Edgar Cayce Readings, 328-1

(Life Reading Suggestion)

TEXT

EC: Yes (this wasn't all the name given at first), we have the entity and those relations with the universe and universal forces, that are latent and manifested in the personality of the entity, now [328].
In entering this present experience, from the astrological aspect we would find, as compared to the experiences and that present in the entity's manifested abilities in the present, not a great deal that would be true in form to that ordinarily termed astrological views or readings.
Yet, some of those generalities that may be applied to those born in this phase of the earth's position in the universe would apply well in the abilities of the entity, in the mentality of the entity, in the tenacity of the entity, and the positiveness of the entity.
These tendencies, though, are more from the astrological sojourn, or the environs in the planetary experience of the entity, as we shall see.
Then, as we have from an entity-sojourn in the environ of Jupiter, the entity is under those influences in its broadness of vision, broadness of experience; yet hemmed about in this particular experience by those influences from Saturn's sojourn that make for tests, and clarifying of much that the entity has had in experience, that makes for the changing in positions or experiences of the entity; as well as those influences from the environs of Venus making for the adaptability, and - while positive, yet - PLEASING activity as related to associations in groups, in classes, in masses; as well as those in Neptune, that makes for the mystic influence which, bordered with fervor in earth's experience through sojourns, makes for the particular interest in the mental and the materializing influences of the force of spirit and its activity in the material spheres of one's development.
These then, as we have given, appear rather as the basic conditions or forces in the personality of the entity, while the individuality from the sojourn will be from those activities - or that which it has done ABOUT its associating, contacting, or efforts respecting that which has been, or is, or was, or may be maintained as the criterion of judgements, or the ideals set up for the mental being, or mental consciousnesses of the entity (this including, to be sure, the physical consciousness, the subconsciousness, the superconsciousness of the entity).
As to the application of self in the present experience, and that innate and manifested in trait or character of the entity in the present, we find:
One whose mien and manner is such that invites confidence from others.
One whose activities in the present makes for the correlating of mental activities with rote, and with rule of order, both in moral and mental, and the social life of self and others.
One to whom those things that are manifestations of that called the arts, or that appeals to the imaginative forces or senses of individuals or groups, are of special interest.
Hence the ability to visualize in verse or song, the abilities to judge the activities of others in the fields of art; or its kindred subjects are abilities of the entity, through not only material and secular but the innate experiences of the entity in its sojourn, or its development through the eons of experiences.
Those influences that pertain to the inner mental mind are as the field of exploration of the entity; that is, to judge, to delve into the feelings or activities of others, in their mental selves, is as the reading or studying of any particular line or field of endeavor would be to many another individual.
As to the appearances in the earth, then, and those that influence the entity in the present, we find:
In the one before this the entity was during those periods when there were those sojournings from the land of nativity to the colonizations in then called a new world, or during those periods especially in fifteen and fifty-eight (1558) when the Bergersols came to this present land.
The entity then was among those who established in this new land the understandings of the rule as related to the material and spiritual relationships.
And the entity may be termed to have been the real power in making, and declaring for making, the land "home for the free" from persecution of those tenets as related to religious thought; while those in opposition (and whom the entity must contact in the present experience, for the better development) were those that made for this land to become the land to which many a one in shame, in persecution, was banished.
Hence the two factions that arose in the entity's experience during that sojourn; yet the entity gained, for many were they that found in the thought as taught, as material manifestations of a land where, the dictates of the conscious might rule rather than by might or main.
Hence the particular interests in the present, of the entity's activity, in the communication with those that may of themselves seek for aid, or who may aid seekers in the realms of higher mental thought that seek through the association or communication with such channels for their activity.
Also with this experience (that is aided possibly more from a sojourn) there comes the ability to heal, through the activity of mental application in contact with bodies in attune.
In the one before this we find the entity was in that land, and that experience, when there were those being persecuted for their thought in the developments of tenets, truths, lessons, that were given by the followers of the Nazarene, the Son of man - the Christ - the Savior.
The entity then was among the Roman soldiery, under Aurelius, and in the name then Jhan.
The entity gained, and lost, and gained through the experience. For, the entity - through that of material obligation and duty - persecuted those that adhered to those tenets and truths; yet, coming under the influences, there was the change - when there appeared, as it were, the vision - when the destruction came to many that sought to have the freedom of choice.
Then the entity joined with those that adhered to these tenets. While suffering in body, the entity gained in the mental visions.
And from this experience in the present comes also the abilities to reach deep into the mental forces with those whom the entity contacts in meditation, or who - WITH the entity - seek for those quietnesses from within in meditation.
This, used - and not abused, may make for abilities in the present to mean much to many that are seeking to know the way.
Turned into self's own aggrandizing of material gains, makes for hardships and those of detrimental conditions in the physical being of the body.
In the one before this we find the entity was in that land now known as the Egyptian, then Aar (?), in those periods when there was the gathering of many from other lands, that there might be sent the truths that were being proclaimed by those peoples after the return of the priest and the building up of those tenets and truths that CLEANSED man of the impediments of the animal influences in the physical manifestations of the body.
The entity then was in the name Apht-elder.
The entity came into this land from those sojourns of that now called the land of the rising sun, or Shinto land, or now known as Japan.
Then the entity joined with those of the priests who had given much to those peoples, and for the whole experience wrought much in this land, aiding in the distributing of those tenets that built for the return of the considering man's relationship to creation, man's relationship to his fellow man.
These are the truths, the tenets, with which EVERY entity, EVERY soul, may gain the greater contentment in a material or earth manifestation; those studies, those lessons.
In the one before this we find the entity was in that called the Lemurian land, during those periods when the people were leaving - through the conditions that were arising in that land.
The entity then was among those that first came to that portion of the present sojourn that would now be called Ohio, or western Pennsylvania.
For, the entity then set up in this new land the first of the temples from the Lemurian land; that has since been termed the Mound Builders' land. Not the present as seen, but that from which same arose.
In the experience the entity gained, and in the present may be seen the tendency towards rote, ritual, and subjugation to powers that be, within and without the experience of every entity.
As to the abilities of the entity in the present, and that to which it may attain, and how:
Through the application of self to those abilities in healing, those abilities in guiding aright without thought of self-aggrandizing, may the entity give those lessons, those tenets, those counsels in man's relationship to his Maker, man's relationship to man, that will bring for contentment, harmony and peace in this experience. And bring for the entity the continued development towards the ideal.
Lose not an ideal in heavenly things; rather than maintaining the ideal in rite, rote or rule, for material achievements.
We are through.
Copy to Mrs. [255] (2 copies)
Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

