This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the home of David E. Kahn, 20 Woods Lane, Scarsdale, N.Y., this 18th day of November, 1936, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [1294], through Associate Membership of her husband in the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., Virginia Beach, Va.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. [1294] and Lucille Kahn. Born December 16, 1905, in Stillwater, Okla.

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1. EC: (In going back over years to birth date, "1933 - yes, a change - '32, '31 - '28 - different surroundings - '27, '26, - " etc., on back to birth date.)
2. Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as [1294].
3. In giving the interpretations of that as we find here, much might be said of the beauty of the entity's record, in its purposefulness.
4. For when there is taken into consideration the developments in the interims between sojourns, and the activities in the earth, these become rather as one.
5. Hence we find while in common parlance it might be said the entity hasn't been a "tin angel," this is rather to its credit than discouragement or discredit.
6. For practicality has been the development of the entity's sojourns in its application to conditions and circumstances about the material sojourn as well as the interims.
7. Hence we find the entity is sensitive, yes - to those things that are the practical experiences of life; yet sensitive also to the soul or spiritual life; yet tolerant, and not in that way or manner of not being able to see or feel those experiences of others.
8. This kept, this applied in the experiences in the present, especially in the creating of the home life, will make for and bring the greater joy, the greater peace to the entity of any portion of the entity's make-up; or ability for giving and taking, that is the experience of each soul in its relationships to others, whether in the social, the economic, the home, the political, the national or international relationships, that become a part of the entity's experience.
9. And as we find, as developments come in this sojourn, more and more will international relationships have to do with the sunset of this experience of the entity.
10. In giving then the astrological aspects as we find that present themselves, as indicated, as urges - but that become as a unison with the earthly sojourns, we find:
11. Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn; those as the leading influences in the experience of the entity.
12. One then of high mental abilities, especially in discernments. And knowing what the entity desires in material or mental relationships, the manners and the ways of obtaining same become a part of the whole mental make-up.
13. And oft may the entity experience what may be said of very few: When the entity obtains its desires, it is pleased with same rather than experiencing the shadow and not the real that has been sought.
14. In those influences from Jupiter we find the dealings with great numbers, or the acquaintanceships, the opportunities of the entity's activities will affect, do affect, oft more than is conscious in the entity's material make-up, the lives of a great many people. These conditions, as they are applied in those directions indicated, will become in the years more and more apparent; not only to self but to the associates of the entity.
15. In Venus we find that as may be termed the greater humanitarian experience of the entity, as well as the great material, the great mental LOVE; as love is the influence that motivates, moves many people. Hence this humanitarian influence should be cultivated in the experience of the entity with that tolerance, with that sensitiveness. Not that the entity takes upon itself the burdens of others so much, but be not unmindful to entertain strangers; for many entertain angels unawares.
16. As to the activities in the sojourns in the earth, then, and those as we find that have the greater influence in the experience of the entity in the present, we find:
17. Before this the entity was in that portion of the land then new, of the western portions of now Pennsylvania and portions of Ohio, when there was the setting out of many of the settlers and the activities of individuals seeking gold.
18. In those periods the entity then suffered through the material associations and connections by that to the entity that became material or physical neglect. Yet the entity made of the experience rather that which has builded into the present the lack of much of that which was experienced in that sojourn.
19. Hence the use of that which has been gained in the experience in the present becomes not a problem; rather a joy, rather an experience of not exaltation for self-aggrandizement but to meet love with love, that to the entity then was expended upon only the mental thoughts of those with whom the manifestations of the affections and love went.
20. Yet in the giving of self in these experiences for the aid to those that were ill in body, to those that were lacking in the sustenance of the day and the period, there has been brought in the present experience of the entity that humanitarianism, that tolerance, that love; that makes - as the book of life for the entity - a golden experience.
21. In the name then Heller (Margaret).
22. Before that we find the entity was in the French land, during those periods when there were the Holy Wars, during those activities when many of the entity's associates and friends were left.
23. The entity succeeded in making for those of its surroundings to be protected rather than neglected. Yet some railings of the entity brought about discouraging experiences to those who sought - in that deemed by the peoples of the day as a Holy War - some condemnations.
24. But throughout the experience the entity held to those abilities which may be expressed by the entity in the present; that though there is understood that there are those petty conditions that present themselves as avarice, the entity acts and feels - with its acts, its justice - gently and kindly to those who speak oft unkindly of the entity.
25. And the entity soon forgets malices, petty jealousies. And this will make for and does build into the experience of the entity the greater lessons, mentally, spiritually, and creates the environs in which the material life may become the greater in its experiencing of same.
26. For the entity ENJOYS living for the EXPERIENCES of life and the experiences of associations, even as did the entity then - in the name Relois Dreyfuss.
27. In the experience the entity gained, for its abilities to see every side of human experience, and yet make for its admonitions to others to create in the home the environment it would worship in its SPIRITUAL home.
28. And this held in the experience of EVERY one may become that upon which a NEW UNDERSTANDING may be gained by many in this earthly sojourn.
29. For the nearer the soul attains to not that as of human perfection but that of the mental and spiritual impulses for creating the environ about itself that it would desire to ever, EVER enjoy in ALL its experiences, the nearer to the ideal does it become.
30. And that life and life's experiences will not, do not pall upon the entity is gained much from those activities during that sojourn.
31. Hence we will find much that is of the French natures of that day, of the history of the activities, are of interest to the entity, as well as the lands and those activities of the peoples during that period.
