This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. Mitchell Hastings, 410 Park Avenue, New York City, this 18th day of January, 1934, in accordance with request made by self - Dr. [490], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by [440].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Hugh Lynn Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. [490], [443] and [440]. Born January 9, 1892, in Key West, Florida.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the entity and those relations with the universe and universal forces, as are latent and manifested in the personalities of the present entity.
2. From the astrological aspects there are some very unusual conditions that surround the birth of this entity; that is, the intentions and purposes and desires would have brought the body under another environ from purely an astrological aspect, yet from these may be asked many questions that would be hard - from the purely astrological aspect - to answer.
3. These, we find, however, are as a worthy illustration in the experience of this entity that the sojourns in environs rather than the position of the stars, planets, or the activities of the zodiacal signs, the influences of the sojourns there and in the earth, make for a far greater influence than merely this one arising or that arising.
4. In the Aquarian sign these would have been in a far different aspect, under the intentional environs. Then, easily might the question be asked: Is the intention or the act the greater influence in the experience?
5. As we shall see, this may be answered properly from the sojourn of the entity or soul, and what that soul has done in its consciousness of that environ about what the soul accepts as the ideal.
6. Hence, each soul's development, from that which may be given in information from the sojourns or appearances in the earth, should ever be judged from what that soul has done WITH the knowledge, WITH the understanding OF its relationships to its Creator and to its fellow fellows in WHATEVER environ that soul may have found itself.
7. As to the astrological aspects, we find (from this angle) these influencing the entity: Jupiter, Mars, Mercury and Neptune. These are the astrological influences, and in their respective places do and will influence the entity, by their influence upon those that have dwelt within the environ of that atmosphere or that consciousness.
8. Hence we find one of a high mental ability through the Mercurian sojourn. We find one of rather a temperamental atmosphere about self at times, somewhat moody at others, and at others rather buoyant under WHATEVER may be the activity. And when others have lost hope, oft does the entity through this very sojourn determine to carry on, especially if that as related to the surrounding is the ideal of the entity or soul with its entity's activity.
9. One also we find that will not only meet or be associated with a great number of individuals and personalities, but will have - with the application of the mental abilities of the entity in the present sojourn - much to do with the thought or the mental application or stimuli to the physical and mental application of individuals in their experience in this sojourn. These through those influences from the Jupiterian sojourn or activity. These have made for the greater influence in the entity, for the entity - being what may be termed by some as determined and hard-headed - is a very sensitive soul; one that is attuned to much that might escape the notice of others in any field of activity, whether it is gaining the concept of the beauty of a sunset, the harmony in a musical rendition, or whether in the moods of individuals or the activities as related to the relationships between the varied kingdoms in their activity in a material plane. Hence we may find in the application of the abilities in the present, the entity will come to those places where decisions must be made, not only that will deal with those conditions that will be the experiences in the present sojourn of self but as to what will be the experiences or opportunities of many another soul.
10. Hence much may be said to rest upon the entity in its activities during the present sojourn, from the abilities, possibilities, and the activity that makes for ABILITY in these directions.
11. We also find that while these are the influences from sojourns, it may be said that things INTEREST the entity - or conditions with things; but more particularly do things in their activity create or influence or furnish a stimuli for thought and activity of individuals. Hence humanity, or the ACTIVITY of humanity as a whole - rather than humanity as individual - is of greater interest to the entity in ITS activity.
12. How, it may be asked, do you arrive at such conclusions from the entity's sojourn in those environs as indicated? By what the entity did in those environs with the abilities or knowledge that the entity had in its soul development during such a sojourn. From what, then, do you gather such information? Where are the records kept? Upon what are they recorded? Upon the etheric wave in time and space. What IS the film that makes between time and space? That's what you are looking for, [490]! You'll find it!
13. This film - in this film is the difference between the movement OF the atomic force about its center and the impression that is made UPON those passing BETWEEN light and heat, not darkness, for darkness may not exist where light has found its way. Though you may not be conscious or aware of its existence, its rays from the very records of time and space turn their emanations to give to a finite mind the dimensions themselves.
14. As to the application of self respecting the influences upon the entity in its sojourns in the earth, we find:
15. Before this the entity was among those peoples to whom the inventor of the steam's application to the motor, or in France, to whom Fulton went - in the name Eben Claire [?], and the entity was among those that were in this household to whom the entity or body Fulton came; and the entity aided in the material surroundings, but during the sojourn in that experience applied self in attempting to determine ways and means and manners to carry out the ideas that were gathered by the entity Eben in its association with that body Fulton during its sojourn in that experience. Little has been heard, little has been gathered of the entity's activities in that sojourn along the Seine, yet much in the soul development, much in the abilities of the entity in the present in DETERMINATION arises from the experiences in that particular period.
16. Before this we find the entity was in quite a different, yet quite a close character of development; for he was during those periods when the great artist, the great musician, the great scientist was attempting to make the first experiments with lighter than air machines, or painting the pictures that have become as the mystery of the smile of that particular one.
17. The entity then, in the name Guiraleldio, was that one who aided DaVinci when much experimentation was made, and much that has been accredited to the scientist DaVinci in the experimentations made may rather have been accredited to this entity during that sojourn.
18. The entity lost and gained in the experience, for - losing confidence in the correct understandings or relations that were existing in the entity's environs in that experience - the entity wasted much of its ability in riotous living association; yet the abilities, the activities in the inner self, if they are kept with an ideal in the foreground - that is rather of the spiritual than of the material, kept AS that guiding star, that guiding home; for EVER should the entity remember, though ye gain the whole world and lose thine own soul it is nothing.
19. Before this we find the entity was in that land now known as the Egyptian, during those periods when there were the sojournings from the Atlantean land.
20. The entity then was among the peoples that were of ONE in Atlantis, that journeyed to Egypt and aided in those establishments of the experimentations that dealt with the principles of plant AND animal, rather than mineral, as to the applications of these principles to the curative forces in human ills; and may be said to have been upon the staff of the hospitalizations that were established during that building up in that period.
21. The entity gained and lost, gained and lost, from its own soul development, while much of the material, of the world, those of carnal forces that go to make up carnal pleasures, came into the experience of the entity to USE. Yet the USE of same, AS used, brought much of disturbing forces to the entity. While the abilities in the gathering of data, or experimental data in the application of much as may be termed as drugs in the present, were used in such work by the entity, and while to the world the entity meant much - to SELF the development was not beyond reproach.
22. Before this we find the entity was in that land now known as the desert lands in the Mongoloid, in those periods when there were the highest of the developments in that particular land; for with the rise of the civilizations or activities in other lands, the disintegration began there. Yet the entity in ITS sojourn was among the rulers of the land that gathered not only tenets as of daily thought, but much of that which might be applied to the physical and moral life of the individual, of the group, of the home, in that particular experience; in the name Ichexo - as would be translated in this expression, but not the sound from there, for the name as sounded would be Isheckel [?].
23. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, and that to which it may attain, and how:
24. As has been indicated from the experiences of the entity in its material development, some experiences have been wasted. In its soul and spiritual applications in other environs, soul development - but tried ever so as by fire has been, and will be, the experience - until the entity is able to conquer in self that of keeping the purposes, the aims, the desires of the body, of the mind, of the soul, NAUGHT in self save as to its service it may give to its fellow man.
25. In those fields of activity, then, in which there may be applied that which may be beneficial to man in his approach to the preparation of his thinking, of his physical being, for the development of his body, of his mind, that the spirit and the soul that worketh in and through same in manifested form in a material world may have the better channel to serve in.
26. Keep the heart, the mind, joyous in a service that may bring to self, to others, the greater understanding as to what life's expression in and through matter is all about.
27. Ready for questions.
28. (Q) What was the "work" that I was to do that the "Voice" told me in Key West?
    (A) To keep in line that shown thee in the mount. The mount - that in the meditation in the spiritual things.
29. (Q) Am I doing this work now?
    (A) Excellent!
30. (Q) Why was the Psychonograph given me? [GD's note: See [440] series re experiments with this machine.]
    (A) That there may be the testing in self as to the aims, the desires, the purposes in the inner self; for it will mean much to many men, to many peoples, in finding themselves through the cleansing of the impurities in their physical being.
31. (Q) Should I do "public" work with it, lecturing, etc., or use it in a sanitarium, or use it in a private office?
    (A) In its perfected form, as is seen to be in the keeping, the greater number may be reached by going to those and lecturing and showing how others may use and apply it in their associations, but with same comes those responsibilities that must be shouldered - that would be beyond that of using it in any one place. It is WORTHY of being given to many. Then give it, and shoulder the responsibility, but know that - as has been given - to gain the process, or to gain the laudation even of thine fellow man, and to lose thine own association, is as NAUGHT.
32. (Q) Should I confine myself to the psychological or the physical work with it?
    (A) They MUST include both, to be sure, but the greater press or stress - naturally - must be made in going to others on the physical - but the necessity of the psychological, and of the SPIRITUAL, that must come with it, in its use, may be given. See?
33. (Q) Should I go to Florida to do the work? If not, where?
    (A) The surroundings, the conditions there, to be sure, lend that for the greater experimentations in the perfected apparatus, but in its development - the present environs or surroundings would be better for the development or FOR the experimentations, see?
34. (Q) Should it be used in sanitarium work? I do not understand.
    (A) May be used in sanitarium work, but the BODY - [490] should TAKE same to others, see, and not confine self ALONE to sanitarium work. Lecture on same! Present same, for it has its place! Do that!
35. We are through for the present.

