(Q) I would like to know as much as possible of Vashti's
childhood and her life as a growing girl especially from her
tenth birthday.
(A) As given and indicated, Vashti was of those who came
from the provinces or regions of the Indian activity as
connected with those sojourners from a portion of the country
of the day - or Persia. Hence the entity was under the
teachings or tutelage of those that were the princes, or
prince of the Indians, and trained in all of those early
teachings of that period - but trained for the court life.
To gain the full concept of that intimated, the background of
the situations might be expanded upon somewhat:
Ahasuerus came to the throne in the early twenties, and was
not an uncouth man; yet - with the ease of the conditions and
surroundings - being lauded by the princes of the various
charges over which the counsellors came - he became rather
what would be termed in the present as a dissipated man. He
was one, though, fair in the GENERAL outlook but with a very
decided Roman nose (as would be called in the present), with
hazel eyes, with fair hair; the weight being a hundred and
seventy-six pounds (as would be termed in the present; then
called duets [?]). This was his general mien.
With the rising of Ahasuerus to power, many portions of the
land - that now would be called Persia, Arabia, portions of
Turkey, all of Palestine, all of Hindustan, all of now Tibet,
India - were under that rule.
The princes of the various lands, as indicated, began with
the dissipation of the king. For in bringing ease and
temperance to the various groups, there began the political
influence for the representation in the various activities of
the king, by the various means of inducing or bringing those
into power - as Vashti, the queen.
As had been a portion of the activities, there were those
that were called the queens and those that were the ladies
in waiting for the king for the various characters of the
entertainments. And these were built up by the princes of
the various countries.
The determent to Vashti, then, was through Marcius [?], or
Marcus [?], of the Persian and Palestine land. Hence those
conditions that arose.
As to the life itself of Vashti:
From the tenth year it was in the teachings of its own
peoples, though - as indicated - it was, although of the
Persians, active in the Indian land by adoption, among those
in authority and in power among the princes. Hence the
NATURAL inclination of anxiety of those peoples for the
position held by Vashti.
This makes rather confusions unless it is all straightened
out by those who would interpret same.
During the girlhood or teen age, as indicated in those
periods, the entity's inclinations were towards what would
now be called the games of the day (the outdoor games), and
what eventually came to be known as shuttlecock.
The indoor games were what eventually came to be the card
games, including - of course - the Egyptian and the tarot.
The activities were in the arts, the needlework; especially
the workings on linens, the activities in the culinary arts,
the preparations of those things for the tables. These were
a portion of the education of those that were prepared for
positions in high places.
Remember, in those periods there were still the castes in
that land from which Vashti came.
Vashti became the queen when she was then twenty years of
age, as time would be counted in the present; and at the time
of the dethronement there had been some seven to eight years
in the interim.
As indicated, Vashti might be described as one BEAUTIFUL of
body, of figure. The weight was a hundred and thirty-four,
the figure being not what would be termed in the present as
heavy, but one graceful, lithesome; one that bespoke of the
abilities in all the activities through which the training
would carry a person.
The entity's hair was dark; the eyes were dark; the nose not
snubby, not straight. Rather the entity was BEAUTIFUL of
figure and person, ESPECIALLY having small ears.
(Q) What were the implements of war in her time?
(A) The spear, the battle-axe, and the attachments to war
chariots that turned on the wheel.
(Q) What were the methods of warfare?
(A) The spear and battle-axe; the beginnings, of course, of
the sling and the club, the shield and the buckler.
(Q) Please give description of clothing worn by the soldiers
and the civilians.
(A) The toga in its beginning was the dress of the soldiery.
The ones in authority, as the king, wore a great deal of
color; but rather in the form of robes than material made
into clothing. The women during the period had clothing more
in the form of garments, as would be termed garments in the
present; a great deal of linen for the underclothing, as in
laces; and a great deal of jewelry of all forms, as would be
termed today - rings, bracelets - of course, worn on the feet
were the sandals, and a great deal of ornaments on same.
(Q) Colors worn in clothing and used in the decoration of
the rooms of the castles.
(A) Blue in the greater portion, with gold - as has been
found by many of those in the excavations of those periods.
Blues, gold.
(Q) What were the means of transportation?
(A) The white ass was used for the ROYALTY; while the others
used rather the camel in their activity. The most of these
came very much later, for in those periods the donkey or the
white ass was the mode of travel for the royalty, especially
for the women.
(Q) Were carriages used by royalty?
(A) No carriages; only the two-wheel chariots.
(Q) Did the women of the court ride with the men?
(A) Never.
(Q) Please give description of the palladium on the camel's
back.
(A) Very good description of same would be that it was very
much as a hod carrier's tool, though reverted and made to the
proportions and size, see? But this had little to do with
the activities of Vashti, and came much later into common
use.
(Q) What were the means of communication?
(A) Messenger.
(Q) I would like any and all information I can get of
Vashti's wedding with Ahasuerus.
(A) All the pomp as may be had from the Persians, with all
their color; all the splendor and the sedateness, yet the
ROYALTY of the Indians; with all their finery, veils and
activity. The periods for the enunciation or announcing of
the wedding, and the periods through which the process took
place, were a hundred and thirty-three days. This was one
continued feasting, with the meats of Persia, the fruits of
the Egyptians, as well as the more delicate ones of India
being the viands of the period. The ceremony itself was
announced by the priests of the eighteen provinces that were
a portion of the kingdom, but the actual ceremony itself - to
be sure - was announced by the priest of her own particular
faith.
(Q) Was numerology used to determine important days and
names?
(A) This was a portion of the experience, but not near so
much as it became later indicated - in what is now known as
astrology.
(Q) Why was Vashti dethroned?
(A) This has been indicated; the refusal of the queen to
present self at those periods when those she knew were in
authority for THEIR way of presenting her activity before
those peoples during that proclaimed feast for those of ALL
lands which were in opposition to those teachings of Vashti.
(Q) Is there any further information that may be helpful?
(A) Much might be given in interpreting those periods as we
find here.
We are through for the present.
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BACKGROUND
See
1096-1 and
1096-2.
REPORTS
4/09/36 Mrs. [
1096] was present for her next Life Reading on
the Vashti incarnation - See
1096-4, in which she asked
questions also about her present life and relationships.
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