This psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 17th day of May, 1938, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [949], Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., through Active Sponsorship of his father, Mr. [437].

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

TEXT

1. GC: You will have before you the life existence in the earth plane of [949], born October 25, 1914, in New York City, and the earthly existence of this entity as a musician in the Temple Beautiful of Egypt. You will give a biographical life of the entity in that day and plane of earthly existence, from entrance - and how - into the earth's plane, and the entity's departure; giving the developing or retarding points in such an existence. Also you will explain in detail how the entity may in the present make the best use of the talents expressed in that period. You will answer the questions that may be asked.
2. EC: Yes - yes - we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [949]; and the record of the earthly experience during the sojourn of the entity in that place or land known as the Egyptian.
3. In giving the interpretation of the records, and the activities of the entity during that sojourn, we find it would be well that there be a reviewing - or a background given - of the happenings in that particular land which led to the activities in which the entity, now known as [949], was engaged.
4. For as may be gathered from the intimations as well as the statements respecting the entity's development, that particular period of sojourn was the outstanding one; or that from which the entity in the present may apply those influences or urges which may bring the greater mental, material and spiritual awakening.
5. It is true that urges from other sojourns have brought into the experience those innate influences, and those that have become in a manner material hindrances - from the outward appearance or from the outlook in the present sojourn.
6. Yet all of these may be used, as we find, rather as stepping- stones for the material and the mental and spiritual growth; than those things that may be as hindrances. Especially is this true if the urges as we find indicated from the Egyptian sojourn are applied in the present experience.
7. In the Egyptian land, as now called, there had come those from what is now called the Persian, or the Carpathian AND Persian land, those who were called to set up a regime.
8. Or it was an experience in which the benefits in the natural resources of the land were to be used as a means for the advancement of man's understanding as to the Creative Forces in relation to man's experience, and the manner in which such relationships might find material expression - by activities towards the fellow men.
9. Then, the undertaking - as it is found - was to include all of man's experiences; in the application or use of what might be drawn from nature, from the natural sources, for man's convenience, for man's ease in material things.
10. Also it was to include a delving into, and an understanding of, man's relationship one to another in the economic situations, in the political (as might be called in the present) as well as the religious or spiritual phase of man's experience.
11. There we find there had been a King, with all of the retinue of counsellors, advisors, judges set in their varied spheres of activity according to the estimation of their fitness - and because of their lack of seeking self-indulgence or self-aggrandizement.
12. The very entering of those leaders had aroused the more advanced of the Natives, or those - as we would term in the present - who were endowed with a national patriotic influence; and, consequently, caused disturbances - as ever.
13. Then there were the attempts to forestall such becoming as a great national problem, by the considering of various members of the Natives as efficient in directing of varied phases of the experiences in such an establishing of a union of purpose, a oneness of desire and thought on the part of all of those in that particular land.
14. We find the peoples of the Native land were the forefathers, or the sires, or the channels through which the entity came into the earth; then known (in the experience of activity) as Oum-Teck-Pt - or the Musical Teck-Pt (?).
15. As there were those developments, there began the preparation for the purification of the body as to desire, as to those things that were as hindrances - just as insidious to the thought or the urge of the individual, by those repressions brought through the appendages of the animal natures, as certain diseases are to man's influence today.
16. Hence there was the establishing of those temples called Temples of Sacrifice and the Temple Beautiful. Those activities might be represented (though quite crudely) in what we have today as surgical hospitals and the higher states of learning.
17. For the fires of nature in disease were stopped, are stopped, by separating of the body from growths, from deformities, from the various characters of activities upon the physical body which warp the mind, putting it in those positions of being submerged or in contingence to relative relationships.
18. Just so were the activities of the Temple Beautiful, in which there were found the expressions in music, in body-development, in the mind-training for the presenting of channels for specific activity.
19. And especially in THAT particular land and THAT particular period of the entity's activity, the greater numbers chosen were the channels known as those who were to become the mothers of that new race, that new character of body for the activities of the natures to which the Priest, the King, the Counsellors had set themselves.
20. Hence we find Oum-Teck-Pt was there, by the authority not only of the King and the Priest but through the choice of the Council and the parents of the lad who was as it were, as it might appear today, now, gifted especially in music and the use of the instruments of the period upon which performers would arouse the very natures for the developing of the body in its varied manners - in the selection of those in the Temple through which the activities of same would go.
21. The activities were much in the nature of that thought to be or accepted in many of the lands and in various sections as the method of developing the body. Or there were the calisthenic activities, or those of the natures for the reduction of this portion, the developing of that, the abilities for the breathing.
22. Also there were the activities to increase the abilities for an appreciation of the beautiful in all its varied forms; as the delicate natures of the flower's unfolding.
23. Too, there were the abilities to use the animal activities NOT as their natures but as their developing of the bodies for the purposes of making them channels through which the greater activities might come for a people, a nation fitted for definite activities in relationships to their fellow man.
