As we find, the sojourn in Venus is rather as an adverse
influence, save as related to harmonious forces. In the
immediate we will find, with the entering of Saturn's
influence in the experience of those that are of the Venus
sojourn, questions arising especially in relationships to
friends, relationships to family, relationships to those that
MOVE the emotions of the body. But Jupiter and Neptune
entering, to say nothing of those influences in Uranus, will
make for the large bodies of water and those influences that
come from those who have recently crossed large bodies of
water, that will make for a stabilizing influence in the
experience of the entity. And the sojourn of the entity near
to larger groups, in larger cities, in larger activities
close to large bodies of water, will make for the greater
opportunities from the material angle and from the mental -
if these are IMPORTS by the spiritual forces that prompt the
inner man.
These, as we find then, are those urges in the innate forces
in the entity, [
824], in the present:
One that may become afflicted with conditions that may arise
with those of the opposite sex, if this should come within
the next two years. Yet, if these are for that import
arising from the harmonious influence, or from the natural
tend towards harmony or music or understanding, they will be
for the greater development for the entity - especially and
surely if such an one has recently journeyed across large
bodies of water.
This also makes for the temperament that may be manifested in
the personality of the entity, of WITHDRAWING - as it were -
from the limelight; yet in those places, surroundings, or
aboard ships that CROSS bodies of water, there would be
created such ELEMENTAL forces that their influence would make
for the STRENGTHENING of the abilities of the body so as to
be worth while.
A lover of the beautiful; depicting the beautiful, whether in
art, song, music, painting, in dress even. All of these have
their influence upon the entity, as would the harmonies of
stones; and ever should the entity have about the body the
bloodstone, which is - with its vibrations - that element
which from the etheronic energies of nature in itself creates
the proper environs for vibratory forces about the entity.
The pipe, the horn and the reed are the instruments through
which the entity may give greater expression of self.
As to the appearances in the earth and the influence these
have upon the entity in the present, not a great many in
numbers influence in the present - but these are a great
influence in the activities of the entity and those that make
for the marring or the advancement of the entity in its
material and mental associations and relations:
Before this we find the entity was in that land now known as
the French and English land, during those periods when in the
English isle there were the disturbing forces among the
common people and royalty - those as related to the orthodoxy
in the religious relationships or ecclesiastical activity and
those that were the more broadminded, that make for rather
the activities of an entity that indicate his religious
associations and affiliations than by name only.
The entity then was among those peoples that were in
associations and connected with Charles the Second, as well
as with Cromwell - that made for the destructive forces. Not
that the entity acted in the capacity of a spy; for these
influences from the Venus forces, from the activities in
Neptune and Jupiter, make for the fact that when the entity
speaks and says "That's true," it is from the truth; as a
joke, he loves to joke!
In the experience the entity gained, acting in the capacity
of an informant - not as a spy; rather during the latter
portion of Cromwell's activity when there was the giving away
of the sternness in those associations. The entity aided in
bringing about not only the news of it but the reestablishing
of Charles the Second upon the activative forces in the rule.
Hence the entity was known as one associated with same, and -
to have the word of the day - he was one very much sought by
all the women of the court!
The entity gained through the greater portion of the
activity; for from that association and those activities
comes the love for the activities in the musical
associations, both as to song and as to instruments. For the
entity was then a bugler of note, but not the type of bugle
as seen in the present.
From those associations there may be seen in the present the
abilities for the entity to hold himself in reserve, whether
among the royalty or political influences, or activities for
the social niceties that may be necessary; or, in common
parlance, to fit self into whatever environment may be the
surroundings of the entity to carry on that which is the
motivative influence in the entity's experience at the time.
Before that we find the entity was in that land known as the
Grecian, when there were the activities and the searching out
of those leaders of Xenophon in the eastern lands, through
portions of Persia and those activities where there were
brought many destructive forces.
Yet the entity, as a leader in those activities, gained much,
and there began the first of the idylistic temperament of the
entity. So, in the associations as to the musical abilities,
if these activities tend toward the oriental music and the
idyls of the folklore, and the mythological activities, the
interpretation of those things pertaining to such, they will
be the field of activity in which the entity may rise to
prominence, provided they are ever kept in that field wherein
the motivative influence is the help that it may bring to
individuals, to groups, to peoples, to the masses.
Before that we find the entity was in the Atlantean land,
when the people were entering into other lands for their
preservation of their activities through those periods when
destructions were coming to the land.
The entity then was among those who were the leaders into
what is now known as the Egyptian land, bringing with same
much of what may be made from the electron music where color,
vibration, activities make for toning same with the emotions
of individuals or peoples that may make for their
temperaments being changed. And same may be applied by the
entity in those associations with what may be called the
temperaments of individuals, where they are possessed - as it
were - by the influences from without, and those that are ill
from diseases that have become of a nature or vibratory
influence within the body as to set themselves as a vibration
in the body. The entity may make such tones, colors, sounds,
activities, as to be very beneficial to those whom the entity
may desire to aid.
As to the abilities of the entity in the present, and that to
which it may attain, and how:
First, find self - and that which is not only the ideal of
self but the motivative influences in the activities of the
entity mentally and materially towards ITS ideal.
Then, beware of those that are of the hills or plains, and
especially of the opposite sex. Make the greater
associations and activities of self near large bodies of
water, UPON bodies of water; those associations and
connections with those who have crossed bodies of water.
In the application of the MATERIAL things, those that are of
the orient with the occidental toning to same will bring the
opportunities in the experience of this entity, [
824], and a
spiritual and a mental development.
Ready for questions.
(Q) Should he remain in his present environment?
(A) If this is leading towards large bodies of water and
activity upon same, or associated with same, well!
Otherwise, making those associations and connections and
activities that would bring such more into the experience of
the entity would be the better.
(Q) In other words, he would advance more if he had New York
as a permanent home?
(A) New York, Boston, New Haven, or the like. Any of these
where there are the greater associations and activities with
water.
(Q) Will it be necessary for him to go to college?
(A) Not necessary.
(Q) Along what lines should he study to shape his life's
work?
(A) As indicated, in the musical activities in the
interpretations of the idylistic atmosphere or the natures
that depict same; especially in the orientation as with the
occidental activity of same.
(Q) That refers to composing as well?
(A) Composing as well. For, as may be seen (this as an
illustration), the entity might more capably interpret Omar
Khayyam or the Thousand and One Nights than any musician now
other than of an orientation!
(Q) Then, he will hear the celestial music?
(A) He MUST, if there will be found within self - as
indicated - that which will enable the body to interpret same
in song and in instrument! Especially in the reed and the
pipe.
(Q) It would be impossible, then, for him to live with his
mother?
(A) Not utterly impossible. But, who is thy mother - and
who is thy brother? They that do those things that make for
the greater advancement of themselves and their fellow man in
all their walks of life. And these may ever be as one as to
their purposes for their fellow man, upon that basis, "As ye
do it unto these (in any form or manner), ye do it unto me."
We are through for the present.
Copy to Mother
Copy to Ass'n file
BACKGROUND
2/02/35 See mother's Life Rdg.,
809-1, Par. 39-A--41-A in re
how she can help develop son [
824]'s genius.
REPORTS
See mother's subsequent correspondence under
809-1 Reports.
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