This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at 1867 Kalorama Road, Washington, D.C., this 8th day of February, 1935, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [818], new Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Study Group #9 of the Association.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. [818]. Born November 21, 1885, in Newtonville, Massachusetts.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the records of the entity now known as [818].
2. In giving that which may be helpful to this entity in its present experience, there may be given that approach from which such information may come at this time, in order that there be as little confusion in the experience of the entity in the present as possible. For this entity seeks earnestly. The experiences that may be seen through the sojourns in the earth have been fraught with those things that have made for soul development. And because one experience or another makes for confusion in the present, it is well that the entity set self aright; that it may go on - ON - to the mark of the higher calling which is set in Him, the example unto the sons and daughters of men, their elder brother, even Jesus.
3. As to the influences, then, that make for signs, omens, periods when this or that in the experience of a soul is the more active, do not confuse signs with that which is sought. Do not confuse the impulses that may arise in the inner urges even, or those from the emotions of the body that take hold upon the soul and the spiritual forces with that which has prompted same. For first there should be the realization by all that matter in any form is of the spirit, whether from the atom in a corpuscle in the body, or the sphere or orb of any of those systems seen about the earth and described by the psalmist, "The heavens declare the glory of God, the firmament showeth His handiwork; day unto day uttereth speech, night unto night sheweth knowledge." So in the transition of an entity, a soul, such as this entity - known in the present as [818] - whether in the body or out of the body it shows forth the Lord's work till He come again; made a little lower than the angels, yet with that promise, that ability, that gift of the Father to each soul that it may be one with Him, yet know itself to be itself and one with Him.
4. Then, as to the astrological sojourns, these are where the soul-entity is out of the material body and present with spiritual forces, that are only of a higher vibration yet are of the same materials of which matter is brought into experience as the soul enters or possesses a body in a material world; yet each experience, each phase, each realm, is that ye may become more and more consciously aware of being IN Him, abiding in that divine creative force that only is that which is manifested in thine material surroundings as harmony, color, sound, movement, those powerful forces that are the basis of all that is good, lovely, precious in the eyes and in the whole of Him that would have thee one with Him.
5. And the indwellings in those environs about the earth, whether - as this entity - in Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or in the Moon with its shadows of the Sun itself, these make for the expressions of the spiritual-creative influences that are just above the matter phase, or - as a name - in a fourth dimensional plane of activity. And as an entity enters in the material or matter in material plane as the earth, such indwellings come as innate urges. And the WILL makes for that known in materiality as choice. And the activities in the earth are as the emotional urges that must be met or controlled; and, as in matter, He has promised to meet thee in thine own temple and there commune with thee that ye may choose to offer that not as strange fires upon the altar of thy service to thy fellow man or to thy God, but that thy services, thy activities, may rise as sweet incense before the throne of grace and mercy and truth in which all may know they are one with Him.
6. Consider these, my child. KNOW in whom thou hast believed, and know that He is able to keep that thou committest unto Him against every joy, sorrow, every trial, every temptation, every exaltation. For it hath not entered the heart of man, as man, as to the glories, joys, that are prepared for those that are called and who are TRUE to that whereunto they have been called.
7. In the astrological aspects, then, we find:
8. Venus is a ruling influence in the experience of the entity in the present, bringing with the Uranian influences that which has made for strange - or seemingly peculiar - associations in the friendships, in the filial and in the marital experiences of the entity; and these have become at times those of hard understandings. And only in that love which is expressed in that the Master gave may it be fully comprehended; "who is my mother? Who IS my brother, my sister? He that doeth the will of my Father in heaven, the same is my mother, my sister, my brother." Yet these relationships, these friendships in the material associations, have brought - with their pain - their pleasure, their joy, their uplifting of the heart and soul to visions; yet the expending of self in love for those that might be questioned even by others has brought the deeper conviction, the greater of joys, even harmony within self.
