This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 30th day of June, 1938, in accordance with request made by the mother - Mrs. [...], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mr. [470] and Mrs. [1100].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. [1624]'s mother and grandmother, Mr. [470] and Mrs. [1100], and Mrs. [1628]'s husband. Born October 3, 1920, in Norfolk, Virginia.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [1624].
2. In giving the interpretations of the records as we find, these portions are chosen with the desire and hope that the experience may be a helpful influence in the activities of the entity in the present sojourn; that it may better fill that purpose for which each soul enters material experiences.
3. We each have our lessons to learn, our virtues to magnify, our faults to correct. There is a standard and an ideal by and through which each may gain a greater and better concept of these purposes. The pattern, to be sure, is within. The ideal is the law of the creative influences and forces as manifest in the experience of each and every entity.
4. There are then, to be sure, those influences that have been and are a portion of the entity's whole experience. The astrological aspects from the sojourns, also the numerological aspects, are all a part of the influences. Yet all of these are but urges, tendencies, trends; and are governed by what the entity chooses to do about same in relationships to its ideal - as chosen by and through influences, of course, within and without.
5. Those within are then a part of that the entity has been.
6. In the astrological aspects, we will find Venus as a ruling influence; as in its beauty, in its fellowship. Hence we find an entity that is good in appearance, good in its associations and in making friends; in having a "good time" as would be expressed in ANY term or phase.
7. More and more there will be the ability to judge those things that are beautiful, if there is the training of this tendency - interested especially in music. And the musician should be a portion of the entity's experience, whether made as its life work or as that to be its criterion for judgements.
8. This should be a part of the entity's experience. For it will keep the entity in balance, from the great urges that are latent and manifested through the experiences in the material sojourn.
9. From Jupiter we find the influences for the associations with great numbers of individuals. While the activity may be individual in its application, the entity consciously or unconsciously will influence great numbers of peoples. And applied, or applying self in the directions and fields of activity in which such an influence may be had - by the very impelling personality of the entity - we will find, if these are not allowed to become the seeking for fame alone but for its own good and for the good that may be expressed, there will be the abilities for the entity to sway audiences or crowds, or numbers of people.
10. In Saturn's influence we find, through this special period, a little indifference - outwardly; yet it is rather fear as from WITHIN, because of the changes that have come about in the experiences of the entity in the present - when sudden activities, sudden changes of this or that nature have in the associations or environs of the entity wrought a great deal of change.
11. This has kept, or is inclined to keep the entity rather in that of an indeterminate manner or mien; when the real self seeks for harmonious environs and surroundings.
12. However, unless this seeking for the harmony is kept in a purposeful direction, it may become of itself a stumbling-stone; in that too great an influence as a hale fellow well met may bring those conditions in which there will be the tendency to neglect the higher forces or purposes, and to rely upon material conveniences or material ease - or such would become the inclination.
13. Hence those activities where rule, regulations in the environs become as things and conditions that are well for the training, the developing, the perparation of the entity for its experiences through this particular sojourn.
14. As to the activities from the sojourns or environs in Uranus, we find rather the unusual, rather the extremist at times; the inclinations to become rather easily confused - or where the determinations would be as confusions to others, unless they analyze the purposes of the individual activities.
15. All in all, the astrological aspects, as we have seen, are for tempering towards an experience that would be a development for the entity through this sojourn - if the ideal and the purposes are kept for activity in those things that are helpful, hopeful, or PRIMARILY creative in their nature.
16. As to the appearances or sojourns of the entity in the earth, we find these in the present are not great in number that influence the entity in the present; yet are very definite in their activity or EMOTIONS.
17. For the astrological influences are innate, or those that arise as in dream or vision; while the urges from the material sojourns are through the emotions or sensory forces of the body. And oft these may be mistaken by others for the influence of environment or heredity, but all of these are a part of both the astrological AND the material sojourns as well.
18. Before this, then, we find the entity was in the earth during those periods of the American Revolution, when there were the patriots from the land of the entity's sojourn and the land of the present nativity.
19. We find the entity was young in years when it joined with those activities; and was as the trumpeter or the bugler - known as Roy Sedgwick.
