This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Virginia, this 4th day of November, 1930, in accordance with request made by his parents, Mr. [417] and Mrs. [1192].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. [417], [1192], Mr. and Mrs. Linden Shroyer, L. B. Cayce, Mrs. L. J. Hesson. Born March 20, 1922, Lying-In Hospital, Second Avenue & 17th Street, New York City.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the entity and those relations with the universe and universal forces, as are latent and exhibited in the personality of the entity, now [758].
2. In entering astrologically we find the entity coming under the influence of Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, and afflictions in Jupiter with Saturn. In those conditions as are innate in the entity, and as may be developed for the development of the entity in the present experience, as has been seen, even in astrological influences there are opportunities and possibilities of a development that from the mental and spiritual standpoint may mean, may be made to mean, the greater development for the entity in this experience from MANY as have been experienced by the entity through the earth's plane.
3. Irrespective, then, of the will's influence, irrespective of that as may be builded for the control of self and of the abilities to find self expression:
4. One of a high mental ability, when tempered with love's influence.
5. One of many moods, of many experiences, for the development of the mental body.
6. One, through Uranian and Jupiterian influences (through which the afflictions come in the earth's plane), with that special influence of occult forces, who may find the abilities to meet, cope with, understand, those of life's experiences; for the greater influences come through these for the understandings necessary for mental and physical development of the entity.
7. Influences in Saturn with Jupiter, AND Uranian, brings for those of a peculiar cosmos influence, as will be seen by the appearances and the application of same in the experience of the entity.
8. In the warnings as concerning the entity and its development, those that have been the criterions for a higher development must be watched the closer under those influences through which the entity passes in the present experience, that - guided and guarded aright - may make for an overcoming and meeting of many of the varied conditions as have been experienced, and that are a portion of the entity's self.
9. In the influences of ennoblement, with those of Uranian with its prerogative of extremes, make for those conditions as must be met physically, as to ward against an overtaxing of the entity in its even NATURAL mental influences in those of Mercurian forces. In the present experience these come much as the test of the entity's standing in a form of development through the things which the entity, mentally and physically, may undergo for a knowledge of the spirit of truth as makes manifest within self; for losing that hold of love's influence in Venus' experience, and with those of the particular development in the mental forces as of Mercurian - these, combined aright, may be made for an opening up of the entity's abilities in STABILIZING influences of the nature as partakes of mysticism, occult forces, or of the arts as require the expansion of the imaginative forces of the entity; not only in its preparation for, but in the application of conditions as make for an ennobling of man's influence, whether as to self, individuals, groups, classes, or masses.
10. In the experiences through which the entity has passed in the earth's plane, and their influence in the applications of that same force in the present, these may be seen as this:
11. In the one before this we find in that land near which the entity now resides, and of a leadership in those that undertook the conquering of the land, and in the experience the entity - under the name Rouhl - gained much in the experience; losing only in the joining of forces as from without to meet a rebellion from within. In this experience in the present is seen that influence as goes for the INDEPENDENCE in self, as may be created or builded by ensample in the entity; yet in the present is seen the love influence bearing the greater fruit in the entity's experience, for the entity may be persuaded through such forces to apply self in a mental manner without so much regard of self's own interests, as for same to become a development in the present forces; outweighing, out-living the experiences of the entity in the one before this, when in that period known as the Trojan the entity was among the sources of the communicative forces with those as controlled the egress, and the going in and coming out of the peoples; being, then, among those in the guard in same, and a figure to be reckoned with in physical prowess, in mental speculation; calling oft the wrath of others to be manifest, while with main strength and with the abilities of the entity to apply same, brought oft the misunderstanding or the misdirection of others, as related to the period, the time, the place, with the changes as were wrought among the leaders in the various portions of that experience; for the entity changed in application oft, constantly seeking after that which may not be wholly, with unholy hands, taken hold of - but that which THROUGH the things as forced to, or an individual is called upon TO do under the INFLUENCE of such, brings that which gives for the satisfaction of the life within used - and not abused - in the service of those less fortunate, or even upon the same plane of experience; for the entity gained in that, without thought of self, without thought of other than attempting to give an understanding of many in varied groups, the entity aided much.
