This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 5th day of May, 1936, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [1159] through Active Membership of Dr. [688] in the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [1159], Dr. [688] and Mr. [707]. Born April 29, 1856, in Hill County, bank of Brazos River, Texas.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the records here and those relations with the universe and universal forces; that are latent and manifested in the personalities of the present entity now called [1159].
2. In the interpretations of that record as we find, so MUCH has been builded in the present EXPERIENCE of the entity, this portion rather overshadows the associations in the astral or those forces through which the entity has passed about the earth.
3. Those activities IN the earth throughout its sojourn, not only in the present, have all been for a development; yet these lack crystallization for materialization in the experiences of others.
4. In giving then that as we find here, that may be helpful to the entity in the present and in the applying those forces as we find which may aid in those periods of transition that must be a part of the entity's experience here, we find much that may be said. These we give as that which is the interpretation for helpful forces for the body:
5. In the astrological we find the entity upon those aspects termed the cusps, or an individual subject to those influences of Gemini - yet more in Taurus, as well as the psychic or Piscean influences; as well as the influences from the astrological sojourns. THESE as we find, rather than as they are ordinarily interpreted, are indications of the entity's DEVELOPMENT rather than those forces that may bring this or that influence in the experience. For not knowing a thing makes one wise, but the ability to use it or apply it. Not what one knows about this or that, but what one does about that it does know makes for that influence and for those changes in the experiences of individuals that bring about either weal or woe in the experience of an entity.
6. Then, as we find, conflicting influences come from Gemini; Taurus rather headstrong; the Piscean making for the psychic and the occult forces - as the entity has made for its development in the experiences in the earth closer to what are oft termed elementals. Hence not ALWAYS is the entity understood in that it attempts, or that it knows itself; yet the influences the entity makes upon those with whom and in whom the associations may be are deep, are long lasting. And remember, not that which is of some great force or influence. Just as He gave, not as the power of the storm or of the earthquake or of the great noises. Rather the still small voice as speaks from within becomes that influence through which the MOVEMENTS of great forces really arise.
7. Then as such individuals give of themselves as a leaven to leaven the whole lump, contributing then as it were their share to the scheme of things and conditions and experiences through which individuals pass in their search, in their seeking for that city without foundations, in making for those returns or that at-oneness of purpose, of desire with the Creative Forces, these make for those things that become as soul-building, soul developing in the experience of every individual. And they bring, as to this entity, a peace and a harmony within that is not understood by many.
8. Yet the turmoils that arise, as we find from the sojourns of the entity in those environs about the earth:
9. Jupiter from the sojourns of the entity there makes for the natural bent, as it were, in touching the lives and the experiences of great numbers of individuals and groups; associating self with this or that activity, this or that movement that deals with not things so much as the LIVES of individuals. For rather in the very activity and thought and purpose of the entity there are those influences innate and manifested which MOVE the individuals and groups and masses for THINKING, experiencing, the desire to be not only good but good FOR something. These be the influences that arise from the Jupiterian sojourn.
10. Also Mercury makes for a high mental concept, the ability of the entity to grasp much of that which becomes hidden in those things that man in his search has made as a mystery to his very own experience.
11. As well as those forces in Venus. For friendships that become closer than those of flesh and blood relationships; those that make for a natural love, that make for a tendency for the understandings of individuals' problems. And the lesson the entity has had to learn and is learning well: Be seen, not heard; be active, not passive; be rather that as is a LIVING example, known and seen rather than of the bombastic nature or as to make for confusions in the experiences of many.
12. Learn these lessons well, for these be those things which added to those graces in the ability to move, make for the greater activity within self's experience.
13. As to the appearances in the earth, while these have been many, not a great number of these influence the entity in the present.
14. Before this we find the entity was among those peoples that were native to the land of the entity's present nativity, or the entity's birth; among those peoples of the land that were accredited not only with the experiences of the people that were of the Atlantean and Lemurian races but those also that had taken on a portion of the activities of that people who were as a lost race.
15. Hence in the land of the entity's present nativity or birth, we find the activities of the entity then were in the name Amelius Cooke.
16. In the experience the entity was a priestess, in those interpretations of what later became known as the Incals, the Lost Tribes, the peoples from the Atlantean land, the peoples who came west from the activities in the Lemurian land. All of these became as a portion of the entity's activity.
