This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 6th day of March, 1935, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [618], through Study Group #2 of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [618]. Born October 23, 1873, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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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 personalities of the entity now known as or called [618].
2. In entering, we find the entity coming, as it were, of its own volition - as with the environ - makes for, and made for, an experience for the entity in an aiding of those to whom the entity came, in a very unusual way and manner.
3. In seeking entrance in the earth's plane, the entity finds the expressions of much that has been experienced in its sojourns under a different or varied environment. Hence we find the astrological little in the experience of this entity, and an ordinary version of astrological data - or of what is ordinarily termed horoscopes - would be at variance with the experience of the entity. Not that there were not sojourns of the entity in other environments, but rather does the entity influence the environs in the astrological - or astral - than being ruled or governed by same.
4. We find in the astrological aspects, while these are not from the astrologic aspect all in a benevolent influence, rather has the entity in the present made for developments as to make these somewhat nil.
5. Then, we find these as builded in the personality and the individuality of the entity in the present experience, with respecting the will. TRUE, there have been periods in the present experience when others viewing or determining in themselves from the purely material standpoint, the entity has been rather headstrong at times and adhering to taking part, the part of those when questions might have been asked by others; yet the entity has gained through such experience. For it has learned not only faith but tolerance, as well as patience; and these make for innate and manifested abilities, for the entity not only to bring aid to others through the healing influences by or through the meditative forces but could develop (not advisable too much) that of even the laying on of hands; and there be those, to be sure, that this is the way to reach same. Those individuals who must within themselves see a material manifestation of a spiritual import or intent.
6. In those activities in the earth, these have made for developments in the greater portion of the experiences of the entity. Not that there have not been or are not periods from the material angle when there has come distress or at times a quaking, as it were, within self. Yet when there have been those periods of turning within, there has come that quiet, that understanding, that help, that has brought love, contentment, in the experience of the entity even when MATERIAL things have appeared to be in adverse ratio to those that were bringing or did bring the material or physical blessings; rather have they brought understanding.
7. Before this, then, we find the entity was in that land now know as the French, during those periods when there were the gatherings of those that - were for an ideal - leaving their own to make for the defense of an an idea and ideal. The entity was among those of her sex that URGED those of the own house, the own family, the own blood as from the material standpoint, to engage in, to go to do those things that would stand for the material expression of the defense of the Holy Land.
8. Then in the name DeLane, though the body suffered in the material things, it gained in the spiritual and mental attitudes and aptitudes during the experience.
9. From same may be seen in the present the innate knowledge of the workings of political, economic, state activities, or that from without which MOTIVATES the activity of masses as for household, as for state, as for nations. Hence history and those things akin to same have been the NATURAL seeking in the mental forces or the studies or the readings or the activities in such conditions; making for in the spiritual experience the ability to counsel with those that are in authority, whether in the home, in the local, in the state, or in the national governments of households, municipalities or cities, or states or nations.
10. Before that we find the entity lived during those periods when the Master walked in the earth. While the entity came not in direct contact with the individual, there were those visions, those aids that came to the household of the entity, and to those about the entity; and the entity's activities during the period made for a greater development in the experience than has been experienced in any material or earthly sojourn.
11. The entity then was in the household of the Centurion whose daughter (the entity's daughter) was healed; in the name the Abighael. In the experience the entity made for, through the associations not only in state craft, the native activities, but the understandings that have come to the entity have enabled the entity from those sojourns to be more than ordinarily tolerant with the various activities under which individuals may be subjected in their daily life; enabling the entity to counsel with others. And this should be the life work, as a teacher; for in this the entity would have done well, as a teacher in those of spiritual tenets or lessons or crafts, and in these may the entity even yet gain much in self and in self's development in the present experience, making for those things in the activities with others that may enable many to understand the real tenets of the lesson of love as taught by Him who healed the daughter that was already in the coma of fever.
