This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 25th day of March, 1938, in accordance with request made by the self - Madame [1554], Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mme. [1554].

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1. EC: Yes, we have the records here - as we have had before, and the information that has been given as an interpretation of those experiences in the earth's plane in all the various spheres of activity; the urges innate and manifested that appear from the deeper mental urge, and that arising from the emotional forces.
2. In continuing, as indicated, much might be given as to the varied experiences in the earth. All the experiences of an individual entity in materiality are not given, to be sure; just those that affect the entity in the present the more - for the soul or individual entity development - are stressed.
3. As may be seen as added experiences, then:
4. From those sojourns through the Egyptian, the Atlantean-Egyptian and the environs or activities there, we find the understandings that arise in the experiences of the entity in the present associations with individuals who are leaders in varied endeavors; whether commercial, financial, economic or political.
5. There are the abilities for the entity to be not only a good listener but an intelligent questioner, as to hold the interests of such individuals - arising from the activities and experiences of the entity in that sojourn.
6. And as has been the experience, little has ever arisen in such associations, or conversation even, that to the entity is startling; while those experiences that become as expressive and manifest arise when the entity is alone as it were and meeting the WHYS of that which has caused an emotion or the influences bringing about such changes in the experience.
7. During the sojourn of the entity in the hill and plain country of what is now called India, the influences of the entity were such as to move individuals in every station of life - so that it came to be worshiped, as it were; with the unions as brought about, by those activities from the sons of the Gobi land.
8. Hence we find when there are, as it were, the determining factors of INTERPRETING for others the emotions of the oriental or the occidental mind, these become as emotions. They arise to give expression such that the helpful influence of the entity is shed upon those whom it would aid in determining the factors that would bring about a change of mental environment for such a group or such individuals.
9. Also there are abilities for very definite purposes in bringing a better understanding in the eastern (as ye would term) and the western mind; and as to how or why there is such a variation in judgements as to economic conditions as well as those influences that would rile the political or social forces, or even castes, as to produce animosities or strifes or wars.
10. These arise, then, from the application of the entity as the princess during those experiences.
11. Here - it may be well for the entity to be given this information; for there will one day be opened the proofs of those activities and experiences of the entity in that now known as the Siam or the Indo-China land; the proofs of what this entity, with the companion, wrought in the experiences of the peoples of that land - that caused eventually those changes in the trend westward of that man has called civilization!
12. A whole city - yes, a temple - will be uncovered; as will be the City of Gold in the Gobi land.
13. Much of these will be during the experience of the entity in this sojourn, and the entity may have much or little - as it chooses - to do with the investigations that will bring it about.
14. But much that will become as a study of the peoples of the age, the experience, will be as but daily routine to the entity in its experience with same; especially as to the character of the facial expressions of the peoples of that particular period.
15. For there was not the occidental nor yet the oriental slant to the cranium; as well as the reflexes from the activities of the raising within the individual those currents that brought - during the experiences of that peoples - the ability to rise above the material plane to more and more of the astral, that became later in other lands the worship of the ancestry - these were the activities in that period of the entity's sojourn there.
16. As to the experiences of the entity again in those periods when there was the greater mental thought, when there was the greater disturbance between the urges as to whether or not the gods of the mental forces were to be followed - or the mental being - or whether there were to be the material gratifications - during the Grecian sojourn, we find:
17. The influences from that sojourn, as may be manifested or expressed in the present, have more to do with the abilities for reasoning with others; to become conscious of being convincing without arguments - not by the mere force or power of words but by the spirit or sincerity or truth which is the carrying or motivating force OF the attempt at reasoning with others, in any phase of its experience.
18. In the land of the entity's present nativity there were many experiences, not only in the sojourn indicated but in another which had better be forgotten - where there was not only strife but where there came death itself by the very activities of the hand.
19. But rather from the experience during the preparations for the activities of the Crusades we find the influences that have been encountered and met most in the present. Such influences, as indicated, have oft within themselves brought periods of unrest to the entity; not because of the quieting forces within, not because of the turmoils of being left alone but because of the experiences of the entity with the companion - that one materially loved who was a part of the present experience yet the companionship in the present not consummated, because of the very feelings of neglect.
20. For as has been indicated, Mind - as ye call it - is the Builder. Good, peace, mercy, grace, longsuffering, brotherly love, kindness, patience - these GROW; these LIVE. Not by being fed upon disappointments, dishonor, disruption and the like; but the more sensitive the individual becomes even in materially, the more purposeful, we find the more then such become a part of the activity of the entity in its dealings with its fellow man.
21. And from that experience, the entity in the present felt - feels - that those associations of that experience might have become rather as the leech upon that attribute of PATIENCE attempting to be cultivated.
22. For to the entity - as to the world - patience is the lesson that each soul must learn in its sojourn through materiality. And this is a thought for the entity: Time, space and patience are in the mental realm the same as implied by the expression "Father-God, Son and Holy Spirit," or as Spirit, Body, Soul. They are expressions of the three-dimensional thought.