9. In Jupiter we find the greater expansions of associations and relations; also the drawing of self to the powerful movements, whether those that have their promptings in questionable experiences or in fields of high mental attainment or those movements that have been as the revolutions and evolutions in the religious thought - these have been and are oft as sceptres to the entity to cause a drawing toward, an influencing of, those both of the mental and physical activities. Yet, as the day dawns when in the benevolent influence of Jupiter with Venus - and in the latter portion of the present year when Uranus is in still greater benevolence with Jupiter and Venus - there may be the greater expansions, we will find the entity entering into a more perfect understanding of His powers, His influence in those of the earth that have given, do give, their whole selves, body, mind and soul, with the purposes of each into His keeping, His directing; thus bringing those illuminations to the self and those abilities to become greater and greater channels of blessings to others. For, "As ye did it unto the least of these, my brethren, ye did it unto me; enter thou into the joys of thy Lord." These shall be as the guiding influence in the spring and fall of this year of our Lord.
10. As to the appearances in the earth, then, and their influence upon the entity and its activities in the earth in the present, we find:
11. Before this the entity was in the land of the present nativity, during those periods when there were the questionings of many because of their activities in relationships to the material expressions of same about Salem and Providence Town.
12. The entity then was among those considered possessed, among the daughters of the minister Woods; then in the name Effie Woods. And the entity suffered in body for those expressions that came as the influences from the outer forces in self that it had opened because of its persecutions of those that held to spiritual import, and brought to the physical body persecutions yet to the mental and soul counted it glorious to suffer in body for the clarifying of the mind of the soul. In the experience the entity gained.
13. In the present from that experience we find a confusion of thought as related to the varied manners in which the expressions of the creative forces or influences may manifest in the various forms of manifestations in the sense organisms of the body. But if the entity enters in and renews within self the creative forces that may work with the inner self, greater may be the joys in such activities.
14. Before that we find the entity was in the now known Roman land, during those periods when there were the questioning of many of those of the armies, the people that were as the potentates and the active forces in those lands where the world, as it were, had been turned by the teachings of those lowly fishermen that followed Him that walked in Bethsaida and by the sea as He called to those that would become fishers of men, as He walked in the hills of Judea.
15. The entity then was among the peoples in the Roman land that were of the rich, those blessed with this world's possessions that seemed to be in jeopardy if there were to be the acceptance of that which came to the entity, that "they sold ALL and divided it among the leaders of that sect." This brought turmoils, distresses, the attempts to justify self in enjoying rather the pleasures of the flesh for a season, and made for the recklessness of the entity's activities - in the name Cleopratas. Coming under the influences of Titus, Philemon (for the entity was in the household where Philemon was the servant), as the changes were brought about the entity through the acceptance of those teachings by the leader of the household, there were brought questionings to the social life, to the activities in the various experiences; and turmoils and reckless extravagance of body and mind followed Cleo in that experience. So the entity lost and gained, lost and gained; for the entity was pulled by the desires of the body and the promptings of the inner self.
16. In the present may be seen those interests on every hand that pertain to a way, a means, a rote necessary for the attaining; yet the inner self stands ever in that position that He knows, He will not forsake those that are faithful, even though the body burn, even though the body be broken; and will give strength to the faint-hearted, lift up the arms of those that are weak, and will encourage him that faltereth in the way. For that was His mission, IS His mission, and will ever be in this material world of Him that gave, "Love thy neighbor as thyself - As ye do it unto these, ye do it unto me - Seek me and ye shall find me - As ye forgive, so may ye be forgiven, for that is the law of the Lord."
17. Before that, then, we find the entity was in what is now known as the Persian and Arabian land, during those periods when there were the gatherings of many from many lands to the teacher in the city in the hills and the plains.