32. Before that we find the entity's experience that becomes the greater of its activities; when there were those journeyings from the land of Egypt to the land of promise.
33. The entity then was the daughter of a leader, Caleb, that brought such a report of the land to all those travellers, those peoples of promise, those chosen that were to give to the world the basic principles for their moral and spiritual life.
34. The entity was born in the wilderness, and was given in marriage when there was the conquering and the activity of the father's people in the taking and settling of the lands about the Holy City.
35. Then in the name Achsah, and the companion of the entity in the present was then a son of Benjamin - but not the one to whom the entity was wed. This brought in the experience some doubts, some miscomprehensions. And yet throughout the experience the entity gave to the peoples the ideals of a life of purposefulness, even though the edicts of the fathers overruled the hearts of the women in those periods.
36. Yet these arise in the experience of the entity at times in the present sojourn - that as the heart longs for, as is seen in the experience - as may be attained even by the seeking, the knocking, the working towards those directions, if used properly may become helpful influences; but if they are used as self-indulgences, they become stumblingblocks to many.
37. In the experience the entity finds from that sojourn that the laws as pertaining to the relationships of individuals in the marital life, those as pertain to holdings as may be said in the material life, become as much in the manner as the entity entertained during those sojourns. Though it brought then disturbing forces in the present, they may be made to become those influences that may bring peace and harmony.
38. Before that we find the entity was in the Egyptian and the Indian land. For with the teachings that were set during those periods of the compilations of the tenets and truths of many lands, the entity - after those periods of consecration, those periods of preparation - became an emissary to those of the Indian land, during those periods of the teachings of Saneid.
39. And the entity journeyed on to those teachings in the Gobi land. And though the entity proclaimed all of these, the entity joined rather in those activities in the Indian land.
40. Hence we find in the entity's abilities, as it were in the present, oft the ability - through intuition - to KNOW the activities and thoughts of others. Because this has at times produced disturbing influences, the entity has refrained from exercising abilities in this direction. Yet these may be used as constructive influences if those abilities of tolerance are held, those abilities of open-mindedness, those abilities that are a portion of the entity's experience - that is, though knowing the little petty dislikes, it can exercise that great quality of love that has been gained by the entity's application of itself in the material world.
41. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, and that to which it may attain, and how:
42. Not by some mighty deed, not by some mighty act that would proclaim that the entity has gained. But as has ever been, not by the storm nor by the earthquake but by the still small voice does a soul become aware of its relationships to its Maker. So may the entity in its opportunities, in its associations with its fellow man, imbue into their minds and their hearts by that gentleness, that kindliness, that bespeaks as a true daughter in Israel, that does proclaim.
43. For the abilities to write have been neglected, yet in the latter years when the home is established, then the activities of same become as a part of the entity's experience - for that of keeping counsel with all that they may come day by day or year by year for counsel and aid - the entity may then inscribe that which has been a portion of its experiences for a helpful influence in the lives of others that seek along life's way to know the manner in which love may be given to others, in such measures as to become ever a helpful influence rather than one that would become detrimental or as a stumblingstone to others.
44. Keep that faith. Though to others and to self it may be proclaimed simple, yet the simplicity of God is the confounding of the wordly-wise. Ye have it, ye know it! Hold fast to that thou hast gained! Give it to others. For that ye give, that ye possess. That ye throw away or spend ye never had!
45. Ready for questions.
46. (Q) Should I become a channel for another soul, or other souls, to be born into the earth through me in this life?
    (A) Not a better channel may be had, if there is held those principles, those ideals that are so much a part of the entity in the present! And if there comes (and there may) the one, it should be sufficient. For then indeed there may be kept that balance in the home life that is so near, so dear to the heart of the entity as to bring the perfect balance.
47. (Q) When would be the best time for this child to be born?
    (A) This should be chosen by self. Dependent upon the physical conditions of self, that it may be the better channel for the PERFECT demonstration of God choosing his handmaids that the Spirit of Truth may be manifested in a sin-sick world! Keeping those thoughts, those ideals as thou didst hold in those days in the wilderness, as those held in those days when thou longed for thy love; and ye may have those experiences that each may become as material manifestations. And when ye seek knowledge, when ye seek understanding, ASK of Him, who upbraideth not but gives to all that measure to which they show themselves the USERS OF, not abusers of, His love!
48. (Q) How in the past have I been associated with my present husband, [1291] [GD's note: Her husband, [1291], died 6 mos. later, 7/08/37.], and what should we mean to each other's development in the present?
    (A) In these we find two outstanding experiences, and yet both were not consummated in the wedded life.
    In that previous, lovers - but never man and wife.
    In the wilderness, lovers - but never man and wife.
    Hence there should be in this experience rather the FULFILLING, and the deeper feeling that may be held between each that their love-life, their associated life, should mean more than even to others. Not as lording, but rather as fulfilling a longing. And this has been experienced by each.
49. (Q) To what Dreyfuss family in France was the entity related?
    (A) Henri.
50. (Q) In what appearances have I been associated with my present son, [1292], and how may I aid in his development now?
    (A) As has been indicated, a knowledge of in the one; the daughter of in another. And as there was then, as has been indicated, a lording over self by the father, there will be much of those attempts in those directions in the present; yet the counsel as has been indicated needs to be in man's experience rather changed. So may the counsel of the mother temper in those experiences of the son that as was needed in the experience of the father in the previous sojourn.
    And then to become in mind, in heart, one as in material plane to direct a chosen channel of the Lord, is INDEED a praiseworthy experience!
51. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n File

BACKGROUND

1. 7/08/37 See [1291] file. Also Baby son's, [1292]'s Life Rdg.

REPORTS

1. 12/07/36 See EC's letter in re [1294] and son [1292] under husband's 1291-1 Reports.
2. 9/52 She requested and was sent an extra copy of her son's, [1292]'s Life Reading.

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