This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 15th day of June, 1943, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [808], Active Member of the Ass'n for Research and Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [808], Mr. [2784], Mrs. [2390] and Mr. [2533].

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1. GC: You will have before you the life existence in the earth plane of [808], nee [...], born July 16, 1907, in Kingston, N.Y., and the earthly existence of this entity as It-El-Sut in Egypt. You will give a biographical life of the entity in that day and plane of earthly existence, from entrance - and how - into the earth's plane, and the entity's departure, giving the development or retarding points in such an existence. Then you will answer the questions she submits, as I ask them, regarding present associations and activities:
2. EC: Yes, we are given the records here of that entity now known as or called [808], It-El-Sut.
3. In giving an interpretation of this entity's experience through that particular period, much of the records of the times would be necessary - for the proper interpretation as to what the entity may do with such knowledge in the present.
4. For, to have knowledge of a thing and not to use it in developments, or in making paths straight that have been as questions, may become as stumblingstones rather than steppingstones. For, as given, to know good and not to do it is sin.
5. The experience of the entity's sojourn in the earth as It-El-Sut has much to do with those with whom the entity has been and is associated in the present.
6. For, as we have indicated, there is a united effort in the material plane on the part of many of those who were united in their various spheres of activity through that given period.
7. The entity's experience was during that period of the latter portion of the settlements of the differences of those individual groups in Egypt that had caused political, economic and - what would today be called - religious strife.
8. The entity was among those peoples that were a combination of the Natives and of the King's peoples who had entered Egypt.
9. During those periods of the establishing of the Temple of Sacrifice the entity had entered the earthly sojourn. Thus the entity was considered among those activities of the Priest, as to the preparation of bodies for the entrance of the regenerated body. Thus, according to the tenet of the Priest, the beautiful body became the indwelling of the more beautiful soul, or the presenting of the activities that would be in keeping with those tenets.
10. Thus we find the entity not as one that was wholly of homes, for - as indicated - the children born through those periods had been considered as wards, or children, of the State, or of the activities of the Priest as the one in authority over the development of the changed bodies taking place through those periods of activity.
11. Thus, as indicated in the name It-El-Sut: El indicates "the child of the divine," or El meaning God, as would be the interpretation today. "It" indicates the woman, and "Sut" the name. A woman God-child, then.
12. In that environ, then, did this entity grow to activity; becoming acquainted with those of the various groups that, as indicated for the entity, brought about those affiliations or activities with the Atlanteans, especially one of the leaders attempting to use the associations and connections to bring, or to court favors; for the entity then was one sponsoring (as would be termed today) the activity of Ax-Tell.
13. Thus the entity brought disfavor with some of the King's advisors, more than the disfavor of the King himself.
14. Hence we find the questionings that arose through the activities. Thus the entity's changing its tactics to the attempt, as termed, even in the face of opposition to the Priest, to establish homes, rather than the activities of the children becoming as wards of any particular group, - even though such individuals were carried through those preparations in the Temple of Sacrifice and the Temple Beautiful, for activities in special service, or - as called today - in vocational guidance toward that to which the entity was best adapted from its spiritual, its mental, and its material abilities.
15. Thus we find the activities of the entity were in disfavor, until there were those favors obtained by the entity, It-El-Sut, from the then ruling force in the favorite of the Priest at the time.
16. Thus we find the entity was one using many of the so-called wiles of the sex for the carrying out of its ends, or for having its way with the various groups.
17. In the present these are indicated, we find, in the interests the entity has in activities of varied individuals, - individuals in quite different walks of life; whether these be in the social register (so termed) or in places of political power, or those equipped merely by their knowledge of things, conditions or groups. All of these become a part of the entity's experience.
18. Though many would call the entity's abilities "the way of a woman," these go far beyond that. For the entity, - without courting favor, - may obtain and find favor in ANY of such associations or connections, apparently without having attempted to give or exercise any influence or power. This, as so often termed through this channel, is as a faculty, as an exercising of a reality, from having mentally experienced a condition - whether in the present consciousness aware of such power or not, the entity is able to wield such.
19. Such force or influence upon others may be for weal or woe. Such can be easily misinterpreted by those who would be of a low mind, or who are lacking in a spiritual purpose or hope.
20. Thus we find in the present experience of the entity DIVINE abilities are manifested. Many know that such exist, but it depends upon their OWN awareness or stage of development (if you choose to term it such) as to what stress or emphasis is given to same.
21. It becomes, then, a faculty, a consciousness within the ability of the entity to use in the present.
22. In that sojourn, - when favor was obtained by the entity, by the favorite of the Priest, who then stood in that position as authority - in social as well as in the religious tend or trend, - the entity THEN rose to a position of power, in the aiding and in the establishing of a greater consideration for those that, by the attraction, desired to establish homes.
23. Thus, as indicated for the entity, innately the entity is a home builder. There is an aversion within the entity, almost to that point of hate, of seeing, experiencing, or even hearing of broken homes, broken ties, from any cause. This becomes then a natural tend or trend of the entity's mind and soul purpose.
