This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Percy, 10 Park Avenue, New York City, this 22nd day of January, 1934, in accordance with request made by self - Mr. [423], Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Hugh Lynn Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mr. [423] and wife. Born January 29, 1887, one minute after midnight, Ogdensburg, New York.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the entity here and those relations with the universe and universal forces, that are latent and manifested in the personalities of the entity now known as [423].
2. In entering, we find the astrological aspects - that there are those influences in same, but rather as to the application the entity has made respecting its sojourn in astrological environs than as to the position of the planets or of the various conditions in the astrological chart. Hence we will find that the variations that may occur depend upon what the entity has done respecting such conditions, and as to urges that are existent in the mental body. Hence we find these as the astrological urges in the mental aspects of the body:
3. Uranus being an influence in the experience of the entity in its last sojourn, brings the periods of particular interest in certain lines of endeavor, lines of activity, and makes for that tendency that at times is to the entity ascribed - as to the entity being very warm or very cold on any subject, any given subject, whether pertaining to the occult influences or dealing with the more secular things in life. Hence at times the entity is called an extremist, and making for periods when there are certain changes or definite changes in the attitude of the entity respecting that which may be requiring the interest of the entity at that time; making for abilities in the entity's development in the mental influence in this particular field of activity.
4. And also, with those sojourns in the Jupiterian influence, makes for a great scope of vision to the entity, in its abilities to grasp the activities in many fields in a material world that deal rather with the basic principles or the mental attitudes of individuals. And a judge of human nature, and individuals' reactions to the various attitudes, whether of the psychological effect or the more material aspects as related to their mental capacities or abilities. Hence the entity may at all times be considered rather as one that would be able to convene with others respecting determining abilities in mental fields of activity of other individuals, bringing in more the material experiences in the present earth's sojourn of periods when there has been considered very much ups and downs in the material affairs of the entity. And save for those saving graces that may be considered from the sojourn in Venus, would make for some real antagonistic influences in the mental experience and attitude of the entity respecting disappointments in individuals who through their activities brought much in the experience of the entity as related to confidences that have apparently been misplaced. Yet these make for rather - if they are applied in the mental forces of the entity - steppingstones for an advancement in the mental and spiritual field of activity.
5. Hence we find from this Venus sojourn also that wherein the entity is at times quick of temper, in the more sober judgements there is much of mercy, patience exhibited regarding the activities of its fellow man, that would not be tempered so without the use of will towards the entity's developments. And, as we shall see, great has been the development of the entity through the earth's sojourns, though some under very trying experiences - as would be called - in the material affairs of individuals.
6. As to the sojourns in the earth, then, as we find them, that influence in this particular period of the entity's environs:
7. Before this we find the entity was in and during those periods in England when there were being the gatherings of many peoples that were expressing themselves in material activity regarding the overrunning of others in a land that had - to that belief in the experience - become as a people being overridden.
8. Then, in the name Carlin, the entity went with and among the Crusaders to the Holy Land, and during those experiences gained much in the application of that which may be held as an ideal that may indeed run to seed if there is not made the practical application of the ideal in the daily relationships of individuals.
9. And much of that experienced in the present entity's sojourn, or experience of being able to be a good listener without condemning even those that are in error according to the ideas and ideals of self, arises from that period. Hence tolerance in the present may be said to be a virtue of the entity from that sojourn.
10. Before this we find the entity under very trying experiences in the forests of that land above or about the Roman land, when there were the hunters of the kings and those in high positions; and the entity was given charge concerning the activities of those in power.
11. And the experiences of the entity as related to the animal kingdom, as to the forest and to the peoples of the forest in that period, have brought much of the love in the present of those things that partake of the natural forces in their activity.
