From the sojourns of the entity in Uranus there is the innate
experience in which things having to do with the occult or
mysterious influences will have their urge in the entity. As
to how these are used, and for the necessary balancing of
same, they should be turned rather to the spiritual aspect
than to the purely occult; but rather the approach from the
SCIENTIFIC aspect than the mystic. However, those things
pertaining to such influences make for an interest; also very
temperamental conditions in the experience of the entity.
And while the entity may be determined in self, often outside
influences over which the entity apparently had little
control have influenced. This, then, with the adverse
influence in Mars, makes for warnings respecting temper - or
as respecting anger, or spite; for such would of themselves,
with the material aspects, bring detrimental experience in
the activities of the entity if they were allowed to become a
portion of the experience. Hence the urges that arise should
be controlled; else they may bring conditions that will make
for the activities becoming DETRIMENTAL rather than
advancement in the present experience. NEVER do anything for
spite, then, or to get even with someone else!
The influences in Venus, we find, make for a gentleness that
overshadows at times the adverse influences in Mars; and if
these are cultivated or applied in the experience they will
make for the greater advancement for these are the greater
spiritual influences in the entity. So, in the relationships
with the opposite sex in the present experience - if
activated through these influences - there will be brought
the greater joys and blessings and experiences in this
present sojourn.
Then, these are as urges - but irrespective of what the
entity has done or does do with such; yet from the sojourns
in the earth it may be seen that which has builded for much
of those experiences brought about in the material
application which are indicated by the urges:
As to the appearances, then, that influence the entity in the
present, ONE experience - to be sure - overshadows all the
rest:
Before this we find the entity was in the land of the present
nativity, during those periods when there were the settlings
up of the land, in the western portion of the country from
the nativity in the present; or during those periods when -
around Dubuque and Dearborn - there were those acting in the
capacity of the agents, or the granters of much of those
activities by those peoples in authority during those
particular activities.
In that experience the entity gained and lost; for acting in
the capacities for the governors of Virginia and Pennsylvania
- and as the representative of these - the entity lost in the
material things through the rebukes that were brought by the
activities around Dearborn. But with the establishments upon
the lands or in the rivers that brought that particular fort
(or on the Wabash), or Vincennes, the entity rose rather to a
position materially of high estate; and then making for the
greater advancement during those sojourns, in the name then
Cleopas Cowper.
From that experience in the present we find the interests in
those activities relating to the sojourning of individuals,
as to that which brings about or produces certain effects in
the affairs of individuals. Hence the activities in the
present or the training of self into those lines having to do
with vocational trainings, or the activities of others in
vocational activity - as an advisory individual, or as a
student of such, or as in capacities that will enable others
to be helped by the abilities that innately and manifestedly
are (or may become manifested) in the experience of the
entity, may bring the greater material and - guided correctly
as indicated - the greater spiritual developments.
Before that we find, overshadowing the influences in the
entity's activities, during the reign of Nero in the Roman
rule the entity was in the capacity of an advisor or a
counsellor to that entity known as Nero. Though not rising
to the prominence or fame as some, yet the greater counsel
during the experience was through the entity - that made for
ANY of the advancements in those periods: though they
ordinarily are not counted as much. Yet in some directions
the Roman influence and power had the greater effect upon the
conditions that came about, or was in influence that is STILL
being felt in the activities of the world - especially as to
the persecutions that SCATTERED those that made for beliefs,
in giving then the advantage to those of many climes and many
nations, as to those things that have - in the spiritual
sense - held the material WORLD together.
Then in the name Cleopas, the entity from the material
standpoints LOST; from the spiritual standpoint the entity
gained, in that the entity used self in those things for the
advancement of those that showed their abilities in applying
that which would bring about the material AND spiritual
advancement in their various activities.
Again we find INNATELY those things that may be applied in
the present experience of the entity, as to associations with
those in power - associations that may aid others in the
developments for themselves in their material and spiritual
welfare. Hence again the vocational activities, or advisor
towards, or counsellor for such relations will be those
fields in which the entity may find the greater advancement.
Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as
the Arabian and Persian, during the periods when there were
the gatherings of many peoples from many lands to those
cities in the hills and in the plains, during the periods
when there were the breaking up of the Persian king and the
rulers that overran the land from the nomad plains, as well
as those from the old Chaldean. This brought to the entity
those classifications in its activity as to what would be
termed in the present an ambassador or an emissary or a
representative of a land in the relationships in other lands.
For the entity then came to those activities in the plain for
the searching out of those things that had made for the
drawing of so many to those particular activities.
