This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Virginia, this 5th day of January, 1934, in accordance with request made by self - Mr. [478], new Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Miss [307].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mr. [478]. Born March 15th or 16th, 1890, in Huntsville, Ohio.

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1. EC: March 15th. We have the entity here - physical birth March 15, 1890, 10:58 P.M.
2. In giving the influences in the present sojourn of this entity, [478], from the astrological aspects only, we would have little that would give beneficial conditions. Aspects and even impulses might be outlined, yet the influences from the sojourns in the environs from which the entrances into the experiences in the earth have been made may be used as helpful in patterning, or in making the activities in the life in the present that are as troublesome or stumbling conditions become HELPFUL in the experience.
3. Then, in the ruling influence from the astrological standpoint of sojourn we have Jupiter rather as helpful or beneficent. Still, at the same time, experience might be said to have made for influences that have brought - not troubles, but rather disconcerting influence in the experience. To be sure, these are urges in the innate influence, yet in making such urge manifest - as has been seen - these have at times become VERY material conditions.
4. From this influence we have a broad vision in the mental individual. We have a broad expanse of not only acquaintanceships but those whom the activities of the entity touch in more than just a passing or just material way. For, the thought, the mental activities of many have been and will be influenced by the activity of the entity.
5. As to those influences that would APPEAR not so beneficent, since the periods in September of '31 and '32, there have been the greater strains in the financial associations of the entity - and those dependent upon the entity, yet these - as we find - will be changed with the middle or latter portion of April in the coming period - or in this year. For, then we will find the influences of Jupiter with Mercury and Venus in more beneficent activities - or in more beneficent aspects for the activities of the entity and its relationships with individuals, with groups, with the associations. These are from the mental urges, and that which may be said to be meted from sojourn in the Jupiterian environ. Also this makes for the urge for the entity's activities in the relationships of individuals as to their mental and social life, especially in the relationships with groups.
6. In Mercury we find the high mental ability, and with the influences that make for capacities in well analyzing the mental reactions of individuals towards people, things, and their activity.
7. From Venus there is rather (the expression that is ordinarily given) the tendency for sympathetic reaction and for mercies. Yet the ideals from Jupiter's activities make for a justice WITH mercy.
8. In all its mental and its material relationships, the entity's activities are related to individuals rather than things. Hence the activities in the present sojourn will have, should have, to do more with people than with things; though things - as they relate to people - must enter in.
9. In these influences we find that which makes for high mental abilities, with the opportunities for expression of same in relationships with the mercy and the love that makes for tempering same in the activities of the entity.
10. As to the appearances in the earth and how they influence more the mental and the real activities in the MATERIAL phase of the entity's experience in the present:
11. Before this we find the entity was during that sojourn when there were the settlings of the land of the present nativity, and about the Fort Dearborn activities the entity was then associated with the peoples who established the relationships in that particular period - even when this place was broken up and overrun by the northern and western land.
12. The entity then, in the name Levison, gained in the experience; yet the experience in the earth was cut rather short through the activities in that particular period.
13. Then the entity acted in the capacity of those that gathered the children of the settlers for their instruction for their activities; not just the teacher, but rather the overseer, the master, the guide and instructor in the periods of sojourn in that experience.
14. The life (as would be termed) was lost with those that attempted to leave in the waters of that now known as the Ohio. Hence in the present experience of the entity those particular regions in and about the lakes have been of particular interest. Also the history or the literature of the people, not only of the eastern portion but the western portion of that particular land, has been of interest to the entity. And in the mental PLANE there has been rather the interest in the younger peoples in their relationships to their developments under all character of activities in the material plane.
15. Hence the activities that have to do with manual actions of peoples, those that have to do with stonecutting, wood carving, things of the nature in art, are of particular interest to the entity.
16. Before this we find the entity was in that experience in the Roman land when there were those that were teaching in the city of the activities in the promised land.
