This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Va. Beach, Va., this 11th day of September, 1933, in accordance with request made by her aunt, Mrs. [268], Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. [405], Mrs. [268], [406], and Minton Warren. Born March 2, 1922, at 1:00 A. M., 1 1/4 miles from Smithfield, Va.

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1. EC: 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 [405].
2. In entering the present we find the entity coming under especially benevolent influences in a portion of the entity's present experience in the earth's plane. While this will be shown the more influencing (as shall be seen) in the second cycle of Jupiter's influence, which begins in 1940, these are the influences from the astrological experiences irrespective of will's influence in the manifestations in the earth. These influences that are given first, then, are as the mental urges of the entity. As to what the entity does about or with these urges, is as to whether they become the more active in the experience than those of the more material nature - that also enter in, in various aspects of the urges.
3. Then, Jupiter being the ruling influence in the entity's experience from the astrological aspects, as the time of birth, as well as to the sojourn of the entity, we find these manifested in the nature or elements of the entity's environ:
4. One with an exceptional disposition for attracting and for influencing individuals whom the entity may meet.
5. One with the abilities to apply self in the material, the economic, and in the social life of the experience of the entity. There will be from this influence those tendencies towards the stage or dramatics, dramatic art, and the influences these have upon the experience of those whom the entity may associate with, or contact. These will make for the abilities also to the entity, in the application of self in these directions,to influence a great number of individuals, and to become a natural leader in the field of activity or endeavor. Especially in the field of dramatic art with the cinema would be the activities to which the entity might apply self in such a way and manner as to make for self an environ that would cause the influences to be for developments in the experience.
6. An astrological drawing from Mercury and Venus, with Mars, would make these influences.
7. The mental abilities of the entity, that are good, are influenced also through the Mercurian and Jupiterian influences.
8. The entity is well-choosing in its likes and dislikes; well balanced as to the abilities for the activities in the social, and in the manner or way of presenting any question that may confront the body.
9. Naturally the entity is of a nature not forward, yet rather as inclined to be the leader - or one to whom many would come for counsel, for advice, for reference; aiding the body (if such abilities are applied correctly in the experience) to become more and more independent, as well as dependable - by or from others.
10. The influences from Mars make for the tendencies for the mettle, or the activities in madness or anger too at times. For the greater development for the entity in the present experience, it will be necessary that these tendencies be curbed in the activities; else these will tend to make for moroseness in the influences of the entity's experience with others, and for that contact from those of the earth's sojourn (in which we will find there are those that were active with the entity in its associations in the earth that made for retardments); and these must be met in a manner as to make for spiritual applications in the experience of the entity, to bring that which will not be detrimental in the present appearance.
11. These inclinations also make for the abilities of the entity to apply self respecting things that deal with movements; as to song, music, activities of the body in the dance, in the associations with others; yet these must be kept in that way and manner as to make for a mental and spiritual development FIRST, and these will build for the body - and there may be the associations in the material things (as termed) that may make a wonderful career in the experience of the entity in the present.
12. As to the appearances, then, and their influences upon the entity in the present experience:
13. Before this we find the entity was in that period when there were the settlings of the land near the nativity of the entity, when there was the sojourn of the English settlers in now known Jamestown.
14. The entity then was among the peoples of the first generation born in that land, that environ. Hence we will find in the present that those abilities for the sojourns in the land that is well spoken of will ever be an attribute and something to be proud of, in material things, throughout the experience of the entity. And those things that pertain to history, histology, rhetoric and dramatics, will be easy studies in the material associations of the entity.
15. Then the entity was in the name Myra Rouhel, and was acquainted with those characters that have gone down in history; Smith, Pocahontas, Powhatan and Rolfe.
16. In the present experience this association, this experience, will make those conditions in material things as to the health of the body that must be particularly watched, through the 14th and 15th year of sojourn in this experience; particularly in reference to the type of water taken by the body and the environ for the body-development. Watch out for fevers!
17. Before this we find the entity was in that land now known as the French, during those periods when there was the incoming of those from the Fatherland, during the first portions of the ingatherings of those people that became the rulers in the lands under Charles I (not in England, but in France).
18. The entity's sojourn was among the royalty of the period. While the entity's development through the period was neither that of a development mentally or spiritually, these must have an influence upon the entity in the present experience; if the influences or urges from the mental sojourns are applicable in the present experience.
19. While in the house of those in rule, in the name Marciael, the entity gained, lost, gained and lost. Hence the application of those influences that came from Mars' sojourn (that followed) brought those experiences where the acts of the influences known as jealousies in the present, or in material things, made for hardships that worked for retardments in the experience.
20. Hence in the present, while the influences will bring about the entity individuals and surroundings wherein the environs in a material way may be much as through that sojourn in the experience of the entity, unless the influences of anger and the concurrent activities are curbed, there will be made a retardment in this direction.
21. Before this we find the entity was in that land now known as the Roman, during those periods when there were the hardships brought to those peoples in the beliefs that were held by them from the teachings of those that came from the Palestine land, from meeting the soldiery that came back from the land.
22. The entity then was the companion of, the wife of, that soldier that stood by the Cross when the Son of man was put thereon; in the name Marcellus.
