Edgar Cayce Readings, 294-19

Time and Place: 5:10 P. M. Dayton Time. 322 Grafton Ave., Dayton, Ohio.

TEXT

LS: You will give the relation of this entity and the Universe, and the Universal Forces, giving the conditions that are as personalities latent and exhibited in the present life. Also the former appearances in the earth's plane, giving time, place, name, and that in that life which built or retarded the development for the entity, giving the abilities of the present entity and to that which it may attain, and how.
EC: Yes, we have the entity here and that relation that has to do with the Universal Forces as are shown in the earth's plane, and the connections with the present sojourn in the earth's plane.
As we see, we have had many of these conditions in part before. Here we may find them in a more complete outline.
In the sojourn in the present earth's plane, we find the entity took its position from that of Uranus, with the elements of Venus, Neptune, Jupiter and Mercury, with the affliction in Mars and Saturn. In this sojourn in the relations with other planets, we find the entity having passed through all the stage, or planes, yet returning in the earth's plane for that merited in the earth plane return through Saturn's forces for the again development in the Universal Forces as are applied to the manifestations of soul and spirit entities through the physical or earth plane.
Then, as we see in the present earth plane, while the entity has reached that plane where the mental and the environmental forces in present plane have set many of the conditions for the present sojourn, yet there are many urges to be satisfied, reached, known, accomplished, found, yet, in the earth's plane. Many may be reached. Others may be lost.
Then we have with reference to the sojourn in the other spheres, and in this plane, these urges in the individuality of the entity:
One to many peoples very contradictory in thought, action and deed. One little understood or comprehended by the greater mass of people. One who may reach those developments were the urge kept in the manner where the understanding could be given to other individuals. Lacking in this, as we shall see the cause.
In the mental urges we find that of the universality in the Jupiter forces, yet ever with the Venus forces dominant in entity's action, and with these often with Mars' influence brings condemnation to the entity.
One given to be very eccentric in many ways. One that finds very little of the level, or the capacity to be moderate in any, either very much in one condition or another. One spending much of the energies to whatever undertaken. This again we find often brings the destructive elements, or the misunderstandable efforts to much that might be accomplished in a more moderate manner.
One that will have the more cares in the later days as pertaining to the understandable things in Universal Forces. One that may give much to the Universe through the touch as is made in that of the Uranian and of the forces as are in Neptune, yet one not having reached the highest development that may be attained in these spheres. For the entity should be near large bodies of water, that the urge may be reached through that element that is given from the bigness of such bodies, that are elemental in their manner of bringing urge to other individuals that may be awakened, through the elements of mental, spiritual and mystic forces.
One we find that has many conditions to meet, brought more particularly by the misunderstanding of self and the inability of the entity to control self in any moderate way. One that brings much element of the forces in wrath that gives misunderstanding to others. This all we see reached through lack of control of will and self as has been set for the entity in the present earth's plane, for as has been given, the entity of an individual entering the earth's plane, while the urge is set from the individual's sojourn in other spheres, the environment of the individual, and the will of the entity, either build or mar the development through that individual sojourn in earth's plane, for in the flesh we find the mental, soul and spirit becomes the subjugation to the wishes, the desires, of the carnal forces, and in other spheres those of the elements pertaining to that sphere and the urge then of the individual in earth's plane is governed by the direction in which these are guided - urges. In this entity then we find there are many in the present sphere not guided in the manner that the development has been to that point where it should be.
In the appearances, then, as we shall see, there has come much of those elemental forces entering in, both from the sphere and from earthly sojourn in the earth. In the appearances, then:
Before this we find that the entity was in that of the wanderer that came to the present land in John Bainbridge, and the entity then rather that of one lost to those directions as were given under the tutelage and the directions of those in whose care the entity was committed, [in the French incarnation just preceding it] and with the change in the environment in that earth plane then brought, the entity lost itself and its development in the earth's plane. [See 5755-1 on 6/27/38.] For it became a wanderer in the land. While contacting many peoples, yet many peoples suffered in the wake of the individual. Hence the early return to the earth's plane and the wanderings to and fro through many of the scenes that the entity experienced at that time. The entity then we see was in the earth's plane in 1742. [See 294-8 on 2/09/24 and 294-39 on 10/07/25.]
In the one before this we find the entity then in the French Court and in the days of Louis the 15th, and in the household of the monarch, though separated then from the care of those who lacked the influence in the life in the earth's plane of receiving the forces in the surrounding conditions to bring development in the earth's plane, being then only in that of the small child, or living only to the age of five. In this personality as exhibited through this condition, we find more given in the one following this in that of Bainbridge then in the present earth's plane. Still there is in the innate forces that desire to seek out the individuals who have the greatest attention put to those that lose the influences of the mother and those forces surrounding same.
