This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 30th day of August, 1937, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [1436], Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. [1436]. Born July 13, 1910, in New York City.

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1. EC: (Going back over years from present - "1937 - '36 - '27 - the greater change came - '26, '25 - '17 - that impressionable change - '16 - " etc., on back to birth date.)
2. The entity as we find, we have the records here that are written upon time and space - as ye would term same.
3. In giving the interpretations of same, as we find SO MUCH may be given.
4. For the experiences of the entity in the earth plane, and the application of will as respecting Creative Forces and influences through the activity of the mental forces of the body, have so changed the innate and manifested activities as for the astrological urges to mean so very little.
5. For the entity's interpretation of the astrological urges, as we find, the name chosen is very well. For this not only in its vibrations from the numerological aspects makes for better influences but comes more in keeping with the Creative Forces or activities of the mental self as related to the materiality.
6. But as to those from its SPIRITUAL development, these would come closer to other vibrations.
7. But we would keep same for the present, the vibrations of the name chosen, [1436], at least until there is a change in the abilities of self to make for the closer communion with self in the inmost being.
8. In the astrological aspects, the entity in itself finds the Jupiterian the greater influence; and makes for the WORLD of meaning, or the activities of the entity combining with or for a BROADER vision; and it is also a protective influence.
9. As for the other astrological aspects, these we would ignore, from the very nature of the entity's experiences in the earth.
10. For most every appearance stands out not only as unusual but as one in which the very activities of the entity influenced the world in its choice of action.
11. In interpreting these, then, as we find these become rather intrinsic; or there is the necessity of giving much of the activities in the experiences in the earth.
12. For the CONFUSIONS that have arisen in the experience in the present, for the better soul development, must be made not as easy ways but rather as UNDERSTANDABLE!
13. For if an entity, a body, understands the causes, the purposes of the experiences, then the lesson as an experience for development may be made much more applicable in the experiences of an entity day by day.
14. And it is Creative Forces' or God's way, God's choice.
15. For so oft has the entity touched the very influences in which there has been termed by the world, termed by many, that the hand of God was shown in the affairs of many, that it is no wonder that those who have interpreted the records of the entity in or through their own psychic experience have seen the fires of nature, have seen the glories of the Lord, have seen the closer associations of the entity with the holy ones that have trod the earth among the children of men.
16. For the entity in its activities, though in the ways of man often has been questioned, yet the purposes that were deep-rooted within the heart, the soul, the being of the entity in its progress through the activities, have brought NEVER condemnation from the Father-God.
17. Not that He condemns any, but rather has He looked upon the soul as one through which many blessings have come to the children of men.
18. Is it a wonder then that oft has it been said, and may it be said oft again, much is expected of the entity? and the way is to be opened by same in its dealings and in its relationships with the children of men?
19. For the Lord, thy God, will lead, if ye will but put thyself WHOLLY into His hands.
20. Each appearance of the entity in the earth needs its individual analysis, that the temperaments, the latent urges, the influences wrought by the vibrations, by the color, by the harmony, yea by the very INHARMONY among associates, may be understood as to the effect had upon the feelings of the entity.
21. For the experience becomes rather as a very delicate instrument of music upon which the chords of life (which is God) are played.
22. Hence it becomes so necessary that the entity be stabilized in those very things that have through its experiences in the earth been as the voice of God unto the soul, "Daughter, I do not condemn thee - sin no more."
23. Keep in the ways of life, of patience, of earnestness, of sincerity; knowing in WHOM ye have believed, rather than in just what ye believe.
24. And know that He in Whom ye believe is able to keep that committed unto Him against any experience in thy life, thy expressions of life, thy consciousness of activity in any associations.
25. For these have come as words into the soul of this entity, when the WORLD condemned her!
26. As to the appearances then that become as influences, these are not all, but the outstanding influences in the experience of the entity in the present, and in its activity in the immediate for its finding itself and its relationships to its Maker.
