This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. Mitchell Hastings, 410 Park Ave., New York City, this 17th day of January, 1934, in accordance with request made by self - Mrs. [489], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mrs. [443].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Hugh Lynn Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. [489] and [443]. Born November 8, 1880, 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 personality of the present entity, [489].
2. In entering the present experience we find from the astrological aspects in the entity's experience that these only in part present the active influences in the experience of the entity in the present activity. And with the developments that have been manifest, these would not be ALL that might be given which might be helpful or applicable in the experience in the present. For, sojourns in environs have made for the influences in the experience more than only the position of the planetary influence in the experience. For, as has been and is maintained, what one does with that which is of that influence whether from environs in the activities or from hereditary influences from sojourns, or from the impelling forces in the experience of the purely material relationships, makes for more activity in a development than merely the knowledge or the awareness of an experience in an entity's activity. Hence we find in this entity a ruling influence in Venus, in that ordinarily attributed through the stars or the students of experiences in the life of individuals, as well as that which may have the deeper meaning in the approach of the entity to all conditions, whether mental, material or spiritual, that deal with the lives of individuals. Hence love, respect, honor, the natures that make for beauty of the life, beauty that may make for an experience in the affairs of others, beauty even in duty to the entity has made - through its activities and through the astrological experience of the entity - that which makes for a more perfect understanding in many relations with friends, associates or companions, that OTHERS may have in THEIR experience questioned. And enables the entity in the application of self to draw nearer to the heart, to the soul of others in aiding them.
3. To be sure, such abilities, such insight, carry with same the good and the own obligations also. From this same sojourn also, as combined with Neptune and Uranus, there have been brought the experiences in the entity of the development in self of its psychic forces as applied to self's relations to others as well as the abilities in this sphere of activity to be of an aid, of a counsel, of a help to many; yet, as is seen from the manner of approach to subjects that pertain to the mysteries or occult or psychic science by the entity, is in that gentleness of manner as not to disturb or neither does the entity within itself become perturbed at any character of experience that may be brought to its experience or notice, but rather has been the experience that if those influence through any such experience they quell rather that longing for the heart, for the expression of hope, peace and love in the experience MATTER with the entity, or become that which the entity itself may use or apply. Hence from this sojourn comes those abilities to judge well, to disseminate well, to distinguish or parallel in comparison, abilities of what may be termed the impelling influence in the experience of an individual who would use its OWN development in the affairs of others.
4. GENTLENESS, nobleness, kindness, sympathy, have been those qualities that have made for the developments from these experiences by the entity, both in the mental and the spiritual aspects and developments of the body.
5. That Jupiter and those influences in Mars have their aspects or their influence in the material affairs of the entity has been evidenced by material conditions in the experience, yet these - tempered by or in the application of will, of the soul forces of this entity - have brought often not only to self but to its friends, its acquaintances, that which has quelled MANY a disturbed force in the activities, in the lives, in the experience of others.
6. These influences, then, are rather passing - Jupiter and Mars; yet ever do they appear. Hence the will of the entity only has kept many a flare from causing disturbing forces. Hence in entity, in MATERIAL abilities of the application of same, may be said to be the abilities to be an excellent peacemaker, provided time FOR SELF to analyze situations between individuals or groups is given. Yet in the broadness of vision, that comes from the sojourn in the Jupiterian influence, there are the abilities to see, to know, to comprehend all phases of human qualities that act or influence their experience, as well as the insight that is natural from the psychic or soul development of the entity to be a WONDERFUL analyst of human emotions, and in its present experience the greater joy, the greater good that may be accomplished is not only in the analyses of others in their emotions from the psychic but from the purely love influence that directs the life of the entity, may be made to mean much in the experience of others, and make for self through such application a development that may carry on the unactive forces active in materiality. For, while the experiences of each soul in its environs are those necessary for making the union with the Creative influences in every soul's experience, the entity may become the teacher in the realms of those influences where those souls in their transition may gain much from the experiences from that gained by THIS soul in its development for its OWN soul as respecting the truth, the life, the light that is shed in material world.
7. As to the appearances and those that make for the greater influence in the experience of the entity in the present:
8. Before this we find the entity was in that period, that land, when many were sojourning to other lands owing to the persecutions of the peoples for their beliefs in certain religious rote or rites.
9. The entity was among those that did NOT leave, yet held in self in the England land that to remain true to those duties, those obligations in the experience, would be the greater - and that in such duties there might be had the greater blessings for self. Yet the longings for many an one that had gone out from the experience or the surroundings of the entity made for sadness of mien, yet the heart, the soul was kept glad in the service it found to do during that experience and sojourn; in the name then of Marie Doughle.