24. Thus may the entity in the present establish a home. And beginning in the year to come, there should be in the experience that which is as the basis of the home - children. This brings the consciousness, the basis of the real home. Not that it will not have its influence upon many of those things that have become a part of those consciousnesses of ease. For these - children bring with them not only thy own but individual and united responsibilities toward same. But that is the awareness each soul must have that would indeed build a home.
25. Through the latter portion of that experience there were the associations of the entity with its present companion [2784], in the establishing of that which had been indicated in the mental as a material manifestation.
26. Thus we find the entity not only reaching the manifestations to those whom the entity had influenced in mind through the experience, but influencing now through the manifestation of that it had set as the ideal of each group, or each pair, that had been drawn to the activity of dedicating body, mind, soul and purpose to an ideal.
27. The entity lived to be an old, old person, as would be called today - a hundred and ninety years old (190)! And through the experience the entity kept its influence, not only among those in the social but in the political and religious activities of that period, and of the sojourn through that period.
28. Thus the entity became as one not only reverenced but set as an authority upon those facts that constitute home building.
29. There the entity found those varied experiences among its own offspring, dealing with those things that become as appetites to individuals, - in waywardness, in the giving way to appetites that would deaden purposes and ideals, for the gratifying of an emotion.
30. These, then, become not as obsessions but as facts, concerning those the entity SOUL-LY cares for; that those things that cause individuals to err are a fact, and are apparent in the experience of the entity. But the fact that those near or dear to the entity might be swayed by such, or influenced by such, - (not merely physically dear, but mentally), - become as those things that are as hates, or dislikes, or - what covers each - as FEAR, for self's ability of manifestation of spirit and mind.
31. Ready for questions.
32. (Q) What part of my life seal comes from that period?
    (A) That as indicated, the facts as of the home life.
33. (Q) If I am now physically able to have a child, what month in 1944 would conditions be most favorable for us to plan for this child to be born?
    (A) Much of this, of course, depends upon the preparations of the body-physical. As we find, in the months of June or July of '44.
34. (Q) Am I doing the right thing by staying home from office at the present time?
    (A) There must be a beginning, if there would be the establishing of the real home. This must, of course, be a decision within self. Know, as demonstrated - and as is the warning, and as so oft indicated from here, - man proposes, but the divine force ONLY may give the increase, may only give that which brings contentment, joy and peace to the SOUL of an individual entity.
    Thus, as such is considered, - the purpose, the ideal, - bringing into manifestation a definite realization justifies or condemns in self the purpose. If the purpose is in keeping with the divine, then this is right.
35. (Q) Please make suggestions to help me correct this obsession I have against liquor?
    (A) As indicated, not an obsession, - a FACT in realization! in which the entity realizes its inability to do anything unless the WILL, or when the WILL of such an one imbibing is once broken.
    Hold to it - it's a good thing!
36. (Q) How can I help Mr. Cayce at this time to relieve him of some of the work he has to do?
    (A) This has to be a choice in self. There are many ways that might be set up, BUT - choices are made in self.
37. (Q) Did I have anything to do with the building of the pyramids and the records therein?
    (A) In preparation of records, not of building but the preparations of records. As oft indicated, in such records there are many of those things that to mankind in the present would be considered as priceless. For instance, this was a part of the entity's records:
    As to the ideal association of individuals - as man and woman - for the ideal establishing of homes; that is, the physical likes and dislikes, the mental capacities of each, the physical abilities of each as related to a correlating or paralleling of purposes. As may be indicated in these, which will be found to be almost as irrefutable laws:
    There CANNOT be a congeniality where the ideal and purpose of sex life is not of one and the same purpose.
    There CANNOT be a congenial home builded where the desires of the spiritual are not at least in unison in the worship of the same SPIRITUAL ideal. These were part of the entity's contribution to home life.
38. (Q) Where and how was I associated with my sister, [...]?
    (A) Not in the Egyptian experience, but rather in the Persian.
39. (Q) Arthur [...]?
    (A) He was the individual counsellor you had so much trouble with in Egypt! He's trying to make it up now!
40. (Q) [4919]? Why am I the mediator in this life between him and [1935]?
    (A) In Egypt this entity was then thy problem, and is a sorehead in the present!
41. (Q) [2898]?
    (A) In the Egyptian experience among those that worked in those same activities, though there were differences of opinions, in the home building in Egypt.
42. (Q) Dora [...]?
    (A) We don't find Dora.
43. (Q) [2960]? and what is the effect of that association on our relationship in this life?
    (A) In that experience you were closely associated, as was the entity [2960] to the Priest and those activities there. Differences in these have grown from other experiences, but there is a bond of sympathy, a bond of understanding. Don't lose it - for they'll ALL need it!
44. (Q) [5373]?
    (A) We do not find it in the Egyptian experience. There is an association, but we do not find the association here. [7/22/44 See 5373-1, Par. 35-A indicating an association in the Egyptian period of Moses.]
45. (Q) Elsa [...]?
    (A) Another not associated in Egypt, but in some other association.
46. (Q) Ruth [...]?
    (A) Here a close association. Differences - ye find ye are still trotting them out, as to the variations in relation- ships with individuals.
47. (Q) Elva [...]?
    (A) One the entity knew of, and can wrap around the finger if you want to - but you don't very often want to!
48. (Q) Beulah [...]?
    (A) We don't find Beulah.
49. (Q) Any other advice?
    (A) Do not take the counsel indicated here too lightly, - do not take it too seriously, but take it rather as that which should be a LIVING thing - to be still a helpful experience in the lives of those with whom the entity comes in contact day by day. For, as indicated in that given, the entity consciously and unconsciously CAN control people! Do so NOT to thine own nor their undoing, but to the glory of God.
50. We are through for the present.

    Two copies to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. See 808-18 on 7/20/42.

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