This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 16th day of May, 1938, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [1592], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mrs. [1472] and Mrs. [1402].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Born June 17, 1881, in St. Louis, Mo.

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1. EC: (In going back over years from present - "1932 - rather serious days - '31, '30, '29 - '25 - just the opposite - '23 - 1901 - a LOVELY person! - 1900 - 1899 - " etc., on back to birth date.)
2. Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [1592].
3. In giving the interpretation of the records as we find them here, there is the tendency to give rather the application the entity has made of the urges that are latent and innate during the present experience.
4. The interpretations, however, will be attempted to be drawn from the experiences as a whole.
5. For as we find there are - or should be - in the present year - such definite changes in the environs and in the activities of the entity that there will be (or SHOULD be) (Make these in parenthesis where they are being problematical) the influences of a great many of those experiences through the sojourns in the earth.
6. The entity has to the present followed rather the numerological or astrological experiences (or the combination); and these as we find now become more the influences that will be relegated to the background, and the environmental influences of the material or earthly sojourns will come more to find expression.
7. The records as we find are written (or recorded) upon the skein of time and space - and are the innate and manifested urges of the ENTITY as a whole.
8. These are of the experiences through the astrological aspects between material sojourns, as well as the application of self during material sojourns for giving expression of that which is its ideal during a given experience.
9. Sincerity, then, in the general or given experience becomes the key to what may be said to be the interpreting of what an entity does with its ideas and ideals during any individual sojourn.
10. For these be the manners in which there is brought the development or retardment.
11. Know that the material advancements in fame or fortune, or in social position, do not indicate the soul development.
12. But whether the opportunities through such experiences are used for self-indulgences, self-aggrandizements, or for the glory of the Creative Forces that are the ideals, depends upon the will of the entity.
13. Hence, as has been so oft indicated, the astrological aspects, the mental or material sojourns through an experience in the earth, are only indications; and the activities or applications of self through same are only given as signs, as omens.
14. For the WILL of the entity is that which is the birthright.
15. To choose that which is constructive within the experience of an entity is that influence and force and power that makes for developments or retardments.
16. In the astrological aspects, or the interpreting of same for the entity, we find that irrespective of the applications these for the present sojourn are latent. And as to how well they may have been or may BE applied in the present experience by the entity has been and is part of its mission, or job, in the present sojourn.
17. Then, ever is the injunction given to each entity to KNOW (be convinced) as to what and in WHOM it has believed. And know that there is the ability of each to meet the needs of any experience that may arise in the mental or the material realm under any circumstance.
18. It is self-evident, then, that such an ideal MUST be based upon the spiritual, or the everlasting, the eternal things - which are constructive; and whose nature, whose figure is that force, that power ye would worship as thy God, thy Lord, thy Savior, thy Maker!
19. In the astrological aspects then we find, as indicated, an ever-warring nature within the mental self between there being a business or material relationship and that which is a spiritual or an ideal relationship.
20. And, while the entity attempts to merge these the more often, we find the inclination is that all too seldom ARE they kept as one.
21. These should be then as dependent one upon the other, a coordinating and a cooperating force or influence in the experience.
22. The innate urge is to give the expression in Venus, with Uranus; as the beauty, to manifest or show in the activities the influence of emotions, the influence of beauty, the influence of the attributes of the mental and physical body upon the minds and activities of others.
23. These have found and do find their extremes in the very activity and experiences of the entity.
24. Hence, is it any wonder - or is it not the natural consequence - that the entity would choose the theatre or the stage as the means or manner of expression?
25. For in materiality this becomes the natural means or way of giving expression.
26. Soon, as we find from Jupiter as well as the combinations of Uranus with the Jupiterian benevolent influence, or by periods in October of the present year, the entity SHOULD - or will be drawn, or have the opportunity, or choices must be made as to journeying to other lands, or to that land from which the entity in the sojourn before this took its first activity, and wherein there has been an innate drawing. Or to England - and preferably in this period a wedded life or a home, or the associations wherein there may be the greater cooperative forces with others in the FORMS or MANNERS of club or home building, should be the experience of the entity.
27. Hence those innate influences of the beauty, those innate influences from which the various attributes of the mental and physical self arise, may find another outlet, another means or manner of expression that as we find would bring to the entity greater peace and harmony during this particular sojourn.
28. As to the appearances of the entity in the earth, these as we find have been quite varied. These as we find are under the influences as may be drawn or felt from the very expressions of Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mercury being - or in the position of influencing the innate forces of the entity in the material experience.
29. Before this, then, we find the entity was in the land now called the British, or English land.
30. The entity was among those brought who might be chosen or traded, or to make for the preparations of the homes for the early settlers or colonists in the lands now known as the Virginia and Maryland lands.
