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 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 the
abilities of the present entity, and that to which it may
attain, and how. You will answer the questions that may be
asked.
EC: (In going back over years from present - "1894 - during
these periods danger in environments - '93, - " etc., on back
to birth date.)
Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as
[
1678].
In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them
here, that is chosen which will - with study - make
experiences for the entity that will assist and aid in
bringing a better understanding of the relationships of the
entity to its environs, and those influences that make for
urges of every nature arising within the experience of the
entity.
As a whole, but without reference to that the entity has
applied in the choice in itself during this experience, we
find:
One quiet, yet very positive; disliking to receive
corrections without their being administered in a very
diplomatic way and manner. Not desirous of meddling into
other people's affairs, preferring that they each find
themselves without being influenced by arguments from the
entity. Yet one capable of so expressing self as to become
an influence upon those it may meet day by day.
One that desires love, and hence manifests such in its
relationships to others in a way and manner that makes for
the entity becoming the center of its associates in a social
or in any manner that would be as a movement - whether of a
civic, social, political or religious nature.
Irrespective of what the entity has done, and as to how much
these have been accentuated - whether as faults or virtues -
they are a part of the entity's innate self.
In giving the astrological urges - these as we find are in
the mental or spiritual sense the inheritance; while the
material sojourns make for the urges of environs for the
entity.
Thus we find the astrological urges are from those periods of
the entity's sojourn between the earthly appearances.
Hence we find Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus all a
part of the experiences. Thus we find innately an
appreciation of the beautiful. This is innate, irrespective
of whether it is a material thing, a mental or a spiritual
aspect.
Hence all nature and things of nature are of an interest.
There are the abilities of the entity to make friends and to
hold them, that the entity may be influenced by or influence
such relationships.
Beauty in the depicting of beauty, the beauty of song or
music, the beauties of nature - all of these have an urge
within the experience of the entity; as do things that have
an influence from their very association - whether political,
historic or pure sentiment - ALL are portions of the entity's
innate feelings; and as to the expression are within the
bonds of the entity's own choice.
In Jupiter we find the influence rather as of the group, or
the interests that are of a national or a local nature, that
would have to do with the masses. Though the entity or
individual may be slow or recreant in giving great expression
of same, it FEELS the whole of same and gives forth - in its
manners of expression peculiar to itself - that which would
be a prompting in either submerging or lifting such movements
to greater activity.
From Mercury we find the high mental sense of honor, yet
recreant in accusing or blaming others with faults. Far from
fault-finding then is the natural innate manifestation of the
entity's innate self.
The influence from Uranus makes for the interests the entity
has in those things that are of mysterious nature, those of a
spiritual import; yet not becoming an extremist - as is
ordinarily indicated in the Uranian; but very positive and
very determined.
Hence as we find in a whole, the entity is very capable in
any field of endeavor or activity which it might undertake.
And especially is the entity gifted in the ability to make a
home, and to maintain same in such a way and manner as for it
to be home of those that are of many minds, or quite varied
in their likes and dislikes.
As to the influences from appearances in the earth, these -
too - as we find - are approached more through the emotional
nature of the entity; as indicated from environmental urges.
Oft the entity is accused of not being over-enthusiastic; but
very determined, very positive as to the whys, as to the
natures. For there must be the answer as within self as to
whether a thing is correct or not, no matter the nature of
the experience - whether in home, in social, in religious, in
state, county or nation circles. All such are as a unison of
activity on the part of this entity.
Then, as to the appearances in the earth and the influence
these have upon the emotions of the entity in the present:
Before this the entity was in the land of its present
sojourn, in the early portions of the settlings of the land;
during what might be called the pioneer days.
There we find the entity was in a capacity as a teacher, or
an administrator of helpful influences in education - not
merely of the R's but rather the practicality of the
application of self to the character of environs in which the
individuals found themselves, with whom the entity was
associated; that they might become the more helpful in their
relationships, their environs, as well as to their
associates.
The name then was Laura Eisman, and married to one Lawrence
Elman - of the frontiers, and of the lands that had to do not
only with those things made from nature and nature's
storehouse, the supplying of the material things for physical
sustenance, but those of the nature in which they might be
turned into conveniences for individual use. All such were a
part of the entity's experience in its associations with
others.
As to the application of self in the present from those
experiences, we find not only the close associates being
those of its own household during that experience, but those
abilities to make itself adaptable to many types or
characters of environment. These in the present become a
part of the entity's experience, and conditions to be
reckoned with in its choice.
