This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 7th day of September, 1930, in accordance with request made by self - Mr. [1001].

Present: Edgar Cayce; L. B. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. [1001] and father, and Mildred Davis. Born October 10, 1907, Brooklyn, N.Y.

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1. EC: We have the entity and those relations with the universe and universal forces, as are latent and exhibited in the present entity, [1001] - called now.
2. In entering astrologically, we find the entity coming under the influence of Saturn, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter. These astrological influences have their influence in the experience of the entity in the earth's plane in the PRESENT experience. The application of will UNDER the present experience may make for the greater DEVELOPMENT in the earth's plane, for it is the response to an influence as to that as is BUILDED in a material or secular sense in an entity's life or PHYSICAL experience; that is, as an experience or circumstance - as may be termed in an earth's environ - one responds to, or with, an experience, an act in daily life, in accord to that impression or activity as is produced in the MENTAL being, and the RESULT as comes from such activity is the physical, or the BODY physical, from such.
3. In this entity's experience, then, we find these have direct influence as Saturn, in that the environs of those experiences in same bring for that replenishing or rebuilding, or resuscitating of influences as come from many experiences and many environs of the entity, as in, from, the EARTH'S view and MENTAL environ.
4. In that in Mercury, brings as the mental abilities of the entity. One given, then, in the application of same, to reason from any viewpoint. Any condition must have, to the entity, a reasonableness - for same to be of worth or of use to the entity, or - for that matter - to anyone else. Things out of reason are as conditions out of season, to the entity.
5. In Jupiter we find that of the bigness or broadness of experiences, as make for the abilities to become either generous in its activities to self first must be developed, then to others. Not only being able to be, through this influence, as one that may condone or may act in a manner as to be helpful, mindful, considerate, understanding, and an aid to many in their varied experiences or environs. This, as the application of will, depends upon the response OF the body to that which may bring about such an association or environ in the earth's experience; yet weighed by mental forces - the entity not mercenary, the entity not that of wholly an idealist, but one rather well balanced between idealism and rationalism, or an ideal must be a REASONABLE condition in the experience of the entity. Hence, as has been given, will the entity first understand self and self's relations, self's environs, and undo - through those activities in the present, as it were - that as has been builded - may the entity come to be one that may bring much to many in the way of finding expressions of themselves in WHATEVER experience they may find themselves; for first knowing within self that there IS and can be an ideal, and that an ideal is a reasonable thing - just as has been given of old, "Present the body a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto the Giver of all good and perfect gifts, for this is a REASONABLE service". Why? That HAS been, WILL be, that sought by the entity in the present experience.
6. In those environs from which many of the experiences in the present come, we find from those of the experiences of the entity in the earth's plane - for in the one as before this may there be said in the present, how has the mighty fallen - yet that as is innate, that even in feature of expression, that innately held, may be seen and met in the present; for in the one before this we find as Louis 15th the entity reigned in France, and in a mighty manner - being of those that sought for the gratification of many of selfish desires, gaining and losing. Gaining in the service as GIVEN TO many, in the consideration as was given to many. Losing in the aggrandizing of selfish interests in self, in bodily desire, in the intemperance of those elements of mind AND body - these brought destructive forces in the experience of the entity, and in the fulfilling of the desires of the flesh in the present does the entity find a breaking away and losing of self in that as becomes rational, that the body holds must be the element as pertains to the activity of every individual, of every act of every individual, as of a RATIONAL activity, with reason the basis of same behind same. In the present there is seen, too, much of that as is of song, of music, of the ability to become one that may serve in many manners. This studied, this builded, this sought - through that of the mental forces and abilities of the body to be overcome within the present - may make for that force as the development, as the successes of the life materially, as the successes of the life developed mentally. As to the abilities of the entity, these lie through this experience, for through Saturn's influence - and we will find that within the next three to four years this will become the ruling influence in the entity's experience, and will the entity build for that that will make for, in this experience, the saving grace - as it were - of the entity's present experience, these will be builded, met, overcome, that - in THIS - GAIN may be had, and CLEAN may be the mental forces as may build in the whole of the entity's experience.
7. In the one, then, before this, we find in that period known as the return to the holy land. The entity among those under the rule, the guide, the activity of Ezekiel, with those of Zerubbabel, as came into the holy land, and the entity assisted in again the establishing of the music in the temple worship; for remembering that these were first rebuilded, and as the peoples came in with the mind to work, the entity aided, and a musician in the temple, being under the supervision of Zerubbabel's offspring. In the name Apolinarius. In this experience the entity gained in OUTWARD appearance, losing in the desire of the eye, overcoming those of the mental activities of same; yet much of that in song, in verse, in musical abilities, and will same be turned into those - not of dirge, those not of that as bespeaks to those of the desire of physical activity, so much as that of the GLORY as came in with the peoples in that period, of the seeking from bondage to serve in the glory of the temple's rebuilding, will the entity find self in this CHARACTER of music. Rather, then, as in Gloria, Halleluiah, or as in those of Mendelssohn's "In the Spring", and in the flowers, as is seen, will the entity gain in INWARD expression of that innately felt.
8. In the one before this we find in that period known now as Egyptian, when there were divisions in that land, and when there were the re-establishing of the peoples as a mind to serve, a mind to build a better understanding between the peoples of the land and those that WOULD rule, a better understanding between the relationships of man with the universe and universal forces, those as made for codes of moral, of spiritual, of secular laws. The entity then among those who builded in that period as respecting the moral codes, and while the entity may not be termed a moralist, the innate feeling OF a morality is exceptionally expressed and manifest even in the present, even as those conflicting came in the experience in France.
9. In the abilities of the entity, and that to which it may attain in the present - as is indicated, study first that as is given in the experiences in the earth's plane, their influence in the present day, that have to do with the mental abilities, the physical forces, the moral applications of experience, and their reasonableness in the various manners in which the body, the mind, the spirit, may MANIFEST those of THAT known; for the requirements of the universal forces, or God, is - Use that ability in hand, NOT attempting to use other forces, nor waiting on other than that in hand; USING that in HAND one gains, and is GIVEN the abilities to gain, to have, to use, more. Without the use of that, little may be builded.
10. In the fields, then, of poems and music - and especially in those that will make for that of a glorification within the inner man, of the abilities to worship, of the call to worship an ideal from within, will the entity succeed, will the entity develop, will the gains be the greater. Knowing, then, that all manifestations in the earth's experience are but a portion of self's attempting to manifest that concept within of the Creative Energy God, that conforming same to the will - and not combating same in self - is the highest order of man. Ready for questions.
11. (Q) What relationship did this entity have with [294] in the French period?
    (A) Grandfather.
12. (Q) Can this entity be successful in the radio industry?
    (A) Be successful in any field that it would choose, if it will find self first! This, as has been given, is as for the development of same. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Self
    Two copies to Ass'n office

BACKGROUND

1. See previous Physical Readings in re his condition of petit mal epilepsy. Especially see 1001-6, Par. 12-A answer to question as to whether conducting a radio store would affect his body. [GD's note: I remember that he was quite musical. He had some sort of stringed instrument with him, but I think he also played the piano and sang.]

REPORTS

1. Subsequently he obtained other Ck. Physical Readings. See 1001-8 through 1001-12.
2. 9/24/30 See Ck. Physical 1001-10, Par. 7-A, 8-A indicating it would be well for him to attend Atlantic University and to study especially music, speaking, and any engineering - but especially music and speaking, or dramatic acting.
3. 11/01/30 See 1001-11, a Ck. Life in re his musical compositions and business associations.

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