Edgar Cayce Readings, 1143-2

(Life Reading Suggestion)

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EC: (In going back over years to birth date - " - '26, '25, '24 - Changes! - '23, '22 - '16 - What a change! - '15, '14 - " etc., on back to birth date)
Yes, we have the records here as made through the experiences and consciousness of the entity in those spheres of activity that have dealt and do deal with the application of the self and its soul-influences in the present.
As we find from the records here, those periods in the interim between the sojourns of the entity in the earth may be reckoned or paralleled with experiences of the entity in environs about the earth - termed as an astrological influence.
These, however, are mere indications, and as to what an entity does about that the entity sets or maintains as its ideal makes for or produces or brings into the experience of the entity either developments or retardments.
As to the experiences then of this entity, [1143] called in the present (What a beautiful surrounding in its entrance into this earth in the present!), we find in the astrological aspects much has been gained and maintained by the entity that would be well for others to make a part of themselves in their own application.
For while throughout the experiences and sojourns in the earth turmoils of many natures have arisen, especially upon large scales of antagonistic influence, troublesome periods by animosities and waywardnesses upon the part of individuals and groups and masses about the entity, with these the entity has kept an equal balance, especially in what may be termed in words as tolerance.
Not that there have not been anxieties even in its spiritual or astrological aspects, yet these as an innate and as a manifested experience become a portion of the entity itself.
And - as is the fruit of same - patience, as engendered by mercy, has accompanied these experiences.
Thus the phases of the entity's sojourns then in the environs called astrological become apparent as with new meanings to some from those environments.
Jupiter - we find the association as towards a HELPFULNESS in the engendering associations with those in power, those in positions of prominence as to their engendering for others conditions that make for the developments towards brotherly love in their activity.
These then make from the material aspect for that upon which the entity is active, finding in its associations great abilities, those that have been entrusted with means, manners and ways of dealing with their fellow man.
And the entity has been, and will ever be so long as these are held, inviolate as a tempering experience for all such.
Also in those influences from Venus we find that beauty, peace, harmonious forces are ever in and ABOUT the entity; yet for such to become active in the experience there has been required upon the part of the entity an ACTIVITY. Not placidness, but peace rather gained, rather felt, rather experienced by BRINGING same into the experience of others.
We find also in those astrological sojourns or influences in Uranus making for extremes; that the entity through its earthly as well as through the innate forces that have been impelled or chosen by self has found itself swinging, as it were, oft SUDDENLY from extreme to extreme.
Yet in its ability from a soul force, that finds expressions in those words we term as tolerance, patience, the entity has found the abilities to aid here and there.
Hold fast to these. For while those influences from the Martian experiences make for turmoils as about, we find that - unless it allows itself to become, as it were, at times sorry for itself, or to become in a manner affected through such experiences that arise for self-aggrandizement - the entity may continue then to bring harmonious influences in the experiences of those whom the entity may contact in the materiality.
These influences, of course, as indicated, arise innately; yet SO WELL, so oft have these been manifested in the physical and material application of the entity. To differentiate becomes rather hard in making for an interpretation of that which has been recorded here.
THIS ENTITY may, with the keeping of those developments, make its peace in such a manner as for there to be few or none of the turmoils of the earth in its experience again.
As to the influences from the sojourns in the earth; while these are not ALL, they are those that in the present make for the urges that the entity finds indicated in its experiences and in its meeting with its fellow man in their problems, in their turmoils.
For, as the entity has in the most of its sojourns from the earth GIVEN - GIVEN - GIVEN of self, so has there come in the deeper recesses of the present experience - even upon the heels of turmoils, even upon the mount of consternation - a deeper and an abiding peace that comes only with that as He hath given, "MY PEACE I LEAVE WITH YOU." Not as the world knoweth or giveth peace, but that which makes for those answers as from within, when there is the turning to that Great Giver of love, mercy, justice - "Well done, thou good and faithful servant." For ye shall indeed know the joys of thy Lord. Hold fast, stand steadfast with the armor of thy Lord near thee.
Before this we find the entity lived in the earth during those periods when there was the overrunning, or when the changes were coming about in the land of nativity, when there were the Norsemen with the Huns and the Gauls that made for the turmoils in the north and in the eastern portion of the land.
The entity then was in the name (hence it is well name in the present) Marjoriee.
In the experience there were those turmoils and strifes, with neighbor against neighbor oft; for it was during those periods when they each of the landholders or of the different groups were as a law in their own land.
