This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 15th day of May, 1933, in accordance with request made by self - Mr. [333], Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mildred Davis and L. B. Cayce. Born December 27, 1882, between 11:00 A.M. and 12:00 Noon, at Monroe Street near Reid Ave., in Brooklyn, N.Y.

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1. EC: (In undertone - "between 11:30 and 12:00 noon")
2. Yes, 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 known as [333].
3. In entering, from the astrological aspects we find much (were it taken from the ordinary record, or that called the Persian and Chaldean record) that would be confusing, to understand the astrological aspects and the experiences through which the entity has passed in the present; for these would make general indication that the body in the present would be a power in some political ring, or some political influence. And this might be made possible, yet the entity's ACTIVITIES in the earth's experiences and in the present have been such as to alter, or to bring - as may be termed - the influences from indwelling earth's sojourn of greater influence than that viewed from the purely astrological influence.
4. Hence that given through these channels (This aside), as to how a Life Reading - or life information - may be made more beneficial in the present experience of an entity than that of purely astrological information; unless followed very closely day by day, and THEN - for such an entity - the astrological tendencies would rule the entity, rather than the entity ruling its destiny!
5. Then, we will find these influences from the astrological viewpoint more as impulses; and the greater ruling influence in both the personality and individuality of the entity, now known as [333], from the earth's sojourns.
6. The impulses, then, we find from those sojourns in Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus, coming in the order given; but rather at purposes, or even cross purposes, influencing at times as to make for rather that, which may be said to be, called the temperament of the mental body, than the willed experiences or influences in the present activities of the entity in the earth's plane.
7. Mars - easy to become riled; super sensitive in many things.
8. Rather broad of vision, quick at activity in grasping detailed activities as related to those things pertaining to the creating of ideas, whether pertaining to these influences in material things or the activities of individuals, in groups or in mass.
9. Broad of vision; and duty and love meaning one and the same thing to the entity.
10. As to the activities, the scope of vision in the occult influences, rather a tendency towards one that receives impulses, hunches, or the like; and such are of much interest to the entity.
11. And, as given aforetime to such an entity, October of last year meant a real change period in the thought of the entity in the present experience.
12. As to the appearances and those that influence so greatly the activities, the mental reactions and the impulses in an activative way in the present experience:
13. In the one before this we find the entity was in that period when individuals sojourned to the land now known as Pennsylvania, or during those periods when William Penn brought many peoples to the land.
14. The entity then was among those born of parentage that had come to the land, and was of exceptional activities in the period; for the mother's name was then Anne Nelson and the father's Walter Ewell (?), or that union that brought the entity - Usal (?) - into the experience, and they were not of the families that came for the reaction of the church, or seeking freedom of speech or to worship in their own conscience - or from the dictates of their conscience, but came rather that their associations, their experiences, might be joined in the new environ without question.
15. Then the entity rose to a position of prominence: not eminence, but prominence in those colonies that were founded in the new land.
16. The ability to adapt self to the various periods of change was helpful in the development for an environ that brought much of peace, and of concern - from many who viewed the activities of this peculiar people in this land.
17. The entity then was the clerk of the town, that kept the records of the people's contributions, in their governments, in their relations one with another, as well as to the exchanges made both with the natives of the land and that later sent abroad.
18. Through the experience the entity gained. Hence in the present we find those abilities to adapt self to all classes of activity, and when there is the suppression of those tendencies for the arousing of the mental forces as to digression - from the madness, or the like, or until (we may say) there is clearer thought from within self, greater will be the abilities of the entity in making for material, as well as mental and spiritual gain, with the associates.
19. In the one before this we find the entity was in that land now known as the Roman, during those periods when the people sojourned to the land under which the rules of the land extended.
20. The entity then was among those of the soldiery of Pilate, that ruled in Judea and Jerusalem during the sojourn of the Prince of Peace in the earth.
