This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 2nd day of September, 1936, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [1258], Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., via Mrs. [2141] and Mr. [1909].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. L. B. Cayce. Born May 4, 1882, on Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco Bay, California.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [1258].
2. These as we find are a bit out of the ordinary, more than is usually indicated in the experience of one whose surroundings or environs are such as are indicated in the present. Yet these as we find interpreted in the correct manner may be applied in the present experience in such a way and manner as to be most helpful and beneficial. These not only make for unusual aspects from the astrological sojourns or influence but also quite a change from many that have been indicated or interpreted here from their sojourns in the earthly or material environment.
3. In many ways and manners the thoughts or inclinations are masculine, or would be considered so in many ways and manners in the thought; while the entity is very feminine, and an excellent one to choose attire for self in any occasion. But those things as pertain to science, or those things as pertain to trading or to chance are evidenced in not only the astrological aspects but from the sojourns in the earth. There are indications also of archaeological research. And those things that have to do with the definite trends that were made in the various stages of man's experience or indwellings in the earth become of great interest. The solving of problems that pertain to such. Hieroglyphics, those things as pertain to emblems, those things that have been considered a mystery; whether in a chemical compound as the alchemist or whether in words that have made and do make for the setting of vibrations in the experience of individuals as may use them in forms of an activity, whether for producing definite results or effects in chemical changes of the baser natures or whether in those things as make for form or manner. Yet the body in itself, in its relationships of a social order, in its relationships of economic order, can - it may be said, in a material way - make expenditures of ANY nature go a long way. Yet in its activity of orderliness, in its activity of a nature that tends to even a CLASSICAL manner, the appearance in its person makes for influences then that oft become rather confusing to self and to those who may be associated with the entity in any relationship.
4. From the astrological aspects alone, we find rather Venus, Mars, Uranus, Saturn making for the greater influences in the innate urges within the entity. Thus we find while the entity is close oft in those associations or activities where wrath, war, turmoils, disturbances that have arisen from misunderstandings and misconceptions become upon the horizon of the entity's experience, the entity is oft active in the capacity of one that becomes more of the peacemaker. Yet such turmoils are rarely a portion of the entity's OWN experience; for the entity may be said to be too much of a diplomat, too much of a routinist within itself to allow such to become self's OWN experience; yet these are oft about the entity.
5. Hence we may find the abilities (and these are the unusual, astrologically), from the experiences of the entity in those environmental forces of Venus and Mars, for writing of certain natures; as would be a log of a trip, as would be in the findings of any group or association with which the entity might affiliate itself; as an excellent secretary, as an excellent companion for those that might be afflicted in hearing, in eyesight or in any of those phases of the EMOTIONS. For these may be depicted by the entity in its descriptions or in its affiliations or associations, in a very unusual or excellent way and manner.
6. From Uranus we find not only the extremist but the extremist in unusual ways and manners. Oft does the entity find the determination or the setting of self to this or that plan yet not becoming overanxious; the ability to wait upon those influences that may arise in the experience of those the entity would aid. For its evaluation in their experience and their ability to grow to that which the entity having found to be good or accessible in its own experience, the entity holds forth same as an ideal manner for acceptance in the experiences of another.
7. This makes for the mysticisms or those influences as has been indicated for its research in fields of a scientific nature and of its dependence upon reason as well as experience to become the experiences of others that they may embrace even an opportunity. Yet it is very determined within self as to that path, road, way or manner in which plans, conditions or experiences will be worked out by self.
8. As to the sojourns in the earth, these we find in varied atmospheres of activity, in the various periods of influences that make for expressions from the urges from those natures and manners in the present experience:
9. Before this we find the entity was in the land or isle known as Samoa, during those first periods in the latter portion of the fifteenth century, when there were settlings and the first combinations of the natives that were the descendants of those peoples who had lost their way from the others - or those called the Lost Tribes, or the peoples of Naphtali.
