We have had also those sojourns in the influence of Venus,
that makes for the peculiar or unusual associations in
filial, martial, marital, or in those relationships in all
love's influence that has had its bearings upon the entity in
these experiences. For, as we find, the entity chooses - as
has been indicated - its friends, rather than having the
friends thrust upon it; for while the acquaintances that may
come through the Jupiterian influence are of a wide field of
experience and varied in the activities, those whom the
entity seeks as the greater friendships mean the greater
loves in the experience of the entity. In those influences
we find these overshadowed by Mars, making for the
experiences when madness, wrath, temper, the activities in
such things bring the adverse influence for the entity. And
these have had, may have - depending upon the choice or
activity of the entity - those things that bring unhappiness,
those things where the experiences or associations become
such as to make for distraughtness in the experiences; yet
the benevolent influence of Jupiter, with the receding
influences of Mars in these periods through the coming months
just before the entity, should make for the settling of many
of old scores, as it were, by the correct choice of the
entity in its mental, its material, and in its associations
in its activities. These, to be sure, are as urges. As to
what the entity does with or about such makes for that which
comes into the experience as a physical or material result.
For urges from astrological sojourns, or from those
experiences, are as the MENTAL urges; not as the PHYSICAL.
And the choice of these brings into the experience in the
physical the material activities of the entity.
As to the appearances in the earth, then, and those that have
their influence upon the entity in the present, that deal
more with the emotional forces of the body itself and not in
its quieter or its saner intuitive influence, we find:
Before this the entity was in the earth during the periods of
the settlings in the present native land of the entity, when
there were those disturbances between the first settlers of
the land in that particular portion and those in the lands
north of same - or during the time of what may be said to be
the French and Indian warfare, among the settlers in that
land.
Then in the name Fredrice, the entity was among the leaders
that aided in settling as to the boundary lands of that
particular portion; gaining and losing during the experience,
for such activities made the opportunities for
self-indulgence, self-aggrandizement, and many of those that
suffered physically or in the mental did so because of the
mandates or edicts of the entity during some of those periods
of activity. In the latter portion of the entity's sojourn,
in what is now known as Erie, Penna., there were made many of
those expressions and the attempts of the entity to rectify
within the own self's conscience much of the damage done; and
to some of the people in that particular land it brought a
development - thus a development in the entity's experience.
In the present from that experience we find the influences
wherein differences and indifferences have arisen, do arise
in the experience of the entity in its associations. And it
oft appears to the entity as if grudges by others are being
used as the means for changing the relationships of self and
those whom the entity has in a manner come to trust or rely
upon for their activity, association and connection with the
activities of the entity.
Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as
the French, during the periods when there were the uprisings
and the attempts of those people to aid Charles the Second to
return to the throne of his father, when there had been the
rebellions of those people in the English land.
The entity then was among those who aided to reestablish
those people, in the capacity of the courier - or, during
those periods, the go-between with many that were in power
both in the British land and those who were the aides to the
young prince.
Then in the name Armarello, the entity gained through the
greater portion of the activity; for in the establishing of
the claims of others, in those aids even at self's own
sacrifice to make for the activities that would bring the
greater service to the greater number of individuals, did the
entity - from the soul and spiritual forces - make for gains
or developments within self.
And in the present may be found a development for the entity
in the material, the mental and the spiritual welfare, with
the associations add activities in relationship to
individuals or to groups that are seeking for their
activities or the accomplishment of any special purpose or
service or activity in the present. Hence we see from that
experience and those activities and developments of the
entity, the fields of the greater service for the entity in
the present would be in any of its associations dealing with
peoples or between peoples of this land or that land, or
those activities turning to what may be called a diplomatic
service, or as a representative of the land, or with those
acting in the capacity of such; or in those relations in the
capacity as an aide to those where there are the larger
establishments for the entertaining of guests, or as to the
hotel activity as a clerk, as a manager; which, according to
the activities or sojourns of the entity, may make for the
greater expansion in the experience of the entity. But, as
we find, those that would tend towards the service in the
capacity of an attache of, or associated with an embassy in a
land, or as related to such activities, would bring for the
entity those opportunities for the expression of the
abilities in those endeavors.
Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as
the Persian or Arabian, during the periods when there were
the buildings in the city of the hills and plains, when there
were the gatherings of many peoples from many lands for the
succor and aid that was given by those peoples in that
EXPRESS activity.
The entity then was among those of what is now known as the
Grecian land, who came with those peoples who would override
or who would destroy the activities in that particular
expression. Yet, though they brought destruction to many,
the ENTITY gained in its associations with the ruler in that
particular experience or activity. For, though those
destructions brought many people into hard lines, owing to
the destruction of portions of the land by the soldiery with
whom the entity came, the entity - receiving succor and aid
and help and understanding - became very closely associated
with the leader Uhjltd, aiding in CARRYING the tenets and the
teachings and the activity further into that then known as
the Chaldean land, or towards the Indian land and what is now
the eastern portion of southern Persia.
In the experience the entity, in the name Ishmaelli, gained
in the spiritual import, in those urges that make for the
high expression and high ideals of morality, of love and the
expressions of same into material influences and forces.
