This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 23rd day of July, 1936, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [1230], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc, recommended by Mr. [877].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Born February 6, 1906, at 9:00 A. M., at Woodstock, Ontario, Canada.

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1. EC: (In going back over years from present to birth date - "Something wrong with this." He kept repeating the name, birth date, place, etc., as if something pertaining to same was not exactly correct as presented.)
2. Yes, we have the entity and those inclinations as indicated from the records here of that entity now called [1230].
3. In giving that as we find from those inclinations, those tendencies that are indicated in the experiences of the entity in the earth's plane, those as influences that are manifested in the innate forces of the entity, we find:
4. Considering then life, a soul, an entity as a continuous stream of experience - and the activities in the earth's plane as a lesson that is learned by the entity - the experiences through the astrological sojourns become rather as a digesting or an assimilating of that which has been experienced or gained in the lesson.
5. Hence we find these experiences ever being weighed and paralleled with the Creative Forces or that held as same in the experience of an entity in what is called or known as earth or material consciousness.
6. Hence with the will and that as is the experience comes those continual conflicting influences or those that work in accord with what is for the development of an entity.
7. The purpose then of an entity's experience in any sphere of consciousness becomes - from a reasoning angle - for what?
8. All souls were made as companions, as a portion of the Whole. Hence the soul is that wherein an entity makes for its developments. For it is in the image, in the pattern of the Creative Forces; and only that as is constructive can abide in that Creative Presence. Hence the necessity for the purpose of an entity in its experiences in the earth to set, to choose, to make for ideals.
9. Hence out of this in the experience of mankind has grown that which is known as religion, or the seeking for that knowledge of the Creative Forces in the experience of an individual.
10. Hence we find all influences that may be as a portion of this entity, for the ruling influences, come as the Mercurian; as one of those that in the BEGINNINGS finds itself giving expression as an Atlantean, giving expression in those periods when great changes may be expected in movements in the earth of those natures that have had to do with the experiences of man respecting his relationships to the Creative Forces and the application of those as relating to the fellow man.
11. Out of much of these have grown those ideas of a chosen few. Out of these have grown those ideas of activities where there have been given special dispensations as it were to individuals for individual activity or expression.
12. Hence the MENTAL forces as from the Mercurian become as a reasoning influence in the experience of THIS entity in this sojourn.
13. And while those things that give expression of these are oft held as fanciful, the entity must within itself REASON the purposes and the fruit of that to which an idea, an ideal, an act, an association is LEADING the entity.
14. These are well if they are well chosen and if the consideration is given within self as to what are self's relationships to Creative Forces and the relationship to the individual souls the entity may meet in its activity in a material plane.
15. For these must be one. For the very first injunction that was given, or question asked when choices were made, was that each soul is its brother's keeper - for it bears a relative relationship to that first cause, that first premise in individual experience.
16. In the entity's activities we find also Mercury's influence making for, with Venus, judgements in the choice of friends, the choice of conditions, the choice of experiences almost that the entity may entertain. And with not an indifference but the ability to hold duty with sentiment, with obligations, as being of a self apart; yet making for beauty, grace, those activities that make for the ability for the entity to make itself amenable to circumstance, to environs, to conditions roundabout.
17. Those influences as we find from the Jupiterian sojourn make for the innate forces. For these of the astrological nature are as urges deep within, and only give the greater manifestations under stress or under the deep meditation, or deep reasoning.
18. The extremes we find arising from those activities in the environ for such influences - or Uranus. Hence we find the entity rising to heights in some of its ambitions, its desires, and yet others are apparently forgotten - still they are a part of the entity. For the psychic forces, the soul forces HAVE been, ARE manifested. And the entity is an old, OLD soul in the experiences in the earth; though only a few of these we find making for the expressions in self in the present.
19. As to the activities of the entity in the earth, then, we find:
20. Before this we find the entity was in that influence when there were in and about the land of the present nativity those experiences for the warring of those peoples that had settled in the land, and those changes that made for the determining of boundaries politically, boundaries nationally, boundaries as to thought and speech.
21. It was during those experiences just preceding the activities of what is called the American Revolution.
22. There the entity was active in a portion of those influences, for the entity then in the name Paulus Cesmore counseled oft with those of her own household that aided in establishing those activities which brought the helpful forces in the commercial, in the spiritual, in the social activities in that sojourn.
