This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Virginia, this 18th day of April, 1934, in accordance with request made by self - Mrs. [410], Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Mildred Davis, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. L. B. Cayce. Born August 14, 1891, in Pensacola, Florida.

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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 personalities of the present entity, [410].
2. In entering the present experience, much might be said respecting the soul's purpose in the present experience, and the determinations that may be said to have been set. And while there have been those periods in the experience of the entity when there apparently were all those things necessary that would - and could - make for that which would be the impulse to carry on, in this experience, to the fulfilling of all those desires, some of these in the first of this association being denied - as it were - then, as from the forces outside of self, apparently so little at first was left for that to which the entity and soul had builded. Yet these things, these experiences, rather than making for misunderstandings, should make the entity rather know that those joys, those things in the desires, may be better prepared even by separations. For, where the heart is there will the mind be enjoined. For, the treasures of the heart are the sincere desires to be used as a channel that will be the greater manifestation of that which is set as the ideal in the mental and the spiritual self. KNOW, then, He doeth all things well.
3. As to the astrological aspects, these would be rather as naught for this particular entity; save the sojourns in those environs that are known as the planetary influences in this solar system. For, each soul goes on from things celestial to things terrestrial, [I Cor. 15:40] from things material to things mental and spiritual, and in each of these realms the consciousness of the soul seeks that desire of expression in that particular field of activity which it has builded in its own inner self. For, truly does the soul live on and become the more and more aware of that which is done in an unselfish manner, so that it may become more and more aware of abiding and living and being in Christ Consciousness. And hence the greater soul development that may be for any soul is to be less and less of self, less and less with MATERIAL desire, but more and more in accord with the Christ, the Holy One, the Life, the Manifestation of all those things that have been said to be so impractical as related to materiality; yet they are the REAL, the TRUE things in the experiences of every soul. Woe is he indeed that may hold a grudge, or that may build upon those things that are termed hardships in his experience! Rather, as He, rejoice in the crosses that ye may bear with Him as thine aid; then indeed does that companionship become such as to make for those joys in thine daily life in such ways and manners that ye see the fruits of the spirit of the Christ manifested in the lives and hearts of those to whom ye may be only gentle or kind in the passing. For, did not the poet give, "He smiled and the whole day was bright"? The song came, and the cheery word came to another, and the load was lifted from those that had thought a burden too heavy to bear. Just being kind and gentle, just being patient and giving in the experiences with those one contacts day by day, brings that joy, that pleasure, that understanding, that can ONLY come with walking with Him. And He is very near unto thee; He is in thine own heart, thine own life, day by day.
4. What, then, have been the associations in these environs through which the soul has sojourned in the interim from the entering into the earth's plane?
5. Love and peace, as in Venus. Broadness of vision, and that which deals with things that grow. LIFE, as it manifests itself, becomes of the greater interest to the entity, and those things that will visualize - as it were - the beauties that are seen in nature as it opens to the blessings of the afternoon rain or the morning sun. These make for those things that produce gladness in the heart of self, for these joys have been thine through those associations while living in what has often been called dreams, by those that understand not, and the unreal world; yet they are the more real in thine own experience. The song of the bird, the beauty of the rose, the buzz of the bee, the activities of those things that give forth in themselves the expressions of the joy of just using - for the time being - a portion of God in their activity. Would that all men everywhere could gain but that consciousness in life and life's experience, and in the blessed associations of those to whom we may do good through the kindnesses and blessings that may be shown by being gentle, that we are USING God in His manifestation in the earth, in the life that He gives us - that brings consciousness of pain and sorrow, yea; and of longings and of desires such that the loneliness pressing upon the individual time and time again becomes at times almost unbearable. Yet, if the consciousness of the life makes for that hope that springs ever anew within the human breast, there may be the fruitfulness yet of those blessings that come with the close walk with Him.
6. Such associations in Venus have brought these beauties, these loves of such things; yet the love of those things that bring pleasure and ease in the material associations in life - these are not at fault, but do not worship those. Let them not alone become thine goal. Rather know that those things that make for the satisfying of the longings, that ease the loneliness so as to bring to self the joys of God in thine experience, are through being happy in the moment. For, we live only the one moment at the time. Those that are transient will pass away - and only the earthly pass; but that love that can sustain, that love that does sustain in all the hours of trial, all the hours of temptations, all the hours of sufferings, abides with thee still. Keep - KEEP - the heart singing. Look deeper into the heart of the rose. LISTEN to the song of the bird. See the paintings of His face in the setting and the rising sun. See the loveliness in the moonbeam that turns all into the radiance of His glory. See in the raindrop, the storm, all nature, and even in those ugly things in people's lives, the desire for expression rather than the hate and the turmoil and the disorders. For, ALL are seeking expression. Leave to Him that is life, that gives life and takes life, the increases - whether in body, in mind, in those things of the earth; for the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the cattle on a thousand hills - yea, the fat of many rams. Art thine desires for those things that will satisfy only the material desires? FILL thine mind, thine heart, with those things that make for the attitude, "I am the Lord's and He will work in me and through me, guiding my hands and my feet, and my walks in the paths of life, that I may be a channel of blessing to those I contact. And may each that I meet see in mine eye and mine countenance that I walk and talk with JESUS, often!" So may the life be filled with those things in the present.