21. Then the entity, coming under the influence of those surroundings, gained much in casting the lot of self with those peoples (and a whole history might be written here of the entity's presenting to Caeser the activities of Pilate at this trial, as well as those of the high priest in the condemning); for the entity, in the name Phlons, was among those who stood guard at the time of the Crucifixion and SAW the Prince of Peace die on the Cross.
22. In the activities through this sojourn the entity, as Phlons, gained; for those peoples that later sojourned from Jerusalem to Rome were aided oft by the activities of the entity.
23. When in the present there has arisen those things in the authority of State as in controversy with the spiritual influences in men's lives, the entity has found a trembling within as of harking to a day when the sun was darkened and not by an eclipse alone, and when the earth shook and the temple veil was rent; for the entity VIEWED these experiences in the affairs of men. This should be written!
24. In the present from that sojourn the entity will find that the adherence to those principles that embued the self to act during that sojourn, or experience, will ever be that which will make for the greater development throughout any activity or sojourn in the earth, though the return may be an hundred-fold - or times.
25. In the one before this we find the entity was during those experiences in that land known as the Persian, when those peoples had been made afraid through the departure of the leader Uhjltd, by the overrunnings by those from the Athenian land.
26. The entity then was among those who attempted to stay the tide of destructive influences to that which was builded during this leader's sojourn, and aided then in assisting Zan - or Zoroaster and Zan - to reestablish in another portion of the land a place for refuge, under the guidance of an one who rose to be ruler in that experience.
27. Then the entity was in the name, as would be termed in the present, Iahn.
28. In the experience the entity gained and lost, and gained.
29. In the activities in the present has come much that has been experienced, not only in dealing with troubles in the associations of families, but in connections that have questioned the abilities of the entity, that have brought discouragements when the entity in the present would not to self - OUTWARDLY - acknowledge same, but felt and acted from impulses within.
30. In the one before this we find the entity was in that land now known as the Egyptian, in that period when the priest was being returned to the land from the Nubians.
31. The entity then was among those SENT by the king to induce and insist upon the return of the priest for the betterment of all those peoples in that experience and sojourn.
32. The entity was then in the name Zui-ptlo.
33. In the experience the entity rose to one of power, when it came to the organizing of the groups in the various lands to which emissaries were sent, or to lands from which individuals came and returned to their own for applying the lessons, or thoughts, in their various fields of activity for their own peoples.
34. The entity may be termed, then, the first of missionaries that went to establish, or carry, or enable an understanding to those that sought from a source for betterments in the material, the commercial, the mental, the social, the spiritual relations of man, as taught by the various groups in this particular experience.
35. The entity gained and gained, and lost, through the experience; gaining in the aid given, gained in the help rendered in aiding others; losing in becoming selfish in the centralizing of power in self in many of the places to which the entity journeyed for the establishing of these places of refuge.
36. In the one before this we find the entity was in that land known as the Atlantean, during those periods when there were the questions arising much as may be termed in the land today, in a local section, as to the acknowledgement of the castes in a land where the untouchables are considered as but dogs among the higher castes.
37. The entity was in that position then of attempting to gain for the untouchables an approach for their own self-development during that period.
38. In the name Alsimao, the entity gained and lost through this sojourn.
39. In the present there is the knowledge, or those abilities in the knowledge of things pertaining to the working of metals, or things pertaining to metals and BUILDINGS - these arise from that sojourn, as does the influence in the democratic feeling of activity throughout the land; yet INNATELY is there builded in the experiences of the entity that castes, classes, peoples, races, peoples of other nations, must not be treated as a whole - but the entity must learn that all are of one source - One! "Know, the Lord thy God is ONE!"
40. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, and that to which it may attain - and how:
41. In the MATERIAL applications of the entity, the fields of endeavor pertaining to either salesmanship, the working with metals, or distributing or COMPOUNDING of same, will offer a field of operations; though, with a development that may be had through the activities of the mental being, the entity may indeed be a minister in the sense of ministering to the needs of many, in understanding tenets or truths that may bring a development in the experience of groups and masses. Hence in THIS direction may the entity in the mental field expand. Ready for questions. Knowing that those questions that arise must be answered, even as those questions that were asked and answered, "Truly this man WAS the Son of God!"
42. We are through.

