This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 21st day of February, 1936, in accordance with request made by the self - Dr. [1125], new Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Miss [813].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Born November 25, 1879, at night, in Marshall Co., Iowa.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the entity and those relations as the records here indicate of that entity now known as or called [1125].
2. In giving that which may be helpful for this entity, we find:
3. Though the studies of same in the present have aroused an interest, the entity should gain something more than the mere interest; for a more solid purpose within self.
4. For there has been in the experience of the entity in the present that which has long sought an answer to many questions, that have naturally arisen in the MENTAL experiences, that haven't conformed to the ideals the entity has innately held within self.
5. Hence there has been a seeking in this, in that, in the other line of thought which has from its surface oft presented that which seemed to answer for the moment those questions that were being sought.
6. Know, then, that the answers are within self, and that the experiences through which the entity has passed in the earth and in the interims between the sojourns in the earth have made for abilities within self to so coordinate the individual activity as to FIND the greater response from within than from any other source.
7. While those seekings, and the tenets or the questions or the expressions of others may arise, the answers - of a real lasting nature - must come from within. And in the seeking is the putting forth of that energy, that elan vitale that makes for the growth.
8. For those things that are of a spiritual (or lasting) nature are necessarily growths from within, that may be illustrated in the entity's experience; in that the ministry the entity may give to a disturbed or an afflicted body is but to set each portion of the whole in such a manner, in such a cooperative and coordinating manner, that the elan vitale from within may be aroused to its abilities to function - and thus bring a healing from within. Hence it is not of self alone, but from that influence WITHIN self that is of a Creative Force - that may be seen and known by its effect upon matter, or influencing matter in a material world.
9. So, the experiences of this entity either from the astrological sojourns or from the position of the planets or from the influences about the earth are but signs, indications. Also those things an individual thinks, speaks of and acts concerning, in its relationships to its fellow man, are but the indication of that such a soul has set as its ideal.
10. For, as the heart thinketh - so is the body. This is shown by the activities, as to whether the thoughts are for self and self alone, for self-gratification, for self-glorification, for self-indulgences and aggrandizements, or whether they are directed toward the body, the mind, the activity being a channel through which the glory of the purposes of a living, breathing, loving, healthful giving Father may be manifested!
11. The experiences in sojourns as indicated by the planetary forces or indwellings of the entity in the interims between the earthly incarnations, we find as these:
12. Jupiter - bringing an ennobling, a thoughtful influence; the associations with individual groups of many varied strata, yet the activities becoming rather individual.
13. Venus - ever has this had an influence, that in many respects in the entity's experience has been rather subjugated by the very TENDERNESS, the sensitiveness of the individual itself.
14. Hence sympathy and tenderness and gentleness, under certain circumstances, make for very close ties in the experience of the entity; and yet make for those very same things that so oft have brought hurts and disappointments, and confusions in the experience of the entity in the present sojourn.
15. Mercury - as in Mars - making for that influence in the experience in which the entity has attempted so oft to subjugate within itself that of wrath, or that of giving place to the hurts and thus making for confusions at times in the experience of the entity.
16. These, then, especially with those influences that may appear to be expressed in contradictory fashions, make for that as first indicated - how that the entity must hold to that set as its ideal; and know that self is such a portion of the Whole that it may be, and IS, the channel through which that set as the ideal may be maintained, expressed, and brought into material manifestations in its dealings with its fellow man. Thus it may bring fruition, or fruits WORTHY of that faith, that purpose, that sincerity by and in which the entity abides - being its very existence and, MANIFESTEDLY, the ideal it has set!
17. Know such an ideal must be beyond the purely material things in life, or in an experience in the earth. For these that are of the earth-earthy rust and corrupt. But those that are founded in the spirit of life and truth take hold upon the very throne of mercy and peace and harmony and justice and longsuffering and brotherly love; for they are OF God - and thus are everlasting! And as the fruits of same BRING these experiences, so do the fruits of confusion, turmoil, strife, or of self or of earth, bring those things that are hard to be understood when individuals attempt to hold to earth and heaven as with their hands.
18. As to the appearances in the earth that make for innate urges that become as the emotions of the body itself, we find these - while few - are very positive, very definite in the experience:
19. Before this we find the entity lived in the earth during those periods of that now known as the American Revolution, during those periods in and about the land now known as Jersey; when those of the soldiery of the Colonists were in want, in need.
