This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 18th day of August, 1936, in accordance with request made by the self, through his brother-in-law, Mr. [877], Active Research Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. L. B. Cayce. Born Jan. 31, 1879, near Ridgetown, Ontario, Canada.

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1. EC: We have the records here of the entity now known as or called [1251].
2. In interpreting these as we find, there are some very definite inclinations and yet the activities of the entity in the present have been far from those inclinations and urges.
3. Hence we have had confusions, periods when the entity has felt in the present as if nothing apparently turned in that proper direction to which the entity was lending self. At others apparently there would be everything set in order for the success as had been hoped for, and suddenly something happened and all the changes have come about.
4. The entity is inclined then to be intuitive with self, and such intuitions have been either neglected or disregarded altogether.
5. In the astrological aspects we find in Jupiter the associations with great numbers of people, but these from those sojourns or influences from Venus with Saturn should make for individual activity rather than collective.
6. As we find also these with their combinations make for the ability of the entity to hold the attention of others, or to become a good hypnotist.
7. And if the entity had engaged in any associations with the healing arts these would have offered a field of activity in which the entity might succeed to the greatest degree.
8. Any associations or affiliations then with things that pertain to or deal with activities in this field of association would become not only those in which there might be the greater enjoyment in the activities but in which there might be the abilities and the opportunities for the entity expressing itself as to make for the greater mental and soul development of self.
9. For as these inclinations are in those fields that are of a service, and as these are applied in the experience they become helpful. To be sure they may be turned into self-indulgence or self-aggrandizement or self-gratification, but if they are kept in the field of activity of service these may bring not only the material gains but the greater joys for service as an experience in the activities of the entity.
10. Then in any relationships where there is the individual approach of the entity in its relationships, these will offer and do offer for the entity the greater experience.
11. As to the sojourns in the earth that we find make for material application or influence in the experience of the entity in the present, we find:
12. Before this the entity was in the land of the present nativity, and very closely associated with those peoples that founded what later has become known as or became then the Hudson Bay Company, and the dealings in then not only furs or activities of that nature in pelts and skins but in supplying household necessities, those that made for the culinary arts, those that made for food for not only man but the animal also.
13. All of these were a portion of the entity's experience.
14. And these become in their RELATIVE activity a portion of the entity's inclinations. But, as during those experiences there came those activities in which the entity aided in bringing help and aid, in bringing relief to those suffering in body and mind, by the application of those things of the natives of the land.
15. Hence the entity became almost as well known as the true medicine men of that day and experience, in the name then Robert Gounard.
16. In the present experience from that sojourn we will find peoples of many activities, those in many nations, in many groups, all become as a portion of the entity's experience.
17. But if these were given in those of the intuitive forces that have arisen from the greater development, there would be offered the greater opportunities for the activities of the entity in this experience.
18. Before that we find the entity was among those influences during the periods when there were the Roman activities in that known as the Holy Land.
19. The entity then was among those of the soldiery that were garrisoned in Jerusalem during those periods when there were not only the trials of the disciples, as they became known, but of the leader, the teacher, the Master himself.
20. Yet the entity was ever in that position as taking orders rather than giving expression of self, for home - as it has ever been and will ever be in the experience - was and is the more sacred even than the places of worship to the entity.
21. Hence those experiences through that sojourn brought for the entity many confusions, and many periods of turmoil within self.
22. Yet duty ever became the keynote not only as a true native of Rome as a soldier but as one representing rather the innate and true experience of service in a cause, an ideal.
23. The entity may be said to have gained, though not in those conditions or in those ways and manners in which many would consider as the activities during those periods; but rather did there come to the entity, through the associations of ideals within self as related to home and those expressions of the individuals that held to an ideal as related to the relationships to the fellow man, mental and spiritual development.
24. Hence we will find in the experience of the entity so oft conditions or experiences that are not altogether orthodox in its relationships as to church or to state, yet it is as to its ideals that have been as innate and as expressions of self in the relationships of individuals to the fellow man as well as to the Creative influences or forces.
25. Then the entity was in the name Guldi.
26. Before that we find the entity was in the Gobi land, during those periods when there had been the correlating and understandings of the teachings for others in the varied lands who attempted to correlate same.
27. The entity during those experiences was active in aiding those from the Egyptian land to establish in the native lands, or its own land, that as would be termed today as a hospital, or an institution for the care of the physical and the mental complete, or the physical and mental during their transition in the periods of the transitions from the material things to those that became as the spiritual activities.
28. In those the entity aided, and there the entity developed and made for those innate forces and powers that are as hidden.
29. Hence the entity will find the abilities - though the entity may be unaware of same in the present (though at times there has been the experience) - to the laying on of hands heal those of headaches, or of those inclinations, or to remove blemishes from the body-physical - if there is but the concentration of self in these directions.
30. The name then was Undui.
31. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, and that to which it may attain, and how:
32. First know that where there has been the gaining through the experiences in the earth was where self and self's ideals have been in relationships to the Creative Forces and the fellow man; for these become as the duties of man in the development and in the transitions through the experiences in the earth.
33. Be true to self and self's own ideals and thou wilt not be false to any other.
34. Let the words of thy mouth be in keeping with the activities of thy hand.
35. Let thy thoughts and thy meditations be in line with and coordinant with the IDEALS thou dost express in thy activities and in word of mouth.
36. As a teacher, as an instructor, as a director, as a healer may the entity gain the greater in the present.
37. Ready for questions.
38. (Q) Should I be offered a position with Mr. J. E. Hammell of Toronto, would it be advisable to take it?
    (A) Take it.
39. (Q) Will Edwin Carewe get financed properly in the picture business?
    (A) We haven't Edwin Carewe.
40. (Q) Will Mr. B. F. Everitts rubber business be a success?
    (A) We haven't the rubber business. We have only [1251]; [1251]'s relationships to these are foreign to the ideals of the body. Materially they are a portion, but he that looketh on materials in preference to the spiritual winds up in the spiral that makes for confusion.
41. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Self - % Mr. [877]
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. 8/10/36 His daughter, Miss [1248], secured a Life Rdg.

REPORTS

1. 8/18/36 P.M. Same day his son, Mr. [1252], secured a Life Rdg.
2. 9/12/36 See 877-11, Par. 20-A indicating that Mr. [1251] had been keeper of the records for Mr. [877] in the Gobi period, or a clerk.

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