This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 17th day of July, 1936, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [1222], through Study Group #7 of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., via Mr. [533].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [1222] and baby daughter, Mrs. [578], Mrs. [540] and Mrs. [263]. Born January 18, 1902, in Portsmouth, Va.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called Mrs. [1222].
2. In giving the interpretation of those influences in the experience of this entity as from the astrological aspects and from the sojourns in the earth, these as we find HAVE been rather more coordinant in the experience of this entity than is ordinarily indicated.
3. Not that there have not been periods when disturbances or confusions arose, but rather has there been a consistent application of self towards those influences and environs; and a development throughout the experiences in the earth.
4. Hence much may be accomplished by the entity in the application of self in the present experience; though as may be found there will be many trials, there will be many decisions to be made for others, there will be experiences that will make for the shattering of much of that which has been held as idealistic. But if there is still held to the influences and directions that arise from the constant associations of self mentally, associations of self in its application to individuals about the entity, we will find strength, help, harmony and understanding coming where many another might break.
5. As to the influences that arise from the astrological sojourns, these are rather in keeping with the time - the Aquarius forces, and as there are the beginnings of the Aquarian age.
6. Then DO NOT consider self as being unusual because unusual experiences arise in thy associations, in thy meditations, in thy activities with thy fellow men. Do not do OTHER, though, than contemplate these. Remember thou art in the same signs, omens, as the Mother of Him; that gave to the earth the physical man, Jesus - Aquarius in its PERCEPTION, perfection.
7. Hence when those experiences arose in that life, ye find it said, "She pondered these in her heart."
8. Hence the same injunction might be given. For no better direction can be had or given than the consecrating of self in body, in mind, in activity to the service of those influences, those forces that may be as those that the self may give to others in the meditations, in the supplications; keeping self in those directions that INDEED as He gave, "Ye abide in me, I in the Father," and ye may know those forces from the abiding presence of the Master's forces.
9. As to those forces that arise from Venus, from the sojourns of the entity there, we find that emotions of a nature - yet spiritual emotions rather than the body emotions - make for ruling influences in the life. Yet keep THESE coordinant. For know that there IS a way at times that seemeth right yet the end is confusion - unless it be directed by those forces, those influences as arise from direction by the application of the spirit of truth; as in patience, longsuffering, charity, fellowship, grace and mercy.
10. For it will be seen that a greater and greater controlling force may be obtained in self by being QUIET within, listening to the still small voice as may speak from within the temple where He hath promised ever to meet those that seek to know Him.
11. Turn then oft within, that those forces of love, those influences of patience, those activities even of long-suffering, may bear with those that make for even heartaches from the misinterpretation of their activities; but directing of such, as in the relationships in the home, may oft be better done by prayer than by tirade ever!
12. Those forces as as find from the astrological aspects in Uranus make for the extremes in the experiences of the ASSOCIATION, rather than in self. For as self HAS been, as self IS well balanced in its ideas and ideal, to such an individual there oft appears to be much that makes for turmoils or indecisions in the minds or activities at least of others.
13. Hence keep QUIET and at peace within, and we will find extremes becoming MEANS and ways and manners and activities that are befitting those that set their ideals in the spiritual forces.
14. Those aspects as we find from Neptune make for those experiences that will be rather as the dealings with many that have to do with water, the SOURCES of influence or force in materiality.
15. Hence we will find material means, material sustenance, oft may come from the fruits of waters; or as those relationships across many waters. These bring then an influence that may needs be reckoned with, yet hold fast to that faith in Him. For as He is, was, holy; so may ye be holy in Him.
16. For He hath promised to be thy counsel, thy guard, thy stay, and a very present help in trouble.
17. Remember Him also then in thy joys as well as thy sorrows, remembering Him also in thy displeasures as well as thy pleasures. For where the heart is there the treasure will be also.
18. As to the appearances in the earth and those that influence the entity in the present, we find these - while not so many - quite VARIED from an OUTWARD appearance in the activities. Yet Life is ONE; its associations, its relations have brought, do bring, not by accident but by relativity of needs not only of individuals but the strengthening of self in its purpose, making for an influence and an activity that brings into the experience of the soul the awakening as it were to the glories, to the joys, to those forces that arise from the inner self being in accord with constructive or God-force in the experience.
