This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 8th day of August, 1935, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [649], through Group #7 of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Miss [649] and Mrs. [379].

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1. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, [649], present in this room; and those conditions that are as problems and experiences of the mental entity.
2. Ready for questions.
3. (Q) Should I continue at school, and if so, what school or schools?
   (A) This, to be sure, depends upon that which has been determined in self is to be done with the accomplishments of the body. That to which the mental or the mind may build in relationships with the activity, that should be the choice. And if this requires school, then do that. If there is the choice for change in that as would be accomplished in the experience, then make the preparations in THOSE directions.
   When all are considered - the abilities, the qualifications, the application of self in relationships to these - this would be well. But it must be the choice of the body.
4. (Q) Would it be advisable to return to Baltimore?
   (A) This is in accord and in line with the surrounding, the environ, in which the greater may be accomplished, as we find. But this again depends upon what is thy ideal in the material associations, and that as would be accomplished by the body. THESE should be the determining factors.
5. (Q) How can I arrange financial aid in order to go to school?
   (A) This may be accomplished through the school itself and ITS association with the Federal aid that is given to those seeking for the relief or the finances necessary for accomplishing that desired. In ALL of those that have the proper qualifications, these may be had by the making of the application for such aid through the school itself.
6. (Q) If I return to Baltimore, with whom should I live?
   (A) This should be a choice; not from these sources would such be given. For these conditions are personal, and the PERSONAL will and personal choice MUST ever be that which will make for the development for the entity.
   Of course, such a choice would depend upon also the requirements or that necessary for the carrying on of the work under the circumstances and conditions that would arise.
7. (Q) Have I any talent for water color work, drawing and other art work? If so, please tell me how to develop it.
   (A) There are those innate tendencies in these directions. And there is no way to develop same save by the practical application. The personal application is the only manner to develop the abilities or the talent in these directions.
8. (Q) Should I renew my association with Scout work now or should I wait?
   (A) That depends upon the choice made respecting the school work. While the two may be partly hand in hand, one would interfere with the other - except making it just a portion of the pastime.
9. (Q) For what purpose did I come to the earth plane at this time?
   (A) As EVERYONE; for further development of the I AM towards a cooperative, coordinating activity with the Creative Forces that manifest themselves through the activity of an individual in materiality or the earth. That would be for anyone.
10. (Q) Have I ever been closely connected with any of my present family?
    (A) Many of those have been in associations with the entity in one or another environment or activity. With the mother [379], the father [420]; with one of the brothers [2662], with the sister [1532]. Yes.
11. (Q) With any of my friends or associates, especially those I met last winter?
    (A) This is a large order! Rather would this be answered in a universal manner. When there are the associations in the material plane, you may be very sure there is that which has caused the attraction, that has drawn the individuals into contact or association.
    Those that the entity has contacted, then, have at SOME TIME or another (that is, those to whom the entity is drawn) been associated in materiality or in the earth before. As to when or where, it would be necessary that each be taken in his or her own sphere of activity, and see where the associations cross. For it is as asking of the various ones, necessitating that the activities of each be gone through their whole expressions in the earth, picking out where they coordinate or touch with an individual entity. But where there are associations or affiliations of the body-mental forces of individuals, these are either as complements one to another or there are those conditions that are to be worked out together.
12. (Q) With which brother and sister was I associated?
    (A) The older brother [2662] and the younger sister [1532].
13. (Q) Please explain my relation with Mary, the mother of Jesus.
    (A) The activities then were as one of those who GREW up with those affiliated in that order which bound together that particular group of individuals that were all associated at the time. To elucidate:
    In the preparation for the coming of the Son of man, there were those during those periods who joined in their efforts to consecrate their lives, their bodies, for a service; for a channel through which activities might be had for the perfecting, as it were, of the material channel through which such an expression of the Creative Forces might come into the earth. See? [Essenes]
    There were, then, twelve maidens in the temple, or of the ORDER of the temple, who were dedicated for such preparation.
    The entity, then, was one of the twelve so associated with Mary in the preparations.
14. (Q) Was Elois, as mentioned in my Life Reading, and Anna mentioned in the Bible, one and the same?
    (A) No. Anna was the older, or what would be termed the supervisor, or what would be termed by SOME as the lady superior of the group at the time.
15. (Q) Is that Elois on the earth plane now?
    (A) We will have to look and see. (Pause) We don't find her on the earth today.
16. (Q) Could you give me the names of any books I might read pertaining to my last incarnation?
    (A) Anything that pertains to the founding or establishing of the place of residence in the last incarnation; especially those things pertaining to the grant of the charter for the establishing of the place.
17. (Q) In my last incarnation was I of the Roman Catholic faith?
    (A) Of the Roman Catholic faith.
18. (Q) Was I married in any of my incarnations?
    (A) In one, two.
19. (Q) Please give the reason for my dream [repeatedly as a child] about the children on the double staircase. [See 649-1 Reports.]
    (A) This might be interpreted by some in one way, others in another! In this particular experience, if this is experienced again it will go farther. For it was as the children (as self) on the staircase that led to the ordination or coronation room, in the dedicating of those twelve, at the time that Mary was INDICATED - by the walking up the steps, with the other children on the other - as the one being chosen or led by the Spirit.
    This is rather, then, an EXPERIENCE; not a dream! Pray that it may be thine experience again. Let the deeper self, the real self, enter into the deep meditation that the I AM consciousness may make more and more aware of how the purposefulness of the experience may be applicable in the activities of the entity in the present. This is most to be desired.
20. (Q) With which of the Lord Baltimores was I connected?
    (A) The one to whom the grant was given!
21. (Q) Where was I born and in what year in my last incarnation?
    (A) Seekest thou for purposefulness, or for satisfying? In '58, in Room 24, on the Street called Straight, at 12:44 in the morning, on the 13th of September!
22. (Q) In my symbol, please give the position of the swastika and the shape of the palette.
    (A) The palette is the shape of the artist's. The swastika is the male, or that which turns to the right; NOT the Persian but rather the older - or the Indian.
23. (Q) What's the difference between the male and female swastika?
    (A) One turns right, the other turns left.
24. (Q) What's the difference in the Persian and Indian?
    (A) One has a lobe on the end; the other is straight.
25. (Q) When and where will the linens prepared by me in my Egyptian experience be found?
    (A) In the Hall of Records.
26. (Q) What were the figures on the seals on the Head of the Master, that I prepared?
    (A) The seals of the Holy One, as the seals of the son of David; the pear with the bell, with the pomegranates on either side.
27. (Q) Anything specific that can be told me about any of my incarnations?
    (A) What is sought!
28. (Q) On the one before this.
    (A) As has been given.
29. (Q) In which incarnation and how was I associated with my mother? [379]
    (A) The closest association was at the time of the Master; then the daughter of the mother. [9/17/35 See mother's rdg. 379-3, Par. 53-A in re their past associations, Par. 55-A in re Galilean experience.]
30. (Q) With my father? [420]
    (A) At the same period; though not the father; THEN was the father the priest!
31. (Q) With my brother? [2662]
    (A) In Baltimore.
32. (Q) And the sister? [1532]
    (A) In the Egyptian.
33. (Q) Any other information that may be given at this time?
    (A) Much might be given respecting any or all of the APPLICATIONS of self in GIVEN experiences.
    In the application respecting that which has been given, make or use that given as the STEPPING-stones for the applying of self in the way and manner as to use thine own portion of life, or the experience in the present, as being a better, a greater, a more specific channel for the manifestations of the SPIRIT of Truth.
34. We are through for the present.

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BACKGROUND

1. See 649-1 on 9/04/34.

REPORTS

1. See subsequent Reports under Life Reading 649-1.
2. 7/07/37 See 649-3.

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