17. Those things that pertain to building, to organized building in its relationships not to things but as to building in the hearts and the minds and the experiences of individuals.
18. Confusions arose in the entity's experience during that sojourn, for it was many years in that land - though in many portions of same; just as in the present it will find itself in many portions of the land - or as a rover or as a roamer from this or that experience, this or that group. These were the very things that made for confusions. For while the entity understood much those in authority (the entity itself being a princess and somewhat in authority), it allowed self to be controlled rather by those that were supposed to be as leaders - or those who would be termed in the present day as trustees or directors or managers of various groups where individual worship, individual education, individual activities of peoples made for a great activity.
19. The experiences during that sojourn make for the greater influence in the present. For metals, glass, crockery, woven cloth, the use or application of these in the services not only for the places of abode but for the places of amusement or for places of worship, these the entity insisted upon as its activity of separating as one from another.
20. These in times past, or in the experiences of many, were all as of one abode. The entity made for a separation, yet these brought for its very self confusions. Yet the mental forces that arise from those experiences may be applied in the activities of the entity in the present, or rather HAVE been applied. They need to be, as indicated in the first, CRYSTALLIZED into not that which forms as a group or as an organization; for the church, God, the relationship of same is not found in houses made with hands. Rather is it found, as has been so oft given, neither in this place nor in that mount, but rather in the hearts and the minds of men may the individual know its Maker!
21. While there may be associations for CONCERTED activity, the individual relationship is as the growth of that which is seen in nature. Just as no two blades of grass are alike. Just as no two leaves upon a tree are alike. Just as no two roses even of the same vine are ALIKE! Yet they in their combination, in their coordination with those activities and those environs, make their impression, their influence, their activity upon those forces that make for the EXPERIENCES through which individuals produce - or nature in any of its manifestations produces - a better, a greater manifestation of that Creative Force, that Universal Energy we call - YE call - GOD!
22. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the promised land, or the Palestine land, during that period when those of that land knew the Master that walked in the earth.
23. The entity then was her to whom the Master gave, "Is it meet that I should take the bread and feed to the children" - and the answer, "Yea, Lord, but even the dogs eat of the crumbs from the master's table." And as was given, "I have not found so great a faith, no not in Israel."
24. The entity was a Syro-Phoenecian then, of those peoples of a mixed race; those peoples that combined not only those things that became as the influences for the conveniences of individuals and groups but those things that also made for the associations and the connections and the expansions of the activity of the entity's peoples into other lands.
25. For of the entity's own peoples then were the first of the Syro-Phoenician groups extended off the borders of the Mediterranean; yea, even beyond the borders of what ye now term as the Canary Island, even into the Sargasso Sea - that into which the caldrons of the earth were turned with the destructive forces in the Poseidian land in its last activity, and the embellishments that arose from those forces of the entity's experience among those peoples as well as that it gained by those periods of its association with the Teacher of teachers, the Lord of lords.
26. While those activities lasted in that experience, the entity was a leader, an interpreter, a director that spread the influences which are STILL being felt in and among the children of men.
27. Then the name was Armediee.
28. The application of that influence into the present experience: The interpretations of the writings not only of sacred history but of those that have been termed as only tales, only beautiful writings, poetry, history, become as an open book when the entity allows self to drift, as it were, OUT of self into those realms when it reasoned with the Reasoner, reasoned with the CREATOR of all that man finds manifesting itself in the earth in the present.
29. In the application, then, do not make for that that reasons self in any manner that may not be a practical application of those tenets and those lessons that He gave, "As ye sow, so shall ye reap - As ye do it unto the least of these, thy brethren, ye do it unto me. Those that come to me seeking to know themselves will find in me that mirror that reflects into the heart and soul to such measure, to such a manner that YE SEE YOURSELVES even from the beginning." KNOW THYSELF!
30. Before that we find the entity was in the land now called the Egyptian, being among those of the Atlanteans who came into Egypt; coming as the children of the law of One to make a preparation for the preservation of the tenets and truths that had been handed down by the teachers that in due season came within the golden and the bright lights that made for the interpretations of those things dealing with the relationships of man to the Creative Forces, and how in the applying of their dealings with their fellow creatures might be found that within the experience of the soul as to its OWN relationships to its Creator!
