This Psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the home of David E. Kahn, 20 Woods Lane, Scarsdale, N.Y., this 13th day of November, 1936, in accordance with request made by the self through Active Membership of Mrs. [255] in the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [1290], Mrs. [255], Mrs. [509], and Laura Burnham. Born August 20, 1876, in Staten Island, N.Y.

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1. EC: (In going back over years to birth date - " - 1928 - Changes, alterations in surroundings and experiences - '27, '26 - 1914 - Yes, again, an upheaval within the mental self - '12, '9, '8 - " etc., on back to birth date.)
2. Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [1290].
3. In giving the interpretations of those records that we find as experiences of the entity in the sojourns in the astrological environs and the experiences through the earth, these appear as a combination-influence.
4. The influences of activities about the entity are ever of a nature in which, while the entity does not always desire details these at times become a necessary portion of the entity's experience; whether in the material conditions or in those dealing with the mental and material life of others, as well as of self.
5. In the associations we find oft there are considerations for those that, owing to circumstances or surroundings, become as martyrs of or for a cause. These become as experiences, for the entity in its mental and material relationships. This as a portion of the combined influences will be seen from not only the astrological but the earthly sojourns. And while, to be sure, the astrological influences are a portion of the entity as a whole, they are as inclinations and tendencies that are of the mental self, and arise as innate longings or desires that come from that which may oft not be able to be centralized or localized. Yet those influences from the material or physical sojourns in the earth arise as emotions innate and manifested. As to what an individual does about these influences becomes as that which has oft been given in the various spheres of experience of human endeavor, or as manifestations in the material plane from which all influences in this plane are to be judged or governed; that there is continually, each day, set before the individual good, evil, life, death - choose thou.
6. Then, depending upon what an individual or soul has made its ideal - in any experience, under any environ, the experience becomes either a helpful, hopeful expression or it becomes one for self-gratification, self-glorification, even self-edification without the spirit of truth directing may become stumblingblocks in the experience.
7. As it may be given to each soul, then, know in what thou hast believed. Know thy ideal. For this ever becomes that through which the soul, the entity, makes the decisions in its mental, its material understanding.
8. For know that the wisdom of God, of the Divine, is lacking in envies, in strifes, in desires that are only of the material satisfactions.
9. From the astrological aspects we find in this entity's experience Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Mars becoming as portions of those influences through which the entity sojourned; or activities that have brought definite or practical experiences into the mental or innate activity of the entity in this experience.
10. Venus - great friendships, great loves, the desire for associations; yet much of these through Mars as well as portions of Jupiter have made for rather the uprootings, the turmoils. Yet these very associations for the love that is of God, that is Life, that is Law, have held in the entity's experience that sway in which even though the hurts have come they have become rather helpful, hopeful. For these endure, even unto the end; while the spites, the strifes - even though little ones - become less and less in the entity's experience, as the glory, as the vision of the entity's experience of the knowledge and the wisdom of the Divine - grows brighter in the entity's inner experience.
11. For it may be seen from sojourns in the environs of the earth how and where many of these become as those to which the entity or soul in its seeking in the environs of the earth in the interim becomes a portion of these very experiences.
12. In Jupiter we find a broad influence in the experience of the entity, giving rather a greater vision of the needs of groups, masses; yet these must be ever approached from the individual angle. For, "Know, O Israel, the Lord thy God is ONE!"
13. Hence to each soul that would give an understanding must come the answer from within. For until that as would answer as face to face in the mirror of life is from the spiritual or the divine, there is no lasting or universal force in same.
14. In Jupiter also we find the influences that produce an ability in the entity rather unusual than from many through the experience - a good listener. And oft the right hand knoweth not what the left hand doeth, for "she pondereth them in her heart."