10. The entity's forefathers then were in that line. The entity was a combination then in that experience between the peoples of the Mediterranean and the natives.
11. Then the name was Lulu Lung.
12. In the experience the entity made for the combinations of the activities of a musical nature and the ability for the understanding of the nautical activities.
13. Thus the sea and the isles of same have held, do hold for the entity an unusual drawing. Yet the very natures of research demand as it were in the experience in the present those seekings, those livings, those environs of things that are both old AND new; surroundings that have been of a nature that have found the changings of peoples in their activities, where great deeds of valor have been done, where the surroundings produced the environs for the composition of song or music; where great books were written by individuals who allowed or made for the surroundings or environs of the material nature to enhance the activity of their abilities for the subscribing or inscribing of those influences or forces for the influence upon peoples of all walks of life.
14. The entity may be said to have gained, yet things more of the mental and material throughout that sojourn rather than the spiritual made for the activities physically and mentally of the entity.
15. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Persian and Arabian, during those periods when there were changes under Darius and Xerxes.
16. The entity then was among those of the courts of Xerxes (or Ahasuerus), and making for the understandings, the relationships for that as pertained to the individuals of various lands and groups that were brought under subjugation or used as those that supplied the material labors, whether for the preparations of things of the soil or whether for the preparations of things for the adornment of the body or of the buildings or grounds or conveniences that had to do with these.
17. Then the entity was a daughter of one of the advisors to Ahasuerus or Xerxes, and made for a great interest in the influence upon the dress of the peoples, upon the peoples who came in.
18. Hence in the present the entity finds self with the ability to be a designer or to choose well for any occasions given dress for self or for those about self. And a peculiar or particular interest is oft shown in the preparation of individuals for the depicting or in the preparation of those upon a stage or play or acting, that is to depict or to show the character of individuals through their dress in whatever environment or depicting of a particular period that may be presented.
19. The stage, then, as called in the present, has held and holds an interest for the entity.
20. Through the experiences the entity gained much more in the spiritual than in some of the other experiences in the earthly sojourns, for those peoples that had set a definite line or rule - or now called the Jewish being in the employ of the entity, much of that as hearsay, as custom, as those things that bespoke of the great activities in the Palestine lands during the reigns of those that had presented to the world such pomp and power, such adornments of body, such an understanding in the preparation of homes, etc., came under the entity's influence. These then the entity presented to her own peoples; which makes for its interest in the present in things that are new.
21. The name then was Hesternus.
22. Before that we find, that is an active influence in the present, we find the entity was in the land now known as the Egyptian.
23. (But in passing, it may be said that much of that which has been given may be of interest in that being opened by researchers in the Persian land in the present. Seek it out through the University of Chicago.) [See newspaper clippings, Chicago. GD's note: See copy of these clippings under 1096-4, Par. R4 letter 9/02/36.]
24. In the Egyptian land the entity was among the Atlanteans who came into Egypt; the entity being of those peoples of the Law of One, and with those undertakings for the correlating of the activities of the individuals that dedicated their bodies and minds for an individual service by the ridding themselves through the fires of the Temple of Sacrifice. These made the greater impressions upon the entity during that sojourn. For these fain had been left long since by the entity's own peoples.
25. And those of other lands and other peoples that made for this cleansing produced in the experience of the entity that which made for the greater activity during that particular sojourn - and which gives to the entity in the present those abilities in the writings that may be so helpful to others of the nature and character as has been indicated. For the entity then sought out to aid the various groups in their dealings with the various characters of appendages that were cleansed from peoples' bodies. Thus the spiritual activity, thus those forces that make for rote, interest in the alchemist formulas, arose from those experiences.
26. The name then, as the Atlantean, was Am-eel; as the aid in the Temple Worship, Gu-el-am-ee.
27. As to the abilities of the entity in the present and that to which it may attain, and how:
28. First know thy ideal and thyself, for the creative forces, for the activities in a material experience combined through the influences of material things and mental and spiritual attributes should be first upon the mind of the individual and there the growth begins.