12. Then in the name Catalineu, the entity lost and gained. Gained through gathering from nature and its surroundings the understandings of the expressions that might be found in the living influences, though considered in a different kingdom, as to be a manifestation of life in a material plane. Losing in the grudges, in the feelings of the determinations to protect, or to proclaim rather as to slaughter, as to the unkindly feelings as were given. Hence we find in the present a feeling as of a gentleness to the animal kingdom, to that in nature in the great outdoors, that brings to the entity the illustrations of how the finer things in man's experience may be used as illustrations of man's activity as relating to those things that come into man's experience. Hence this may be said to be rather also a period of development in the entity's experience, for again there was gained not only tolerance but mercy, patience, and the beauties that come in nature itself. And in proclaiming same in any field of activity may be a portion of the entity's gaining that position in the affairs of men, or in a material world, as to bring those powers or those positions for activities to become more in line with which is the desire innately and manifestedly in the present experience of the entity.
13. Before this we find the entity in that land when there were those activities known as the buildings in the plains of the Arabian land, when the leaders of a tribe - or tribes - had brought an understanding to the peoples of the application of the spiritual truths in the affairs of individuals in the earth.
14. The entity then was among the Grecian peoples that came as aids to those things that were being presented by Uhjltd, the leader, in that sojourn; aiding the leader in the establishing of that as to how the tenets and truths might be spread into other lands, as to how they might be an aid to those that were seeking to find a truer relationship with the Creative influences in the experiences of individuals.
15. In the name Uljdui, the entity brought to self and to many another the influence in individual and in group life that made for an advancement in the experiences of the entity and those the entity influenced by the building up of co-relationships between groups; though their tenets and their lessons to be learned were under varied circumstances and divers activities among other groups.
16. The entity gained in the experience throughout, and in the present there are the judgments as to the material things that relate to the activities in peoples' affairs, that which will influence them in the activities in their mental beings as well as to cause them to act in material way. These are found in the applications in the experience of the entity in the present.
17. Before this we find the entity during those periods when there were those sojournings of groups and individuals from the Atlantean land to the periods of activities in that now known as the Egyptian land, when a turmoil and a strife was in progress.
18. The entity made many trips to and from Egypt to the Atlantean land, to Poseidia, where the activities of a peoples in a commercial way and manner, in a spiritual way and manner, had brought a high order of civilization - as would be termed in the present.
19. Finally settling in the Egyptian land when there had been the restoration of the priest Ra-Ta, the entity - given into the activities of the commercial forces of the land - aided in bringing much to a peoples, to break down the conditions that arose from the rebellions between the natives and those who sojourned there for their own development and for the maintaining of those influences whereunto there might be given greater expression to the manifestations of the relationships between man and man, and between the Creative Influences, and how that the application of a soul to its fellow man MADE for manifestation of the spiritual and soul forces in the earth.
20. Then in the name Ptl-carl, the entity gained and lost. Gained in those activities in the temples in the Atlantean land, as to the orders, as to the priests, as to the initiates that aided in establishing the law of One. Losing in the turmoils that arose in self. Gaining again in aiding those to build up in a material way and manner the manners of expressing those things that had been gained from the spiritual associations in the Atlantean land, and in those that were builded in the various offices in the Egyptian land.
21. Becoming, as it were, the Prince of Egypt when the king and the priest began the establishing of the relationships with others, the entity - appointed to the office of the director of these conditions that were to be given out to others - brought much development to self and to those whom the entity spent its experience in attempting to aid.
22. As to the abilities in the present, and that to which it may attain, and how:
23. As has been seen from the experiences, whenever there have been those activities that have made for the exemplification of the so-called virtues in man's activities, there have been brought for the entity developments mentally, spiritually, in its relationships for its own soul's activity. For, only by aiding others may the soul within itself advance for its development towards filling that purpose for which it came into material experience in the earth (and as the entity finds, and as the entity seeks to know for what purpose it entered into this present sojourn in its present surroundings): That there might be manifest in the flesh those things in the mental and soul body that have been gained throughout the sojourns in the earth. For, only by manifested acts that make for a closer relationship of the soul to that source from which it sojourns, may there come the consciousness of self - and in self - being at an at-onement with the Creative Forces or God in the earth.
