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 - Mrs. [491], 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. Mrs. [491] and Mrs. [443]. Born July 31, 1878, in St. Louis, Mo.

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1. EC: (In going back over years from date of today to birth, '29, '28, '27 - some change here - '26, '25 - etc.)
2. Yes, we have the entity and those relations with the universe and universal forces, that are latent and manifested in the personalities of the entity now called [491].
3. In entering the present experience we find from the astrological sojourns these influencing the mental body in the present: Mercury, Venus, Uranus and Mars. As to the aspects these have made, or do make in the present experience of the entity, they are rather as mental and innate urges. And depending upon the will's influence respecting these, they may be changed in the application of the environ or surrounding of the entity, when they are put into manifestations in the experiences; making through these:
4. One in the Mercurian influence of high mental abilities, especially may the entity train or apply self in writing, in the application of self respecting the expression of individual emotion or individual activities in given surroundings or conditions that make for that which influences individual lives in their relationship to thought.
5. In Venus we find the love influence making for activities in which the will respecting same has dominated, or does dominate; yet through the same influences those the entity chooses as its friends may be made to be of lasting importance or influence in the entity's activities. Likes and dislikes, then, become decided in the entity's application of such relations, through experiences innately manifesting themselves from such a sojourn.
6. The Uranian forces make for the occult abilities in the entity's application of self, yet making for periods in the experience when there are decided changes in the attitude of the entity as related to individuals or to groups, or a particular line of thought; becoming very enthusiastic in some respects, yet holding ever a reserve in self as matter of expression or of application of such associations or experiences in the practical portion of the entity's life.
7. As to this association, then, those of the occult as separate from mysteries or of rote, or of necessary activity to bring such in the experience, can better be expressed - and MAY be more easily expressed in the mental attributes of the body, in that it may write, than in that it may apply in its own experience.
8. The entity, then, may be said to be one that may, UNDER the influence, often times be an advisor FOR others, or to others, that OTHERS would not deem the entity applied in its own experience.
9. Mars makes for those changes that have come under the influence of the emotions of individuals or groups, yet bringing ever with same those that make for the true Martian influence that wars and rumors of same, those of disputes, have ever been within the experience of the entity as to the changes that might become either apparent or definite activities in the entity's relations and associations, dependent - as has been indicated - upon the activity or the will of the entity as respecting same.
10. Then, in the mental-soul balance of the entity, there are abilities in many directions that in the application of same to self may make for influences that may bring into self contentment or joy, or may at times make for those very same influences in self where the pleasure may be in those of relationships to others rather than of looking too closely within self's own relation or activity.
11. As to the experience in the earth that makes for the closer relationships in the activities, irrespective of the will - but are rather the planetary environ in its true relationships to others:
12. Before this we find the entity not of great extent of period when the entity was in the earth's plane in its activity than before, in that land now known as the west coast, during those periods when there were the first settlers as from the eastern portion of the land of nativity that began their activities.
13. The entity then was among those that went with that activity, in the younger years, yet the experience brought to the entity that ability in the present to make the application - if DESIRED within self - to use the environ as the stepping- stones for the application of that desired in the entity's experience.
14. The name then was Wendell, and in the experience the entity gained and lost. Through the application of aid in self to the activities there was brought sacrifice, yet periods also of not only bringing to individuals that which made for the thinking better of themselves but that aided in the establishing of the true relationships between the various groups that were the settlers in that portion of the land.
15. There was the losing in the activities when grudges and disputes made for the entity, through its own will, the application of easily in the present making or holding grudges - if there is to the entity the basis in the mental process of reasoning the activity for same.
16. Before this we find the entity was during those sojourns in the land now known as the Roman, during the periods when there were the reactions in the land from the persecutions that had brought much turmoil, much strife to the peoples; yet the entity was among the rulers that ACCEPTED the tenets, in those experiences that made for the acceptance, that brought peace and harmony among many where turmoil and strife had existed in the experiences of those that had accepted the tenets of a teaching.
17. The entity then was among those that made for changes in their relationships by the activities. Hence we find Uolda of the daughters of Constantine that made for an activity that brought not only comfort and ease to many, but the fulfilling of much that had been an activity of the entity in a former relationship, as will be seen.
