This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 6th day of March, 1937, in accordance with request made by the self, through his wife, Members of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Hugh Lynn Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Gertrude Cayce, Mr. [1003] and Mrs. [578]. Born July 28, 1911, Virginia Beach Blvd., Norfolk, Va.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the entity and those records as made by same, of that entity now known as or called [1003].
2. In giving the interpretations of that as we find here, much might have been accomplished by the entity in music; for there is that in the experiences and associations that would lead or tend for the entity to have made a progress in the associations with same.
3. Then, in giving that as we find that may be helpful in the experience of the entity in the present:
4. The astrological influences as we find are innate and manifested, as the entity applies self in the urges that arise, as indicated from the entity's association in that of rhythm or music or musical instruments, or those things that have to do with that which makes for rhythm or music.
5. Also in that as may apply in the activities of the entity from the sojourns in the earth; all of these are rather then as latent or manifested urges, and it is what the entity does with or about the urges that makes for the material manifestations in the experiences in this particular sojourn.
6. From those astrological influences that arise from the Jupiterian sojourn, we find that whatever the entity may associate self with will have to do with individuals as related to the groups or masses, but individual in its activity.
7. And the entity will find, from those very influences, that while the entity may be directed oft, as a leader or a director of whatever choices of material activity the entity will succeed materially and mentally - if the entity is doing the directing.
8. Not that the entity may not be directed, but as a director may the entity succeed the greater.
9. Those influences from Mars are rather unusual; for these as combined with the Jupiterian as well as the Uranian make for extremes in the experiences; and anger or wrath, whether in the material activity of self or of others, makes for a very definite change in the emotions, the mental attitudes; and unless held in abeyance in self has much to do with material applications.
10. Hence those influences that make for the expressions in anger should be much as may have been said by some, "When anger arises, at least count ten before you speak." That will save not only self but many regrets and many associations that are for a greater and more satisfactory experience in this particular sojourn.
11. In Venus we find that influence making for an excellent companion; for one while temperamental in many ways yet a good friend, making friends, holding friends; and one whose friendship may be counted as worth while by any who may be associated in any way or manner with the entity.
12. Hence that as may be seen manifested in the expression of being tender-hearted, and sympathetic.
13. Do not allow the great sympathy at times to become such an experience as to become detrimental to the own better material interests.
14. In the summing then of those influences, but irrespective of what the entity does about same, we find:
15. One that may be influenced; and influence great numbers of peoples, whether in the material, the mental, or just the purely associations in its activities in the material plane.
16. One who must guard against anger or wrath becoming a stumblingblock to self or to associates or to the associations in the mental or material activities.
17. One who is sympathetic; who is efficient; who will find music or rhythm, or those things that pertain to that field of activity will ever have much to do with the actions and influences of this particular experience.
18. As to the indwelling, or the sojourns of the entity in the material plane, these influences - as may be indicated from that as given - arise from individuals who coming into the earth plane as the Atlanteans will make their influence for weal or woe during this experience; and are to be reckoned with by any environ, any condition, or any experience where such individuals may reside, or where the activities of the individual may be as a chosen expression at this particular period.
19. Before this, then, among those that have an influence upon the entity's activities in the present, we find the entity was in the land of the present nativity, and about those settlements and those periods when there was that known as the Jamestown settlement.
20. The entity then was among the leaders in those activities there, when there was the establishing of those things that made for the greater protection, the storehouses, the places of defense, and the activities; for the entity then was among those who made the plans of same, and in the laying out of those things for the conveniences - as to sanitation, as to ways and means in which the stores of the group or the colony or settlements might be readily distributed to all of those in need in the various periods.
21. Thus the entity's activities throughout the sojourn were for a mental and spiritual development.
22. The name then was James Godwynn.
23. As to the influences of that experience upon the entity in the present, we will find associations of individuals during those experiences as individuals drawn to or about the entity.