18. And the entity was among those of the Indian land, now so called - then Euredu (?). The entity came as one weak in body, for the healing influences of that teacher in the experience. And as the body became strong, there came the ever desire that there might be given the power to self for the aid to those in her own land; for the entity then was among the princesses in that land - and that portion now known as Hidyho (?). In the land the entity brought to its own peoples, then, that gained by the understanding of the raising within self of the spirit of truth that QUICKENS the flesh, that quickens matter, so that it becomes constructive and not derogatory to those influences of force in the atoms of the body.
19. Hence we find in the present experience the abilities for the laying on of hands, for the raising along the cells within the individual body from the storehouse to the disseminating drawn in the upper portion of the temple for bringing strength to the fellow man. Let this ever be not as of body- strength, but of the spirit making alive in and through thee of that divine within thy fellow man. For only in raising that knowledge may the permanency of aid be made; for of thyself ye may do nothing, save as the Son, the Father, worketh in and through thee, for thine own knowledge, thine own understanding, that ye may be one with Him.
20. Before that we find the entity was in that known as the Egyptian land, during those periods when there were the disseminations of those tenets, those truths that had been as an accumulation of the Atlanteans, of the Mongolians, the Abyssinians, the people of Mu and of Og, and of the Poseidon, that the Priest gave through those ministrations of the regeneration of life - as it may be manifested in matter - to the emissaries that would go into the various lands for the distribution.
21. The entity then was among the natives that were purified first in the temple, then in the sacrifice, then in the Temple Beautiful were the activities that made for the cleansing of many. And thus did the entity go among those of the varied lands as to STRENGTHEN the hands of those that had begun the work of establishing the teachings of that land. In the name Emp-Ulsheth, the entity gained through the greater portion of the experience.
22. In the present from that sojourn there are those abilities in the teachings, those abilities to act - as it were - as the instructor for those near and those far. Thus may the entity aid many.
23. As to the abilities in the present, that to which the entity may attain, and how:
24. First study to show thyself approved unto thine inner force, thine inner self, rightly divining the words of truth, of the Master on the mount, in thy mount, making for the abilities of disseminating those; not only as tenets but in thine own experience, keeping the self from being contaminated by every wind that lispeth [listeth? John 3:8, or a "lisping sound"? See 818-1, Par. R2.] but knowing that the Star is the guide, the light, and He IS the light, and He is the water, and He is the way; and YE may walk, may guide others therein.
25. Ready for questions.
26. (Q) What was my former work and thought?
    (A) Indicated.
27. (Q) What should be my main work?
    (A) As indicated. In instruction to, in teaching, in lifting, in directing others.
28. (Q) How shall I go about getting into my right work?
    (A) As has been directed, study that which has been given thee. For thy abilities are many; but let the spirit of the Christ guide thee from within, and it shall be shown thee. For, remember, His words are ever, "I condemn thee not - but I will guide you, if you will but put thy trust in me." No greater promise can come to, nor any greater awareness had by any soul that He who is the Maker, the author, the finisher of life, has promised to abide with thee, if ye will open the door of thy conscience, of thy heart, of thy mind, and let Him guide thee. Be ye rather as His that said, "And I give you that which I have;" silver and gold are not the strength of that which is in Him that said, "Consider the fowls of the air, or the lily of the field; they toil not, yet they FULFILL that whereunto they have been called by HIM," to give pleasure in their beauty, to give their fragrance to the air, that it may be a sweet incense to the Father of light who cares for thee!
29. We are through for the present.

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REPORTS

1. 2/19/35 See personal message in Group #11 reading 835-1, Par. 11-A.
2. GD's note re: 818-1, Par. 24:
   Websters Collegiate Dictionary, 5th Edition, p. 584 Copyright 1936 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
   lisp, v.i. [AS. wlispian, fr. wlisp stammering, lisping.] 1. To pronounce the sibilants s and z imperfectly, as by giving them the sounds of th. 2. Hence, to speak imperfectly or in a faltering manner; hence, to express by the use of simple childlike language. - n. The habit or act of lisping; also, a lisping sound. - lisp'er, n.

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