8/31/42 GD's comment: You asked what was meant by the advice
to "Parallel Readings." It was meant that you should compare
your Reading with Miss [
2700], to see where you had been
associated before and how, also as to your virtues to be
expressed and faults to be overcome in this life. In this
way you could better understand how to work out together your
problems and opportunities. For instance, just as you would
compare your astrological charts, you should go through your
Life Readings with a fine tooth comb, as it were, to see
wherein you agree or disagree, and why, and what you should
do about it. Just as an example of what I mean, I will go
through both Readings and quote certain passages in an
attempt to make clear the manner in which you are to do the
paralleling:
First, astrologically - your Rdg. [815-2]:
"Saturn, Jupiter, Mercury, Mars, Venus. Mars and Venus are
in conjunction with the activities of the entity, making for
definite experiences or opportunities that may become
experiences in the entity's sojourn in the present. Also
Saturn makes for the tendencies for the entity to change this
or that association, this or that environment, before there
has been - often - the possibility even for the culmination
of the activities from the influences set in motion."
Next, astrologically - her Rdg. [
2700]:
"We find Mercury or mind, or change, as combined with Venus
and Neptune. These, as we find, produce those tendencies
for sudden changes that appear in the emotions when studied
from the astrological aspect. Also the Sun and Moon are
influences. Thus the combative forces for security, or
those tendencies for the entity to become rather lavish in
its expenditures, if it is the desire or the purpose of the
entity. Hence there would be needs of the systematic
reactions, for little of system - though routine oft becomes
a part of the entity's experience, but little of systematic
routine is deeply motivating the influences to that of
bringing security at periods. However, it is true that
those who open not to give to others neither open to receive
the greater blessings."
Comment: It would seem that these influences are too much
alike, there's too much change and indecision manifested in
each to make for a stable association or a balance one for
the other. Too much wishywashiness is indicated; there
would need to be more positiveness manifested, or more of
a leadership or definiteness in one or the other, for this
to be a satisfactory union - from the mental and material
standpoint.
Next, regarding marriage - your Rdg. [815-2]:
"In Mars we find, with Venus, a detrimental influence
respecting marital relations; for these make for the
demanding by the entity (as in the changes) for those with
whom it may be associated those things oft hard to be
comprehended or understood by others. It is not the greater
things in the entity's own development but the minor things
that make for feelings or appearances of neglect,
indifference, change in the manner of approach. This also is
an attribute, developed in this experience, that SHOULD be
negativated from the activities of the entity. For
friendships and those relationships that bring the greater
possibilities in the experience of the entity arise from the
entity's neglect of those attributes that are as
opportunities in these directions."
Her Rdg. [
2700]:
"The home is the eventual hope and latent influence ever
felt in the entity. Thus the needs that in the choice
of companionship there be not only the outward emotional
influence but that in which security or safety may be a part
of the prompting in same."
Comment: Your nature as outlined in the above, would not
seem to fit the need in Miss [
2700]'s choice of a marriage
partner. While there is indicated the outward emotional
influence between the two of you, there is NOT indicated
the security or safety angle, - either from the emotional,
material or spiritual. This does not mean that you could
not develop these virtues, but they are not indicated as
being a part of your natural, normal expression.
Next, regarding work - or vocation - your Rdg. [815-2]:
"We find from Mercury, with Uranus, a high ennobling
influence in the entity; high mental attributes, especially
in specific directions, having to do with people,
individuals, masses, groups, as to their activities and
their associations - whether in those lines of the arts
or of depicting for the fellows that which is the prompting
influence in the experience of others; as in story or in
writing. ANY of these are as the influences to which the
entity is NATURALLY drawn. But the GREATER development
may come not in its criticism but in its constructive aid
to individuals STRUGGLING to know what is constructive in
their experience. For this, then, would make for those
experiences when the little niceties - that are the natural
tend of the entity - become selfless and more for the
advancing of the activities of others. Not of self; for he
that would have life must give it; he that would know God
must be - in the attributes of the earth - in those things
that are of the spirit: Gentle, kind, longsuffering,
brotherly love, and - most of all must this entity learn
- patience! That the entity has fallen in oft!
Her Rdg. [
2700]:
"One given to the abilities in dance, in speech, and
especially in esthetic dancing or that in which the rhythm
of the body is the expression of that attempted to be
portrayed. One athletic in its nature, and the love of
outdoors and of nature is a part of the experience. Music
has its appeal, but there are definite likes and dislikes
in same. Thus music that is pastoral, or that depicts the
emotions in nature or in body or in activity, or that may
be enacted, appeals the more. Thus the stringed and reed
instruments are those that appeal the more in such
activities. Things pertaining to stage, radio or the like,
may be channels, then, through which the entity may gain
recognition as to its abilities."
