This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 3rd day of March, 1937, in accordance with request made by the parents, Mr. [555] and Mrs. [540], Members of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Born March 2, 1937, 11:20 P. M., in the General Hospital, Norfolk, Virginia.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the entity, [1346]. [E.C. named the baby.]
2. In giving those activities that are recorded in the Book of God's Remembrance, much might be said as to the influences that have had and may have to do with this entity's present experience in the earth's plane.
3. A guiding influence may ever be that Pope Leo XIII, as this entity's birth date is a corroboration of that entity's birth who rose to the place as the pontiff.
4. Hence we will find an influence in the experience that will ever be as a light to many; an influence towards that which is good.
5. Yet the faults are to be met as of the entity's OWN experience, and not only the influences that have been a part of a guiding influence.
6. A high temper, yet one that will be very pleasant when everything is well; but a tendency to rule or ruin is among the conditions of the entity to be overcome.
7. Yet as these are overcome, by the training, by the applications of those tenets that may be a part of its experience, more and more may the entity become the leader - as it has been in many experiences through its earthly sojourn.
8. As to the records of the astrological influences, these are of the Piscean that make for the mystic, for the leaderships, for love and beauty, for the abilities to direct; especially when self has been conquered.
9. Then the ruling force we will find in Jupiter, Venus and Uranus - which makes for rather a confusion of emotions at times; yet Venus is that which will be the deciding factor in its choices.
10. Hence in the early training there must be those impressions not only of love but ennobling forces, as well as fair play, as well as the value of that in the experience, which comes as a thorn in the flesh, as trouble or disorder; that each may in a material experience know the value of peace, of harmony, and of the source of all good and perfect gifts.
11. As to the appearances then in the earth:
12. Before this we find the entity's indwelling was during those periods of just about the settlings of the Revolution in the land of the present nativity.
13. We find the entity then as a young man entered this land from the French land, becoming active in what is commonly called the Christian ministry; in the name then Lon Williams.
14. The activities were in portions of Maryland (that is, now), Pennsylvania, New York and the eastern portion of the land.
15. Hence the tendencies for the entity in this experience will be to join in whatever service that may be chosen in those particular portions of the land; and the final education or training of the entity as a young man in the present experience would be well chosen in the environments about Baltimore - in WHATEVER profession may be chosen, but rather as we find that of letters than of mechanical natures or things pertaining to mechanics.
16. In the experience the entity gained in the greater portion, though there ever remained within the experience that in that period of activity a something hidden - as to its authorship, as to its relationships with the political life and the life of those in power.
17. Hence that inclination which has been indicated, to either lead in an undertaking or to destroy the influences that may come.
18. It will be well, then, to train the entity in the early years to be a good loser as well as one that surpasses in undertakings. This may be best done in encouraging the entity to participate in the sports that develop the body, the mind, the quickness of perception, the value of concentration, the value of quickness of mind and of activity.
19. Before that we find the entity was in the land during those periods when the Master walked in the earth; and the entity was among those of the household of one of the Apostles of the Master, being then a nephew of Peter - in the name then John Louis, or Louie - as the entity was called.
20. In the experience the entity was a leader, yet a weaver of nets and following in the ways of those who were the fishers; yet rather among those who prepared the means and manners than of those who were called the fishermen; what today would be called the wholesale dealing in same.
21. The entity was a follower of those Disciples, and in a portion of the experience suffered through privations by reasons of being driven place to place.
22. There the entity gained and lost, and gained. For material destruction and material persecution brought distraughtness.
23. Yet as was given, "Those that are strong, strengthen the weak" may have been well applied during those periods of activity; as the entity began to become a minister, a teacher, during that sojourn.
24. Then did the entity gain much, and become a leader and a strong fort to many that were troubled in those days.
25. In the present we will find those same inclinations for others to listen when the entity speaks, when the entity acts.
26. Hence those injunctions for a full development of the entity to hold, when there are persecutions or the inability to make for the greater leads when exerting self greatly in physical, mental and material things.
27. Before that we find in the land known as the Arabian and Persian, during those periods when the teacher in the land made for the building of the 'city in the hills and in the plains.'
28. The entity then among the Persians who were as teachers and counsellors to the king of the land; yet coming under the influences of that teacher in the plains, coming under those activities, the entity then joined with those who would distribute to other lands the tenets and truths gained in the associations of the activities in that city.
29. Then in the name Rosaroeal, the entity gained throughout the whole of the period. For then as now, as one gives self in service to others the greater knowledge and understanding may come to the individual of the relationships of self to Creative Forces and the universal expression of same even into material affairs.
30. Before that we find the entity was in the land called the Egyptian, during those periods of the advancements of the activities from the Temples of Sacrifice and the Temple Beautiful.
31. There we find the entity's activities were in what would be called the keeper of the Temple of Sacrifice and the counsellor to those who made preparations for the Temple Beautiful.
32. Again we find those expressions in the experience of the entity when there should be the developments of the body towards what would be called today athletics, and those activities which were then as the preservation and dedicating of the body to the Divine or to purposes for the better expressions in material worlds. These will be well for the body-development, especially during its early period.
33. Then the entity was one in power as to those things partaking of the social and moral and religious relationships of individuals and groups for active services in either of the Temples; and to those did the entity counsel much that became emissaries and missionaries in the various teachings and relationships to many another land.
34. Hence as has been indicated, the entity becomes in that position to be one of letters, one as a teacher or a minister, or one in such fields of activity as a reporter or a writer, or a combination of these - for the better and the greater development during this experience.
35. The name then was Len-Loiden.
36. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, and that to which it may attain, and how:
37. These - as has ever been indicated - will depend upon the training, the counselling to the entity in its developing years. But as a leader, as a teacher, as a minister, as a writer, will be found the fields in which, through which the entity may bring the greater contribution in this experience to a waiting, needing world - as to the glory of God in the lives of his fellow men.
38. We are through for the present.

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REPORTS

1. 3/18/39 The mother secured a Physical Rdg. for him. See 1346-2.
2. 2/74 See Source File Key #1346 for Natal Chart submitted by Dorothy Moore, 6842 Merrille Lane, Dallas, TX 75214, re 1346-1.

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