This psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 22nd day of January, 1938, in accordance with request made by the father - Mr. [849], Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Born January 14, 1938, at Woman's Hospital, 141 West 109th St., New York City.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the entity, Baby [1521]. This is the entity of whom it was indicated through these channels that the parents should expect the opposite sex. [See 1102-3, Par. 3, 19-A, on 9/23/37.]
2. This as we find was colored by the desire of the channel through which information was given, though the inclinations, the desires as indicated that should be the portion of the parents' experience have made for that which is the experience necessary for each in the present.
3. When the records here as we find are considered, the name should be Mary Hannah or Mary Anna; as this HAS been the name of the entity that is expressed or manifested in this body, Baby [1521].
4. Yet these as names should be in this experience weighed by those who are as caretakers, keepers for the entity in this experience, through those formative or developing years of the experience here.
5. In considering the information that may be given from the records, let it be understood - as has so oft been indicated - that the interpretation from the records of this entity is made of that which may be helpful.
6. For it will be found to have these as inclinations, irrespective of what may be the training or the manifesting through the training of the entity through the formative periods.
7. Thus being forewarned, thus knowing the inclinations, then there may be those directions - if so chosen by those who have the care, the attention of the entity - in meeting those conditions in the experience of the entity.
8. Precautions especially as to the care of the feet and limbs are indicated, owing to those experiences, those conditions that have been a part of the inclinations or activities that BRING inclinations and urges in the experience.
9. For warnings would be given as concerning injuries to same or as to conditions of the nature of infectious forces that would bring about a condition IN same that would make for the lack of the use of same.
10. Also it is indicated that the entity is one of a very DETERMINED nature, one that will go to extremes oft - or there is the inclination - to have its OWN way.
11. One that will be inclined to judge, gauge, or measure its activities in every phase of experience by the material gains or material accomplishments of the entity.
12. Hence the spiritual lessons, the spiritual natures and inclinations MUST be developed; though from the activities of the entity in the material plane one from the material angle would wonder how, WHY the entity could EVER be material-minded in the present! when it was a prophetess as Anna, when it was the MOTHER of the PROPHET as Hannah!
13. Yet these as we find bring into the experience the variations for the entity in the present, that will need - in this particular material experience - proper consideration given the entity in not only its training as for routine, for its spiritual awakening and development, but for the very CAUSES of its emotions physical, mental AND material FROM the spiritual angle! else we will find the inclinations to become so material-minded as to forget those things that are of the proper spiritual evaluation in its experience.
14. Be warned also as to conditions that make for the variations in the experience of the entity, especially in its eighteen months to two and one-half years; and then in that period between twelve and fourteen - when those changes come - these will be those periods, those ages in the developing years when it will be necessary for those precautions especially as to the inclinations indicated for the detrimental forces to be the more active in the experience of this entity.
15. As to the appearances of the entity in the earth's experience, these we find while not so great in the numbers that make for the inclinations or influences in the immediate present, that may be given now - but during those ages from fourteen to sixteen, then there may be others given - though they may not appear from their significance in the affairs and influences upon the individual activities of others in the material world - that will bring a greater insight into that to which the entity may attain in this particular experience or sojourn.
16. Before this we find the entity was in the English land, when there were those tenets of the Church and the State that were at a period of disturbance.
17. During those experiences the entity then was close in the activities of those that were in authority; being in the name Anne Boleyn, or that one who lost in its attempt to hold TO those forces and influences that would HOLD to its religion and its moral life, and to that in which it was associated in material and political affairs of the land.
18. As to the activities of the entity, these are well known and may be considered from many angles.
19. The entity gained, the entity lost, the entity gained in the experience.
20. But the determinations that are a part of the entity in the present arise from those experiences.
21. Before that we find the entity was in the land and period when there were those expectancies for the coming of the Lord, the Master, the promise of those influences in the experience of men!
22. The entity then was the prophetess Anna, that waited in the temple and held and blessed Him in the days when there was according to the law the presenting of, the purifying of the Mother by the material and the spiritual law of the people in that experience.
23. The entity gained throughout that experience, though suffering in body, suffering in many of those things that arise from those activities in a materialistic world of a spiritual-MINDED individual given to a purpose and a cause that is in the spiritual and mental sense to be the source of redemption for the great numbers rather than the few.
24. And these activities, as ever, make for those periods of ANYTHING BUT a material success - to judge by the material or worldly standards.
25. Yet in spirit and in the mental they make for the peace, the satisfaction, the activity that makes for an experience spent in service for others - to the glory of the one cause, the one purpose, GOD!
26. Before that we find the entity was in the earth during those periods when the children of promise were in the lands of promise, when the preparations and the settlements and the changes had been wrought.
27. And though there were those individuals and groups who forsook the counsel of Joshua and of Moses, the entity then - as Hannah - made the overtures for that promise; and it was THAT entity [Samuel] that was HOPED, that was visioned, that might have been a part of the experience! And yet it may be the guiding force of THIS entity through this sojourn, if there are those activities of those about the entity in the matter of the spiritual guidance that this entity may be dedicated to the spiritual laws and not material things alone.
28. As Hannah the entity gained throughout in those activities. And though ever looked upon by those in a material experience as one apart, one separate, the entity gained the experience of knowing that God in His heavens does take thought, does take cognizance of the prayers, of the supplications, of the activities of an individual that are in accordance with the manner and way the individual prays.
29. To that experience may the entity harken for its great awakening.
30. Before that, then, we find the entity was in the land now known as the Egyptian, during those periods when there were the Rebellions.
31. The entity then was a kinsman - yea, a sister, or half-sister - of the entity's own father in the present; and hence joined with - and hence was against the entity's own father in that experience and in those rebellions.
32. For the entity was of the Natives but of what would be called in the present the upper class, the educated, those that were in authority, those that were given command - owing to not only the material, not only the mental but the spiritual developments of the entity.
33. The name then was Is-Is-Icta.
34. In the experience the entity gained and lost. For much of that which will be undertaken - unless there is a guidance - was a part of the entity's experience during that sojourn.
35. To have material power, to be in the position for directing others - rather than being directed; such were the activities of the entity through that sojourn.
36. And in the latter portion of the experience the entity rose to a place of authority in its associations and activities with those in the POLITICAL command of the land during that experience.
37. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then:
38. These, as has been indicated, depend upon the manner in which the directions are given during those formative years; especially in those periods as indicated when the greater precautions must be taken by those in authority or in the position of an OPPORTUNITY for directing a soul with a mission in this experience!
39. Ready for questions.
40. (Q) Please explain more fully why the parents were told on Sept. 23rd?
    (A) [Interrupting] We are through for the present.

