This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 8th day of July, 1936, in accordance with request made by the sister, Mrs. [1158] through Associate Membership of her husband, in the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. L. B. Cayce. Born May 25, 1908, in Akron, Ohio.

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1. EC: (In going back over years from present to birth date - " - '36, '35 - Don't look so good! - '34, '33," etc., on back to birth date.)
2. Yes - yes - we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [1173].
3. In giving that as we find that may be helpful in the experience of the entity in the present, know that those influences while they produce an urge, while there are those urges that make for inclinations, there are those urges that make for weaknesses and for strengths, it is applicable in the material world that the manner in which inclinations or urges are used makes them for good or reverse experience in the activities of an entity.
4. While the astrological sojourns in this experience of this entity make for specific urges, we find that the earthly sojourns bear the greater influence. For the entity is rather emotional, yet prides itself of being very staid and very sensible - yet is emotional in its relationships. For those things that are allowed to become as a portion of the entity, the entity makes for those circumstances to appear so that he can have his way, so that those things he has thought or said MUST come to pass in the experience and he can turn them all in that direction! These are at times very sentimental experiences, at others they are very staid or very reasonable, at others they may be as cross to those influences that others may find or feel that appear to be the better for the entity.
5. These arise from those associations of Gemini, or a two-way mind; that which often appears as not stable, yet the entity is very sure it is very stable in those things it wishes, those things it desires, those things that it would carry on.
6. As to those urges that we find from the astrological aspects:
7. In Jupiter we find a great expanse of vision.
8. The abilities are the weaknesses of the flash as are indicated in Venus, as well as in Uranus making for extremes. Yet if these, in the experience and in the associations, are made as a portion of the activative forces in the entity's material experiences, these will bring those periods when the very relationships that have existed through the sojourns in the earth may be repeated in the activities and associations in the present; though the use or application of these experiences will depend upon the entity's will force - which rises above all inclinations.
9. For will, with desire and judgement, builds for weal or woe in the experience of the soul; as in its relationships to Creative Forces, or that as may be called the will of the Father, the will of God, the NATURAL forces as they express themselves in materiality; depending upon how the entity uses its will, its opportunity, its environment, its conditions in the experience of materiality in relationships to those.
10. And these are given from the soul development and for the the purpose of the entity knowing more and more its relationship to the universality of force and power and activity and love and God and hate, and those forces that in material experience make for activities in an entity's mental and physical self.
11. As to the appearances then in the earth, we find:
12. Before this the entity dwelt in and about the place of its present nativity, though rather among those peoples about the southern portions of Erie and portions of Michigan was the entity active during those periods when there were tradings and relationships established by the early settlers of that land.
13. Then in the name Constant Ulruch, the entity was active in those relationships as one to make peace between the different tribes, the different raiders, the relationships that were attached to the activities of those peoples during that sojourn.
14. While the entity lost in material things, while the entity is experiencing in self in the present a reflection of those weaknesses in body through the infusion of influences that made for disturbing forces in the body, these that made for SOUL development were active in those experiences. For the entity then made for peace, hope, patience, longsuffering, understanding, with those peoples in that experience.
15. And in the present if these same experiences of patience with self, understandings with others, the relationships for the better understanding of that which produces the activities in the experiences of individuals are exercised in its relationships to its fellow man, they may bring in the experience those that make for greater soul development in the present.
16. Also those activities in that period made for a two-fold experience; that as applies to those things dealing with home relationships or those influences for making for the establishings of home, and those things that make for the business of TRADING with individuals in their various spheres of activity for those physical needs in other portions of the land. Or those things that make for a balancing of the economic conditions in places, lands, various groups, may be the activities that may bring those influences for harmonious activity in the experience of the entity; as a trader, as a salesman or a trader in dealing with the building up of homes or for the conveniences in same - the relationships with things of this nature may become the greater portion of the entity's activity. Those for beautifying of same also have their part in the entity's experience from that sojourn.
17. Before that we find the entity was in the Roman land, or as may be termed the Roman and the Promised Land.
18. For the entity then was among those of the soldiery during those periods when there were the establishings of rulers or tetrarches over the lands, or those who supervised the activities.
