This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 18th day of August, 1937, in accordance with request made by the father - Mr. [...], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mr. [257].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Born June 19, 1926, 1:50 P. M., in New York City.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the records of that entity now known as or called [1426]. ("What a record!")
2. In giving the interpretations of the records here, that which may be constructive - as is viewed from here - is given.
3. While the astrological sojourns have their influence, as well as the material sojourns, these are urges - and one training, one advising or counseling with the entity will need to study the urges well; if this experience will be made a constructive life or experience.
4. For the inclination is for the entity to become a soldier of fortune, or a drifter. Yet if there is the application of the urges and the inclinations in DIRECTING these, this energy, this perspective, this seeking that is innate may be made a constructive experience.
5. This must, then, have its foundation in spirituality. Not rote, not formality; for the entity tends to abhor formality that becomes rote - and rote becomes drudgery.
6. Unless there is given the entity then the WHYS and the WHEREFORES, by precept and application as well, this entity may become set in a tendency for roving.
7. In giving then the astrological urges, we find Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune making for the greater innate urge in the mental forces of the entity.
8. Hence we find from the Martian influence one very determined; one very set, one very decided in likes and dislikes; one that makes friendships easily and just as easily breaks them unless they carry on; and is naturally, to be sure, a leader in its material and its mental associations.
9. In Jupiter we find protection, and thus the entity will ACCOMPLISH things in its experience; and it will very probably accumulate or earn or gain a great deal of money. As to whether this will be spent as easily as gained depends upon the next few years of direction in molding the ideals of the entity.
10. And if the ideals are only in material things, these may become stumbling-stones; unless they be founded in that which is right for Right's sake, virtue for Virtue's sake, goodness not only because it makes for Creative Forces but satisfies the longings within the breast for assurance of eternal forces being activative in the experience ever.
11. In Saturn we find the inclinations for changes, as to this, that or the other; and to muddle a great many things together in the activity.
12. Hence that injunction as given by the sages of old, "The merchant is never the student; neither is the student ever the merchant," should be as a part of the entity's program in its choice of its activity in this experience.
13. As an orator or as a diplomat, or in the capacities where the entity may follow many of those influences through the material experiences as a representative of individuals and countries and nations in their relationships with others, the entity may have an active experience - and these may be a part of the entity's experience. But if this ability would be turned into that which would deal with law, upon which the entity might give full vent, it would be the better.
14. In Neptune we find the inclinations for things that have to do with water and over water and to be on waters and upon waters. These then give an urge again, as through Saturn, for change of scene and change of environment - and the desire for travel; desire for those things that are exciting, and those things that pertain to the heroic and hero worship. This urge must ever be tempered, then, with directing the entity to the character of ideals that should be held by the heroes that the entity follows in the very activities of its study and its progress.
15. As to the appearances in the earth that as we find bear out many of those influences that are seen innate and manifested in the mental forces of the entity, we find that these become the emotional nature.
16. Hence in the directing of the entity through these formative periods of its gaining its balance and its equilibrium as to its outlook upon the experiences of life:
17. LISTEN well to all the plans of the entity and do not discard them as but mere thoughts of the imagination. For to the entity these are REAL, and the entity will tend to make them a part of the experience.
18. And forget not that determination that is innate and manifested in the experience!
19. Then hear him out, and bear with him in the directing not by force but by drawing the comparisons as to that way in which the plans of the entity may have been set.
20. Before this we find the entity was in the land of the present nativity during what has been called the American Revolution.
21. The entity then was in the capacity of one in the Intelligence Department, or one making the associations and arrangements whereby there might be advantages taken in the activity.
22. Belonging to the English, the entity - Major Andrae - made the associations with Arnold, with Greene, and with most of the southern activities as well as the activities through the Virginia peninsula campaign.
