This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 26th day of May, 1938, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [1567], Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Born September 21, 1885, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called Miss [1567].
2. These as we find may be said to be very beautiful records, yet in ways such that it may be questioned by some as to why one who has been so far advanced in some experiences has been so little in the limelight or in the position of prominence through the same ways in the present.
3. If the varied experiences are studied with an eye single to service, these may possibly be understood or comprehended. For remember that God looketh on the heart and not, as man, upon the outward appearances.
4. Hence there are lessons to be gained by the entity from even those feelings, those innate urges that cry for expression. For in their very expression, not finding outlet they turn as it were upon those influences from within.
5. But we find that if these are used, the entity may yet find a peace, a manner or way of expression that will bring joy into the experience in this sojourn.
6. In giving the interpretations, know that these are chosen with the purpose that they are to become helpful experiences.
7. An experience, then, is not only a happening, but what is the reaction in your own mind? What does it do to you to make your life, your habits, your relationships to others of a more helpful nature, with a more hopeful attitude?
8. These are the criterions for every individual's experience - sincerity of purpose, of desire; putting the whole law into effect in the activities - which is to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, thy mind, thy body, and thy neighbor as thyself.
9. This is the whole law. All the other things given or written are only the interpreting of same.
10. Then what does such a proclaiming preclude? From what basis is the reasoning drawn? What is the purpose of an individual experience of an entity or soul into the earth at any given period?
11. These answered then give a background for the interpreting of WHY.
12. There are urges latent and manifested in the experience of each soul, each entity, each body.
13. First we begin with the fact that God IS; and that the heavens and the earth, and all nature, declare this. Just as there is the longing within EVERY heart for the continuity of life.
14. What then is life? As it has been given, in Him we live and move and have our being. Then He, God, IS! Or Life in all of its phases, its expressions, is a manifestation of that force or power we call God, or that is called God.
15. Then Life is continuous. For that force, that power which has brought the earth, the universe and all the influences in same into being, is a continuous thing - is a first premise.
16. All glory, all honor then, is DUE that creative force that may be manifested in our experiences as individuals through the manner in which we deal with our fellow man!
17. Then we say, when our loved ones, our heart's desires are taken from us, in what are we to believe?
18. This we find is only answered in that which has been given as His promise, that God hath not willed that any soul should perish but hath with every temptation, every trial, every disappointment made a way of escape or for correcting same. It is not a way of justification only, as by faith, but a way to know, to realize that in these disappointments, separations, there comes the assurance that He cares!
19. For to be absent from the body is to be present with that consciousness that we, as an individual, have worshiped as our God! For as we do it unto the least of our brethren, our associates, our acquaintance, our servants day by day, so we do unto our Maker!
20. What is the purpose then, we ask, for our entering into this vale, or experience, or awareness, where disappointments, fears, trials of body and of mind appear to mount above all of the glories that we may see?
21. In the beginning, when there was the creating, or the calling of individual entities into being, we were made to be the companions with the Father-God.
22. Now flesh and blood may not inherit eternal life; only the spirit, only the purpose, only the desire may inherit same.
23. Then that error in individual activity - not of another but of ourselves, individually - separated us from that awareness.
24. Hence God prepared the way through flesh whereby all phases of spirit, mind and body might express.
25. The earth then is a three-dimensional, a three-phase or three-manner expression. Just as the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit are one. So are our body, mind and soul one - in Him.
26. Now we have seen, we have heard, we know that the Son represents or signifies the Mind.
27. He, the Son, was in the earth-earthy even as we - and yet is of the Godhead.
28. Hence the Mind is both material and spiritual, and taketh hold on that which is its environ, its want, in our experiences.
29. Then Mind, as He, was the Word - and dwelt among men; and we beheld Him as the face of the Father.
30. So is our mind made, so does our mind conceive - even as He; and IS the Builder.
31. Then that our mind dwells upon, that our mind feeds upon, that do we supply to our body - yes, to our soul!
32. Hence we find all of these are the background, as it were, for the interpreting of our experience, of our sojourns in the earth.
33. For the astrological or the relative position of the earth (our immediate home) is not the center of the universe, is not the center of our thought; but the kingdom of the Father or the kingdom of Heaven is within! Why? Because our mind, the Son, is within us.
34. Then with that consciousness of His awareness, we may know even as He has given, "Ye abide in me, as I in the Father - I will come and abide with thee."
35. In that consciousness, then, the purposes for which each soul enters materiality are that it may become aware of its relationships to the Creative Forces or God; by the material manifestation of the things thought, said, DONE, in relation to its fellow man!
36. As the earth then occupies its three-dimensional phase of experience in our own solar system, and as each of those companions that are about the solar system represents as it were one of the phases of our conscience - the elements of our understanding - or our senses; then they each in their place, in their plane, bear a relationship to us, even as our desires for physical sustenance; that is: foods for the body; with all of the attributes, all of the abilities to take that we feed upon and turn it into elements for our body.
37. All of the elements are gathered from that upon which we have fed to build blood, bone, hair, nails; the sight, the hearing, the touching, the feelings, the expressions.
38. Why? Because these are QUICKENED by the presence of the spirit of the Creative force (within).
39. So our mind, with its attributes, gathers from that upon which we feed in our mental self; forming our concepts of our relationship with those things that are contrarywise to His biddings or in line with that Law which is all-inclusive; that is, the love of the Father, with our mind, our body, our soul, and our neighbor as self.
40. Then all of these influences astrological (as known or called) from without, bear witness - or ARE as innate influences upon our activity, our sojourn through any given experience. Not because we were born with the sun in this sign or that, nor because Jupiter or Mercury or Saturn or Uranus or Mars was rising or setting, but rather:
41. Because we were made for the purpose of being companions with Him, a little lower than the angels who behold His face ever yet as heirs, as joint heirs with Him who IS the Savior, the Way, then we have brought these about BECAUSE of our activities through our EXPERIENCES in those realms! Hence they bear witness by being IN certain positions - because of our activity, our sojourn in those environs, in relationships to the universal forces of activity.
42. Hence they bear witness of certain urges in us, not beyond our will but controlled by our will!