27. Before this we find the entity was in that land now known as a portion of the French and German land, in that portion called Alsace - in the name Audrie Cordieur.
28. In the experience the entity acted in the capacity of the designer for the courts of Louis 13th, 14th, 15th, to those that were in the positions of loyalty and royalty.
29. The entity was NOT known to man in carnal manner, for there had been those impressions, those needs in its bodily association to keep itself pure FOR A PURPOSE - as had been the calls before.
30. In the experience the entity gained, yet saw the vileness of intrigue, saw the disappointments of material desires, saw all the activities through which the peoples passed that were oppressed that there might be the gratifying of those in the lusts of the flesh and the body during the experience.
31. Yet the entity kept itself as the leaven that made for hope to arise within the hearts of many.
32. For though the entity acted in the capacity of making the pleasures more gratifying in individuals in high places, its heart went out to those that were oppressed; and through the very teachings and activities made for that of hope to spring eternal within the breast for the crying unto and for the justness of a Creator, that took in consideration the affairs of men.
33. Before that we find the entity was in the land when the Master of Masters walked in the earth, when there were those trials, those temptations, those activities and those desires for the ability of those in authority to trap Him.
34. The entity was that maid brought before the Master in the temple that condemned as one taken in adultery; and because of the judgement passed upon that entity according to the law, the peoples or the high priest or those of the Sanhedrin declared that He must make a statement.
35. And He gave, "Let him that is without sin cast the first stone." Let him that has been guiltless make the first move for the fulfilling of the LETTER of the law.
36. And lo, they all went their way! And as He wrote upon the ground, "Medi (?) Medici (?) Cui (?)" these meant - in the experience of they that looked on - that which showed the awakening in the heart of the entity of hope, and as the cry came, "Master, what sayest thou?" the answer came, "I condemn thee not, Daughter - go and sin no more." [10/21/37 See 5749-9 supplementing the above.]
37. Is it any wonder, then, that those days that followed made for a remoulding of the entity? though the entity kept afar, and not until after those periods when the persecutions began did she venture to come nigh unto those that were classed or called of the household of faith.
38. But to have had the words direct from the Master of Masters, the Teacher of Teachers, "I do not condemn thee," HAS meant, MUST mean, in the experience of the entity, that which words cannot portray; but only the deeds of the body, the desire of the mind to bring hope, faith, IN that Lord, that Master, who is able to SAVE unto the utmost, and who hath given to all, "My peace I leave WITH you, my peace I give UNTO you."
39. And when the entity has experienced and does experience that consciousness by opening the door of its heart again to that voice that comes, "I condemn thee not - be thou merciful, even as I have shown and give thee mercy," then: In the life of intolerability in the experience, cannot the entity find in the heart of self to say, even as He, "They know not what they do"? and to give the cup of water, to give the healing in the hands, to give the cherishment to those that are sad?
40. To those that are joyous give them more joy in that the praise be given to Him who maketh life to all that seek to know His face.
41. How oft may the entity, if it will but cherish within the heart of self that experience, vision the experience when before those in penal law or authority, those with their pomp and glory - yet He in ALL His glory, His face shining as only from the Father-God itself!
42. Thus may the entity see and know that presence, "My daughter, I condemn thee not - My peace I give to thee."
43. Hold fast to that! For He will walk and talk with thee, if ye will but open thy mind, thy heart, to Him.
44. For He is nigh unto thee. For indeed in flesh, as ye will see [see 1436-2, Par. 44--46 below in re Judah & Tamar], ye were a parent even unto Him.
45. Before that we find the entity was in that now known as or called the Palestine land, during those days when the sons of Jacob sought for companions; and to one of the sons of Judah (Er) the entity, Tamar, became the companion.
