This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 10th day of August, 1936, in accordance with request made by the self - through Active Research Membership of her uncle, Mr. [877], in the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Burt Davis and L. B. Cayce. Born February 10, 1919, in Detroit, Michigan.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the entity now known as or called [1248], and those records of the entity in those experiences through the earth and those sojourns in the environments about the earth.
2. There appears in the records here as there having been in most of the entrances of the entity in the earth unusual circumstances in the environs of the home, and in most of these - some one, some two, some three have been most beautiful in the accoutrements about the entity as it began to make for its awareness of the mental forces in matter.
3. Not that the experiences remained beautiful but their beginnings appear to have been unusual.
4. Hence we will find that as latent and that as manifested in the experiences in the present, while the entity is independent in thought, in MATERIAL things it will be dependent upon others, will be listening to the counsel and advice when it is a warring many times with that innately felt.
5. Then the warning is not to allow that set as its ideal, if it is of spiritual import, to make for the body becoming - by the counsel - mentally, physically, submerged - or to create by these environs a complex.
6. In giving then from those records as we find here, those influences and those interpretations that might be helpful to this entity:
7. As we find, these are from the astrological aspects - but know that these are ONLY as inclinations. And the will of the self or of the entity may change these often.
8. DO NOT confuse self, then, with that which is of a selfish nature and that which is of its import spiritual in its aspect, intent and purpose. For as has been indicated, these will be inclinations in the present experience.
9. Those influences then from Venus we find making the inclinations for one while not exactly the clinging type, or of a demure nature, we do find it rather eccentric in its friendships, in its inclinations - and these as we find have been questioned by others.
10. Know that no meeting with other individuals is chance. RATHER should it be - and is - as an opportunity not only for self-expression but for the expression of that for which the real self stands.
11. Hence we will find that beauty of manner, beauty of speech, ease of expressing itself, will become more and more beautiful - if the ideals and the purposes are set in those desires of a spiritual aspect.
12. This does not intend to indicate a long-facedness, or never thinking of that as would in the present day parlance be called "a good time," but rather that each activity has a PURPOSE in itself - and these will make for then those influences for a tendency to grow more and more BEAUTIFUL in the expression of self and in the choice of relationships, companionships, associations, those conditions that are to become and are becoming a portion of the real inner self.
13. Time to the entity appears so oft to be such an important factor, and "This must be accomplished now." Hence those tendencies for impatience must be turned rather to understanding that the seed sown in act or word today brings in due season the flower, the stem and the fruits thereof. For an immutable law in materiality, in mentality, in spirituality, is that what ye sow ye reap. And WAIT on those influences for the KNOWING what the fruit of that act, that deed, that word may be that is given day by day.
14. This does not make for solemnity, rather does it make for joyousness. And every experience then in life and in the associations may be taken as a beautiful game, as a wonderment, with each day bringing joy, health, strength for the natural inclinations and vitality of the body - barring accidents. And beware of speeding trains, cars, or anything that goes TOO FAST! For THESE are a portion of the inclinations in self. Without these the body in this experience, even from its sojourns in the Venus influence, the environs thereof, should be rather beautiful in mind, in body and in disposition. But the DISPOSITION ye make!
15. Those influences in Mars we find making for rather that which is an opposition to most of those from the Martian experience. For the entity's sojourn there was learned well. Hence those influences of anger, those influences of distress and turmoils in the associations of others - while they will oft appear upon the horizon of the entity's experience, from the very influence of those things given, the entity may oft be in ALL of its relationships as one whose very presence - if used in the manner indicated - will be as oil upon troubled waters. Thus the conditions that arise from such are as gladsome experiences, if the entity will not allow same to become a part of self but knowing that the IDEALS as are set in self MAKE for as to whether these become stumblingblocks or steppingstones for greater knowledge and understanding, and greater experience.
16. Those influences in Jupiter make for rather the home building, the home loving; yet as from the combination of these, the out of doors has its call to the entity, and yet this has been rather put in abeyance, rather than finding an expression in the experience.
17. Have more and know more of nature and of God's outdoors, rather than man's. See nature not "in the rough," then; rather in the expressions of Life! For each blade of grass, each blossom, each tree, each crag, each mountain, each river, each lake is as a gift from the Creative Forces in man's experience that he may know more of the love of God. And as a soul, as a developing body then sees in the creatures, in the various kingdoms as THEY care for their young, as they are selective in their mating, as they are mindful of the influences and the environs, learn from these Nature's lessons or God's expression to the children of men; that He indeed is in His holy temple and is MINDFUL of man's estate - if MAN minds the LAWS of nature, of God. For love is law, love is God.
18. These are the personalities, these are the inclinations, these are the tendencies that will become a part of thine experience in this present sojourn. Use them. DO NOT abuse them. For every breaking of the law must be paid for, to EVERY WHIT and every tittle.
19. As to the appearances in the earth and those environs in same that have their influences upon the experiences of this entity in the present:
