This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 3rd day of May, 1938, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [949], Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., sponsored on Active Membership of his father, Mr. [437].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.

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1. GC: You will have before you [949], born October 25, 1914, in New York City. You will give a Check Life Reading for this entity, stressing the former appearances in the earth which have a more direct bearing on the life at the present time and the development to be attained. You will answer the questions that may be asked.
2. EC: Yes, we have the entity now known as or called [949]; with the information which has been given respecting the influences from the astrological sojourns as well as the appearances of the entity in the earth.
3. In giving a check or an interpretation of the information given, we find that as yet there are not other appearances influencing the entity in the present than those first given.
4. Hence we would analyze for the entity a bit that which has been given. This should be considered ever as a whole; that is, that life - or consciousness in existence - is a continuous thing, or condition; and that we are in the immediate now (in time and space) because of what we have been, and what we have done in relationships to those forces which are constructive, creative in our experience.
5. As may be noted, then, from the experiences of the entity in the earth's sojourn, there were many VARIED conditions that were as the ideals or the desires and purposes of the entity in its activities; that is:
6. In the Salem experience, or that sojourn before this, there was a zealousness - but in the same attitude as in the sojourn just previous to that; when - in the Persian or Arabian land, or in the 'city in the hills and plains,' we find the entity was overzealous as to practicability without consideration of influences that might make for a knowledge or a concept of the forces about the individuals with whom the entity was in contact.
7. Hence, considering the two, as well as the sojourn from which the attitudes and physical conditions were wrought that have brought disturbances within the present experience of the entity, we find that these are not the ones to be stressed.
8. But in the sojourn BEFORE that, in the Egyptian experience, we find there were environs in which the entity was among the few of his sex that were active in the Temple Beautiful as related to the music thereof.
9. However, we would refer again to those sojourns wherein active forces have brought hindrances in the present.
10. We would study the relationships between individuals of the own household, as related to the experiences in the Arabian and Persian sojourn. We find that these in the present are as a helpmeet for a better concept, or an OPPORTUNITY, or even a channel through which the entity may FIND self in its relationships to its own self; aided, as it were, from the material, from the mental, from the spiritual manners - by those closely associated with the entity at that time.
11. Hence with the study, with the analysis, the entity will comprehend that it is CONSTANTLY - every soul - meeting itself again and again, again and again! and indeed it is true, as was given, that God the Father has not willed that any soul should perish but has with every temptation prepared a way of escape.
12. Though the way at times may appear to individuals to be amiss, remember that man looks on the outward appearance but God looks on the heart! It may at times appear that individuals have failed to catch their cue, or that they have missed their cue as it were, or have missed the very ACTIVITY intended in even varied experiences. This is sometimes apparent when comparisons are drawn as to the environs, the surroundings, the hereditary forces, the weaknesses, the virtues, the sorrows, the likes and dislikes, the hates, the loves. But the WILL of the entity is to study in self, to apply in self.
13. Hence as we find them in the Egyptian sojourn, here again we find the entity coming in contact in the present with individuals, influences and forces that were as helpmeets to the activity in that experience.
14. For in that experience ALONE many of those that apparently were in authority, many of those who appeared to be farther advanced in the mental forces, DEPENDED upon the entity for that preparation which fitted those in body and mind for bringing into material manifestations BODIES worthy of those purposes to be called indeed among the fellow men as sons of the living God, joint heirs with the Father in the good that might be accomplished in the experience and the associations!
15. Hence as we find, the expressions through those experiences in that sojourn should or would be the channel or outlet for the development of the entity in the present; and in same may the entity find the greater harmony.
16. Yet these expressions come, as the entity has experienced and will experience, by overcoming the weaknesses physically, as well as weaknesses that make for inclinations to take rather the easier way, to take rather those ways in which there may be a gratifying of the material desires rather than creating the fruits of the spirit; as hope, helpfulness, longsuffering, brotherly love, patience, and those things that the entity magnified in that sojourn so beautifully in the lives and experiences of others - and brought into being those influences that made for activities which brought about harmonious forces in the lives of many.
17. But in the Peruvian land, before that, we find the entity was overzealous because of others that had a WAY! The entity considered self and not the general welfare of the peoples as a whole.
18. Hence we find all of these influences and conflicting forces in the experience of the entity in the present. And if these are analyzed in judgements according to those influences and forces physical, mental and material as well as spiritual in the present, it will be found that it is necessary - as has been given - to study to show self approved unto the Creative Forces that may manifest in thy experience.
19. Thus ye will find the greater forces for the understanding, for harmony and peace, and a constructive experience.
20. Hence the analysis of the individual experience of the entity in the Egyptian sojourn should bring a better manner, or a better UNDERSTANDING of the applications in the present.
21. Ready for questions.
22. (Q) What about the Roman experience?
    (A) Here again we find the entity, as has been indicated in same, being influenced in the present by weaknesses that are being overcome. This is being put aside, you see.
    The others, we find one the material, the other the OVER-ZEALOUSNESS in the spiritual sense; while in the present the Roman influence for authority has become rather as a HELPFUL influence.
23. We are through for the present.

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BACKGROUND

1. See 949-2 on 1/28/32 & subsequent Reports.

REPORTS

1. 5/17/38 See 949-12, Ck. Life on his Egyptian incarnation.

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