affairs and experiences of many. For, the other self - a portion of self - was expressed in that experience; and the active influences with same brought those urges as found expressions in the activities especially of those who brought variations or differences in the influences of that particular period or experience.
19. (Q) Why do I have such a restless, incomplete feeling, and how may it be overcome?
    (A) As has been expressed by those of old, there is the constant warring within the flesh and the spirit. Thou knowest the way! Thou understandest and comprehendest! Then, OPEN thine self to that influence of the spirit of "Thy will, not my will." And thus may come harmony, understanding, - and even those of material manifestations that may bring contentment.
20. (Q) Should I cultivate any particular hobby? If so, what?
    (A) Those influences or forces of being able to give expression in forms in which there is the activity of the physical self, - as well as in those that may bring the activities within the experiences of others to be of a physical and mental aid or help.
    Games, as of outdoors; songs, as of spiritual forces.
    Hold fast to those things that are as creative forces in the spiritual, and not as creative forces in indulgences; and we may bring harmony, peace, contentment.
21. We are through for the present.

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BACKGROUND

1. See Life Rdg. 288-1 on 11/20/23 and subsequent Reports.
2. 9/28/39 She submitted questions.

REPORTS

1. 10/19/39 See 538-59 Par. 23-A--25-A indicating close associations in soul and body bet. [538] and [288] and [294]. Also [341].
2. 9/13/40 Friend Mrs. [264]'s letter to EC: "[288] read her last Ck. Life Rdg. to me, and that is a beautiful mission in life she has before her. Was so glad to see her attitude regarding it. She really seems happier than I have ever known her."
3. 9/16/40 EC's ltr. to Mrs. [264]: "Yes, I think Miss [288] has been much better satisfied since her last rdg. While it may make a hard job for her, if one knows what it is all about, it is somewhat easier to carry on, don't you think?"
4. 2/28/41 She obtained Ck. Life 288-48 on her Persian incarnation.

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