This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 7th day of September, 1938, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [1681], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by his parents, [1662] and [1661].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Born March 10, 1905, in Philadelphia, Penna.

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 the former appearances in the earth's 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 he has submitted, as I ask them.
2. EC: Yes, we have the records here of the entity now called [1681].
3. In giving the interpretations of the influences about the entity - (there are quite many emblems - a great many figures) - that chosen to be given is with the desire that it may be helpful in the experience of the entity in the present. Hence much of that which has been a part of the experience through the sojourns in the earth will be given, forewarning and giving the purposes and intent for the entrance of each soul into an experience. We would give then also the virtues as well as the faults; with the desire that these influences be used constructively, or that they influence the entity in making that choice in which the greater soul and mental development may be the outcome from same.
4. As to the sources, then - as to the records, then:
5. Each soul, each entity makes upon time and space - through patience recording same - that as may be indeed the record of the intent and purposes, as well as the material manifestations of the entity through its sojourn in materiality.
6. Hence we find astrological as well as material sojourns having an influence. The astrological influences are upon the mental or the intuitive forces, which are developed in this entity to a great degree - as will be indicated.
7. These come then as dreams, as visions - not as dreams from the separation of the body, but day dreams and visions in the meditative experiences of the entity.
8. On the other hand, the material sojourns find greater expression in the emotional forces and influences in the entity's experience. Words fail to give an adequate or even a correct expression of those that have been the experiences of the entity. But these will be drawn in such a way and manner that if there will be the study, the meditating upon same, MUCH will be responding to that within the innate influences of the entity - and become rather the experiences also.
9. The astrological influences are not because of certain positions of the stars or planets, or this or that phase of the astronomical signs, but because of the sojourns of the entity there during the interims between the earthly appearances.
10. As we find, Mercury and Venus, Jupiter and Uranus become the greater forces in the experiences of the entity.
11. The high mental abilities, the interests in those things of a mechanical nature, those things pertaining to the necessity of figures to denote relative relationships of elements one to another, come from the Mercurian sojourn as well as the sojourn of the entity in the Atlantean experience.
12. From Venus we find the high regard for duties, obligations; and yet those influences or forces of the nature that make oft for an element of insecurity in those things that are only material duties. Beauty, though, and art, and all things pertaining to harmony, arise from the experiences of the entity in those environs - as well as from the sojourn of the entity in the Persian and Arabian experience.
13. The influence from Jupiter we find making for a universal appeal, and those things that would have an influence upon many peoples rather than the individual. Obligations and duties belong to the individual, in the very nature of this entity, while the work and the service and the activities belong to the universe. All of these as we find are from the Jupiterian sojourn as well as the earthly sojourn in what is now known as the Palestine land.
14. We find the Uranian experience gives the influences for the extremes - and the positive; yet the willingness to listen at others with the twofold abilities and always divided opinions - while as to the entity there can only be one way, and proof must be given the entity; especially as to those things in which it finds itself from the very Uranian influence interested - in the occult or psychic nature, or the mystic nature. These, though, must have material, positive proof in the experience of the entity, if they would make for the lending of self in those directions - as well as from the sojourns of the entity in those activities just previous to the present appearance of the entity.
15. These bring, then, innate and manifested urges, and as to what the entity does about same depends upon just how much choice in this or that direction the entity makes as to the application of such urges.
16. One very positive, very determined. One inclined to delve into those things that pertain to the unusual, the spiritual or the manifestations of same. Occult subjects and influences become a part of the experience, as well as the activities in which the influences come from such seeking into the beautiful.
17. The entity with a little training or intent in that direction might have become an artist of no mean ability, if it were of the creative nature rather than the depicting of nature itself. Hence as commercial art, or those things pertaining to buildings or architectural developments. Any of these might have been a part of the entity's experience.
18. The entity is very positive, inclined to be one-track-minded at a time; yet interested in all phases of human experience and human endeavor.
19. As to the application of self from the appearances of the entity in the earth, then, we find:
20. Before this the entity was in and about the environs of Philadelphia, and especially about that 'city of brotherly love' during the early portion of the settlings in the lands. It was during those periods of Penn and the activities with same.
21. We find the entity then, in the name William Cowper, gave self in service not only in preserving the records of the peoples but also in enabling others to keep the accounts of their contributions to the activities during those experiences.
22. Hence we find the entity's interest as manifested in those things of material natures finding expression in the monetary values for individuals' consideration.
23. But the abilities are in communication, as to the entity's or individual's activity; and not only the social but the business relationships and activities, and the influences that such would have upon individuals in the present, as well as during the activities in that environ or sojourn.
24. Before that we find the entity was in the land now known as Palestine, during those periods of the development of the church idea.
25. The entity was very young during the sojourn of the Master in the earth, and was among the children PRESENT when there was the feeding of the five thousand in the wilderness.
26. Hence the dread of certain activities in the wilds; yet again the needs of individual searching in the entity's experience.
