This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 9th day of February, 1937, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [1336], new Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mr. [826].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Born May 4, 1901, in Lexington, Missouri.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the records here as made by this entity's experience in the present and in the experiences as related to the universal forces.
2. In the summing of the urges as we find that are latent and manifested, these are conditions that are latent and have been active in the experience of the entity in the present:
3. Tending towards a conservative; very close in money matters though not stingy, willing to divide with close friends.
4. Rather considers blood relationship than mankind as brothers.
5. Very particular in dress; always appearing at the best as related to same. Hence the interests in such things may be used to an account; as a study of same would be most interesting and the entity could lend self in such a manner as to be of incalculable value to those engaged in activity as stylists; whether clothing, suits, hats, shoes or the like.
6. Yet those things that are of a scientific nature interest the entity most; and an individualist. All of these may be very well if a normal balance is kept and the entity does not become too materialistic. Individualism and conservatism are well and are virtues to be claimed or exercised by all, but forget not the spiritual import of every activity. Know that unless purposes and aims and desires are founded in constructive spiritual import, they must turn to rust and canker, and eventually make for rancor in the human relationships.
7. In the astrological aspects we would find many confusing influences from what have been set as laws or orders respecting same from purely astrological charts.
8. For as has been indicated, while astrological aspects are signs and indications, it is what one does with and about same making them applicable in the experience of any individual sojourn.
9. Just as the entity is by its very practical application a stylist, but applying same only in self's own experience - few others may gain advantage of same in the present experience of the entity; unless applied practically in relationships to others.
10. Also we find Jupiter having a ruling influence of benevolence, yet the very activities belie such conditions, although these must have their import and influence - yet the entity by the application of self may defeat the very forces or influences of same in its relationships to others.
11. During those periods of the present year when this comes into a more benevolent aspect (especially in October and November and December of the present year), it makes for an influence that may be applied or cast aside or left entirely upon the very activity of the will.
12. For the will is the influence that makes for weal or woe in the experience of each and every soul.
13. The Mercurian influence has to do with the entity's abilities as a statistician. Hence anything that the entity has to deal with must be to the entity rather practical. No dreamers; no one that only lives upon emotions and draws heavily upon same for its activities can be of any great interest to the entity unless the entity forces self to take an interest; though beauties of all of these from the mental and the very practical application, or the very practical entity, are of interest to the entity.
14. Hence we have that association in which many an associate of the entity may look upon the entity as being rather eccentric, rather unusual, yet not quite "different" from others.
15. As to the appearances of the entity in the earth's plane that have had and do have a natural application of influence in the present, we find:
16. Before this the entity was in the land of the present nativity, but to the eastward - among the first settlers in the Missouri land, during the periods when there was so much discussion as to the political, the economic and the general relationships.
17. The entity's activities came into the experience then as Dollie D'Oublon.
18. During the experience the entity was a teacher in the broader sense, yet a home maker - and yet a home divider. For many were those experiences during that sojourn and activity wherein the entity turned many of those influences which made later for political questions in that very land; as to decisions related to the freeholder and the landowner, and government ownership.
19. Hence we find in the present experience much of that practicability arising from the experiences of the entity in that sojourn.
20. As to the gain or the loss, it depends in the present upon whether or not the spiritual force or God is taken into account with same. If not, ye cannot walk the way alone; for it is in Him that ye live and move and have thy being!
21. Do not become the fundamentalist so wholly as to be radical; yet these become rather the sentiments oft in the entity's moments of meditation.
22. Rather in thy meditation and musing make an analysis of thyself in relationship to that thou may set as an ideal. As an ideal home, as an ideal relationship. But let the basis of the ideal be in spirit, not in materiality. For in materiality it must rust and corrupt.
23. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the French and German, during those early periods when there were the heavy relationships between the lands as to one cause and purpose. For this once existed, especially in those periods when there was a union of purpose in the common enemy of the Church and State; or during those periods of the combinations for the Holy Wars when those of the frontiers of the land (especially as it is in the present) joined hands for a union of activity as related to the overrunning of the Holy Land.