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REPORTS

1. 1/26/34 [490]'s wife, [500], obtained Life Reading, 500-1. See Par. 26-A in 500-1 re her home relations with [490].
2. 9/04/43 [490]'s letter to EC: "...I know you will be surprised to hear from me again after a number of years, but I assure you that I have never forgotten our interesting experiences at Mrs. Hastings' and the 'reading' you gave me..."
3. 9/23/43 [490]'s letter to EC: "...I was indeed glad to get your letter and also the booklet. Reading it over refreshed my memories of the pleasant and instructive times we had together in New York. My experiences while there were unusual and wonderful as I seemed to be so much 'in tune' with the spiritual forces, and received such revelations re the 'Psychonograph' and your readings - the condenser it gave increased the power of Broadcasting and I had some interesting experiences TREATING PATIENTS AT A DISTANCE. When I returned to Florida in 1935 I was full of enthusiasm for the work with the Psychonograph, and with the cooperation of the newspapers had considerable publicity, as I gave lectures each week, demonstrations of the Human Aura, etc. For a while it went over, but finally a reaction set in, as the word spread that 'That Doctor can see right thru you', 'see' your past, etc. So clients began to fall off, so gradually I returned to the regular physical treatments, and meantime, I married [...] - [GD's note: Not [500]] and had a baby boy - born March 31, 1937, [...] Jr...
   "The circumstances of his prenatal and birth periods being so unusual I feel that he has 'come' for some special purpose and as soon as possible I want a Life Reading for him.
   "My experiences after returning to Florida have followed a strange pattern, and naturally I wonder if I am doing 'the Work' as outlined in the reading you gave me, or if I have gone off on a by-path..."

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