In the one before this we find in that of the Grecian forces, when the gates were stormed in the Trojan Wars, and the entity then a defender at that gate, losing the life, and the development in that plane came through the hardships as were experienced by the physical body. There being many then in the earth's plane with which the body will be and is associated in the present earth's plane. For the cycle of life's forces and of earth's influence in relative forces, manifested in the Universe, brings many of that period in the present earth's period. The personalities that are exhibited in the present plane are those of the inability to control self in manner when there are those conditions that bring wrath or displeasure to the entity, making one then that has the quick temper in most unexpected circumstances and conditions. This, as we see, then, was not a plane of development in earth's sphere and these urges from that are yet to be overcome in the present earth's plane. [9/19/33 See 294-161 dream, Par. 1-A in re his incarnation in Troy, also other not given. See also 7/10/35 See 294-183, Ck. Life on Trojan incarnation.]
In the one before this we find in that of plainsman, as has been given, and those conditions that surrounded the entity then at that time make for the entity the greatest force in the present earth's plane, and the seeking out of that entity through which the greatest development in that sphere came, the entity brings the greater development in the present plane, as well as often the greatest worries and troubles. For, being unable to correlate those conditions, we find these make many combative conditions in that sphere and from those conditions. For from this plane we find the greater forces as are manifest through the psychic forces, occult forces, mind development, come from experiences in that sojourn, correlated with the spiritual development in the Uranian forces which become accentuated at the present time through the entity.
As to the personalities exhibited in the entity in the present, we find that ability to apply, when the conscious forces are laid aside, the development reached in that sphere, and the forces of the universal forces become a part. Hence the abilities of the entity in all psychic force, which is the extenuation, as it were, of that plane, and is either modified for the good or for the bad, by, through, or in the manner in which the suggestion for such development, such manifestation, such desire of knowledge, is approached; and the greater coming, as has been given, through that of the mind that holds self in that of the receptive mode, or the negative forces. For the entity through its experiences becomes the great dynamic force in positive action. Hence the relations as are given, reaching many spheres of universal knowledge and force, whether of animal, vegetable, mineral, or of the universal knowledge in that of mental, soul or spiritual development. And the entity's sojourn, and the conditions brought in the physical plane, we find giving then the greater urge for the physical conditions in bodies, when guided in that channel; yet through the urge as received may, with the other forces, give of all the forces as may be brought to the force of the given conditions as are reached through suggestion to mental conditions. [Work:EC?] [4/01/32 See 294-136, Par. 1-A--3-A saying EC had been the one sent to warn Lot & Family.] [Gen. 19:26]
In the one before this we find the entity was in the Egyptian land, when the force of the law was being given to the people, in that one chosen as the highest authority in the mental attributes, acting in the way of the Priest [Ra-Ta] [See 341-9, Par. 14-A on 6/02/25 giving further details] to the people, being the first chosen priest of the cult, as afterward called, among the nations of the world. In the present personality and present plane, we find again many in the earth's plane and associated with the entity, that were associated with the entity in that plane. Again we find the entity falling in the way of flesh, for the entity represented that as has been given in the written word, "The Sons of God looked upon the daughters of men and saw they were fair and good to look upon," [Gen. 6:2] and through this fleshly carnal force brought destructive elements to the entity. In the present plane we find still that same urge to be overcome in the entity, for there is that innate call and desire in the flesh for those fleshpots again, as called, of Egypt, and the entity needs that to keep the forces of mental and spiritual development ever to press onward to the higher forces. [See 5748-1, 5748-2, 5748-3 giving further details of the Ra-Ta period; also 341-10, Par. 11-A on.]
In the one before this we find in the first, when the forces in flesh came to dwell in the earth's plane. The entity was among the first to inhabit the earth in that form, and was from that of the beginning in earth's plane, when referred to as the human form dwelling in the earth's forces. In this we find the larger development in the entity, for then [the soul was] able to contain in the Oneness of the forces as given in the Sons of Men, and realizing the Fatherhood of the Creator.
In the present plane we find that ever urge to be drawn nearer to the spiritual elements of every force. Hence in the summing up and use of these, let the entity keep the spiritual forces ever magnified, in action, deed and in truth. For, in earth's plane, every element of the physical or mental, or spiritual nature, is judged by the relation to spiritual forces.
As to the abilities of the entity, we find the entity capable of making the success in any line of endeavor, especially along those of healing arts, or of the higher arts as are contained in the spiritual development through the earth's plane.
Then use those forces as are in hand and magnify His name through the world, for in so doing the entity will save self and others. For as destructive forces have entered in through the entity's physical sojourns, so must the rebuilding, resuscitating, re-establishing, reincarnated forces of the entity be manifest in the present.
We are through for the present.

