This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 31st day of August, 1937, in accordance with request made by the wife - Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [1440]. Born July 13, 1887, in Poolsville, Maryland.

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1. EC: (" - '37 - not so good.")
2. Yes; we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [1424].
3. In giving the interpretations of those records as we find here, made by the entity upon the skein of time and space, we find there is much that may be given that would be of interest to those that were curious; we find much that may be helpful in the experience of the entity if it is applied in the spirit of CONSTRUCTIVENESS in the activities during the rest of the sojourn.
4. For as we find, the greater satisfaction, the greater fulfilling of longing desires of the entity, is yet to be experienced in this sojourn if those fields of activity as we find indicated are adhered to.
5. As for the astrological aspects, these we find quite varied from, or at variance to, the ordinary interpretations of those that are teachers in such or delvers into astrological aspects. For as we find it is rather the sojourn of the entity in the environs about the earth plane that determines their influence, rather than the position at the time of birth.
6. The position at the time of birth of an entity is the entity's rule upon the planet, rather than the planet's rule upon the entity; not because of its position but because of the entity's sojourn in the environ it has an influence - just as a dwelling of a material entity in any definite portion of the country would have upon the activities of the entity during a specific sojourn, as to customs, as to ideas, as to the influences of the material surroundings.
7. The latent urges that arise from these, as we find, Jupiter, Mercury, Saturn, Venus, rather in the order as indicated, make for urges in these natures upon the MENTAL or innate urge of the body:
8. Jupiter is such that the activities must have to do with influences that have effect upon the many, rather than the few; those THINGS that pertain to an ease as to association; those things that pertain to beauty as a greater relationship with the whole; those changes as in the high mental efficiency of the entity, and the many unusual incidents, meetings, associations, activities from the Saturn's forces; and yet strongness of purpose in the whole.
9. In Venus we find the quietness, the friendships, the loving experiences of the entity, the high emotional nature, the love of beauty, the love of art, the love of those things that have to do with making for the satisfying of the higher emotions of an individual, and as it deals with the whole; or as great bodies of people.
10. These become as parts of the entity in its relationships, as do the appearances in the earth have to do with the influences upon the emotions of the entity.
11. These as we find while not so great in numbers, that influence the entity in the present, are very definite influences.
12. Hence we find the entity is an exceptional individual in many lines.
13. Oft may it be said that the entity lives a mental self and a material self. Not that it is double-minded but rather necessities, as it were, have turned into the experience of the entity, from not only the application of self but the individual's activity, for the application of self in the varied experiences.
14. As we find in the land before this, then, the entity was in that of the French period during the activity of Corot - that made for the studies of nature as related to the artistic temperament.
15. There the entity was under the environ and a student afar of Corot.
16. Then in the name Marceau Cordeur, the entity in its material activity had to do with the lighting of the streets in Marseilles; but in its home life or in its real life it was a student of the arts.
17. And the abilities for the entity in those directions are such that, if there is the application of self in the present, it may bring into being much that will in the future generations give not only joy to many but will in the expressing of same allow the soul of the entity to be free from much of that which has hampered thus far in its experience in this sojourn.
18. The entity throughout the experience then gained, for its service, its activity, its gentleness in the material surroundings, were well done; though he was only known as the lamplighter yet many of the kindnesses, many of the gentlenesses that were shown to the young and the aged, and many of the kind words spoken to the awkward and the wayward brought into the experience of the entity JOY in the inner self; and allowed for the expressions in the attempts for the depicting of life in all of its various phases and experiences.
19. Though the entity did not become well known as an artist, still there may be found in some of those places about Marseilles some of the works of Cordeur.
20. As to the application of self in these directions, then, we find that in the application of the abilities as the artist would be the fields of activity where a great outlet might come.
21. But these must be tempered ever with or by another experience which we find outstanding among the entity's activities or appearances in the earth.
22. For, before that we find the entity was in the period when the Master walked in the land.
23. The entity was among the followers of the Essenes that made for the preparations, the activities that made so much of those experiences possible for that particular period, for the entering of the Master at that time.
24. And though lame in limb during the experience, through its activities in that period - if these are held to - there may be brought those things that may bring to the heart of many a greater concept of the love, the mercy, yet the STRENGTH, the power, the might, in the Master - during His sojourn in the earth.
25. In the abilities then of the entity in the artistic realm, the pastoral scenes should be depicted but with the concept of the religious subjects; those depicting the life of the Christ with the disciples and MORE so those chosen as special messengers or servants.
26. Hence the great portrait of the entity should be not only that of the Master but of Stephen; not as the martyr but Stephen the speaker to the people before his martyrdom.
27. Here we will find the entity (for to the entity this was a part of the entity's experience) listening to that address of Stephen before those that would take his life.