12. Before that we find the entity was in that land know known as the Egyptian, during those periods when there were the disseminations of the truths and tenets given by the Priest of the day, in the manner in which there was the again approach to the cleansings of bodies for the relationships with the spiritual forces, the teachings, the medical and other aids to the physical deficiencies. In these did the entity aid in making a practical application in the experiences of those that under the varied environments were joined through the seekings of that in that experience, in the name the Del-Hi.
13. In that association did the entity in the latter portion of the experience become one whom many worshiped by or through those figures, those statuaries, those seals that were made during those experiences, for the understandings or for the guidings of some. While these later became stumblingblocks to many, during the experience of the entity these were rather as the means of aid and help to many.
14. In the present there may be gained within self the raising within self that consciousness of the at-oneness with the spiritual forces that may revivify, regenerate, arouse that of health and happiness even under the adverse conditions in materiality.
15. Before that we find the entity was in the Atlantean land, during those periods when there were the encasements and indulgencies of many that had put on matter or material bodies. This the entity lost in; these becoming, as it were, the hindrances for the greater service towards the greater activities. Hence we find in the present experience of the entity those periods when there is almost a harking back to those abilities of the entity and those associated with same, to use nature's activity for not only the transition of body to space, or space to the use of the material things, but the abilities also to separate self, to VISIT - as it were - in the records of many in the past. These the entity has hindered by not allowing self to entirely be controlled by those influences. These are well, if they are ever of self's influence - not that of another; making for these developments in the present through the applications of those tenets that were gained in those periods when the Master was in the earth. Drawing upon it entirely may the entity make for the greater expression, the greater development of its abilities in the present.
16. Ready for questions.
17. (Q) What is my true life's work, and when will I come into my true life's work?
    (A) That depends upon self. Teaching, ministering, aiding, healing; these are the true life's work. For as the entity chose to come into the present experience that there might be again the attempt to make for material manifestations of that which is innate and manifested through not only astrological but earth's sojourn, the tenets of the law of One, these are the true life's work of the entity.
18. (Q) What is my special work in the Association for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.?
    (A) As a teacher, as a minister, as an EMISSARY in strengthening those that are seeking in their various channels of activity.
19. (Q) For what did I come into this plane at this time?
    (A) As given.
20. (Q) In what experience have I known and what urges brought me together with my daughter, [1657]?
    (A) In the French experience the daughter was the neighbor that was rather unruly.
21. (Q) With my grandchild, Virginia?
    (A) The daughter that was healed.
22. (Q) With my grandson, [797]?
    (A) An associate in the Egyptian activity, as an emissary, as a teacher.
23. (Q) With my son Richard?
    (A) As a helpmeet or an aid during that Egyptian experience.
24. (Q) Please give me my seal.
    (A) The world, or a circle with the figures of land that represent the entity's activity in the world, with the Cross as in the foreground but low, and with the healing rays from the sun upon the earth and upon the Cross.
25. (Q) Am I in my proper environment?
    (A) This depends whether for self, for self-development or for self-expansion. In the proper environment, if there will be the application of self in the proper direction or for the purpose for which it came.
    For each entity finds itself in that it has builded. Its activities in same make for the using of that in hand; and as that is used, the environments and the experiences make for the changes that are necessary.
26. (Q) I dream of flying through the air. Does it have any significance?
    (A) As indicated, a harking to those experiences when these were the experience of the BODY-ENTITY, see? These were the periods when there were those fallings away. Hence the INNATE turning to those of the inner soul's experience.
27. (Q) Why wakeful nights?
    (A) These are the seeking for the expression between the individuality and the personality.
28. (Q) Will my husband and I be reunited in this life? [5/02/35 She obtained Physical Rdg. for husband, Mr. [915], in a mental institution.]
    (A) We do not find it the better.
29. (Q) What can I do to be of the greatest use to mankind?
    (A) First study to show thyself approved, a workman not ashamed, but keeping the faith; giving those tenets, giving those lessons that may make for the greater development.
30. We are through for the present.

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BACKGROUND

1. She previously obtained Physical Rdgs. for herself, members of her family, and friends.

REPORTS

1. 3/07/35 See 281-23, Par. 13-A personal message in re A.R.E. prayer group work.
2. 7/17/35 See 281-25, Par. 40-A, personal message in re A.R.E. prayer group work.
3. 8/01/35 See personal message in Group 2 rdg. 397-2, Par. 9-A.
4. See subsequent Ck. Physical rdgs.
5. 12/19/37 See 262-116, Par. 17-A Christmas message.

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