BACKGROUND

Reading 294-19 was given in two sessions (2/28/25 and 3/06/25) and then merged into a single reading.
2/09/24 He obtained [294-8] a Horoscope Rdg. which gave seven past incarnations with their influence.
2/28/25 He sought a Life Rdg., using the new suggestion which had been given for obtaining one.

REPORTS

3/04/25 He obtained dream interpretation rdg. 294-20. [See subsequent dream interpretation rdgs., some of which referred to past life associations and influences.]
4/21/28 See 254-40, advising EC to oversee bldg. of Cayce Hospital.
7/15/28 See 254-42, Par. 16-A in re his Egyptian sojourn.
8/04/28 See 254-43, Par. 4-A, 5-A in re EC taking course in X-Ray therapy. [See subsequent Ck. Physical rdgs. advising about his health & work.]
12/14/28 See 254-46, Par. 4-A in re EC being made chm. of ANI Board; Par. 10-A in re EC supervising Rdgs. Committee, deciding who is or is not to have rdgs.
7/17/29 See 993-1 indicating she was [294]'s daughter in Persia-Arabia.
4/32 See Special Readings 294-140, 294-141, in re the glands and EC's psychic work; also 294-142, 294-143 in re his incarnation in Persia as Uhjltd.
6/32, 7/32 See 294-144, 294-145, 294-146 in re his life as Uhjltd.
7/32 See 294-147, 294-148, 294-149, 294-150, 294-151, 294-152, 294-153 Ck. Life rdgs. on EC's Egyptian incarnation as Ra-Ta.
9/01/32 See 853-3, Par. 18-A, 19-A in re associations with EC in Va. and Egypt.
10/26/32 See 294-154 Special Rdg. on Uhjltd incarnation story for scenario. [1/25/32 See 294-131, Par. 2-A in re spiral, seeking rdg.]
12/14/33 EC lectured in Norfolk, Va. on CONTINUITY OF LIFE, relating the following dream which he had experienced many times, since the early 1920's, when giving a Life Reading: [This printed copy was taken from Hugh Lynn Cayce's article in the 8/46 A.R.E. Bulletin THE DOOR THAT SWINGS OUTWARD [to conserve space], which later was incorporated into the booklet on life after death by HLC entitled GOD'S OTHER DOOR:] [It was also used in HLC's 4/43 article A STUDY OF SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION:]
"I see myself as a tiny dot out of my physical body, which lies inert before me. I find myself oppressed by darkness and there is a feeling of terrific loneliness. Suddenly, I am conscious of a white beam of light. As this tiny dot, I move upward following the light, knowing that I must follow it or be lost. "As I move along this path of light I gradually become conscious of various levels upon which there is movement. Upon the first levels there are vague, horrible shapes, grotesque forms such as one sees in nightmares. Passing on, there begin to appear on either side misshapen forms of human beings with some part of the body magnified. Again there is change and I become conscious of gray-hooded forms moving downward. Gradually, these become lighter in color. Then the direction changes and these forms move upward and the color of the robes grows rapidly lighter. Next, there begin to appear on either side vague outlines of houses, walls, trees, etc., but everything is motionless. As I pass on, there is more light and movement in what appear to be normal cities and towns. With the growth of movement I become conscious of sounds, at first indistinct rumblings, then music, laughter, and singing of birds. There is more and more light, the colors become very beautiful, and there is the sound of wonderful music. The houses are left behind, ahead there is only a blending of sound and color. Quite suddenly I come upon a hall of records. It is a hall without walls, without ceiling, but I am conscious of seeing an old man who hands me a large book, a record of the individual for whom I seek information."
