Jupiter - a high ennobling influence, with periods when
individuals, peoples or groups of various strata or status
of society or life, in their various strata of the material
world, the mental world, the spiritual world, have been and
are the associations or activities of the entity. Hence this
has brought, does bring, experiences of wonderment, awe at
times; and this loneliness that occurs within, deep within
the inner self at times. Yet if the entity turns to the
within and raises the spiritual forces, we will find that
the entity may experience in the present much of that which
has been by many forgotten - the promises that He, the
Father, will abide with those that earnestly, sincerely,
seek Him from within theirselves. Not by might nor by power,
but by my name saith the Lord of hosts.
The entity has had the experience of being both cold and hot
as respecting the spiritual portion of its experience. Yet
the entity will find, as will others, the more reliance there
is put not in people and their reaction to the spiritual
truths but in those promises of that divine within each human
soul that seeks for expression in its relationships with its
fellow man, the greater will come the awakening; and there
will come those experiences that will make for a great
advancement for the entity in this present sojourn.
As to the appearances in the earth and those that influence
the entity in the present, we find:
Before this the entity was in the land of the present
nativity, during those periods when there were the first
settlings of the land in the North Carolinian and Georgian
territory; during those periods when there was the pushing
forward of those into the interior - or into portions of now
Kentucky and Tennessee.
The entity then was of those people who journeyed thither,
in the name then (changed as they made for their activities
in the land) Goldberg.
And about the first of the settlements in that place then
called Boonesboro, the entity was the first of the white
children born there - Amy being the name.
The entity grew to a useful activity during that sojourn.
Many were the hardships of the peoples, yet the entity gained
through the manner or the directions in which she aided not
only her people but the natives and those activities where
there was the preserving of those things that would make for
the tempering of the suffering for those that had the various
activities or the various conditions and experiences during
the sojourn in the land.
And many came far and near for the healings which the entity
made or prepared for those peoples during that sojourn.
In the whole of the experience the entity may be said to have
gained throughout. Although there were turmoils as to its
relationships with others, both as to the spiritual life and
as to the material associations, the entity made for that
which brought to self the satisfaction of knowing self was
expended in a service that others might have a greater
understanding. The entity not only brought ease and
comfort from suffering, but made for the expressions of
fellowship, love, faith, hope and patience - which are the
seed of the spirit, and that bring in the experience of all
who manifest same that of a harmony that passeth
understanding.
In the present there is the longing for knowledge, the
longing for the abilities to give greater expression of self,
which - as is felt innately, as is known within self - arises
from those activities during that sojourn; making for the
greater ability in helping, aiding others. Yet, as we find,
in the present experience, in those lands closer to the
waters from which the entity's people left for the entering
into the inner lands would the entity find greater peace,
greater harmony, greater understanding.
Before that we find the entity was in the Holy Land, when
the chosen peoples made for the first return to the
rebuilding of the city and of the temple, when Xerxes had
given the authority to those peoples that they might return
to their own land.
And as Zerubbabel set out for the long journey again to the
city in the hills there in Jerusalem, the entity was among
those of that company; and with the entering in aided in the
setting of the home life again to the ordinances of the homes
as of old.
The entity aided in keeping the records for those peoples;
being of the priestly tribe and among those that had been set
in the offices of such, though these, to be sure, were rather
the leaders of the heads of the household - and the entity
aided such in giving to those people an understanding in the
preserving of that INNATE in her peoples as to the NECESSITY
- in the material law as well as in the moral law - of
preserving of self in cleanliness as well as in godliness;
the preserving not only of the letter of the law but the
spirit of the law. And truly, indeed, it may be said of the
entity then, as Ashai, that the people under her aid builded
with a WILL; for they MINDED the things that pertained to
God.
In the experience the entity gained throughout; though there
were hardships of travel, though there were hardships of
privation during the early portions of the experience. Yet
in the latter portion there was not only the satisfaction
of seeing the restoring of the worship in the city and in
the temple, but the satisfaction of seeing her own peoples
raised to places of accomplishments in the affairs pertaining
to the king and the city again established there.
There comes to the entity in the present, in the periods of
the deeper meditation, those things that take hold upon the
offices pertaining to temple service. These have at times
been ruthlessly trod upon by others; and it has brought in
the experience of the entity much that has made for a longing
and a loneliness deep within.