17. The entity then was among the soldiery of the peoples; hence making a voyage or visit to the protectorate at the time that those peoples had condemned the Prince of Peace to death - or Pilate. And the entity aided in bringing him, or seeing that Pilate was brought, before Caesar at that time. The name then was Phylos.
18. In the experience the entity gained and lost. While in the service of the ruler the entity gained. In the periods when persecutions were heaped upon the peoples in the land, the entity lost. When the entity returned and came under the influences of the teachers that later came, the entity lost materially but gained much in soul and spiritual development. For, with the teachings of Timothy of Ephesus and John (Mark) that came as ministers to those people while those rested in the bonds, the entity - joining in the activities - renounced the associations with the soldiery and cast the lot with those peoples. Hence ever has been a particular interest in the present in (and will harken almost to hearing the voices of) not only the teachers but also Pilate and Caesar and those in that particular experience. In the present also are those influences that make for the associations of what the period stands for, and - as the entity in its activities applies not only the tenets but the truths of that experience - the inner man may develop the more, and there may come indeed - as in that experience - those visions and those awakenings from within to the call of service in individual, and in particular fields of activity.
19. Before this we find the entity was in that land now known as the Persian, about those cities that had been overrun even of old - in the Chaldean land did the entity first begin its activities; and in the capacity or place then of the son of the ruler in that land. As Persesus was the entity known in the first portions of the activity, but when joining with those that went into the wilderness - or into the plains and desert hills, in joining in the activities of Uhjltd that were being founded in that period - the name was changed; as were many. For, the regeneration of the entity and the establishing of the associations, in the renunciation of the ruler force in the experience, brought to the entity condemnation from many, but in self not only building in the material things - as the city developed - but building in the spiritual forces. And the entity acted in the capacity of those that builded the schools for the younger peoples that joined in this city in the plains.
20. In the present those things that partake of the teachings of one portion of that land (of the Zoroastrians) will be of particular interest and study, yet being tempered with the teachers' influence in the experience later in the activities of the entity or soul forces becomes united as one in the sign of the Cross.
21. Before this we find the entity was in that land now known as the Egyptian, and among those that came with the king that overran the land and established what later became known in the development of the land as the Pharoahs' land.
22. The entity was a counsellor to the young king when there was the establishing of the young king in opposition to the natives, or native priest, in that period, and when there came the banishment of the Priest in that period who had been set to gather those influences in establishing written laws between man and man, and the moral and spiritual laws between man and the Creative Forces. Then the entity was in the name Arar-apth.
23. When the rebellions arose, the activities of the entity were to counsel with the king, being among those that aided in the re-establishing of the Priest upon the return - and among those specifically that headed the distribution of the tenets that were lastly set in building up the spiritual truths for the material activities of the peoples in the land - and to those lands to whom emissaries were sent.
24. Hence, the entity remained close with the political influence of the period, as well as close to the religious or theological influence in that experience. Hence both of these influence the entity in its activities in the present experience, for that sojourn may have the greater influence upon the entity in the present - in the preparation and in the development of the better influences both innately and mentally in this present experience.
25. As to that the entity may attain, and how:
26. The application of political influence, in both association with mercy and justice to the developing forces of the young; those not only of the tender years but that are in the formative years of activities. In such the entity may attain to the greater experience. For in this there will be the application of political influence, ruled or dominated rather by the religious - or the spirit of the leader that was in Rome.
27. Ready for questions.
28. (Q) Am I in the work I should do, and will I continue in this work?
    (A) As seen from that given, much is in line with that which will make for the greater experience and the greater development of the spiritual and soul influences, as well as eventually bringing the material associations in such relations. Then, continue.
29. (Q) What am I best fitted to do, and how can I best accomplish this work?
    (A) As director of, as instructor for, both in tenet and in example and in counsel, those that have been or are in the ways of being misled, misguided by environment. Hence, to the entity, hereditary influences founded in spiritual forces and spiritual life must ever remain as the greater - in not only self's relationships but in considering the relationships of those whom the entity contacts in its work.