24. Then there arose turmoils, strifes, through the banishment of the Priest, through the activity of the Natives as well as of those of the King's own household - when the Brother of the King also led a rebellion in the Ibex area of the land.
25. Yet this entity - though besieged, beset, besought by all the varied groups for the joining of his activities with theirs - remained true rather to that which had become the imprint or purpose for which he had been chosen or set aside.
26. Hence the entity remained then rather dormant, as it were. Or, as we would term today, the entity became rather a recluse; separating himself, becoming as one who dwelt rather among the tombs, the caverns, the hills - yea, oft in the sand dunes of those lands.
27. Through those periods, however, much was gathered or attained by the entity through the watching or the observation, as well as the attempts to depict same upon the musical instruments which the entity made or to which it had access - or which he carried with him or kept close.
28. Hence those instruments of the reed or stringed nature of the day, the soundings which came as a portion of those things aroused by the sounding of what we call in the present the vowels in such a manner that they proclaimed - or aroused to the physical organism the associations of the centers through which there is the connection of the spiritual forces to the vibrating activity of the sensuous nature, or senses, or the sensory system - were as the activities of the entity.
29. Such associations and connections were aroused in those who would choose to become more and more attuned to that necessary to set them apart for their individual activity.
30. With the return of the Priest, after his nine years of banishment, with the attempts to settle the difficulties, much change was wrought in the personnel of the Counsel - by the entrance and the acceptance of the peoples from the Atlantean land, and THEIR making of overtures for positions of recognition among the varied activities that were attempted to be carried on by that new regime.
31. There we find the entity remaining true, and set apart as it were as the director, the leader of what we would term in the present as the character of music for the varied occasions; as those individuals, those women (if you choose), were set apart as individuals to become the channels through which there might be given a mightier, a greater race of peoples for service in specific directions - that were to be in the nature of those purposes for which those Temples had been prepared.
32. Hence we find, as there were those groups that arose from or who had passed through the various phases of experience in the Temple of Sacrifice (as would be termed, or the cleansing), they then began in the Temple Beautiful the preparation for the channel through which all of beauty might be drawn in or to a greater activity.
33. So the entity may in the application of self in the present become as one who may write, as one who may direct, as one who may play the character of music (that is gradually coming into recognition) through which HEALING may be brought even to diseased as well as dis-eased bodies.
34. There may be the vibrations by chords and characters of music in which there may be assistance brought not only to the mentally deficient, the mentally twisted, the mentally unbalanced, but to even those who have characters of natures of fevers - in which there are humors within the body itself!
35. Thus may there again be the effect and the beauty of those things wrought during that period of activity, through the efforts of the entity in following those things in nature.
36. As there is the music of the spheres, there is indeed the music of the growing things in nature. There is then the music of NATURE itself! There is the music of the growth of the rose, of EVERY plant that bears color, of every one that opens its blossom for the edification, for the sanctification even of the environs thereabout!
37. In the study and in the meditation of such, then, as it unfolds itself to the spiritual awareness of the influences that may bear upon man in the present, the entity may bring help to the many - individually oft; yea, to masses and to the groups of many natures, through help of the very nature that was given during that experience.
38. How, you ask then, may the entity so attune self?
39. By looking on the beauty of a sunset, of a rose, of a lily, or any of those things in nature, and - by the very nature of the mood that these create in self - arouse or bring forth those melodies upon the instruments of the day; the piano, the organ, the reed or even the stringed instruments; to express the nature of these as they express themselves in their unfoldment.
40. And gradually may the entity so enter into the accord with same as to in self ATTUNE self to that unfoldment, that beauty, that nature to which it adapts itself for the healing forces necessary for man's awakening to his relationships to the Creative Forces.
41. As the entity advanced through that experience, greater and greater became the activities. For the entity gained throughout that experience or sojourn. And as there were the preparations for the varied activities of the peoples as a nation, the entity developed that which later became the chant which to many would drive away what was called the evil eye, the evil influence. And, with their variations, many of those incantations of the savages of today, many of the beautiful martial pieces of music, many of the beautiful waltzes that give the rhythm to the body, many of the various characters of music used today have arisen from the efforts of THIS entity. Yet many, of course, were added to, many were defamed, many were carried into various forces not intended in the beginning.
42. But the entity in the present may enter into that manner of expression in music which will BEST bring HEALING and strength to the body, to the desires towards spiritual things.
43. THESE be the channels through which the entity may gain the most.
44. The entity lived to be a ripe old age, for with the regenerations of the Priest - these were brought in greater part by those activities of the entity itself in making for those incantations which raised the influences of the spiritual forces above the secular or the material things.
45. Thus the entity lived to be what would be called today the years of two hundred and fifty-four (254).
46. Hence many of those of many lands, in their various phases for their own undertakings, drew from the efforts of the entity in that experience.
47. We are through for the moment.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file
    Copy to Hugh Lynn Cayce
    Copy to add to Egyptian data

