This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 4th day of January, 1936, in accordance with request made by the mother - Mrs. [1834] through Study Group #3 of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mr. [1094] and Mrs. [1834], Elizabeth Perry and Leslie Hudgins. Born July 5, 1917, in Norfolk, Va.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the entity here, and those records of same - the entity now known as or called [1094].
2. In entering the present experience, we find rather a confusion in the application of self respecting relationships in the sojourns; from the astrological aspects about the earth and from the EXPERIENCES in the earth's plane.
3. Hence oft in the present experience there arise, and will continue to arise, conditions wherein the entity must make the choice - either from the material gain or from the mental and soul experience without respect to the material.
4. These, then, become as a portion of the entity's urge from within - as from the astrological aspects in the experience:
5. From Jupiter we find a broadening influence, or relationships in which the activities of the entity as an individual must be with groups or large associations that deal with individual activity yet must influence in the mental and the moral life great numbers of individuals. Yet, as in the application, each individual makes a personal application.
6. Also from this there should come, in the latter portion of the entity's experience, great opportunities for material or earthly gains; opportunities for moneys, for positions, for those things that bring, as it were, fame in the experience. And yet there will come those periods when a choice between the mental urge and the innate urge in self must be made.
7. Those influences from the sojourns in Mercury we find making for the high mental abilities of the entity; what may be termed the mental acumen, and yet capable of making application of same in those directions in which there may be said to be the greater material activity - or the abilities for the entity to use same in those or given directions that may make for an experience in the mental and in the physical activities of the entity.
8. Also from those same influences there arises the austereness, a solemnity of every experience.
9. And these in their application should become more and more attuned with purposefulness; thus they may make for those expressions or manifestations in which greater opportunities may come not only for what may be termed material pleasure but for bringing joyousness in the expression of self in its relationships and in its dealings with its fellow man. This should be a portion of the culture of the entity, in PROMPTING self to see not only the serious side of those applications of self but that side which may make for the greater joy or pleasure for those with whom the entity may be associated in its activities.
10. The activities of the influences from Mars bring a stubbornness at times in the experience, which - coupled with the earthly sojourns - makes for rather (and which is misjudged by others at times) the condition of becoming morose or stubborn or hardheaded. These are as experiences that, with the influences indicated from the astrological sojourns in Mercury, if MENTALLY studied or reasoned may save the entity much from that which becomes as a stumblingblock in the experience. Hence these are where the choices are to be made. Though the entity may gain much in fame or in fortune, unless there is that peace or harmony which brings a knowing of a purposefulness other than for self-indulgence or self aggrandizement, it may bring those things that make for turmoils in the earthly sojourn.
11. As to the appearances of the entity in the earth, and those that influence the entity in the present, we find:
12. Before this the entity was in the land of the present nativity, during those periods when there was peace among the natives and the settlers.
13. And the entity was among the princes of the land, or the prince that made the closer association and activities for the settlers in the land.
14. The entity made for that which brought to the young the schoolings, the teachings, the religious activities that made for what may be termed - NOW - as a development in self as well as in the abilities of those with whom the entity was associated in understanding woodcraft, in understanding those things pertaining to trails, in understanding those things pertaining to the activities for physical prowess of the individuals.
15. And these are as impelling influences in the experience of the entity in the present. For any activity in which there are the abilities for the individuals to show their activity, as pitted against activities of others, becomes a portion of the entity's experience.
16. The entity may be said to have gained throughout that experience; for not only was there the "give and the take" but those expressions of making same for a purposefulness in the very activities with the associations.
17. Hence various groups, those of different tongues, those of various lands will be the experience of the entity in this sojourn. These are the natural urges; though URGES - through the will - may be thwarted in ANY direction, or made to become - THROUGH the application of the will - a portion of the development or retardment of an entity.
18. The name then was Phtwahan.
19. Before that we find the entity was in the now called Roman land, during those periods when there was the setting up of the games, the various activities that were a portion of the training for the young as well as the games pitted against the various groups in other lands.
20. The entity then was among those groups who were active in such sports or such games or such activities, and became a teacher, an instructor in the latter portions of the entity's experience.
21. And this made for retardment in the latter portion of the entity's experience; for those things that brought into the experience animosity, judgements without reason, brought destructive influence. Yet in the main there was a PHYSICAL and MENTAL development without the spiritual application of same in the experience during that sojourn in the earth.
22. Then the name was Arastelle.
23. In the present there may be found great activities and great expressions of the same abilities as had in that period. For there is to be met much in the activities in the present sojourn of those influences that made for destructive forces; for the destructive and constructive forces in the associations in the present will become, as it were, pitted as one against another - but in those fields of activity that tend to make for a development of the body, as those of physical prowess, as the training for the various activities in sports, or as pertaining to things that make for bodily development, would be the greater channel for expression in the present. Such activities should become a part of the entity's development, and those fields of activity - if combined with the spiritual influence that should be in same - will make for those conditions, those experiences when great advancement may be made in the present sojourn.
24. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Persian or the Arabian, during those periods when in the 'city in the hills and in the plains' there were those sojourners from various lands, or the varied groups that sought counsel at the hands of those who had become the teachers or the leaders in those developments; not only as to their various activities partaking of the healings but of the commercial and the spiritual undertakings.
