This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Artic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 10th day of February, 1938, in accordance with request made by the self through her mother - Mrs. [379], Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., this being the one Full Period Reading at $10 to which an Active Member is entitled during the year.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Miss [1532], Mrs. [379], Mrs. [413] and Mrs. [578]. Born August 27, 1919, at Norfolk, Va.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [1532].
2. In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them, there are many inclinations and urges and phases of influences in the experience of this entity.
3. It is not that influences or urges cause an entity to act or react in a certain manner or direction, but they do produce urges that are subject to inclinations; as - with this entity:
4. While water is an influence in the experience, to stay away from it will be better for the entity - rather than be in it or on it or over it. For these are - from the experience in the material as well as the effects of sojourns in the astral - urges that would become detrimental materially in the experience of the entity.
5. This does not indicate that there is to never be baths, nor enjoyments with such; but there should EVER be precautions respecting same - and the causes will be seen from the astrological as well as the material sojourns.
6. Numbers also will ever bear an influence with the entity, and those combinations that make for the nine will be well in the experience.
7. Thus as we find the entity will in its application and in its inclinations desire to finish whatever it begins. And no matter whether it pertains to little things or the larger propositions in the experience, to finish before it is through is the urge - but when finished, oft with the entity such is forgotten.
8. This should be used in the other directions. Because what one is, is the product of that one has applied and does apply in one's experience in every way and manner.
9. Certain characters of stones and colors are well to have about the entity. Especially plaids, mauves, and certain colors or shades of purple are well; for they bring those vibrations that become in accordance with what may be said to be both the mental and the physical aura of the body - which is in the purple, or the DEVELOPMENTS within the experience of the entity. And these bring the vibrations that are not clashing, or activities that are not of the nature of detrimental influences or forces in the experience.
10. And ornaments of circles or bands or wristlets, these are well for the entity - more than pins or brooches. But anything that is as a band upon the arm, the finger or the ankle or the neck. But refrain from pins and the like, for these bring the inclinations for disturbing forces in the experience.
11. In the astrological then we find these as the greater influences in the experiences through the sojourn, and thus become as a portion of the innate self; or that as may be attained by the deeper meditation, or that arises from periods of concentration or consecration - or both - in the experience of the entity.
12. Mercury is the leading influence. Hence the high MENTAL abilities, and the inclinations for the entity to make for itself - especially during its first ten years from the present - a career in the field of activity which would be associated with office work, or writing, or stenography or bookkeeping or things pertaining to THINGS as well as conditions and relations between individuals; and these will bring for the entity the opportunities in many ways and manners.
13. The independence of the entity arises, too, from the innate urges as from the Mercurian influence.
14. While the entity is correct in being independent, but not so independent as to become one to be rude to those where duties and obligations and influences of the nature arise respecting same.
15. Duty is well, but the lack of love influence may oft times make for misunderstanding. Cultivate rather that in thy experience with duty; not as duty alone but let thy duties always be as OPPORTUNITIES for the expressing or manifesting of that as may be chosen as thy ideal.
16. Have thy ideal, yes - in the material, in the social, in the economic; but above all in the spiritual. For unless all of these - while they are one - are founded upon the spiritual, they will turn upon thee. This indeed is what is meant by that given, "What profit it a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" or what profit a man who lays up treasures where moth and rust do corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal?
17. Rather lay up the treasures in the heart, the love, the spiritual things. For these bring the harmony and peace in the experience of the individual that may become the stay, and that upon which one may rest with when the storms of life come about that are in the experience of all.
18. We find influences in Saturn as well as in Mercury and Neptune.
19. Hence there will come into the experience those changes that would be very radical - or the OPPORTUNITIES for same. As to whether the entity makes the choice of these or not, this is up to the entity. But do not always judge such changes or such opportunities for the material benefits alone. If the outcome, the growth and the association coincide with that which is set as thy ideal in the relationships of every nature - this should be rather the criterion or the measuring stick to which the entity would turn under such experiences.
20. Wrath or anger also become a part of the entity. With the determinations and with its abilities, do not let these become such as to build resentments ever, or the determinations to be free or rid of those things that may in their very association and experience become the very foundation upon which all of that thou may build in thy experience really rests.
21. Then keep the head cool, and warm the heart more to those things pertaining to its associations with individuals, groups, or activities of any nature. For know it is indeed true, as has been so oft given, "As ye would that men should do to you do ye even so to them."
22. And again, "As ye do unto the least of thy brethren, ye do unto thy Maker." If ye forgive not those who have in any manner caused thee disturbance or distress, how may ye expect thy heavenly Father to forgive you of thy trespasses, of thy shortcomings?
23. Keep these then rather in mind. Not as merely tenets that would apply to someone else, but apply them in thy OWN daily experience; and ye will find much more harmony as ye develop that in thy OWN experience and associations with others.
24. In Neptune, as indicated, we find the adverse influences from the water signs and from water. Yet the inclinations for those activities as related to the mystic forces become a part of the experience.
25. Then look rather to thy visions, thy dreams, thy associations and activities with that ye LONG for within thy inner self. EXPECT much, demand much; but when ye do, be willing to give much. For as ye give, or as ye measure to others, so is it measured to thee again. This is the spiritual law, this becomes the mental law - and the mind is the builder.
26. As to the appearances or manifestations in the earth, these we find varied in their associations and in many and varied environs; yet oft through the urges of an emotional nature have an influence upon the entity.
27. Yet often others may say of the entity that there is little or no emotion in the entity itself; but it lies latent - and once aroused, do not confuse same with judgment.
28. In the appearance before this we find the entity was in the land of the present nativity, during those periods of the early settlings of the land.
29. It was just between those periods when there was the bringing of maidens to this land and the earlier periods when there was the scarcity as it were of the sex for the companionship with those of the period.
30. Hence the entity so far as suitors were concerned found itself overburdened with same during the experience.
31. Much of the independence arose from those experiences; and the abilities to feel, to choose for self as to its friends in such relationships or social activities, arise from the experiences in that sojourn.
