This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at 1867 Kalorama Road, Washington, D.C., this 4th day of February, 1935, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [812], new Active member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Miss [778], Astrologist.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [812]. Born June 14, 1886, in Denton, Texas.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the records for the entity, giving those relations with the universe and universal forces that are latent and manifested in the personalities of the present entity, [812].
2. In entering the present experience we find the entrances in the earth's plane many, as well as those influences in the astrological sojourn; hence these have had, do have, their influence in the experience of the entity in each earthly sojourn. For that which has been an environ and is builded in the mien of the entity becomes as an individuality in the sojourn of an entity in a material experience; yet no astrological influence, no environ, no hereditary influence outweighs the urge or WILL force OF an entity in its application of that which is the entity's motivative influence during the experience.
3. As we find, then, the influences in the Sun, the Moon, those activities that make for the sudden impulses that arise in the innate influence of the entity are weighed with the astrological sojourns and the environments in which the soul-entity has made for its experiences.
4. In Jupiter we find a most benevolent influence, making for - especially in this present period, present change of the entity's activities - changes as to its associations, as to its activities in relation to bodies or groups or individual activity; making for those tendencies towards a great expanse of the visions and relationships. And Jupiter's children, as might be called, are to pass in the coming months through those periods of an exceptional benevolent influence; so we should find those periods of April and May - and the month of the entity's nativity in the present - being those periods when great opportunities for activities of others with the entity will make for these changes in the experiences in the present.
5. Also we find the sojourns and the influences of Uranus in the entity's experience make for very decided mystic influences; interests in occult science, interests of conditions as EXPERIENCES in the realm of that which to many is unreal - yet to the entity these may become the things that have their basic motivative influence upon the activities of the entity in the present sojourn. Very extremes arise from these same influences, yet they are balanced by the benevolent influences in Jupiter as well as those in Venus.
6. That Saturn's influence has its bearing has passed in the greater portion of the present experience of the entity, but this has brought changes and those new beginnings of activities and of associations and of endeavors of the entity in those respects that deal with the Jupiterian conditions as well as the scientific portion of the entity's interest.
7. In Venus we have those influences that have made for gentleness in love, gentleness in associations, gentleness in the associations and activities of the entity; hence making for these as influences in the experience of the entity in the present - but these are given irrespective of what the entity has done or may do about the will forces, which are the impelling forces that make for the differentiations between an entity as a unit and that of a universal or group soul influence of an individual:
8. One that has high mental abilities, with the inspirational activities from the inner urges that may arise from the entity's associations as related to individuals, to groups, to organizations, or activities that influence large bodies of people.
9. One that has the gentleness of mien, manner and character of making its influence felt in whatever field of activity the entity may choose to - as it were - cast its strength or its directing influence.
10. One that has gained much in those influences of the mystic and the occult and the inner influences in the experience of self, as well as guiding, directing and influencing others in that which may act as an environment for an individual.
11. Not only may this entity, then, be a director for individual activity but a director for groups; or as a director for combinations of associations the entity may lead. As natural in Jupiterian influence, it makes for leadership in mental, material and spiritual aspects of individual's lives.
12. As to the appearances in the earth, then, and those that we find (though there have been many) are making their influence upon what may be termed the SENSE or SYMPATHETIC experiences in materiality; the differentiation in the earth's sojourn and the environmental or astrological sojourn being that one is as the individuality, the other as the personality - or one as that which makes for influence from the intuition, or that felt as an urge; the other rather as the emotional - the emotional being from the earth's proximity or sojourn, the other in the urge as from the astrological aspects of those things influencing an entity in its RELATIVE position to its indwelling in that environ:
13. Before this we find the entity lived on the earth in that land now known as Virginia, during the period when there were the changes of many that sought the activities in the western lands - or in 1848 when there were the beginnings of those that journeyed for the seeking of gold and the fruits of the earth that there might be those additions to the material welfare.
14. Adverse were those changes, or the entity was averse to making those changes; yet duty (as innately expressed and materially manifested in the experience of the entity in the present, from the application of those things in that experience) - though bringing for the entity material hardships from without - offered for the entity an opportunity for the strengthening and comforting of many of those that grew weak in body, in purpose, in that trek necessary under those environs and conditions in that experience.
