This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 24th day of January, 1942, in accordance with request made by the self Mr. [420], Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mr. [420] and Mrs. [379]. Born September 28, 1879, in Baltimore, Maryland.

TEXT

1. GC: You will give the relation of this entity and the universe, and the universal forces; giving the conditions which are as personalities, latent and exhibited in the present life; also the former appearances in the earth plane, giving time, place and the name, and that in each life which built or retarded the development for the entity; giving the abilities of the present entity, that to which it may attain, and how. You will answer the questions, as I ask them:
2. EC: (In going back over years from the present - " '32 - changes, the mental attitude, associations - '21 - yes - 'ol - yes - '91 - changings about - " etc., on back to birth date.)
3. Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [420].
4. In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them here, these are chosen from same with the desire and purpose that this be a helpful experience for the entity; enabling the entity to better fulfill those purposes for which it entered this sojourn.
5. While there are urges from the astrological aspects, the activities and the applications of self in the present have been such as to nullify much. There has been magnified much that might be called traditional and hereditary. Yet, too much commendation may not be given. Neither could there be recommended too much to others the entity's purposes. For, here indeed is an entity that is filling much of that which has been expressed in other experiences as subversive influences. And the closer this information may enable the entity to hold to those ideals that have been and are being made the choice of the entity, greater may be that satisfaction gained in and through the period of sojourn in this experience.
6. However, latent urges (and that have been met) arise from the astrological aspects (for the want of a better name). For, as the earth is a part of a solar system, so the entity is an inhabitant or a native of that system.
7. Those cycles of activity through periods of unawareness in the material plane, sojourns in the environs and that accredited to certain planetary influences, have been and are a part of the latent and manifested urges.
8. As has been indicated for the entity in the present, much more is arising from sojourns in the earth in the present, especially those activities of the entity in the Palestine experience.
9. As for latent and manifested urges astrologically, these have indicated a latent urge as a portion of those experiences that may have to do, or may have had to do, with the activities of the entity in the material plane. But as the entity has interpreted and applied in the present experience, these have grown to be shadows, figures of material sojourns, the more.
10. We find in Mercury the mental abilities, the reasoning abilities of the entity.
11. In Jupiter we find the universal consciousness.
12. We find in Venus and Neptune the beauty of home, the activities in the creative field, or those wherein there might have been a demonstrated experience in the MAKING OF THINGS! For, the entity might have been a very good inventor for practical household articles, if there had been the application in that direction. (He had an idea for a churn once - would have been well to have carried through!)
13. The applications in the present from the astrological sojourns bring rather the manner in which the entity approaches a subject, whether mental or material, as well as the manner in thinking, thinking through, or thinking of varied experiences.
14. THINGS have much to do with the activity of the entity. And these things have to do or to deal with relationships, as these may bear to privileges or opportunities of individual welfare.
15. The entity would have made a very good politician, as it was not far from politics in the sojourn just before this.
16. For, before this the entity was in the land of the present nativity; during those periods when there was the framing of those relationships that the colonies and groups bore one to another.
17. The entity was instrumental in the preparations of some of those edicts that were issued in that particular period of activity, - in the name Tom Poindexter.
18. The entity was in a position of trust from a group or mass of individuals. Hence as a town clerk, as a recorder for social or missionary work, or for groups organized for a definite purpose, has been and may be a part of the entity's experience. For such a position is one that may be well filled by the entity; for the entity acted in the capacity of one who kept the records, notations, or the accounts for those groups of individuals as to their applications toward the developing of facilities for the beneficial effect of the large and the small groups.
19. Easily does the entity turn to such activities in the present; still dealing with things and records.
20. Before that we find was the entity's experience which becomes the greater outstanding individual influence in the present sojourn.
21. For, in the period when the Master walked in the house, in that home from whom there were the selecting of the two outstanding disciples in that group, the entity was then the father of James and John - and in the name Zebedee.
22. The entity then was given to the obtaining and leasing of privileges to others, and was engaged - as were the sons - in the fleets, or fishing; though these were only a small part of the entity's activities itself.
23. Coming under those influences, at first the entity was averse to the interest shown by James and John. Then, with the better acquaintance, the entity grew into that attitude which is exhibited in the present, - a greater advocate of the "all out" administration of self and of self's abili- ties, and of self's physical, mental and material abilities, for the welfare of those in spiritual truth.
24. As was manifested or maintained by the entity in that experience, as maintained and growing in the present, - a stickler for a set rule of formality, yet that also of the perfect - or more perfect - understanding of the true meaning of those abilities for one to be tolerant with others.
25. This is thy greater virtue, then, in the present. That needed for greater manifestation is also akin, - patience. In these the entity grows. Keep that growth.
