This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 6th day of August, 1936, in accordance with request made by the father - Mr. [370], Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. L. B. Cayce. Born January 8, 1916, on the southeast line of the Corporate limits of Birmingham, Ala., near mines known as Hellen-Bess.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the record here of that entity now known as or called [1243].
2. In giving the interpretation of those influences in the experience of this entity from those records, know that these are as inclinations - from the astrological as well as from the earthly sojourns.
3. Those from the astrological become as urges that are as innate or mental forces, while those from the earthly sojourns become more as the emotions and thus earthly.
4. Hence in meeting or in making the choices of these, these are ever weighed with the will - and the will as to the ideals or in the relationships or relative to the ideals. And the ideals those judgments in which a mental, a moral, a material experience as in relationship to that ideal which is of the Creative Forces within the experience of each and every soul.
5. For unless it is ideal it hasn't, in the entity's experience, the power, the knowledge, the wherewithal to become a growing experience in the influence of an entity.
6. Hence in the meditations, or in the prayers, or in the daydreams, these experiences, these as emotions, these influences as those things that come either to haunt or to make for that which becomes as constructive influences in the experience of each soul.
7. For while the body changes, for it - too - must be purified, the SOUL remains ever as one. For it is in the image of the Creator and has its birthright in Him. And if this birthright is sold for the satisfying of those urges of earthly desires, they become stumblingblocks in the experience and thus the entity finds itself constantly in each and every environ meeting itself, either mentally, materially, physically, in the environs and in the experiences which are a portion of each and every soul.
8. In the astrological urges we find the entity coming under those influences from Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Mars.
9. Hence we will find these as innate urges that find expression when the entity gives lodgement, as it were, to the thoughts or the mental forces created by these as environmental urges of the mental forces, or soul forces, or mental-soul forces of the entity.
10. Anger, very determined, experiences where sympathy, love and those expressions of same all become part and parcel of the entity.
11. Those influences that have to deal with great numbers of people, those desires that find expressions in being associated with large groups are a part - not as a herd but rather as a part of the experience of the whole - all of these become as a portion of the entity's inner self. And these have found, these do find their expressions in the material or earthly sojourns as from these - that influence the entity in the present; and we will find that in seven to ten years OTHERS will become a part of the entity's experience, when duties, obligations, the setting of self in the various activities in which it may find itself producing and making for the varied environmental forces become under other urges. But these as we find in the present:
12. Before this we find the entity was in the land of the present nativity, during those early portions when that part of the land in which the entity now sojourns was a portion of Virginia and Kentucky - those early parts of the settlings of the land.
13. The entity then was among those that were of the pioneers, or of the WOMEN among the pioneers. For while there are those expressions in many a way in which the entity finds itself wishing or desiring to be of the stronger sex (as called), it is very feminine in most manners - except its headstrongness and determination that are a part and portion of the experiences.
14. For the sojourns of THIS entity, only in desires, have ever been in its present sex.
15. Then we find the entity was in the name of Mildred Knox, among those that pushed forward to what is now known as the Talledega Springs; and in and among those peoples of that land, the natives of the land, did the entity make for associations and connections in which not only were her own people held in high esteem by the very manner of the entity's conduct among those peoples but the entity also gained in material things and material ways.
16. And as we find from those inclinations and those urges that arise, those activities in which the entity would find itself making those preparations for a NURSE - as for an associate with those that minister to peoples, either as a nurse or as a secretary or in such capacities - would be those in which the entity would find not only the enjoyment but an outlet for the expressions, for the feelings that are not as inhibitions but those urges that raise the entity up at times in its desires to do something BIG, something helpful to those less fortunate; to make for comfort, to make for these to those that are disturbed mentally or physically.
17. In such an environ may the entity in the present experience find the greater success materially and the opportunities in same for its own spiritual and mental and soul development.
18. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Persian, during those periods when there was the activity for the healing of those by the laying on of hands, by the purifying of the body by the purgings from disorder and distress by the means of those that in the present are called cleanliness.
19. The entity there was then closely associated with the one who is its father in the present sojourn, and in those activities with the leader in 'the city in the hills and the plains.'
20. For the entity then was in those activities which made for the caring for those that were dis-eased and diseased in body and in mind, and made for the activities that brought much of help and aid. And through the experience the entity gained in those activities.
21. Then it was in the name that would be called in the present Agnes, or then Agababes.
22. Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as the Egyptian, during those experiences when there were the preparations of those that were active as emissaries to other lands.
23. Thus the entity found itself among those that had returned with the Priest from the Abyssinian land, as one cleansed in the fires of the Temple of Sacrifice, purified, beautified in the Temple Beautiful, for its activities in that land to which it later came as a healer and helper - the Persian.
24. The name then was Aleneaen.
25. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, and that to which it may attain and how:
26. As we find, first in the next ten to fourteen years the application of self should be in those environs in which there are the close associations with those that heal, or that minister to the sick; or as in the preparation of self in those capacities as such may the entity find those ways, those means, those manners of giving the greater expression.
27. And after that period, building its own home.
28. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Mr. [370]
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. 7/19/36 Father [370]'s letter: "My daughter has asked that I get her a Life Reading. She was born ... I believe she is thinking of marriage and doesn't want to make a mistake. I am glad she wants a reading."

