This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 16th day of October, 1936, in accordance with request made by the self, through wife, Mrs. [1096], Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. L. B. Cayce. Born January 9, 1896, in New Bedford, Mass.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the records of the entity here, now known as or called [1273].
2. In entering the present experience, comparing - as here - the experiences of the entity in the sojourns in the earth and those interims and the activities as respecting Creative Forces, we find these as latent and manifested forces in the present experience of the entity:
3. One very determined in it ways and manners. At times very quick to speak in defense of that even though under circumstances when others may misconstrue. While the entity may oft be right, in the experience to be helpful to others, speak more gently and more constructively in the ways and manners. Not such diplomacy as to be adverse to self's own principles, but others think ofttimes as well as self.
4. This has brought and does bring to the entity disruptions with its closest associates at times. Turn this rather into a constructive approach and we would find it would make for more harmony; more outspoken in its ways and manners brings disruption, but acting, being constructive, and showing a loving indifference to that which is an aversion to the entity will bring constructive experiences for the entity.
5. In the astrological aspects from which these may be said to be in a manner derived, or the conclusions drawn as with the activities and experiences in the sojourn, we find:
6. Mercury makes for the high mental abilities, and the reasoning faculties as it may be said. Yet if these are more constructive in their activity or use, greater may be the help and aid the entity may bring to others.
7. For whatever the station may be in the experiences in the earth, to be helpful and to bring hope and constructive experiences for even the lowliest will bring the greater harmony and the life and the experience becomes the more worth while. Not that it isn't to be manifested, but used in a creative way and manner - as an aid for others.
8. For he indeed that would be the greatest will be the servant of all.
9. In Jupiter we find those tendencies for the entity to be either in physical activity before the many or the crowd, or the relationships with things and conditions having an influence upon great numbers of individuals, as groups and as states and as nations.
10. Hence as we find the activities of the entity in dealing with those things that are of not necessarily the educational nature, but as it may be termed more of an educational nature in political economics, would make for those forces that would bring the opportunities for the application of those innate and manifested forces in the present experience.
11. In Venus we find rather the affliction with Mercury. Hence those necessities - in the association in its relationships and its closer friendships - for precautions as to being too outspoken as to self's own feelings, or self's own convictions at times.
12. From Mars we find those tendencies as with Jupiter, thus making for the periods when it becomes necessary for the entity to make concessions even when these are adverse to opinions in self.
13. As to those periods of activity, those things that deal with individuals - begin in the month of June; those that deal with things - in the month of November. And we will find these opposite from many of those colors or things as pertain to the elemental forces are a portion of vibrations for the entity - the natural tendencies.
14. Hence red, as the ruby - or the onyx, or the chalcedony, that may be the color as stones or things of the nature should be about the entity in its closer activity.
15. As to the experiences in the earth, we find while not a great many in number that make for an influence in the present, the application of self in the fields of activity as indicated would find these as the basic influences in the present:
16. Before this we find the entity was in the land of its present nativity, during those periods known as the Revolution.
17. The entity then was among those that arose for the demonstrations of the throwing off of the experiences of taxations, and the entity then was a member of that known as the Tea Party of Boston, in the name then Suther Seveille.
18. In the experience the entity made for activities that may be said to be for the mental and soul development, though in the material surroundings they brought many of the physical hardships. Yet through those very activities the entity gave expressions of the love of liberty, even for the greater number at the expense even of the sufferings of a few or the many.
19. Hence again from that sojourn may be seen those influences that may be the more helpful to the entity in the present experience in activities that would have to do with the education of the political economics of a state, a county, a nation.
20. And those activities whether they are given in the aiding for office or for position or for those that may be written as books or as lectures or as helpful arguments for those that are engaged in same, they become in their import as one and the same.
21. Before that we find the entity was in the Persian land during those experiences when Xerxes or Ahasuerus was upon the throne, during those periods when turmoils arose according to the activities of Ahasuerus in the dethroning of the queen.
22. The entity then was overzealous in its own personal gains, in the name then Haman, which came to be to a portion of those experiences as a byword; yet to those peoples that were in authority from what would be termed today the educational and the purposeful view, of high estate.
23. In the material things the entity lost; again in the mental and the soul and the influences for the greater development, the entity gained.
24. Beware in the present of the egotism of self becoming a stumblingblock. Use rather as a constructive force, and we may find not only will the material, the harmonious mental and the greater soul development arise from those associations of those experiences there, but those activities that may be as a part of the entity's sojourn or activity in the present.
25. Before that we find the entity was in what is now known as or called the Atlantean land, during those periods when there were changes.
26. The entity then was among those who journeyed to what is now the Pyrenees, or the Portuguese or Spanish land.
27. And there, with the beginnings of the correlating of the tenets as to law, as to order, as to the helpful experiences of the varied groups, the entity rose to one of power, one of authority.
28. The entity held to the tenets of the laws of One, and with those from the land of Mu, or those from the Gobi land, those from Saneid and Ra-Ta, the entity became as one that FOSTERED there much of those tenets as were gained by the collaborations of the better influences as gained from those teachings of each in the entity's surroundings.
29. In the name then Ahajah. In the experience the entity gained throughout, for that which eventually rose in the periods of developments for those lands when these were in their greater power, though tempered oft by those experiences from other lands, were the basic or elemental forces that gave power to those lands.
30. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, and that to which it may attain, and how:
31. The ideals as expressed manifestedly are necessarily high, yet there needs to be the tempering of same, and in the application of self to the mental and to the material, to those surroundings, know that he that loveth the Lord and His constructive forces in the experiences of man doeth well, but he that APPLIETH them in his relationships and his dealings with his fellow man doeth better!
32. Be true to that prompting which rises so oft within, tempering same with mercy as ye would have mercy shown thee, tempering same with patience as ye would have patience shown thee; and giving of self in a service to many will bring harmony, development and understanding to the entity in this experience.
33. Ready for questions.
34. (Q) Have I known the entity [1096] in a former incarnation? If so, in what capacity?
    (A) Compare that as has been given; it will be seen how the associations were, and the defense to which the entity rose during those experiences for same.
    The ideals of each are the same. Their companionship in the present SHOULD be with the fifty-fifty understanding and development for each.
35. (Q) Am I in the proper business now?
    (A) These as we find applied in those directions as has been indicated will make for more and more of the correct developments for self and self's abilities.
36. (Q) Will I be successful this winter and in what?
    (A) In those things and those directions as has been set before self, if they are turned more and more into those fields of activity as indicated. Let the basis of those things be upon the economic and the political educational forces of a city, of a state, of a nation.
37. (Q) Should I keep this boat or sell it?
    (A) Sell it!
38. (Q) Will I have a favorable opportunity to sell it?
    (A) In the early portion of the season in the South.
39. (Q) Will the house at 6005 be sold or leased or should I live in it?
    (A) Would be well to occupy same as we find, for the numbers combine with self.
40. (Q) Any other advice?
    (A) Keep close to that which prompts from within, but be patient with others also.
41. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Wife
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. 9/26/36 Wife [1096] submitted questions for her new husband whom she married last month.

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