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BACKGROUND

1. See his Mental-Spiritual Readings, 333-1, on 6/22/32 and subsequent Reports.
2. 5/7/333 He submitted questions - see letter under 333-1 Reports.

REPORTS

1. 5/18/33 Mr. [333] referred Misses [346] & [355] for rdgs. He attended the Edgar Cayce Foundation dinner meeting in N.Y., in fact he was greatly instrumental in planning the occasion - for the purpose of stimulating interest in raising the money to continue the work of Edgar Cayce in Virginia Beach.
   He talked to EC and HLC who went to N.Y. for the meeting.
2. 6/04/33 He wrote: "With regard to my life reading I think that I may not have shown the interest or appreciation that I really felt at the time you were here, but if so it can be accounted for by the fact that I purposely put it as much out of mind as possible for the moment as I did not want any personal matter to interfere with the arrangements for the meeting. I have given considerable thought to it however since that time and have tried my best to make it a study, applying the facts as given as a basis of an analysis of myself and my life thus far in this present experience and I have gained much from it and I want to help in any way I can to carry on the work of securing further data on this entity which I am, not to use it as a means of personal glorification in any sense but for the better means of development for this present experience and for the future in order that I am intelligently make use of myself to in some way make up for this lack of knowledge of the truths that govern all experience and to gain as much during this experience and make up for some of the losses and the lack of accomplishment in this experience. I apparently have not even measured up to the standard of accomplishment of some of my other experiences and I am fully conscious of how important the little word "WAS" can become when I look at the last sentence in my Life reading which says, "Truly this man WAS the Son of God". Evidently I have wandered far afield and failed to measure up to that standard set in previous experiences in my efforts to stoop to the level of my associates and take life as I have found it instead of sticking to the ideals of my youth which seperated me from my associates, causing me to be accused of taking life too seriously. However I have the encouragement that with a development that may be had through the activities of the mental being, I may indeed be a minister in the sense of ministering to the needs of many in the understanding of tenets or truths that may bring a development in the experience of groups and masses.
   "Indeed it is true that there has been much of discouragement in the matter of family troubles before I married and the questioning of abilities on the part of many.
   "I can understand much about my experiences in Judea and Jerusalem in respect to how I have felt and acted under certain circumstances relating to reactions to affairs of state, injustice, the present economic upheaval etc., and I can understand better my interest in such books as "The Call of the Carpenter" and "Under Pontius Pilate" both of which I have had for a number of years. Reading the former over again last June nearly started me to public denouncement of our present system of social, economic, industrial oppression and your Spiritual message was what saved me from making that mistake. I am mailing you both of these books as I thought they may help to a better understanding of me if you have any intention of developing something along the lines suggested in the reading as I understand you have and I thought that some of the truths in these books might be of interest to some of you folks and there are parts of the book "Under Pontius Pilat" which I thought might be of particular interest to Miss [295]."
3. 7/23/33 "I am out of employment at present and unless this coming week sees the hoped for change in this condition our affairs will be much worse than they have been. We too are behind hand in payments and threatened with the loss of our home, and are also badly in need of many necessities, but God knows of that which we have need of and if this is the right home for us no one can take it away and the right job will be given me for he has not closed a door but he has opened another for us even though we have not always been the most deserving. After all we are but human and to a certain extent victims of wrong concepts of real truth which have been taught to us and which we must forget and learn all over real truth as it has been given us these past few years through you good people."
4. 10/31/33 See 254-70, Par. 11-A, a personal message to Mr. [333].
5. 11/19/33 See his Mental-Spiritual Reading, 333-3, for which he and his wife were present.
6. See subsequent Physical Rdg. 333-4.
7. 9/24/34 He obtained Life Rdg. for his son, [670].
8. 1/25/35 See Business Rdg. 333-5.

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