This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 15th day of September, 1937, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [1444], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mrs. [...], mother of Mrs. [23] and Mrs. [24].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [1444]. Born October 9, 1902, in New York City.

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1. EC: (Going back over years from present - " - 1934 - '33 - A change - '32, '31 - " etc., on back to birth date.)
2. Yes, we have the entity and those records as made by that entity now known as or called Mrs. [1444].
3. These records as we find are somewhat unusual. The very variations in the experiences of the entity through the sojourns in the earth have made and do make for an experience where the entity may adapt itself to many varied experiences or endeavors.
4. Few there be that may make a home and have a career also. This, this entity would find more joy, more worth whileness in ACTIVE influences and forces while making the home.
5. As we find these are the astrological aspects, which come as those latent forces or influences that are intuitional, or intuitive. And the body has the abilities in intuition to the point where the psychic faculties of the body, or the soul forces, may give expression in the material, or manifest in material ways and manners, to an advantage - if the ideals, the purposes, the SOURCES that are held to are constructive and not merely as explorations or as curious or wondering where it would lead.
6. Rather let self be directed by that which has been builded in its relationships to Creative Forces.
7. Hence we find the Uranian forces with Venus as the greater influence from the astrological sojourns of the entity.
8. Hence we find very decided changes in the experiences of the entity; some when the social life or the material or home or social surroundings become quite different, quite changed from that as may have been only a few days apart. Again we find easily does the entity make friendships, yet the entity often finds innate within self repellent forces and influences about individuals that become such as to prevent the entity from making these associations or relations that might easily be accomplished.
9. This is well, if the entity knows the purpose and the why and the when to choose. Know that each opportunity for associations or relations carries with it not merely duty but the obligation for the self to be a channel of manifestation of constructive influences in the lives of individuals. Not as the answering to the curious, not as the answering to those that have only social or curious associations being sought, but that the spoken word, the activity, the suggestion as may be made by the entity - if it is constructive - becomes the leaven that may leaven the whole lump.
10. In those associations from the activities in the Jupiterian influence we find the effect of the activities being among groups, societies, organizations, activities wherein the great numbers of people are influenced by the very activity of the entity.
11. While the associations from Uranus and Venus make for individual application, the effect of the associations must be rather of the universal nature.
12. These of themselves bring about, as has been indicated, rather unusual possibilities, unusual abilities within the grasp and within the opportunity of the entity in this present experience.
13. In their combination with the activities in the material plane of the entity these make for that which comes as not what may be called politic, though the individual group AS politic activity becomes a portion of the entity's experience.
14. But as a writer, as a describer of events, as a writing for especially children's welfare, children's activity under the various forms of instruction in the many varied activities in the own particular land, may be - or offers - the channel through which the entity may find itself in active service and still not detract from but rather brighten the activities of the entity in the home.
15. As to the appearances of the entity in the earth that deal with those influences that become as the emotional nature, we find that these forces may be termed the material heritage; yet they are more than a material heritage - they are the ENTITY'S experience in its activity and hence a SPIRITUAL heritage; that the entity is emotional - not in the sense as becoming extravagant, yet the very nature of a Uranian becomes an extremist.
16. Too oft has the entity found that when conditions or experiences became the most interesting in the experience, then a change of environment seemed to make for a change in the abilities for the interest to be carried on.
17. Hence the means of expression, as has been indicated, in transcribing or writing as respecting events, that may be given to mothers, teachers, instructors and those that are given to welfare work as related to education, art, the influence of the home, the influence of the playground, the influence of the school and the various characterizations of same. These may be so described and so given by the entity as to become not only for the entity an outlet but opportunities for those whom the entity may contact. Thus the entity becomes constructive and building in not only its own purposes and aims and desires but in bringing harmony and peace into the experience of the entity in the present.
18. As to the sojourns in the earth, then:
19. Before this we find the entity was in the land of its present nativity, during those periods preceding what is called the American Revolution; when there were the beginnings of the activities of the Colonists in particularly what is now New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York.
20. The entity then in its activities made for the crystallizing of the efforts of the mothers and the teachers of the period for an activity of cooperative nature; or as may be seen from investigations of the teaching methods, those in those particular areas were more coordinant than those of the other colonists or periods in that particular phase of the developments in this particular land.
21. The variations as to the New England and the farther South, or even the farther West, these make for what may be termed the difference between the abilities for cooperation in a material service and only a mental service or mental activity.
22. Hence as has been indicated, there are in the present not only the abilities to make home as an ideal place and a constructive force for those therein, but the abilities to make for conditions wherein there may be the coordination of homes, schools, activities of every nature pertaining to the young particularly; as the entity coordinated same then, in the name Suzane (?) Pennsman.
