This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 30th day of December, 1937, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [528], Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., but sponsored by and given as a New Year's present from Mr. Edgar Cayce himself.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Born February 3, 1908, about nine p.m., in Hopkinsville, Christian County, Ky.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [528].
2. In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them here, what is chosen to be given - if it is applied in the experience of the entity in the present - may make for a greater development in the present activity.
3. To gain first the purposes for which an entity enters any given experience should be the desire and aim of every entity seeking to know its place, and seeking to be a channel for the greatest manifestation of that the entity sets as its ideal.
4. Let the entity then first determine in self, "What is my ideal - physical, mental, spiritual?" And know that unless it be founded in things spiritual it must eventually turn and rend thee.
5. As the entity from its sojourns in the earth is an Atlantean, hence it is in the very nature of the present experience unusual in abilities, in faculties, in activities - and in disturbances of every nature.
6. For as there is more and more the reincarnating of the Atlanteans in the present experience, these bring a union of energies in the activities of those that sojourned there.
7. The astrological aspects, from which influences in the present activity or experience of the entity may be drawn - these are not because a planet, a constellation or a zodiacal sign was in this or that phase of the astrological aspects. Rather is it that the entity in the interims between the earthly incarnations has been in the environs to which such activities are accredited by many; as Venus, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and the like - that become a part of the influence to the entity by that environment or sojourn there.
8. Hence the astrological influences are more to the spiritual or INNATE urges, that are aroused by the deeper meditating of the mental self.
9. For while mind is the builder, the mind of the physical and the mind of the spiritual entity are one, according to what stress or phase of activity is indicated by the dwelling upon same.
10. These as we find in this entity then become the ruling influences:
11. Uranus is the EXTREME influence. Hence we find the entity inclined to be at times very good, again very bad; or very optimistic or very pessimistic; very ill or very well. Extremist; and yet much of this is tempered by the Venus influences in same.
12. Hence we find music, the activities as in social influences; a temperament that may be activative by gentleness, kindness, patience; or those virtues that are attributed to love in its pure form make for benevolent influences in the experience of the entity.
13. Hence we find one very high-strung; and making for the great variations in its way or manner of expressing itself yet tempered with patience, love, sympathy.
14. And a great deal of sentiment as to places, conditions, individuals always plays a part in the experience. This, of course, may be carried to excess - or may be used by its very virtue in its activity and its implication to make for abilities towards the activities in which the entity may find the greater outlet for its expression in the present - that of music, and of transposition of songs already written, or the expressions of those in a better or a more harmonious experience for the entity.
15. The influence in Jupiter we find influenced by both the Uranian and the Venus forces. Thus the associations and activities of the entity will incline to be in connection with masses or groups rather than individuals; though individual in its application oft.
16. Thus in the expression or manifesting of its activities, both those that have to do with individual instructions and those of a mass or group application will be a part of the entity's experience.
17. As we find the entity may, from these very experiences, make a sojourn in which a career may be a part of the entity experience - or the greater expression of the home-making, or home-building.
18. Yet even in the home-building, the giving to others in their desire for expression in the field of harmony, the field of music, the field of activities as related to the artistic temperament of individuals will still be a part of the entity's activity.
19. However, if there is union with one of the same temperament as to thought, desire or expression, there may come forth from the union a soul's expression that would become very, VERY unusual in abilities for the CREATIVE music or expressions of same!
20. As to the appearances in the earth, these we find - while not great in number - varying much in their manner of expression or application.
21. Thus we will find many environments and changes in the experiences of the entity in the present sojourn.
22. These find expressions in what may be termed the EMOTIONAL influences or forces of the entity. Thus these become what may be said to be the EXPRESSIONS of the emotions, or the hereditary forces in the experience of the entity from the MENTAL or spiritual-mental angle.
23. Before this we find the entity was in that portion of the land of the present nativity now known as the "city of brotherly love," or Philadelphia; during those periods when there were those separations and segregations of individuals for the early settlers' activities.
24. There the entity was a teacher, as an active influence for the young - as related to the economics of the home, as to the teachings as related to song and the religious training.