32. The name then was Ada Adair, in that land about or between what is now called Jamestown, Williamsburg and Fredericksburg were the activities of the entity.
33. And in any of those environs or surroundings there will be found much that is of interest, when there is the arousing of the associations especially with the opposite sex.
34. In the experience the entity gained, the entity lost, the entity gained; but the abilities to become rather what would be termed the business person in the present arose from that experience.
35. For with the early widowhood, and with the shiftlessness of the companion during the experience, there came the necessity for the activities of the entity, or the early activities in things of exchange during that experience.
36. And the abilities then in the keeping of accounts, or in writing letters, or bills of sale, or things pertaining to these - as contracts and the like, will come rather as a NATURAL experience to the entity during this particular sojourn.
37. As to whether this becomes the CHOICE is the thing to be decided by the entity, and is dependent - of course - upon the entity and that it has set and does set as its ideal.
38. These are channels in which expression may be found, and in a way as to bring that satisfaction of the ability to finish what is started.
39. Before that we find (among those having an influence upon the entity in the present) the entity was in that land during the period when the Master walked in the earth; and when there were those gatherings of the many that came to hear the teachings as the Master taught by the sea and in the mountain.
40. And especially on those occasions when He blessed children, for the entity was among those children blessed by Him - also among those women and children when there was the feeding of the five thousand, also in that period of the feeding of the four thousand.
41. Hence to see the multiplying of things and experiences in the hand will always be a part of the entity. Hence while the entity is not stingy, it is not too easy either with that which is attained or gained by itself. Its desire to reach its goal, its desire to know and to have, to be, becomes rather the part of the entity.
42. Do not let these become a selfish thing. Let them be rather as He gave, when He blessed you - "Except ye become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter in"; unless ye are as forgiving, unless ye are as generous, unless ye are as dependent as little children - these become in their deeper sense the meaning, the influence that arises in the experience of the entity.
43. The name then was Mariah.
44. In the experience the entity gained throughout; wedded then in early life to one among the followers and those dispersed during the first persecutions of the Disciples and the Christians in the Jerusalem environ.
45. Hence the entity was among those that came in closer contact with the church in Laodicea, for the companion in that experience became what you would call in the present the deacon in the church there.
46. In the present experience ye may meet him; and if he is in the ministry "cabbage-on" to him - hold tight! ye will need him, he will need thee!
47. Before that we find the entity was in the land now called the promised Land or the Palestine land, during those periods when there were the gatherings of the peoples for those activities in that as related to the children of Abraham.
48. For the entity was among the children NOT by Sarah but by his second wife. Not of the Ishmelites but those that became known as the children of Midian - and among those peoples did the entity dwell during those experiences.
49. And when there was the returning of the children of Israel from the land of promise for those activities, the entity became the closer affiliated with those during that experience, when they tarried in Midian; becoming then indeed OF the children of Israel, marrying into the house of the children of Reuben - in the name then Mayra.
50. In the experience the entity gained; and from that sojourn there come the abilities as a housekeeper, the abilities to keep things straight; being tidy, being neat in the activities about the home; those abilities to make the home arise from that sojourn, as well as the love of things pertaining to what may be called extremes - or dwelling alone or apart, or the wild life and wild things that become a portion of the experience.
51. The abilities in the application of material things also arise, as the judgments in the mental activities and in the dealings with those in commercial as well as in the social affairs, as well as in high and low places.
52. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as or called the Egyptian land, during that period when there were turmoils and strifes among those peoples, when the priest was banished.
53. The entity then was among the children that were of the household of the King - the Young King; close in association and activity with those that made for the banishment of the Priest.
54. Hence those aversions to things pertaining to ecclesiastical rote arise within the experience of the entity in the present.
55. Also the desire to be free in its choice of this or that in its associations arises, yet the abilities for activities in the commercial life become a part of the experience.
56. The entity was known as a princess, but among those that were to choose rather the activities in and about the Temple of Sacrifice when there had been the return of the Priest and the renewing of the activities among the natives, the Atlanteans, and the Priest and the peoples that came from the Abyssinian land.
57. In the experience the entity gained. For the entity grew to be one upon whom many of those in the service of the Temple of Sacrifice depended; owing to the many changes wrought there by the entity - in the name then Ar-r-kedeuveo.
58. The entity will find in the present experience that in the latter portion of the experience there will be the abilities to WRITE, especially of that which HAS been the experience in the field of activity of associations with others. Short stories first; and the entity will be able to publish a book when it is thirty-four to thirty-six years of age!
59. Keep then the ways that are before thee, for the choice of thy ideal.
60. Know in what ye believe; know in whom ye believe as well as what. Make the choices that are spiritual in their concept, but KEEP in the way that is constructive ever.
61. Ready for questions.
62. (Q) Where should the entity take a business course?
    (A) At home is very well.
63. (Q) Should I attend college?
    (A) Rather the business college.
64. (Q) Should I marry? if so, at what age?
    (A) Forget about this for a while; it will be some time until you find this young minister! This should come in the twenty-eight to thirty.
65. (Q) Pease give seal and its interpretation.
    (A) The seal of the life. A loaf of bread as the center, before which is set the cherubs - and the background rather a sunset with the mountains. Not as of the sacred mountain of China or Japan, but rather that as of Mount Olivet. These are the indications of the interpretations of same: The frugality of the abilities, and yet the supply that is ever as "Give us this day our daily bread."
    This is not, as might be expected, set so that the loaf becomes the most prominent, but as the portion of the whole setting - as to supply the food in spirit, in mind, in body. [See large color print in A.R.E. Library reference book of Aura Chart Readings for her Life Seal as described.]
66. (Q) What are my colors, flower and stone?
    (A) The crabapple as the flower; the stone the lapis lazuli.
67. (Q) What is the best time for me to meditate?
    (A) Early of a morning - six-thirty to seven o'clock.
68. (Q) Please give me an affirmation to use in meditation.
    (A) "CREATE, O FATHER, WITHIN ME A PURE HEART! RENEW THE RIGHTEOUS PURPOSE, THE RIGHTEOUS DESIRES WITHIN ME - CONTINUALLY.
    "LET ME EACH DAY SO LIVE THAT I MAY CONSTRAIN THOSE THAT I MEET DAY BY DAY TO GLORIFY THEE.
    "LET MY PURPOSES AND MY DESIRES, AS IN RELATIONSHIPS TO MATERIAL THINGS, AS IN RELATIONSHIPS TO THE SOCIAL ACTIVITIES, BE SUCH AS TO BE TO THE GLORY OF THEE - THROUGH HIM WHO BLESSES ALL THAT SEEK THROUGH HIS NAME TO KNOW THEE!
    "LET MY GOING IN AND MY COMING OUT BE IN KEEPING WITH THY PURPOSES WITH ME. LET THY WILL, O FATHER, BE DONE IN ME, THROUGH ME, DAY BY DAY."
69. We are through for the present.