23. In the experience the entity gained throughout; though the very nature of the activity and the very circumstances of the relations and activities brought the necessity of others being much more in the foreground - as the groups to which the entity joined, the Brethren.
24. The activities then were among those closer to Penn, to the early activities of Franklin and those to whom much of the credit for the activities of the entity was given; for these came from the purpose, desire and the individuality of THIS entity, now known as [1444].
25. Before that we find the entity was in that period which is among the outstanding experiences of the entity, that would have much to do with its activities and influences in the present; for it was when the Master walked in the earth.
26. Though the entity was not of those peoples, though the entity was not of those dwellers in that particular land, owing to the activities of the companions (though not the mate of the entity, as a Roman), the entity was in the Holy Land during those periods when the activities brought to the wife of Pilate the knowledge of the Master, through the healing of those of Pilate's own household.
27. The entity was not a servant; the entity was rather as an instructress, as a teacher, because it made itself so, and NOT because of necessity.
28. And as a Roman, the entity accepted the teachings of John and James and especially those presented by Philip and the Master Himself - though not in person.
29. The entity brought to those that were persecuted, by those that were of the rabble of the rulers, much easing as to the activities during the periods of persecution.
30. And the entity then, in the name Mara, made for great development; for she gained that understanding, "As ye do it to the least of these, thy brethren, ye do it unto me."
31. Hence that ability in the entity to bring ease or comfort, or for those whom the entity may meet only in passing to feel that ease and understanding has come their way, arises from those innate influences of the entity during that experience; though the times were stirring, though the periods of intrigue and of political influences were in vogue, though there were those in authority in a military way, as in the church, as in the synagogue, as in the varied sets or sects of individuals and groups.
32. Yet the entity gained much from them all, and ALL were afraid by the very ability of the entity to dispute that the entity put into practice.
33. Hence the entity finds in the present experiences those desires to know much of the teachings of the various groups, whether organized or as individuals, whether as those that set themselves as directors or those that are in their humbler ways giving hope and faith and confidence to those in shadowy places.
34. These become rather the fields of the entity's seekings; and thus, as we find again, the great abilities of the entity to give much to those especially of the young and those that have the training of the young for environment, heredity, the variations in the activities in portions of the country - that those of New England should be educated either in the Southwest or Northwest or the extreme South, as those in the South would do well to spend periods in New England or along the Canadian border or in the Northwest. These variations and the abilities of the entity to observe and to follow same just as it saw during those experiences peoples from every land, peoples from every tongue, peoples from every sect and group, all as a heterogeneous mass of seeking, yet in the ONE finding a peace that passes understanding.
35. Hence the entity may find in that peace of self as within self, as when she walks with Him in meditation, the means of outlet for those abilities and for those activities.
36. Before that we find the entity was in what is now known as or called the Egyptian land, during those periods when there were turmoils and strifes.
37. The entity was of the Natives that were with the activities of the Priest during those experiences, and chose rather to be banished with same.
38. And when there came those periods of restoration, those periods of activity wherein there was the training of the emissaries, also the activities with the preparations for those in temples of service, the Temples of Sacrifice, the Temple Beautiful, we find the entity was active in all of these.
39. Hence with fine linens may the entity deal, and it has a peculiar feeling to the entity - the extra fine as to draperies, as to those prepared for underclothing or material that may be close to the bodies; these become innately such as to produce a peculiar feeling to the entity as preparations of same or variations may be made.
40. For the entity's activities were especially in assisting those in the preparation of their lives, their selves, their bodies; and brought much understanding to those during those experiences and activities.
41. The name then was Schelem.
42. As to the abilities of the entity then in the present, and that to which it may attain, and how:
43. First, find self - and its desires, its purposes - WHAT it would like to do.
44. For the abilities, as we have indicated, lie in writing or speaking to those whom the entity may contact; for there should be some periods yet before a permanent home is made. And as the training, as the experiences in the various portions of the land have given, do give the opportunities, then these used, these applied in the experience may bring not only joy and happiness but opportunities - and it gives an outlet for the activities in those directions indicated when not only soul developments may be had but may be expressed. For the intuitive forces and its psychic development should be rather within SELF than abroad; GIVEN to others but produced within self!
45. Let the watchword be then, as it was in the Palestine and the Roman experience:
46. RIGHT in the eyes of the Creative Forces or God makes might in the hands of men that use same properly.
47. Ready for questions.
48. (Q) How long before I should establish a permanent home?
    (A) Some two to three years.
