Edgar Cayce Readings, 1123-1

(Life Reading Suggestion)

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EC: Yes, we have the entity, those relations with the universe and universal forces; that are latent and manifested in the personalities of the present entity.
These are the records of this entity as we interpret them:
As to the astrological aspects, we find these are very unusual in a manner. For the sojourns and the astrological aspects appear to be at variance. Hence we will find there are, as it were, cross currents in the experiences; and differences arising within the entity and its environs. Under such or some circumstances we find the entity choosing with one parent, and then again with another; and then again defying both, as it were. These aspects especially, as we find, will come in the eighteenth year - unless those things are set about the experiences and the activities, or those conditions, wherein the entity understands self and self's emotions a great deal better than is signified or indicated in the ASTROLOGICAL aspects in the present.
Yet these, as we have indicated, (astrological aspects) are merely indications. What the entity does about an urge, and that the entity in the next three to five years sets as its IDEAL - mentally, materially, spiritually - will, to be sure, either bring same into manifestation or overshadow same by another.
From the astrological viewpoint, then, we find Venus Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, all making for an urge in the experiences.
Hence we find the entity is oft very delicate in its approach to those things pertaining to bodily affection, bodily endurance; those things that deal with other individuals. Yet oft the entity is very decided in tendencies towards those things that PROCLAIM themselves IN themselves as an expression of nature OUTSIDE of the entity's self; these acting upon the entity in its innate expressions.
Thus we find the beauty of a blossom, the buzzing of a bee, of more interest to the entity than those things pertaining to the sign [sine?] or ratio or logarithm in their activity in the experiences of the entity.
Hence these will become, then, as things or conditions that will GROW in the experience - if the environs and the activities, the studies, the application, the thought of the entity, are in those directions pertaining to same.
So, for the next three or four years, especially, there should be kept a very ORDERLY life. Not as mere rote, but rather that the entity may find in its EXPRESSION the keeping of a well-BALANCED self in the physical development, in the mental environments, as to evaluations of experiences in the influence of the body; and as to its associations and their value in its experience, in its relationships to not only those of its own sex but of the opposite sex also. Thus there may be, then, a well-balanced experience; that there may be the lack of - or the uselessness of experience in taking violent likes or dislikes, or of giving expressions to same. For these would make for, in the experience of the entity, a warping to this or that subject that would become detrimental.
As to the appearances of the entity in the earth, that react as to the emotions of the body, these - as indicated - are very definite. For the entity shows the signs of its intuitive forces, of its sensitiveness to reactions in those things of the spoken word, the written word, and the emotions expressed through either of these - or, as well, in those without a physical expression of the emotions.
Before this we find the entity was in the land of the present nativity, during those periods when there were the settlings and buildings of the land in the entity's surroundings so that these became rather as the emotions of the entity.
For then the entity was in the name Robert Fugua, and was an aide to the surveyors that laid out the city, or drew the plans for the city; during those periods of the establishing of the District and the various lands.
Hence those things dealing with such in the experience of the entity in the present bring an emotion that bespeaks rather of the beauties that were INTENDED - rather than those seen in some of the actual happenings that have brought about many changes in the plots, the plans of such.
The entity would find, then, from that experience, in the present, that those things pertaining to landscaping, landscape gardening, the making of plots and plats that deal with the beautifying of the city, the roadway, the country, gardens and the like, will be of particular interest in the present experience of the entity.
And these, as we find, may lead to more of that TO which the entity in the experience before that gave self in its activities.
For in the one before that we find the entity was what might be termed an artiste, a painter, in the land now known as the Holland or Dutch land.
Then in the name Rheubens [Rubens? Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640)? See Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. (c) 1957. Vol. 19. Is he the same as Rheubens? GD's note.] the entity made for much of that from which the Flemish paintings became the expressions that were given upon the greens, or those manners of reproduction in painting of folklore, of folk expressions, of the home, of the various periods in the experiences of groups and individuals of certain classes or types.
Those were the activities of the entity.
In the material and in the spiritual, only those things that shone through made for a development; but later these came to mean that to which the entity had given self as an expression.
Hence the growth continued in the experience of the ENTITY as a whole.
