This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 2nd day of July, 1935, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [945], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by her cousin, Mrs. [864].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. L. B. Cayce. Born December 27, 1908, in Peoria, Ill.

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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 that entity now called [945].
2. In entering the present experience, and in giving that which has been recorded by and through the activities of the entity in the earth plane, and in those realms in which there arise and fall or come and go the experiences of the entity as an entity or soul, we find:
3. It is well that something be given as to the causes of the records, or as to the houses of records, that the entity may use in a practical application those experiences to aid in making the present experience the more worth while.
4. For, as a conclusion may be drawn from that in the material plane, the knowledge of any subject, condition, or knowledge of any nature unless put into practical use becomes of little effect in producing in the experience of an individual any activity worth while.
5. The activities from the astrological standpoint, then, are used as a basis; for the experience of the soul-entity in its activity is continuous. Hence the greater influence, or among the greater influences in the experience of ANY entity, is an indication of the threefold life - or three-fold motivating influence. For there is the material expression (which is of the physical or the earth earthy); there is the mental body, phase or experience of an entity (which partakes of or is an enfoldment or unfoldment of the experiences of the entity in the realms ABOUT the earth - or of which the earth is a portion); and the indwellings of an entity in the interim of its earthly or physical manifestations produce certain activities that make an entity, body or unit act as it does through any given earthly experience. Then, these are of that called the MENTAL consciousness of an entity or soul. What have been the motivative forces in the activities of an entity through any given experience, then, or any period of manifestations in these various spheres, may be used as a criterion as to the expressions that may be expected of the entity; as to its reactions, abilities, shortcomings, developments, when SOME or A particular criterion or standard is used.
6. What then (may be very well asked) is the standard or ideal from which a line may be drawn in such information or for an entity in its development?
7. That which has been set in Him throughout the ages of this expression of the love of the Creative Force for His creatures.
8. For man and woman in their manifestations are given - by the All-Wise, All-Merciful Father, the First Cause, the Mother-God, the Father-God - the opportunity to be one with Him. Hence they are given the attributes of the various phases through which the entity or soul may become conscious or aware of that Presence abiding with or withdrawing from its activities; dependent, to be sure, upon how that entity or soul uses the opportunities.
9. For without the gift of free will to the soul, how COULD it become aware of the Presence of the All-Abiding Creative Force or Energy called God?
10. Then, as this relates to this individual entity, now called [945], we find the entity born in the present under and in those environs from the astrological aspect of Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Mars, Saturn.
11. What meaneth this? That during the interims from the earthly sojourns or experiences the soul has been in the environs that have been given the names of the various planets about or within the solar system of which the earth is a part. Thus the planets have their influence as to the various attributes of that we find expressed or manifested in the earth's environs as what we term as carnal or earthly or three-dimensional forms of awareness.
12. But what is termed the dimensional environ of the mental capacities expressed by Mercury enables an entity or soul in the earth's environs to give a manifestation of high mental abilities, high mental capacities. Thus we may observe that such an one is enabled to obtain what we call knowledge, as pertaining to mental faculties, much more easily than those whose environs or indwellings previous to the earthly manifestation at present have possibly been in Saturn, Mars, Venus, Uranus, Pluto or the Moon. But what meaneth these? That these abilities are such as termed good or bad. These EXIST as conditions. And it is what a soul or entity does ABOUT such conditions, or what it uses as its standard of judgement, that produces what is called in man's environment Cause and Effect. The same may be said of each of the other spheres or experiences or phases of the indwellings of the entity; in Venus, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, or all such that have been the experience of the entity, producing those elements within the MENTAL which is of the body or entity a part.
13. Then, for this entity, we find:
14. Mercury makes for the high mental abilities.
15. Venus makes for the emotional side of the body or entity in the present, that becomes at times rather lacking but at others makes for the great motivating influences and forces in the experience of the entity; that it holds as a duty to self, as a duty to its relationships in its various spheres of activity in a material world. For its environs and activities from this association in Venus have made for not sentimentality, but sentiment is a portion; yet as Mercury is the ruling influence this is done from reasoning rather than from sentiment alone. Yet it makes for those experiences in the present within the entity that have at times brought about the appearance or the feeling of a definite loneliness within the entity; the lack of a friend sufficiently close, a companionship sufficiently close to rely wholly upon.
16. Those are as longings that are being sought within the entity's experience. But as we find, as Jupiter has within the last few months become rather the ruling influence in its sojourners within its environs, as Venus and Mercury and Jupiter are brought more and more into the expression of activity within the experiences of those who have indwelled there, it will bring for this individual entity - in this year or in the next year - a union with such a soul in which the HOME (that is so longed for at times) may be established by the entity. And one whose birthday and associations are near the same year as self's - that is, in 1907-6-5, whose birthday is in the latter portion of June of between that and the 20th to 26th of July - will make for the better companionship with the entity in its experiences.
17. We find also Saturn having been an influence that has made for experiences within the entity's activities in the present in which it has continued to long for changes in its associations. This has caused the entity at times to find itself dreaming; having day dreams, as it were, by longings for that building up as to itself an ideal relationship or condition that would be - as the entity has visualized - the greater activity in which it might engage itself; either for the satisfying of the material desires or to create the character of environment in which the mental and soul forces might find the greater expression. More often have these considered rather the MATERIAL things. But as these changes have gradually passed, more and more does there come now in the experience that as sought from the mental and the spiritual expression rather than from the purely material.
18. For the earth and Saturn are opposites, as it were; for to Saturn go those that would renew or begin again, or who have blotted from their experience much that may be set in motion again through other influences and environs that have been a portion of the entity's experience.