25. The entity then was among those of the Grecian land; physically fit, mentally alert, but spiritually lacking in those things that became a portion of the entity's activities in those sojourns in the 'city of the hills and the plains.' And the name of that city was Is-Shlan-doen.
26. From that experience in the present there is caused the desire for the various changes, the various seekings, the various developments. And a study of those things pertaining to the laws, the orders, the undertakings of those things that make for the development of the fourfold life of an individual in its expressions in the earth may make for the FIELDS that may open for the entity those activities in the present to gain an equal balance in its undertakings - physically, mentally, spiritually.
27. Before that we find the entity was in the Atlantean land, during those periods when there was the second egress from the land owing to the destructive forces that had begun to become active.
28. The entity was not of the ruler class, neither was it of what might be termed the peasant or the working class, but rather was it among the instructors in the activities in the land.
29. The sojourn from same brought the entity into that now known as the Yucatan land. And in those activities there did the entity gain much in the making for the establishing of the temple worship, the temple service, the temple activity. Not in the capacity of what would be termed a priest, nor a king. For, as is innate in the experience of the entity from its activities in the earth, an all for one or a one for all rule becomes rather that which is innate. And one only shows his abilities, in the innate expression of the entity, by the very ability to supply those influences or activities or deeds in the body that surpass another in that influence in which the activities may be brought to bear upon the work or the activity in hand.
30. Hold fast to that thou didst gain in those experiences, as Ax-Jetelame!
31. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, and that to which it may attain, and how:
32. Keep and make a balance in self, as indicated. Not only for that pertaining to the physical and mental, but that purposefulness for which the activities may be; and knowing for what expression there is that purposefulness in thine own spiritual self.
33. For Mind is the Builder; but unless it be founded in that influence not made by might and power, but by the spirit of truth, of justice, of hope, of patience, of understanding, it may become a stumblingblock to the individual.
34. And as the activities of self are to be in those fields in which there is to be the influence upon the lives and the experiences of many, all the more reason why these shall be founded in the spirit of hope, of justice, of mercy, of patience, of love.
35. But those fields in which there may be the development of the body for physical prowess, for those activities pertaining to sports, or the preparation of the body for a mental and spiritual activity, will become - and are - those activities in which not only the material but the mental and the spiritual may find the greater hope, the greater peace, the greater understanding.
36. Ready for questions.
37. (Q) What is my life's work?
    (A) As indicated, it is in those fields of the PHYSICAL activities; though these, as indicated, must be founded in the spiritual understanding.
38. (Q) Which specific line of this work would it be best for me to follow?
    (A) That, as indicated, which will eventually lead to the abilities of the entity to train, to give understanding, to make for a direction of others in their OWN training, their own understanding also.
    And whether this be in that pertaining to the one or the other, let it ever be with the purposefulness in the activities that the self will become EVENTUALLY one as may direct others.
39. (Q) What course of study should I pursue in order to best fit me for life?
    (A) In those things as indicated, that make for the study of why, how there may be not only a perfect physical body but that the better physical body may present the better channel through which the mental and spiritual may manifest.
    But lose not sight of the SOURCE of supply!
40. (Q) What school should I attend after I leave ... High?
    (A) That depends upon the choice in self as to what is to be the training. But in one, or those, where there may be the greater expression or activity in those things pertaining to the abilities of the physical activities that give an OUTLET for the emotions in those directions, and the preparation of self as an instructor in same.
41. (Q) For what did I come into this plane at this time?
    (A) To meet self; for thou hast walked backwards, as indicated. Go FORWARD! Ever has been, ever is, the command of Creative Force to "GO FORWARD!"
42. (Q) What is my seal?
    (A) The sickle, the hammer, and the world!
43. (Q) What are the colors?
    (A) Gold and blue!
44. (Q) Are these the colors to which I vibrate best?
    (A) Best.
45. (Q) When and under what conditions have I contacted my mother?
    (A) More than once!! This may best be had by drawing the two together.
46. (Q) What should be my attitude toward my mother and her efforts in my behalf?
    (A) Much as that which has been indicated; that there are duties, there are obligations, there are privileges. The duties are to self; the opportunities or privileges are to show the APPRECIATIONS of the efforts in thine behalf. Then, as the mother love expresses to each individual the closest kinship of creative force to the human experience, it is not as a duty, not as an obligation, but as an opportunity for appreciation!
    For the most despicable experience in any life may be, before the Throne of Grace, lack of appreciation!
47. We are through.

    Copy to Self
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REPORTS

1. 9/09/40 Mother reported that the athletic points in his Life Reading had interested him most.
2. 3/45 Report by Mrs. [1523]: "[1094], nicknamed [...] attended William and Mary College. He was of unusual football fame in high school as well as college. He became a Lt. in the Navy and took part in active combat in Africa and other countries as an aviator. He lost his life after a very spectacular battle with Jap planes in the pacific, in the summer of 1943.
   "[936] whom I asked about in one of my readings but who had no reading of his own, was perhaps the closest friend [1094] had. I met [1094] once, a month or two before he was killed in World War II, and I never saw a more egotistical person in my life; this plus a very carnal outlook; yet the reputation of a 'lady killer!'"
3. 4/45 GD's note: I attended a spiritualist church meeting and the mother of [1094] (Mrs. [1834]) was a member; she had become interested through receiving a message from her son saying he was well and happy, that he loved her, etc., etc. On several occasions later when I visited the church, she was there and each time received a similar message (supposedly) from her son, [1094]. Apparently she was receiving from him the appreciation she did not receive during his lifetime.

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