This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 22nd day of June, 1936, in accordance with request made by the mother - Mrs. [2651], through Study Group #3 of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mrs. [413].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [2651] and [1207], Mrs. [413] and Mrs. [578]. Born March 8, 1923, in Brooklyn, N.Y.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [1207].
2. Much might be given in this association as to how or why there was the entering of this entity in this particular environ in the present.
3. In giving that as we find that may be helpful for this entity in the experience in the present, know that while there are those natural inclinations from the sojourns in the earth, and through those environmental influences known as or called the astrological influences or sojourns, all of these are but inclinations. And what the entity does about those influences, as related to that set as the entity's ideal, becomes that which produces or brings the soul development.
4. Hence we find that sincerity of purpose, sincerity in the experience of the entity, then, should for THIS entity in this experience be that to which the entity should attain and hold before self, ever, in every relationship, in every dealing with the individuals; and more especially should be that environ from the material angle that should be presented to the entity by those who have the training from the material standpoint in the present.
5. Coming under the influence in the astrological aspects we find the Piscean as well as the Jupiterian, the Venus, the Mercurian, becoming rather as the impelling influences.
6. Hence we will find one of high mental abilities, capable of taking on great undertakings - whether these be from endurance from the physical, endurance from the mental capacities or from attaining understandings from those that become the leading or the main impelling forces of every nature; towards an artistic temperament, especially as in relationships to movements of the body, developments of the body, developments of these as expressions or interpretations of influences or emotions in the experiences of others.
7. Hence that as may be seen as should be, as is the keynote of the experience - sincerity. For those things that will make for, in the minds and in the experiences of others, a development of these abilities in creating for the minds of others that which is of a constructive and of a spiritual nature.
8. In those influences from Jupiter we will find those relationships having to do with great numbers of peoples, peoples in every walk of life; the various phases of individual experiences will be as a contact for the individual entity.
9. Hence all the more purpose and reason that sincerity in self, sincerity of that being expressed, be the impelling force in the experience of this entity.
10. In Venus we will find those influences that will bring consternation as well as the greater developments. Hence they become as the dividing line upon which warnings might be given as to relationships the entity may bear to those whom it may contact. While there is the natural tendency for the entity to be a trusting disposition, the loving of those emotions that may be created by the activities of itself in relationships to others, love and affection and close associates and friendships, yet if these are allowed to be made or to become for self-glory, self-exaltation, self-indulgence, self-gratifying of that which is a natural instinct and turn to self, they will become forces or channels through which the greater retardment will be capable of being experienced by the entity in this present sojourn.
11. Yet if these influences, associations and developments are for an ideal, and these kept in a direction in which there will be kept a sincerity to those influences for the ideal - not idealistic alone but an ideal - the friendships, the associations, the activities, the emotions will be made to bring into the experience that which is the greater force for a magnifying of that which is expressed in love, in emotion, in friendships.
12. For these be the fruits. They that would be lovely must show themselves to be lovely in themselves. They that would have the love of others must be to self and to others sincere in the character of the emotions that may be brought into the experience of others. And in these then may there be carried that which is as the true purpose for the experiences of the entity in not only the interims about the earth but as will be seen meeting much of those influences that have been a portion of the entity's experience in the earth.
13. As to the influences then that arise in the experience of the entity from those sojourns in the earth, we find these are they that in the present make for their influence:
14. Before this we find the entity was in the land of its present sojourn, among those peoples that were of the greater spiritually developed natives in the eastern borders of the land.
15. The entity then was a daughter to the chief Powhatan medicine man, or in the name Tuluawa, or Snow White; that made for such associations with the activities of the individuals during those periods when there were the understandings as created by the activities of Powhatan - as the associations with those that came to be dwellers in the land.
16. Then the entity made for the associations in such measures and manners as to carry to the peoples in other lands, as well as in its own native land, the interpretations of the chants that were made by those peoples for the various occasions; as to whether this were in those periods when there were the emotions for the birth of an heir or a son or a brave or a daughter, or whether as to the weddings of the peoples or the emotions for the activities as related to the new moon, or whether the seasons when there were the offerings for the plenty, or even to the funeral dirges - as would be the interpretations to individuals in the present.
17. The entity then in the dance, in the song, in the emotions, in the activities, led in those experiences during that sojourn; and made for a development for body, mind, and for the spiritual forces that brought the closer associations and the understandings of individuals with the Great Father or the Creative Forces, or for the preparation of those as to their relationships to the Happy Hunting Grounds, of those that made for THEIR preparations in the material associations with their individual brethren.
18. Hence as may be experienced by the entity in the present, not that there are to be the considerations only of self but of aiding others in the activity, in the association, to hold within themselves, in their mind, in their experience, that force, that influence to which each soul desires to attain - for a permanent association with ITS ideal, or its God.
19. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the English, during those early portions of the settlings when the peoples from the Norse land came as a conquering peoples of the Britons - as termed, or those peoples who had been or were then as the descendants of those from the Pyrenees.
20. The entity then was among those people that were as a coalition of those settlings, and the entity brought then to those peoples in the name of Heloiean - much of that known as the period when there were the recreations in games, in dance, the preparations for entertainment of every nature to those that gathered as groups - of course during those periods as clans, or as the entertaining of one group by another.
