This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest W. Zentgraf, 400 St. Paul's Ave., Stapleton, S.I., N.Y., this 29th day of January, 1934, in accordance with request made by self - Mr. [488], Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Hugh Lynn Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mr. [488], Mrs. [255] and Miss [275].

TEXT

1. EC: Yes, we have the enquiring mind, [488], and those relations as respects the family tree. These we have had before, especially this respecting Benedict Zentgraf the second, buried in Nuremburg, grave 925.
2. First we would give you as this:
3. In seeking such information, rather than hindering self through the various types of sources that such must come to be put into your own findings or language in the present, seek through such channels where there may be given such information as the genealogy of individuals in their seeking; for, primarily, my son, thou hast been given the teacher and the instructor. Hence it has been necessary that in seeking this information that might be given here, that different channels entirely be entered in, and through which are not well for the better character of information that may come through this channel in its service or in being a channel of service to the fellow man at this time.
4. Benedictine the second (Zentgraf), as is known, was buried in this grave on the 16th of October. The father, Benedictine the first, was born in Lutz in 1504 and died in what is now Luxenbergher in 1579, and the activities of the body were in the service of the land, as what would be termed in the present day the judge advocate, or in the establishing of governmental relations in this land. The father Benedictine was born in what is now Munice in 1489, on the 4th day of May, and died in 1511 in what is now called - and whose grave may be located at the edge of that portion of the city where new changes are now even being made - Exanton. This is a small place, but is near to what is called Zuntel, as we find (this somewhat larger). This entity, or this Zentgraf, as called then, was one that had come from those activities in a siege by the peoples in Poland, that brought on those activities that raised the son to one of power - or in rule. While the father of Benedictine Zentgraf was named Henrich Zentgraffee. And from here we find the name Zentgraffe was taken in the next of those peoples. Henrich, as we find, came from what is now Essene, and was born there - and of those peoples of the sea, and in the year of our Lord 1400, and on the 29th day of November. He followed in the early portion rather those lines of his own peoples, yet from the activities there came the sea forces in the powers in which he became active when settling in - and where he died - what is now Berlin, and in the tombs that are in the cathedral towers may this be found, with the activities of the birth, of the death, and the honor conferred upon the entity, or upon Henrich at that time the name was changed.
5. We are through for the present.

BACKGROUND

1. See 488-7 on 1/16/34.

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