46. Owing to the WILLFULNESS and the sin of Er, he was taken. There was the command or the seeking that there be the fulfillment of the law of the day; and Judah - in an unknown way - failing, yet the entity sought for that as would keep the issue of the body, and went in unto her own father-in-law; and bore two sons, one becoming then later the father of the fathers of Joseph and Mary - the parent of the Master.
47. There the entity was condemned, yes; yet her purposes, her desires, were reckoned with by the God of mercy as being in keeping with His will and His ways.
48. Hence there is brought into the experience of the entity again the joys of knowing the Lord hath given, "Thy will, my will, are one with the Creative Forces."
49. And there is reckoned through the ages, then, that ye became as one that chose to do above the ways of men when the voice of man rose above thine own sex.
50. Hence in the experience, judgements are not taken away - if the entity will trust rather in the LORD than in the judgement of men, or the children of men.
51. God is the same yesterday, today, tomorrow - yea, forever; and they that come unto Him in HUMBLENESS of heart, seeking to know His face and His way, may indeed find Him.
52. Before that we find (as has been indicated for others, the entity was born in the present during those periods when there were those coming in that are of the Atlantean age) the entity then lived during those periods of the exodus from Atlantis into the Egyptian land, and afterward.
53. It was during those periods when there were the correlations of those activities of the entity in correlating the teachings of the Priest Ra-Ta, the teachings of Ax-Tell, and the activities that made for the cleansing of the bodies and the minds of those that would give them in service for the Creative Forces that God be not mocked among men.
54. The entity then arose in power, in authority among men in the Temple of Sacrifice FIRST, and then in the Temple of Beauty - the Temple Beautiful.
55. For there the entity gained the abilities to make for the harmonizing colors to those extents wherein each individual was and is as yet clothed with ITS individual color - as ye call aura.
56. For the entity made that overture in such measures that the promises of the Divine that were and are written in the rainbow of the sky, when the cloud has passed, are the same as written in the lives of individuals; that they, too, who are in the closer walk with the Creative Forces, may see their sign, their colors, and KNOW whereunto they have attained in THEIR relationship with Creative Energies or God.
57. Thus the entity in its activities through the ages of the earth as an entity, as a soul manifesting in bodily form, has given to the earth, to the world, to the children of men, that which applied in their experiences day by day in patience, in tolerance, in love, will bring the influences and forces as to bring them in closer union with and closer walks with their God.
58. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, and that to which it may attain, and how:
59. Say not within self, "Who shall ascend into heaven to bring me a message that I may know what I shall do?" For lo, He, thy Lord, thy God, is WITHIN THEE! And know that the heavenly understanding or kingdom is within thee. The body is thy temple, as ye so aptly taught in those experiences in the purifying of the body that there might be no desire for the carnal forces of the natural world, the aggrandizement of self; and that as the self set it in the beauties of the divine sanction, that man might know the ways through the promises He had given.
60. Then He has promised to meet thee in the temple of thine own consciousness, and there ye may commune with Him.
61. Not ANY, then, but thy Lord, thy Master. For He hath SPOKEN to thee in the FLESH! He will speak to thee in thy mind, in thy body, in thy consciousness of His presence.
62. Then as to what ye may attain, it is limited only by thine own physical concepts and understanding and the willingness to be led ONLY by Jesus, the Master, who hath called thee by name.
63. Let, then, thy ideal be set alone in Him; for in all ages, in all times, the law of one is THAT - though it may have borne many names, even as ye have borne many names in many lands, in many climes. Even in thine own individual consciousness names have only vibrated to the colors about thee, the attunement of thy material and thy mental world. Yet the SPIRITUAL forces must be the source of emanation, if they would be PERFECTED in that as ye taught in the Temple Beautiful, as ye did before the patriarchs of old when ye commanded thy father, yea thy husband, to show thee!
64. "THESE signets are thine, they are the proof of my purpose, my desire;" yea, as the Master gave, "Sin no more" - keep the laws of the Lord as the signets in thy heart, thy body, thy mind, and the souls shall cry a joyful cry unto Him.
