This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Virginia, this 24th day of June, 1934, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [594], Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mrs. [303].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [594], Esther Wynne and Mildred Davis. Born January 4, 1898, in Cologne, Germany

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1. EC: Yes, we have the entity here, Mrs. [594], and those relations with the universe and universal forces that are latent and manifested in the personalities of the present entity.
2. In entering the present experience, and the astrological influences that are latent and manifested in the personalities of the present entity, Mrs. [594], we find the indwellings in the environs of the earth or the astrological aspects are more in those things that the entity has applied self in; and in analyzing same we will find these as latent and at times have been in the present experience manifested:
3. Mercury - the high mental abilities, and those activities that associate self's development with influences that are of the mental expansions in the activities or environs of the entity; that is, those things that pertain to the higher arts in self-expression, in the use of those things that pertain to attributes of the body, the mind of the entity in the present.
4. Jupiter - innate and manifested influences tending towards the broadness of vision, which - with the mental application - brings the more activative forces in contentment of WHATEVER relationships the entity may find self; also making for changes of scenes, changes of environs, changes of associations and activities in the present experience. As to how much these become active, as we have indicated, depends upon the application of the will respecting these problems or possibilities that present themselves in the experience of the entity, [594], in the present.
5. Uranus, with the benevolent influences in Venus, makes for the beauty in life; the beauties in the experience of others, the great beauties in nature that are all attractive to the inmost self of the entity; and through same may come in the present experience such associations and relations that may bring the activity in the mystic and occult influences and forces. Hence these interests will always, in this present experience, bring friendships, relations, activities of individuals in the experience of the entity, or the opportunities for same for the greater development. Yet, as from the sojourn in Mercury, all activity must in its analysis be a reasonable thing and there must be a practical application of same for it to become of the greater interest to the entity in making same a portion of self. This is innate in the experience of the entity in the present; as to music, art, the relationships that bring activities for the use or application of the higher innate experiences of individuals and of self as to those things that are the more attractive to the body in its MENTAL self. There are also the innate experiences as to travel being a portion of the entity's life, and the associations of individuals and of groups, masses and classes in many walks of life. Yet those things that the soul dwells upon are those things that make for an experience in those activities in the higher forces, higher influences, higher activities in the mental and soul experiences of the entity.
6. As to the appearances, then, and their influence that make for the environs of the entity in the present:
7. Before this we find the entity was in the earth during those periods when there was the sojourning of the individuals from the Fatherland; and the entity was among those people who came into this land soon after the American Revolution, in those activities in that place now known as Trenton, New Jersey, in and about those surroundings where there was so much of the association with that activity, or the struggle for those people during that period.
8. The entity then, in the family name of Werlutzerheim, was drawn into many varying relationships; for in those activities that followed with the experiences of that sojourn there came the teachings of the entity as related to those things that made for MARTIAL music in the experience; and the entity in making for those claims or those activities during that sojourn gained. When those periods of oppression arose, through the associations by the removal of portions of the entity's own family to the nearer central portion or frontiers of the land, there was brought consternation in the experience; for the entity then turned its material activities into that where the body as well as the mind was included, or to be included, in the associations and activities from day to day; so that which may be called in the present experience an activity was a portion of the entity's experience then, in what is now known as Trenton.
9. During the latter portion of the experience the entity lost, for the turmoils and strife, in the material affairs, brought consternation, and the aggrandizing of selfish interests or of self in that sojourn, bringing detrimental influences in the soul development of the entity. Yet the activities in the latter portions of that latter period of material sojourn in that experience brought peace and harmony and joy in uniting in those activities of that people.
10. In the present may be seen much of that interest in those things that pertain to that activity; in music, art, the catering to the needs of the physical man in the material activities and relations, arising from a sojourn in that particular experience.
11. Before that we find the entity was during those periods when there were the activities in the Fatherland, where there was the gathering of those people as children for the journeying into the Holy Land, or during those periods of the Crusades when the children were to be carried in the van of those taken to the Holy Land.
12. The entity was among the children that journeyed from what is NOW Leipzig to the lands now known as the Dardanelles in the Turkish land.
13. There many of those were lost in the way, yet the entity there - in the name Leuien - grew in body, in mind, in stature, to the entertainer for the peoples in that land; later going into the Grecian land, owing to the activities in that portion particularly, when the indulgencies of the individual were being at that period brought as to the soul activities in some quarters; yet the entity GAINED through the experience, for those things that were given as in those periods of action brought the better action for that as may be termed the CLASSIC Grecian in the opera or drama in that experience; being then of those people that brought to the natives as well as to others those actions that made for the raising of same in the people, the classes and the groups for their particular associations. Hence those things pertaining to the body beautiful, to the Grecian art, to the sculpture, have an innate influence in the experience of the entity that arises at times to the application in same in reference to how the entity would portray to another the influence in the mental and spiritual self of individuals.
14. Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as the Egyptian, during those periods when there were the activities from the returning of the Priest to the land in power, and in bringing to those people the understanding of the correlation between the tenets that had been laid aside as well as being accepted also from the Atlantean land.
