Questions naturally arise in this particular experience of
this entity as to how or in what manner the records are made
of an entity's sojourn or activity in a sphere or space, so
that there are the abilities of one to read or interpret
same. Are they as letters written? Are they as pictures of
the experiences of an entity? Are they in forms as of omens
or characters that represent certain influences or activities
about the earth? Yea, all of these, my friend, and more; for
they are as but the skein of life itself, the expression of a
divine force from the God-Father itself, making
manifestations in forms that become manifestations in a
material experience. For truly to be absent from the body is
to be present with those infinite influences and forces that
may act upon and be acted upon, from the emanations of divine
influences that may be either visions as picturized, written
as thought in characterizations from the various influences
through which such entities make for the communication -
whether in ideas or in characters that represent those ideas
in their expressions as one to another. As in all forms of
communicative influences from one entity or soul to another -
in a look, in an expression of some portion of the anatomical
influences or form, or from word, or from the turn as from
the cut or form of eye, shape or form of mouth, the rising of
the brow, or in any communicative influences - these either
bespeak of those things that are for the aggrandizement of
self's own motives or impulses, or are the expressions of
that purpose, that desire, whereunto such a soul or
expression or entity has been called. These are forms or
manners through which such are written, as in the Book of
Life; and may be read and known of men. For that which is
done in secret is proclaimed from the housetop.
In the entering of this entity into this present experience,
we find the entity coming with those influences from sojourns
not only in the earth but from those environs about the
earth, that are interpreted by the sages of old as the
astrological aspects in an entity's experience. For, as each
entity has that which is the material body, the mental body,
the soul body, so does each state, county, country, city,
sphere, have its body, its mental attitude or aptitude that
may be said to become or be a portion of the whole, as also
its own spirit or soul, as builded by those influences that
have to do or bear upon the expression of a manifestation -
whether city, state, nation or individual relationships to
others, in its own sphere or as acted upon by those spheres
of activity about same.
Then, as to the influences that are brought in the present
experience of the entity, [
757], known in this experience, we
find:
From the sojourns in Mercury there is a high mental ability,
with the aptitudes that make for a natural analytical and
mathematical mind; becoming not wholly methodical in its
expressions yet desiring that law and order have its place
not only in the household, in its relationships to others,
but in the GENERAL outlook upon all associations and
relations.
Also the sojourn of the entity in Venus, combined with the
mental activities, makes for an influence as one
tenderhearted in its relationships with the individuals or
groups about self; yet calling for or demanding that duties
be a portion of sentiment, not sentiment a duty. Quite a
variation!
The aspects and sojourns in Uranus and Arcturus bring those
interests in the mental expressions in a varied line of
endeavor; yet there may be seen throughout the associations
and the developments in this the material plane that
methodical manner - even in mental, occult or mystical
subjects these find their influence and affinity in the very
activities of the soul-entity's developments in the sojourns
throughout space or time, or in the earth for the material
expressions. Hence, as we find, there are variations in
experiences that come from afar; things that are hidden to
many become a portion of the entity's activity or sojourn.
Unexpected happenings that may deal with the emotions or with
even the relationships of individuals become a portion of the
material experience of the entity throughout this sojourn.
Relationships that deal with mystical subjects - not only of
gases, chemistry, the elementals of the earth, the elements
of space, of the universe, those sojournings into such fields
of activity - make for particular interest in the mental
sojourn. Also the delving into the realm of the questionable
scientific subjects, whether it be in regard to explorations
in the material far corners of the earth or the sojourning or
delving into the ether, these are subjects that become of
special interest to the entity; making for abilities in
certain directions that will be seen by the material
applications of these experiences of the entity in specific
or direct directions in its relationships with others.
As to the appearances in the earth and those that deal with
the activities of the entity in the present, we find:
Before this the entity was in what is now known as the
northwestern or central portion of the entity's present
native land - or about Ft. Dearborn, during those periods of
the internal turmoil and strife - when there were the
accumulations of the seven nations to make for the ridding of
the country of those that to those peoples were oppressing
and overrunning the land.
The entity then was with or in those activities within the
Fort, in the name then Spooner. In the experience the entity
gained, for there were the activities in the entity's sojourn
to make for the better relationships in the associations
whether for the commercial or mental and spiritual
relationships.
Then the entity was particularly interested in those reports
from other lands to the west. Hence there became a longing
for the sounds of many waters, where there were the dividing
of the lands that the entity sought for its own household.
Yet when the persecutions and the turmoils came about, the
entity - in a very reluctant manner - withdrew from those
places of its habitations, and in the retreat (as was given
by the entity would come about) suffered in body; yet coming
through - as to those that later began the establishments of
a settlement along the lower portions of the Ohio, that
emptied into, or where it emptied into, the father of waters.
In the present experience from that sojourn we find that
travel, records of such, those things that pertain to the
activities of individuals where they may be of mental or
material help to others through their associations or
relations, though they may be to the utmost parts of the
earth, become of special interest. Hence, as indicated from
the astrological sojourns, the entity is a
mathematically-minded person in the present experience. And
also in languages and history; hence teaching in these
directions may have been - and may be - a portion of the
entity's activity through this present sojourn.