24. In the present, then, there are those abilities to influence groups, influence individuals, as to their proper relationships to the material conditions in the earth as related to their mental and soul development also, as well as to the more material things of life. Yet the greater joy, the greater development may come in making manifest those virtues that have been manifest in the earth by the entity in tolerance, in a closer sojourn of the manifesting of love and patience, and truth, and life, and light; for life and light are the manifestations of God in the earth.
25. Ready for questions.
26. (Q) Please give name and history of highest spirit guide assigned to my wife and me?
    (A) These had best be sought in self. Not that these may not be given, for they are present with thee in thy activities; but "What is thy name?" that has been sought by others, and as the answer came then, "What meanest these experiences in thy life?" so may the name come to thee, even as it did to Elkannah [Elkanah - 1 Sam. 1:21; husband of Hannah, father of Samuel] as he offered the sacrifice, as he offered meat - for he is thy guide.
27. (Q) Has he any instructions as for our contact with him?
    (A) Seek and ye shall find. Put into application that thou knowest day by day, for it is line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little that ye gather together those forces that make for the greater material manifestation of those influences in thy daily experience that may bring thee to the consciousness, to the understanding of those forces that would aid thee.
    For, as has been given, when thou hast shown in thine heart thy willingness to be guided and directed by HIS force, He gives His angels charge concerning thee that they bear thee up and prevent the stumblings that come to the sons of the Creative Forces in and among the sons of men.
    Hence keep - keep - true to self and to that thou knowest, for the way is open before thee. Seek rather to show thyself as one worthy of acceptance to the God influence that is shown in man's experience through the manifestations of His Son in the earth; for He is thy guide, HE will show thee the way. His brethren, His brothers in the activities in the earth, may show thee thy way.
28. (Q) What is the sign of his presence?
    (A) The circle with the Cross; these make for the sign that all thou hast heard is fulfilled in Him.
29. (Q) Who is A-z-u-a-b?
    (A) One that would make known much, but seek - seek - seek; yet thou knowest, as in thine earthly experience, knowledge without the use of that thou knowest comes to naught. He will be near, but let him make manifest - let him speak the NAME; for HE, HE, will guide when thou hast prepared thine self for the greater work that lies just ahead.
    Give glory, then, to the Father through His Son, that He hast thought, He hast shown, He hast manifest in His relationships with thee that thou art worthy of acceptation for a definite activity in thine experience. And, as thou hast hated in thine brother the faults, the fault-findings, the untrue to their obligations, the untrue to their relationships with thee, so let this attitude make thee ever humble in His presence; for His law, His Cross, His arms may sustain thee; for it is given thee in His name, the Christ, the Lord of all, that His ways are not past finding out, His love is not past being given in thine own experience with thy brothers day by day. For, as thou walkest in the way that brings life, light and hope into the experience of thy brother, so may His joy - that passeth understanding - be in thine heart and quicken thy soul as to being near with Him.
30. We are through for the present.
    [GD's note: Suggestion given to Edgar Cayce for his own betterment on waking. Answer, "A very much better attitude exists from this experience." He had been saying all morning that his disposition was very bad, etc.]

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BACKGROUND

1. See his Mental-Spiritual Rdg. 423-2 on 11/02/33 in which a former Persian incarnation was mentioned, etc.

REPORTS

1. 1/22/34 Mr. [333]'s letter: "On 1/15/34 my wife and I attended the meeting at Hyslop House (American Society for Psychical Research) and it certainly was a great success. I am sure that all that was given by EC and HLC was of great value, and it was wonderful to listen to Mr. [423]'s reaction to and support of all that is being done through EC and the A.R.E."
2. 9/05/34 Mr. [423]'s letter: "It is impossible for me to plan to serve as a trustee of your Association. I am decreasing rather than increasing the amount of time I give to such subjects."
3. 3/25/49 [423] expressed appreciation for Tom Sugrue's book which gave him a better insight into EC's work.
4. 11/10/50 [423] requested that his name be placed on the list to receive notices of N.Y. lectures.
5. 1/52 His family advised that [423] had died of a heart attack.

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