Edgar Cayce Readings, 961-1

(Life Reading Suggestion)

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EC: (In going back over years to birth date, " - '85, a change. Yes. Of the family of Charringtons, Isle of Man - as the records thereof.")
We have the entity now known as or called [961], and those records that have been made by the entity through the experiences in the earth, as well as the astrological aspects of the entity's sojourns in those environs.
For the entity has in many of the experiences in the earth altered, through the application of the will, urges that arose from other sojourns. So the astrological aspects are not as impelling in the present experience as they might be in some.
Hence we find that if the activities were judged only from the astrological aspects at the time of the birth, we would have LITTLE that would coordinate with the experiences or the application of the entity in its relations to its fellow man.
Yet innate urges, without respect to the will, are apparent; as seen from sojourns in particular or individual experiences through astrological influences.
These, as indicated from the entity's experience, are as signs, indications. Yet that which the entity does or has done about same alters, has altered or changed, these much.
We find the Mercurian influence makes for a high mental ability that tends towards the ANALYTICAL MIND; yet this has been altered in the aspects from Jupiterian influences, so that at times the judgments have been rather governed by the aspects of the individuals' or GROUP activity in respect to same than by that which has been held to by the entity itself.
Yet the ABILITIES in the ANALYZING of experience, conditions, the prompting influence in the experience of individuals, are as high in the present entity as may be experienced in scarcely another
These have made for those periods when in the present experience there have been turmoils, not only with self but QUESTIONINGS by and of others as to the activity of the entity.
The Venus influence has also made for changes in the relationships with friends, in marital influences, in the activities respecting sentiment and those attributes of a human experience. In this portion of the experience has been where the entity has through the WILL force changed, as may be termed from the mental standard, the environs in which the entity has been and may be drawn.
Then, there is the innate ability for the entity to make friends, but as easily to lose them.
For while contention is not a portion of the entity's experience, it IS a part of the entity's DEVELOPMENT in or upon questions that arise in the experience through the activities of individuals in their relationships to the fact or the POSSIBILITIES in hand.
As to the appearances in the earth, then, and those that make for an influence in the experience of the entity in the present; while all may not be given in the present, these, as we find, have their greater influence in the experience of the entity in the present:
Before this we find the entity was in the earth during those periods when the land of the entity's present nativity was being expanded, or making for expansions in explorations and in fields of activity that brought about many changes in the land.
The entity then in the name Geane Cabot (related to John, yet not of the same family or of the same father) was a seaman in the greater portion of the experience; making observations pertaining to the activities in sailing and in maritime activities.
Hence the sea, the oceans and sailings have had both an aversion for the entity and yet something that has drawn the entity towards being in close relation especially to those who have gone, do go, on long journeys that are both material and mental, and spiritual.
Or there naturally arises innate within the experience of the entity in the present, from those activities, the tendency to deal or to delve into the MYSTERIES; not only of material life, not only those things that pertain to the mental experiences of individuals, but those things that deal with the first causes or the primate influences in the activities.
The entity gained during the experience, also lost. It gained in that which was given in service that others might be the safer in their material associations. It lost when much of that in the material manner was turned into self-indulgence, self-aggrandizement.
Hence we find those experiences rising in the activities of the entity in the present when self is misjudged in abilities by self, as well as being censured by others as to what have been or are the promptings for the entity's indulgences in given directions.
These are the innate influences and the manifested activities from the experiences of the entity in that sojourn.
The making for the BETTERMENT of these, as we will see, will arise from the setting of a spiritual ideal.
Before that we find the entity was in those periods when there were the questionings among the Jews, the laity, the Roman activities.
For the entity was a Roman soldier in the service of one Pontius; NOT Pilate, but under the SUPERVISION of Pilate during those periods of the sojourn of the Son of man or Jesus of Nazareth (so called; should be Nazarite!), in that experience in Galilee, Judea, and the lands thereabout.
The entity came under the activities wherein much was experienced by the entity because of those activities of that Man during the sojourn there.
Thus in the present the entity may do well, may find the greater aid and help, to harken to those promptings that were the experience of the entity during that sojourn, as Ponticalos.
In the experience the entity may be said to have gained in the material, the mental and the spiritual aspects of its sojourn through those activities.
While the entity was in the capacity of a soldier that took orders, that gave commands, that made for the keeping of peace in the PHYSICAL sense; yet those things that pertain to the varied forms of law as under the various types or characters of activities, penal law, moral law, religious law or the theological understanding (which arose as turmoils during that experience), are experiences in the present sojourn by the very associations of ideas and the relations they have from that which prompts individuals' activity.