19. Before this, then, we find the entity was in the land of the present nativity, during those periods when there were the settlings in this land; during those periods when many were brought from other lands to become companions of those that had settled in the land.
20. In this wise came the entity into that known as the Virginian land, especially in and around what is now known as Williamsburg or Fredericksburg and Williamsburg.
21. The entity was traded once for two thousand pounds of tobacco!
22. In the experience the entity gained throughout its activity, for while those associations brought much of a turmoil, much of a change in the environ and in the experiences, the entity gained. Before landing the entity was in the name of Sarah Hudleton, becoming Sarah Goodall.
23. In the activities the entity builded for the home, which is in the experience of every soul that nearest akin to a spiritual understanding. And the highest to which a soul may attain in material activities is building, creating a HOME that makes for the moulding of character, the moulding of ideas, the moulding of that upon which the RULINGS of the state, the nations, depend for their very existence in material forces.
24. The entity not only builded the home but aided in the teaching and the training of those that were of the younger peoples. And these made for those experiences in the present wherein the desire for peace and harmony in the home is felt, yet there are the abilities to give directions for not only these in the experience of those about the entity but that their lives be directed, their lives be guided by SPIRITUAL forces and influences rather than only material gain, either in fame or in fortune.
25. And these be as those forces that may keep, that may hold much in the development for the entity in this experience; not only by precept but by example.
26. As the entity taught and lived in those experiences, so may it in the present be a living example; keeping quiet within, letting God give the increase in those directions. Fret not thyself as to those that appear to be indifferent, but SO LIVE thine own life that it is in keeping with that ye would proclaim to thy neighbor, thy friend, thine own household.
27. Before that we find the entity was in that known as the Holy Land, or the Promised Land, during those experiences when there were those expectancies and those activities when there was the activity that brought the Prince of Peace, the Christ, Jesus, into the earth.
28. The entity then was among those, or that ONE that would be termed as the waiting maid with Elizabeth AND with Mary when they each were heavy with child; and at their meeting when there was the awareness of that as was to come to pass, the entity then was that one that blessed them both and made those prophecies as to what would be the MATERIAL experience of each in the earth.
29. Then in the name Anna, the entity waited in the preparations for the maidens that consecrated their lives for this expectancy in those periods.
30. Hence the entity was then known as a seeress, a prophetess; and is one in the present that may find oft innate experiences coming through voices, through sounds as of music, through the rushing of mighty winds. But KNOW, O my child, their SOURCE, when such things come to pass!
31. In the present from those activities there may come that as will enable the entity to counsel with those who seek to know the interpretation of experiences of every nature pertaining to a SOUL movement or activity. Hold not to things of the flesh or of the earth, but to that as thou didst give in those aids and helps to not only those mothers but to the young women, to the maidens of that day, that period.
32. For thy counsel gave strength to many. Abide ye IN that strength that may keep thee first, and may aid thee in counselling with others.
33. Before that (that bears upon the entity's activities) we find the entity was in the Persian or the Grecian land, in those activities as related to the Grecians into those activities of the Persian and the Arabian, when there were those ATTEMPTS as it were to gather the better forces from those activities for their applications in the Grecian land.
34. The entity then was beautiful in body, beautiful in character; yet was attempted to be used by those that would make for material influences in the activities of those leaders in 'the city in the hills and in the plains.'
35. Coming under those influences then the entity made for separations from the Grecians' activity, joining with those in the services that made for the helpful force as a home for those that were without, aid to those that were sick, help to those that were discouraged.
36. And the entity gained through the experience, becoming a helper to that teacher Uhjltd in that experience; making for much that aided many in many lands during that sojourn.
37. In the present we find dress, symbols, music, those things pertaining to manners and means of expression of the emotions in the SPIRITUAL manner become a part of the entity's experience and longings.
38. These may be kept aright, and kept aright make for strengthening influences in the experience of the entity - the things themselves rather than their import become stumbling blocks to self, to others.
39. Before that we find the entity was in the Egyptian land. And in those preparations in the Temple of Sacrifice and in the Temple Beautiful did the entity act as the helpmate, as one that assisted the Priest in those activities; thus made for gaining of strength to many that became weak through the clarifying, the purifying of their bodies from the animal forces.