23. Before that we find the entity lived in the earth during those periods when there were the influences in the Roman activity from the journeyings of many from a land where the teachings of the Nazarene had become a portion of those influences about which the entity made for many changes in her surroundings.
24. For coming under the influence of Paul, coming under the influence of Titus, knowing of or having the knowledge of Timothy's activities, these brought a strength in individuals that made for a caring of those forces that produced in the experiences of the lowly a strength, that produced in the experiences of those in high estate or authority or social prestige the love and the knowledge of all being of one purpose before a Creative Force.
25. The entity then in the name Pondus was among those in the Roman rule who first induced the rulers to CONSIDER that those teachings were becoming a part of that empire.
26. Hence we find the entity's experiences in the present are often shaded by those influences of great speakers, those influences of great conditions that arise as problems in the experiences of nations, that arise as problems in the experiences of households, that arise as problems in the experience of cities - and individual activity. These are of interest. Hence we find the type of reading, the type of music, the type even of household furnitures - those of particular characters and of particular periods become of an intense interest to the entity. For there are the feelings, as experienced through those sojourns there, that these influence those in their developing years.
27. Hence the entity may be said to be an IDEAL HOME BUILDER; having ideas and ideals, and the purposes and means for making these as experiences in the lives of those the entity may either entertain or influence or direct in any manner.
28. Before that we find the entity was in the Egyptian land, during those periods when there was a correlating of the teachings of Ra-Ta, Saneid, On (?), and those from the Mongoloid land.
29. The entity was among those who prepared themselves in the Temples of Sacrifice, the Temples of Beauty, for a special activity; though the entity then was of those peoples that had come from the Atlantean land. The entity became then an emissary to the Mongoloid land. There the entity became a priestess in the Temple of Gold, in the Temple of the Sun that made for those activities that brought much in the experiences of the peoples during that sojourn in the earth. For there much of the strength, the power, the strength of right and wrong, became expressed as to whether there should be the ruling forces of man or woman in the experiences of the earth.
30. Hence the entity finds itself oft taking decided stands as to abilities of individuals in various sects or in different sects (sex?) for activities in a particular service or a particular activity; whether this be in teaching or in the home or in the city or in the nations. These become as a portion of the entity's thought, the entity's experience.
31. There again we may find the entity gaining and losing and gaining through those varied experiences passed during those changes in the earth's activity.
32. Before that we find the entity was in the Atlantean land during those periods when the first changes came that made for the use of those influences builded up between the children of the Law of One and the children of Belial.
33. The entity then was an active influence in making for the preparations in the temple service for those activities in which there were those periods when there came - as from without - those teachings that were to guide the peoples within the earth.
34. Hence again the mysterious forces of nature, the mysterious forces of the mind, the mysteries as combined between these become as a portion of the entity's thought, the entity's meditation, the entity's inner self.
35. The name then was Azulee.
36. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, and that to which it may attain and how:
37. In many fields of activities might the entity excel from a material view. In the home building and in the advice and counsel that might be given in these directions, through papers, through pamphlets, through writings, would be well.
38. In directing in those activities for the deeper - or the BROADER, rather - expanse of human experience may the entity give counsel often.
39. Then, in the counsel to self, know in what thou HAST believed, and thy relationships to same - and as to how this may apply in the experiences of those that ye meet day by day.
40. For much may be set in motion in THIS experience by the entity to meet those forces - or the influences for the coming of those forces again in the earth for the DIRECTING of many.
41. Ready for questions.
42. We are through for the present.

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BACKGROUND

1. 7/20/36 Mr. [877]'s letter: "My wife and I are staying here for 10 days with the [1230]'s... If all goes well she will want readings for her husband & three children... Have explained everything to her and she is with us 100%."

REPORTS

1. 7/30/36 Mr. [877]'s letter: "Mrs. [1230] is delighted with her Life Reading. My wife and I went over it very carefully with her yesterday and she now understands it thoroughly and finds it extremely helpful and wonderfully interesting. One might say that she was really amazed. I am quite confident that many good things will result from this reading, both for Mrs. [1230] and the Association."
2. 9/12/36 See 877-11, Par. 21-A indicating that Mrs. [1230] was in the court, or a daughter of a priest of the Gobi period, when Mr. [877] was there.

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