7. The experiences that have come to this soul in the earth are rather as those that have been or may be seen in the various periods of the present expression of life, as in the early years before the teens, through the teen ages, and then in twenty-two - in the year of twenty-two to thirty - how the changes came, and how these were filled with those various things that were in the experience before.
8. Before this we find the entity was among those peoples that came into this land, where there might be a refuge from the trials first of that they had experienced in the rough voyage on the sea, and in what is now known as Louisiana.
9. The entity then was among those peoples that found a haven there, and brought to those lands in the latter experience the joys of many, and builded for much that has given joy and peace to the minds and hearts of many who have loved God's little folk in the bird kingdom.
10. Then, in the name Audubon, the entity made for a home; and when turmoils and strifes came, even through those trials of those that made war - and the changes in the associations, the entity brought to many the faith and hope still in those same powers and influences that had preserved them from the water and from the billow and from the storm; that though the forces in nature may roll and rage they may destroy only the body, and the soul may live on in that which has been the desire.
11. Dost the heart desire that it have a companionship with Him that walked in Galilee? Then, hast thou put on those garments that would make thee as an acceptable guest at His home, at His table? Dost thou live day by day those things that create for thine surroundings the blessings that would be as an acceptable guest with Him? Then, these will bring - even as during those sojourns - the joy in this experience now.
12. Before that we find the entity was during those periods when there were many of those that had wandered away, or far afield from the understandings, when the peoples were to be returned to the temple service. It was to be rebuilded again, that they might worship their God according to the dictates of their own conscience, that again the book of the law might be established and that again the joys of a people high in esteem - when they have loved those precepts of a living God - might be had.
13. The entity then was among those in the household of Zerubbabel, among the daughters even of this priest that came again to the ruins and builded in the hearts of those that which might make for the preparations of those things to be kept in the minds and hearts of those whose bodies might be the channel through which the son of David, the house, might be again raised to the influences to bring the Son of man in the earth.
14. In living day by day, then, just such little things that mean so much in the minds and hearts and lives of those that we meet day by day, there may come in this experience those understandings - from even those beauties gained in the abilities to meditate in that experience. For, the artist and the lover also of nature comes from that experience of the entity in the Chaldean as well as in the Promised Land. Those things that partake both of the old and new; those soft materials that will wrap beautifully; flowing robes; peculiar hairdress; these things did the entity teach in that experience to the daughters of Jacob, and to those people that were to be the mothers of those that would nourish and cherish the gift of God to a sin sick world.
15. May thine own self, then, be an encouragement in these periods when turmoils and strifes arise, that ye may bring again the same into the hearts of those that are longing to know of the joys of service and of sacrifice of self in body, in mind, in means, and in life its very self, that the Lord's day may come, that His kingdom may be awakened in the hearts of men.
16. Before that we find the entity was in those periods when there were the buildings in the city where the priest had been rejected, yet with his return to the land of Egypt we find the entity was among those in the Temple Beautiful - where all would purify themselves, in that they set aside periods, portions of their own days, of their own activities, of their own substances, in body, in mind, in the material things, that there might be a joyful noise unto the Lord.
17. Then the entity was in the name Ipt-El.
18. As to the abilities in the present, and that to which the entity may attain, and how:
19. MANY about self are seeking. Many are desiring to know much that the self may give; yet does the self withhold self because of those things that make for being afraid in the activities day by day.
20. Then, meet with those that rejoice. Meet with those that weep. Weep with those that are sad. Make a joyful noise unto the Lord in song and praise, that the Holy One may walk again in the earth - and that those that sit in darkness may see a great light.
21. Follow for the present in the associations that have been left or set before thee. Use the talents in making or painting the little place cards and those things that exemplify the beauty and joy in the sick room, the cheering smile to those that are sad, in the blessings of a cheery hour to those that are sad and to those that mourn. The little booklets or cards that may be drawn or painted will find a distribution in ways and manners that will seem even as strange; yet aiding in these ways and manners may those things that have been an experience so oft of the entity in the earth be in these last days the finding of Him waiting at the door for thee, that He may walk and talk with thee, even in the quiet and the cool of the day. And thus may that period of rest come, and a contentment that comes with the arousing of the soul to the intuitive forces that may find expressions in the little kindnesses day by day.
22. Ready for questions.
23. (Q) Shall I sell my interest in the florist business, or is it best that I continue in it myself?
    (A) Continue for the present. Use many of these for the basis of those cards, those verses, those little paintings that may bring so much joy into the hearts and minds of those that are weak and - yea - heavy-laden, and who in body wrest with those things that have made them sad and lonely. Thus may the joy come to thee.
    Save the home in the present also; rather that its joys, its beauties, may be leased to others - than the sale - in the present. For, as we find, upon the return of those from other lands there may be (from the material angle) the better disposition made of same.
    Keep the beauty thou hast in thy smile, in thine eyes, in thine voice, for ALL, that there may be awakened in the hearts of many the knowledge of the peace - of the Prince of Peace - abiding in thine soul.
24. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Self
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BACKGROUND