15. In Mars and Saturn, changes have been wrought in the material environs of the entity, by strife, by unusual experiences in the application of life by others. Yet if these become rather as helpful forces, as the greater experience from the love that each soul may have for the God in those with whom and through whom such experiences have come, they are made to become as hopeful experiences for the entity; and there is the ability to give out, as well as the ability for expressions of infinity through experiences of the entity in its OWN vision, and activity in the experiences of others, as well as in the direction of self.
16. But know in whom, in what thou hast believed, in judging all; condemning none, for "By their fruits ye shall know them."
17. As to the experiences in the earth, while not great in numbers - as some - those that influence the entity in the present bring definite influences for the emotions of the body. As has been indicated from astrological sojourns, as from Venus that becomes the greater influence, the entity has been - is - tending to great emotions that are oft closed within self.
18. Before this we find the entity was in the land of the present nativity, during those periods when there were those from the fatherland that became as helpers in that known as the American Revolution.
19. The entity then was among those of the soldiery; not as a man but among those who aided in the activities in the environs about what is now Camden - Jersey. And those activities made for suffering of bodily experiences, both for the hired aid and those that held to the cause. The entity in its ministry to those of its own peoples as well as to those whom its peoples and self served, gained much in that of liberty; not of body but of mind, and the abilities to give aid, even in the physical, to those that were opposed in expression to the very self or associates.
20. Hence tolerance and love was BORN in the innate influence, that in the experiences in the present, while under periods of strife or of misunderstanding, has grown to be that where love hath overcome; for it thinketh no evil, it vaunteth not itself and is not easily puffed up. These have been those influences gained by the entity from those experiences in that individual sojourn then, in the name of Louisa Hennellen.
21. In the application of that experience, in the material life, those urges for the aid to the sick, in the hospital, in the active service in various forces or influences in the experiences of others, have become a part of the entity innately and manifestedly in the present. The acts of giving self in service oft arise from those experiences then.
22. Before that, bearing upon the activities of the entity in the present, we find the entity lived in the earth during those experiences when the Son, the Savior, walked therein.
23. The entity then was among those who were the mourners at Bethany when Lazarus was among those of the beloved of Him, who is Life, Light and Immortality to the world today - ever. For He changeth not.
24. Then the entity came under the influence of those experiences not only of that household, of that home - Mary, Martha, but of the Disciples; and then the Master.
25. The entity joined with those activities, and was among those who ministered not only at the burial of the Savior, Jesus, but ministered at those activities following same.
26. Thus the experiences wherein the entity in its moments of greater distress, physically, or in those periods when the emotions arose by some influence that aroused in self the soul-experience of that when so close to the Divine, has had visions that became as the help to the entity in those periods of trial, those periods of doubt, those periods of fear.
27. For He, as then, as in the call, casteth OUT fear - even to those that have slipped away from the consciousness of material environs.
28. In the application of self in that experience there came material disturbance, but the mental and spiritual gain - and those influences which if applied in the present experience may bring the greater harmony and joy in the activities of the entity in the present.
29. Then the name was Larue.
30. In the application of self to that to which it may attain in the present from those sojourns, we find - let the law of the Lord guide. For this became conscious in the activities of that experience in following those daily activities. For the entity began as a hired mourner but became as one nigh unto the ministering not only of the mental reactions of the Master but to those of the aged, to those that became fearful through the periods of strife that arose after His resurrection.
31. Hence thou may indeed resurrect in the minds of individuals that are SEEKERS, THEIR relationship to Creative Forces, or God, in their individual lives. And these be those experiences from which ye may gain the most.
32. Hence those expressions as are given in His conversation with His disciples, in portions of that recorded by the beloved of Him, may become to thee indeed as a lamp to thy feet, as a light to thy heart, as food to thy body in helping others to help themselves.
33. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Persian and the Arabian, during those experiences and periods when there were those preparations for the return of those peoples held in bondage for that preparation of the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem and in the Holy City.
34. The entity then was among those peoples that aided in persuading king who gave helpful advice and counsel to Zerubbabel, encouraging the hearts of Ezra and Nehemiah.