Before that (among those that we find active in the entity's
experience in the present) the entity was during those
periods of the seeking of the peoples in the English land for
the turmoils that were brought about through the activities
in the Holy War, or the Crusade activities.
The entity then suffered in body from apparent neglect, as
would be called in the present, by those of its own household
and surroundings - by being left alone. Hence we find in the
present the desire ever for periods to be sure of aloneness,
or to draw self - as it were - away; yet in the hours of
darkness, in those periods of special occasions, in those
periods when there are the happenings for certain
celebrations or activity, there is the desire of crowds - or
certain associations. And the entity seeks to choose such
companions; for innately is there seen from those meditative
influences that for certain periods or certain occasions the
entity desires NOT the same individual surroundings or
associations. The name, Lorna O'Doon.
Before that the entity was in that land now known as the
Persian or Arabian, during those periods when there were the
buildings of the city in the hills, in the plains, by the
teacher that had gathered many peoples from many sources -
yea, from many lands.
The entity then was among those from the Persian land that
had been under or had seen some of the turmoils and strifes
from the associations of Uhjltd. And the entity came as one
seeking for not only word of those that had been carried away
captive from those raids, but for the bodily satisfaction of
knowing that which had - as it were - turned the heads of all
the world towards seeking out that lonely nomad.
In the experience the entity then was one of the household,
or the wife - or among the wives of the house of the RULER of
the land, in the name Tashmia. And the entity was in a
position of pomp, in finery, as would be interpreted in the
present. While it partook of the things that satisfied for
the body, that made for the exalting of the desires of the
material surroundings and associations, coming under the
influences of the teacher and those activities in the plains
and hills the entity sought to turn self in those activities
also. And coming again to its own peoples set much in motion
that was an aid; returning in the latter days for a sojourn
in the city in the edge of the hills; gaining throughout the
experience.
And in the present does the entity find, with its
applications of those abilities in the teachings of methods
and the teachings of ways, in the teaching of the activities,
a satisfaction that answers for that something which arises
from within from that particular earthly sojourn. Those
things in the material world of plaids, the weavings of an
intricate and delicate nature, the things that bespeak of the
Persian finery - as it may be termed, in filigree - the
workings of gold in cloth and such, become as an innate
thing; yet finding expressions in the activity oft of the
entity in the present sojourn.
Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as
the Egyptian, during those periods when there were many of
those peoples that were journeying to that land for the
reconstructions with the return of the Priest and the
incomings of peoples from the varied lands.
The entity then was among those in what is now the desert
land, and in the city of Nu (?) Enu (?) [GD's note: I didn't
know whether he was spelling the city N-u or pronouncing it
"Enu".] - being the queen of that particular city, making for
the self that of a kingdom within a kingdom from the material
standpoint. During the sojourn took for self and her own
peoples not only the tenets of the Priest but of the Nubians,
the Atlanteans, the Indians, and also of that land from which
the people came who were in rule then in the Egyptian land.
And the entity used these in the activities in her own
kingdom or sojourn. Hence there may be seen today, even in
the upper coast of that land along the great sea, that there
are those who claim to be descendants of a mighty and
powerful goddess that brought to her people a new
understanding.
Through the experience the entity gained and lost, in the
name Pth-She-Pii.
In the present from that experience may be seen the periods
when, because of all those activities, the entity finds
innately within self something calling for the knowledge of
such a people, and a weighing together of all forms of
thought - religious and mental - as to that which prompts the
activities of peoples in MANY lands.
As to the abilities of the entity in the present and that to
which it may attain, and how:
Apply self, then, in those things that make for the finding
of self - as to what it uses as its own measuring stick of
sincerity, of a standard of living. Then give to others in
EVERY way, by precept, by example, by letters, by articles
that may be prepared; making its contribution to the mental
and mathematicalminded individuals that seek THROUGH such
sources for an understanding.
Ready for questions.
We are through for the present.
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BACKGROUND
See previous Physical Readings.
10/29/34 She requested Life Readings for herself and husband,
Mr. [
909].
REPORTS
12/28/34 P.M. of same day EC gave the Life Reading,
909-1,
for her husband, commenting at the beginning, before going to
sleep, on the unusual fact of giving Life Readings on husband
and wife in one day.
1/09/35 She reported on her Check Physical,
757-7, saying
"Also rec'd the two Life readings. They are strangely
interesting. It seems our lives go in channels of our own
making. I must have needed some good hard bumps, for I
surely got them in this life. Yet it is soothing to know,
when one once gets a glimpse of the why, that they can in a
measure work out. I thank you for your kindness in giving
the readings. I know much good will come from them. I am
enclosing a check for $35.00, $30.00 for the readings and $5
as a contribution to the work. Mr. [
909] joins me in wishing
you and your co-workers good health, and trust that the year
will bring much good."
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