This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Va. Beach, Va., this 19th day of November, 1932, in accordance with request made by self - Mr. [311], Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mr. [311] and L. B. Cayce.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, [311], present in this room, and those conditions materially and mentally that affect or influence the mind and the body.
2. Much has been given respecting the different and varied conditions that influence the surroundings, making for that environ created by the activity of the mental body and those conditions problematical that enter in.
3. Ready for questions.
4. (Q) Why hasn't the offer of change in my mental and material affairs come about as predicted in reading of Aug. 6th?
   (A) There has not as yet been the completion of the consolidations necessary for bringing about this offer. There is still in the making those changes that will make for this.
   As seen, with the changes that are to be made by the various activities in certain spheres of relationships, these are still in their making and have not been as yet consummated sufficiently for these to come about.
5. (Q) How long before the offer of change will come?
   (A) As soon as these changes or consolidations have been sufficiently advanced for the operation of those things which make for change.
6. (Q) Will the Southern Railway offer a place in Washington, D.C.?
   (A) This may come about, if there will be some conditions set in motion that will bring about some changes in those things having to do with that which would bring about such offers. These have been mentioned in some circles, as given, and should be carried on out.
7. (Q) What individuals have been discussing it?
   (A) Those that deal with that end of the activities in which the body-mind and consciousness has had its broader field of experience; those through those channels, see?
8. (Q) Any individuals with the ... R.R. been discussing it?
   (A) It has been mentioned; those individuals in those departments that deal with that same phase of activity in which the body has been engaged.
9. (Q) What are the names of the individuals who have been discussing these?
   (A) Those in the Traffic end.
10. (Q) What are the names of the individuals with the ... R.R.?
    (A) Those in that department of it; these names should be known to the body.
11. (Q) What about the prediction in reading of Aug. 6th that an offer would be received from a company in the middle west and either accepted or rejected within ninety days?
    (A) These were changed according to or in line with those conditions that arose respecting those activities in that particular field. There were not the advances made in this particular field; hence the changes that came about. As we find, there are still those associations about Norwalk [?], Ohio, that make for some changes that may come. These may or may not come in the direction that will carry towards this same character of situation or change. Norwalk, yes.
12. (Q) Will any individual with the [... R.R.] have anything to do with me making these changes?
    (A) If these are made in the Washington center, yes. If these are made in the west or central west, no.
13. (Q) Is there any individual with the Norfolk Southern blocking these changes?
    (A) Not as we find in the present.
14. (Q) Please explain more definitely the answer to [311-9, Par. 20-A] in my reading of Aug. 6th.
    (A) This was referring to those changes, as to something in a different character or line. This had more to do with a different thought or purport in the activities, see?
15. (Q) Please tell me definitely when the offer will come as outlined in ans. to [311-9, Par. 23-A] in my reading of Aug. 6th.
    (A) As indicated in giving the definite dates, names or places, these are often altered by the change in circumstances or conditions that arise in individuals or groups that have to do with various fields of activity. Those referred to in Par. 23-A, as we find, are still in the way of considerations. As to just when these will be terminated, these have not been blocked by individuals but by circumstances that were out of control of those who had intended to make these suggestions and to follow up with the offers for the changes, see? but these are still in the making, still in the moulding.
16. (Q) Please explain more fully ans. to [311-9, Par. 35-A] in my reading of Aug. 6th.
    (A) As we find, this should be the understanding in itself as to just how the changes or the things come about in the activities of human endeavors and their relationships to the variations in the activities, see? These should be understood!
17. (Q) Are the physical changes in Alabama predicted for 1936-38 to be gradual or sudden changes?
    (A) Gradual.
18. (Q) What form will they take?
    (A) To be sure, that may depend upon much that deals with the metaphysical, as well as to that people called actual or in truth! for, as understood - or should be by the entity - there are those conditions that in the activity of individuals, in line of thought and endeavor, keep oft many a city and many a land intact through their application of the spiritual laws in their associations with individuals. This will take more of the form here in the change, as we find, through the sinking of portions with the following up of the inundations by this overflow.
19. (Q) When will the physical changes start in Norfolk and vicinity?
    (A) This would be nearer to '58 than to '38 or '36, as we find.
20. (Q) If I stay with the ... R.R. thru 1933 will I be offered any further promotions?
    (A) Superintendency.
21. (Q) Superintendency of what?
    (A) The Traffic.
22. (Q) At what place?
    (A) In the central office of the organization.
23. (Q) Of the ... R.R. organization?
    (A) ... R.R. organization; however, with the prospects of the changes in the activities of the combinations, or other roads that are to be combined with these changes, would not there be serious consideration given of that with the positions in Washington, and with the Government in its activity, in the changing about of the supervision of movements, of traffic?
24. (Q) When will the offer be made?
