This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 18th day of August, 1938, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [1663], Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. [1663]. Born April 5, 1888, in Denver, Colorado.

TEXT

1. GC: You will give the relation of this entity and the universe, and the universal forces; giving the conditions that are as personalities, latent and exhibited in the present life. Also you will give the former appearances in the earth plane, giving time, place and the name, and that in each life which built or retarded the development of the entity; giving that to which the entity may in the present attain, and how. You will answer the questions she may submit, as I ask them.
2. EC: (In going back over years from present - "1930 - yes - '18 - rather trying - '17 - " etc., on back to birth date.)
3. Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as [1663].
4. In giving the interpretations of the records here, that are written as it were upon the skein of time and space, these are the activities, the purposes, the desires - and what the entity has done, in thought, in act, respecting its purposes towards Creative Forces and Influences in its experience; not only in the present but in those sojourns through other experiences in the earth as well as the astrological aspects - from which certain influences are now a part of the experience.
5. Rather, what has BEEN the experience only brings the activities of this particular experience as in relationships to the whole.
6. Then that as is gathered or interpreted is with the desire that the entity may use or apply the interpretation in its own experience for bringing nearer those purposes for which each soul enters the experience in a material sojourn.
7. Hence as we find from the astrological aspects, that are a part of the innate influence in the present, these become only as omens or signs.
8. And no influence surpasses the will of the entity - that which is the gift of the Creative Forces in the experience, called the birthright of every soul.
9. Each soul then enters the experience with that ability innate to make straight the paths that it chooses in its relationships to the purposes for which it enters.
10. For as has been given, He hath not willed that any soul should perish, but hath with each temptation prepared a manner in which the soul may meet itself; and thus make those atonements or at-onements in its relationships to the whole.
11. And thus the love of the Father is shown in the experiences of all who will - who WILL - but look to Him; applying that as they know today.
12. For as that ye understand and know is applied, then the next step is given.
13. In the astrological aspects we find for this entity that Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Mars and Saturn are a part of the experience.
14. The high mental abilities, discernments, judgements, choices being made, are ever a part of the innate experience of the entity; as also the home and the experiences of same; making the choice of friends rather than accepting all.
15. Not that the entity has not been or is not democratic in its ideas, yet it finds ever those necessities or the expedience for choosing those with whom it would share its intimacies - either in conversation or in activity.
16. As to what the entity does about all of these depends rather upon the choices to be made respecting that the entity innately and manifestedly sets as its ideal in relationship to same.
17. Just as in Venus, also the home and the maternal affections and activities become - at experiences or periods - the paramount issues in the influencing and forces of the entity's activity.
18. Just as it in the same relationship holds to that innate within self, that - though it is a part of all of its environs and activities - it must live its own experience or life within itself.
19. Also, from the Jupiterian sojourn, the influence is brought for the activities of the entity to be before what would be called masses, groups, or activities of the many, rather than of the individual.
20. So, the influences through which the entity may pass must needs oft take into consideration the thought of the mass, rather than the individual.
21. The influence from Saturn brings many changes in the experience, as well as the love for change of scene, of country, of travel. All of these innately are a portion of the entity.
22. These find their expression in the material manifestation as may be called the dreams, the thoughts, the judgements, the pronouncements as it were of the entity in its quieter or meditative moods or periods.
23. On the other hand, the influences from the earthly sojourns rather find manifestations in the emotions of the body; thus becoming "sensed" as it were through the intuitive forces.
24. And, as has been the experience of the entity, there has been a great deal of intuitive force or psychic influence about the entity.
25. For, as we find in its earthly experience before this, the entity was in the eastern portion of the land of present nativity, during those early periods when there was a great deal of questioning as to those about Providence town and Salem, as to the experiences of those who heard, who saw or experienced influences from without.
26. The entity then was the companion or associate of Hargraves, in the name Isabel Hargraves.
27. In the experience the entity suffered much mentally in the quiet; in the spiritual forces developed much. There was a period of enchantment as it were in many of the material associations and experiences.
28. For during the experience, to be the companion of one who under the environs of the time taught this or that as a dogmatic experience for the morals, as well as the political faiths and activities of individuals, brought those periods of solitude in the material surroundings.
29. Yet it may be said that the entity gained throughout the experience. For in the attitudes as were held, much of the contemplative and helpful and prayerful experiences were a part of the entity's activities; and the abilities to give to those who would seek to study as to an educational, a moral relationship one to another were a part of the entity's experience.
30. And the abilities and interests are innate as in relationship to things pertaining to weaving, making of cloth, baskets or bird boxes or things that brought into the experience of the entity the closer relationships to nature and nature's storehouse. And these oft bring in the experience of the entity, and have brought in the present, the greater harmonies and peace in the activities.
31. Before that we find the entity was in the Holy or the Palestine land, as now known; following - rather than during - the Crucifixion of the Master.
32. The entity knew of those periods of oppression, and experienced those conditions-physical that arose in the experiences of those who lay claim to an activity which was in keeping with the dictates of their conscience.