29. To put it into the parlance of those that are of a faith, study to show thyself approved unto the Creative Forces that may manifest within, keeping thine own body, thine own mind, unspotted, untarnished by material and carnal forces. And ye shall find that in the greater application of thyself and thy abilities for making those records as may aid and help those who seek through the varied channels for their OWN purifying of mind and body, ye may bring the greater peace and harmony in thine own experience.
30. For as ye help, as ye aid thy fellow man to seek and to know, to find and to apply the spiritual forces of self WITHIN self, ye bring the greater blessings upon thine own self.
31. We are through.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. She previously secured a Life Rdg. for husband, Capt. [1217], and a Physical Rdg. for daughter, Mrs. [1201].

REPORTS

1. 9/02/36 EC's ltr. to Mrs. [1258]:
   Dear Mrs. [1258]-
   In the afternoon mail I received yours of the 1st. I'm sorry we have been delayed in getting your Life Reading, but it was gotten this morning. It isn't always that we can get a Life Reading as quickly, because emergency Physical requests come in and we have to put off the Life Readings. This was very interesting, and I hope you will find it helpful.
   A very peculiar thing happened. In the very mail with your letter there came a clipping from a Chicago paper sent by a friend [Mrs. [583]], which refers to the work being done by the University of Chicago in Persian excavations. The report has been copied by my secretary in a letter to a friend who, according to her Life Reading, was Vashti, the wife of Ahasuerus (or Xerxes - one and the same). She is writing a book (the friend) [See Par. R2 below] giving Vashti's version of what happened.
   Trusting you will let us hear from you and have your reaction to the reading, I am
   Sincerely [EC:GD]
2. 9/02/36 See GD's letter copying clipping under 1096-4, Par. R4, copy of which was enclosed with above note to Mrs. [1258].
3. 9/15/36 Mrs. [1258]'s ltr. to EC:
   My dear Mr. Cayce:-
   The interesting Life Reading came, and I do want to thank you for it. For most part I understand it. I am interested to know why my past lives are out of tally with my present life. The remarks pertaining to this life are very accurate with the exception of one or two things that I do not interpret. Beginning with "Yet the body itself in its relationships..." etc. to those "who may be associated with the entity in any relationship" - I am quite puzzled. Will you interpret please? Also "From Uranus we find not only the extremist but the extremist in unusual ways and manners." Does this pertain to the following statement or to what?
   Was Lube [Lula?] Lung - Samoan (physician) Chinese, or what Mediterranean people? The native music, the sea, the South Seas have a strong appeal even now. I frequently urge my family to go there to live. As to Persia, Arabia, I have had an interest quite out of the ordinary. The poetry - the customs - the court life - the names of Darius and Xerxes have always been familiar. Farming has so interested me that long before cooperative farming existed I had carefully planned it in every phase for Virginia. I have studied dress design and my sketches were the only ones chosen by Theatrical executives who visited our school as suitable for the stage. I never went on with it - was only 18 - this shows the accuracy of your reading. Forms and ceremonies that mean something, that make for rituals of spiritual nature appeal to me. I have thought a great deal of religion, its promise, its failure, the causes behind both, the necessity that it shall be universal, etc...and infinitum. There is much to be digested. When we have digested a subject, a field of thought, we approach the "I Know" - where we begin to be of use. But the mind must always remain open, unlimited in its vision. When we limit we stultify, like the fly in the amber, we are thru.