20. The entity was active not only in those patriotic influences wrought but in the abilities to lead, the abilities to direct, the abilities as we will see manifest in the associations and activities - whether in the social or in any activity in game or the like - where others look to the entity for counsel, for advice.
21. For the entity led, the entity stimulated through its very activity those desires for the expressions of the BEST as it were under those conditions when it required the determining forces.
22. These are the innate and the manifested abilities within the entity in the present, to lead. And yet these must have an influence FROM an artistic temperament; that is, of course, temperamental at times in its nature.
23. From those experiences and activities, though, the entity may take many lessons; in not only being able to be directed but to judge for self - in counsel with the DIRECTOR - the PURPOSES for same! and these make for the contentment that may be builded as a factor in the entity's experience for greater harmony and peace and satisfaction than in most any of the influences or forces as we find that arise from the entity's material sojourns.
24. Before that we find the entity (among those sojourns that influence the entity in the present) was in the French land, or during the early periods of activities with the French and those NOW known as the German or the Hun, and the English and the Spanish.
25. There we find the entity again was among those where there were conflicts. And there we find the entity not so much interested in the influences for a patriotic force but rather those just to be gotten through with. Hence we find the entity showing more the interest in caricature of individuals, and more of the artistic activities and forces that made for the influences among individuals and groups, and those ways, means and manners in which peoples might be controlled by their very mental abilities in given directions - by drawings or writings or the like.
26. The entity's name then was Hans Bergermen - most were m-a-n, but his was m-e-n.
27. In the experience the entity may be said to have gained and lost, and gained. For as the very ability to direct became more and more a part of the entity's consciousness or awareness, the entity drew upon same - not always for the better for others, but rather for self-indulgence. And these drew or produced retardments in the experience of the entity; while in the latter portion of the activities we find the entity making for rather that which might be said to have overcome or met much of that in that material experience.
28. Then in the present, not only as the leader but in those things of the artistic nature and temperament there come the influences - as judgements in pictures or the picturizations of conditions or experiences, or history - those that are of the nature that show such activities and how they are or were carried on, become a portion of the interests of the entity.
29. And we will find all of those things pertaining to history, geography or of that nature, are of greater interest than mathematics or those things of such a nature.
30. Before that we find the entity was in the now called Persian or Phoenician lands, in those days or experiences when there was the returning of those called the peoples of promise, or when the Jewish peoples were returning to Jerusalem.
31. The entity was among those who were called the followers or associates of Sanballat; those who had been a part of the experience but had become intermingled through the activities of Shallum - the first of the Persian kings that had carried a portion of these peoples captive, had brought the priest for direction and for protection.
32. There we find the entity was of or in that environment.
33. Hence we find in the present those things pertaining to religious cults, or sects or groups of such activities are rather tabu to the entity. All of these to the entity must have a PURPOSE. Not that the entity is inclined to abhor or to call such activities out of line, yet tolerance in these directions must be a lesson to be gained by the entity through the present experience.
34. The name then was Jepeth.
35. Before that we find the entity was in the Egyptian land, during those days when there had been turmoils and strifes, when there was the returning of the Priest and his activities - also of the peoples from the Atlantean land.
36. The entity was in those activities where those were chosen for service in the production of music. The entity then used the stringed instruments - and these would be well for the entity to begin with; though those of the reed and the horn will be - if there is the application - those upon which the entity would excel the more, and be more creative in the application or activities in those directions.
37. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, and that to which it may attain, and how:
38. First, as has been indicated, find self - and that which is APPEALING to the entity in the creative ways and manners. By creative we mean not only in an association or activity in which there is the creating of environs, of surroundings, of conditions - in the preparation for that which is active - but in that which is of a spiritual nature also; that is, something that is good for the many, not for INDIVIDUAL to lord over or an individual to take advantage of another - whether it be in another's fault or in another's lack of discretion.
39. In those activities then as would pertain to music, or such natures or conditions about which such is a part of the activity, are the fields of service in which greater contentment may be had - rather than in the commercial or the business fields.
