This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 3rd day of July, 1936, in accordance with request made by the brother - Mr. [256], Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mr. [256], Miss [338], and L. B. Cayce. Born December 28, 1899, in Boston, Mass.

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1. EC: (In going back over the years from the present to birth date - '1918 - What a change! - '17, '16," etc., on back to birth date.)
2. Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [1211].
3. In giving that as we find that may be helpful in the experience of the entity in the present, know that while astrological and the earthly sojourns ARE as omens or signs, or inclinations, the influences of will as respecting the knowledge and the application of Creative Forces in the experience of an entity far surpass or exceed an astrological or even a material sojourn.
4. For each soul enters an earthly experience with problems within its own experience, as well as for relationships that are to be met in the light of constructive influences.
5. For while there is prepared in the experience of each individual the ways and means through which the soul may attain its understanding, and there is the advocate with the Father through the Son, each soul - as the Son manifested in the flesh - meets those experiences.
6. For if ye would be like Him, put on Him, that He may stand with thee in those periods when doubt or fear arises, or when those influences arise from the very association of spirit with matter - that becomes the experience of each soul.
7. For it is the soul that seeks its companionship with its Maker, and in the flesh finds means of expressions that make forever true that as He has given "As ye do it unto these, the least of these my children, ye do it unto me."
8. So in the experiences of each soul, not only are they to become opportunities for self-expression but that others - too - through the experiences of their association - may bring into their own experience their relationships as one to another.
9. With this entity then, as we find, the astrological influences make the entity naturally as one headstrong, as one naturally tended towards having its own way. Hence it depends upon the manners of usage of these tendencies as to whether they may become as forbearing or forgiving or for that oneness with Creative Forces, or for self-indulgences. Yet the entity is a natural leader, with the natural inclinations for directions that may be as an impelling influence, if not by might by power, if not by right by the main forces in associations itself.
10. Hence all the more reason that such an entity keep the ideal before self, not only of its material relationships, not only in the material positions, but more so in that the spiritual ideal is not lost sight of in all of the activity, in all of its relationships.
11. The experiences in Jupiter are in keeping with the greater impulses for those conditions that will deal with the experiences of great numbers of individuals, whether these be turned into those directions that are indicated in the experiences of the entity from its sojourn as for individual leadership or for controlling the influences of many, or for the relationships that it bears in its dealings with and its efforts towards groups and masses - rather than the individual.
12. These become then a portion of the problems in the experience of the entity in the present sojourn.
13. For as has been indicated in the Martian influence, there are those tendencies for anger, strife, relationships of this character between nations or groups or individuals to at times become as a portion of the entity's experience - whether as personal or as the entity being a part of same. These also come as a portion of the entity's experience, making for those influences in which the entity may oft be misjudged as to his purposes or as to his acclaims and his activities.
14. The more efficient an individual finds itself, the more obligations, the more duties, the more responsibilities are required. In THIS is the saying true that "whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and purgeth every one." For of him to whom much is given is much expected.
15. As to its relationships in the earth and those that make for the emotional forces as from the Martian, Jupiterian indwelling, there is in the influence of the entity rather the emotional experience that may be turned into directions as in public speaking or in writing those things that would be as sensational, or as newspaper reporting. These might become a portion of the entity's experience in the present sojourn. These need to be tempered with that as has been indicated, not merely idealism but an ideal lived in the experience of those not only of whom the entity would speak, of whom the entity might report, but of the entity himself in his dealings with the activities. Giving, then, and taking; though the natural inclinations come for RULE by self, yet these tempered with those influences and forces for patience and mercy and justice would be helpful. As would be sought to be given to self, so give unto thy neighbor, thy brother.
16. As to the experiences in the earth, we find these while not great in number in the present influencing the entity, they become of such natures as to become a part of the EXPERIENCES of the entity from the emotional influences in the present experience.
17. Before this, then, we find the entity lived in the earth during those periods when there were the turmoils known as the Franco-Prussian influence, when there were the attempts for the seeking of aid in other lands; as with the Norwegian, the Spanish, the English land.
18. The entity then in those activities and services of the French land, in the name Bousarrd, made overtures for those expressions of activity.
19. Hence we will find in the experience of the entity in the present that which may be termed by some as the ability of the entity in seeking that it is really desirous of; towards influencing or wielding an influence, in bringing those forces to bear to gain the point of the entity's activity in the present.
20. These influences and these activities, to be sure, if they are used in a constructive manner make for an entity of great force and power in whatever field of activity or influence in which it may find itself active. Used in those ways for personal indulgence or personal aggrandizement they may become as stumbling-influences in the experience of the entity in the present.
21. Yet throughout that experience in the activities in the flesh the entity gained. For all the activities brought the consideration for the reasons, the wherewithals; the beauty in the estate, the beauty in relationships being as a part of the entity's argumentation.
22. And in the present the entity is a very good arguer when there are those desires in the activities as a determination in the influence of the entity.
23. Before that we find the entity was in that now known as the Promised Land, during those periods when the Master walked in the earth, during those periods when there were choices being made by those of the brotherhood to whom the entity had belonged, and the activities as set about by those who had become a portion of the gathering about the Teacher.
24. For the entity then was among those that were GIVEN authority to become as representatives and teachers, during that first portion of the entity's activity in the ministry of the Teacher.
25. Not until those periods when there arose the questionings by the authorities - as the Pharisees and the Sadducees, the Romans, that had become in a turmoil through the advancing forces of the Essenes - did the entity then withdraw as an ACTIVE teacher; not until the latter portions of those influences in that land.