23. The entity gained through the greater portion of the experience. While the entity became disillusioned owing to the feelings that the efforts and the activities accomplished were not appreciated (or the body so felt), in the minds of his superiors; yet the very purposes - or the SINCERITY of purpose, rather than the purpose - made for that which is determination in the entity's experience in the present.
24. Hence routine, the lack of rote, becomes a part of the entity's individuality in the present. Hence we will never find things apparently very straight about the entity's wardrobe, or about the entity's room; save those things upon which he may be working out an individual or personal program as to changes in this or that which has been set.
25. These tend then to make the entity inclined to improve upon many of the activities of others.
26. Take these not as attempts to lord over; rather is it the leadership manifesting itself in the entity's activities.
27. Before that we find the entity was in the Roman land during those periods of the early portion of the rule of the first Caesars, when there were the orators that made for the declarations during the periods of those activities in which there was the sending out of those as emissaries.
28. The entity then, in the name Aqualus, was among those who were active among the Grecians and Romans; and in Iconium - in all of those activities that made the preparations for that which was so well presented by the orators of that period.
29. The entity was active in the capacity of an emissary, or as a representative of other peoples; and one in authority, yet a leader among his own group.
30. During the experience the entity lost and gained; yet from same in the present we find that those experiences there as to law, as to oratory, as to speech-making, letter writing, composition and essays and the like, may be made a part of the entity's experience; and we may find EXCELLENT activities in these directions that will hold and make in the present that which may become constructive rather than detrimental or destructive in the experience of the entity.
31. Before that we find the entity living in the earth during those periods when there were the journeyings of the children of promise to captivity, when Nebuchadnezzar made for the removal of Hezekiah and all the gold of the temple, and the waylaying of same.
32. The entity then was among the soldiery that made up what would be termed the guard; the entity not being what would commonly be called a guard but rather a commander of the guard; then in the name Telemus.
33. In the experience the entity gained, for many of those things that were a portion of the priest's activity in his authority were given out as rebukes to the entity for his activity; yet these became as stepping-stones for the entity in the dealings with the fellow man.
34. Hence again that injunction that has been indicated; let the entity's activities and ideals be founded in spiritual things, for these alone are eternal; and in those experiences there these made for the great advancement in the abilities of the entity to lay the foundation for that upon which years and years later Cyrus issued the decrees.
35. These same principles and spiritual ideals will be a part of the entity's experience in the present if the spiritual forces are held to in the activities in the present in dealing with the fellow man.
36. For "As ye do it unto the least of thy brethren, ye do it unto thy Maker."
37. Before that we find the entity was in the Atlantean land, during those periods when there were the journeyings to many another land.
38. The entity was among those who were sent as the directors to what became the Yucatan land, and in the setting up of the temple and the temple service, the temple of worship, the temple of differentiation in the laborer and the ruler.
39. Then in the name Ikunle, the entity made for a great service to a great people; that made for the bringing about of the preservation of much that may some day make for a unifying of the understandings as to the relationships of man to the Creative Forces.
40. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, and that to which it may attain, and how:
41. These, as has been indicated, are only limited to the WILL of the entity; and this dependent much upon the manner of guiding or counseling during these years of formative activity - for either the constructive teacher, the liberator; or the wanderer, with help here, there, everywhere, without any particular purpose.
42. In the preparing, then, follow close with that which has been indicated. These urges are, as we find, innate - and are manifesting themselves.
43. Then, study the mind, the abilities; and guide them aright.
44. Ready for questions.
45. (Q) Through what channels should his education be directed to accomplish this?
    (A) Through those channels where a great deal of attention is given of a personal nature, to that pertaining to the guiding of the young minds - or in vocational guidance.
46. (Q) What warnings should he have to guide him?
    (A) As given.
47. (Q) What can his parents do to aid him to fulfil his life's destiny?
    (A) Listen, counsel, and direct in the spiritual sides of the experience; not by precept but by ACTIVITY!
48. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Father
    Copy to Ass'n file
    Copy to Mr. [257]