65. Ready for questions.
66. (Q) Would it be wise for me to seek a career in the motion picture field?
    (A) As an interpreter, as a writer, this would be very well; but first attune the body again to the needs of the material world that the mental and spiritual self may have that temple, that channel, that body to the better express or manifest in. Or as given, do the first things first.
67. (Q) As in presenting color shorts or as an actress?
    (A) As in that which is becoming more and more undertaken - the color photography, the color directions. For these the entity may direct in such measures as to confound many of those that are worldly-wise; for were these not comprehended in the spiritual and mental world for the choice of those that were to present the laws of One by this entity!
68. (Q) I have been told that I should not marry before I was 32. Please advise me regarding marriage - when should I marry and is there anyone whom I now know that I should marry?
    (A) As we find, these become not only problems in the experience but through the periods of the activities in the earth there has been that which has held the entity for a purpose.
    This as we find would be nearer twenty-nine than thirty-two, as to time or period; but as we find the entity yet has NOT MET the one to whom union would be made. The associations as we find would rather be in connections with its life's work.
69. (Q) Along just what specific lines should I direct my studies for mental and spiritual balance?
    (A) Take that as thy God that tells of His, thy Lord's, thy God's dealings with men. Though many may pronounce same as of a questionable nature, FIND - by its study - that it is thine experience also.
    Then the purpose in the experience is to present thyself holy, acceptable unto Him in the measures and in the ways that He would direct.
    Know that He has SANCTIONED marriage. Know He hath not questioned thee in thy motives. Know He WILL guide and direct if ye will seek to know of Him.
70. (Q) Am I fitted to do some special work in the new science of color?
    (A) As we find and as has been indicated, that so far as the commercial field is concerned, associated with the new color for the cinema - these are the fields of activity in which the entity may make the application of the abilities for the means of the world.
    As for colors pertaining to life itself - as the self or the entity set in motion, STUDY auras and aid OTHERS in knowing what they mean! There are those that interpret same in the form of spiritism. There are those that interpret same in the form of vibration. They are ALL of these and more, as the entity KNOWS and may EXPERIENCE!
    Hence the studies that the entity may make will give, again, again, that leaven that leaveneth the whole, for the USE of the masses in their DAILY experience!
71. (Q) Would it be wise for me to undertake a more extensive study of metaphysics with the ultimate purpose of making this a career, as practitioner or analyst?
    (A) Rather to that of colors. Both as to their effect upon that which is the great teacher of the people (or the cinema) and as to that great understanding to those that see their fellow man.
72. (Q) Should I be a lecturer?
    (A) This becomes a part of the experience in color.
73. (Q) Just what is the karmic relationship with my father and what can I do to help him?
    (A) He was Er, the husband in that experience. And is there a wonder that there are those disturbing forces in the material relationships in the present? Leave these with the Lord!
74. (Q) Just what is the karmic relationship with my brother Adolph; what have been the relationships in the past and what are the urges to be met in the present?
    (A) We don't find brother Adolph.
75. (Q) With my mother?
    (A) These closer relationships were in the experience just previous to this, in Alsace; and as friendship during that sojourn or activity. Closer still with those members of the family, of course, before this.
76. We are through for the present.

    Three copies to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. 8/28/37 Wire from Mrs. [1402]: "...Miss [1436] leaving for Va. Beach...desperate family situation, needs immediate counsel..."

REPORTS

1. 8/31/37 Letter from EC to Mrs. [1158]: "...Have recently met a young lady [1436], poor thing she has been the rounds. Once with the leaders of the Theosophists - they wanted her to be the companion of Krishna - and my, all the other things she has been into! Is here now. Hope she has found what she is looking for. What a Life Reading does for any one. What a responsibility on one that gives such information, and don't I know it!..."
2. 9/09/37 Miss [1436] obtained a mental-spiritual reading 1463-3, via request of her friend Mrs. [1402].

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