This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the David E. Kahn home, 44 West 77th St., Apt. 14-W, New York City, this 12th day of November, 1934, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [729], new Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Messrs. [257] and [815].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Hugh Lynn Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [729], Anne Swartz and Thomas Teal. Born October 27, 1890, in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the entity here and those relations with the universe and universal forces as related to the entity, [729].
2. In giving that which may be helpful to the entity in its present experience, while omens, figures, crests, crowns, only have their part in the entity's consciousness, there is that emblem of the double eagle - or the Roman standard - that should be either as an emblem or as a pin, or as an omen about the body. Ever the strength of this (as it was bourne by the entity in the experience) will in the present make for such a change of vibrations as to be most helpful, most beneficial to the entity. The ROMAN double eagle.
3. As to those influences that may be given from the astrological sojourns, we find these are rather from the experience of the soul-entity in the environ as may be said to exist between the MATERIAL experience, or material or earthly manifestations of the entity in materiality. Hence we have those mental urges from such astrological sojourns as the ancients have given in their records as the position of the planets, the stars, the zodiac, or those elements that are as guides. Yet EVER does the will of an entity make for that the entity or soul does about its experience; or the application of the opportunity - or the urge that arises from within. Hence these are given both good and bad, that are ever in the experience of materiality; and the mental and spiritual influences of an entity choose. For, as has been given, "There is set before thee THIS day good and evil, life and death - Choose thou!"
4. Then, the experiences of the entity from the Venus sojourn have brought in the present a fellowship, a love, an expression of those influences that make for kindnesses; gentleness; one in whom much confidence may be placed; one to whom many may go for their own confidences, for their own giving out - that they, through the very environ of the entity, may find that which may be helpful or hopeful. Hence in any associations, unless these are turned into self-aggrandizement, the entity may make a success; and others will be benefited by the very associations of the entity through this sojourn. Tolerance with others; patience with those that err in many things even that to others are unforgivable at times. The entity finds the use of the error of others in the mental sense may be applicable in the experience of self to ward against that which makes afraid.
5. From the Mercurian influences there are the high mental abilities as for discernments in the appreciation of values of the mental and spiritual, rather than material things. Hence in the experience of the entity we find that the high love, or the Venus associations, makes for an evaluation of friendships and associations greater even than those of material or earthly. Hence oft in the present experience the entity has been termed by others as BEAUTIFUL but impractical at times; very high in its ideals yet not a practical person in its application or appreciation of the various influences or forces that go to make up material experience or application of material experiences in an earthly sojourn. Yet to the entity these very influences may be made those that make for an experience or a life of more worth whileness.
6. These abilities also make for the delving into the mental applications in the experiences of others.
7. The Uranian combined with the Mercurian and Venus influences make for very peculiar experiences at times to the entity; those even at times that others may question in its associations and relations; yet the occult, the mystic, and those influences that make for very decided changes, very decided stands. Yet the entity may be called at times by others, from these very influences in the experience, one with not that same judgement as expressed from one period to another. Or today the entity may think or say one thing and tomorrow the experiences may be different - and the entity expresses itself in that direction. Not contradictory, but rather as the experience - and only the experience is that which may make for a growth for the soul, for the mind, for that whether it is of the earth-earthy or of the mental or the spiritual forces; growth rather from within. These are as discernments in the experience of the entity. So, the abilities lie in various directions; whether in mysticisms or the activities or influences that may bring to others their associations and relations - through not only the occult or psychic forces in the experiences of others but the study of such and the associations of such bring for the entity the same as in that experience which we see stands out the fairest or the most prominent in the experience of the entity; when there was the power and influence in the Roman sojourn that has made itself felt upon the world, in a mental, material and social manner. So do the studies by the entity, or the meditations upon those fields of activity in the realms of those influences that arise from that sojourn, bring to the self the greater satisfaction. For, when it is tempered with the mercy and the love as maintained through those experiences or sojourns of the entity in Venus, it makes for that hopefulness in the experience of others that should and does make for that satisfaction in self which so few often understand.
8. Again we see BLUE as the color about the entity, or that worn next the body should ever be a portion of the dress. Not that as is of the mode (mauve), but rather that which stood in the Roman experience not for that flaunted in strength but as of power, of a might; yet tempered with mercy and justice. These are as innate, and find expressions in the mental body, in its visions, in its dreams, in its aspirations; while the material or the earthly sojourn may find the greater expression or manifestation in the senses of the body, in the glorifying of self's own abilities or activities:
9. Before this we find during those periods when there were the gatherings together of those that came to the land of the present nativity or present sojourn, the entity was then among that people who aided in the establishing of the English rule in that period - among the daughters of the Gordon's.
10. And in and about the Manhattan land, and in the vineland, did the entity's activities bring about the union of activities in the early periods of settlements in the land; during the period making a material success as a courier or writer. For the entity was among those that made for the establishing or the exchanging between those various settlements, those various periods, the experiences of each settlement, each colony, each group; that they all might know and have the advantage of the experience of the other.