49. (Q) Where would it be best, Virginia Beach or Florida, or would some other place be better?
    (A) Virginia Beach or the environs would be very well; these, however, should depend upon the application of self in the directions of those things that have been indicated.
50. (Q) What are the indications in regard to my future marital life?
    (A) These depend upon self much, as to what these are to be. The efficiency of self may make for tendencies that would make for independencies; but these are NOT the better.
51. (Q) Is it indicated that I will be married twice, as an astrological reading told me?
    (A) Again this depends upon the application of self. Though from the astrological aspects it would appear MORE than once, yea more than twice, this again depends upon the application of SELF. Opportunities, yes - the variation is the choice in self.
52. (Q) Please advise me how I may guide my little son, [...], for his best development.
    (Q) This would be like telling a rose how to be sweet, or to be beautiful. It is innate, it is a part of self to be able to not only guide and direct but to give instructions to others.
    First is as known, NEVER by might - only by love, by patience, by persistence, and most of all CONSISTENCY!
53. (Q) Just how should I go about the writing as indicated?
    (A) As we have given, the experiences of the entity in the varied environments of New England, the Metropolitan area, the far away places, the extremes, all have given, do give a FEELING of a uniting within self of efforts for those to become not as patterns or not as moulded in a mould but that they each should have their expressions of their individualities. Thus may the entity GATHER from these experiences and observations that which may be written so as not only to be INTERESTING - and that being sought - but so as to be CONSTRUCTIVE in the experiences of all!
    Write it first AS that, not as purely fictional but as told in a story way, that it may be given to the mothers and to the teachers and to those that may have clubs or meetings where the welfare workers of various groups are gathered or associated. This becomes first then as a story telling period, and then these gradually expanded upon become not only beautiful but those that may become even as reference books in the teachings of the many.
    Then these may be expanded into that of purely fictional, or that of semi-fictional, or historic, and the experiences in various portions of the land. Or well as this: A New England teacher in Florida, a Florida teacher in the New England school - or the like.
54. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. 7/23/37 She secured first Physical Reading for husband, Mr. [1415].

REPORTS

1. 12/37 She referred Miss [1514] for a Physical Rdg.
2. 1/14/38 Letter from Miami, Fla.:
   I've started [son] in kindergarten. He likes it very much. I might say his mother finds it very nice too.
   I've run across a book, "The Montesorri System" on educational methods for young children, and I certainly do find it intensely interesting. I shall certainly read all I can find on the subject.
   The Zenith Sunday nite radio programs are quite interesting, aren't they? Psychism is surely coming to the fore.
   The weather here is just marvellous. It's grand to be here! I wish you might all be here to enjoy it.
   Our very best wishes to you and Mr. & Mrs. Cayce.
   Sincerely [1444]
   P.S. Someday I think I shall change my name to Mara (one of the names given in my reading).
3. 1/21/38 GD's reply:
   I'm sending you (by express, I think) a batch of literature, including copies of Readings and Bulletins had over a year or so, that I think you will find interesting. It is hard to know what to select. Before long we intend to mimeograph a paper on the Egyptian period mentioned in our Life Readings. We have quite a number of Readings on the period that just need to be compiled. When finished I'll send you a copy.
   We have been late with our Research Papers for our Active Members, but Hugh Lynn is working on one now that will come out shortly.
   It must be a real treat for you to start in kindergarten work with [1444]; just what you need to get started on your life work. I'm sure you can be a great help to his teacher. Can you visit as often as you wish, or do they only allow parents on certain days? [1444] certainly is a fortunate little boy to have a mother who can go right along with him in his studies.
   Yes, the Zenith programs ARE interesting; and nearly every magazine you pick up - or even book - there's some mention of psychism, mental telepathy and such things. This is certainly a very interesting age in which to live! We have a wonderful opportunity, if we will only use it for the Father's glory instead of our own. You will enjoy the paper on Atlantis I'm sending, I think. It shows how we misused our powers way back in that age. Now we must right-about-face!
   I think Mara is a beautiful name, and very fitting for you. We've had several people to change their names after getting a Life Reading.
   Kindest regards from all, and let us hear again.
   Sincerely, GD.
4. 3/38 Reply to A.R.E. January Bulletin asking members to submit their psychic experiences:
   ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH AND ENLIGHTENMENT, INC., Virginia Beach, Virginia
   INDIVIDUAL REPORT OF A PSYCHIC EXPERIENCE March 1938
   Date of Experience "About 9 yrs. ago."
   Character of Experience "An awakening from sleep and the receiving of a message."