31. The entity was FIRST known as Sarah Willmott, becoming Sarah Randolph in the new land; and rising to a position of prominence in the struggles through the early periods, through the application of the material or physical strength to meet the needs and necessities, as well as giving counsel, and reasoning with the individuals of the day.
32. It may be said that the entity rose to a position that was enviable, not only in the social way and manner but in the home life, the readings, the undertakings, the encouragements to those who became as entertainers, as musicians, as the first character of the actors in that particular land.
33. Hence, throughout the present or immediate sojourn, such places as those around Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, become the places of experience for the entity. These draw, rather than the city of its present sojourn. Though activities in the city of the present sojourn have been those in which great undertakings have been a part of the experience, the acclaim in the gatherings in those places indicated has meant the more.
34. As from that sojourn, we find much of those things that have become a part of the manner in which the entity has chosen not to seek companionship as husband in the present. This has been well, for it has been latent in the experience.
35. But now, as indicated, comes those periods when it would be well to choose to dwell in London-bury-town (?) [Londonderry?], or in those environs about Surrey, in the English land.
36. Before that we find the entity was in what is now known as the Holy Land, during those periods when there were the turmoils arising among the peoples owing to the various teachings that came to be a part of the entity's experience.
37. It was during the turmoils arising from the settlings of the land by the Roman rulers, and the variations between the teachings from the Persian and the Roman and the Egyptian lands, and the native peoples.
38. The entity was among those who were called the Samaritans, and of that city which later turned a great deal of its activity because of the visit of the Master to the woman at the well.
39. The entity was among those who in the earlier portion of the experience became imbued with the desire, BY the associates, to be among those from whom the channel was to be chosen THROUGH which there might come the promised seed.
40. And latent within self through the present experience the entity has held that there is rarely given the proper consideration to the union of individuals for the bringing of the young into the world, or into the experience.
41. These have at various experiences in the present sojourn been a study, a thought, and the entity has followed closely the teachings of many who have given some of their efforts in the line and ideas of the better preparations for the channels through which the protege or the progeny may come.
42. These arise from the experiences of the entity in that sojourn. For during the latter portion of the entity's experience in the land did the entity come very close to the teachings, the leaders of the Essenes; coming close to the entity known as Judy in that experience.
43. Until its latter days the entity did not wed; choosing rather the life of celibacy for the preparations of self to be a teacher; and yet felt in the latter portion as though a great deal had been lost that might have been gained through filial and material love in those periods.
44. The name then was Maryon, or - as would be interpreted in the present - Mary, Mayan, or Myra.
45. These were the experiences then, and the entity will do well to follow much of that in the present which is innate; and to WRITE, to lecture on such in small groups or clubs or the lodge - as to such preparations - would be well.
46. For the seed of such sown must be that which will grow to be an influence that may ONLY be the means, the manner of the greater blessings to the world; through the sources of such in those who are ONLY the channels through which greater, better, more advanced souls may enter.
47. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as or called the Persian, during those periods when there were the activities in the 'city in the hills and the plains.'
48. The entity was of those peoples who were under the rule of the Persians, as would be called in the present, or Iran.
49. Yet, coming in contact with the activities of the leader in the 'city in the hills and the plains,' the entity became what would be called in the present a nurse; but rather more than that. For the entity was a delineator of the speech of the many who came to the land for material as well as mental and spiritual benefits.
50. So, the entity was an interpreter for those of the many lands, during the sojourn there.
51. Throughout the experience the entity gained, for it gave itself in bringing to the experiences of others the necessity for the preparation in MIND and activity for the RECEIVING of not only the tenets but the application of the law of those experiences during that sojourn.
52. The name then was Amee-en.
53. From that sojourn we find in the present the entity holding to the inability of others to see wholly into the inner meaning of self, and the inclination to make and build about herself a shell that others seeing is not always a true visioning of the whole abilities, the thoughts, the activities of the entity. This is well, unless it becomes that channel through which the misunderstandings may arise to separate - as it has at times - in the present experience of the entity - from those who would have, to have known and been the closer with them, brought the greater blessings for all concerned.
54. Before that we find the entity was in the Atlantean land, when there were those periods of preparation for leaving the land; through the teachings of the Law of One, of which the entity was a member - and not only a member but a princess in same.
55. The entity held closer to the tenets, the teachings of that dependence of those in authority upon the higher influences that might enter through those days and seasons and periods of preparation for the receiving of the principle which had entered in.