Comment: It would seem that you are one ideally suited to
help her in her career, to be a life-long friend and
counselor and adviser as to her contacts, as to the minutest
details of her public life. To me it appears that for you
to be married to one another would be very bad for both
of you; it would be like living off of cake all the time,
instead of a well balanced diet that everyone needs. Pardon
me for making such a statement, but it is exactly as I see
it, - judging entirely from the Readings, of course, as I do
not know either of you personally.
Now as for the paralleling of the former appearances, -
going back from the present, it appears that an association
or acquaintance might have been possible during the Crusades.
Your Rdg. [815-2]:
"Before that, then, we find the entity was in the experience
when there were many changes coming through the activative
influences in that land now known as the German, but during
those periods when there were the gatherings of many peoples
for the Holy Wars - or for the Crusades, as termed in the
present. The entity was among those from that land who
joined with those peoples in that activative force; bringing
for self that which was a mental development. AGAIN we find
the failings of the entity as a leader in the Holy Land, that
had gained to a portion of that now known as the Greek and
Turkish land. These made for the rebellions in the
activative forces of the entity; shame at first, then
resentment for the failure of those influences that had
prompted the entity to go out with such high hopes, in the
name Hafensteinger. In the latter portion of that experience
the entity made for the great development; learning to show
kindness to those that are wrath, those that would make
for the carrying of resentments to bodily activities.
Hence in the present experience of the body there have
been very definite influences in the manifested and innate
activity as to its aversion to armed forces; and its desires
make for the connections or associations with those who
suffer through apparently no fault of themselves, but because
of the activities on the part of others, whom the entity may
befriend. These are ennobling in the experience, each.
But that which has made for resentment respecting religious
influence being the basis of an entity's activity is not so
well. Make these compatible, my son, in thine experience;
and ye may find these may bring to thine own inner self that
which will arouse those periods when - even though thine
heart is sad, thine mind is bad, thine surroundings trouble
thee - the glory of that which prompts the kindness is the
greater glory for making in thine own self gladness. For
they that would be made glad must be glad to those that are
even sad."
Her Rdg. [
2700]:
"Before that the entity was in the French land, in those
periods when there were groups entering the Holy War for
ideals and purposes of a whole nation or group. The entity
then was in the opposite sex, and made overtures as a leader
of a group. Thus the abilities of the entity to act in
forces pertaining to prowess in physical strength, or in
giving expression of the tendency towards athletics or
motions of the body, the motions of the limbs and the like.
For the symmetrical activities and abilities arise much from
the influences the entity entertained and acted upon during
those periods of experience. As to gain or loss, it might
be termed that there was a balancing of one with the other;
yet these enter as a portion of the emotions or the innate
forces in the entity itself. The use of these, then, may be
applied in its activities; yet, as then, there needs to be
that balancing of the spiritual influences in same."
Comment: There are all sorts of possibilities of association
to be drawn. She being a man then, and usurping the
leadership of a group, we might draw on our imagination and
say that she may have been the one to take the lead in your
place, when you failed; she making a success materially,
while you felt yourself a failure. However, from the
experiences we find that in the present you have a spiritual
understanding and manner of application which might well be
applied to balance her activities in regard to her career.
Naturally, there is no indication here of a marital tie.
(Notice why best not to enter ARMED service at present.)
The next association indicated from your Readings was in
Persia.
Your Rdg. [815-2]:
"The experience before that was in the now known Persian
or Arabian land, during those periods when there were the
gatherings of many to the "city in the hills and in the
plains" for the message that had gone to many lands and was
being taken up by many. The entity was among the Persians
that had been in and among the officers of the king's command
that had been overrun. The entity came and made for those
conditions that brought to its own land a greater peace and
harmony, and aided in establishing what later became the
Zoroastrian activity; which has in the present been of
especial interest - and will be more so if it is studied
the more. The name then was Axendia. The entity gained
throughout and in the present there are those abilities of
the entity as to its descriptions that it may write; as of
a play, as of a wedding, as of any functioning where there
is the activity that joins lives or makes for those
associations that will bring into the experience the changes
for the opportunity of developing and giving of selves in
service for others. These become as innate and manifested in
the entity's abilities and activities in the present. It is
well to build upon same."