40. Those manners in which routine and such natures are exercised must be the channels for the directing of same into those activities.
41. Thus we may find those fields of service in which the greater harmony of development may be had, physically, mentally, materially.
42. Study to show thyself then approved in all good conscience to that which is thy ideal. Let that ideal be set in spiritual purposes, and ye WILL NOT fail!
43. Ready for questions.
44. (Q) Other than music, is there any specific life work for which this entity is best fitted?
    (A) As we find, and as indicated, in those fields of service or channels, or about same - where this is a part of the activity - would be the better activities for this entity.
45. (Q) What school should he attend in the fall? Would it be wise to return to prep school or enter a college or university which will allow credit on units so far obtained?
    (A) As we find, in that environ or school where there are rules and regulations. The prep school the first, to be sure.
46. (Q) Then it would be wise to return to the prep school?
    (A) Wise to return to the prep school.
47. (Q) What have been the relationships in the past, and urges in the present, with the mother?
    (A) These associations as we find have been in more than one experience. Through the activities about the holy land, in the Egyptian - BOTH of these were periods when there were close associations with the own mother.
48. (Q) With the [maternal] grandmother [...]?
    (A) Here we find there hes been rather the close dependency one upon another, in the period especially just before this - and in the French AND the Hun period.
49. (Q) With [2297], his step-father?
    (A) Companions in the activities through the periods in the holy land or the promised land, and in the Egyptian land. Not always good; but good for each other!
50. (Q) With his father?
    (A) We don't find the father here in an association or connection.
51. (Q) Any other advice that will be of help for this entity at this time, regarding his life work - or a specific vocation?
    (A) In those natures as we find indicated are the channels through which not only service but contentment and creative activity may be brought about. Those that have greater associations with musical activities.
52. (Q) Any special contacts that should be made?
    (A) Preparations should be made first! Then contacts!
53. We are through for the present.

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REPORTS

1. 6/03/40 His mother obtained a Physical Rdg. for her husband, Mr. [2297], to see if she could help him overcome alcoholism. She had divorced [1624]'s father because he was an alcoholic, and now she had the same problem with her new husband. [We later heard that she divorced Mr. [2297] and remarried [1624]'s father.]
2. 4/42 Mr. [1624]'s marriage was announced.
3. 11/03/64 Mother's verbal report to Mae St. Clair at A.R.E:
   "My son is now married, has two sons and lives in ..., Virginia. He went to N. Carolina State and William & Mary.
   "He was first a draftsman at the navy yard, which he didn't like. He then went to the army as a navigator, which he didn't care for either. He then became affiliated with a company that built asphalt roads, still not to his liking as a profession. He is now the manager of ... Tile Company which has headquarters in ... He likes this type work - because he comes in contact with the public.
   "He is very nice looking - liked a good time - a bit of a 'hail-fellow, well met'. He didn't take music, but likes it - has quite a record collection.
   "He is leader of all young people in the Methodist Church in which he is also a steward.
   "(Saturn) He took over a company which went bankrupt, which went under and this gave him an inferiority complex. It has taken him about eight years to come out of this, but during this time, even though he has paid everyone all the money owed to them, he was withdrawn - seemed unable to come out of it or be sure of himself. This seems to be going away now, though it has taken quite a toll on him.
   "(First incarnation) Yes, he is temperamental at times - he has recently joined the Shriners - I don't know in what capacity, but I saw him in a parade - carrying a sword.
   "(Par. 29) This is right to the letter. His hobby is re-doing antique furniture. I sent him to prep school, ..., Va.
   "(Par. 48-A) He was very close to his grandmother."
   [Mae's note: [1624]'s Mother said she would try to get him to come in and have me go over his reading with him, that he had never seen this reading, nor did he know anything about the existence of the reading.
   She also told me she would give me a report on her husband's [2297]'s reading. I plan to call her to follow through on this. img Mae St. Clair]
4. 11/70 Report by MGS: About two years ago, [1624] and his mother came to A.R.E., asked for me, and I tried to go over his reading with him. He had only come in desperation, having lost his position with a savings bank - really only coming in because his mother had insisted.

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