19. And during that period the entity was among those that came - when there was the trial of those that were persecuted by the JEWS for THEIR activity in a religious reaction from those experiences of the Master in the land - when there was the recall of the ruler Herod, the ruler that made FOR those activities when there were the persecutions of the Master and His disciples - or in those forces that made for the reconstruction of the activities in that land.
20. Then in the name Puliduon, the entity - it may be said - gained and lost, lost and gained. For as more and more of the experiences of those that were persecuted came to be a portion of the entity's experience, more and more there came to be an understanding of those relationships between individuals as compared with the relationships of individuals to Creative Forces.
21. And these phases of man's experience form differences between religious influences in most of the cults or most of the groups or lost of the philosophies of the various teachers and leaders.
22. Hence the entity in the latter portion gained in those experiences in the applying of the tenets that were gathered from the soldiery; for the entity TENDED as one with Paul when there as the first of the journeys to Rome, upon the ship - yes, that was shipwrecked; but among those - as indicated in the accounts by some - that arrived in Rome.
23. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as or called the Persian or Arabian, or in that 'city in the hills and the plains' where there were the healings that came to the individuals.
24. The entity then was among those peoples who were active in aiding many that were of various groups, various tribes. For THERE we find the entity was among those who correlated the thoughts for the helpfulness first in the PHYSICAL reactions and then those that made up the tenets that were of the teacher's activities in the sojourn.
25. Again we find from the entity's activities there, those relationships that deal with home and nation, or home and the state, or a COMBINED effort to make for not that as would be termed ROTE to ALL peoples but in MEETING the needs in the various groups for the conditions or activities under conditions existing in their own welfare, or their own surroundings.
26. Hence those indications again where the activities would have to do with making conveniences for the home or the establishings of same, that will bring to the entity greater mental and material application and material gain in the present experience - if there is the relief of the BODILY conditions in the present AS was in that experience.
27. Before that we find the entity was in the Egyptian land, during those periods when there were the preparations for the banishment and for those activities that took place.
28. For the entity was among the natives of the land that sided with the counsellors who made for the banishment of the Priest who had defied the laws as acceptable by the council of the various groups that comprised those activities in the experience.
29. The entity then was a politician, as it were, making for those overtures both to those of his own peoples, that later rose in rebellion, and to those of the King's household that made for the experience of being DIVIDED in their activity. So the entity soon became questioned by those of his own people as well as those of the King's.
30. And then, through the return of the Priest and through those cleansings as came by those activities in the Temples of Sacrifice, the entity was one who became a priest or a missionary priest to other lands.
31. Hence those things as are indicated in welfare work, missionary activity; yet those obtained or contained in making for the niceties of the welfares of or in HOMES have more influence in the experience of the entity in the present.
32. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, and that to which it may attain, and how:
33. In the present there are those influences that make for weaknesses that are indicated rather in the physical, yet the mental and soul are alert - in their own development.
34. Then, first in the physical meet the needs.
35. Then in the applications of self find those relationships as has been indicated, through which the greater service may be given to thy fellow man. For, "He that would be the greatest among you will be servant of all."
36. So in the relationships that make for the material gains of self in any activity, let the activity be rather as a service for others; knowing that what comes within thine own experience is a result OF the activities and not the ideal that has been set for SELF-ATTAINMENT, SELF-indulgence, self-glorification.
37. Be thou the CHANNEL for the highest.
38. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Mrs. [1158]
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. See previous 3 Physical Rdgs. in regard his illness and invalidism of 1 year with pleurisy.

REPORTS

1. See subsequent Physical Readings.
2. 11/30/36 See especially 1173-8, a Ck. Physical Reading, which gives mental-spiritual advice as to healing, Bible verses to study, and indicates "We have much work for [1173] to do."
3. 12/28/36 See 1173-9, a Mental-Spiritual reading regarding advisability or inadvisability of marriage to Miss [1483].
4. 8/13/37 His Physical Reading 1173-10 advised it would be safe healthwise for him to resume his art studies in Chicago.
5. 11/29/37 See 1173-11, a Ck. Life reading regarding his past relationships and present with Miss [1483], also subsequent correspondence.
6. 5/01/69 Sister [1158] reported that [1173] got his doctorate, became head of the Art Dept. in a mid-west university and has now become head of the new Art Library there, for which he is largely responsible and which is accounted second only to Harvard's in the whole country.

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