    (A) This, to be sure, depends upon many circumstances. Consider as this: The positions, or position in which the activities of the ... R.R. exist in the present. Consider also that there are being gathered data to make recommendations that there be given those aids, those connections, those associations with other roads or with other activities that will enable each and every one of the greater lines, or the lines that have to do with the greater activity of a more even nature, that all may be in the position of receiving that commensurate with the portions of the country served. Then it will be seen that to set a specific date or time would only be as general, see? but these changes will come about. As we will find, the greater depression point must be reached (that is, so far as railroad circles are concerned) in the latter portion of this present year, and in the reorganization during the latter part of the first month in next year; after that, by February or March we will find many changes, or many conditions in position to be made to all such activities.
25. (Q) Does that indicate Government operation of railroads?
    (A) Not at all; rather commissions that are aiding in an equalization of the returns, as well as the conditions that will make for betterment to the activities in all service to the portions of country served.
26. (Q) When did I make a study of the teachings of Zoroaster?
    (A) During those periods when the activities of the entity were in those portions of the land that these came under, as shown in the information given respecting sojourns in the earth. [See 311-1.]
27. (Q) Would it be well for me to make a study of astrology?
    (A) Well for everyone to make a study of astrology! for, as indicated, while many individuals have set about to prove the astrological aspects and astrological survey enable one to determine future as well as the past conditions, these are well to the point where the individual understands that these act upon individuals because of their sojourn or correlation of their associations with the environs through which these are shown - see? Rather than the star directing the life, the life of the individual directs the courses of the stars, see? for was it not given when His star appeared? Is it not shown in all the studies of the positions that the earth occupies in its course through the spheres that every condition is as cause and effect? but that the scale has gradually been on the increase for the individuals as they passed through their various experiences in the cycles of position? This is not intended to indicate that (as some astrological reports have been made) there is a definite period when individuals enter a cycle, or that every two thousand or one thousand, or five hundred or twenty-four hundred years an individual re-enters the earth; but as a race, as a whole does the twenty-four hundred year period hold good, see? for in each period does the earth, do the planets, do all of those about space again revert to that it would begin over again. The individual activity is a thing of itself, see? for, as may be illustrated in Life - as of an individual: It may be said that the line of thought in the present is towards a change in the Aries age from the Pisces, or from the Aquarius, or to those various activities, see? but it doesn't mean that every individual changes, for each individual has its own development. As we look about us we see the various spheroids, spheres, planets or solar systems, and they have their individual activity. Look at the soul of man and know it may be equal to, or greater; for it must be man's ability to control one of such! Vast study, yes!
28. (Q) Who is giving this information?
    (A) Zorain. Student with Zoroaster, yes.
29. (Q) In which of my past lives have each of the following been associated and what capacity: Mother [2843]?
    (A) As in more than one. In the Egyptian and in the American.
30. (Q) Father?
    (A) These associations followed close together. Their variations in their influences in the experience of the entity itself may be best seen by the variations in the spheres, as their activities were indicated, by the ENTITY - [311] in the present. In Egypt, in America.
31. (Q) [630]?
    (A) This association has been in that of the student in those periods when there was the study more of the activities in the Persian, see?
32. (Q) [Brother E.]?
    (A) We don't find this association here.
33. (Q) [2383]?
    (A) This also in those periods when there were the studies rather of the activities that brought about those same associations for the present sojourn, see?
34. (Q) [768]?
    (A) In America. [Prehistory America as in 311-1 or Colonial days as in 768-4?]
35. (Q) Will you give the present name of the section of India in which I lived as outlined in my life reading?
    (A) In that portion in which there were the studyings of the change brought in the spiritual outlook by those entering in from the north and west. That as would be called now the eastern portion, eastern-central portion of the land.
36. (Q) What is the present name of the section?
    (A) We should remember these have been changed considerable since there was the sojourn there, and they are covered by more than one general territory; but that consisting of the portion in the eastern-central part of India.
37. (Q) What part of India is this, giving name of some land mark or large city nearby so it can be easily identified?
    (A) In the eastern-central portion may it be easily identified by looking at that indicated there. See, there are many variations in the activities of individuals, peoples, classes, natures of these.
38. (Q) Please explain further ans. to Par. 24-A in my life reading of 11/22/30.
    (A) We don't follow that here. [311-1, Par 24-A]
39. (Q) In my Life Reading [311-1], my experience in what is now known as America is given as being thousands of years ago, whereas reading of March 7, 1931, [311-3, Par 16-A] gives the time as 1607-1682. Please explain.
    (A) Two different experiences; 1607 to 1682 was in a portion of the land that was then of the lowlands of Atlantis; while the one in the first experience was in that portion known now as the plateau or the highlands of the country.
40. We are through for the present.

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BACKGROUND

1. On 8/06/32 he obtained 311-9 answering questions on his life and work.

REPORTS

1. 4/15/33 He obtained 311-11 answering further questions on his life and work.
2. See subsequent Ck. Rdgs. answering questions on his life and work.
3. 12/21/34 Sister obtained Life Rdg. 768-4 giving her an incarnation in early America - Colonial days.

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