BACKGROUND

1. 7/28/37 [1426]'s father's letter to EC: "Mr. David E. Kahn has talked to me quite a little about you and has requested me to write you and ask you for a Life Reading on [1426]. [1426] was born on June 19, 1926 at 1:50 P.M.
   "Based on the foregoing reading, in what field will he be most successful?
   "Through what channels should his education be directed to accomplish the above?
   "What warnings should he have to guide him?
   "What can his parents do to aid him to fulfill life's destiny?"
2. 8/02/37 EC wrote [1426]'s father, acknowledging the father's letter and sent him some introductory material about the ARE, along with an application form for a reading.
3. 8/10/37 EC's letter to [1426]'s father: "Have yours of the 5th with application for membership to the Association for Research and Enlightenment, Inc. and the request for the Life Reading for your son. Thanks. The first open time, Mr. [...], is the afternoon of the 18th. I will ask, please, if possible, you follow the suggestion on page 14 of the Association Booklet [See page 14 of the Association Booklet, below, 1426-1, Par. B5], for the attitude in seeking for the best results; that is, keep that the period of 3:30 to 4:30 the afternoon of the 18th..."
4. 8/12/37 [1426]'s father's letter to EC: "I have your letter of August 10th and will follow the suggestions on Page 14 of the Association Booklet." [See Par. B5 below.]
5. Updated A.R.E. Booklet - 2/37 - pg. 14:
   YOUR ATTITUDE IN SEEKING PSYCHIC INFORMATION (A READING) THROUGH EDGAR CAYCE
   From our experience we believe that the mental attitude of the individual seeking a Reading has much to do with the value of the information received. The following suggestions should be given careful consideration in order that the attunement between the Psychic and the Seeker be clear and undisturbed:
   1. There must be the sincere desire of the person wishing the assistance (or of one responsible for the physical and spiritual life of the individual).
   2. There must be sufficient faith in the Work and the reports of the help received by others to carry out the suggestions exactly as given in the Reading. 3. There must be a belief in the Divine Force innate in each individual.
   4. At the appointed time for a Reading many have found it most helpful to set the period aside as a time for quiet relaxation, meditation and prayer. For those who care to use it we suggest the following affirmation given in a Reading as an appropriate thought for such meditation:
   "MAY THE VERY HIGHEST BE THE IMPELLING INFLUENCE THROUGH THAT ONE SEEKING TO AID ME NOW."

REPORTS

1. 8/21/37 EC's letter to [1426]'s father: "There is possibly little to say about the reading until you have read it many times. Read, lay aside, and then in a few days, read again. Then, if there is nothing that answers to that something within each of us, lay it aside. But I feel sure that you, as most everyone, will find a great deal to ponder over. Know we are glad to try and help interpret it if you wish. We will be hoping to hear from you when you have read it carefully, and trust it will help you just as much as such a reading has helped me understand my boys."
2. 8/26/37 Mr. [257]'s letter to EC: "...The [1426] reading is wonderful and I will write his father about it..."
3. 8/26/37 Mr. [165]'s letter to the father of a prospective student at Mr. [165]'s boys' school: "I was reminded of him yesterday when I was permitted to see a document covering the case and situation of one of the [...] boys, [1426], who has been causing his parents some concern. This document was prepared by Mr. Edgar Cayce, the father of Hugh Lynn Cayce (B.A. Psychology on our Faculty and Advisory Board), and who has a history of personal analysis that I believe is unequalled. There were several typewritten pages covering in the minutest detail the characteristics of the boy, the reason why he had those characteristics, and the direct and advisable methods of overcoming those particular traits that need correction or elimination."
4. 8/38 [1426]'s father joined a group praying for EC during the period of the readings. [See 8/38 supplement to 281-39 regarding prayer for EC.]
5. 10/04/38 EC's letter to [1426]'s father: "Just want you to know how very much I appreciate your cooperation at the time of the readings on each Monday morning. I know of myself, I can do nothing. But His spirit working in me, through the God force in each of us may accomplish much for the seeker. I can only say THANK YOU. But we will possibly never know here how far reaching this may be. You, with many others, make it a much more personal experience for those who seek through this channel. We have already had evidences of the help that is being given, not only in my own self, but doctors as well as those who ask for the reading, indicate better help is being given..."
6. 5/26/50 IvaMay Dennewill's report on [1426] and his family: "On May 26, 1950, Mrs. Herbert Martini and I drove to see some of the people on our list, among them this one. We learned that the reading was given for the son, who has the same name as the father. (Learned father is very ill, and consistently in either a hospital or a nursing home.) Mother came to the door and pretty soon the son, subject of this reading, came through the living room, and she called him to the door to speak to me a moment. In the driveway were two cars; one of them was an Olds convertible, seeming to belong to a young person, and having a radio station (perhaps FM) sticker on it. I would feel most certainly it belonged and referred to the boy, subject. His mother said they did not make much use of the reading, but believe she hardly realizes what use did come from it. She said they talked of it for years and years, and a child cannot grow up to young manhood with this being mentioned, all the things in the reading being brought up, even in jesting, without some impression being left on him. He [1426] is built much like Marsden Godfrey, a heavy-shouldered type, tanned, well dressed, and smooth of tongue and manner. As to interesting them in any way in the Association work, that was just not to be done. And we need such young people so badly!"
7. See Source File Key #1426 for solar [astrological] chart submitted by Dorothy Moore, 6842 Merrille Lane, Dallas, TX 75214 on 2/74; re 1426-1.

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