This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 31st day of May, 1935, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [931], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mr. [877], her employer.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. L. B. Cayce. Born March 20, 1898, in East Rutherford, N.J.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the entity and those relations with the universe and universal forces, that are latent and manifested in the personalities of the entity known as or called in the present [931].
2. In entering we find the entity coming very close to the cusps (that in the correlating of material experiences in the earth and of astrological sojourns makes for conflicting emotions), but partaking more - in the activities for this entity in the present - of Pisces, or coming under the greater influence of Pisces as from that angle. Yet there is to the entity oft a confusion as to the mental abilities of individuals and intuitive influences or spiritual forces in their lives. Hence we find the entity oft is very exacting with itself as well as with others. And many of those experiences that have brought the misunderstandings between the entity and its associates and relations have been when it has taken ITSELF to task more often than the blaming upon someone else. Yet the entity, from the very experience under the activities, is very INTUITIVE itself. Its interest in mental abilities, psychic forces, occult and mysterious forces and influences, are a portion of the entity's experience. At times in the entity's experience it has attempted to put these into the background, yet again and again they fare forth in such measures and manners that they become indisputable in the real inner experience of the entity.
3. And coming under the influence of Uranus makes for EXTREMES. While the entity is tolerant in most things, it is most intolerant at times with self, and most intolerant with others AT TIMES. This makes for not a moody but rather a DECIDED person as to its duties, obligations, relations, and as to what individuals should and should NOT do under given circumstances; yet these have altered, have changed at times, dependent upon the manner in which these experiences arose.
4. Coming under those influences of Jupiter also we find makes for a breadth or broadness of vision, and especially adaptable in any of the activities that deal with individuals; whether in a political, economic or social manner. Dealings with people, then, are rather as an EXPERIENCE - or as a field of activity; for these oft appear to the entity in circumstances or conditions that arise as having been experienced before. Or very seldom does the entity become self-conscious. Too sure of itself at times, that makes for those experiences as indicated from such sojourns; yet making for a BREADTH of vision that may carry the entity far - if there does NOT become too great a temptation to make for condemnations when the whole situations or considerations are not taken into the classing of the efforts, endeavors and attempts. It is the "try" that is the more often counted as righteousness, and NOT the success or failure. Failure to anyone should be as a stepping-stone and not as a millstone.
5. From those relationships in Mercury, with Venus, we find that oft does the entity judge by the mental rather than the heart or sentiment; yet sentiment in many things is a definite portion of the entity - as in memoirs, as in state, as in experience. However, sentiment in some directions is rather as the temperament than as sentiment.
6. In the mental forces, as indicated, there are high mental abilities; and an appreciation of the beautiful, an appreciation of ANY realm of activity - though the appreciations in some directions are not so much a part of the entity's inner self.
7. As to the appearances in the earth and their influences upon the entity in the present, we find:
8. Before this the entity lived in the earth during those periods when there were the attempts made toward freedom, or the rebellion forces - as called by the entity's associations; during the pre - AND the period of what is known as the American Revolution.
9. The entity then was just in its younger years, in the name Beuford (Florence), and in that portion of the land near Trenton (Jersey) - as now known or called. And there may be seen yet some of the activities of the household or of the friends, or of the brother especially and of the parents of the entity during that period.
10. The entity was rather in the position of being pulled between two forces during its early years, yet it was very decided in its activity; and became one identified with the educational activities in and about those places during its sojourn, making for much of an advancement and a development during that sojourn.
11. So those things dealing with or pertaining to education, training of the young, application of those things that make for the thought in its reading matter or in its corrections for the various mental proclivities of the young, are a portion of the entity in the inner self. And if these are kept alive in the experience they may be developed to the greater advancement in the present. The application in the present would pertain rather to correcting in the English, correcting in the manner; correcting in the manner about a home, an office, or state, or social activities. These would be rather the fields of papers, essays, books, or talking upon same - in which the entity might make itself very much felt in the present.
12. Before that we find the entity was during those periods now known as the Roman, when there were many of the questionings of those peoples as related to the understandings of the new tenets that had then not begun to be a portion of the state.
13. Hence the entity was a daughter of Constantine, named Irene, who made for the correlation of the penal law, the moral law, the church law as one.
14. The entity rebelled much against many of those things, for these were to the entity the lack of the coordinating of word of mouth and activity of body and mind as to that DEMANDED of others.
15. Hence the relationships the entity has borne, does bear in the present, to those who lay claims for this or that in their experience. While the entity enjoys those things of mystery and those things that partake of the mental and spiritual life, those that boast of their activities - whether as to prowess of the body or strength of the mind of greatness of associations with the higher forces - cause a SHIVER, as it were, to the inmost being of the entity in its associations.
16. Hence, while the niceties of life and its associations are a portion of the entity, those that may be said to be of rather the mediocre - or that are consistent as well as conservative in every activity, in every line of speech, in every way or manner - are rather those that are the attractive influences for the entity.
17. Yet from that experience and that sojourn the entity may gain a great deal as to the spiritual life, as well as to the application of self in those abilities as a companion or a secretary or as an associate of those that need the STAYING of their abilities in these specific directions, because of its standings, its relationships, its affabilities, this undertakings with those of groups and minds and other activities of every nature.
18. Before that we find the entity was in that now know as the Persian or Arabian land, during those periods when there were the gatherings of many in the city in the hills and the plains; when the Persian peoples combined with what we now know as the Grecians.
19. The entity then, as Prucelli, aided in setting up the interpretations to those of the various groups as to that being taught in the arts of healing, better housekeeping, orderliness in the experience of peoples; those things pertaining to what would be called LITTLE things that made for the experiences in the lives of individuals to make for better understandings.
20. Yet from same in the present arises its DEMANDS upon individuals in given circles to react in a definite way and manner.
21. Before that we find the entity was in that now spoken of as the Atlantean land, in those periods when there were the beginnings of the breaking up of that land and the sojourning of those people to various other lands.
22. The entity was among those who took up their sojourn in what is now Spain and Portugal, or the Pyrenees, and those activities there.
23. The entity then lost through the bewilderments that first were brought, and then by the use of that it had gained from the law of One to make in the new surroundings an undertaking for the setting of the beauty, the strength, the understandings - for it was applied for selfish motives.
24. In the name then Amzelee, the entity's applications were in many fields of activity; yet these brought only consternation to the entity.
25. And in the present the abilities and doubts both arise from those experiences and activities.
26. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, and that to which it may attain, and how:
27. First find self and self's relationships to the Creative Forces, enabling self through this understanding to give the proper evaluations of experiences in the life of others as well as of self; their proper relations, their proper accord.
28. The greater life's work is in the abilities that may be used as teaching, as instructing, as aiding others to find those same things necessary in self. As a teacher, as an interpreter, as a companion, as a director, are the greater fields for the entity's development.
29. Keep true to self and to those EXPERIENCES of the inner self. For the psychic is the soul. The SOUL must grow and be COMMANDING, not demanding.
30. Ready for questions.
31. We are through for the present.

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REPORTS

1. 6/03/35 "I rec'd my Life Reading this morning, and I am terribly pleased - it is most interesting."
2. 11/29/35 She obtained a Physical Reading - See 931-2.

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