This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at Lillian Edgerton, Inc., 267 Fifth Avenue, New York City, this 15th day of November, 1933, in accordance with request made by self - Mrs. [443], new active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Dr. [961].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Hugh Lynn Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [443]. Born September 5, 1888, in Philadelphia, Penna.

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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.
2. As to the activities in the experiences of the entity from the purely astrological entrance into the earth's plane, these make for only inclinations; while those apparent from the sojourn of the entity in the various appearances in the earth - and from the mental influences or soul development in planetary sojourns - make for rather IMPULSE to the inclinations that may be manifested in the present experience of the entity.
3. Then, as to the planetary sojourns that make for the impulses:
4. The ruling influence we find in Mercury, making for abilities in the mental aspects, in the great visions that come with activities of the entity; with the dreamer, in those respects as related to material things, as related to the mental activities and to the soul development. Hence there are other astrological or planetary influences that are benevolent to even the mental abilities, for often mentality does not mean reason or rationality in a material activity. Hence we find a benevolent influence of Mercury aided by Venus and Jupiter in the application of the mental influence. Hence the vast scope of reading that has been in the experience of the entity; and the love influence that surpasses even that known as attraction or affection, being rather the impelling influence to make for not only mere tolerance but a LOVELY tolerance in the activities of the entity - for this becomes as BEAUTY in its reality. For the activity in the mental, in the love influence, in the Jupiter influence as to vision and scope, is a thing that IS as it SHOULD be in the developing of a soul in relationships to others.
5. These activities make for impulses; not only urges, as from the affluence of position of stars or various planetary positions, but those that make for abilities in the material forces in the present that are well within - as may be termed - the "rightings" of the self's development, within the spheres of activity that make for staid influences in the experience. Hence they become as these, in personality:
6. One pleasing; one affable; one congenial; one tolerant; one that is altogether a FRIEND even to the friendless, and making for friendships that are something beyond mere acquaintanceships for reasons of material association.
7. As to the activities from the sojourns in the earth, that make for more reasonable associations in a mental world that make for activities in material things through the sojourns in the earth:
8. Before this we find the entity was in that land, that period of expression in that land of nativity, when there were the sojournings of those that made for the activities as to creating a land where there might be peace and the right to worship according to the dictates of the conscience of the individual.
9. The entity was among the peoples that were born in this activity, soon after those sojourns or the comings to the lands, and grew up under the influence of the Friends [Quakers] that showed themselves friendly to the natives and to those of the surrounding countries, as to make for a position that may have arisen to that of envy on the part of all those that beheld the relationships established there in Pennsylvania through those acts at the signing of the charter, or at the charter oak. [See 443-3, Par. 31-A in re oak-elm.] The name then was Elson, and the entity sojourned there, making closer companionship with those that led in the establishing of the rights of the people as related to one another, and as to the relationships with the natives and the neighbors in adjoining places.
10. In the present from the experience have been the activities that have made for the WILLINGNESS in self, and the asking only in self for the same rights from others, to THINK as the conscience and the development dictates in the experience of self.
11. Before this we find the entity was in that land now known as the Roman, during those periods when there were the persecutions of those people that followed in the tenets of those teachings that were not so much contrary to the activities of the better souls in that experience, but were persecuted through the tyranny of the spreading of the greeds of the peoples in that city of the Seven Hills in the Roman experience. [Nero period - see Par. 35-A below.]
12. The entity was among those that neither partook of the activity - in the beginning - nor resisted in the associations of those, yet it was one well versed in the experiences of the individuals in their associations of those, yet it was one well versed in the experiences of the individuals in their associations from what may be termed the ruler group as well as the populace, as well as those that were persecuted. The name then was Elsoneuen.
13. Elsoneuen gave, in this experience, the activities that aided - consciously and unconsciously - the persecuted peoples; yet falling self into that place where the entity was accused of being among those of that peculiar sect of people brought distresses in the activities. But the entity succeeded in keeping self clear from persecution; not by artifice, but rather by reason.
14. In the present from that experience is found the activities as to being patient with those who speak slightly, being patient with those that are blusterous, yet bearing in self sufficient for the meeting of the activities necessary to establish in self a faith that may not easily be shaken.
15. Before this we find the entity was in that period when many people gathered in the planes of what is now Persia and Arabia, during those periods when there was the building up by the leader in the planes.
16. The entity then was the companion of that entity who stood rather for the activities of self-indulgence, in Said-al [Her present husband, Mr. [442]], in the experiences that aided the entity to find self - from that practiced in principle, in activity, of the teacher in the land.
17. Through the activities, the entity became through same, one to whom MANY came for counsel. The whole development through the period may be said to have been well, yet there were times when doubts and fears arose in the activities of the entity.
18. Then the entity was in the name Said-Lul, for this was the name given after the companionship was established by the associations of the period.
19. The entity was of those that came from that later known as the Grecian portion of activity. Hence in the present there are the abilities to reason even with those that make for questioning of many things; the abilities within self to find self through meditation; and the like of certain character of fabrics, certain character of designing, as to that which surrounds the entity in its associations and activities, coming from that experience. Also the like of outdoor influence upon the lives of people, whether applied in self's own experience or in that of others; and the particular character of odors innate and manifested in the experience of the entity in the present.
20. Before this we find the entity was in that land that may be called the submerged or Atlantean land, when there were those divisions of the lands, when the individuals and groups began to separate from the land for other shores.
21. The entity was among those that came into the Egyptian land, losing in the activities that made for the sorrowing or sorrow for self because of the separations as brought about for the material love associations in the time. Yet in the Egyptian experience, through the associations of those in the land to whom the entity was brought, there was much of the strengthening of those that made for the buildings and the connection with the buildings in the experience when there was the giving to the people with the return of the priest to the land. In those things that brought for the first hospitalization, the first medical research, the first of the distribution of the laws pertaining to the cleansing of the body in the establishing of the Temple, both in the sacrifice and in the Temple Beautiful, the entity acted in the capacity of supplying music and art in their varied activities.
22. Hence the dance, certain characters of the dance in the present are of particular interest to the entity. Those that are expressions of not body but of the soul forces of the individual arise in the experience of the entity from the sojourn there.
23. The name then was Apth-eno. In the experience, after those meetings in the Egyptian influence with the one to whom the entity became the companion and the aid, the entity may be said to have excelled in the abilities to give out to others, and in the establishing of the dissemination of that which had been set by the priest in the period.
24. As to the abilities of the entity, and that to which it may attain in the present:
25. As has been seen in the experiences in the earth, the developments were in the aid given to others to help themselves not only FIND themselves but to give out to others to help themselves not only establish clearer the reason for their experiences in the earth, the reason for their sojourns in those environs of each soul.
26. Hence in the present the activities may be best guided in aiding others to find themselves, or helping others to help themselves; in the home, in the associations, in the activities.
27. The entity then should find first self, self's development; for in the development of self may there some that ability to give out; for, as self as given out does the growth within self progress. For, even as the entity stands as the tree of life - as it buds and gives forth of itself to that about it, does it grow and strengthen itself in partaking of that which is about it to be given out to those that seek aid and shelter there.
28. Hence, keep thine self in the way; for His ways are not past finding out. For, He has given His angels charge concerning thee, that thou dash not thy foot against a stone. For, the title is written clear in the activities, both in the Egyptian and in the Persian forces for others. [See Par. 39-A below] [Also 441-1 previous days in re clear title.] Then, let the motto be: "Others, Lord. Even as thou hast blessed me, so may I be a channel for a blessing to others."
29. Ready for questions.
30. (Q) What is my karmic debt?
    (A) To meet those idiosyncrasies, as may be termed, in those experiences when doubt and fear arose.
31. (Q) What channel can I work through best?
    (A) As may be easily implied from that given, begin where thou art; using that thou hast in hand. And, as the applications of self in such relations bear fruit, so may the activities be expanded in the lives and experiences of those whom the entity contacts in any and all walks of life; aiding in disseminating, then, that THOU hast found in THINE experience to be an aid to making of self a channel of blessing to some one. For, as each soul gives out does it grow more and more and become manifested even in material things. THIS the entity may do well.
32. (Q) Am I a cause or an effect?
    (A) The entity is a CAUSE; for where the title is written clear it is a cause for the action of many in their inner selves. Hence EVER is the entity as a bulwark to many; and blessed MOST in the household of self!
33. (Q) Am I finished in my debt to my family?
    (A) May be finished in the present.
34. (Q) Is my health limited?
    (A) Jupiter, Venus, Mercury - September. Health has been on the improve. Why not keep it so?
35. (Q) What century was the Roman experience, and who was the ruler at that time? (a) Nero.
36. (Q) Can I bring through a book of cosmic importance?
    (A) EASILY! Especially as to those activities in the mental and cosmic self as to the experiences in any one or all of those sojourns that influence the associations materially, and the mental and soul development specifically, in the present.
37. (Q) How should she go about to develop this?
    (A) Through prayer and meditation, and writing that which is given self in such experiences.
38. (Q) Does she need the help of another?
    (A) Better and better would it be were these from the inner self; for has it not been given that He has given His angels charge concerning thee?
39. (Q) What is meant by the title being written clearly?
    (A) That many of those things necessary have been completed in earth's experiences in the entity's soul development. Has it not been given that the entity has learned tolerance and love? And it has been well said, "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am nothing." Love, then, is the greater blessing. TRULY may it be said in the experience of any soul in the earth. The entity, then, is both tolerant and LOVELY in the expression of self.
    Seek, then through self, that the angels that have been given charge concerning thine activities may guard, guide and keep thee well. [See 443-1, Par. R3.]
40. We are through.