33. And the experience brought material hardships, yet mental and spiritual freedom. Hence those were days, as the entity has experienced in the present, when quietness within - and the ability to attain the quietness - enabled the body - and does in the present enable the entity - to meet its material as well as every problem in its associations and activities with others.
34. Through those activities as may follow within the developing experiences of the entity in the present period of activity in this sojourn, such experiences as the entity had then now give the ability to counsel and to reason with those of its own sex as well as those of the opposite sex, concerning the little problems that confront the young as well as those who are changing their status as in relationship one to another.
35. Hence such should be in the present a part of the entity's activity. For in same, as ye give so do ye receive. For in aiding others to find themselves and their relationships to their ideals and their purposes in a material experience, so may ye find that happiness, that joy, - yea, that peace which is a part of and is the promise to every soul that would seek to know its place, its relationship to the Creative Forces in the experiences of an activity in the earth.
36. In the name we would in the present term as Olive, the entity through that experience was active in comforting many who had dedicated their lives to individual and to group service.
37. So may the entity in the present aid the young, and especially those changing in their status of material relationships to the opposite sex; as to bring in their experiences such a help, such a hope that will make their lives the more helpful, the more hopeful - and thus more worth while to all.
38. Well that the entity dedicate its experience, then, to such a service. For the opportunities for such OPEN themselves, as ye show thyself willing to serve.
39. Before that we find the entity was also in the Holy Land, as known in the present, during those periods of the return of the peoples of promise.
40. Though the entity was of those peoples that remained in the land, it became especially interested because of the activities which followed the intents and purposes of the edict issued by Ezra during those experiences.
41. And as the entity showed itself to be equal to and sincere in its efforts for the establishing of ideals, it was among the very few chosen to become a part of the experience in the reestablishing of the temple and the spiritual worship of those peoples during that experience.
42. The name then was Belenhi. Though among the Samaritans (as called), and of that people, the entity gave its service to those who made for the establishing and reiterating of the laws pertaining to the service and the activities in the temple, and the activities of the peoples in their replenishing and reactions in those experiences.
43. The entity gained then throughout.
44. In the present we find the ability to interpret, the ability as a linguist being a part of the entity's experience, from those VERY abilities as established during the re-translating of much of those things that were a part of the experience.
45. And if the entity will review the activities of Nehemiah, Ezra and Jeshua and Jezreel, much of these will become as an opening door to the consciousness of its abilities to direct, to hold, to maintain a UNITY where others have failed.
46. Thus the entity will be enabled to give even the greater counsel to those just starting their relationships as one with another, and with the EFFORTS in fitting themselves into environs and activities in which they have found and do find their experiences entirely different from their earlier periods of activity.
47. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as or called the Egyptian, during those periods when from the Atlanteans, the Natives, and those peoples returning with the Priest from banishment were attempting to correlate their activities.
48. We find the entity made overtures to the Natives as well as to the visitors for the establishing of those activities which were being fostered by the Priest for the regenerating of the people's lives through their manners of living, their manners of conduct, their manners of exercise, their manners of diet and the thought of such natures.
49. All of those then brought about greater activities of the entity in the Temple of Sacrifice.
50. The name then was Zorata. THERE we find the entity rising to a position where many came to know the entity as one who aided them as individuals, as groups, in preparation for the material as well as the mental and spiritual service.
51. For the period expressed that in which man was to find his relationships to the Creative Forces, as may be expressed in that manner of activity in his relationships to his fellow man.
52. So in the abilities of the entity in the present, then:
53. Study to show thyself approved in all good conscience to that thou dost set as thy ideal.
54. Know that thy abilities are in those directions of counseling with the young; and especially with the young married couples. Know that these abilities are not only a forte but a virtue within self, to be practised in the experiences and relationships to others.
55. Not as a meddler - never! Rather as that they each have their ideals, living in those respects in which no questions may ever be within the minds of those who see or observe their activities - and most of all no question marks in their own consciousness.
56. Thus may the entity come to the greater peace. Whether these be expressed in the advice and counsel by word of mouth or by the counseling in writing, or in speaking, they become one and the same. But lend thy abilities in the service to thy living God, as ye have in thy sojourns through the material experience - and ye will find greater joy, greater happiness, greater contentment.
57. Ready for questions.
58. (Q) Could I have a suitable form of meditation for daily use?
    (A) In thine own words - just as ye did and as ye taught as Zorata, as Belenhi, and throughout those experiences, let it ever be then as these: FATHER, GOD! HERE AM I - USE ME - IN BODY, IN MIND, IN SPIRIT - IN THE WAY THAT THOU SEEST THAT I MAY BE THE GREATER, THE BETTER CHANNEL IN SHOWING AND MANIFESTING THY LOVE TO THE CHILDREN OF MEN; THAT THE PROMISE MAY BE FULFILLED WHICH IS MADE IN JESUS, OUR ELDER BROTHER, THAT HE MAY BE GLORIFIED IN THE FATHER AS WE GLORIFY HIM IN OUR DAILY LIVES.
    HEAR, O GOD! AND ANSWER ACCORDING TO THY PURPOSES IN ME.
    [Pause - no further questions indicated]
    Much might be said as to manners, forms and the like. But these - as ye meditate upon that just given - will become crystallized in thy experience. For the opportunities will open before thee day by day.
    Hold fast to Him!
59. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. 8/18/38 A.M. See 1663-1, her Physical Rdg.