35. For the entity then was that one or as one who had not neglected counsel of those who had given, "Keep these laws upon thine heart; bind them upon thine forehead; teach them to thy children that they depart not from the Lord."
36. Hence the entity was as the mother of those who would remember, bringing to those that were the leaders the encouragement necessary; not only for the trials of the passage but encouraged them in building in their lives and hearts and associations as one to another the remembrance of that which had been given, "Separate yourself if ye would become as those that would know the Lord and His ways!"
37. And as those activities went forward, the entity gave the blessings to those; though not seeing the city for its rebuilding herself.
38. Then in the name Esdrus.
39. In the activities in the present from those experiences, again we see those expressions that are found innate and manifested; the activity in not only the abilities for those that may serve or find in themselves the expression of the manner and way they would serve, but as of tolerance, as of faith, as of holding to that which is the light and the lamp to the self in the face of opposition, and of aiding those that take and stand off that they have believed.
40. Before that we find the entity was in the land now called the Egyptian, during those periods when there were the rebuildings after the return of the Priest and those correlatings of the teachings by the Atlanteans with that call or correlation of the teachers of the earth then as known.
41. The entity was an emissary, or a teacher, a minister from those activities first in the Temple of Sacrifice, then in the preparations through the Temple Beautiful.
42. The entity gained in its activity, in assisting and encouraging those that went to the waste places, the lands where purposes through division and strife had been forgotten, and where the aid to those of every kind and nature brought them the experiences of first gaining an honor of self, or the judgement in self that they HAD a relationship to divine influences, in heaven, in earth.
43. The name then was She-Shepanet.
44. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, and that to which it may attain, and how:
45. First, study to show thyself approved unto that thou hast set as thine ideal, knowing that if this is founded in that thou didst gain in the experiences in Bethany, as thou didst see in thine activities through thy sojourns in the earth, thou may aid others in finding THEIR way - not your way but THEIR way - with Him. For He is the Truth, the Life, the Light of the world. And they that have WISDOM as concerning Him should ask of GOD - not of man but of God, who giveth - ABUNDANTLY - to those that seek to Know His face.
46. Ready for questions.
47. (Q) Give guidance for true place in the divine plan.
    (A) As has been indicated. First ye know in self; and then in the giving, in the lending of self, in the counsel with others, in the meditations, in the prayers that they may seek to know THEIR relationships to the divine as it manifests in the life and the experiences of each soul that seeks to know the WISDOM of God.
    Where strife, where turmoil, where self-glory, where self-exaltation is, there is no true wisdom of God.
48. (Q) Is my feeling for a future marriage correct?
    (A) Why not? In the aids of those activities of companionship, as has been indicated that the love may not only aid in giving expressions for others but in giving those activities that find the expression of same in the lives of the associates of the entity.
49. (Q) Is the urge that I have to deal with the selling of clothes and color schemes correct?
    (A) This is very good, but as we find leads rather to or as a means to giving expression of counsel in many another way, rather than IN the very act itself. It may be used as a means; this the better.
50. (Q) Should I give expression to my desire for writing, and what should be its character?
    (A) It should be, and in those things pertaining to the experiences of the entity as it counseled with the leaders to rebuild the city, as it counseled with those teachers, those ministers to become - as it were - martyrs MATERIALLY for a divine call in Galilee.
51. (Q) Is my attitude toward my daughter and son-in-law right?
    (A) This should be determined within self. For ye oft see within them the reflection of thine own self. Let the answer be within self and not from others.
52. (Q) Will our relationship become more loving?
    (A) If ye would have love, show love. If ye would have peace, be peaceable. If ye would bring about a greater and closer association, so live, so act that NO QUESTION may be raised as to thy purpose in this direction.
53. We are through.

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REPORTS

1. 12/04/37 She referred Mrs. [1493] and Mrs. [1492] for a Life Reading.
2. 10/13/50 She asked to be kept on the N.Y.C. mailing list for A.R.E. lectures, etc.

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