This will lend for the entity in the present the abilities
for the preparation of self, if so chosen, in the diplomatic
service; or as what may be termed the activities for the
relationships in the consulate service - or the activities
for such relations.
Then the entity was in the name Cajakan.
Before that we find the entity was in the Egyptian land,
among those that came from Atlantis. The entity was among
those that aided in bringing the records, and the rule and
power, into that particular sojourn; acting then rather as
the director of the crafts, or what would be called in the
present as the commander or one in authority of the fleets or
the ships that came into that particular land. With those
establishments and with those peoples, the entity again
became one that made for the developments in the associations
with those along the waterways, and the explorer, the
activities in establishing new relationships with lands then
to those individual groups unknown; again acting in the
capacity, then, of a REPRESENTATIVE in the various
activities, in the name Ajxor.
Then, as to the abilities of the entity in the present and
that to which it may attain, and how:
First, know in self that which is the ideal; not from the
material standpoint first, but as the IDEAL in the spiritual;
and then set the MENTAL self to seeking in the mateiral to
give expressions of that in its various relationships and
manners in the material plane.
As to the fields of activity, as indicated, in the
preparation dealing with vocational activity - or the
relationships of one land or people or group to other - the
entity may find the greater mental, material and spiritual
advancement in the present.
Ready for questions.
(Q) For what special experience did I come into the earth
plane at this time?
(A) That there may be completed in self what the entity, as
an entity, does with the knowledge it acquires or understands
in its relationships to the Creative Forces or God. For the
purposes as from the beginning are that all may show
themselves as equal to being in the presence of Creative
Forces.
(Q) What is my life's work?
(A) As indicated, in vocational guidance or the preparation
of self for relationships with groups, countries, lands, or
such associations.
(Q) Please advise as to how I may approach this work that
will bring the best results?
(A) As indicated, first - as to how - what is thine own
spiritual ideal? Then make the material manifestation of
same in all of its relationships to create or bring that into
activative or active service.
(Q) Will I attain my desire to play Major League Baseball?
(A) Practice makes perfect in all such relationships, and -
as indicated by the relationships - the body may make for
that which will produce the cooperation necessary for same.
However, the practice in those directions as given will make
for the advancement towards the greater development.
(Q) When will the opportunity be presented, and will I be a
success?
(A) Should be able to create that within the next two years
which will be the basis for what it will do with itself.
Remember the warnings, remember the buildings that are
necessary within self for the whole activity.
(Q) Please give advice as to how I may approach this work
that will bring the best results.
(A) As given.
(Q) Should I continue playing football?
(A) Well.
(Q) What college would it be advisable for me to attend?
(A) That which deals with that which is in the way of the
better preparations for that CHOSEN as the life's work; in
the vocational - these preparations may be had in any of
those extensions, or - as we find - the greater would be in
Columbia.
(Q) Please advise as to how I may approach this, or as to
what course or subjects I should take for my best
development.
(A) As in keeping with that chosen to be the life's work, as
indicated. Vocational Guidance - these have their special
lines of endeavor, if it's chosen.
(Q) Is there anything I could do, or not do, to be of better
service to my family?
(A) When individuals apply themselves for the greater
activity for self, in keeping with those things that bring
only the activities of being true to self, it makes for the
greater activities to the associations or family ties. For
when one is true to self, one cannot be false to others - if
the self is the SPIRITUAL self.
(Q) What is my seal?
(A) The compass and the cross.
(Q) To what color or colors -
(A) (Interrupting) Red and blue. The note is High C.
[GD's note: A standard set of questions for a Life Rdg.,
suggested by Esther Wynne, head of A.R.E. Study Group work,
included "What is my seal, to what color or colors do I best
vibrate, and what is my musical note? Here it seems that EC
anticipated the last two and answered them before they could
be asked.]
(Q) In what period or periods was I associated with my
mother, [
1657] and what was the relationship?
(A) Atlantis. She was your sweetheart then!
(Q) Any other advice at this time?
(A) Use that which has been given for the study of self.
The desires of the body, of the mind, may be acquired only in
keeping in accord with constructive or creative forces as
found in the spiritual life. Without this being the basis,
he who labors labors in vain.
We are through for the present.
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BACKGROUND
Previous rdgs. had been obtained by his grandmother, Mrs.
[
618], and by his father, Mr. [
624].
1/15/35 See personal message in re A.R.E. Group activity for
which he is best fitted, in
792-1, Par. 18-A.
REPORTS
3/06/35 See Grandmother's rdg.
618-3, Par. 22-A indicating
Egyptian assocs.
3/27/44 He obtained a Physical Reading - See
797-2.
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