This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 12th day of July, 1938, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [1637], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., sponsored by his father, Dr. [1210], Active Member of the Ass'n.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Born July 30, 1907, about 12:30 in the morning, at Erie, Pennsylvania.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called Mr. [1637].
2. In giving the interpretations of the records as we find here of this entity, that as indicated is given with the desire, the hope to make same an experience in which self may be better able to analyze the motives, the purposes, the abilities, the faults, the virtues; in such a way and manner as to make the experience of the entity a constructive one.
3. From the astrological aspects we find Mercury, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter, Mars - with Saturn's influence - becoming in all the experiences at an adverse phase in a portion through even the benevolent sojourns.
4. Hence these inclinations, in any phase of the activity, to be rather severe; or rather considered by others to be lacking in the sincerity. This is not as a fault but rather as such an advance or such an experience of the entity as to make that particular phase or sphere of the innate influences accentuated, or accentuatable in the experience.
5. And the self alone, in the mental attributes and application of knowledge, may change or turn same to weal or woe.
6. As we find from Venus, the entity is very temperamental yet has a very affectionate disposition; intense.
7. The Mercurian influence with same often gives others the impression that such overtures or experiences are oft, sometimes apparently, too well timed; as to become what may be termed by some as policy rather than the real feeling of the entity.
8. We find that the Mercurian sojourn makes for the high mental abilities; and as combined with the Uranian, we find there are periods when the entity may be said to be super-sensitive to vibrations, to colors, to harmonies that may even reach the point at times of turning to its experiences or sojourns in the earth.
9. So, the very conversation of the entity at times may be misunderstood or misconstrued, owing to the temperaments and tendencies to lapse into attunements to the vibrations about the entity.
10. These are well, IF they are guided properly. Know that while the answer must ever be within self, self must set before itself an ideal, that is of a mental and spiritual, yea a material aspect; as to not only its relationships and dealings with others but as to those influences or forces that are about the entity in every phase of its experience.
11. Be not reliant, then, upon other than the sources or forces of thy ideal.
12. For these influences or forces may easily tend to become as not only self's other self, as it were, but as directed by those influences that are seeking self in the physical and mental to gain a better comprehension of the practical application of the mental and spiritual laws in its relationships, not only to the individual associations but to times and places and characters.
13. In Jupiter we find the protection, and protective forces; having to do with the large groups of individuals; though these applications may in the MASS reaction have to do with the MENTAL abilities and phases of individual associations and experiences. However, the application of any of the experience must become from the individual activity or application of self with others in their individual experience.
14. As to the abilities from Jupiter as combined with Venus and Uranus, we find those influences in which the entity is often capable of seeing and able to see the funny side, as it were, of the various experiences; as the entity has quite a wit, quite a bit of humor in much of its own mental and spiritual self.
15. And indeed this may become and be used as an asset, - yea, as a virtue; if there is kept the ideal in the spiritual sense and phases ever within the scope of the entity's judgements, or even in the entity's justification of its activities in dealings with others.
16. These at times go to such points or periods or phases that the very activity becomes incomprehensible in a manner to some; yet this is not to be curtailed, rather used in a discrete manner so that what is sacred to others as well as to self may be kept inviolate and not so that others become embittered because of self's ability to see the other side as it were of the question - and that the ludicrous side.
17. As to the sojourns in the earth, we find these quite varied; producing abilities latent and easily developed or manifested in the present experience - as very definite conditions.
18. Before this we find the entity was in the land of its present nativity, especially during a part - though not a great lengthy period - of the activities known as the American Revolution.
19. The activities of the entity were in those campaigns in the eastern portions of the land of the present nativity, and about portions of Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania and portions of Maryland. And the entity was what would be called an orderly, or in the capacity of what later would be termed a bugler, or a messenger; though not in the form of a spy or the like.
20. There we find the entity's associations with one McQuade made for a close activity that will bring in the present experience, by the knowledge or application of self in associations or connections with such an entity (by the experience with that entity), the abilities - in the fields of its studies - to minister to others in ways and means to ease or to counsel with them according to the needs of the body as well as the needs of the mental outlook and the mental attitudes towards the various phases of human experience in their relationships one to another.
21. Such abilities arise from those experiences, when the entity then was in the name of Melton Quardery - or Merton Quardy.
22. In the experience the entity gained, yet leaned much upon the activities of the physician during those periods when there were the sufferings in the body and mind, or upon those who directed the activities in those associations.
23. Hence the determinations in those experiences to be a physician that might minister, not so much to the physical ills as known or called today as the mental, and pertaining to things that are as preventatives of disturbances and disorders in the experience of human individuals or activities.
24. Then there are the abilities in these directions, or such activities may be a channel through which the entity may in the present find a great joy; as well as an outlet for the determining forces or wishes or desires - that are, like thoughts, things; that may grow to be either miracles - those things through which miracles may come into the experience of self and those with whom the associations may be had - or become stumbling-stones to self and as MOUNTAINS in the pathway of those whom the entity may contact.
25. Before that we find the entity was in the Holy Land, or Palestine land, during those periods following the life-experience of the Master in the earth.
26. The entity was very young during those periods, yet closely associated with the activities of many of those who gave their all in body, in purse, and in service toward bringing into the experiences of others the hope as created by the tenets of the Teacher during that sojourn.
