This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at 1867 Kalorama Road, Washington, D.C., this 15th day of February, 1935, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [853], Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Born September 24, 1893, in Weldon, N.C.

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1. EC: We have the entity here and those relations with the universe and universal forces, that are latent and manifested in the personalities of the entity now called [853].
2. In entering the present experience we find the astrological influences playing very little part, or affecting the entity in the present very little save as to urges that have not in many ways been acted upon by the entity in a constructive manner.
3. These, then, are as only urges, and - as we shall see - are more influenced by the earthly sojourns; yet these, as we find, may all be turned into greater constructive forces not only from the mental attributes but from the material AND spiritual developments.
4. Mercury makes for a high mental activity. Jupiter is afflicted with Venus, as combined with Saturn. Hence many of those experiences of the entity when the more there apparently has been of the greater expressions in the mental and application of same in the nicer things or attributes of life, seemingly the harder material experiences have arisen. With those changes from Saturn to Venus, being in the square with Jupiter, in a benevolent influence, with the exercising of the opportunities that should soon come to pass in the experience, these should be made more helpful, more constructive, broader opportunities in the material, the financial, in all phases of the entity's activities.
5. As to the appearances in the earth and those that influence the entity in the present, we find:
6. Before this the entity was in the land of the present nativity, during those periods when there was the establishing of permanent residences by those groups that began the settlements in the land.
7. In and near to the present birth land did the entity come, with those that at first were not of those that were home building; yet in those activities there joined with the constructive forces. For the entity was of the sea then in its activity, but became rather a constructive builder in those associations near unto those lands roundabout the entity's dwelling, and rose to those positions where the entity acted in the capacity of what would be termed in the present a controller, or governor, or mayor of those particular surroundings, in the name Hanswell.
8. In the experience, though these were oft from the moral or the mental attitudes of others questioned, the entity in the purposes and activities gained through those periods of sojourn.
9. This brings in the present experience those desires in relationships for the same character in its PRESENT surroundings of associations and activities; and, as we find, these may be indeed accomplished in these present periods if there will be those directings of self in those fields of activity necessitating the same character of not power over, but rather the congeniality, the associated activity, and the influences that may be had by the acquaintanceships and activities of the entity roundabout.
10. From that same experience we find also those influences that urge the entity at times towards those things pertaining to the writing, and the acquaintance of self with those activities in these directions. And if there is given the self TO such an activity, these may become a source of a great activity in this present experience; bringing with same much satisfactions that have been as longings, visions, dreams of the entity. In these relations also, in the dreams, where there has been from the entity's associations and of the entity's later understandings, the cacheing of worldly goods in those immediate lands would be well to be considered by the entity.
11. Before that we find the entity was in that known or called the Spanish or the French and Spanish land, when there were those periods of the settlings of the land from those that - for their religious fervor - made their dwelling place in portions of the southern mountain ranges there.
12. THERE the entity acted rather in the capacity of what would be called one of the Holy Fathers that led MEN alone in their activities. With the coming into those portions of the land those of the opposite sex, this made for such disturbing influences as to make for the rejection by the entity of all those associations and near to the renouncing of the faith in the potential activities of the entity's peoples.
13. Then, in the name Gustavar, the entity gained and lost. Those innate activities for the keeping of records, showing the activities of others in relations to their fellow man, arise from same; as also do the abilities for judging revenues of all characters or all terminations of same. And, as we find, these associations would make for abilities of the entity in the present to, through not only political but the greater associations, enable the entity to become as one who might find the active service in serving in the capacity of storekeeper, gauger, or government representative in the brewing of malt and spirit liquors, or in those associations where there are the activities of the collectors at ports or the like. These find an activative force in the experience of the MATERIAL forces of the entity. Yet making for the peculiar or sometimes considered by others as an unreal activity of the entity in relationships to those that have renounced their associations in religious faiths, or those associations in such connections; and the peculiar - or UNUSUAL, rather - turn the entity takes, either manifested or innate, respecting such individuals.
14. Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as the Persian or Arabian, during those periods when there were the greater activities in the city in the hills and in the plains when there had gradually gown up not only the tented city about the activities but the more permanent or unusual character of sojourners.
15. The entity was among those that were in the capacity with the leaders as one that judged as of the proper exchange between not only countries that used these sojourns as place of exchange or trade but also in the capacity to judge between those various other lands that made for THEIR regular trains of activity from one land to another.
16. In the name then Belceon, the entity aided the leader in those experiences, yet with the incoming of the Grecian activities - as later known or called - the entity was carried away with that peoples; not so much that the entity desired such, but by force of circumstance, by force of conditions. These made for a breaking point in the experience of the entity during that sojourn, yet these find expressions in the entity's sojourn in the present in that too easily does the entity become discouraged at times in the connections or associations in material things working towards a satisfactory activity. Also there is a tendency for the entity to become more and more recluse in its pushing out towards the larger associations. Hence in those capacities where these may be done, not so much as the recluse but as first finding the data among many, compiling same in such measures and manners as to make same most worth while to those of every clime or association that may be interested in same. Hence datastician, statistician, collector of reports on field, farm, city, or activities in any commercial forces; in such activities may the entity's experiences in the present be helpful, IF the executive forces that are innate in the entity's experience are used as the basis of such collaboration or such gathered data.
17. Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as the Egyptian, during those periods when there were the establishments under the returned Priest and those of the varied lands that had gathered there, and their influence upon not only what would be called the political but the economic and the social and religious influences in the lives of those individuals.
18. The entity acted rather in the capacity during that experience of making for the entries of the records for the various groups, the various types of individuals, represented in all types of activities during that sojourn; gaining the greater in its influence and associations with the Priest during those periods of construction in that land.
19. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, and that to which it may attain, and how:
20. As indicated from the activities of the entity in the earth and the urges that are manifested and innate in the experiience, the more aggressiveness in those lines of activity wherein there is the gathering of data of various characters may the entity use either as instruction or in the form of fiction or historical, or data for the greater development in specific lines or in a general line. These may be made those channels in which not only the mental but the economic and the soul forces may find the greater fields of development in the present experience.
21. KEEP that thou hast gained in the ideals, yet give greater expression of same as in the preservation of same for those who study such activities.
22. Ready for questions.
23. (Q) Of what place was I governor?
    (A) That in and about Roanoke Island, and in and about that land - it's changed in its activity - now known as the counties in which the present birth place was entered - Edgecombe -
24. (Q) What did I write, and where can it be found?
    (A) Only fragmentations of same may be found in the records copied by others in the early portions of that particular land. The activities by the entity in the Spanish and French land may be found recorded in the Vatican. The Egyptian records may be found in the Record Temple, yet to be uncovered.
25. (Q) Should I return to the practice of law?
    (A) Eventually, as we find. In the latter potions of the present year, or in those portions of the coming year, connections or associations may be made that would enable the entity to accomplish more in those directions desired.
26. (Q) Considering my present development, what work in life should I do?
    (A) As indicated, that which would make for a keeping of records; or those activities in which the entity may mete out to its fellows the proper associations and relations; or in writing or combining of same would be the greater development.
27. (Q) Am I doing the work at present for which I am best fitted?
    (A) It's rather what might be said to be a practice for that in which the body and mind and abilities may be best fitted.
28. (Q) Will I be promoted in salary in this work?
    (A) There is a promotion to come.
29. (Q) Should I seek advancement or promotion in this work, and how?
    (A) This naturally comes through those regular channels wherein there may be made those associations and connections, those appointments in the various forms of activities, or the abilities in these directions may make for associations and connections with those of other firms or connections - if it desires to remain in these characters of associations.
30. (Q) Would it be better for me to get employment in the Veterans' Administration, the Internal Revenue, the Department of Justice, or the Securities & Exchange Commission?
    (A) As we find indicated, the activities in the Internal Revenue are those in which there are urges, and which - as indicated - may be applied. These decisions must be better made within self. There have been those periods when, as indicated, those departments of Justice were the greater; but these as indicated in the present are those activities in which the greater advancement may be made.
31. (Q) In what capacity should I seek employment in these?
    (A) This must be chosen for self. It is especially fitted for those particular activities as indicated.
32. (Q) Give the name and address of person, or persons, to whom I should go for aid in getting such employment.
    (A) These have their regular channels, and are as the appointees of certain constituents, certain associations and groups; and it's through these that they are the better approached.
33. (Q) When and how should I approach these?
    (A) In the regular order or manner, and as the positions, appointments or conditions present themselves in the various changes that are coming about in the general country in the present. But first we would seek out those buried treasures, and then we would have sufficient for all of these as indicated - which is in those lands in which the entity was associated. These would put the entity itself in an easiness of mind, and the abilities to make for the proper material associations and connections.
    Do that.
34. (Q) Please describe location so that it can be found.
    (A) Take these better by those that are innate, those that are of the nature as dreams and visions, and those that are as stories or tales; yet use in locating same rather the electronic forces that have been provided for such soundings, see? This is an electrical machine, or vibrations for locating buried treasures.
35. (Q) Is this treasure on Quankey Creek, near the town of Halifax, N.C.?
    (A) Where there were the abilities in the former periods for the ASSOCIATES of the entity then to come into the lands, yes.
36. (Q) Describe the exact location?
    (A) This had best be approached from other angles than through this for exact location. There has been and is in the possession of the entity (mentally) the necessary influences or forces for the making of the locations, if there are used those instruments indicated.
37. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. See previous business advice in 853-1 through 853-3.