24. The entity then was a man, and in the name - as would be analyzed or called today - Simeon Ardlenned.
25. In the experience the entity was a leader, the entity was an active influence in making for or causing or producing in the experiences of the followers that which would be the prompting for the activity as in relationships to others.
26. There the entity lost, and there the entity gained. For life to the entity then was considered little, just as deep in the soul in the present there is the urge to have the own way whatever it may cost. This is too oft the impelling force.
27. Hence the spiritual import for those things is, "As ye sow, so must ye reap."
28. From those activities we will find the natural inclinations for the entity to be very decided in its conclusions, which in its broader sense is material and practical to be sure - yet these run to seed oft destroy their own selves and purposes.
29. Hence they must be guided rather by creative, constructive, spiritual import.
30. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Egyptian, during those periods when there were turmoils and strifes owing to the banishment of the Priest, the uprising of the Natives and those of the King's own household.
31. The entity then was among the Natives who made for a drawing together rather than the separations. And there the entity gained much.
32. In those experiences the entity sought to make for bonds of union rather than separations among its own peoples. Yet the love, the desire for its own peoples to be the lead, the van, made for misunderstandings in the entity's experience and activity.
33. And it was long after the entity's departure from those experiences that the whole purport was fully comprehended by many.
34. The name then was Ask-Elktt.
35. In the experience the entity GAINED.
36. And holding to those tenets of the Law of One, as to the fruits of the spirit, was the practice and the preaching of the entity - that is:
37. As ye would have another be, that be thyself.
38. Do not ask another to do that ye would not do thyself.
39. Make concessions only to the weak.
40. Defy the strong if they are in the wrong. These, as the entity experienced then, may be applied in the present if there is kept the self-analysis and the understanding as to the intent and purpose for which each soul enters an earth's experience for an activity.
41. For God is not mocked, and whatsoever a person soweth, that must he REAP!
42. Only in the fruits of the spirit - as of longsuffering and patience and mercy and brotherly love and kindness and gentleness - may the TRUE MEANING of life's experience and the purposes of life, and in the associations with others, be understood. And not as tenets but as practical application of same in thy daily life with thy daily experience with thy fellow man.
43. These make for that in the experience of each soul that makes life, with all of its uprisings and downsittings, worth while.
44. Ready for questions.
45. (Q) What was the time of my physical birth?
    (A) In the afternoon, three to four.
46. (Q) What was the exact time of my soul birth?
    (A) Almost at the same period. For the union of the activities in the bodily forces was purposeful. We would give as an hour's difference, if we would measure time by such, between the physical and the soul or spiritual birth.
47. (Q) Should I marry? If so, when?
    (A) October or November, this year.
48. (Q) What type person should I marry?
    (A) Positive.
49. (Q) What are my business prospects?
    (A) As has been indicated. The home, though, is the better.
50. (Q) What type of work would I be most successful in?
    (A) Anything pertaining to science, in any of its branches.
51. (Q) What is my greatest fault?
    (A) Hardheadedness!
52. (Q) How can I correct it?
    (A) As has been indicated, know others have their own duties, their own privileges, yea their own thoughts as well. And the experiences of each may be dear teachers, yet give and take. Be patient. Be longsuffering. Be kind.
    Do not pity the other fellow because he doesn't think as self; neither abhor him, but be patient with him. Ye may learn much from his faults as you see them, yea his virtues as there must be.
    For there are none so bad that there is not good; neither any so good that there are not faults seen by others.
53. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. 1/25/37 Questions submitted.

REPORTS

1. 7/24/37 Mr. [826]'s letter: "I think maybe Miss [1336] was a little disappointed in her Life Rdg. She had read mine, and she apparently had not had quite so wide an experience as my own. I believe that she is thinking of eventually getting a Physical Rdg. That was what I suggested in the first place, but she insisted that she was in perfect health. I think she may have changed her mind somewhat."
2. 9/17/37 Mr. [826]'s letter to GD: "[1336] tells me she talked to Mr. Cayce over the Labor Holiday and liked him very much. She said he was the most interesting person she had ever met. In fact, she said she stayed so long in talking to him that she wondered if she hadn't overstayed herself. Anyway, she enjoyed her visit a lot."
3. 10/04/37 EC's letter to Mr. [826]: "Say, that young lady friend of yours is lovely, certainly enjoyed talking with her. Give her my regards, won't you? and tell her would like to carry that discussion a bit farther one of these days."
4. GD's note: 1/08/61 Miss [1336] died suddenly with a bronchial asthma attack.

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