24. Also there are very definite likes and dislikes, especially of those associated with the entity during that material plane; for as indicated in wrath, though the entity was the leader during the experience, those who differed with the entity brought upon themselves as well as upon many about the entity in the experience [of] hardships.
25. And these as influences are to be met, yet these find expression in very decided likes and dislikes. And rarely will there be heard the entity say, "Oh well, they will do very well." He either likes or dislikes individuals!
26. Before that we find, among those having a great influence upon the entity (though there are interims), we find the entity was in the experience when changes were being wrought in that land now known as the Holy Land, or in the Palestine land; during the period when the Master walked in the earth, and there were those takings over of the land previous to that period of the reign by the Romans and those who came into authority.
27. The entity though very young in years during that period when this portion of the activity began, became very decided AGAINST the oppressions by taxations; and during those periods when those activities of the Master made for a hope in the development of elderly man, the entity - as Leveudus - hoped for material changes and the material reliefs of the burdens of the peoples during that experience. Hence there came many disappointments and discouragements.
28. Yet much of the tenderness as experienced by those who may know the entity in the present arises from those lessons the entity gained during that sojourn, in the latter portion of the entity's experience.
29. The entity then was one who would be called a banker, if his activities were put into present day parlance; though the associations had much to do also with the temple service. For the entity was of those peoples who were in the lineal descent of the priesthood, though never assumed those positions by the entity during that experience, though counselled oft.
30. Also the entity made and sold musical instruments of that day and period.
31. In the influences as arise latent and manifested in the experience of the entity in the present will be found the abilities to drive a good bargain, the abilities to choose companions, the abilities to choose associates, the abilities to make for judgements upon individuals or groups as to whether it is their moral life, their material life, their duties, that will prompt them as to their paying their bills or not!
32. These are definite forces as will be manifested in the experience of the entity during this particular sojourn from that activity in the Holy Land.
33. The entity also will find that there are certain portions of especially the Sermon on the Mount, the activities of the Disciples and the Master just after the Crucifixion, that are of the most particular interest to the entity - as they may be read or heard discoursed upon.
34. Before that, then, we find the entity was in the land now known as the Persian or Arabian land, during those periods when the "city in the hills and in the plains" enjoyed what may be called its greater period of popularity - or served those peoples of that portion of the land in the greater way and manner.
35. There we find the entity was of the Persians who joined with the leader and with the activities in the City, making for the changes that made the place become known as "the city in the hills AND in the plains," not only as to the strategic manner in which the defenses might be built but in the means to separate the various activities of the individuals and the groups that gathered about that tented - and then that rock and wooded - city.
36. For the entity there also aided in laying out the grounds for the better protection for the peoples from disorder and from disturbances by the trains or the caravans that passed so oft through.
37. Also the entity there made for the place in which the exchange was carried on.
38. Hence the entity might be termed what in the present would be a broker, or one making for an ideal manner of banking or trading that made for the greater conveniences, the greater help; and those things pertaining to sanitation in the present arise from those activities of the entity there.
39. For from that very neglect did the entity come to make for greater advances during that particular experience.
40. The name then was Abduella.
41. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Egyptian, during those periods when there were the turmoils and the strifes that arose from those activities of the King in the banishment of the Priest, in the rebellions as arose within and without among those of the Natives and those of the King's own household.
42. The entity then was among the counsellors to the King who made the choice for the sending away of the Priest as well as in the greater choice of making for an activity upon the King's own brother when there was the Ibex Rebellion.
43. Yet the entity gained; for with those returns, with those changes as wrought, the entity aided in the buildings, the preparations, and especially in preparations in which the music - that was to be a portion of the healing - was to be a portion of the exercise in the Temple of Sacrifice; and in the latter portion was among those who made for what would be called the sets of reeds for those in the Temple Beautiful - these were prepared and brought about by the entity during that sojourn.
44. Here again we will find not only music but diplomacy, those things having to do with building or sanitation, arising in the innate forces of the entity in this present experience.