21. Then the entity made for a development, and yet for a loss in development during that experience. For when these were turned into self-glorification, that there might be power that it might rule over others, or by the force of its position induce or cause others to be put into positions that to them became as a burden, these brought destructive influences in the experience of the entity.
22. Yet when love came into the experience of the entity, through its associations, there came then the establishings of the beauties that made for even in those early periods that which allowed for the understandings by those peoples later that arose seeking for a religious influence and for the establishings of a formation in the homes - that will be found, by the study of those early periods, DIFFERENT in England from any other land; and the greater portion was caused by that the entity brought to those peoples in those early experiences.
23. Before that we find the entity lived in the earth during the days when the Master walked therein, especially in that period just previous to His teachings that became as the examples to all - through not only the material benefits for the secular life but those that made for the answering to that longing that arises ever within the human breast for the continuation of a consciousness that will live on and on.
24. The entity then was among the entertainers at the court of Herod. And if the entity will read oft the record of the dance of those that asked for the head of John the Baptist, there will come - with meditations - a feeling of emotions that may not be aroused by any other sort of experience.
25. Yet when those of that court came under the influence of the teachings of the Master, when there were the healings of Pontius Pilate's son by the Master, the entity then joined with those that are rather later spoken of as the holy women - that followed afar, yea and made for many preparations for those that were to come under the persecutions of those in the latter days.
26. The entity then, in the name Cleopeo, gained throughout; for those experiences in pomp and power, in the lowly walks among the needy, the persecuted, brought for the entity an inner feeling that should be kept even as the light burning within the heart ever, that may make for that as its ideal in all of its experiences in the present, even as it in the former appearances and experience held to the Law of One which was exemplified as the same through those teachings given by Him who was to the entity the friend and the Savior.
27. Before that, then, we find the entity was in the Egyptian land, during those periods when there were those coming into the land from Atlantis.
28. The entity then was among the Atlanteans, the younger of those peoples that came into the Egyptian land.
29. With the establishing then of the Temple of Sacrifice and the Temple Beautiful, the entity was among those that were at the posts in the Temple Beautiful for the interpretations of the emotions of the man, the emotions of the body, that were to be regenerated through the activities in the dance, as well as the emotions of the body; and thus brought to the experience of those that made for the consecrating of self for activity in the service of the individuals as well as the groups, help, aid, understanding.
30. As to the abilities of the entity, then - these arise beyond those of the ordinary. Hence the entity in that period became one that went from place to place where there were to be the initiations of groups for themselves that had been dedicated for the service. Hence the entity came to know many lands, as it may in the present come to know many, many lands and under various circumstance, various experiences may the dance that is the interpretations of the emotions of the body, for Creative Forces, bringing about the emotions of all the various experiences, make in self as well as in those to whom the entity may minister in such a way and manner, the joy of the Lord through the living in an understanding manner of those forces that are as a part of each body, each soul in its expression of the glories of the Father.
31. In attaining same, then, as has been given, first set thine ideal in Him, even as thou hast chosen Him from among those peoples rather than those of the house of plenty or the periods where the lauding of self might have been the experience. Choose ye the ways of the Lord!
32. Then in making for developments in the abilities as the dancer, or the interpretations of the emotions in what may be called the athletic or the dramatic direction, all of these may be a portion of the entity's experience as to bring much of joy, much of understanding - and the entity through such may make the world a better place to live.
33. Ready for questions.
34. (Q) Any warnings as to conditions which might prevent me from giving my best in my work?
    (A) Only those as has been indicated. Do not in ANY relationships do this or that for POLICY'S sake, unless that policy be in sincerity to thine own ideal.
35. (Q) What line of development should I devote my life to?
    (A) As has been indicated, in the interpretation through the dance or through the athletic forces or dramatic forces that may bring to the mind and experience of others the glory of expressing the rhythm and the music of the inner self.
36. (Q) On which of my present studies should I concentrate the most?
    (A) As these become as the artistic development and temperament, that that may be termed roughly MATHEMATICAL - but rather that that is the harmony and the color and the voice of same, than those as characters only.
37. (Q) What special line of training in an educational way should I follow, and where should I go to get it?
    (A) These should be of the natural forces and the natural means, and those channels or forces through which these may be given in the better way and manner. These should be the places, or the choice. Those as of an athletic force, yet a dramatic school should be those of the dance or the general educational forces.
38. (Q) Why am I interested in so many lines or manners of expression?
    (A) As has been indicated, how many, how varied have been the experiences in the earth's plane of these. In most, as indicated, these have been for a development. Then these in each become a part of the self. But those that express the emotions in dramatics, those that express the emotions in the bodily forces, to those influences then may the greater development come.
39. (Q) Please give my life seal and its interpretation.
    (A) A tree that would be as of the willow type, above which is the Cross with the crown over same. Upon same, over but above and upon same, see? Below the left side and over the right side of same. The interpretation is as the growth of the body, the mind, to those that would supply - as through the Cross - the glory and the beauty of the spiritual and the mental life in the Cross, the Christ.
40. We are through.

    Copy to Mother
    Copy to Ass'n file

REPORTS

1. 6/27/41 She obtained a Physical Rdg. 1207-2, for injured kneecap. She had become a dancing teacher. Later she had her own dancing school.
2. See Source File Key #1207 for Solar Chart submitted by Dorothy Moore re 1207-1.

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