In entering this present experience, we find the entity
coming under both benevolent and adverse influences. Hence
we will find there will be periods in the early developing,
the early years in the experience, when there must be
particular precautions taken as respecting the throat and
the stomach. These are innate from that which has been from
an experience in the earth, and in the present those
precautions must be taken as respecting same. Coming under
the influence we find of Saturn, Jupiter, Mercury, Venus;
these, as we find, will bring or make for many changes in
the early portion of the experience of the entity in the
present, with the benevolent influences in Jupiter making
for a greater expansion, of course, in the activities of the
entity in the material and in the social and in those ways
as of opportunities for expressions in its activities.
These, to be sure, are innate and will depend upon the
training during the formative and developing years of
experience of the entity in the present.
We will find Mercury a high mental cunning, and activities
that will make for those tendencies towards the artistic
temperaments that will be expressed rather in body movements.
Hence these should be, as we find, the greater developments
for the entity in the expression of same in the material
experience.
Those influences in Venus make for friendships, relationships
in such activities coming in the early portion of the
entity's teen and the early portion of the twenty year
periods in the experience of the entity. These also must
depend upon the manner in which the training or the
activative forces are used that tend to make for the
associations and the contacts that may be made by the entity
during these special periods of experience.
As to the appearances in the earth, and that will influence
the entity in the present, we find:
Before this the entity was in and about that place known as
Williamsburg, in the land of the present nativity, during
those periods when there were the establishings of the
associations with other lands and with those of the same land
as to the activity respecting the freedom of the land.
The entity then was in the name Carol again - Carol Fawncet;
and gained and lost, aiding much in the help that the entity
proved to be to those of its own household and the
associations of those that made for the activities as related
to the education and activity of those in those early periods
of the experience. And these may be found about the present
activity that which will bring it close in associations with
those experiences. The entity lost when there were the
turmoils over those experiences when the associations or the
associates of the entity made for the separations through the
activities in the land towards the farther north. this
brought strife, turmoils in the experience of the entity; and
making for those activities that made for the mental and
spiritual activities to become less and less prompted by that
which is the development of the soul forces in an entity.
Before that we find it was in that now known as the French
land, during the periods of the Crusades when thee were the
gatherings of those from many lands for the activities
towards the preservations of tenets and the places in the
Holy Land.
The entity was among those who aided in counseling those, yet
being left and being made - as it were - an example to many
that were the leaders in that experience, brought for the
entity disorder and disturbance in the ideals as respecting
what had been the promptings in those experiences of those
who went as preservers for an ideal. Then the entity was in
the name Berndein.
In the present there will be seen those tendencies or the
necessities for the trainings for the developing periods, for
this experience will make for those tendencies for the
separation of self - in its developing years - from what may
be termed orthodox activity, or as related to things
pertaining to the moral or religious life; for the entity
will be of its own self - or the innate activities - a free
thinker, a tendency towards those activities to make for
experiences and associations that to some might become
questioned. To self it must be not as a law to self but
will depend upon the manner in which the training of same is
during those formative years.
Before that we find it was during the periods when the Master
walked in the earth, and among those children that were
blessed by Him on the way from Bethany.
The entity then beheld Him, knew Him, as one that drew
children to Him and made of them and their lives an
illustration of the manner in which people, men, women,
everywhere, must accept those activities of their fellow
associates. For if one would be forgiven as a child, one
must forgive those that would - or do - err against self.
The entity heard that spoken by Him, "Lest ye become as
little children ye will in no wise enter in."
Then the entity was of the household of Cleopas, in the
Clementina; and in the experience gained throughout,
gained in the mental and the spiritual developments as
attained through the experience. Being in the early teens
when the incidents in the activities of those the had become
the leaders and the teachers in those people that were
tested, trained, taught by Him, the entity made for
assistance especially to Mark and Luke in their activities
as they accompanied those that made for the giving out of
the tenets during that experience.