25. Thus we find in those activities that the entity, Dotty Graham, made for influences that brought an awakening for many during that experience.
26. The entity gained and lost - only in that of self-aggrandizements in the activities among those of its own sex and groups.
27. Hence we find oft those of its own sex in the present question the entity as in relation to its activities among and with others.
28. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Palestine land, or the land of promise - when there were those days following those when the Master had walked in the earth; and among those peoples who had gathered from many portions of the land during the latter days - or upon the day of Pentecost.
29. The entity was among those that were born in and during that period, and of the Galilean land; of those children that were close to Salome in the relationships to John Mark and of that household - kinsmen of Peter, Andrew.
30. Thus we find the entity growing under those periods of oppression, suppression; an activity in which there were the general conditions of oppression because of political rather than religious reasons - and later in the early years, became the oppression because of the religious persecutions.
31. Thus the entity grew under those material environments during that sojourn.
32. Hence we find within the experience of the entity in the present those periods of confusion, other than the rote and routine that comes from a long activity, without the full purposes as to why this or that might be a part of the spiritual life.
33. Hence all the more injunction that the entity in taking thought and counsel of self should first KNOW the ideals, and not only as the ideals, not only as to what ye believe but in WHOM ye believe!
34. And know that He in whom ye have believed is able to keep that ye may commit unto Him against any experience that may arise in thy conscious activity; whether in material things from the material causes or purposes or those in the mental achievements of the material or spiritual thoughts or of the purely spiritual purposes and imports that become a part of the experience of every entity in its activity among material things.
35. The name then was Josia.
36. Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as or called the Egyptian, during those periods when there were the preparations, the building up of the activities of those that had become a part of the influence from the Atlantean land; those preparations of each individual for the activities as made for the distributing of the tenets and the teachings of the land - whether pertaining to the home, the political activities or those in the commercial field, or the purely spiritual influences to be wielded upon the various forces throughout the experiences of those sojourning in the earth.
37. The entity was among the Natives that were of the Priest's choice for services in the Temple Beautiful, and for the segregations of those that would in such service become a part of the activities in other lands.
38. There the entity gained throughout, in the name Shu-Arsto.
39. Before that we find the entity was in the Atlantean land, when there were the first disturbances that arose for the destructive influences that made for the application of spiritual forces for the material conditions that brought the destructive influences within that land.
40. In the city of the Posedians was the entity, and of those tenets of the Laws of One; yet becoming entangled with the activities as related to use of the principles of the stone upon the spheres, these brought to the entity periods of self-indulgences, self-aggrandizements - and these brought destructive forces.
41. Hence again the more of the injunction: KNOW THYSELF and thy relationships to the Creative Forces that may bring into the hearts and minds and souls of others the consciousness of the God-force, the Creative Force being existent and willing to manifest in and through the individual application.
42. KNOW that God is not mocked, and whatsoever ye sow that must ye also reap!
43. As to the abilities of the entity:
44. Keep the faith that thy fathers had in those lands of promise. Find thyself in thy relationships and meet them in harmony, that they may bring peace and quiet to the hearts and souls of men!
45. For thy abilities are many. Thy purposes are aright, when kept in that way that leads to the knowledge, the understanding of the law of divine love within.
46. For thy body is indeed the temple of the living God. There He promises to meet thee oft. Then harken to that voice within, that may direct thee in thy choices of this or that experience, this or that association.
47. And let patience and love be thy guide. For divine love is that which makes aware to the hearts and souls of men the PRESENCE of His love, of the Father being within!
48. Ready for questions.
49. We are through for the present.

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BACKGROUND

1. See previous Physical Rdgs. for scleroderma, especially 528-13 on 12/11/37 giving mental-spiritual advice. EC, in gratitude for Miss [528] giving free music lessons to Miss [1352], obtained 528-14 as a New Year's present for Miss [528]. [She had on several occasions expressed her desire to have a life Rdg.]

REPORTS

1. 1/18/38 She obtained 528-15, a Ck. Physical rdg.
2. 5/02/38 She obtained 528-16, a Mental-Spiritual rdg. in regard to an unhappy love affair.
3. 8/09/42 She married a soldier in the Air Corps, not the same man about whom she asked advice in 528-16.
4. GD's note: She went back to school before her marriage and got her Bachelor of Music degree; piano major and voice minor.

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