20. Before this we find the entity was nigh unto the land of the present nativity of the entity, when there were the settlings of the land, and when there were trade agreements, trade treaties, and when there were disturbances as respecting these over man's or through man's greeds as a body, as a nation.
21. The entity then was in those activities nigh unto what would be the southernmost portion of Lake Erie, or in the northern portions of Ohio (now known), or in portions of Indiana and Michigan were the dwelling places of the entity.
22. Then the entity made for home building between those of the natives of the land and of the entity's own peoples.
23. Hence those tendencies for individuals in power, individuals holding positions of importance from the material angle, to become rather as loadstones to the entity, or as an attractive influence.
24. Know first in self, as in those experiences, while they BROUGHT disturbances, while they brought distraughtness, not until these were carried to those places across the sea did they become as developments or of advancements in the SOUL experience of the entity.
25. REMEMBER, these influences as are given are not so much in respect to fame or fortune but as to whether the REAL I Am has gained and where it gained and where it lost!
26. In the name then Madeline Wentworth, the entity gained in the latter portion of the sojourn there - and those influences that have become indicated will become a part of the entity's present experience from those sojourns.
27. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Roman, during those periods when those peoples of the land were journeying to other lands for conquest and for the maintenance of the revenues from those lands conquered.
28. The entity was in associations with those that were of such representatives.
29. The longings for travel, the longings for scenes of other lands will arise from those experiences, because of the material and mental lonesomeness as builded in that experience. These as indicated in the latter portion of the American sojourn brought developments, but not always true. Though far away fields appear green, home fires build character, build contentment, build peace.
30. In the association then with one in authority, a legionnaire, or a commander of a legion of the Roman soldiery, the entity then was in the name Gusielde.
31. In the experience the entity gained in spiritual development. For with those understandings of those strange stories that came from the North African and the Egyptian and the Palestine lands, these brought in the experience of the entity many periods of long and deep meditation, many seekings to know not only the origin but the import and purposes of not only the political but the religious backgrounds of those peoples.
32. Hence the entity will find in the present experience that books of travel, especially beautifully illustrated books, those things as pertain to unusual stories, though many of a blase' nature, these are LIFE. KNOW them by MENTAL experience and not material.
33. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Persian, during those periods when those from the Grecian land came into the 'city in the hills and the plains.'
34. The entity then was among those that were of those groups sent as enticers, that might break down the morale - as has been indicated was attempted by those peoples.
35. And then the entity coming under those influences of the teachers, those experiences of the mental and physical healings, and the brotherly love, there was brought for the entity a change in its purpose in material things, in mental outlook and in spiritual application.
36. These brought for the entity developments.
37. In the name then Hesta.
38. In the experience in the present from that sojourn, the beauties of brotherly love, the home environ, the experiences that are of the natures that make for the binding of friendships, the healings for those that are mentally upset, of those that are materially disturbed, become as a portion of the real inner self.
39. Before that we find the entity was in the Egyptian land, when the peoples of the land had begun to discard much of that through the manners of cleansing in the Temples of Sacrifice.
40. The entity then was among the first to be born under an environment that made for almost a worshipfulness of the body of the entity.
41. Hence under ALL of those of the higher ideals of the Priest, of the Temple of Sacrifice, the King, the peoples that made for the greater service in the Temple Beautiful did the entity have those advantages and those beauties of same. Hence we find the entity rising to those positions as of one Os-is-or, or "the Goddess of the Sun," in its beauty, in its strength for those very things that OFT have made for the stumbling experiences in the lives of individuals - self-aggrandizement.
42. The entity gained throughout, and held to the ideals that had been instilled through all of the early years of training.
43. Hence again beauty, power, has its influence in the experience in the present - but know that these are only temporal, and that sown in the spirit, that sown in desire must find fruitage in the experiences of the association of self with thy fellow man. Or, "As ye do it unto the least of thy fellow man, ye do it unto thy Maker."
44. As to the abilities of the entity, then, these are only limited by desire, will. For the strength of purpose, of character, of understanding, is with thee. BUILD the home, as ye built for those understandings spiritually in Egypt.
45. Ready for questions.
46. (Q) What am I best fitted for in this life?
    (A) Home building.
47. (Q) Will my marriage and domestic life be successful and happy?
    (A) If it is founded in spiritual truth, if it is kept in spiritual desire, with the mental understanding of the laws of nature and of God, then these should grow more and more beautiful.
    And to the entity there will come those in body that may be a light unto many, if these things are kept. If they are ignored - what a life!
48. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Mr. [877]
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. 1/16/35 Her mother, Mrs. [793], obtained a Physical Rdg.
2. 8/02/36 Miss [1248] submitted questions.

REPORTS

1. 8/18/36 A Life Rdg. was obtained by her father, Mr. [1251], and by her brother, Mr. [1252].
2. 8/27/36 Her mother, Mrs. [793], obtained a Life Rdg.
3. 9/24/36 See uncle's reading, 877-12, Par. 25-A indicating that [1248] came as a visitor only to the Gobi land where [877] was a ruler.

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