43. For as was given of old, there is each day set before us life and death, good and evil. We choose because of our natures. If our will were broken, if we were commanded to do this or that, or to become as an automaton, our individuality then would be lost and we would only be as in Him without conscience - CONSCIENCE - (consciousness) of being one with Him; with the abilities to choose for self!
44. For we CAN, as God, say Yea to this, Nay to that; we CAN order this or the other in our experience, by the very gifts that have been given or appointed unto our keeping. For we are indeed as laborers, co-laborers in the vineyard of the Lord - or of they that are fearful of His coming.
45. And we choose each day WHOM we will serve! And by the records in time and space, as we have moved through the realms of His kingdom, we have left our mark upon same.
46. Then they influence us, either directly or indirectly, in the manner as we have declared ourselves in favor of this or that influence in our material experience. And by the casting of our lot in this or that direction, we bring into our experience the influence in that manner.
47. For this entity, then, we find these as influences:
48. Venus - the beauty ye enjoy; the abilities that are a part of thy whole experience. The abilities of love, yet that have in a manner been denied thee when ye consider as to thy material surroundings, thy material undertakings; but in thy deeper self ye find these as a part of thy experience - apparently as yet never satisfied, or that thou hast loved, that thou hast taken to thy heart has been swept away from thee, taken to those influences or environs that to thee become as naught!
49. Then there must be through these very influences and channels an outlet, a manner in which these may find expression; which there is, in thy ability to WRITE BEAUTIFUL things that will act and react upon the minds and the hearts of others - those that may read, those that may make same to be a part of their experience by the very manner in which ye in loving care may show forth these in thy dealings with thy fellow man!
50. In Jupiter we find the benevolent influences. And as there is the conjunction of Venus and Jupiter, which will appear in the coming fall - or about October the 13th should be one of or THE most glorious days, as a day, for thy experiences of wondrous things that may be an answer to thy longings in many directions; the knowledge of those very things that may bring the awareness, the consciousness of His abiding presence that is nigh unto thee ever!
51. In these ye may be favored with the greater comprehension.
52. As to thy experiences or appearances in the earth, thy sojourns among men - these have been, as indicated, beautiful in many manners, in many ways; and yet they seem so for naught in the present!
53. But drawing nigh unto the Father-God (within) ye may become more and more aware of thy purposes for being here. For His promise is to bring to thy remembrance all those things from the foundations of the earth!
54. Hence from the very activities these find expression in the present in thy love for history, historical subjects, things pertaining to influences brought because of the relationships of individuals to conditions and characters and places! These become in thy activities and in thy abilities but channels, means through which ye may bring some of that beauty, some of that joy that is in His promises to thee, and to thy fellow man in thy very activity!
55. Before this, then, we find the entity was in the land of the present nativity during those periods prior to and during what is known as the American Revolution.
56. For the entity then was among those peoples about that fort then called Dearborn, who overran the land or who prepared for the indwellings and homes for others in the land.
57. When the associates and companions of the entity then, as Mae Marandal, escaped and established dwellings in the hills (where there later became great orchards, above the hills of thy own present abode), the entity brought much to those peoples in the manner and the way of keeping the records. The entity brought much through the giving of the greater understanding as to how there might be the rotation of this or that in the activity to bring about conveniences in the experiences of the people.
58. And ye loved thy neighbors; they loved thee!
59. For oft many, many came to thee for counsel, for that thou had been able to give to thine own, to thine own household, to thy own neighborhood, to thy own surroundings!
60. And in the present, in the application of those abilities arising from that sojourn, ye may find the abilities to give to others; not to shut thyself in, either in body or mind, but OPEN thy heart, OPEN thy abilities to others!
61. Write - write - write! Though ye may tear up for a year, or for more than a year everything ye write giving expression to same, ye will find the abilities to bring into the experience and minds of others the joys that are not even comprehended in the present!
62. Before that we find the entity was in the Persian and Arabian land, during those periods when in the "city in the hills and the plains" that teacher Uhjltd made overtures to the experiences of men to put away their petty feelings, their petty hates, those things that made people afraid by the very power of might making right; realizing that the power of love makes right.
63. The entity was among the natives who were of the household of that Uhjltd, and an older - much older sister of the entity in the experience, in the name then Ujdelda.
64. With the establishing of the activities and the household being gathered about the entity, we find that this entity made for helpful activities with that teacher Uhjltd; and stood with the peoples against the rebellions that arose among a portion of the nomads during the early part of the activity.
65. Again during those periods when the Greeks and a portion of the peoples from the Persian land brought turmoils, the entity then aided in keeping that equilibrium - by what? The accounts of what had been the prices paid as it were by individuals, by those who had been cleansed in body and mind; not materially but mentally, spiritually!
66. Thus the beauty of such unfoldments made for experiences that brought joy and happiness to the entity in that sojourn - as it may in the applying of self in those directions associated with the activities in that experience; in spreading the gospel as it were of good tidings, by that same teacher; in being a portion of that group to aid in the publications of facts - not only of those things that may be gathered by self but that have been a part of the gatherings of others.
67. Before that we find the entity was in the Egyptian land, now called, when there were those activities being disseminated through the varied lands for which preparations had been made for or by individuals that might bring into the experience of material activity the greater means or manners of expression.
68. The entity then was among those who were in the activities of the Temple Beautiful, that made for the preparations of the many.
69. Thus the entity, as She-Lula-Or-Ar, made for the channels through which there arose the teachers who became especially fitted for activities or operations overseas, or the beginning of those that became the greater active upon the waves of the oceans and seas.
70. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then:
71. Hold fast to that which is latent and may be so manifested in that love ye hold for those of princely, crowning glories in the experiences ye have enjoyed in the earth!
72. Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman not ashamed; rightly divining - dividing - the words of truth, keeping thy own self in thy own good conscience unspotted from questionings within thy own self.
73. Write - WRITE - of Him; of those experiences of thy own!
74. And join thyself with those things being undertaken by thy brother-teacher of old!
75. Thus ye shall know peace and happiness HERE - NOW!
76. We are through for the present.