20. The entity was among those of the household of one Aaron Arrant, and was known then as Elizabeth Arrant, near what is now Camden; and ministered unto the needs of those of that period - and was blessed even by the leader, or by him that has been well called the father of the country - his country.
21. Hence we find in the present experience from that sojourn that everything dealing with that individual activity makes for an emotion as of worshipfulness - which arose between the entity then and the leader.
22. And those things pertaining to the name, the place, the activity, all become as a part of the entity's active experience in the present.
23. Hence in those environs and in those surroundings that bespeak oft of that leader may the entity find the greater field of service and activity, and in the lending of self for the aids, for the assisting of those that are TROUBLED in body as to their disturbances in making for a better house through which the spirit and the mind may minister to others.
24. Before that we find the entity was in the Persian and Arabian land, then being of the Persians or the Medes who were under the dispensation of the first rulers known as Croesus, in what is now the Persian land.
25. Or, during the period of the second Croesus did the entity minister to those peoples in that land, through the teachings of those things that brought not only material but mental and spiritual welfare.
26. For the entity was a teacher in the schools destroyed by the nomad peoples, and yet came to learn to reverence those who were - for a period - accredited with the very destruction of same.
27. In the experience the entity gained, in the name Amelisa.
28. From that experience in the present we find that the teachings in the so-called religious thought that varies from the physical experience answer little to the entity's inner self. Hence conflicting forces often arise.
29. But if the entity in the present in its ministry to those that seek for physical ills and the aids in same will also speak gently often of the individual's associations with the Creative Forces, it may bring to the entity - as well as to others - that union of strength which may only be found in Him.
30. Before that we find the entity was in the Egyptian land, among those people who returned from the Abyssinian land with the Priest when he returned for his activities.
31. The entity joined with those who made the greater preparations in the temples of Sacrifice, that the bodily appurtenances, the body afflictions, might be cleared; that there might be set rules and regulations as to bodily cleanliness, bodily activity that would FIT the body for not only a better but for a more free, more perfect service, whether in the state, the home, or the relationships of the Creative Forces to the material activities.
32. Thus, in the name Meshe-such, the entity helped and ministered through the activities that were established in what came to be known then as the first CONCERTED effort in hospitalization - as it would be called in the present.
33. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, we find:
34. Oft, as indicated, the entity has found, does find itself as a stranger in a strange land; among a strange people and strange surroundings; and that those things that come as associated influences oft confuse.
35. So, set thy OWN ideal. And the ideal does not become as the ego of self, then, but as that which IS the glory of man in his relationship to the Creative Forces - as found in Him who walked and talked with men; that is:
36. "Abide in me - take upon thee my yoke; for my yoke is easy, my burden is light. Put upon ME THY yoke, for I go to the Father - and as ye trust in me and I in Him, so may there come to thy own experience a greater understanding, an awakening of the abilities within self."
37. Know the truth, and the truth shall set you free - in Him!
38. Ready for questions.
39. (Q) What changes should I make in my work here at this time, if any?
    (A) Not any in the immediate. As the opportunities come for the greater expansion and development in those fields of activity as indicated, give a word here, a word there. Here a little, there a little, ye may give out to those who seek for PHYSICAL aid a great mental awakening also. This will be gradual, but the expansion should begin soon.
40. (Q) What should I be giving the most of my time to now?
    (A) As indicated.
41. (Q) How can I help myself to advance more?
    (A) As given, by knowing first - WHOLLY - what thou believest, what thou KNOWEST as thy ideal.
42. (Q) How can I always KNOW the way for each individual's better healing?
    (A) By knowing that there must be aroused in the individual, as indicated, that which AWAKENS the Creative Forces within itself. "Not by might nor by power, but by my word, saith the Lord of hosts."
    That which answers then to the Creative Forces awakens and loosens, even as ye do the material body, the spiritual essence of life itself - for its greater, its better propagation.
43. (Q) How can I be of greatest help to my present husband? [1205]?
    (A) Disappointments and differences have arisen. Do not WITHDRAW, but rather let thy associations be as a LOVING indifference. Not mindful of the slights and slurs, yet knowing that indeed and in truth as YE sow, so shall YE reap - in thy relationships with him, as well as he with thee. Do to him, under ANY circumstance, as ye would have him do to you.
44. We are through.

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BACKGROUND

1. 2/14/36 She requested Life Reading for herself, for her son [1123] and her husband, [1205].
2. 2/19/36 See son's Life Reading, 1123-1.

REPORTS

1. 6/20/36 See husband's Life Reading, 1205-1.
2. 2/01/37 She obtained Physical Reading for husband - See 1205-2.
3. 2/02/37 She obtained Physical Reading for herself - See 1125-2.
4. 9/27/41 She obtained a Mental-Spiritual in re her home and marriage - See 1125-3.

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