This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 28th day of September, 1936, in accordance with request made by his son-in-law, Mr. [1151], Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. L. B. Cayce. Born October 6, 1859, in Western Star, Ohio - near Akron.

TEXT

1. EC: (In going back over years, to date and place of birth - "Freeport - Western Star - as Freeport.")
2. Yes, we have the records of that entity now known as [1266]; and those relationships that are indicated with the universal forces and activities.
3. As we find, in giving the interpretation, much that would be of interest to others might be given, as respecting the activities of the entity in the earth during varied experiences. As much has been given or written as respecting many of those appearances and activities, these to the entity become most as naught. For there has been in the present, THIS:
4. With the activity there has been that constant attempt within self to satisfy through the activities in dealings with others to OVERCOME an innate experience of the desire to make for not just greater conveniences in the experiences of the fellow man, but to make for the desire WITHIN the individuals for the seeking of the spiritual source of supply.
5. And the greater temptation has been to lord self, though this in these experiences has been kept submerged.
6. Hence this we would give the entity:
7. Know in whom thou hast believed, and know He is able to keep that ye commit unto Him against that day when ye with thine own desires, with thine own innate selfish motives must stand judged according to that done in relationships to thy fellow man.
8. For as ye do it unto the least of thy brethren, ye do it unto THY Maker.
9. In the astrological aspects, these have had, do have, little to do with the experience of the entity or experiences in the earth. For there has been the more oft the activity of the entity in those periods when there were the needs for those preparations in the experience of man for that as would redown [redound?] in its application to man's OPPORTUNITY for development.
10. Hence to give the experiences of this entity in the earth would be to give those periods almost when there were the needs for greater expansions into fields that deal with man's greater intercourse with his neighbor, with his fellow man in varied spheres of activity.
11. Thus the greater need and the greater development for the entity in the present may come through that giving of self, giving of self's substance, giving of self's undertakings in making KNOWN to man the SOURCES from which there may come the real soul development, the real advancement in education, in the social order, in the economic forces of man's experience in the earth.
12. However, the consciousnesses of the entity in the environs of the astrological sojourns about the earth have been, of course, as many as the appearances in the earth. Hence we find those attributed influences to the greater number of the planets as a part of the INNATE expressions; as in Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn, Neptune, the Moon, the Sun, and those activities of Mars that have made for periods when there was the expression of the ego in material forces. But those forces that make for the activities are from the sojourns in the earth.
13. These for their historic value might be given as individual; these for the general application may be outlined that there may be that greater source of application, that greater NEED understood. For, this:
14. That ye give of thyself, of thy strength, of thy substance to others, that alone ye have.
15. Thus this innate influence for the desire of expanding, spend self in same to the fullest and to the greater extent. For in thus doing ye may bring joy in thine own inner self, peace and harmony in the experiences of those ye would assist.
16. Help thy neighbor, thy brother, then, to help himself, rather than in giving that ye may just have.
17. As to the appearances, then, we find:
18. Before this we find the entity lived in the earth during those periods when there were the struggles for the maintenance of those activities of the colonies joining together for a common purpose, and those influences that made for the determinations in their experience to withdraw from that which to the entity meant tyranny. For that which has been accredited to others was first given by the entity, in that "taxation without representation IS tyranny."
19. The entity then was in the name of Samuel L. Goldenson, and was in ALL of those activities that made for great discussions - with Adams, with Hamilton, with Madison, with Pinckney, with Pitt, with Franklin, with those peoples of that day; as Hancock, as Paine; in those activities that brought about the separations in that particular period.
20. In the present, to be in those capacities then as the motivative force without being known as the promoter or leader has been INNATELY the activity; yet those periods for self-expression and self-exaltation have arisen and do arise.
21. Before that we find the entity was in a period not conflicting with that just given, but very close together; during the first Louises of France, when there were those taxations for the indulgences of those in authority and power.
22. The entity then as Daudet (Simon) made for the first raising of a voice against the taxations and persecutions of the common people, and brought about for self CLASS HATRED!
23. In the present there may be seen then the more necessity for the UNIVERSALITY and less and less of class hatred, less and less of that which separates itself as the lording it one over another. For God the Father is not mindful of persons, for it is not God a personality but God a universality!
24. Before that the entity was as Caesar Augustus, who made for the great expansions of the Roman land not only for power but for the gratifying of the ego of self; and those periods when the great expansions of that land arose.
25. The entity then was that one who builded for that empire.
26. And there is felt innately in every move that those peoples of that land, that are of the ROMAN and not the Italian mixture, are superior in some manner or way. This is INNATE, and yet there is known and must be known within self that the spiritual purposes, the spiritual desires MUST be those that make for the greater forces that manifest in and among men.
27. Before that we find the entity was among the Princes of Midian, or a Prince of Midian - Jethro, the father-in-law to Moses; and to him was given the abilities to counsel with the elders of the peoples who gave not only the ordinances as to material conduct of the elders but much as pertained to the manners of preparation of sacrifice.
28. For the entity then was not only as a counsellor to that people who became as leaders to the world because of their religious forces and influences but to those who came to many another land.
29. Before that we find the entity was in the Atlantean land, when there were the preparations for the greater communications, the uses of forces in nature for the activities - in the preparations of the gases, of the skins, of the products of the trees into what are now known as means and manners of communications and preparations - or rubber; the entity made for that in its preparation.
30. Then the entity was Altus - not ta but tus, for the entity was the father of Alta.
31. In the experience the entity made great preparations for his peoples as for communications and activities.
32. In the abilities of the entity then in the present, that wherein self may find the expressions for the urges through individual efforts upon the part of others, yet directed by the self and self's own innate urges, may bring peace, joy, happiness and understanding to the entity.
33. Ready for questions.
34. (Q) How can I further proceed to accomplish a sound and harmonious refinancing of the [1266] Rubber Co.?
    (A) Through the associations with those that have at times been thy worst competitors, but who now - and who with thine own activity - may assist in guiding thee through those channels wherein the greater help in these directions may come.
35. (Q) Should I use any aggressive means to re-establish harmony and good will between myself and [1265]?
    (A) Be well to do so. For these will make for again an outlet for activities that will bring to each the great amounts of moneys of the realm of the earth for distribution, for use, for activity.
36. (Q) What important work, if any, have I yet to accomplish in this life?
    (A) As indicated; in helping others to know their true relationships to their Maker or to the Creative Forces, and in the ways and manners of giving expressions of same toward their fellow man.
37. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Mr. [1151]
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. 9/23/36 Son-in-law, Mr. [1151], submitted questions for Life Readings for Mr. [1266] and Mr. [1265], former business associates.
2. 9/23/36 See 1265-1, Par. 44-A--47-A regarding past and present associations with Mr. [1266].

REPORTS

1. 10/01/36 See Mr. [1151]'s letter under 1265-1 Reports regarding a split between Mr. [1266] and Mr. [1265] which he is trying to correct through the advice of the readings. His wife, Mrs. [1158], daughter of Mr. [1266], submitted questions for check readings on the two gentlemen.
2. 10/05/36 See Mr. [1265]'s second reading, 1265-2.
3. 10/06/36 See Mr. [1266]'s second reading, 1266-2.

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