   When you touched upon Egypt you struck a sympathetic cord. Egypt - ancient Egypt - has always held me, archaeologically, because of what is reveals of the past. Its religion, temples, pyramids, its mysticism, the people's dress, activities - Pharaohs - what not (the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker), all have part in my heart. I have given them much thought - their actions, their reactions, not only in Egypt but in all countries including our own American Melting Pot. Here we are forming the cradle for the new race, therefore the world has mixed its blood to form us. We are the Hope of this earth, as we educate our children, so shall we be. We cannot be too enlightened for their becoming a basic foundation of spiritual law, and progress, evil tendencies blotted out, with ideals carefully chosen - and great principles to charm the young mind, colorfully, the simply enunciated. Those of today who do not respond shall have to pass with the dying race - our concentration has mostly to do with infancy and youth and leaders, who have no personal gain at stake. The Brotherhood of man is springing from the ashes of the past, whether we like it or not, it is here and all who have not the wisdom to reap its fruits must be destroyed. It is a wonderful time to be alive. Everywhere we...the writers of history...are reshaping the ideals of humanity. What we think in terms universal, our motives no matter what, shall bind us in spiritual ties. And from that binding comes Universal Religion. The next great step in spiritual training - one people - one language - one faith - America the light of the world shall lead the world. We should be proud to be Americans, to stage the great religions, historical, economic drama of the new race. But enough - I do want you to know how I prize your reading - it has helped or is helping me to know myself and is singularly true in those things that pertain to this life.
   Thanking you again, believe me,
   Most sincerely yours, [1258]
4. 9/21/36 EC's ltr. to Mrs. [1258]:
   Dear Mrs. [1258]
   Thanks for yours of the 15th. We have had some anxious periods here recently when the storm was on the way and during same, yet, we are all very well just now. A few shingles blew away, allowing water to find its way in and giving us something to do in keeping our records dry. But all well now and the calm after the storm - as to the elements, any way. Am so glad that you found your reading of interest and so many things that coincided with the innate feelings; and expect you will find most of the others do also, when analyzed with your self.
   Am not a "great explainer" but glad to give you my experience with the readings, "from Uranus the extremes in unusual ways and manners". I think this refers to other things than those named in body of reading - such as you no doubt often have to your family. Let's say funny ideas about some things, they have very definite ideas about - or some saying of some one - a book or some record will be of unusual interest to you and not to others close to you - that is how I interpret that.
   "Yet the body itself in its relationships..." evidently there are to be in your experience, yet, that is in this present life - associations that are not dreamed of at the present time; associations of the unusual nature to you, ones that would mean a great deal to others, and their studies of this life - that would be my view of that meant.
   No, can't say about "Lube Lung" we have not had individuals with that particular experience in that part of the globe, so do not know just how to interpret that - or whether it was of a Chinese people or of what place. We can only tell such by the drawing of comparisons where we have had several in some given place or period and from same gather something of a history of those people.
   As to the rest, it is very interesting that it checks so very well with your innate experience, and thoughts, and am sure as you study same that a great deal of light will come to you in that way and manner, innately. Yes, we must be openminded, when we are satisfied, I think we cease to grow.
   I feel what you say about America, and the mixing of the races of the world and the creating of environments by this mixture as it were will bring the best and the worst to clash one with another here in America, for our entrances in to each experience in the earth is the creating of certain unions that which makes it possible for each soul to enter again into physical experience, and we are drawn thusly to the active in physical consciousness. Spiritual training is necessary, when we apply the same methods to our spiritual life as we have applied to the preserving of life in the earth, we will begin to grow spiritually. I believe Dr. Carroll's book [Alexis Carrel's book, MAN THE UNKNOWN] shows that in a very conclusive manner, don't you?
   As you study the report of the life reading and gain the views presented there, will appreciate your comment on same. Am looking forward to the opportunity to talk with you in person.
   Thanks for your letters. Write when ever you find the opportunity.
   With all good wishes to you and yours
   Sincerely [signed] Edgar Cayce
5. 12/16/36 She obtained Life Reading for her daughter, Mrs. [1201] - See 1201-2.
6. 1/11/37 She obtained Physical Reading for husband, Capt. [1217] - See 1217-2.
7. 7/15/63 After years of silence she became a Sponsoring Member of A.R.E.

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