Before that we find the entity was in the land now known
as the Egyptian, during those periods when there was the cry
of a people going up to the Throne of grace because of the
hardships as put upon them; for their burdens become heavy
in those days.
The entity then was among those peoples again of that one
chosen as the priestly tribe, when the law by the leader
- by the lawgiver - was given later in the holy mount. But
the entity aided in carrying out the periods of purifications
during those days when there was the making for the hardening
of the heart of the leader and the setting in the minds of
those children of the chosen ones as to the purposes for
which they as a people were being called forth.
Then in the name of Estrada, the entity was a niece of Aaron,
the mouthpiece for the lawgiver. The entity gained and lost
during the experience. For as there were the preparations,
so did there come - during the periods in the journeys beyond
the Red Sea - those periods of wonderment and rebellion in
the experience of the entity.
Yet oft in the present the entity has felt that she has in
some manner been a portion of many of those things that are
recorded that others call but legendary tales. To the entity
their truth may be made to mean, or does mean, much more than
to many - if it will but let itself turn within.
Before that we find the entity was in the Egyptian land,
among those during the period when there were the turmoils
and the strifes from the rebellions that arose in the land
when the Priest was banished.
The entity was among those of the Chaldean peoples that came
to learn more of the teachings when there was the
reestablishing of the Priest and the giving out of the tenets
of same. The entity became one that might be termed today
the alchemist or the druggist, as would be set for the
hospitalizations during that experience; for the entity
enjoined self with those particular activities, for its
knowledge not only of people and the administering of those
tendencies necessary for the aiding of those that were ill
but for the knowledge of those things in the field that may
be made a portion of such application - in the name then
Asptha.
As to the abilities of the entity in the present, and that
to which it may attain, and how:
First, as may be said from the beginning, there has been
a call innately within the entity for the higher service
towards its fellow man; in awakening here, there, the
knowledge of the spirit of truth that may be awakened
in every heart. Yet this finds itself expressed in the
administrations for not only the ills of the body but of
the mind, and of those things that make for fears arising
in the experiences of others.
Through such channels, then, that the entity finds for labor
in such fields, may not only come the greater good for
others but the greater development within self. And let
thy watchword be ever as thou dist hear oft from him whom
thou didst love well in the days of old, "Let others do as
they may, but as for me, I will serve a LIVING God."
Ready for questions.
(Q) What special field of activity would you advise for me,
besides the work I am doing at present?
(A) Expand upon that in those directions as just indicated.
(Q) Should I continue to keep my present office?
(A) As indicated, while circumstances or surroundings in the
present environ or associations would indicate this as the
better, we find that in the southern country - as in that
about Raleigh, Charleston, Savannah, Norfolk, Richmond -
would be a much better, much greater channel for the
expression of self.
(Q) What were my past relationships with my husband in the
present incarnations? And what can I do to help him the most
in the present?
(A) As we find, the relationships just previous to this
incarnation were as that of brother and sister. And while
there were oft the turmoils, that arose in the activities
regarding the entity's relationships with others, in the
present the greater aid may come through giving that stamina,
that necessary in the spiritual import of things in the
experience of the companion.
(Q) What were my past relations with my daughter, and how
can I help her the most in the present?
(A) In the past relationships we find, during the latter
portion of the Egyptian experience when there was the exit
from that land of the entity's people, the daughter was the
mother of the entity. Hence those relationships when there
have been periods when the daughter would, or will, seek to
counsel with thee as thou would counsel with her. Keep,
then, those relationships as they were, as they are, in that
of ever making for that union of strength in the
relationships that may make for the greater growth.
(Q) Should I continue my present type of work and combine
it with those things suggested?
(A) And combine it with those suggested, yes.
(Q) Will you be more specific as to the field of the proper
activity?
(A) It has been given.
(Q) Is there any other counsel or advice for the entity at
this time?
(A) Know that the day of the Lord draweth nigh; that many of
thine peoples, of the Lord's chosen, of the Lord's vineyard,
need thee. Though others may speak lightly, know in thyself
thou hast been chosen by Him - even as those of they peoples
- for a special service in this particular period. Be
patient; be gentle; be kind; railing not at others or at
thine own seeming weakness. For He, thy Lord, they God,
Jehovah, is thy strength, thy rock, thy salvation.
We are through for the present.
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4/04/35 She obtained Physical Reading for her sister-in-law,
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