28. And the entity may depict this in such a way and manner as to bring to the mind of every one what that activity meant, not only during that particular experience but to make same as a personal experience for the eyes and mind of the beholders of same.
29. In the portrait of the Master, depict again the leaving of the upper chamber, when there will be little seen in the faces of the eleven about him of that fear that was created by the leaving of Judas; but rather that as was experienced in the heart and mind of all when He gave, "My peace I leave with you - in my Father's house are many mansions - if it were not so I would have told you - I go to prepare a place, that where I am there ye may be also."
30. In this much may be given (if this appeals to the entity) of the color, of the position, of that which will carry upon the canvas the colors for the expressing of that moment, that HOUR, in the hearts of the beholders, those experiencing it, and that will carry that message to those that may behold same as to the eternal oneness of the Christ-life and hope into the hearts of men.
31. The name then was Simeon; the one-legged man.
32. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as the Arabian, during those periods when there was the beginning of the gathering of those in the 'city in the hills and the plains,' when many of the caravans from the east to the west and from the west to the east stopped for succor and aid, or for the camping place, and there began to be the expectancy in those that had lost their way in the material and the mental experiences; and where grudges and hates were quieted by the soft measures and messages as given by the leader during those experiences.
33. The entity was a great merchant in that now called Bagdad, and brought the sweet incense to the land of the Egyptians, for their activities with those in authority for the preservation not only of their dead but in the decorations of their homes and of their tombs and of their places of worship.
34. Then the entity known as Ahjuen, of the East Indians, made for that as was a means of commerce, and yet a means of the activities whereby the dealings with men were judged in the land.
35. Coming under those influences of Uhjltd, the entity rose to one known not only as a teacher, as an interpreter, but as one that applied same in the activities of the daily life.
36. As to the abilities that arise from those experiences, we find in the present so often the entity's activities with the commercial life are called by others poor judgements, and yet these be they upon which many an activity has been builded for changes in the associations by the addition of thought to active service in those associations and dealings.
37. Before that we find the entity was in the Egyptian land during those periods when turmoils and strifes arose owing to the banishment of the Priest and the uprising of the Natives, and the activities in the King's own household.
38. The entity then was among those of the Natives that were the followers with those who attempted to make for changes in the rule of the land; but with the return of the Priest and the establishing of those activities that brought material comforts as well as the greater understandings in those things for the spiritual life, the entity gladly joined in and became then the decorator for the Temple of Sacrifice.
39. Hence to the entity oft, innately, appears the need of the sacrifice for the greater understanding and the concept of same.
40. The name then was Sui-Pth-El.
41. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, and that to which it may attain, and how:
42. First, open again the mind, the heart, the soul to that message given by Stephen and Philip; and you will find the anchor of safety in the heart, and the abilities of those thou studied with in the French experience, when those activities may bring into material manifestation the intense and the tenseness and yet the beauty that is brought into the hearts and minds of those that may hear the answer to that which has ever been a question, "If a man die, shall he live again!"
43. Ready for questions.
44. (Q) For what purpose connected with his art and later life this accident?
    (A) That he might know the relationships with the real life in Jesus.
45. (Q) From whom should he take lessons?
    (A) Not lessons in painting. In the search for and in the abilities to make same as a practical thing, let the studies be hung in the various places where privileges are given; and through the Philadelphia school this may be done.
    Not so much as lessons but as a channel and an outlet for the efforts and the activities.
    For by the next year, or in thirty-eight or nine, a study should be hung in the Louvre in France, made by this entity that will bring ACCLAIM at once of the entity's abilities.
    Work to that end.
46. (Q) How can he make money out of it?
    (A) As just indicated, through those channels. First GAIN recognition by the hangings, not only of the portraits but these must all be not personal - until much later in life - but the Christ subjects; the Christ, His Disciples, and the GREAT portrait-picture should be Stephen proclaiming to the people!
47. (Q) What art guides has he when his heart jumps and suddenly while painting? Who are his chief guides in art?
    (A) It isn't so much a guide as it is the self in its intenseness from its study of Corot for the pastorals, Rubens for the portraits.
48. (Q) For what experience did he choose mate?
    (A) For the experience of a not aloofness but a steadying of the whole experience.
    For these were a part of the entity's experience in not only Marseilles but also in those periods in Palestine, India and Egypt.
49. (Q) Why so much in-law confusion [his wife, [1440], asks] and how long will it last?
    (A) This depends just upon how much this is allowed to be the hindrance it has been.
50. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. Previously he obtained two Physical Readings for a broken leg which was slow healing.

REPORTS

1. 9/01/37 See wife's Life Rdg., 1440-1, Par. 50-A--54-A regarding past and present associations with [1424].
2. 9/11/37 See wife's Mental-Spiritual Rdg., 1440-2, Par. 36-A in re influence [1424] has on her present experience.
3. 9/18/37 He obtained another Physical Reading - See 1424-4.
4. See Source File Key #1424 for Encyclopaedia Britannica excerpt on Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875), in re 1424-3.

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