19. In Mars we find there have been periods and experiences when anger, wrath and sudden conditions or certain things in others about the entity have caused changes, or made great changes in what may have been the experience of the entity. These have been rather from without than from within the entity's own associations and environs, but have dealt their influence in the experience of the entity. And these have come within the entity's experience rather as fears that such might arise in the entity's OWN experience; coming again to the reasoning, as it were, from its close Mercurian influence in its own experience in the present.
20. These, then, are the astrological aspects as we find them from the MENTAL experience that lies INNATE and give expressions in the manner as we have indicated.
21. As to the appearances in the earth and how they influence the entity in the present, as to its material activities and associations that are enjoined in part as we have indicated by the astrological environs also, we find:
22. Before this the entity dwelt in the land nigh unto its own present environs or nativity; that is, about Fort Dearborn, during the days when there were strifes and turmoils from the material angle.
23. The entity became a portion of that environ by its birth into the land just previous to the days when the necessity arose for the abandonment of the Fort by many. In the name of Rose Rouhl did the entity grow into the activities after the abandonment. While the days in the environ at that experience were not great in years, there comes from same in the present the experience wherein the entity sees and hears much that to others would mean very little. Only a hint, only a cue is necessary for the entity to gain or to build within its own mental abilities practically a whole vision of that which has been brought about or may be expected from those conditions or experiences.
24. Hence as an analyst, as in a secretarial position in which there is needed the quick-wittedness or the quick mental abilities in ANY such environs, may the entity make for great advancements in its activity.
25. Those things pertaining to story writings also may become a portion of the entity's own experience, and may make for an environ in which great satisfaction may come to the entity in the present; especially that as may be builded from facts as historical conditions, as from the motivative forces in the formation of certain organizations or the formations of states that separate themselves for a particular activity, those things pertaining to religious activities of individuals or groups. These may be a portion of the acts or environs from which the entity may draw or build the basis of that which it would present in its story form, for the enlightenment and aid of others.
26. Before that we find the entity was in that now called the Roman period, when there were many of those that were being persecuted for those tenets or those happenings told by the returning soldiery from the Palestine land, or the northern African land, or the Mesopotamian land.
27. Then the entity was what might be termed a student of the affairs not only of state but of the social relationships that were being builded during those experiences. While the entity did not become a portion of those in any great extent or manner, it - in the name Galleci - supplied much of the data to those of its own country by which and upon which the education was established of many of those that drew upon the various activities in other lands.
28. Hence it may be said that the entity was then rather much of a historian, as would be called today, or a gatherer of data to help those in authority in all the various phases of the Roman empire during that period of activity.
29. Hence in the present from same we may find the abilities, coupled with those from the period just previous to the present, to bring the greater satisfaction through such story writings.
30. Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as the Egyptian and the Atlantean experience.
31. Not that there were not other earthly incarnations, or others during that period who waited long for the coming of the Master; yet these we are giving are those that bear most upon the present activities.
32. The entity was then in the Atlantean land when those were being chosen to carry the various forces and influences throughout the earth's experience for the training or retaining of the activities.
33. The entity then was among those of the Law of One that went to what was then the Egyptian land, in the name Ax-tecl; in the same sex, yes; making for much that drew the beauty of expression, or the entity engaged in the activities particularly to express the beautiful through dress.
34. Hence in the present we find the laws pertaining to the higher influences become a portion of the entity's experience; hence its social life, its spiritual life, draw one upon another - and are not as a contrast one to another.
35. Also those things pertaining to dress, in regard to position and relationships with stations in life, have been and are of a great interest to the entity.
36. Then, as to that to which the entity may attain in the present, and how:
37. As indicated, the entity has the abilities in the present to meet those influences of its fellow man; as an explorer in those things that produce the activities and motivating influences in the experiences of others; as a writer; as a minister; as a teacher; as in a secretarial activity. In any or all of these may the entity engage, until there is an establishing of the HOME.
38. THEN make for that which may bring to those of its own household, of its own body-creation with the influences about it, a greater understanding of the continuity of life; and as to how that the influences in all spheres and planes are but One, and are as a constant flow through the consciousness of the mental forces of an entity for its building up and drawing to the continuity of force - or the creative influences, or God - in the experience.
39. These are the channels, these are the manners. MUCH might be given to the entity. Apply this as given in the present, and His blessings and His grace and His mercy and His love will keep thee from that fear of loneliness, from that of despondency; bringing joy and a joyousness in a service to thy fellow man.
40. Ready for questions.
41. (Q) What are the lessons I am to learn on this earth plane, so that I may be familiar with what my work is and strive toward that end?
    (A) These are indicated from those conditions that have been described. DRAW thy conclusions from thine EXPERIENCES, and as to how they were used. Then know these are to be met or to be dealt out in manners in which they may become greater and greater a part of self, as well as to those that will be influenced by thy activities in high and lowly places throughout the land.
42. (Q) As I am not exactly satisfied with my vocation, altho a very pleasant one, will I have a change in it?
    (A) As indicated by those conditions through which the entity has passed, the application in self in drawing upon those conditions as indicated may make for an outlet for self that will bring the greater joy.
43. We are through for the present.

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BACKGROUND

1. 6/19/35 Questions submitted besides those which got asked in reading: "...Will I soon or some day be married, establish a home and family? If so, will that be soon and also what type of personality will be my partner?..."

REPORTS

1. 11/01/35 Letter from [945]: "...Attached is M/O for $5, which completes the payments for my reading. I appreciate this reading and shall have a re-check later..."

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