REPORTS

1. 3/19/35 [853]'s letter to EC:
   Mr. Edgar Cayce, Virginia Beach, Va.
   Dear Mr. Cayce:-
   I have been intending to write to you ever since you left here, but it seems that I have had so many things to do that I just did not get around to it.
   I regret that you and your father have been sick, but am very glad that you are both better now.
   I have been trying to accomplish what you told me by dreams, but have not yet succeeded. However, I had something last night which looks like I might be getting hot on the track. I dreamed that my wife and I went to Weldon and carried a news paper clipping which would tell us how to locate what I want, but the clipping became lost, and I intended writing to the newspaper publishing company for another paper of that issue, but could not find the issue so that I did not write. Then the dream changed. Some men in Weldon with whom I am friendly told me that they were passing the house of a certain lawyer in Halifax in their car last Sunday afternoon, and the attorney ran out of is house and begged them to carry him down Highway No. 57 to see a client. There is no highway no. 57 in this locality so far as I know, but in my dream I thought that highway 57 was the road which runs near the locality given in my reading. This lawyer is very shrewd and has been mixed up in shady dealings. Do any of these things mean anything?
   I hope that I get sufficient information to go down there by the middle of April any way. I enclose stamped self addressed envelope, and will appreciate it if you will interpret these for me. I have written down all of them that I could remember, but had not done any unconscious writing.
   With kindest regards to you and the family, and hoping to see you again soon, I am,
   Yours very truly, [853]
2. 4/19/35 See 853-5.

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