4/10/33 Mrs. [255] wrote of a most interesting seance meeting - "A Mr. McBeth was the medium.
"...In the meantime I rec'd a book by Dr. [328]. We were so impressed with the book that we got in touch with the author, who spent an evening with us. He was a German priest for 25 yrs."
5/01/33 "Mr. [328] gave me permission tonight to ask for a Life Rdg. for him. I am most anxious to show him how wonderful such a rdg. is and one's own is naturally the one that one understands best. He is reading your booklet and tonight took our rdgs. along to study them. I am sending a ck. and name and birth date... I have a strong feeling this rdg. will mean much to all of us."

REPORTS

5/08/33 Mrs. [255]'s letter: "Mr. [328]'s rdg. interested me very much. He is now sending it to Europe to be checked up and will show me whatever comes out through the medium in Germany. Then I can have the 'check' checked - lots of fun! At any rate he was one of the priests, too, that interested me very much."
5/21/58 Mrs. [255]'s letter to GD: "You remember Dr. [328] who wrote the book ...? We visited his wife and she mentioned that several mediums had told Mr. [328] he had been Martin Luther. I mentioned I thought I remembered something about St. Stephen in his Life Rdg. She ans'd she had never seen it and knew nothing about it. So I said I would write you and ask you to have a copy typed for me and I will be very happy to pay for it. Do you think this is not too difficult to look up? She mentioned, too, how much she enjoyed the book, THERE IS A RIVER." [Sent 5/24/58, GD.]
10/12/66 GD's note: Dr. [328]'s son visited A.R.E. today, said he is a technical editor, would like to get a college degree in parapsychology. His mother died in '63. His father, Dr. [328], died in 1943, he thinks, when he was nine years old.