BACKGROUND

1. See 949-11 on 5/03/38.

REPORTS

1. 6/02/38 [949]'s ltr. to Hugh Lynn:
   Dear Hugh Lynn -
   I have been trying to reach you since my last reading, but I suppose they never gave you my messages. I called the other day, tho, and they told me that you'd gone back to the Beach. So here -
   I read the reading thru several times and got the general gist of it, but I'm sorry I won't be able to talk to you about it. If you feel like writing me anything, tho, you know I will appreciate it.
   Your father wrote me and said that there was still a job to be done on it - he thinking that I would get in touch with you while you were here. Naturally I am interested in carrying it out to the end, but where do we go from here? Do we have another reading for those questions, or what?
   Your father also said that my reading proved interesting to your mother and Gladys, because, I take it, of what it said about the period. I couldn't quite understand it all - I guess I was interested in what we would call today physical culture, but what is that business about the women and the propagation of a "better" species, or whatever it was. I hope I'm not the father of Egypt!
   Another thing, about the radio-active cell. You said that there was a new batch being manufactured, but if there was one left you'd grab it for me. We would like to get hold of one, again.
   We are all pretty well, except me - my back is a little bad, again, but Dr. Miller is handling it. Hope that you are all going to enjoy ye summer season and that I'll hear from you soon -
2. 8/04/38 (Thursday) [949]'s ltr. to EC:
   New York
   Dear Mr. Cayce -
   I have written two letters to Hugh Lynn about a reading for me because I know that he is interested in them as a whole and several interesting points in my own. But I haven't heard from him. I hope that he is well, and can guess that he is away some place.
   I just learned yesterday that I must leave for California on Monday to go to work in a studio and I'd like a life reading on that. It is especially interesting to me because of the music which can't be continued the way it has been these last months, and I am anxious to hear what the reading has to say. As to going, I have little choice. It is a great opportunity which I can't afford to turn down. A funny thing, tho, about three months ago I was talking to Hugh Lynn wondering about what would happen if I did get an offer to go to Hollywood and we framed a question. Now it happens. Consequently I am anxious to hear from the reading, and have framed a few questions as follows.
   1. In the light of recent developments, can you give any advice as to the further development in the spiritual as well as the material world for this entity?
   2. Will the new associations make for better development in the spiritual and material or will they impede it?
   3. Is the program as prepared for the study of the piano satisfactory, or can you give any suggestions?
   I don't know where I'll be located, but you can always get in touch with me here until I let you know where I'll be.
   I heard about the convention from Dr. Miller and hope that I can make one of them sooner or later. You know we had quite a wedding here about the same time. [Sister [1101]]
   Hope you and Mrs. Cayce and Gladys are all having a fine summer and am anxiously waiting to hear from you.
   As ever [949]
3. 9/09/38 See 949-13.

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