56. When the divisions came the entity was among those who went into the Egyptian land; first in the Pyrenees land, then - with the acceptance of the Priest of Egypt and the King, and the attempts for the correlation of these for applications in the experiences of those of the land - the entity, as Mayr, made for great help to the peoples from the Abyssinian land and the peoples from the Indian land - or from Saneid and the peoples from the land of Mu and the Golden City, or City of Gold.
57. Hence the entity as an emissary, as a teacher in those periods, aided much in the establishing of the unity of purposes through the various centers.
58. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, and that to which it may attain, and how:
59. There is the inclination or the tendency, as indicated, to dwell upon what the entity has accomplished in the present.
60. But as the interpretation has been given, the entity is to use - or may use that in hand for the greater undertaking, the greater developments in the present; and not in the past. Use the past as the stepping-stone for the unfoldment, the awareness, the consciousness of the indwelling of those influences from Creative Forces from without, that may aid in arousing, awakening in the hearts and minds of those whom the entity may contact, the greater revelation as to their abilities, their purposes, their missions in the material sojourn.
61. So, soon the environs should be changed. There should be the acceptance of the opportunity for the journeying to and the living in the British land. Then put to work the abilities in all of those things indicated.
62. For whom the Lord loveth He cherisheth as WELL as chasteneth, that there may be the greater comprehending of the relationships of the souls of men to the Creative Forces called God - and how these may find expressions in the manner we deal with our fellow man, our neighbor!
63. Study then to show thyself approved unto that consciousness within, that is of the Creative Forces; thus keeping thyself unspotted from the world of contempt, from the world of hate, from the world of oppression, and - showing thyself approved - KEEP the faith.
64. Ready for questions.
65. (Q) Is it best for me to live and be alone?
    (A) As indicated, soon the time shall come - SHOULD come - when there is the opportunity for all of these environs to be changed. Change them!
66. (Q) Would marriage with a British subject be advantageous to me professionally or otherwise?
    (A) As has been indicated.
67. (Q) Is the study of occultism dangerous for me and if so why? (I have been told that it was.) Please explain the proper approach for me considering my development.
    (A) The study of that which has been indicated is the means, the manner, the way. For as the soul is the portion of the Creative Forces, study rather SPIRITUALITY than Spiritism. Study rather the mysteries of the relationship of man to Creative Forces, than the use of (as occult would indicate) the imitations, or the signs for their material use.
    Rather than that as given; that what is hidden is of God, the Father; that what is revealed is thine, to retain, to give to thy children, thy friends, that ye may KNOW the law of LOVE - to DO it!
68. (Q) Why did I choose the theatre as a profession in this or another life?
    (A) As indicated, a means for expressing that innate desire - in this experience.
69. (Q) Can I use my imagination in writing in this life? What encouragement can I expect?
    (A) This would be very well, and as has been indicated, it should be in the small groups or clubs; AS the environ is changed. Do not dwell alone too long, but use these periods for the giving expression in that manner.
70. (Q) What was the association, and what may I do now to make the urges from the association with [1472] mutually constructive?
    (A) As indicated, dwell long upon those lessons that have been gained, that ye may gain from those associations, that are given in the verse or text of that as may be used by each, or both, in their contact one with another.
71. (Q) Did I contact the entity known as Guy Norton before, and if so what was the association and what may I do now to make the urges from this association mutually constructive?
    (A) More than once as we find has been the contact, and it has been both for weal and for woe, through the sojourn.
    In the present these urges may be turned in the working out together; not so much of that as may be called the necessary force, but be used rather as the complement one to the other.
72. (Q) Richard Schuster?
    (A) These associations have been especially in the land just previous to the present sojourn. In part these have been good, in others not so well. The influence and force may be relied upon in the present, but not for long association or companionship.
73. (Q) Frances Carpenter?
    (A) These we would only find through giving the activities of same in their OWN relationship to the whole.
74. (Q) Elinor [...] [sister?]?
    (A) These have been, of course, a part of the experience in what may be termed the home, or the activities close in same were such things called home; one dependent upon the other through those experiences not only in the Atlantean and the Egyptian sojourn but through the Persian - or from the Grecians' activity there.
75. (Q) With her sons, [...], [...], and [...]?
    (A) All of these have been part of the experiences that made for those dependencies, as the entity was dependent upon those activities during the sojourns in the Persian as well as the Atlantean land.
    Do rather, without these forces, in that as ye analyze thy purposes ye will consider as to whether or not they are ever sincere and without thought of the material or the ease for thee - but that the glory of the Father may be made manifest among the children of men.
76. We are through for the present.

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BACKGROUND

1. 5/10/38 Questions were submitted via HLC, including: "In which country should I now live to attain the highest spiritual, professional and personal expression of my talents and abilities?"

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