   Description of Experience: "A very dear friend, an older woman whom I had know from childhood, was rushed to the hospital because her appendix had burst. She was in a very serious condition, as my mother wrote me. I was living at some distance away, but I decided to make a trip to N.Y. to see her if I could. When I arrived at the hospital I was told I couldn't see her, her condition was very precarious and only the immediate family could be with her.
   "That nite during my sleep I was very urgently awakened as if some one was shaking me. I distinctly heard some one say to me, [1444], [1444]. Wake up, Mrs. Canton has just died!"
   "I looked at the clock. It was 3 o'clock. Upon arising that morning I hurried to the home of Mrs. C. to inquire about her.
   "I was told she had died that morning, and when I asked the time, I was told 3 o'clock."
   Describe any mental attitude which you feel led up to this experience. "Just deep concern and a fervent hope that she would recover."
   Did you notice any physical reaction to this experience? "No, not that I remember now."
   Was there any beneficial result - physical, mental or spiritual - from this experience? "Just the certainty that there evidently was such a thing as prophetic dreams."
   Signed [1444]
   Note: We will be glad to have reports on other psychic experiences which you have had. Report forms will be sent upon request.
   "I've had another one recently - not as dramatic, tho."
5. 3/38 Reply to questions asked members in January A.R.E. Bulletin:
   1st Ans. - I most assuredly do think there are similarities between the Assn. and a religious organization. Both help bring us nearer to a realization of God. And in the case of the Assn, perhaps more personally demonstrated so that we can actually experience in our own lives the knowledge of the working out of God's Will for us, individually.
   2nd Ans. - It doesn't seem to me that the Assn's work conflicts with other methods of healing. As for competing with them - considering that most cases have tried all other methods first without results before coming to Mr. Cayce - it would hardly be considered competing.
   Best wishes to you all. We expect to be in Virginia Beach some time next month.
   Mara
6. 1/04/39 Letter to GD:
   ... Ave., Miami, Fla.
   Dear Gladys;
   Now that the holidays are over with perhaps I can get caught up on my letter writing.
   I hope you're all well and that you're not having too severe a winter.
   This $6 money order I'm enclosing Gladys is for half of my membership dues. The remaining $6 I hope to send soon.
   [...] started off to school (that is kindergarten) to-day. I was going to have a "Kindergarten at Home Course," for him, but as he doesn't have any children just his own age to play with here, I decided it would be best to send him to school where he would have some playmates. It's quite evident that's what he needs. He demanded to know why he couldn't have a twin brother born just his age.
   And one nite when I was bathing him and remarking on how very dirty he seemed to get he blithely remarked "well, if God doesn't want us to get dirty, what did he make dirt for?" I told him for plants and vegetables to grow in, not for little boys to get into. I don't think that impressed him very much.
   How about those lessons on "child training." Gladys, didn't you write me they were going to get started about now. I certainly would like you to send me them.
   I'm so sorry I can't get Station WOR down here. I would like so much to hear Hugh Lynn's programme.
   These last few weeks I just haven't devoted any time to our lessons. However I expect to do so from now on. Will you tell Mae she shall hear from me shortly regarding them.
   Give her my best wishes, also Mr. & Mrs. Cayce and yourself.
   Mara
   P.S. It was perfectly alright, Gladys, for you to give my name as regional representative here.
7. 3/14/39 Letter: "That Arabian period pamphlet that you sent [8/35 mimeographed pamphlet - See under 1770-2 Reports], Gladys [UHJLTD] was most interesting and read so dramatically! What a gorgeous spectacle it would make as a play! It's a wonderful story. If only we could all live it over again now, under one tent again, so to speak. But, although the procedure changes, Mr. Cayce's teachings still go on. It's really marvellous, the continuity.
   "I'm almost through with my course in journalism. My criticisms have been most encouraging. I really feel I've gotten a lot from it and well - now it's up to me to get to work and apply what I have learned by doing some writing daily, so that when my time comes to say something (the child welfare stuff of my reading) I'll know how to do it."
8. 11/29/40 Letter [reporting on 1514-1]:
   Perhaps you may recall Mr. Cayce, that I was attending a study group here, for the study of the Bahai teachings, I remember how you amazed me one nite at one of our meetings in Virginia Beach, by telling me that I was thinking that something we were discussing at the time was exactly in keeping with what I had been studying here in Miami. It still is that way, so much of the information which you get is in accordance with our teachings, which were given us by Baha-u-llah, the founder of the Bahai teachings. We believe you know, that Baha-u-llah is the Manifestation for this age and that like Jesus, his teachings are Divine in origin. I've wondered so often if you had ever contacted Him for His teachings in your psychic seekings.