The entity kept a balance between many of those in and about that land, in Lancastershire, where there is to the entity - in those surroundings in the present - much that makes for deep meditation; for sorrow, yet punctured much and oft with a deeper gladness for the experiences that come there.
And as the entity was in those fields and among those blossoms when they began to fade, it finds those sadnesses and yet bring a joy and a comfort in the inner self.
Hence in the introspection of self gladness is ever present, yet it is tinged with the desire for help to those that are weary of their mental and material burdens - that finds an answering within the inmost being of the entity itself.
For as the entity gained in those experiences, so may it in the present find that - not by might nor by power, as saith the Lord of hosts, but by the still small voice, by the counsel as one tempered with mercy, grace and peace - it may bring to those whom the entity contacts in such disturbing forces the experiences of HARMONY within self.
Before that we find the entity was in those periods when there was the return of a chosen people to their land for the reestablishing in the land of promise of a ritual service.
THERE the entity, with Zerubbabel's handmaids, became a helpful influence. And with the coming then of the priest - or princess - and the prince in Nehemiah, we find the entity lent that aid which made for the helping of those that resisted the peoples roundabout. Not by might, not by power, but by lending a helping hand to those that suffered bodily; aiding in bringing to those a better understanding of that edict which was given by the king for the reestablishing of those services of a peoples in their OWN land.
Then the name was Belenda, and the entity gained, lost, gained through the experience. For being misjudged for the associations with those then as of the heathens roundabout, as termed by those strangers in their own home land, the entity felt within self as being misunderstood - and condemned, when innately within self there was known how the protection was brought even to many of those that labored upon the wall, as well as in those that were established.
Yet if the entity will read very closely the 6th and 8th chapters of Nehemiah, it will find much that harkens for an awareness of its presence there.
HOLD to those things that make for this ability to be tolerant, even with those that despitefully use thee. For it engenders strife to hold animosities.
Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Egyptian, during those periods when there were turmoils and strifes to those peoples that had settled in the land, and attempted to build for those peoples roundabout an understanding of the relationships of man to the Creative Forces, of man to his own fellow man.
The entity was among those peoples joined nigh to that one made the Priest, and who was debarred or set adrift from the activities begun.
Those periods and experiences brought turmoils to the entity, yet with the return of the Priest, with the activities of those that came from Atlantis, with the paralleling of the teachings by the emissaries from Saneid, from On (?), from the activities in the Gobi, the entity began then to know that he that smiteth thee, if thou dost smite in return, will but engender an animosity that grows, that becomes as briers and tares in thine own experience, that will hinder thee in thine OWN activity, bringing disturbing forces that make for the engendering of hate.
The name then was Absi-Shupht, and much might be said as to that development there.
As to the abilities in the present, and that to which the entity may attain, and how:
Who would dare give the entity counsel when it may counsel so well! Hold fast to that which has been or may be gained by the reading of the 30th chapter of Deuteronomy, the 14th of Joshua, the 24th Psalm, the 12th of Romans; the 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th as recorded to John. For there ye will see that thou hast INNATELY made as thy bond. For He IS in His holy temple and would speak with thee; for THY body, TOO, is His temple, and there He meets with thee!
Love the Lord, eschew evil, keep the faith. For it IS but a reasonable service.
Ready for questions.
(Q) Where can I find this man whom you suggest I should gain further development and training from?
(A) The MORE will be found within self through the study, the application in the daily life of those tenets as recorded in those words that have been given.
Rather than in any man, in any person. For thy development is such, thy purposes are so high, that thou mayest meet Him, find Him, within - through the meditation with thy Lord.
(Q) Do you consider that I have healing ability, and if I used it more would I develop?
(A) The ways are shown as in those references given, that as has been given, "What ye ask, that will be done IN and through you." Thus not only by the touch but by the meditation, by the handling of bodies, thou mayest - as it were - QUICKEN them to their OWN abilities; that the grudges, animosities must be put away.
For the mind is the builder, the spirit is willing; the body should be an expression of these.
(Q) Do you consider that I should be a communicant or not?
(A) Such answers, to be sure, should come from within. For the church, that of the faith - He is thy bridegroom - the CHURCH is within thee, the temple is within THEE! THERE He meets thee!
If thy service to thy fellow man leads thee to commune, to break the bread, to break the body with others - HE will guide, HE will direct.
We are through for the present.
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