23. And in Patience then does man become more and more aware OF the continuity of life, of his soul being a portion of the Whole; Patience being the portion of man's sphere of activity in the finite being, as Time and Space manifest the creative and motivative force.
24. Ready for questions.
25. (Q) Regarding my companion from the Gobi land, during my Indian incarnation: At what period in my present life have I known him?
    (A) In the present ye KNOW him as a friend; who neither can endure nor do without thy presence oft!
26. (Q) How and where, and when, does it appear that I will meet him again?
    (A) Within the next moon period.
27. (Q) Just what kind of work is he engaged in?
    (A) In that of supervising a great motivative industry; in this land.
28. (Q) Does it appear that my close association with him will be in work politically or spiritually?
    (A) Rather in that which would be between the two; an aiding in political channels for a spiritual undertaking.
29. (Q) About my adopted nephew, Georges [...], captain in aviation in French army: What was my relationship with him in the past?
    (A) In those experiences in the Grecian land, Georges then was rather in that position of a captain in those activities in which there was the beginning of the establishing of what ye term in the present law or order; or judges or jury, or those in authority in condemn or to give praise.
    The entity then was very close with this entity, but often made fun of (as ye would term in the present) or belittled many of those who were of the under class.
    For in that experience those of the servant class were the greater or the better educated; while the activities of the entity Georges were as one being raised to a position such that there was the application as the leader, there was the lack of the consideration for the plebiscite conditions in the experience. Thus as given, oft we find conditions within the heritage of the individual as a body (not as a mental or spiritual being) where the individual meeting itself - and where patience must be manifested.
    Oft then in the present, even though in a position of power, the entity is in a position of having to take orders, having to accept the lower seat because of the OWN material activities.
30. (Q) What in his past life has merited his being born half Indo-Chinese and half White?
    (A) As just indicated.
31. (Q) How may I help him most?
    (A) In that great thought as given, that patience will bring the full union of time and space that encompasses that honor, that knowledge which the entity has had and which is so innate, and that may be expressed in "KNOW, O PEOPLES, THE LORD THY GOD IS ONE!" and that though the material things, conditions or experiences may bear upon a soul, they do not even scar the soul, the spirit of truth, of patience.
32. (Q) Regarding Andrew Fletcher of N.Y., what has been our association in the past?
    (A) As we find, this has been rather as of a passing acquaintance in many experiences and not so very close in any. In the Grecian experience we find the two oft taking sides together, as a defender one of the other; yet they each going their own way. Again we find in the Indian and the Mongoloid land, and through the travels, the one called in the present Fletcher was one to whom the entity gave commands; and the entity may command the Fletcher entity today.
33. (Q) Why is he in my life, and what have we to work out?
    (A) As has been indicated.
34. (Q) Is he apt to be linked in my future work and life from now on?
    (A) From the Indian as well as the Grecian, this depends rather upon the entity. So, as has been given, do not misuse nor abuse opportunities; but if necessary for the experiences in the present USE them for GOOD! Then they will be a part of the experience.
35. (Q) Regarding M. Naville in Paris, who has considered suicide: What is the best way for me to help there?
    (A) Life is one; meeting self, opportunities. Not that line as of abuse to self or others but of MEETING self! That which has been used is well; keep it there.
36. (Q) What have been my past associations with him?
    (A) These have been, first, in the period when there was great stress - as we have indicated, that has been passed over; because of much there. And then in those experiences in the same land when the entity relied upon the activities of the entity for not only material gains but for political influences among those peoples. These then draw close to that for which it may be said that the very spirit of France stands.
    For - this aside, and yet not irrelevant to the activities of the entity nor to the subject as a whole:
    Each nation, each people have builded - by the very spirit of the peoples themselves - a purposeful position in the skein, the affairs not only of the earth but of the universe!
    And the peoples of France, then, have builded a dependence and an independence that makes for the enjoying of the beautiful, a reverence for the sacredness of body, as well as the Creative Forces within the experiences of all.
    Just so is there the result in England. Just so is there the conglomerate force in America. Just so are there the domination forces in Japan, China. Just so in Russia is there the new birth, out of which will come a new understanding. Italy - selling itself for a mess of pottage. Germany - a smear upon its forces for its dominance over its brother; a leech upon the universe for its OWN sustenance!
37. (Q) Regarding Arnaldo Guinle - what is the karma which prevented our marriage years ago? Why did I not marry him instead of the man I did?
    (A) As has been indicated, because of the period when left alone - and that resentment builded and builded, and a fear that manifests itself in the present experience.
    Then the association with the man in whom the companionship grew was because of the periods of the weaknesses in self (of the individual, not in the individual self here but in other periods); that makes for the meeting of what? PATIENCE - to be learned by each!
38. (Q) Is Jules Bache [Banker] likely to help me in the work I am interested in?
    (A) There has been help, there will be more - in the work you are doing.
39. (Q) Is Alfred Sloan [Pres. of General Motors] apt to help me in the work I am interested in?
    (A) A cultivation there may bring such a comprehending of how together ye ruled the world, that anything may be asked! USE it aright!
40. We are through for the present.

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BACKGROUND

1. See 1554-2.

REPORTS

1. [1554]'s remarks immediately following 1554-3:
   "So amazing! So perfectly true as to all those relationships; just exactly the conditions that exist today between us!"
2. 3/25/38 P.M. She obtained a Physical Reading - See 1554-4.
3. 3/25/38 P.M. Immediately following the Physical Reading 1554-4, she obtained a special reading on oil lands in Callahan Co., Texas, near Abilene - See 1554-5.
4. 3/26/38 See 1554-6 & 5/18/38 See 1554-7.
5. 4/15/64 GD's note: Albert E. Turner advises me Jules Bache [See 1554-3, Par. 38-Q] was a banker and Alfred Sloan [See 1554-3, Par. 39-Q] was President of General Motors.

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