    Copy to Father [849]
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. 1/14/38 Father [849]'s wire: "Baby girl arrived this morning at ... Would appreciate Life Reading as soon as possible and wire me name if given. Both doing well." [DL wire sent at 10:07 A.M.]
2. 1/21/38 Father's wire: "Have not christened baby yet."

REPORTS

1. 2/28/38 Father [849]'s letter: "[1102] and [1521] are well. While waiting to hear from you I suggested [...] to [1102] and she fell in love with the name and wouldn't relinquish it. Mary as a name is anathema to both of us, because both our mothers were Mary - all four grandmothers were Mary - etc. So the girl was Christened [...] Ann. She IS a [...] no doubt of it. The reading said her name would be a debatable thing through childhood anyhow, so she can change it if she pleases.
   "What a job we have on our hands with THAT lady? She has some nerve, foisting her troubles off on us, with only the claim of a half sisterhood that she renounced. But we are completely in love with her already, and we will do our best.
   "She is 6 weeks old, weighs 9 lb. 10 ozs., has blue eyes and dark hair, and is hungry all the time."
2. 7/07/39 Father [849] obtained a Ck. Life Reading for her - See 1521-2.
3. See Source File Key #1521 for solar [astrological] chart submitted by Dorothy Moore, 6842 Merrille Lane, Dallas, TX 75214 on 2/74; re 1521-1.
4. See Source File Key #1521 for Encyclopedia Britannica article on ANNE BOLEYN, re 1521-1.

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