11. Hence the entity's natural activities, or natural tend or bent in the present experience will be an association or affiliation with expressions in that direction of journalism, or in writing, or in those activities that deal with the very actions of groups - and those things that PROMPT the activities of such.
12. As to the present application of same, or analysis of such activities, the entity's work or activity in the present might be the reviewing of others' works - whether in the play or in the journalistic analysis of that which would be appreciable to those of certain classes or groups.
13. Before that (among those that are outstanding in the entity's sojourns in the earth) we find the entity's activities were in the Roman land, during the periods when there were the expressions of expansion - or their taking in the various lands. And these were first sent by the entity, in one of the Caesars - in the first; and the entity then (in the man) made for the expansion, not by might alone but by the power of right which made for the standard set by those who were sent to the various lands, that made for a power which stood for those things that have ever made a great influence upon the human activities in the material things.
14. In the mental and material the entity gained. In the spiritual the high ideals were abased in the latter portion of the experience, yet these are being met in the present in the creating in the minds and hearts and souls of those whom the entity contacts that which is CREATIVE and helpful and hopeful in their own experience. Just as in that sojourn, when the entity made for a power - yea, upon all those influences in the earth in that experience, so may the entity in the present - with its sojourn of tempering of justice, in the matter of making for an expression or manifestation of mercy - find such activities bringing to the inner self a satisfaction, and the peace that passeth understanding.
15. Before that we find the entity was in the Egyptian land, during those periods when there were the changes wrought by the sojourn of the nomads into the land; during those periods of uprisings through the banishment of the Priest; during those periods of the entrance of those from the Atlantean land and those changes that came through the rebellions.
16. The entity then was among those that were put in power first by the king that established the land; and became as what today would be called the seer or the prophetess to those peoples that aided in the establishings of much that became the literature - or those things that were set as the tenets that acted upon the minds and the hearts and the activities of the peoples during that period.
17. With the reestablishing of the Priest in the period, the entity then became the head - that one who presided over all those tenets to the Temple of Sacrifice, with those of the Temple called Beautiful. Hence the symbols that arose as a portion of the experience of those peoples of that land, as those things that came to be a portion of all those lands in the far east from the Egyptian land; those things that became a portion of the Mongolian. For the entity then journeyed hither and thither as there was the establishing of the tenets of mercy; showing not only the relationships of the One influence but the relationships of man to man, the relationships of man to the Creative Forces. And while these became diversified in meeting the needs of the various individual groups under their varied environments, so may the entity in the present - in applying those abilities in all the directions that may meet the individual or group need - bring to self the awakening that is necessary.
18. Hence in the name then Ispt-shept did the entity make for that which became as a portion of that worshiped by not only those in the Egyptian land but those in the Indian and the Mongolian lands. Hence all of these have a fascination for the entity that may be seen, in that few may comprehend or know the mind of the orient as the entity - with the occidental experiences.
19. Then, as to the abilities of the entity in the present, and that to which it may attain, and how:
20. Use that thou hast in hand. For to the individual, then to the group, may the entity give that it has found in its own experience; analyzing same with the experience of the entity as it has made the application of that in its own life that it has set as its ideal. Thus may the entity help others to find themselves and their relationships with the creative influences in their own experiences. For in it does the entity fulfil that purpose for which it came into the present experience, that it might itself gather again the glimpse not only of the power as in the material world but that it maintained in the mental and in the lives of those people during that Egyptian and Indian and occidental sojourn.
21. Then, make thine own ideal in those influences that are spiritual in their inception, that have their inception or foundation in not those things made with hands but rather are the constructive forces in the lives and hearts and souls of men. And thus in the giving out of that thou hast thine self attained may there come that sought by all, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant; enter into the joys of thine own labors."
22. Ready for questions.
23. Seek not from without, but rather through that thou hast experienced in thine own inner self; for it is written in time and space that thou hast a work to perform. Be thou faithful to the end.
24. We are through for the present.

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REPORTS

1. 12/19/34 EC's ltr to [729]:
   "I was very much disappointed that I didn't have the opportunity to talk with you again, after having met you and giving you the Life Reading. I would like very much to have been able to have gone over the reading with you and to have known just how each portion of it fitted in with your own experience. We realize that you are very sensitive yourself, and your abilities in this direction are far beyond the ordinary, and you are possibly better qualified to judge the value of such information than most anyone that we might meet.
   I understood from Mrs. [903], I believe, that you had not been feeling very well physically, yourself. It might possibly be very well, had we had the opportunity to have checked over your physical condition, to have done so. Know, if at any time we can possibly be of a service, don't hesitate to call on us. Whenever you have the opportunity, I would appreciate it very much if you would write me at some length, giving me your reaction to the information that you received.
   We are sending you a list of our publications. Should there be anything on this list that you feel might be of interest to you, please let us know, and we will be only too glad to send these to you.
   Trust this finds you entirely recovered in health, and hoping we may have been of a real service to you.
   Wishing you the Season's Greetings, and a happy and prosperous new year, I am"
   Sincerely, Edgar Cayce [EC:MD]
2. 1/08/35 Referred Mr. [784] for Life Rdg.

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