Her Rdg. [
2700]:
"Before that the entity was in the Arabian and Persian land,
during those periods when in the "city in the hills and
plains" there were those tendencies for grouping of
individuals towards the teachings of the mystic nature
(or of the teacher in that experience), for the beneficient
influences in the lives of peoples of many groups and
nations. The entity was a musician, though one who used
same in the healing art, or as a portion of those experiences
when the quieting of the fears of individuals from various
spheres of activity was brought about by the means of the
music. Thus the lute, as well as the stringed instruments,
become those that act more as the soothing influence, as
well as those in which the entity may in its dance interpret
the better; rather than the brass instruments. The name
then was Melsanteudendt. The entity gained much, which is
expressed at present in the interpretations of those things
prompted by listening to the voice within, and of the
activities of things pertaining to spiritual attitude - as
the listening not only to the promptings from without but
to the music of the spheres, or of the stars, or of nature
itself. Thus the entity may attune itself to those
activities in which there may come the greater awakening
in the present."
Comment: From the above association you probably have the
most constructive urges for present relationships, - as a
oneness of purpose in your studies and mutual interests along
many lines in the field of art. There may have been even
a marriage with one another in that period, but if so it was
secondary - because the outstanding urges come in regard
to your work. You should find of interest and help the
Rudolph Steiner movement. Are you familiar with it - The
Anthroposophical Society there in N.Y.? Mr. Cayce was the
teacher or healer referred to in the "city in the hills,"
and should be of great help to both of you in the present,
as your whole life expression then was based on his
teachings.
Next, - you probably had an association in Atlantis, which
no doubt brings about somewhat of a worshipfulness on your
part in the present.
Your Rdg. [815-2]:
"Before that the entity was in that known as the Atlantean
land, during those periods when many were making preparations
for the changes from the land when the calamitous activities
were imminent - through the activities of the sons of Belial,
in opposition to those of the Law of One. The entity then
was among those peoples that were advanced from the various
developments during that period, and was an expert in
handling of the crafts of the day that made for the manners
of escape by those that went to the different lands; as to
the Pyrenees, to Lama [Lemu?], into Yucatan, and to the
Egyptian land - to which the entity went and engaged in
the activities there; or all of these - as things that
pertain to the Aztecs, that later arose - as those things
of Egypt, the Pyrenees, the Incal - have their influence in
the entity's activities in the present, the developing of
which may make for experiences that may bring the greater
material gain in the present. For the interests that are
arising in the activities that are unearthing - as in
Alexandria, as it will be in Yucatan - as is to be in the
next two and a half years in the Gobi - will enable the
entity to use its abilities in that direction; for it may
depict or write about such things, in play or song, as few
can EVER do! The name then was Azexl."
Her Rdg. [
2700]:
"Before this the entity was in the Egyptian land (to which
you came from Atlantis), when there were those periods
of reconstruction, when individuals were being chosen as
channels for expression. The entity was among the children
of those who had been purified in the Temple of Sacrifice
as well as the Temple Beautiful. Thus a channel, thus the
latent force of the desire for home, desire for security,
yet never just in the grasp of the entity. There are the
needs for a protecting force. Yet know that there is the
power latent within self that may ever be the guiding light.
For, spirit is willing, flesh is weak. Motivated by the
influences of the spirit there may be brought the promptings
of the heart and the mind for not only material but mental
and material satisfaction, and spiritual strength, in this
material plane. The name then was Est-Il-On. The entity
then was a granddaughter of the High Priest (now Mr. Cayce)."
Comment: Or, instead of the Egyptian period, it may be that
her Atlantean incarnation paralleled yours, - as follows:
"Before that the entity was in the Atlantean land. There
the entity was a priestess in the temple, in the name Elon.
For, the entity was of the children of the Law of One, and
the entity interpreted to the peoples through those periods
just before the first destruction of those principles of
the relationships of individuals along the varied stages of
their spiritual evolution. Thus that sincerity so latent
and active yet in the entity's forces." It may be that you
were her son in that period, or else having been "advanced
from the various developments through that period," by the
priestess herself, - that is, raised from a lower caste,
we might say, to a higher position, - you naturally have
a reverence and a confidence in her and a love for her that
you have not felt for any other. However, this does not mean
that marriage would be the best way to promote or to prolong
or to bring out the best in your relationships one with the
other. As I said before, this is merely my opinion from
studying both Readings, but I close with the last question
in her Rdg. [
2700]:
(Q) "What is the meaning of my relationship with [
815],
and in what way can we best serve each other?"
(A) "As indicated, these relationships should be indicated
by drawing parallels. They are a part of each other's karmic
force, and thus have a bearing upon the activities. As to
whether these are to be met in relationships other than those
existing in the present, must be determined by purposes of
each."
Good luck. GD.
9/05/42 Mr. [
815]'s letter:
"I want to thank you for your grand generosity and
sensitiveness, in spontaneously 'taking the reading in hand'
and sensing my frets, needs and urges for clarity, especially
at this time-of-decisions in my days.
"I have gone through the reading and through your epilogue,
many times, and I shall so continue, as never before I fine
combed a reading."
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