Hence if these are kept as ideals, though the way in the
material life may appear to be all the harder, there may come
a satisfying, an expression of the inner self that brings
peace and harmony that makes for the life or the expression
of life becoming more and more worth while in the experience
and in the expression of same.
Before that we find the entity was in the Atlantean land,
during the periods when there were many of the divisions that
called for and produced the destructive forces in that land.
Yet when there were the expressions of those in power to
raise those who were of the menial class, or the workers in
the fields of activity that brought what is known as the
agricultural or the social service, the entity was the
intermediator for the own peoples of the lower class or caste
to those of the higher. And through such associations there
were made those abilities that innately and expressly find
themselves in its associations; as to the courtesy, the
kindness, the activities that may become the keynote for the
expression of self in the present.
The entity was not among those to be sent to the Egyptian
land, but rather among those that went to the western
portions of the land and eventually to that known as the
Yucatan and the Central American land; for in those sojourns
the entity was active in establishing a development in the
agricultural field, or the growth of those things that made
for the sustenance in the new land. The entity gained
particularly in the latter portion, for then being carried to
those positions of power and authority he aided in the
activities that made for the establishment of the studies as
to the Laws of ONE in that particular land, being in the name
then Amielee.
As to the abilities of the entity in the present and that to
which it may attain, and how:
First, as may be said from the experiences, the ideals or
ideas are high. The ideals would be set first rather in
those things that are of the spiritual import and intent.
Working with these as the background for the mental and
material applications in self will bring for the entity the
greater spiritual, mental and physical development;
particularly in either those activities in which the entity
may bring for self its relationships with those that are in
authority as the consulate service or the embassy service.
And the training for such in its own present surroundings may
make for that in which there may come the greater
opportunity, the greater development in the present.
Ready for questions.
(Q) How will I be able to get into the type of work that I
am best fitted for?
(A) In the associations in the present surroundings there
are those abilities for the developing or the tending towards
the study of those things that fit the body for the
activities in that particular field of service, whether
chosen in the embassy service or in the activities or
associations with those in the consulate service; choosing as
to how and to whom these should go. As the association has
been in the government relationships, there are those
particular training schools in the present surroundings for
such an activity. And once this is begun, it means the
constant advancement in those activities to a more
satisfactory relationship. First, of course, as the clerk,
as the secretarial activity. Hence those things that make
for the preparations in these directions are the fields and
the direct manner in which these would be made.
(Q) Should I continue at school and what should I study?
(A) As these are a portion of the preparations, or that may
be made a portion of the preparations in school, it would be
well.
(Q) Which particular school would be best?
(A) In those that are presented by the government's
activities for the preparation of individuals in these
particular lines of service.
(Q) Should I marry for money or love?
(A) Let this ever be for the love that is a real deeper
portion of the entity's inner self. While outward appearance
may at times be those things that may satisfy for the moment,
there is innate within self a rebellion at such conditions.
(Q) Should my mother and I settle our trial out of court if
offered a settlement?
(A) As we find, there will be - there are those negotiations
opened whereby there may be - the opportunity, and which
would make or become the greater blessing to all and the
greater opportunity for an amicable, equitable settlement OUT
of court. While these are in the present very adverse from
the outward appearances, as we find, with negotiations opened
with those that are in the position for the activity, with
the coming months there will be the way in which the greater
help can come to all concerned.
(Q) Should my mother go into business?
(A) Not before the spring, if then; for by then we find
changes may come about.
(Q) Please give counsel regarding choice to be made by
entity in coming months, as referred to.
(A) As the opportunities come through the general activities
that arise from the innate urges, we will find that those
things that have their basis in spiritual import are of the
creative forces and thus the more lasting. While we may find
those periods when for the moment, or for the material
blessings, the choice might be in this or that direction for
the moment, that has little to do with other than just
material things - the choice in such directions might be in
the limelight. But those directions where the spiritual
import is the impelling force are to be chosen by the self.
Let thyself be guided by those things that come to self in
thy quieter moments, as ye meditate upon those conditions in
self's experience that make for the adhering to the spiritual
lessons thou hast gained from day to day.
We are through for the present.
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REPORTS
GD's note: Mr. [
801] did not indicate what his religious
background was. He was a small, dark-haired man whose last
name ended with "stein" -
5/21/35 [
801]'s ltr. to EC:
Washington, D.C.
Mr. Edgar Cayce,
Virginia Beach, Va.
Dear Mr. Cayce:
I have received your several letters and have been following
with interest the work of your organization. I am sorry to
state that I have been financially unable to pay my
membership dues in the association due to ill health on my
part, trouble with my teeth, and lately my eyes have been
giving me trouble which will probably necessitate changing my
glasses.
My mother's case has again been postponed and indeed looks
very black due to the fact that we are unable to prove my
father's earning capacity as he lost money in business the
past few years of his life. The case was called several
times but was not reached for trial. These delays proved
very costly to my mother and myself as we had to assemble and
pay our witnesses, some of whom lived out of our home town.
Now Mr. Cayce I do not want you to think that I am trying to
renigue [renege] on my pledge and hope to be able to take
care of it in the future.
With best wishes to you and your organization.
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