REPORTS

1. 8/18/38 Mrs. [1663]'s comments after the reading: "So true - I have always been able to understand and help young people; have a great urge to do that."
2. 9/02/38 [1663]'s letter: "It was a great day for me when I stepped over the threshold of the Cayce home. I hope I'll use my information to direct my own and maybe other lives a little better. I must get well first. I thank you for all your kindness."
3. 12/03/38 "Right now my heart is so full of gratitude to God for leading me to Mr. Cayce, with his gift to help and to heal. Never a day passes that I am not grateful and as I get better, I want to learn in some small way to be a channel for good."
4. 12/14/38 She had 1663-3, her second physical reading. [See subsequent Ck. Physical Rdgs. and Reports.]
5. 6/26/56 Mrs. [1663]'s friend, Mrs. [264] wrote: "I want to add fragments of conversations which I believe will help to clarify the oneness of that lived by Edgar Cayce and the value of the truths found in those rdgs. which he left us.
   "First: I was told this by the wife of a very learned professor of a southern university. She [Mrs. [1663]] said she had benefitted greatly from several physical rdgs. but had not told her husband, fearing he might be skeptical of the information. Later Mr. and Mrs. Cayce stopped at her home, while returning to Va. Beach from their vacation. Mrs. [1663]'s husband came in, and a very pleasant hour followed. While returning to the house after seeing the Cayces off in their car, the professor said: 'As I walk on these flagstones, I'll always feel that they are hallowed for having such a Godly man as Edgar Cayce walk over them.'
   "Incidentally they had four sons and they had Life Readings for two of them [2012] and [2584] [Also grandsons [2584] & [2814]], and all four served in World War II, and were unharmed."
6. GD's note: We heard from Mrs. [1663] several times during the nineteen fifties expressing her continuing interest but inability to help us financially due to low income and paying off past debts.
7. 12/02/60 She answered Questionnaire [under Project Repeat?] in re her life as Isabel Hargraves in the early American period, saying:
   "I am sorry I have not had the opportunity to learn anything about my life as Isabel Hargraves in the early American period. "One of my sons, [2285], also was there at that time. I have sent your letter to him at ...
   "Also the one to my son [2012] in ..., N.Y. He was Eli Whitney in his past incarnation. I am afraid the [1663] family will not be of any help in this very fine research work... [She requested and was sent a copy of her Life Reading.]
   "It was so nice to meet Hugh Lynn and his lovely wife when they were in... Thank you [Gladys] for writing me." [1663]

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