The entity became very closely associated with Mark in the
activities that made for the preservation of those tenets, of
those lessons as we find in the gospel recorded by Mark.
In the present there will be seen those attractions to those
teachings and those activities and lessons, yet unless - from
other experiences - these are made as practical things and
practical applications in the experience, these may make for
stumbling blocks as the entity's own PERSONALITY defies its
individuality.
Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as
the Egyptian, during those periods when there were turmoils
and strifes, and those separations of the natives and the
king's own household. The entity enjoined self with those in
the Ibex rebellion, yet with those periods of reestablishing,
those periods of the tentative activities towards the
preservations of the material aids for dis-ease in the
experience of individuals, the entity's activities were in
not only the temple service but in what would be today called
the hospitalization. These make for very definite urges
innate in the experience, as that of the dance and the music
in the temple, and as those still may be applied to the
healings of individuals in their distresses or disorders in
their lives.
As to the development, then, and that to which the entity
may attain, and how:
First, as has been indicated, those precautions must be taken
respecting the health especially through those periods of
July and August of the present year, and again in October and
to the middle of November; the first as respecting the
digestive system, the second as respecting the throat and its
relationships to activities.
Then the training through the formative years and the
developing years must be in those lines that pertain to that
which the entity gained as Clementina, when there were those
tenets given that made for the greater development in the
experience.
As to the activities in which the entity may make for itself
rather an experience in the earth, these may be developed
depending upon what is to be the motivative influence in the
experience of the entity.
Then, let those about the entity make rather these:
As this entity has come into the earth for the expressions of
that it, the entity, gained in its activities as specifically
in the Palestine experience, then may they dedicate
themselves for a service as not only by precept but by
expressions for self THIS soul may have that opportunity
for its expressions for self and the aid it may bring to
others during this experience. For He gave that we through
Him might have the greater understanding. Know that He
doeth all things well.
Ready for questions.
(Q) What is the entity's life work, and how may it be best
trained for it?
(A) Read just that as has been given. It may be either in
the dance or the music.
(Q) Who was the entity during the Ibex rebellion?
(A) Aided with those peoples of the natives that joined
with the King's brother in the rebellion, in the name Apt
Eisi.
(Q) Has the entity ever known its present parents and sister
before?
(A) We would have to have those; we have only the entity
here. We may seek.
As there is the dependence upon, as has been indicated, the
early formative periods, we find the father associated only
with the entity - of THIS household, and that during the
period in Williamsburg.
(Q) What is the entity's seal and its interpretation?
(A) The Cross, the hammer and the harp. These in the
positions as of the seal or great seal of the Egyptian
experience, but the Cross rising in the center, making for
that interpretation that this must be the guiding factor
and force through labor and that of service in harmony
throughout its activity.
(Q) Has the entity ever been associated with [
603] in any of
its former appearances?
(A) We haven't [
603]. We may seek.
In Egypt, we find, the associations there were very close.
(Q) Will they be closely associated during this period?
(A) That depends upon personal applications and
associations.
(Q) Is the name which the entity now carries a suitable one
for its development?
(A) As it has been before, it's a natural tendency for
harmonious activities and experiences or vibrations for the
entity.
(Q) Kindly give advice and council for the parents and
guardians of the entity which would enable or assist them -
(A) (Interrupting) As has been indicated, through those
formative periods; first the physical - in July, August, of
the physical body - the digestive forces; and in October and
first of November as respecting the throat or the voice. And
MOST of all those trainings by precept, by example, in those
tenets of Him that said, "Suffer little children to come unto
me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven."
We are through for the present.
Two copies to Mrs. [603]
Copy to Ass'n file
BACKGROUND
7/03/34 Mrs. [
603] who later became [
857]'s godmother asked
about past associations with [
857]'s father. See
603-1, Par.
34-A.
REPORTS
5/30/35 [
857]'s godmother asked re. associations with [
857]'s
father. See
603-2, Par. 15-A--21-A.
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