12. In the one, then, before this we find in that land when the peoples returned to the Holy City for the re-establishing of the walls thereof, that same might be protected by those influences, did the entity - in an aide to those of the incoming priests' rule - bring an aid to the people, failing only in the desire of prestige in self's application AT the altar; and so brings those forces as make for life itself in the material plane to move onward and upward, in its attempt to reach the sources of the energetive forces themselves in this universal experience, which an entity - in material and physical forces - may attain for a wholly, or whole of experience. In the name in this period, that of Jeihel, and the entity in the present finds those influences of the story telling, in the understanding of that of a nature to appreciate abilities in others; though in its present developing form, may find little manners of expressing the appreciation of individual's efforts, that to many an older one might be used in a manner as of a criterion or rule to go by. In this development in the present experience, and expansions of the love's influence as innate and seeking manifestation, these developed - these guided and guarded, but allowed to DIRECT self's OWN activities - may be made for an influence as will bring that in which many may seek to know the entity in its fuller sense, for many will call the entity blessed, will those tenets and those truths as held during the experience be made manifestedly a portion OF the entity in its present development and experience.
13. In the one before this we find in that land known as the Egyptian, and during those periods when dissensions arose, even in the conquering of the land. The entity was among those who came in with the peoples who, not OVERRAN - but who took OVER the directorship of the affairs of state, both as to moral laws, mental appraisement and understanding, and application, and physical attitudes of the peoples of the land, and as same developed in the lines towards the giving of expressions of same through the period - both as to periods of content, periods of uprising, periods of dissension, periods of ascension and understandings, the entity applied much of self in setting those expressions of individuals - in their various moods - to music, in the stringed instruments, and those as were later called the one and two stringed instruments of the land, did the entity set attune that which made for many changes in the experiences of peoples during that period. In this field, and in the field of awakening that innate, that latent, that as is manifestedly expressed in the present THROUGH such instruments, may the entity be reached in a way and manner as will redown [redound?] for the good of OTHERS, and for the development and EXPRESSIVENESS of the entity itself. During this period known, in a portion of the period, as Ab-Inel, and in the latter portion (when the entity was more of one worshiped and revered) as Dieu-El, or "God Lives".
14. In the abilities, then, of the entity - and that, that may be accomplished in the present:
15. In the fields of both mental and of musical forces may the entity excel the greater, as to development for self, as to that as may be given to others.
16. In the keeping of those upon whom the developments of the abilities may rest, in the keeping of those who guide - either in those of an occult force or those of the more rational, or in maternal or paternal manners - rests, then, many obligations owed to, for the things as accomplished by the entity in the experience of those the entity gave self for; keeping, then, an at-onement in body, mind and intent, knowing that the manifested forces are of that generation of developments that bring the understanding of the force in the relationships of man with the divine, and KEEP in attune.
17. Ready for questions.
18. (Q) Is it advisable to have Mr. Hardin [Bristow Hardin] at Virginia Beach to instruct this entity in music?
    (A) Advisable.
19. (Q) Should this be started at once?
    (A) As fast as the mental AND physical ATTUNES self, but do not so over burden as to make abhorrence, rather than the love of same.
20. (Q) At what age will entity respond in this direction?
    (A) Already responding! During that period in the genitive forces' activity in the body, will the greater awakenings come.
21. We are through.

    Copy to each Parent
    Two copies to Ass'n office

BACKGROUND

1. See previous Physical Readings.

REPORTS

1. See subsequent Ck. Physical Readings.
2. 1/10/32 Mother's rdg. 1192-5, Par. 16-A indicates former associations with [758] in Egypt and Persia; Par. 18-A indicates activities she should follow in order to help her son [758].

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