26. And when the rebellions and forces arose after the death of James, then the entity again became as a figure, as an active one in the influences that had been presented by the Teacher in that experience.
27. Then in the name Barsaboi, the entity gained, the entity lost, the entity gained.
28. And thus we find from those very experiences the entity confusing self oft in its various stands as it takes respecting spiritual influence and spiritual activity; the influences which the entity draws about it as companions and activities, those influences that make for its activities in these directions.
29. Yet the entity holding fast to these may become again in power and in might as one that may direct those who are in turmoil, in strife.
30. For the IDEAL held as the activative force in the experience becomes then as the leading force in all of its relationships, all of its dealings with its fellow man.
31. And these are the expressions, these are the periods of the activity when the sojourns may become as the greater portion of the influence in this experience of the entity.
32. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Persian and Arabian, or in the 'city in the hills and in the plains,' when there were those peoples from the Grecian land who came first as those to take advantage of the situation.
33. The entity then was among those that persuaded those of its own people that there was power, there was might, not only the answering for the turmoils from within but for the material aids and the material help to the bodily afflictions of those that had come under the influence of the teacher.
34. And there again the entity gained and became as a leader; and was among those that were in power, being - as would be termed in the present - the second mayor of the 'city in the hills and the plains,' during those periods of Uhjltd's activity, during those periods of the rise of the city's activities as a commercial center, as a spiritual center, with the moral laws that became as a part of the Zoroastrian influences later in the experience of many peoples.
35. Then in the name Philossan, the entity gained much. For the position of the entity rose then to what might be said to be in the present as a high priest, or one commanding the people not only of the city but of many nations. For the influence of the entity went abroad to those that came to seek, and the activities then surpassed those of many that in the experience became as a portion of those activities in the 'city in the hills' that came from other nations.
36. For the experience of those activities there became as the melting pot, as it were; the Cosmopolitan of the many places, the democratic influence as was expressed or manifested - to use those terms that express such activities of the peoples as led so much by the entity during that particular expression or sojourn.
37. Before that, then, we find the entity was in the land of the present nativity, during those periods when there were the first of the activities of those peoples in the lands which now represent a portion of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah.
38. There the entity was among those who made for the associations with those activities when the great powers or nations - through those influences as brought by the activities in Egypt, India, the Gobi, the Og - cooperated in one great cause.
39. The entity then was a leader among those peoples for the alleviating of man's influence upon that created by man in the enormous animals that had lost control by the influences of the powers of suggestion in the associations of the spirit - or sons of men - upon the animal world.
40. The entity's name then, as would be sounded, would be Oum-om.
41. As to the abilities of the entity in the present and that to which it may attain, and how:
42. As has been indicated, in the material plane, in the mental activity, in the spiritual forces, find the ideal; and let its import be in the spiritual forces. Then those activities will guide naturally into the entity becoming a leader in whatever may be chosen as the activities in its relationships to its fellow man.
43. For it is naturally the counsellor, the natural guide; provided these are guided aright.
44. First know self, in what thou hast believed, in what thou wouldst attain to. Let HIM be thy guide, whom thou didst serve and who guided thee in thy aid to thy fellow man, that ye turned aside and again came unto the influence and brought such strength, such power, such might to those that became weakened through oppression, those that became weakened by their material gains being the greater oppressions to their own families.
45. Yea, in His strength, His might, His power may ye know the truth and keep thy paths straight; and thus bring in the present experience a development through the soul's relationships to the spiritual influences and the activities of the entity as related to the fellow man.
46. Ready for questions.
47. (Q) What type of work or activity is best suited to me, considering my physical condition and ability?
    (A) Any that will bring an activity as a leader, as a director, as a counsellor, as one to guide the activities of others.
48. (Q) What particular type of wood carving or woodwork would be best suited to my ability, and for which I could find a market?
    (A) While these fields are a portion of the entity's activity, the entity's activity should be turned first towards not a political office or power - as may be termed from purely a political reaction - but if those activities are used so that the influences and the very actions of the entity would have these used in public places, in public offices, public buildings, these will have the greater outlet.
49. (Q) Please give me a personal affirmation to be used in prayer.
    (A) THOU, O FATHER, THROUGH THY SON, IN MERCY, IN GRACE, IN PEACE, KEEP MY WAYS! GUIDE AND DIRECT THE CHOICE OF MY FRIENDS, OF THOSE THAT WOULD BECOME MY COMPANIONS. LET THE GLORY OF THY SON SO FILL MY HEART, MY MIND, THAT MY BODY-EXPRESSIONS WILL BE IN KEEPING WITH THAT THOU WOULD HAVE ME DO! AND MAY THE WORKS OF MY HANDS, MAY THE PURPOSES OF MY HEART, BE ALWAYS ACCEPTABLE IN THY SIGHT, MY LORD, MY REDEEMER!
50. (Q) Would you suggest any course of study or school other than the one I now attend?
    (A) The one now attended is well, but use the parliamentary rules with same and these will bring the greater associations in those directions wherein the activities will become more in keeping with the abilities as the progress goes.
51. (Q) Please state the relation in previous experiences with the members of my immediate family.
    (A) Where the activities of the family were in associations, when comparisons are drawn from the activities of each, it may be seen how the friendships and the relationships in each made for what may be termed the NECESSITY of their CLOSER relationship in the present. These sought by self in that as has been given, makes them become of a deeper meaning.
52. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Brother [256]
    Copy to Ass'n file

REPORTS

1. 2/18/37 Sister Miss [338]'s letter: "When I was home last week my brother [1211] asked me to have a physical reading for him. He is the one who had the shock about three years ago." [Brother [256] had a Life Reading for him when we were at the convention last spring - a wonderful reading - so all the information as to date of birth, etc., are with you. Enclosed is money for reading and also my semi-annual membership dues.]
2. 2/25/37 See 1211-2, a Physical Reading.

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