18. Hence much that has been accredited to the relationships of teachings, the relationships of individuals' activity, in the better sense, was because of the activities, the pleadings, the livings of the entity during that sojourn.
19. Hence while comforts in material things, joys in the activities, yet the longings to be able to fill more of the lives of those that had found relationships in trials, turmoils, brought sadness to the entity, yet soul development throughout the experience. And the abilities to put into words, or to think into the terms of what the activities of others would be under given circumstances, are in the innate and manifested abilities in the present.
20. Before this we find the entity was during those periods when there were the establishings of the tenets by a leader in what is now known as the Persian or Arabian land.
21. The entity then was among the Grecian peoples that had embraced or accepted these tenets that brought physical aid, mental understanding, spiritual rest, to the minds, the hearts and the experiences of many; being in body not only beautiful but in mind and application in those relationships material (that had for all that the world in its position then had to offer) gave of self in a service in attempting to bring to those of many lands that gathered in this city in the hills and plains of this land as teachings; yet failing, as there came the turmoils, not only from the own peoples who raided the land but from those that made for turmoils from the Persian and Chaldean lands also. Hence those periods when the entity in its seeking to follow through the meditations and the hours spent in pleading with others that self would bring those periods when there would be joy in the lives of those who HAD offered, did offer of themselves in service for an ideal. The name then was Rebar.
22. In the present from the experiences may be seen the physical joy in relationships to things that deal with certain periods of activities of individuals, and the real pleasure arising from visioning, seeing within self what such relationships with things and conditions of peoples brought to their own minds for manifestation in their activity.
23. Before this we find the entity was in that land now known as the Peruvian, during those periods when there was much change being made by the tenets that were being brought in by the peoples from not only the northern land where a portion of the Atlantean peoples had brought their activities in a political and in a religious service, but from those just before the upheavals that came with those that acted with the Ohums (?). [Ohms?] [Aymaras.]
24. The entity was of the native peoples, and one of the priestess in this land during that period; bringing much of strife through the activities of others into the experience of the entity, yet the entity overcame much by not only embracing but rather using for the peoples in the relationships of the entity to those peoples in their daily expressions of life. And there will come to the entity, in knowing or comprehending, by being in closer relationships with those of the early part of those peoples' experience in the land, much that would awaken for the entity the meaning of rote - and the application of self in rote or chant, or of such - in the experience of a body. Remembering the mental relationships to this, one may see by the visioning of same how the relationships have existed, or do exist. The name then was Ouelm.
25. Before this we find the entity was in that land now that has made for much in the activities of the earlier relationships of peoples in the form of civilization, or in the Mongoloid land that is now desert land.
26. The entity then was of those peoples that set for themselves a practical relationship between outside influences in the experiences of others, and the entity was among those that received from the emissaries the reports when there were the gatherings of many nations for the associations of selves in one great cause. The name was then Ituchen, or I-u-en (?).
27. In the present may be seen, through those relationships or associations in that experience, much of the thought as of the peculiar effect that sounds of certain character make or have upon individualities in the present experience.
28. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, and that to which it may attain, and how:
29. As seen from the varied experiences, there have been builded definite things, definite conditions, definite experiences in the inmost being or soul of this entity, that if they do not find expression in either song, verse or expression of some character, it is as of not satisfying all the abilities of the soul.
30. Then, that which it may accomplish is in expressing self through the manifestations of words, of acts, or of rhythm of words, in which the entity has the abilities to arouse in others their latent forces and powers that come from the one all creative force that has been the experience of the entity throughout its sojourn in the earth, and its applications of that to which it attained in its development through the spheres for EXPRESSION, expression in the life, in the word, in the thought. These will bring for the entity the greatest joy, the greatest understanding, and ANSWER much that has throughout the experience been as an undercurrent in the experience of this soul.
31. Ready for questions.
32. (Q) Explain for this entity the difference between occult and mystic forces.
    (A) Occult, rather those that are of the ability of personal application; while the mysteries, the necessity of certain activities or feelings to be aroused before there may be expression.
33. (Q) What is the karma of the entity now? What must be worked out in this life?
    (A) That which lies within self to give to others that which will awaken within them their abilities of self-expression. In the expression of same will self not only find peace and harmony reigning within, but FULFIL that purpose that has been shown has been innate so oft in its earthly experience.
34. We are through for the present.

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