This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 2nd day of June, 1928, in accordance with request made by self - Mr. [345].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mr. L. B. Cayce, Hugh Lynn Cayce, Thomas House, and Mr. [345]. Born June 12, 1907, (Wednesday), ..., Street, So., Norfolk.

TEXT

1. GC: 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 the time, the place, and the name, and that in that life which built or retarded the development for the entity; giving the abilities of the present entity and that to which it may attain, and how.
2. EC: Yes, we have the entity and those relations with the universe and universal forces as are latent and exhibited in the present entity.
3. In entering the earth's plane we find the entity coming under the influence of Venus, Mercury, Jupiter and Uranus, with influences in Neptune and Arcturus. Astrologically we find many varying aspects with that meted, merited or gained, by the entity in its sojourn and application of influences in the material or earth's plane.
4. In the influences irrespective of will:
5. One that love and its kindred influence plays the greater part in the present experience; a home loving body by nature.
6. One that would be warned as respecting stomach or digestive troubles, and especially of fevers. Hence this warning taken: Ever be mindful physically of the character of water taken as drink. Beware of soft drinks, or those that are contaminated with any form of coloring matter. These have an evil influence, and subject - as it would be - from astrological aspects, bring those influences hard to overpower by will, save as an abstainer - or mindful of such conditions.
7. In those influences as are seen that have more to do with the application of will's influence concerning same, well here that occasion be made - that many, this entity and others, may understand what the influence of astrological and will's influence that may be controlled by will, or that ASTROLOGICALLY the condition presents that which will may not so easily influence. Will is the application of laws as respecting the mental, the physical or spiritual influences in the life. Astrological, those of sojourn, or that - materially speaking - that of innate hereditary influence. Often met in pathological conditions in the study of materia medica.
8. In this influence seen here, the will may apply toward abstaining from that that would bring physical ailments; while once taken in the physical to the extent that the hereditary influence in the physical sense applying or according, or attuned to that already influenced in ASTROLOGICAL conditions, brings elements physical and material that would be hard to cope with, in the will's application of conditions in the present experience.
9. One loving the beautiful; attracted to same in every form, whether that of the physical, spiritual, or plain material, and to the entity - even the toad, the serpent, the cabbage or the flower, may be beautiful, dependent upon the attitude, by antics or action of such in its relation to that attempted this entity to illustrate in the life's action of individuals.
10. In the influence, then, we find love and its forces as of spiritual influence have most to do with that of will, or the application of the spiritual or material laws in the earth's plane.
11. One that is high minded, in that character and action are ever studied by the entity - and whether one of low estate, origin, or in social life, the BEAUTY and the purity of the life is ever the appealing factor to the ENTITY.
12. One that in the realm of the esthetic or the student in that of theory and practise is ever calling to that innate in the entity - and the desire for knowledge or understanding is not understood by some. To the entity all knowledge is worthwhile, whether able to be used in the PRESENT or in the future.
13. In the influence in Jupiter, as with Uranus and with Neptune, bring influences that are high; yet be warned of those influences that would shake the knowledge of that of highest influence in the life - that which ever ennobles one to the greater, better, more perfect understanding.
14. In those influences as may be builded in the entity through the application of will's influence:
15. In the next ten years comes the making, building, or the earning power of the entity, and at the age of thirty-four the entity may retire from active service for money's sake, should the entity desire to do same; for in the year that the entity is twenty-nine it may accomplish in writing, and in the depicting of those characteristics in individual life to the extent to bring sufficient of worldly goods to accomplish same, provided - to be sure - that those evil influences are kept apart and controlled, rather than being controlled by same.
16. The writer, then, the entity may make for self.
17. As to appearances and those influences in the present experience:
18. In the one before this we find during that period known in man's history as the time of Alfred the Great. The entity then among the writers of that period, and still may there been seen some of those writings as were builded or made by the entity. Then among those who served as an upper churchman. In the name Alglni, and the entity gained through this experience - giving of self much in service and defending the rights of the peoples. While banished or dismissed in service in latter years, yet this made not bitterness in the life of the entity. Hence we find in the present experience one that is long suffering, enduring much; yet when once set or determined, rarely does the entity let ANY element turn him aside. In the urge seen from same - love of that beautiful in the life, so long as it (the life) is in accord with that as professed by the individual. Little, then, of deceit enters into the entity's life. Too much, however, is the entity in THIS manner - that a thing is or it isn't! Consider the other fellow's viewpoint, and remember that, "As ye would that your fellow man would do to you, do ye even so to them." Then give as much quarter in thought and deed as would be desired by self in the same quarter.
19. In the one before this we find in that period when changes took place in what is now known as Mexican country, in the subduing of the peoples as came down from the north, by those coming up from the south. The entity among those who were put in charge of the subdued peoples, and from which arose that peoples now known as Aztec. The entity gained and lost through this experience. Gaining in service and in the manner of rule in the first quarter. Losing in the aggrandizement of selfish purposes in the power gained by self. Then in the name Dlriea, and the urge as is seen from this experience - while the entity desires and likes readings of exploit and explorations; yet there is ever innate the doubt of the experience being just as written. Hence there may be created by the entity an experience that will ring and bring true reflection in the minds of others.
20. In the one before this we find in the land now known as Egyptian. The entity then in that period when divisions rose between the priest and the king. The entity then among those of the designers of plaques and images, or of the drawings for the temple and the king's household - covering then a vast period, for the entity lived to be a very old earthly being. In the name Isbidka, and the entity gained and lost through this experience, bringing much of these experiences in the present earth's plane as urges. In the innate love of study of design, drawing, and especially those of that country, as well as of all orientals - these have especially an influence or an urge in the innate feelings of the entity. In this field may the entity find much that will bring the understanding to the entity of laws that not only govern the human endurance, but of the human reaction to the various laws as govern universal forces, whether applied to mechanics or psychology, whether applied to that reaction as received by sight or that as received by reading or of speech.
21. In the abilities of the entity:
22. As is seen from that as given, either in the field of art - in every, or its broader, or in a special sense, comes the workable field for the entity. The highest attainment may be in the field of letters - in keeping self in the mindful way of the application of law as related to self and to others, and in this sense, too, may the entity understand that law here does not refer to penal law, but rather to that called love; knowing that in love all life is given, in love all things move. In giving one attains. In giving one acquires. In giving love comes as the fulfillment of desire, guided, directed, in the ways that bring the more perfect knowledge of application of self as related to the universal, all powerful, all guiding, all divine influence in life - or it IS life. Ready for question.
23. (Q) Just where should the entity go to achieve the best success?
    (A) Take that thou hast in hand. Not who or where I GO to acquire that necessary; for it is in thine own self, in thine own hands, to build upon that to bring those influences for the proper development, the proper building in self, to attain to the at-oneness with the whole.
24. (Q) In referring to drinks, what should this body drink - what kind of water?
    (A) Pure water. None contaminated with any element.
25. We are through for the present.

BACKGROUND

1. 6/02/28 He said that although he had received training locally as a commercial artist he was a still working as a typesetter in a print shop, without seeing any chance for advancement in his chosen life's work. He had read a leaflet on the Edgar Cayce work which had been printed in the shop, and immediately felt that Mr. Cayce could guide him as to how to proceed.

REPORTS

1. 6/24/28 He requested a Physical Rdg. for his mother, Mrs. [3826.]
2. 7/13/28 He referred a friend, Mr. [2731], for a Life Rdg.
3. 8/18/28 See Ck. Life Rdg. 345-2 answering questions in re his life and work.
4. 6/01/29 See 345-3 Ditto.
5. 5/27/33 He referred Miss [339] for a Life Rdg.
6. 6/03/33 See 345-4 advising in re European studies, emphasis to be in reviving architectural friezes, etc. which he helped originate during his prehistory sojourn in Egypt.
7. 4/27/34 See 345-5 in re his individual art expression.
8. 4/43 HLC's statement in his article, A STUDY OF SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION:
   "Anyone who could compare the suppressed young boy of a few years ago and the young scholar and artist whose work is being recognized today would see why we feel that the Life Readings are so worth studying!"

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