26. Throughout that experience it may be said that the entity gained, though there were many periods when that activity was considered - and has been in the present considered by others - indifferent.
27. It is well to remember these facts in thy study of ways, means or manners of being the manifestation of a channel for a definite service: God and Godlikeness alone shows or manifests true appreciation, yet judgments in the material world are the office that man chooses to do. "Judge not, then, that ye be not judged" was that tenet which became as the watchword for the entity throughout that activity.
28. More and more there have been those appreciations manifested by the entity's associations in various groups. Stress that lesson as given here, - God judges not. He gives and gives and blesses and blesses. The LAW is set. Ye become thy judge. And with the judgment ye mete to others, ye mete to thyself.
29. Before that, then, the entity was in the Persian and in the now called Indo-China land, during those periods when strides were being made towards the use of natural laws, - as in the eternal fires for the preparation of the fuels, - as charcoal and coal; and the use of gold, and the use of metals as a means or manner of exchange.
30. These were a part of the entity's activity, as one of the rulers or leaders in that land, - in the name then Shu-Tu-Fu.
31. The entity made progress materially and spiritually, meting to the subjects - or those of his own household - those tenets that are truths of eternal activity in the relationships one to another.
32. Hence the abilities, the latent and manifested desires for the creating of conveniences of various kinds, - as of household, or of lightening the burdens of those who make preparations in a household, or for groups, or cities, or organizations.
33. Thus the entity's temperament and tendency will be to associate self with such, yet the entity could have made a mighty good churn once!
34. Before that the entity was in the Egyptian land, when there were those gatherings for the bringing about of the restoration of the Priest's activity, - as related to the moral, the spiritual and the temporal relationships of man.
35. The entity was among those put in authority by the Young King, of those who returned the Priest to his activity in the Egyptian land. This brought the entity into associations with all of the various groups, and thus the severity of judgment the entity's household has at times felt was passed on them by the entity. For, many being associated with or in those fields of service or activity, coming under the commendation or the condemning of those things by the entity, brought that position which today would be called as one keeping in order those various groups that were assigned to special or individual duties through those periods of reconstruction in that land.
36. The name then was Edu-On.
37. As to the abilities of the entity in the present:
38. Keep that faith which has prompted the self to set thy ark to the port of the higher calling as found in Him. [GD's note: We heard that Mr. [420] and his wife, Mrs. [379], were very active in the Episcopal church to which they belonged.] Let Him ever be thy pilot and thy commander. Listen oft to others, condemning none, but steer thine own purpose and way by the directions thou may obtain from Him alone.
39. In any field of service where ye may serve thy fellow man, in dealing out justice to all, in those things of the material nature, the leniency to all in those things of judgment. And in those things of spiritual nature, give them that insight thou obtained when ye mended nets and listened to His second sermon by the sea.
40. Let that mind be in thee as was in Him, - be not discouraged, be not dismayed. For His purpose is to bless, not to curse man. For man's soul, thy soul, is knit with His. And the way, in the fuller knowledge thereof, is in patience - as manifested in Jesus, the Christ.
41. Ready for questions.
42. (Q) What should my hobby be?
    (A) Anything that MAKES things! Especially those things that have to do with conveniences about the home. And don't forget the churn!
43. (Q) Which of the children have I contacted previously and in what relationship?
    (A) Various ones in various manners. If there is the paralleling of those where there have been the experiences, it may be seen. All in varied manners - in Egypt. [Daughter [...], son [2662], son [1225], daughters [[649] & [1532]].
44. (Q) Was I in the Essene temple at Carmel, or orthodox at Jerusalem?
    (A) First in the Essene, and then you had a fuss with Judy! [1472] Then closer in the ones in Jerusalem, but NOT strictly orthodox - as indicated by being both a landowner and a fisherman.
45. (Q) How can I best help my fellow man at this time?
    (A) Study to show thyself approved unto all good works, rightly dividing the words of truth; never condemning self nor others. Live that ye ask others to be. Never refrain from reminding all of what Jesus had to say on ANY subject. And remember there are few in thy experience, or any other's, upon which He did not at some time speak. For, by Him were all things made that were made. He came unto His own but His own received Him not.
46. (Q) For what purpose did I come to the earth at this time?
    (A) As indicated, a little more patience with others.
47. (Q) What is my seal or emblem and its interpretation?
    (A) The ship and the sea, and the sign of the fishes under same, would be the greater reminder to the entity of those experiences wherein the greater hold and the greater blessings may come in the present, by exemplifying same in thy dealings with thy fellow man.
    Let this ever be as it were in those days, "Lord, Thou art Holy. Make Thou me wholly Thine."
48. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. 8/29/33 See personal message in Group #2 rdg. 397-1, Par. 19-A.
2. 8/01/35 See personal message in Group #2 rdg. 397-2, Par. 12-A.
3. See his previous Physical Rdgs.
4. 8/08/35 See daughter's rdg. 649-2, Par. 30-A indicating she was associated with [420] at the time of the Master, though he was not then her father, her father at that time being a priest.
5. 9/17/35 See wife's rdg. 379-3, Par. 50-A in re their past associations.

REPORTS

1. 4/19/43 He obtained a Ck. Physical Rdg. 420-7.
2. 2/18/49 GD's note: We heard that he had retired from his job but that he was very active with woodworking in his shop at home, as a hobby.
3. 6/16/57 He died after being bedridden about a year.

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