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BACKGROUND

1. 4/06/38 She obtained a Physical Reading.
2. See subsequent correspondence under 1567-1 Reports indicating her frustrations: "Was I meant to only take care of my father and mother's lives? [GD's note: Her 81 yr. old father still living and being cared for by her.] ...Others in family got what they wanted, yet I could not have my mate...have stopped struggling to find an answer... At every crucial period of my life 'the door was slammed.' ...I never believed in a personal God...at middle age I seem high and dry on the road after voyaging over the earth... My little mother understood me. I miss her so much!"

REPORTS

1. 5/26/38 GD's note: Am sending under separate cover two articles we have printed, drawn from Readings, that I think you will find interesting. One is concerning the Creation - the continent of Atlantis, etc., and the other a story built around the Persian period of sojourn according to YOUR Life Reading, at which time you were the sister of Uhjltd - who, according to his own Life Reading, was Mr. Cayce. There is other material on the Egyptian period and the Temple Beautiful which I would like to send you, but it hasn't been compiled yet. Of course, there is much more material to be added to the two articles I'm sending, but it will give you a brief outline of the two periods. Hope you are planning to come to our Congress the last of June - think you would enjoy it.
2. 5/07/39 She requested a second Physical Reading, then cancelled the appointment. See 1567-1 Reports.
3. 5/20/40 We requested a report on her Physical Reading and her Life Reading.
4. 9/04/40 She obtained a second Physical Reading - See 1567-3.
5. 12/09/40 We again requested a report on her second Physical Reading and Life Reading.
6. 9/17/43 She wrote about a third Physical Reading for herself, and asked for a Physical Reading for her 86 yr. old father, saying: "When he goes my home will be gone, so naturally I want to prolong his life."
7. 11/29/43 She obtained her third Physical Reading - See 1567-4.

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