1. 9/21/33 She obtained 410-1, a Physical Rdg.
2. 4/02/34 She wrote: "Am enclosing ck. for $10 for Life Rdg. of which I spoke to you while you were in ... and below is a list of questions which I wish ans'd.
   "It was such a privilege to have you tell us of your interesting work and we all hope to have the pleasure of another visit from you sometime.
   "What is my mission in life? Shall I sell my interest in the florist business or is it best that I continue in it myself? Will I take the trip to Europe with the party I am now planning and when? Will I sell my home in the near future or should I rent it or occupy it myself?" [EC told us that Mrs. [410] had been recently widowed.]

REPORTS

1. 4/28/34 "I have read the information several times and each time get more meaning from it, and it is, as you say, hard to get the import from it the first time. I don't know just how to take it yet, as I don't know how to get started at the things suggested for me, but am hoping it will open up some definite plan for me very soon... I would very much like to know of individuals associated during some of the periods mentioned, and a review of the periods shown in my own rdg., for I do feel that it would be helpful... As yet we haven't made any plans for a study group here, but perhaps later on we may be able to study the [SFG] lessons which I am sure would be inspiring and practical."
2. 5/10/34 GD sent her details in re cases [294] (Ra-Ta in Egypt), [454] (other daughter of Zerubbabel), [2111] (another of the Audubon family), etc.
3. 5/21/34 EC wrote Miss [630] that he thought Miss [410] would be a good one to lead the A.R.E. Study Group in her town.
4. 6/11/34 Letter thanked GD: "I appreciate so much the information you sent me in connection with my Life Rdg. which gave me a great deal of satisfaction."
5. 12/29/35 GD sent her a copy of 281-25 on Temple Beautiful in Egypt.
6. 8/22/36 "I talked to Mrs. [255] on the phone while in N.Y. - as we were leaving... Mrs. [454] had just ret'd from Europe and left N.Y. immediately, so I didn't get in touch with her... Thank you so much for giving me Dr. Bhagat Singh Thind's address which was just 2 blocks from where we were staying, and I had the pleasure of meeting him personally and hearing him make a talk. Had heard so much of him through a friend in San Antonio..."
7. 8/08/38 "I am deeply interested in Mr. Cayce's work and will try to prepare myself to assist in some way but just now I would rather not accept the offer of representative, which I appreciate nevertheless."
8. 3/22/40 She obtained Ck. Physical 410-3.
9. 9/03/40 "I have been so interested in the information given in your Life Rdg. about the Egyptian period during which you developed your psychic powers... I think I had an incarnation also at this period and would like so much to have this complete history but I do not know the price. Will you please send this to me?
   "Am anxious to cooperate in the Expansion Program and will try to make a contribution very soon... "Also, would you consider coming to ... to give some lectures regarding your work?"
10. 9/05/40 EC sent his rdgs. 294-147, 294-148, 294-149, 294-151, and 294-152, saying he would try to work out a trip to her town in the near future.
11. 9/11/41 She obtained Ck. Physical 410-4.
12. 8/06/42 "Am enclosing $5 for copy of THERE IS A RIVER which I have been anticipating with much interest. I know it is a wonderful book and I can hardly wait for my copy.
    "I want to say that I am intensely interested in the readings you are giving on the Book of Revelation [[281] series] and I would like so much to have all the information regarding this that you have."
13. 2/06/50 To HLC: "Can you tell me of anyone who gives the same type reading that your father gave?"
14. 2/09/50 HLC's reply: "We are very sorry but there is no one that we recommend at this time who gives rdgs. similar to those given by Edgar Cayce.
    "Perhaps you could be helped through our abstracting service, which is explained by the attached membership application."
15. 9/54 Routine mailing was ret'd indicating that she had moved from the home address about which she had asked in her rdg.
16. 10/11/56 "I'm writing to find out if Mrs. Lydia J. Schrader Gray (referred to in the enclosed letter) could arrange to come to ... for a lecture on the work being done by the Association. If so, would like for her to bring as much information as possible about Dr. Michael Ash who is to be at the A.R.E. Headquarters this month."
17. 10/17/56 HLC wrote: "Mrs. Gray, about whose possible lecture in ... We wrote you in 1947, is at present in residence at our Hdqtrs. here...
    "Unfortunately she is at present in D.C. and won't be back until the last session of our Oct. Conference on the 26, 27, 28... We would certainly be happy to have you attend... Whenever we have a lecture in the ... area again we will be in touch with you."
18. 2/23/67 GD's note: Her sister, Miss [319], is still on our mailing list at the same address as used by Mrs. [410].

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