45. The name then was Ash-el-tut.
46. Before that we find, that has made, will make in the present, great influences upon the entity's innate and active forces, we find the entity was in the Atlantean period.
47. And there may be seen even in the present, by those periods when associates may call the entity moody, when the entity finds that it must be alone and think things through for itself, that arise from those experiences of the entity in the Atlantean land, when the entity made those choices for the Sons of the Law of One, and when the entity had to make those choices for that as was to deal with those who brought destruction by the misapplication of spiritual laws in material ways and manners.
48. The entity then was in the name Ax-Tutum.
49. Those as we find were the periods when the entity excelled in those things that had to do with machinery, mechanics, the application of electrical forces as would be called today those of radiation, and heating, and the applications of same to the uses for crafts, for homes, for buildings, the use of same in the associations of what would be called today commercial ways and manners.
50. For the entity then was the greater leader in that experience, and only to find an expression let the entity even in the present meet one of those who used the facets of those instruments prepared by the entity for destruction, and there will be found a sudden dislike.
51. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, and that to which it may attain, and how:
52. First, to be sure, conquer self. Know in self WHAT ye desire. For that, whether it is material, mental or spiritual, is within the reach, the grasp of the entity with its abilities to cope with those things that have caused SO MUCH disorder, disruption in the affairs of peoples, of individuals - in those fields as will have to do with those things indicated.
53. And the entity should play some musical instrument; preferably a reeded instrument, though reeds and strings both will have their appeal. And these may oft, by the use of same, not only quiet that anger that may at times arise but will assist in a material way in helping the entity to "think things through." Things that have to do with buildings, radiation or sanitation may be fields of activity in which the entity may excel - but be the leader, be the director. For these are in the grasp and the abilities of the entity to do these things.
54. In understanding and the study of self, hold to that first law thou didst gain in the Atlantean experience - the forces without, the forces within, MUST coordinate. For they that attune themselves to the divine within will find the mental and the material taking their proper place in material affairs.
55. Ready for questions.
56. (Q) Considering my knowledge of plumbing, can you give me any information as to how I can make myself secure financially in this field?
    (A) In carrying on in those things that deal especially with radiation and sanitation - and as the self develops in the abilities to direct, there will be opened the ways and manners in which the entity may carry on for material success.
57. (Q) Can you give me a definite place and person to contact in order to secure a position which will aid me materially now and also in later life?
    (A) Follow those activities in which the entity is already engaged, using each step towards associations and connections that will carry on in the same field of activity. As to individuals, names, firms or associations, these will become, or are a part of the entity's experience, that will lead to the greater mental and physical experience.
58. (Q) Give me a detailed description of my appearance in Williamsburg, with my present wife [578]? [See 578-2, Par. 52-A.]
    (A) This will take a whole period in itself, for there we find the entity in those activities in which it brought not only for the peoples that of an individual activity but a whole period of service to others.
59. (Q) Should my present last name be [...] or [...]? How can I verify the change?
    (A) It should be [...]. This may be verified by the data as a part of the records of those experiences through which, under which, the entity came into the sojourn, and is a part of a record in Richmond.
60. (Q) Which name should I use, my given name [...] or my nickname [...], and why does my wife prefer the nickname?
    (A) Use the nickname! [...], or [...], this does not coordinate with the activities that the entity has been associated with or has made for its activities in the past. [...] becomes rather a part of the whole of the associations of the entity with the mate.
61. (Q) How was I associated with my present wife [578] in Palestine?
    (A) She was then the entity's daughter. Doesn't she try to boss him now?
    As the associations come, as has been given, the entity has chosen well. Keep those activities, study those things as given; we will find much help, mentally, materially, spiritually.
62. We are through for the present.

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BACKGROUND

1. He obtained a Physical Rdg. on 9/18/35. He was associated with his father-in-law, Mr. [289], in the plumbing business. His wife, Mrs. [578] had previously obtained a Life Reading.

REPORTS

1. 12/19/37 See 262-116, Par. 10-A Christmas message.
2. 9/22/38 He obtained a Ck. Physical in re apparent sterility. [Later a daughter was born to [1003] and [578]. See her Life Rdg., 1958-1.]
3. 10/24/40 See wife's rdg. 578-10 in re their buying a home, his job, etc.

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