40. Hence the entity became as one later that was worshiped by many, in the name then Shpt-Elshat.
41. In the present from those experiences we find the purifying of body in purpose becomes almost as an obsession in the bodily activities. These are WELL, but remember those forces as He gave; that which cometh from the body, not that which goeth in defileth same. That which is the expression in the relationships to thy fellow man, keep. For not faith alone but works by faith make for the proper purifying, the proper concentrating, the proper relationships in activities.
42. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, and that to which it may attain and how:
43. That to which it may attain is not measurable. How? Holding to that as is the basis, the foundation of truth as it expresses itself in the material relationships; holding fast oft as in this - let this thy prayer be, even as in the Temple thy voice was raised, even as in the Temple Beautiful, even in the Temple of Sacrifice, even in thine home though made in the wood:
44. "LORD OF MIGHT, OF POWER, OF LIGHT, KEEP THOU THY SERVANT, THY CHILD, IN THE WAY THOU WOULD HAVE IT GO! DIRECT THE WAYS, THE THOUGHTS, THE CARES, IN THE WAYS THAT MAKE FOR THE CHANNELS OF THY LIGHT TO THY CHILDREN EVERYWHERE."
45. Ready for questions.
46. (Q) Have I any healing power; if so, how may I develop it?
    (A) By raising those vibrations within self to the consciousness of the Christ-force, and giving it out through the hands and through the thoughts.
47. (Q) For what did I come into this plane at this time?
    (A) To be the aid, the help, to many that are seeking THEIR way through the earth's experience at this time. Not for self, then, but others, that their strength might be increased; that thy own glory and power may be the stronger in Him.
48. (Q) Please advise what I should do that I may accomplish that for which I am called.
    (A) Hold fast to that trust in Him. As ye read the 14th of St. John, as ye read in Luke thy blessings in the Temple, there will be given thee much that is BEYOND giving words to here.
49. (Q) Please advise me as to the course I should pursue in the training of my daughter, [1406].
    (A) Not by might, nor by power, but by love. Not by that of indulgence but by the strength that thou may maintain in the spiritual understanding. For the greater is the directing of a look than a chiding by producing hatred or fear. Keep the love INFLUENCE afore.
50. (Q) Have I ever contacted my husband [2493] in any other experience; if so in what way?
    (A) He bought you! Doesn't he act like it at times? ["He sure does!" she said later. Noted on p. 119 of Gina Cerminara's book, THE WORLD WITHIN, 5/57.]
51. (Q) Have I contacted any of my children before in former experiences?
    (A) This requires a great deal of searching, as to some, where, how. These we do not see in the present.
52. (Q) What is my seal? Please give interpretation.
    (A) The tree - as of the bay tree; with the Cross and the Cup ON same. The Cross on the trunk, the Cup or the chalice in the foliage. The words as would be with same, Ixcel Tum Ken; the interpretation: "Grow in strength, in might, as the tree; but in the LORD as thy guide."
    This should be in color, to be sure, as the bay tree - and the chalice or cup red, while the Cross would be GREEN.
    The stones that should be about the body would be of the ruby; the color or the cloth as should be most used would be purple and mauve - these should ever be. And wear something BLUE ever next to the body.
53. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file

REPORTS

1. 10/30/36 A Physical Rdg. was obtained for child [1282] via her recommendation.
2. 7/13/37 Life Rdg. was secured for daughter [1406]. See 1406-1, Par. 64-A indicating their association in Palestine.
3. 9/23/37 She obtained a Physical Rdg. - See 1222-2.
4. 11/06/40 See 281-50, Par. 20-A personal message in prayer group reading.
5. 8/26/41 EC read her aura at Tuesday night Bible Class. See under 5746-1 Reports.
6. 12/02/41 She obtained Life Rdg. for her second daughter, [2632].
7. 12/22/48 She requested copy of her Life Rdg., saying she is now "keeping company" with a sailor (having long since separated from [2493], for whom she obtained a Physical Rdg. on 4/26/41); seemed to think it had some bearing on something mentioned in her Life Rdg.
8. 2/15/71 Daughter [2632] reported that Mrs. [1222] did remarry, and that Mr. [2493] had also remarried but he had died on 12/26/70. Mrs. [1222] is fine, still living in Va. and married to the second husband.

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