As in earth one finds materiality and the expressions of
materiality in all of its phases, yet one visions
occasionally beauty, love, kindness, patience and the like
that are not of the earth-earthy - yet may find expressions
in the earth. So, the entity's indwellings in an
environment such as Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Uranus, all
have their OWN expression of that soul force. So, rather
than saying that the soul of this entity is controlled by
the star, the planet, the conditions in the zodiac, the
entity controls THEM by what the entity does ABOUT the urges
from such! Would one say that one who uses incorrect
English is governed by his knowledge of English, or what he
does about the application of same? So it is with one's use
of urges by an association. If one from a mental-material
urge, as of any phase of human experience in the earth,
allows the urge to overcome and be controlled by same, who
is the stronger - the soul urge or the materiality? That
becomes, EVIDENTLY, sin; yet such exists.
We find Jupiter making for these urges, then, in this entity
of [
858] as known in the present:
That of a high ennobling influence, doing those things for
others, in associations of others, that are for the good of
many.
The influences from Mercury make for the high MENTAL
abilities.
From the Uranian influence we find those eccentricities at
times; being influenced at times by what appear to be
hunches, urges, visions or emotions. Hence by some it may be
termed one that is superstitious, or giving or accrediting
those powers or influences to unseen forces that may rule or
act upon an entity. It is correct that these forces are
activative in the experience, but what they BECOME depends
upon how the entity or an individual soul RESPONDS or REACTS
to same. It depends upon what one does about an urge as to
what it makes, whether towards a constructive force or not.
The influence from Venus as combined with the Uranian makes
for those urges that are to the arts, to love, to the
expressions, to the abilities of the entity to write or to
give detailed accounts, to know the emotions, to be emotional
in itself; and yet from those very influences such emotions
may at times fall very flat, or they may become - by the time
they are attained - as but dust or as but wanton in the
hands, or the experience.
These are natural INCLINATIONS. What one does about same
either makes for the development or the retardment. These
arise from the INNATE forces; as do the greater emotions
arise from the earthly sojourns of the entity.
As to the earthly sojourns, then, these we read - that have
the influence upon the experiences of the entity in the
present:
Before this we find the entity was in the earth during those
early periods of activity in the land of present nativity,
but rather in and about those environs that were called "the
brethren," or about what is now known as the "city of
brotherly love," or Philadelphia.
There we find the entity was among the earlier individuals
that came into the experience in that land; and in the name
then of Edith Connell, the entity was very demure, very shy,
gaining much through the experiences in those lessons of
patience. Although in the earlier portion of the young
womanhood the entity REBELLED much, it aided in that which
later became in this country, in this new land, the writing,
the engraving, the bookmarks, bookmaking. The entity's
activities were in the application of printing in its forms
of the period. Being subjugated as to its associations with
the opposite sex, the entity turned itself to the crafts of
the day; and in those expressions it found an activity, later
making for those associations in which it may be said that
the entity indeed had an experience worthy of a great soul.
For even though turmoils and strifes arose, in the
experiences of those roundabout, that gentleness of the
experience brought for the entity a contentment, a harmony
that was not well understood by many.
Yet it makes for in the present experience its friendships,
of the entity, as those that are chosen; rather than being
chosen by others.
The experience before that, we find, was in the Grecian
land, during those periods when there were the advancements
through great discussions, great turmoils in many lands. It
was at and preceding those periods of the activities when the
philosophy of the Grecians, the artistry and the preparations
of those things were preserved in stone.
The entity was then among those that were accounted as
unusual because of their abilities (as a woman) to write.
This brought many discouraging reactions in the experience of
the entity; for it was able to reason and to hold itself in
the discussions with those leaders of the day, though they
suppressed much that the entity - as Ithdinna - gave to the
people. For the entity presented much that had to do with
the formations of the various characterizations, and
especially inn that in which the Grecians set in the home as
the manner in which the influences in the experience of the
mother preceding the birth of her child were to be. The
ENTITY then partook of those activities that PRESENTED this.
And because it was presented most by a woman, eventually it
was discarded. O that it had been kept on and on!
In the experience the entity knew much of art, much of music;
for it interpreted much that was presented by the first of
the oratory, then the minstrelsy, then much that depicted the
life of the experiences of others in the theatre. This made
for that which was an expression, and is an expression in the
present, of the entity's interest in the outdoor sports,
games - those that partake more of the GRECIAN games, the
Grecian activities, rather than the Roman; though the entity
knew much of the Roman activities during the experience.
In the present application of same the entity may gain
through the self's entering into the silence for those
visions that may be brought of those experiences in the
Grecian activity.
The Grecian dance, the Grecian dress, the Grecian activities
are of special interest then to the entity, as WELL as much
of the Grecian INDIFFERENCE.
Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as
or called the Egyptian, when there were the gatherings of
those understandings of the many peoples with the Priest's
return and the Priest's activities after regeneration. As
there were builded during the experience the relationships of
man to man, as well as the relationships to the Creative
Forces, and finding and giving expressions, the entity was
among those in that activity of the Temple Beautiful that
made for the preparations of the initiates that were to
become the teachers or the leaders.
The entity then, in the name Hap-Cishe, came to be known
among those with the greater insight of human experience.
The natural tendency in the present is to be of the
analytical turn, through intuition and intuitive forces. And
few there be whom the entity will not be able to fathom as to
their real worth as the entity is associated with same.
Hence a judge of human nature, a judge of human endeavor
arises in the experience of the entity from that particular
sojourn. This may be used as a portion of the entity's
activity in the present, either for its own satisfaction or
for the help that it may give to others. Use it for the help
to others.
The experience before that was in Atlantis when there were
the activities of much communication with other lands being
attempted to begun.
The entity was rather averse to the interchange of
activities; being among those that studied of the Law of
One, and the Priestess in that particular experience, the
entity lost AND gained.
As Ameelia, the entity made more of the individual
application in the arts or in the experiences of
individuals arising from their various estates of activity
in their relationships to what might have been seen - or was
seen in the developments from the lower estate of human
form to the divine as seen in the perfect body, rid of those
encumbrances that were experienced by many in such a
sojourn.
As to the abilities of the entity then in the present, and
that to which it may attain, and how:
As an interpreter, or a critic for the artistic temperament
of others, or as a critic of the stage activities or of
BOOKS, the entity may gain in self the greater development
from the mental angle.
If it holds to those intuitive forces from its experiences in
the activities in the earth where it brought the help to
others, through the associations of the Creative Forces in
the divine to the activities in the material, it may bring
the greater awakening in the soul influences of itself.
Then, first know in what thou hast believed from the
spiritual angle or standpoint; knowing as to what is the
import from within self. And as thou hast seen and do see in
the motivative forces or experiences of others, ye may be
able to help and aid in THEIR awakening for the hopes, the
joys, the aspirations not in only self-indulgences but in the
greater aspirations of bringing harmony and peace, beauty and
love into the experience of others.
Ready for questions.
We are through for the present.
Copy to Mother
Copy to Ass'n file
BACKGROUND
3/11/35 Letter from [
858]'s mother [
587]: "...Enclosed you
will find reading slip for [
858]. She is very interested and
will be a good subject. She will be reading and waiting..."
REPORTS
7/06/35 Report from [
858]'s mother [
587] that [
858] got
married.
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