   There is one thing which has bothered me, in the Bahai teachings, we are told that reincarnation is not a fact. It took me some little time to accept that, due in part to your life readings etc. and my faith and knowledge of your sincerity in what you bring back from the Akashic records. So in trying to reconcile the two, and believing the Bahai teachings to be Divine in origin, I've come to the belief, which may sound presumptuous to you, altho I hope not, Mr. Cayce, that perhaps what you see in your life readings may be the family history, rather than the individual history of a person. That accounting, as I see it for the former lives, and in no wise affecting the validity of the vocational information given to the individual, which I know has put so many people on the right tract, myself included.
   A couple of months ago on the "Believe It or Not" program there was an account of an interview with a medium who had written a remarkable book, thru spirit guidance. I didn't hear the whole program having just turned it on at the point where a group of scientists were putting the "spirit" to some tests, thru the medium, also asking various questions, one of which had to do with reincarnation. The answer given was to the effect, and I'm sorry I don't recall the exact words, that reincarnation was a fallacy, and that there would be no use in being born a babe again without memory. Perhaps you heard or heard of, that particular broadcast.
   As you can see, Mr. Cayce this has been a little difficult to write, talking to you would have been simpler, but as I don't know when I'll be in Virginia Beach again, it just had to be written.
   Do you plan to come down to Miami this winter, if you do and I can be of any assistance to you in getting located, etc. please let me know, Mr. Cayce, I'd be delighted to be of service.
   Do give my very best wishes to Gladys and Mae and Mrs. Cayce. I hope you and they are all well and happy.
   Very sincerely yours, Mara [1444]
9. 12/04/40 EC's letter:
   Dear Mrs. [1444] Was indeed an agreeable surprise to have yours of the 29th - we have just returned from a three weeks stay in N.Y. which is always interesting - meeting old friends and making a few new ones here and there. Mrs. Cayce spent 10 days with me - then H. L. came to be with me the rest of the stay. Came home tired but happy that I may have been the means of help to a few.
   Glad you like the little data we are able to get out - and will be most happy to see you back at the Beach again when practical - the Beach is quite a beehive of soldiers at present, and under stand there will be many more thousands here by summer, both camps are gradually filling up the old rifle range - now Camp Pendleton and Ft. Story, are alive with men.
   Would very much like to know Dr. Ehrline [Geo. F. Ehrline, N.D.], possibly he would like to see some of our literature, ask if I may send him some case reports for his consideration.
   Yes - we do have disagreements with some who profess they will follow suggestions in readings.
   Yes - recall your speaking of your studies of the Bahai teachings am sure they must be wonderful, would like to know more about them if I am eligible to receive such. No, have little idea of the teachings - and if have contacted them have not been aware of same.
   Now as regards Re-incarnation, as you know possibly was not brought up to believe in same, but the information as comes through me presented it as a fact and personally have had experiences that to me seem to bear that out - whether it is correct I do not know - but personally - can't help but believe it from my own experience. Then I accept the Book - tho Jewish History - the new testament - and Jesus as a Savior and am sure he from the words of the book taught it, tho a belief in same may not be necessary to salvation - it explains much that I see about me every day that apparently nothing else does.
   But I have no fault to find with any one who can't have the experiences that I have had that are proofs - to me tho realize they cannot be proof to any one else - No, there have been some that family tree could not explain.
   Didn't hear - nor had I heard of the programme you speak of from "Believe It or Not" tho have heard one or two on that very programme that has apparently some of reincarnation being a fact - and had the privilege on this recent visit to N.Y. met some of these people on the programme in person. The experience is proof the them - not to me - but my own are proof to me. Wish could talk this over with you - for as you say it is hard to write about such things, takes too many words to give a specific case - and then as said would not be proof to any one except to the one experiencing same.
   Would like to hear more of the teachings - and it is not just curiosity would like to know the TRUTH of such a question.
   Mrs. Cayce - Miss Gladys and Mae are all glad to hear from you - hope you get up this way soon - do not know that I will come to Fla this winter am expecting the boys to be called in the draft - and that may demand that I stay close to home shore.
   Will be happy to hear from you again - please remember as to Mr. [1415] and the young man - how is he.
   With all good wishes Sincerely Edgar Cayce
10. 1/20/41 She wrote suggesting titles of some books on the Bahai teachings for EC to read.
11. 9/10/43 She wrote requesting appointment for first Physical Reading for a friend.
12. 7/14/44 She wrote requesting a Life Reading appointment for her ten year old son.
13. 3/26/45 She contributed to the fund for carrying on EC's work.

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