Especially certain characters of noises, as of nature, are
evidenced in the entity's present experience from that
particular sojourn as the voices of nature, as might be
disturbed by the noises of the elements.
Before that, among those having the greater bearing upon the
entity's choice of its thought and activities in relationship
to others, we find the entity was a sojourner and one active
in that now known as the Palestine land.
It was following those periods when there were persecutions
of those who had become members of the new teaching, or when
the Master had walked in the earth.
Because of those experiences and those tenets, the tenderness
and the gentleness, the ability in the choice of approach to
others under stress of many natures or characters, are a part
of the entity's innate and manifested abilities in the
present; and the beauty of the surroundings of the entity's
mental self becomes a part of those experiences in the
present environs and surroundings.
The name then was Cleopas - or what would today be called
Dorothy Cleopas.
In the present from the activities during that sojourn we
will find many of the abilities to become the helpful
influence in the lives of those that are upon the borderland
of doubt and fear, and make for those experiences in the
lives of others when there is that fear of a choice between
that which is duty and that which is conviction.
Hence the quietness and the abilities to give the many sides
or phases of an activity become a part of the entity in the
present.
Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as
the Persian and Arabian, when those from what is now known as
the Grecian land came for the purposes of disseminating or
destroying those activities of the teacher Uhjltd; or to
learn the manner in which there might be control gained of
those activities. The entity was a part of the movement,
unaware.
Hence innately those things and those individuals who stoop
to underhanded ways and manners, those who profess one thing
and act another, are of particular abhorrence to the entity
in the present experience.
Being beautiful of body and in mind and in abilities, the
entity - coming under the influence of the teacher during
those activities - joined rather in that of a UNIFIED service
for those of the many lands who made those environs in the
'city in the hills and the plains' rather as a mecca for a
study and for the clarifying of individuals for service in
the various phases of human experience during that period.
Hence we will find also innately in the experience of the
entity the abilities in the likings and dislikings of cloth,
spices, odors, scents or things of that nature that were a
part of the entity, as they innately manifest in the present.
Yet the quiet demureness in giving expression of same,
testing as it were such things in the own experience, rather
than impelling or persuading others except by example and as
to its own experience with such.
Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as
the Egyptian, and among those peoples of Atlantis that were
chosen because of their abilities to direct, their abilities
to aid especially in the Temple Beautiful.
There we find the entity occupying as it were the station
that ye would call Number One, in the choices of those that
were to become either emissaries or missionaries for
activities in the various fields through which such
influences were brought about - or those that were to be the
mothers and fathers of the future generations - all of these
were a part of the entity's experience through that sojourn.
The name then was Asme-ch.
As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then,
and that to which it may attain, and how:
Hold fast to that thou has determined within thine own
heart. For as He may walk with thee in the garden of thine
own heart, so may thy directions be taken.
For He IS in the hearts and minds of those that open the
door to His call. And as ye measure to those of thy fellow
men day by day, so measure ye to thy Lord and thy Savior.
Keep then the faith. Know in whom ye have believed, as well
as in what. For the Lord is in His holy temple, and thy body
is the temple of thy soul, that seeks companionship with its
Maker.
Let love then be without dissimulation; abhor that which is
evil, cleaving to that which is good. KNOW that the Lord
loveth those that become light bearers unto those who sit in
darkness.
Ready for questions.
(Q) What have been my previous relationships to my present
husband, [...]?
(A) Very close in association in the appearance before this
- one Lawrence. In the Persian activities we find again the
close association, as the companion during those experiences;
and in the Egyptian.
(Q) My son, [...]?
(A) A friend - in the experience before this.
(Q) My son, [J...]?
(A) One upon whom ye relied much during the Palestine
experience, though ye suffered physically by some of the
things or choices ye saw him make.
(Q) My son, [
1691]?
(A) In the experience before this very close - in the same
household. In the Egyptian, known of - and blessed by the
associations and companionship.
We are through for the present.
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BACKGROUND
8/19/38 Letter requesting a Physical Reading - See
1678-1
which she obtained
9/05/38 A.M. - "I should like to find
latent talents, or advice upon use of whatever I may
recognize along the line of ability. I'd like to know, if
possible, what my previous relationships to the members of my
family may have been, if such a thing may be revealed to
you."
REPORTS
9/14/38 She requested a Physical Reading for her son, [
1691].
See subsequent correspondence under
1678-1 Reports.
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