15. In that trek the entity ALMOST gained the place of the seeking, yet - through those turmoils and strifes that arose during the period - lost that appearance in the moving.
16. Hence it made in the present for those innate and active influences of the entity to be sure of the next move before there are the beginnings. These are as innate and manifested in the entity in its present experience.
17. The name then was Ida Heminway; and the entity may be said to have gained in its mental and spiritual aspects, for it gave of itself in its strength of body and of mind in adverse manners to self's own feelings, but for the strengthening, aiding and helping of those that were weak in body and in purpose.
18. From that experience we also find in the present the expressed and manifested interests in things pertaining to that which has induced or impelled peoples in their activities for their sojournings into various environs and in various activities. Hence those things that make for the spiritual welfare or the mental welfare, or the activities that induce groups in states or nations or cities or towns to conduct themselves from any given point, all of these become a portion of the entity's experience. Hence we find the entity may be termed one that may be a good judge not only of literature or reading, or influences that make for changing of a temperamental environ of an individual, but it may WRITE same itself - if the writing is more, though, its own innate expereinces.
19. Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as the French, during those periods when there were the gatherings of many for the Crusades into that called the Holy Land, or to the Holy Wars.
20. Those periods of distress from the material angles made for definite experiences, definite determinations in the experience of the entity during the sojourn. Being left violate in the native land by those of its own household, the entity sought for freedom not only of speech but of the activities - and the activities of body and mind made for that which is innate and manifested in the present experience of the entity; not always wholly tolerant but always wholly for freedom of activity of the individuals in their relationships with individuals, groups, or whatever may be sought to make up the life purpose of an entity.
21. In the name then Marseillens, the entity suffered in body, in mind; gained in portions, lost in portions through the accumulations of intolerance to those that would act in a manner for a definite purpose as OUTWARDLY seen yet innately leaving those duties and obligations for others' activity, forgetting those things pertaining to that which makes up the welfare life of groups and individuals.
22. Then, these in the experience of the entity have made for the abilities in those directions as indicated; through its abilities and activities to work with groups and directing individuals, groups and associations in their activities throughout any given experience, whether pertaining to the spiritual welfare, the material welfare or the mental developments - ALL are a portion of the entity's experience in the present, and the abilities in these directions - as indicated - are above the ordinary.
23. Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as the Persian or Arabian, during those periods when the city was builded in the hills and plains, when there were the gatherings of many that made for activities which influenced the social, the commercial and the material affairs of the peoples of that land.
24. The entity then was a Princess of India that came into that land seeking those counsels, advices, that were being meted by the teacher Uhjltd in that experience, with much of what would be called in the present this world's goods for not exactly buying but as in appreciation of those things that were meted to the peoples of the entity's land. And those tenets and teachings that were made by that teacher were by the Princess Ielia carried back to what is now Poona, and there much was gained - not only by the entity but by those peoples in that land; for the tenets were those, that: The spirit of truth comes from within and is manifested as it motivates its activity in the lives and experiences of the fellow man.
25. The entity gained throughout that sojourn, abstaining from many of those things that were set aside by itself for dedicatory purposes and for the consecration of it self to a perfect activity in its relationships.
26. Hence we find in the present those things pertaining to ceremony, particularly the purifying as in order, color, music, make for their peculiar influence upon something deep within the entity that is felt as being moved by the rhythm of not merely a chant but as it may take on its form - not from elementals, but the SPIRIT of color, of harmony, of those things that INFLUENCE the emotions of the INNER man, rather than the outer man.
27. Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as the Egyptian, during those periods when there were turmoils and strifes through the banishment of the Priest to the Abyssinian land.
28. The entity then was among the peoples to whom the Priest was banished, and during the sojourn of the Priest in the land the entity came closer in associations with those activities of the Priest and the household.
29. And when there was the reestablishing, and the building, an the beginning of the activity that made for the sending out of those that were to be teachers, ministers, aids in helping others, the entity may be said to have builded, to have dedicated in the Indian land, the first of the sacred fires in Delhi as now known - then Deoi.