10. In the experience the entity gained, for the application of its portion of life in the experience was in service in MAKING for self that of the satisfying of the use of its experience for the joy that it brought to others primarily.
11. In the present the sojourn makes for those experiences of an understanding heart for those that have lost those close to them, for those that have journeyed on not only in material but in mental realms to changes; the understanding and the abilities to make in the experiences of such the manner, the way to comprehend or to USE a happening of an experience for soul development.
12. Before this we find the entity was during those periods when there was much turmoil in the land of Judea, when there was the announcing of the prophet, of the new teacher, and all Judea had gone out to John.
13. The entity then was among those that had been of the students of the Essenes, and in direct connection with many that had been prophesying, had been searching the records of or for the coming of the new light to those that had been hemmed in by tradition and by the acts of peoples in a political and religious purpose in the land.
14. Hence rather did the entity act in the capacity of one that counselled with those of its acquaintanceship, of its surroundings; for there was the inactivity until there had been within self found that which would answer to the calls that were being proclaimed by the various individuals moved by the teachings of a strange man who had renounced his position, who had renounced his activities in the material world to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord is at hand. This to the entity brought many peoples in the counsel given, and when the lowly Nazarene came to know the entity, then in the name Veronicani, [See her Check-Life rdg., 489-3 on this Palestine incarnation stating she was the mother of Stephen.] the entity became of those that, though weak in body, brought much counsel to many that saved many in their approach to this new understanding.
15. In the experience the entity gained and gained; for abilities as may be had in the present, not only of a healer through the ability to analyze individuals, individuals' emotions, individuals' activity, arise from the experience; but those approaches ever the entity has made to every character of new presentation, to the entity are as of an old truth - yet the entity has studied each approach and each has received in the ENTITY'S own application its proper consideration, and that which creates understanding of the greater approach to light the entity holds - while that which makes for rather destructive forces the entity has forgotten.
16. In the counsel in such rather should there be the stronger denunciation and the stronger laudation of that which is found worthy of acceptance in the experience of the entity.
17. Before this we find the entity was in that land now known as the Egyptian, during those experiences when many were journeying from those lands where destructive forces were being manifested by those those that were against the law of the One.
18. The entity then of the Atlantean land came as a young individual TO the Egyptian land during those periods when there was the building up of the tenets, of the lessons, of the truths by the priest in the land. Long did the entity counsel with those of its own peoples; long did the entity reckon with the priest before aiding in disseminating those truths, especially as to the teaching and as to the application of material things for the healing of the bodies of the peoples; in the name Ammelleeo.
19. In the experience the entity gained and lost, and gained; for in the application of self there remained the longings for the old activities, and those that made for the conditions in the experience of the entity, even when destructive forces had made for the necessity of change. Yet in the application the entity may find in the present that the powers of healing, of adminstering to the needs of others, in setting them aright in their line of material activity, of mental precaution, of spiritual significance in their own lives, are within the entity.
20. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, that to which it may attain, and how:
21. That in the service, as the developments come, it must be within self - and, as this is given out to others does the growth, the knowledge, the understanding of the tenets of life, of the experiences of the mental and physical become such that they may be the food for the soul body, that it - the soul - may in its journeys MINISTER to the wants, to the needs, to even the weaknesses of others.
22. Hence in the healing influence of spiritual application of truth, of life, in the activities to analyze, to set aright, those that are wanderers in the way, is the greater service that the entity - with its abilities, its understanding - may render to the hearts, the souls of its fellow man.
23. Ready for questions.
24. (Q) How is the best way for the entity to be a channel for healing others?
    (A) As self finds by the analyzing of others' emotions, others' conditions that have suppressed or oppressed in their activity, so may it counsel with those souls, those individuals, in using the universal or Creative forces within themselves to arouse that which will supply the needs to that individual body and soul. For, as the entity has long since gained, to heal a body and to lead a soul astray is to only bring consternation to that soul.
25. (Q) Should the entity allow self to go out of the body?
    (A) Allow self to go out of the body if and when it has learned to surround self with the influence of the CHRIST Consciousness as to prevent the USE of self's abilities by those that would hinder.
26. (Q) How can the entity train self to do this?
    (A) Much of this, much of the basic forces, has been gained by the soul, by the entity, in its manner of expressing love in the life of others; yet as self makes self a channel for the use of its own abilities, the use of its faculties for the spirit of truth, there is set about same that necessary. In any of the forms that have been studied by self, but knowing that the power of the Christ that is manifest in Truth, whether in this chism, ism, act or thought, IS that which may KEEP the body, the mind, the soul, as ONE - even as taught BY self in Atlantis, as experienced in Judea, as KNOWN in England, as found to be present in America.
27. We are through.

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REPORTS

1. 1/30/34 She obtained a Mental-Spiritual - See 489-2.
2. 5/24/34 She obtained Check-Life reading on her Palestine incarnation, 489-3.

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