23. Through this experience the entity gained and gained. While the positions in the social life of the entity made for associations with those of the royalty and with those that were persecuted, even that were given to the lions in that experience, the entity held self rather in that position as being able to give help both to those persecuted and strength to those whom duty demanded oft to act in the capacity of the persecutors.
24. Hence those experiences of the entity that make in the present the tendencies at times to be moody, and to have flights of fancy as to the religious life, the religious environ; yet holding to those things pertaining to the material things of life, these may be well-balanced in the faith that the entity may gain that knowledge, that understanding in the present experience, that the so-called good things of life may be the result of selfs' application to the proper mental attitudes in the present experience or material things for the successes of life.
25. Before this we find the entity was in that now known as the Egyptian land, during those periods when there were the persecutions arising from the banishment of the priest. The entity then was among those that came from the Libyan land, and - in the name Phluhas-Tlesut - became among those that returned with the priest when the rebellions were over.
26. The entity came into contact with the activative forces in both the Temple Beautiful and the Temple of Sacrifice. In the Temple Beautiful the entity was among those that were able to interpret the dance or the movements of the body as related to the sacrificial service, in ridding the body of those actions or influences that partook more of the animal kingdom. In the associations in the Temple of Sacrifice the entity was among the musicians.
27. Hence the harp or the horn would be those in the musical activities that would be more applicable, and would be the active influences in the entity in the present experience; as would be the symbol, or that to which the entity would respond the most in the present experience: The circle, with the staff and rod (or the shepherd's rod) making the cross; for the emblem in itself - with the rose, and the harp in same - with the words: Centu et Ulm (which means: Through the centuries, and through love, is the Conqueror made).
28. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, and that to which it may attain - and how:
29. From the earthly sojourns it is seen that there are both environmental and hereditary influences to be coped with, in the mental activities or application of self, for the greater development in the present experience.
30. Through the environmental-hereditary influences in the MENTAL aspects of the body's development (the soul-body development), there are to be seen the beneficial or benevolent influences.
31. These must be, will be, constantly warring one with another, until the mental and the aspirations and the activities are one. Or, find first self - and self's relationships to the Creative influences that are manifested in a material world. KNOW in whom, in what, self believes, as related to the spiritual life, in the application of self to such a life. Then, so outline, so plan that which would - in the material things of life work in the directions as outlined, to be cooperative in the experience of self.
32. Then there may be both the career and the success, the soul and mental development for the entity, in the present experience.
33. Know that in the 14th and 15th year there must be the warnings respecting the health of the body, and that in 1940 will come the opportunity for the entity in the mental application of self for the better material and mental development for the entity.
34. Ready for questions.
35. (Q) Should I go away to school next season?
    (A) If the environs are to be such that will make for the better application of self in the directions outlined, it would be well.
36. (Q) What kind of school would you suggest?
    (A) One well-rounded in the development of the mental and the physical body, with those references that keep a balance in the spiritual environ.
37. (Q) In the North or the South, or is there a special school that would be suggested?
    (A) As we would find, the first few years should be in the SOUTH.
38. (Q) Any special school suggested?
    (A) One where the environs are much as outlined. There are many.
39. (Q) What courses of study in art, etc., should I pursue?
    (A) Particularly in those lines for the developments outlined. Music and dramatic art, and the necessary regular routine for making a balance in these directions.
40. (Q) Should I go in the movies?
    (A) The development would be towards that field of activity.
41. (Q) Do I have a guide, or guides, in the spirit world or plane?
    (A) There are ever, for every soul, those that may be termed the guides or guardian angels that stand before the throne of grace and mercy. The guardian angel for this entity (as may be termed) is that one, Aruel, who stood with Marcellus at the Cross.
42. (Q) Will I be able to have protection and guidance from the spirit plane to help me carry out my ideals for my best development in this life?
    (A) If there is the finding of self in its relationships to the spiritual life, and the guiding of self therein; as given. Then do the angels and the guards in the spiritual life protect those in their activities.
43. (Q) Any guidance from my ancestors in this life? If so, which ones?
    (A) Not in any PARTICULAR direction; though these, to be sure, may be developed. But rather, we would give, seek the inner self and the relationships in the mental and spiritual forces that come from the higher realms.
44. (Q) In what previous lives have I been associated with the following: Mother and Father.
    (A) The American sojourn.
45. (Q) Aunts [5559] and [268]?
    (A) Aunt [5559] in the French period. Aunt [268] in the Roman and Egyptian.
46. (Q) Uncles [E...] and [J...]?
    (A) We do not find the association or connection.
47. (Q) Uncle [280]?
    (A) Egypt.
48. (Q) Were uncles [E...] and [J...] in Jamestown with me?
    (A) In Jamestown, but not closely associated.
49. (Q) What did I do in Jamestown?
    (A) As outlined. This may be given better from taking the individual experience, than general. We will seek it, if it's so desired.
50. (Q) With cousins [1233], [406], and [1235]?
    (A) In Egypt, Persia and Rome.
51. (Q) All three of these places?
    (A) All three of these periods. Hence the attractions to some, the resentments to others.
52. (Q) Aunt [268]'s little dog Mona.
    (A) Rome.
53. (Q) Was the little dog at Jamestown?
    (A) No.
54. (Q) Will Mona always be a dog?
    (A) That depends upon the environ and the surroundings. No.
55. We are through for the present.

    Three copies to Mrs. [268]
    Copy to File
    [See 405-1, Par. R1 in re EC's dream at beginning of Reading.]

REPORTS

1. Note (in re Rdg. 405-1): "On waking EC said that at beginning of above reading, as he was losing consciousness, at beginning of this reading he saw light on the wall as as from mirror reflection, which merged into a point and disappeared into his head."

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