30. In the experience the entity gained and lost; gained through those experiences of the preparations of self, in the carrying out of the tenets; only losing when there were the aggrandizements to self as it would lord over itself over those that grasped not the meaning of the sacredness of those elements that might become a portion of the activities of individuals in their material sacrifices as well as their mental and spiritual activities and welfare; being in the name then Cu-Enemn-Ophi.
31. Those things pertaining in the present to fire, ceremonies of the air, those that make for what is light to those that seek, are of an interest to the entity. And as a symbol of the activities in that sojourn, as in those when in Poona the entity made for the greater increase, would be the BB; or, as it would be termed from that period, the sacred serpent and the fire of same should be the emblems of the entity and worn about the body; something that is of fine linen but of blue should be upon the flesh of the body at ALL periods, for its consecration and its dedication of its activities.
32. For, as in those sojourns the entity gained the greater, so may those influences come in the present to make for the opening of self for the higher influences; and the sons of light as from the holy mount guide thee in thy walks and thy meditations, for thou ART of that Brotherhood!
33. Before that we find the entity was in that now and then called the Atlantean land, in the city of Poseidon, when there had begun the fires of the rebellions that brought about those activities by those of high authority in portions of the activities of the land that made for its destruction.
34. The entity then was among those of the household of Aja (?), in the name Amelelia, and acted as the priestess to those in the Temple of Light, that made for the guiding of those things pertaining to the motivative influences in the MATERIAL affairs of individuals; what would be termed in the present as those who oversaw the activities of the communications between the various lands - as from Om, Mu, the hierarchy land in that NOW known as the United States, in that particular portion of Arizona and Nevada that are as a portion of that Brotherhood of those peoples from Mu.
35. In the experience the entity gained through the greater portion of its activities; though there were those periods when it was often doubted by those that were in authority. Though the entity claimed its authority, it held to that which to itself was keeping ever inviolate those laws that were transmitted by the other forces, those of the outside influences, as man might apply the elements of nature, the elements of the air, the elements of the heavens themselves, for his own activity.
36. The entity then made for development, yet was often misunderstood.
37. Then, as to the abilities of the entity in the present and that to which it may attain, and how:
38. As a teacher, as an instructor in those things that pertain to the relationships of the Creative Forces or Energies that may manifest themselves in the messengers of light, or those that make for their activities upon the inner selves of individuals who open their inner selves for an understanding, the entity may instruct and guide and direct. For in these things may the greater strength come for self, as may the greater understanding in a much changed sojourn.
39. Ready for questions.
40. (Q) Please give exact time and date of last death preceding this present life; also place, if possible.
    (A) Tucson, Arizona - now; 9 - 10 miles northwest of same, on the 9th day of March 1849.
41. (Q) I would like to place certain connections in the present life with the Hindu -
    (A) Yogama (?) - in Poona, in the present. Muta Magai (?), in Delhi - these associations were not good, and they have brought some disturbance to self. Keep the faith thou hast for those influences rather from self's own development, balancing in self in the present the instructions that thou mayest give to thy fellows; and then ye shall find thine self lifted up - and open to the brighter lights and ways.
42. We are through for the present.

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REPORTS

1. 2/05/35 She referred Miss [813] for a Life Rdg.
2. 7/17/65 Ltr. to Robt. Clapp from Lytle W. Robinson:
   604 E. First St. Tuscon, Ariz.
   Mr. Robert Clapp Study Group Director A.R.E. Virginia Beach, Va.
   Dear Bob:
   After diligent search and inquiry, I am unable to locate any trace of Ida Heminway. I am therefore returning the reading.
   County and State records do not go back this far, since Arizona became a state in 1912. Territorial records are sparse. "Nine miles northwest" of Tucson in now Cortare, Ariz. - a store and P.O. - but there are no Heminway's in the area and no old cemetery.
   I am wondering if old Virginia census records have been checked, since they listed names at this period, I have been told.
   In any case, I shall keep her name in mind and may yet come upon some clue.
   Best regards, [signed] Lytle W. Robinson

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