7/12/33 When EC awoke from Life Rdg. 373-2, he said he had again had the experience of going to the hall of records, to the old man with the books. This time, however, he felt himself to be a bubble travelling through water to arrive at the place where he always got the information.
9/07/33 See 254-68, Par. 4-A explaining the significance of the bubble experience.
9/19/33 See dream rdg. 294-161 in re EC's dream of evolution and incarnation through various phases of the animal kingdom, etc. [See subsequent dreams not interpreted, listed under 294-161, Par. R11.]
2/06/34 See 254-71, Par. 13-A in re Uvani, through Eileen Garrett, stating that EC had an incarnation as an East Indian, and that this was EC's Persian incarnation as Uhjltd. [EC spent March, 1934, in Arizona as guest of Mr. [440].]
4/12/34 See Mental-Spiritual rdg. 294-174 in re soul development of [294], [295] and [288] in past incarnations and present. Also see 294-174, Par. 15-A in re dream or vision in New Mexico in March, 1934, in re communicating with his mother, who gave him a silver coin.
11/28/34 See EC's dream during [listed under] 752-1 in which he went for the records not through blackness and horrible things but up and up through a very large column; passing by all the horrible things without coming in contact personally with them, and came out where there was the house of records. It, the column, wound around on a wheel like the Rotarians have. He felt very secure traveling up that way.
3/19/35 See 903-23, Par. 17-A, 18-A in re EC's associations with Dr. [866] in India-Egypt during his incarnation as Ra-Ta.
7/10/35 See Ck. Life Rdg. 294-183 on EC's incarnation as Xenon in Troy.
10/18/35 See 587-6, Par. 27-A, 28-A in re EC's seeing mentor at time of 587-5.
4/22/36 P.M. During 1151-1 EC had experience of going for records; see details listed under 294-161, Par. R45.
6/30/36 See 294-185, Par. 19-A in re EC's dream of being born in Nebraska in 2158 A.D., also Par. 20-A in re 4 white horses and chariot in sky.
8/26/36 See EC's experience recorded under 294-185 in re going for akashic records in a different from usual manner, traveling on a blue-purple-silver light, going straight to the house of records without passing through the darkness or horrible sights or planes. [See usual manner recorded at the conclusion of his 12/14/33 lecture, CONTINUITY OF LIFE, pp. 43-48 in HLC's booklet, GOD'S OTHER DOOR.] [See subsequent dreams not interpreted, listed under 294-186 and 294-189 Reports. Also 294-196.]
3/02/37 See EC's letter under 1073-5 in re his friendship with Mr. [257] and family.
3/02/37 See EC's letter under 294-146, giving his dream of Mr. [257] and his family.
10/27/37 See 281-38, Par. 20 saying EC should have been named John.
12/15/37 See 1468-2 indicating that EC had been Lucius in the Palestine Period.
2/11/38 EC obtained Ck. Life Rdg. 294-192 on his life as Lucius, bishop of church at Laodicea. [See subsequent dream interpretations, aura chart rdgs., etc.]
6/02/41 See 1523-13, Par. 25-A indicating that [1523] cared for the child [294] during his short French incarnation.
10/14/42 See 1523-16, Par. 26-A that Lucius had been the husband of [1523] in the Palestine sojourn, and the father of their son [1990].
11/05/42 See 1223-6 indicating associations with Ra-Ta the priest. [See Life Rdgs. and Ck. Life Rdgs. on many people indicating their close associations with EC in all his periods of past incarnations.]