27. Then in the name Petros. The entity was of the peoples that were close with Mark, John and the other John.
28. In those periods when persecutions and such activities arose, the entity was among those who went to the desert lands with a part of the activity of Andrew and Thomas and the influences that made for the building up in the oasis and the places about those lands in that particular area of a great hope and light in the experience of many.
29. There again we find the desires were to minister, physically and mentally, to the needs of the bodies of others; which might specially fit the entity in the present for the acts or in the capacities as a researcher in the field of preventative medicines, or those preventatives in relationship to activities or influences of those who become addicts in fields where these have been as yet little followed out.
30. In that sojourn we find the entity's activities were much in the open. Hence we find in the present that a restlessness comes over the entity often when there is too much of routine, or too much of dictatorial activity of those who are about the entity - no matter what their position or place may be.
31. Before that we find the entity was in the land that NOW may be called the Peruvian, during those periods when there were the persecutions - not those known in the much later date as from the Spaniards, but rather from the breaking up from the meetings with those from the Mayan or Yucatan land.
32. There we find the entity was in the capacity of a Priest, or the son of the ruler or the High Priest; yet never attaining quite to the period in that experience of being one wholly in authority.
33. Yet the entity was acquainted with much of the various groups' activities; not only as to the general welfare, where there were the universal storehouses from which all gained or had issued to them the needs of the bodily forces, but as to the mental and spiritual application as well.
34. For that was the type of government during that period, and the entities activities were to keep such a storehouse - when there were the intentions or activities of those within the own household as well as others to become rather as lords, and as those who were willing to put the fellow men under bondage.
35. Much of the experiences of the entity during that sojourn, and those activities, may be a part of the experience in the present.
36. Then the entity was in the name Ipt-Ar-Ar.
37. Before that we find the entity was within that same Peruvian land, though not exactly in the same territory; rather in that from a part of the Atlantean as well as a part of what became later the On [? Og?] or the Incal land - and the activities of those from the actions of the children of the Law of One.
38. There we find the entity was very, very well adapted in the activities for the meeting of the influences of a great variety of the groups. For the entity was rather the adept in the various tongues, by the activities of the various groups.
39. As those were a part of the entity's experience, we will find the abilities in languages - or in the various INFLECTIONS of what may become colloquialisms, or local conditions in various groups or peoples - may be of special interest to the entity in the present sojourn.
40. Then name then was Yak-Ary.
41. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, and that to which it may attain, and how:
42. First, as indicated, analyze self; as to thy purposes, as to thy desires - and as to whether or not these are in keeping with that which is thy ideal, with that which is thy hope.
43. Is thy activity tended to cast out fear and to build faith and hope in the experiences of those with whom ye may be associated, or whom ye may contact?
44. With this as thy ideal ye may sow ever the fruits of the spirit, as to lend thy activities for constructive forces from not only the material but the mental and spiritual influences of an individual.
45. Then, know that ye have that within self as may be attuned to the Infinite; as ye have been and are a part of same.
46. Study then to show thyself approved unto the God within, the Ideal within; that is not of a selfish nor of an egotistical nature, but rather that ye may fulfil that for which ye entered this experience - that ye may glorify that source of thine own divinity in such measures and manners as to make same more acceptable, by thy very application of same in thy dealings with others!
47. Let not then thy good be evilspoken of.
48. In those fields of medicine - preventative medicines; especially those wherein others have become addicted to the use of drugs that have become detrimental in the experience and to the mental forces - we find the self may be applied in such a way as to bring much hope to others.
49. Have patience; first with self, and with thy fellow man; that thy Maker, God, may have patience with thee.
50. Patience and love, then, become the ruling forces in thy experience, in thy dealings with thy fellow man. Forget them not!
51. Ready for questions.
52. (Q) Then, is the line of work that I have taken up wisely chosen?
    (A) Very well; especially if those phases or fields of same as indicated are stressed in the studies and the application of the abilities.
53. (Q) Have I ever met my present wife in a previous life, and if so where?
    (A) In the Peruvian land twice, or in the Incal; and in the Pennsylvania land. The associations in one were as the worship from afar, because of the ability of the entity to be gay as it were under circumstances that to self at the time did not seem to be plausible. In the other they were closely associated as companions, or husband and wife. In another, as sister and brother.
    All of these phases of the experiences and associations may be well seen in that which has been a part of the experience, and will be a part of the experience with the companion in the present.
54. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. 7/04/36 EC's letter to Mr. [311]: "Thanks for the clipping about the work in Egypt. Had a man, Dr. [1210], who is very much interested in archaeology, and has a son [1637] with a group in S.A. in the Incas region."
2. 7/07/38 Questions: "Is the line of work [medicine] that I have taken up wisely chosen? If so, to which branch am I best fitted?"

REPORTS

1. 7/18/38 Father's card to EC:
   Dear Mr. Cayce:
   Kindly bill me for the reading for my son. Am forwarding a report written by him [GD's note: I could find no such report in the file but I remember hearing that Mr. [1637] while in the Incas region had been sick of a fever. During his delirium he spoke at length in a Peruvian or Incan dialect that was extinct, according to a linguist member of the expedition.] prior to the reading. Reading and memory check in every detail - a wonderful reading.
   Sincerely [1210]
2. 8/03/38 Mr. [1637]'s ltr. to EC:
   Dear Mr. Cayce,
   Please forgive my not having answered your kind letter sooner.
   The reading was more than interesting. It was wonderfully satisfying in that it fortified my determination to finish what I have started - namely, the study of medicine. Should my determination tend to become clouded by difficulties, the reading will serve as the needed extra push.
   The reading was gratifying too, in that it checked my own memories and restored my faith in them.
   I can never thank you enough and look forward to meeting you.
3. 12/20/38 See 1637-2 in re Inca buried treasure.

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