In the present experience we may find, then, periods when the body is very positive and very sure of self and of self's abilities in given directions. And then there may be those periods when the least difficulty brings discouragement, moroseness in the experience.
Hence the necessity, as given, of the entity - in its own experience in the present - setting its ideal in the mental and spiritual things that are BEYOND question in self, or beyond what ANY may question the entity about.
Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Persian, during those periods when there was the breaking up of the 'city in the hills and in the plains,' when the people there were being overrun by what is now known as the Grecian land.
The entity then was of the Grecian folk that attempted to stem the tides of destruction for the 'city in the hills and in the plains,' not judging same then from its commercial value but rather from its spiritual and EMOTIONAL value - by the great gatherings of the materials from the various lands that represented the activities of individuals in many lands and under many environs.
Hence the entity then was beset by doubts and fears among its own people and its own surroundings, yet held to the ideals that were gained by the study of those things which represented the activities of those individuals during an experience.
The entity's name then was Murien.
Before that we find the entity was in that now known as the Egyptian or the Atlantean land, for the entity was among the Atlanteans who first came to Egypt.
With the establishing of the varied groups for the expression and manifestation of what would be termed the arts in the present, the entity accepted same and aided in making the correlations of the teachings during the experience.
So the entity journeyed then to what is now a portion of Portugal, or in the Pyrenees, where a portion of its own groups from the Atlantean land set up a form of worship and a temple activity. And the entity aided in those things pertaining to the particular decorations in the temple.
Hence as we will find in the present experience or present emotional forces, there are the innate abilities pertaining to the exterior decorations, to friezes, to interior decorations; so that these may also in the present become a portion of the entity's experience.
Then the name was Areil - A-r-E-i-l.
As to the abilities of the entity in the present, we find:
There is much, as indicated, that is of a high SENSITIVE nature; much that pertains to what many call ethereal or dreamy or not practical.
But with an ideal the entity may go far. It may be set in the study of those things pertaining to the manner of presenting the beauties in decorations and architectural forces within and without. Or it may be set in the study of the WHY of those things presented in Exodus or Leviticus, as to the manner of building the covenant - ark of the covenant, or the tabernacle, and especially as to the manner of decorations; also the manner of decoration in the temple first built by Solomon and then that represented especially by that written in Hebrews, as to how all of these are but the patterns, the expressions of the emotions from the body of man himself, and how that ONE represents an ideal to the world, to the earth in all forms. For He was the architect, the builder, the maker of all things that were made. Call HIM thy ideal, and study those things not only in sacred history but profane also that pertain to the beautifying of the body within and without, and how that - in their representations to man of the glories that may be his - they may bring to the entity the understandings that it, too, may be a channel, an expression of that which will make for the glorifying of the real Creative Forces in the hearts and minds of men everywhere.
Ready for questions.
(Q) What specific line should he take up as his life work?
(A) Either interior or exterior decorating, or an artist along these lines; impressing these both upon people.
(Q) What weaknesses should he overcome?
(A) As given; that of becoming too easily discouraged at times and too enthusiastic at others. Learn rather the evaluations of thy associations in EVERY walk of life, and their relationships as one to another.
For, as the physical body is but a temple, each portion must coordinate one with another for a perfect union or perfect unison of service or activity, so must the mental mind, the physical mind, the spiritual mind, coordinate as one with another. But learn their evaluations in thy experience.
(Q) Where should he be educated that will be best suited for him now and for the future?
(A) In his present surroundings will be the best for the next three years.
We are through for the present.
Copy to mother
Copy to Ass'n File

BACKGROUND

2/14/36 Mother, Dr. [1125], requested Life Reading for herself, her husband [1205], and son [1123], saying: "[1123] seems to have a leaning towards art - he wants to draw all the time."

REPORTS

2/01/37 Mother obtained Physical Reading for him - See 1123-2.
5/18/37 HLC's letter to EC: "[1123] is in the Scouts, so you can imagine how we got along."
8/21/41 Mother obtained another Physical for him - See 1123-3.
9/23/41 Mother requested a Mental-Spiritual for herself in re how she could best help her son and husband - See 1125-3.
3/16/43 Mother, Dr. [1125]'s letter: "Our son [1123] is in the Engineering Branch of the Service now."
3/13/50 Mother, Dr. [1125]'s letter to HLC in re his forthcoming visit to Washington, D.C.: "I am very sorry I will not be in Washington March 18th. I have made plans to visit my son and wife and my new granddaughter whom I have not seen. I hope I may get in touch with Margaret Trim, whom I know, and hear about the plans when I return."