15. The entity then was among those that joined with those peoples in becoming the emissaries to the various lands. Then the entity journeyed again into that land known now as the Persian and Arabian, with that Queen who had received her training in Egypt; and the particular interests that arise from that sojourn of the entity may be seen manifested innately in the interest in animal - dog, horse and the like, that make for a peculiar influence in the experience of the entity; and the abilities of the entity to train, teach or to control this nature is in the entity's INNATE activity from that sojourn. Also there is seen the interest in the peculiar character of dress and its influence in the activity of individuals. Also we find innately influencing those things that pertain to the mysteries of life or nature, as correlated with the influence upon individuals' activities.
16. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, and that to which it may attain, and how:
17. In any of those fields of activity that will combine the development of the soul and mental influences with the body itself, or those things that pertain to the finer arts, or in any of these fields may the entity find the greater contentment, and using same in the experiences of others as the basis through which the activities may bring to self and to others peace, harmony, joy, understanding of the relationships between Creative Forces and the creative forces in man himself.
18. Keep the faith in self and self's abilities, as may be correlated with the God-Force or Creative Force in self; and as in Greece, Turkey, or in the Fatherland, during that sojourn and during those experiences in the Egyptian association, by the expansion into various fields of activity may the entity use these as its basis of action in the present.
19. Ready for questions.
20. (Q) What specifically am I best fitted to do?
    (A) To instruct or to influence others as to their mode of carriage, and their abilities as to that of voice or acting.
21. (Q) When will I enter into my true life's work?
    (A) When there has been the decision in self as to the way, the manner in which self may apply self in the field in which it desires to expend self.
    As WE find, the body is already entering into what may be said to be its true life work.
22. (Q) What is my work in the Study Group work?
    (A) In making the material application of the truths as set forth in those that may be applied in the higher MODES of expression in the lives of others; that is, as the truths apply to the emotions of the body in the expressing of same, see?
23. (Q) What is my special work in the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment?
    (A) This may be an aid to the body, as the body may be an aid to the Association; in enlightening others as to the truths that may be gained by the contact with that the Association has to give out. Hence well that the entity, the body, the mind, acquaint self the more fully with those truths and to the extent that these may influence the lives of others.
24. (Q) Have I known by husband [2516] in former incarnations; if so where and under what conditions?
    (A) The husband was that one who kept the first theatre, and what is now called restaurant, in what is now Athens, Greece. Again he was known in those periods when the associations were as the FAMILY relations; being as a brother, but the one who was the husband at that time went off and left the body!
25. (Q) Is there any advice that will be given us that will help us to make a better living?
    (A) In making application of those abilities in the associations and relationships respecting those things pertaining to what is called the LIVING, or the commercial activities, set self in those ideas or plans whereby not only food is to be given for the body but also for the mind and soul of those whom the body contacts, and there will grow soon out of same that which will make for greater contentment and greater BLESSINGS to self and to others. For, as one sows - in body, in mind - so does one reap.
26. (Q) Have we been wise in taking over the Southland dining room to be run in connection with the Ragged Robin Coffee Shop?
    (A) If they are made as coordinating factors, it may be well. If they are to be kept so entirely separate as to be a drain one upon the other, not so good. Let this be a little more explicit: Where the efforts are so used that they are to be INDEPENDENT one of another, they become a stumbling-block one for another, see?
27. (Q) How may we be able to meet our obligations that we may be happier in our work?
    (A) Apply those things. Advertise more, and keep the place for the activities of the individuals in accord with that advertised.
28. (Q) Why is it that when I am in the presence of Jewish people I am so depressed?
    (A) Owing to the persecutions that have been in the experience of the entity in or under those environs. Not only in Trenton but in Cincinnati, when moved there; as also in the Fatherland when being led by some of those that had for their purpose there the persecutions of those people. See?
29. (Q) What is my symbol or seal?
    (A) The unicorn with the bear opposite; both on their HIND feet.
30. (Q) Please give me some advice as to when my husband and I may visit our relatives in Europe or some of them will come to visit us.
    (A) This will come about, as we find, in thirty-five. As to how: With the application of self and the surroundings and the environs, with the spreading of that as may be gained in self - as viewed for the body, for the mind - as this may be given to others, not only will there be the journey to Europe but those in Europe will be with the body and surroundings.
31. (Q) To what color or colors do I vibrate?
    (A) Blue. And when wearing blue you won't get mad! And make much of these in the underthings, too, close to the body.
32. (Q) Is there any spiritual advice that may be given that will help me to better go on in the work, both in relationship to the public and to my family?
    (A) Let that purpose and that desire ever be in thee that others may do as they may, but as for self and self's influence it will be directed in not only instructing but in directing through precept and example OTHERS in the way of a LIVING God. Knowing that, as ye mete to thy friend, thy neighbor, thy public, the same will ye also reap. For, not as what thou doest unto another BODY, or what another body may do unto thee; for rather take thought of the soul, for he that would belittle one of the least in the kingdom of God, or belittle the soul of another, does so unto his Maker. Those that may hurt thee in speech or in act may only hurt the body, and are only bringing those things that may be used as a better knowledge and understanding of the spiritual forces in thine experience.
    Study, then, to show thyself approved unto thy Maker, avoiding the appearance of evil, keeping self unspotted from the world.
33. We are through.

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REPORTS

1. GD's note: Mrs. [594] being German found the reading in part hard to understand, yet she was highly pleased with it.
2. In 1941 her husband obtained physical readings, 2516-1, & 2.
3. 1/02/62 HLC reported that Mrs. [594] had approached him to see if there was anything in her Life Reading to help her; she has been having great periods of depression and shock treatments are being considered. Her husband died recently and she misses him terribly.
4. 4/01/62 She requested and was sent a copy of her reading.
5. 12/16/71 She requested, via a friend, and was sent, another copy of her reading.

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