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BACKGROUND

1. 11/15/33 A.M. Her husband, Mr. [442], obtained his Life Rdg., 442-1.
2. 11/14/33 Her son had obtained his Life Rdg. - see 440-1.
3. She indicated she had been interested in psychic matters for years.

REPORTS

1. See subsequent health and mental-spiritual rdgs. She also referred her husband, Mr. [442]; her son, Mr. [440]; her daughter, Miss [499], for readings; and many others.
2. 12/21/33 See son's rdg. 440-8, Par. 26-A, 27-A in re their past associations.
3. 1/08/34 See 443-3, Par. 23-A, 24-A in re title being written.
4. 2/16/34 Miss [275]'s ltr.: "I have Mrs. [443]'s seal almost finished. Outside of the cross with Christ on it, - and the pyramid on the bottom, she has a crown of thorns on the left, and a jeweled crown on the right. It looks very pretty now."
5. 7/07/35, 7/15/35, Her son [440] mentioned that his parents, [443] and [442], were divorced.
6. 7/19/35 See her son's rdg. 440-20, Par. 13-A, advising that the question as to whether the divorce of his parents was best for all concerned would have to be answered in the experience of each. "From one angle, yes. From another, no."
7. 7/24/36 Mrs. [225]'s ltr.: "I met Mrs. [443] at a Krishnamurti lecture. Her son [440] married without her knowledge. She looked happy, apparently... Her daughter [499] has a fine baby boy."
8. See subsequent correspondence under son's [440] Readings and Reports.
9. 3/47 Mr. [440] told HLC that his mother, [443], moved to Calif., built a home out there, etc., but that she had recently died [late 1946 or early 1947?].

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