REPORTS

1. 8/07/36 EC's letter to Mr. [370]: "Will be most anxious to know what the young lady thinks of her reading. If there are any questions that she would like to ask, or you, please don't hesitate to let me know. There is every now and then specific information about different periods, and a number of people in those periods...her reading appears to be among the most definite that we have had in a long time."
2. 8/15/36 Father [370]'s letter:
   "[1243]'s reading was indeed clear, and it brought new revelations to me. This reading confirms more and more the realization that life readings are never what your imagination may have already pictured, but at the same time each added one I read increases more forcibly the truth and power that is in them. I had never thought of [1243] as a possible nurse, but this reading brought it out very forcibly. She at once told me that when she was a little girl she wanted to be a nurse and told me so, but I discouraged it (an instance I don't remember). But it was revealing to me to see how readily she fell in with the suggestion. She would be made more happy today if she could know that arrangements could be made for her to begin training Monday morning (the $50.00 fee arranged at a good hospital). Anyway she wants to make this beginning as soon as possible. I am very happy she has found her avocation and hope she can begin her career soon. Perhaps it means too that in 7 years you will be directing a hospital and want one of the Persian helpers again with you, - a pleasant thought at least.
   "Anyway the reading has already helped [1243] and her capabilities are much more in evidence. It has been hard at times for [1243] to display her best self (depression conditions perhaps) and she would not reveal her best self or private thoughts. I am so glad she got the reading.
   "When you write me perhaps you can add something to the astrological part of the reading, which is very brief. Jupiter - Uranus - Venus - Mars - (anger - sympathy - love for those more unfortunate). I have told [1243] you were the leader among those of the City of the Hills & Plains in Persia. Can you add anything to what is said? She will appreciate anything you say.
   "My financial difficulties increase with my joys as of this week. [1243] has been helping a little with her meager earnings from the candy counter of Kresses'.
   "May God continue to bless and keep you in his abounding love and power."
3. 9/23/36 GD's ltr. to Miss [1243]: Dear Miss [1243]:-
   I just ran across an add which reads like this:
   BE A NURSE: You can learn at home in spare time. Course endorsed by physicians. Thousands of graduates. Est. 35 years. One graduate has charge of 10-bed hospital. Another saved $400 while learning. Equipment included. Men and women 18 to 60. High school not required. Easy tuition payments. Write us now, asking for free booklet and 32 sample lesson pages.
   Chicago School of Nursing, Dept. 371, 26 N. Ashland Blvd., Chicago, Ill.
   You may not be interested in this type of course, but I just thought of you when I read it and it doesn't do any harm to tell you about it. You might like to send for the data.
   Trusting you have already found or will soon find the proper connections for preparing for your life's work, and with all good wishes, I am
   Sincerely, [signed] Gladys Davis, Sec'ty
4. 5/19/37 GD's note to Mr. [370]: "By the way, I've wondered quite often just how your daughter has progressed since her Life Rdg., and whether or not she has found her place in life - I should say her 'vocation' in life; for we are all in our rightful place I'm sure - at least that's where we are to start from."
5. 5/31/37 Mr. [370]'s letter to EC: "Tell Miss Davis I appreciate beyond words her interest in [1243]. I wish I could see [1243] going more nearly towards her real life talent. And I wish too she knew [1243]. I believe she could add that feminine sympathy that would help her on her way. [1243] in her best natures is interesting and makes friends. I am trying to persuade her to go to Virginia Beach this summer."
6. 6/21/37 Mr. [370]'s wire: "[1243]'s boss refused to release her for trip Monday after all her plans were made to go. We are disappointed. Best wishes for Congress."
7. 3/11/41 Father [370]'s letter: "My children ([1243] and [640] and [...]) are married off and the old place is not like it used to be."
8. 2/20/54 She requested, under married name, a copy of her Life Rdg.

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