BACKGROUND

1. GD's note: Miss [1532] was known to EC. She had been secretary of a new A.R.E. group of young people, having known about the EC work through her mother since her early years. She wanted the Life Rdg. to help her decide whether to take a business course or to go to college.
2. 8/08/35 Sister's rdg. 649-2, Par. 10-A, 12-A, 32-A indicated her association with [1532] in the Egyptian period.

REPORTS

1. 8/21/40 [1532]'s ltr. to EC: The characteristics mentioned that I find accurate are as follows: Desire to finish whatever it begins. And to finish before it is through is the urge. Independence. Wrath or anger also become a part of me.
   My points of interest are: Warning to stay away from water. The advice to wear ornaments of circles instead of pins to promote greater harmony. The experience before this in and around Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Fredericksburg. Being one of the children that the Master blessed and being present at the feeding of the five thousand and the four thousand. That the companion of this period is to be this same in this.
   The advice to take a business course has proven the most helpful suggestion. I suppose the advice to wait ten years before marrying will prove helpful.
2. 11/09/40 See 1532-3, second Physical Reading, Par. 16-A--18-A advising her to apply through schools for a position, and to take the Civil Service Examination for Stenographer-Typist to be given on 12/02/40.
3. 1/27/42 [1532]'s Reply to 1/08/42 EC's letter in re Prayer For Peace [see under 2678-1 Background].
   Dear Mr. Cayce,
   Will you please forgive me for not having written before now? I have been busy knitting a sweater for the Red Cross.
   I just want to let you know that I have been cooperating and will continue to do so. May our prayers be answered!
   [1532]
4. 12/27/48 She married a salesman for the firm where she was employed as secretary, against her parents wishes since he was a divorced man with two children. [GD's note: Apparently she was happy with him.]
5. 12/02/58 He died with cancer following a long illness, leaving her two sons.
6. See large color print in A.R.E. Library reference book of Aura Chart Readings of her Life Seal as described in Reading 1532-1, Par. 65-A.

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