    How? Study those tenets that were given by self, by self's associates, for the young and for the old, in the Roman experience. Hence Rome, Titus, Philemon, James and St. John are the better studies for the entity in its physical, mental and spiritual relations.
30. (Q) Will I be able to finance my home in accordance with the plan submitted by me, or should I let it go?
    (A) As we find, this will be able to be handled. DO NOT let it go, for it would bring discouragement in a manner - yet encouragement when it has been accomplished, through not only those plans but the trust in the fellow men through the power of the spiritual influence in their lives.
31. (Q) Will I successfully adjust my present financial difficulties during 1934?
    (A) It should be almost definitely set as to how these shall be overcome by the middle or latter part of April or first of May. Then the rest will be worked out.
32. (Q) Please explain just why our children came into our home and why they came so late in our married life?
    (A) In analyzing self and self's relationships to the companion [913] in regard to same, there is seen those portions of the experience in which these were rather sought for - and while they came as the desire, the desire within self was better tended, was better set for the guiding, directing of the experiences of those that have come to these bodies - after having sought long.
33. (Q) Have my wife [913] and I been associated before? When and under what circumstances?
    (A) In the Roman experience the wife was then much the cause of the entity's physical change in the experience. And the latter portion of that sojourn was in the same relationships as in the present.
    In the sojourn in the Persian or Arabian land the relationships were rather set one against another, in the tenets - or the character or manner of administering or ministering to the needs of those that developed in that particular line of endeavor of the entity; for the wife THEN was one of those who had been a teacher also - but in the Grecian land. Hence their rebellions, or their pitted forces one against another. In the present an analysis of those things in which the likes and dislikes of one another differ may be traced to that period; for one's experience has its foundation in the Grecian school and the other in the Persian or Chaldean.
34. (Q) Please give me some advice that will help me to be a success in the rearing of my children.
    (A) In those gifts that come into the experience of fathers and mothers in the material plane, these are oft found to be such that - if they are made more and more cooperative - that which the child may bring into the experience becomes much as that said of old, "the little child shall lead them." Yet those counsels, those advices that may be given in directing - not compelling, but directing and impelling through direction. There's a difference between compelling and impelling, in guiding the study, guiding the experience of the young. Hence, as these are studied in the light of the experiences given by those lessons pointed in the letters of those that the entity not only heard sometimes but oft, there may come the greater understanding of how the child is blessed by being in the environ of the present sojourn as well as SELF being blessed by the responsibility of - and the love of - the child.
35. (Q) To what colors do I vibrate, and what note of the musical scale?
    (A) Just off note, as it might be said, in the music. Hence C and combinations between - not OFF note, but C and its combinations. In colors, the mode and gray; while we find the aura of the entity will respond to certain shades of yellow, orange and violet. Hence the development in spiritual lights makes for the vibrations to musical tones and colors to mean much. When there is illness, or dis-ease rather than disease - or when the body would think well, the notes combined in the Spring Song - or the works of Liszt will make for harmony in the entity's mental, spiritual and physical self.
36. (Q) What is my symbol?
    (A) The plaque or disc set with the abundance of spiritual force, in the Cross; and the harbinger of plenty, in the sickle and in the cornucopia.
37. (Q) Please give any spiritual advice that will help me.
    (A) In the study of self and self's relationships to thy fellow man, leave oft the way open for the spirit of truth in Christ to guide through meditation and prayer. Give the glory ALWAYS to Him that has promised to guide and keep the way, studying to show self approved first unto God, DIVINING the words of truth from the teachers that are accepted in thine experience - and making the moral, the social and spiritual life a practical application of same in the daily life.
38. We are through.

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BACKGROUND

1. 12/19/33 See personal message in A.R.E. Group #3 rdg. 473-1, Par. 8-A.

REPORTS

1. 2/28/34 Miss [275] wrote: "I just received a letter from Mr. [478] asking for a seal. I do so hope I will be able to be of service to him."
2. 5/05/34 See 262-61, Par. 24-A in re how he can best serve A.R.E. Group 3 as a leader.
3. 5/21/34 He obtained 478-2, a Physical Rdg.
4. 3/05/35 See personal message in A.R.E. Group 3 rdg. 473-2, Par. 17-A.
5. 11/07/35 See his Mental-Spiritual Rdg. 478-4.
6. 12/19/37 See 262-116, Par. 13-A Christmas message.
7. 11/21/62 He ordered A.R.E. publications sent to his married daughter, and requested a copy of his Life Rdg. 478-1.
8. 6/30/63 His wife, [913], died.
9. 5/10/66 He died at the age of 76.

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