31. This was just an inversion of that as He gave, "As ye do it unto the least, ye do it unto me."
32. In the experience the entity made for an assistance in those activities when there were the correlations of those teachings from the peoples of the land now called the Indian, or the land of Saneid, the land of On [?], the people from the Mongolian land, as they gathered in those experiences for their correlation of the best in each that they might be applied in the experiences of those peoples as they sought to make for greater and greater manifestations of their dealings with their fellow man and their activities that brought them in closer relationship and understanding with the Creative Forces.
33. There we find the first of the entity's activities making for a depletion in self through crystallization into those things that man so oft worships as that made by his own hand, when these do find that moth and rust doth corrupt, change of attitude, change of environ, change of the ruling influences causes such to fade away.
34. Then only as has been indicated may that found from those experiences, those associations, arise from the still small voice from within. Not that any individual turns itself away from the cry of those that seek for bread, the cry of those that seek to know the way, but rather that it may be guided by those forces from within than by those temples that were builded or may be builded in various lands as sects or activities that become as modes or manners. For modes and manners change, but the purposes remain.
35. For as He gave, "The heavens and the earth will pass away, but my word - and deed, and kindness and loving thought, PATIENCE, persistence in the RIGHT - DO NOT pass away." They be the foundation stones upon which GENERATIONS are builded. They be the foundation stones upon which nations rise that seek to know God. These taken away make for those destructive forces that have arisen and do arise in the experience of nations when man has forsaken God and turned rather to a god of greed, a god of gold, a god of stone, a god of fame, a god of fortune. These fade and die, but the good deeds, the kindnesses, the gentle word remaineth ever.
36. In the experience the entity's name was Amululu.
37. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, and that to which it may attain, and how:
38. As has been indicated, in the present experience the entity has developed. There remaineth yet those crystallizations of those ideals, those ideas as regarding the relationships of individuals in creating that environ from and in which there may be the lessons taught of the ONE God, the one source of life and light and immortality.
39. THESE be the things that the entity may give, not only by word of mouth but as it has in its own examples, by its own conversation and its own activity, may bring to others that force, that influence that will build and build in the experiences through the earth, that may hasten the day when those influences that arise from a diseased body, in its association with those that - as is expressed, when the sons of God look upon the daughters of men and behold them fair and forget from what they sprang, they bring those of glory into contempt, they bring faith and hope into sloughs of despair through the aggrandizing of body forces that are of the earth-earthy.
40. Though the head, though the mind may be of those forces that are high and mighty, if it is planted in those forces that are of the mire and muck of disappointment and lack of hope, lack of strength, it has the foundations even as He gave, "unless it be founded upon the rock, the storms come and maketh desolate."
41. Keep then that thou hast attained. Give and give of self in PURIFYING the relationships of sex [sects?], as well as the activities of thought; for this be thy work.
42. Ready for questions.
43. (Q) Please explain the visions I have had regarding being shown a vein of gold and an oil deposit near Woodward's Chimney Corner, in Lamb's Springs, Texas.
    (A) Be these rather not those that are as in the influences that arise as emblems in thine own experience, that are as gold precious to the very souls of men, rather than material things? While the material things exist, yet to thee and to thine own life they be emblematical experience. For the angels of light only use material things for emblems, while the angels of death use these as to lures that may carry men's souls away. For the Master gave, "There is a way that seemeth right to the hearts of men, but the end thereof is death and confusion."
    Not that these do not exist, but rather choose thou to make as the angels showed thee that gold in the hearts of men and women that THEIR lives may overflow with the real JOY of living.
    What hast given thee thy strength? That ye sought the material things or rather that thou be a handmaid of the Lord?
    Confuse not thyself but know the Lord will do thee good, if ye will but be guided by His ways. That in that particular land there was in the days of old a vein of gold, yea - still exists; yet this to thee is an emblem in thine experience and NOT materialities.
44. (Q) Should I try to locate this gold or oil, or secure the land on which it is located?
    (A) Rather secure and make secure in the hearts and minds of those that ye meet day by day that which is as pure gold in keeping the body CLEAN as gold that is refined as in the fires of God!
45. We are through.

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