This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 10th day of July, 1935, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. Edgar Cayce, Honorary Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Helen Ellington, Margaret Wilkins, Ruth LeNoir, Edith and Florence Edmonds, Myrtle Demaio, Austin Rice, L. B. and Hugh Lynn Cayce.

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1. GC: You have before you the soul entity of the body known as Edgar Cayce, present in this room; especially that phase of its experience on earth known as Xenon, as presented through these sources. We ask that the Creative forces, the I AM presence of this entity, review of the activities of the experience of Xenon, tell us HOW and WHY this entity failed, or lost, when according to the information through these channels this entity Edgar Cayce, as Uhjltd and Ra-Ta, had manifested in a marvelous manner. Tell us in an understandable manner how this entity may meet these failures NOW, and attain to the former estate as Uhjltd or Ra-Ta.
2. EC: Yes, we have the entity now known as or called Edgar Cayce, and those experiences of the entity in the earth as Xenon.
3. In giving a review of that experience of the entity, that there may be a better understanding of the activities during the experience and of what happened to the entity that there came the experience which to the present mental concept of the entity was a failure in its activity, it is well that the conditions surrounding same be reviewed, as it were; at least in part.
4. The period, as man would count time, was eleven fifty-eight to ten twelve B.C. (1158 to 1012 B.C.); at a period when many of those who had been in the activities of the Atlantean, Lemurian and Og age were entering, at that period or cycle in the affairs of man. For there has ever been during a period of fifty-eight ('58) a cycle, unit, age, year, period or era when there has been the breeding, as it were, of strife.
5. So in that experience strife was bred among the Grecians and Trojans, who were at the period those units of power that sought a justification; or an excuse that there might be a meeting of the strength as to that condition or experience that is ever combative. No matter what terms may be used for the expression, there is ever the combativeness between Right and Wrong, or Power and Strength, or the irresistible and immovable; they are ever and constantly vieing one with another.
6. Into such an environ came Ra-Ta, Uhjltd, for those experiences that should have brought - or were to bring - the strength, the power of resistance in the face of adversity, or that strength necessary in the face of the ups rather than the downs - those of affluence.
7. For as may be indicated in those experiences of the entity, ever was there conflict about or around the entity; yet the ENTITY withheld from its personal activity.
8. In that period the entity was first the student; the student of chemistry, the student of mechanics, the student of those things in the arts that pertain to the activities of the period, the activities of those with whom the entity was associated.
9. Yet the entity was forced, against its OWN will, into active participation in an open conflict.
10. There had been little or no opportunity of the forces breaking through, for the gates which were prepared against the invaders had withheld any or all the assaults; because of the power given to the entity, who had proven to the defenders during the stress that there was the power within the activities of the entity to GUARD - in body - the gate.
11. But then there arose conditions to weaken this power, through the sublety - which had not been the experience of the entity. These, by the trust in that which had been from the material experience, brought to the entity shame in the material sense, dishonor in the mental self.
12. And these oft have proven, do prove to be, the stumbling-stones over which many an individual may find his undoing.
13. So, the entity found self without the strength in the abilities of self to maintain that at-oneness; for he had come to depend rather upon the abilities of self - which is too oft the undoing of a soul!
14. In THIS manner, then, did the entity fail. And with the failure came the experience of being an outcast, as one dishonored, as one thought little of; at last losing self through self-destruction in those periods when there arose again the conditions or activities of those in power, when Achilles rose to the strength to meet the needs in those particular experiences.
15. And hence there was brought the falling away. This is how; this is the manner.
16. Then, in considering those necessary influences that are in the experience of the entity, or the needs of the entity:
17. We have indicated that many of those the entity contacted as individuals then would be met in the present, and that many would become again stumblingblocks in this or that manner; that many would make for experiences when again there would come the urge for self-effacement from the experiences in the material or manifested way and manner.
18. And this is the GREAT barrier, the great experience which the entity must meet in the present, the one thing MOST needed in the experience first; that is, a regeneration from that experience.
19. As to the manner or way, then, in which the entity may meet same:
20. It is ever set before each and every soul. In Him put thy trust, and not in the strength of thine own MIND, nor of thine associations in a material world, nor of thine affiliations in this or that experience; but rather in Him.
21. As there was the failure then, so may the grace be through Him to whom, of whom the entity failed then in that experience; that there may be given the spiritual awakening to many.
22. For, as we have said oft of the entity's experiences in the earth, EVER must and will they be judged according to the spiritual import AND OUTWARD MANIFESTATIONS of the entity regarding its SPIRITUAL life.
23. Hence in that manner, in that way, may this temptation be overcome which is ever before the entity for failure, for shame, for success or for trouble - self-effacement.
24. As to how or in what manner the entity may rise to that power as apparent in the activities of Uhjltd or Ra-Ta:
25. Here we find a variation in the relativity of the experiences of each and every individual.
26. For to many the power, the help, the aid which has come in their experience in the present has not only equaled but has surpassed any that was experienced in the period of either Ra-Ta or Uhjltd.
27. For body-mind help has come to those in the present in no uncertain terms. That it is not heralded or spoken of is the lack OF that in the MENTAL atmosphere of those to whom such has come.
28. Then, as to how the ENTITY - AS an entity - may regenerate or re-purify the BODY-PHYSICAL from those experiences:
29. This is a matter of form by consecration of the Mind, the Soul, the Body, to the Creative Forces that may manifest through each and every soul that has and does put on the whole armor of a RISEN Lord.
30. For HE hath shown the way; not by some mysterious fluid, not by some unusual vibration, but by the simple method of LIVING that which is LIFE itself. THINK no evil; speak no evil; HEAR no evil. And as the Truth flows as a stream of life through the Mind in all its phases or aspects, and purifies same, so will it purify and revivify and rejuvenate the body. For once this effacement urge is overcome, then may there begin the rejuvenation.
31. We are through for the present.

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BACKGROUND

1. See 294-8, 294-19, 294-161 in re Troy.

REPORTS

1. See subsequent notations under 294-19 Life Rdg. Reports.
2. 6/30/36 He obtained 294-185 on his life and work.
3. 2/11/38 EC obtained Ck. Life Rdg. 294-192 on his incarnation as Lucius.

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