If through the activities of the entity there is first set NOT a material ideal, but rather a spiritual ideal, there will be found - with the mental capacities and mental abilities - that the entity may turn within oft for that which will become more and more the ruling influence in the present experience of the entity.
And as more and more of this is correlated with the various facts that were gained by the entity during that contact and that experience with the Son of man, Jesus the Nazarite, ye may come more and more to understand what may be the promptings of each and every individual who in a service to his fellow man may be as He; not regarding self but being of a service to his fellow man.
For as He gave, "As ye do it unto the least of these, thy brethren, ye do it unto thy God."
For that creative force, that spirit that PROMPTS the activities in a material world, arises within the heart, the soul of each individual in meting out to its fellow man. For one may not hate his brother and love his God; one may not worship his God and hold malice or envy against his brother. For these are of ONE, and the Law of One must carry through.
As ye sow in spirit, so may the mind build that ye reap in materiality. As ye sow in materiality, so may that mind build to make for dissension or a paralleling of an activity in the spiritual import. They are interchangeable.
Keep the faith that thou didst make in thine experience in that sojourn.
Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as the Egyptian, during those periods when there were the incomings of those from other lands for those activities that were begun by the Priest there.
The ENTITY was a sojourner from Atlantis, or from the temple in Poseidia.
During the sojourn in Atlantis it made for an advancement. But with the changes that came about, and because of the suppressing of the entity, as Ajalaten, by Axtell and others from Atlantis, by those chosen in power in the Egyptian land, the ENTITY turned within self; making for destructive forces for self and contention among some of those that WOULD make for aids in the Egyptian dispensation of those tenets and truths that were correlated by or from the other lands during the latter portion of the experience there.
Hence we find in the present experience of the entity the questioning ever of many of those that are put in authority, whether political, commercial, social, or of the spiritual order.
Yet the entity is not as communistic as it would have others often believe, innately within self; yet sufficient to make for disruptions oft in the experience of the entity.
But if there will be more and more the correlating of those tenets which the entity gained later, in the experience that followed, as we have indicated, more and more will there come in the present experience that which will bring not only material harmonies but mental and spiritual justices in the activities of the entity.
In that Egyptian experience the entity copied or wrote much, most as a contradiction to much that was being sent or attempted to be sent out from the Egyptian activity.
Yet later, coming more and more in accord with those pressures brought to bear from the sojourns or activities of those with whom the entity became the more materially associated (among the peoples of the Egyptian natives), greater and greater became the power for GOOD in the experience of the entity.
And in the latter portion the entity had seen, had gained, something of an awakening as to what had been lost by its own - as would be termed in the present - hardheadedness.
As to the abilities of the entity in the present, and that to which it may attain and how:
As the abilities lie in being rather the investigator, the analyst; able to depict by writing, exhortation, lectures, that which may be the help, the aid for many who stumble here or there in their confusion of the mental and spiritual attributes of their inner selves; so may the entity aid and gain the greater understanding and soul development in such activities in the present.
But keep that faith thou didst learn in those halls about Jerusalem and about Caesarea Philippi, and along the Jordan; for these have a drawing upon thy inner self so that, if ye will but respond, hope may spring anew and an UNDERSTANDING and an awakening may come that will bless thee!
Ready for questions.
(Q) Am I engaged in the proper life work?
(A) Engaged in the proper life work; if an ideal of a spiritual nature, as gained in that Roman land, is adhered closer to.
(Q) Will there be new and important discoveries made, and when?
(A) As there is more and more understanding, and the searching for the spiritual aspects, the spiritual promptings of individuals' activities.
(Q) How can the work of the American Psychical Institute be best carried on, and in what locality?
(A) As WE find, in the present surroundings or environs; yet with a constant drawing upon those of other fields, as establishing in varied centers where interest in such kindred subjects may be used as regular meetings or places for the entity or body to discuss these findings of the Institute.
As would be a group in Philadelphia, in Washington, in Cleveland, in Detroit, in Hammond (NOT Chicago), in St. Louis, in Kansas City, in Salt Lake City, in San Francisco or in Los Angeles or San Diego.
(Q) Will it be possible to do the proposed work in California this summer?
(A) Be well!
(Q) What was my paternal grandfather's name, and where can records of his life be found?
(A) Sylvester; or as has been indicated - Isle of Man.
We are through for the present.
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BACKGROUND

He previously referred people to EC for readings.

REPORTS

7/26/35 He obtained a Life Rdg. for his step-son, [963]; 8/02/35 for wife, Mrs. [967].
3/14/36 He obtained a Physical Rdg. for his wife, Mrs. [967].
6/16/37 He and wife referred Miss [1387] for a Life Rdg.
4/07/43 He obtained a Physical Rdg. for himself - See 961-2.