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 uncle - 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 October 25, 1915, in Detroit, Michigan.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the records here of the entity now known as or called [1252].
2. In entering the present experience we find from the astrological aspects and those experiences of the entity in the earth, the entity is a very unusual type - as it were; yet with those conditions, those experiences that make for the greater necessity of the entity driving self as it were, if it would accomplish in this experience that as would make for the greater mental and soul development.
3. For there is little that the entity cannot do with the least smattering of the needs, or those conditions about same. Yet those abilities in the field of literature, or those things that require memory, and the ability for visualizing in such a manner as to make things that would to many be very trite, become as it were alive and worth while - as they are in the experience of many.
4. Then as has been the experience, there are the abilities as a historian. If its activities are to deal with business, or in whatever the choice is made, the HISTORY of that business is to first be comprehended - and alone rather than with others. However, the influence of Jupiter brings the associations of many individuals, or the activities of the self rather as an individual personality would influence the lives and the activities of many.
5. The influences in Mercury show a great mental ability, and a memory that if it is kept in a developing way and manner becomes rather unusual - as to data, as to facts or figures, as to statistical developments in any field in which it may be applied.
6. Hence the activities as may be seen would be rather in SINGLE activity, see? And if there is to be the choice of companionships, these had best be late in life rather than the early. While the home propensities and the little niceties about same are existent almost to the point at times that the entity or body may be called finicky about its dress, about the keeping of things in the room in order, there is a slackness or a lack of consideration - as would be considered by many - in the character of friendships as may be made through those influences as indicated in the Venus environs. Yet if these are used, not abused but used as helps here and there, these friendships - though they be questioned by many - may become an influence for good, an influence and as an opportunity for help that comes as the mental and soul develops.
7. The ideas of the entity as related to factors in human experience become rather set, as the ideas respecting chastity, as the ideas and ideals respecting truth and veracity. All of these are at times in the material environment stumblingblocks (that is, from the material), and at others the real influence that makes for a confusion and yet the mainstay or the real vital influence that may make the experiences of the entity in this environ, through this expression, through this period of manifestation, become such that many will look upon same - considering the entity's activities and "breaks," as would be called in some parlance - as most fortunate. And the experiences and activities may bring to others those very influences and forces that may become helpful in their attempts to seek hope and understanding and comprehension in THEIR problems in this experience.
8. As to the appearances in the earth, these as we find have been quite varied in their environ and in the manner of application of self respecting same.
9. Before this we find the entity was in the earth during those periods of that commonly called the American Revolution, in and about those eastern portions of what is now known as Pennsylvania, during those periods of campaign of the leader.
10. The entity acted rather in the capacity of the interpreter, or what would be called by some in the present as the informant. Not altogether as a spy, yet necessitating using such tactics in its activity and experience at times - and became what might be termed as the gatherer of data upon which much of the history of that experience is based.
11. In the name then Richard Goodrich, the entity's activities brought for self and for others much that has lived on in the experiences of those who have looked upon the basic influences and principles of the founding of what then was an experimental ruling of the peoples by the peoples for the common good of all; the basic forces of that which has been and is enjoyed as it were by those that turn to such for the basis of their justification in thought or expression in the present.
12. Before that we find the entity was in the Roman land, when many of those peoples were sent to the varied lands for the gatherings of tribute, as well as the exchanges for those conditions that would bring into the experience of the Romans greater conveniences.
13. Hence we find the entity's activities were in journeying from one port and one land to another, gathering - as it were - data or information as to the responsibility of groups put in charge, as well as to the ability of peoples in various or given lands or places to supply or furnish such portions of those things needed for the activities in the campaigns in home as well as in the preparations for greater expansions of those peoples or those Roman governors or rulers.
14. The entity then, in the name Taine, in the material gained little; in the mental and the abilities for developments that may find expressions in the present, much. For those of the various lands and the correlating, the coordinating of the activity brought to self during those experiences the needs and the necessities for forcing self as it were to conform to rules and regulations that brought during the experience much of help in health, much of aid in the help and health of others, and those environs and influences that created for experiences in the lives of the many whom the entity contacted.
15. In the present if these abilities are turned into the history of historic writings, or the application in material business, there would come the greater outlet - just so they are for self and not dependent upon others. For as indicated, the choice of the friendships and the confidences in individuals becomes lacking - and may be strengthened most in self by strengthening in self the needs and requirements that fortify self to become the ideal friend, the ideal business man in its relationships with others.
16. Before this we find the entity was in the Indian land, during those periods when there were the attempts to correlate the tenets or teachings from the Atlantean land, from Ra-Ta, Saneid, On, and the peoples in the Gobi land.
17. The entity then was the interpreter to Saneid, and those that compiled the various experiences of the varied groups for the active use in the experiences of those peoples in that particular land and under those particular environs.
18. The entity was among the first that attempted to break that which has arisen to be castes.
19. Before that we find the entity was in the land of the present nativity during those periods when there was the breaking up of the islands in now the South Seas, and the combinations of those that made for the changes in those environments of those peoples.
20. The entity then was among those first that have become known as the cave or cliff dwellers, in that portion now known as Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico. In those environs and places did the entity make for its activities, in the name then Un-nn.
21. As to the abilities of the entity:
22. First choose. Hold fast to that thou hast determined. Give not up thy studies nor thy abilities as the writer. And eventually you will find these coming to be those experiences and activities in which the entity may find not only material success but the outlet for those abilities that have been builded in the mental and the soul forces of that entity now known as [1252].
23. We are through for the present.

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BACKGROUND

1. 8/18/36 A.M. His father, Mr. [1251], secured first Life Reading.

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