27. And the activities of the entity during that sojourn were as a keeper of an inn, in which there were the activities both of the Roman and the Jewish peoples, as well as the meetings of the various groups. All of such were active in the experience of the entity.
28. Hence the entity is a good listener, and yet is seldom influenced by that which is heard in passing - until that has answered to something within and there is the individual experience as respecting same.
29. These are a portion of the entity in the present; and the abilities to entertain well; and yet the ability to be alone, the ability to need loneliness as a part of itself, becomes an experience of the entity in the present.
30. The name then was Thurmel, and of the Galilean land.
31. Before that we find the entity was in the Persian and Arabian land, in the 'city in the hills and in the plains' when there was the building of that center as a means or a way for material as well as commercial benefits for the many who gradually came to be a part of that environ.
32. The entity was then rather closely associated with the household of the leader; for the entity - as would be called today - was a brother-in-law of the entity or leader Uhjltd.
33. With the establishing of the 'city in the hills and the plains' as a center, a means of communication, we find that the means of communications, the activities in which messages might be sent of every character or nature were a part of the entity's activities - as well as the conserving and the establishing of mediums of exchange between the varied lands that used those centers or stations as a place where exchanges were made between the Far East, the North and Northwest, and the South and Southeast, and even into the Egyptian and the lands of the sea.
34. Those were a part of the entity's experience. Thus we find those things that have to do with these in relationships with others become a part of the entity's experiences in the present.
35. The abilities in communications, as we find, will become the greater interests of the entity, as well as art; for drawings of the hand were the mediums of exchange in many lands during that sojourn.
36. Then the name was Atllarr.
37. Before that we find the entity was in the Atlantean land.
38. There we find the entity was very close to those in authority; being that one who was the keeper of the portals as well as the messages that were received from the visitation of those from the outer spheres, in the latter part of the entity's experience there.
39. For it was the entity that received the message as to the needs for the dividing of the children of the Law of One for the preservation of the truths of same in other lands.
40. Hence we find the entity was among those who were as the directors of those expeditions, or the leaving for the many varied lands just before the breaking up of the Atlantean land.
41. Hence the entity outlined in the most part, it might be said, the expedition guided by Ax-Tell and the ones to the Pyrenees and to the Yucatan and to the land of Og.
42. There we find the entity then gave those communications that were established later by the entity from the Pyrenees, and later again established in the mountains in the Grecian land - and there those messages that called for the meetings of the nations were brought about by the activities of that entity during that sojourn.
43. Later, with the revivifying of the Priest in Egypt, the entity was among those who set about the unifying of the teachings of the Atlanteans, the Egyptians (as they would be called today), the Indian, the Indo-Chinan, the Mongoloid and the Aryan peoples. All of those were the activities of the entity, for he was the messenger and the message-bearer - or the means through which transmissions of activities were set up.
44. The name then was Segund.
45. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, and that to which it may attain, and how:
46. This, as the entity has experienced, is limited only to the desires of the entity and its FAITH in the one force or God.
47. For by faith are ye saved, and that NOT of yourself - for it is the gift of thy Maker.
48. As has been indicated, then - symbols, signs - all become a part of the entity's vision or means of visioning; as in the sign of the water bearer, or the pouring out from the rheostats¹, as from the fish, as from the bow and arrow, as from the signs of the twins in the sky - or the N with the O upon the corner of same. All of these are symbols.
49. Then as to the abilities:
50. In the material - anything that has to do with communications SHOULD be the eventual activities of the entity. Keep always those things that cause impetus for activity, or that keep the mind busy. But keep also the faith in the one source of help, of aid, of good, of hope. For it is only in the Creative Forces as the source of all good.
51. Then, study to show thyself approved unto thy ideal, to WHOM ye have given thyself, IN thyself - and know that the way is good. For the Lord is in His temple, and thy body is the temple wherein ye worship - not thyself but that ability to use thyself, thy strength, thy might, that He - thy Lord - may be glorified in the minds and the hearts of thy fellow men. For as ye do it unto the least of thy brethren ye do it unto thy Maker.
52. Let love rule, rather than rote. Let hope keep thee in paths of righteousness for His name's sake, and not for what others may say.
53. Ready for questions.
54. (Q) Is my present vocation sufficiently suitable to what ability and leanings I may have?
    (A) The present associations and activities are rather the outgrowth of circumstance. Those abilities in communications - which will be in the nature of EVERY sort that has to do
    rheostatic Elec. a. Of or pertaining to a rheostat. b. Producing continuous static effects; as, Plante's rheostatic machine, a number of condensers charged in parallel and discharged in series.] with distant and mystic communications - will be and ARE the greater outlet for the entity. Hold to these, but do not let them interfere or abuse thy privileges ever.
55. (Q) Is my spiritual trend one that can be called constructive and suitable to my tendencies?
    (A) These, as has been indicated, are in keeping with that ye have done. Then, as has been indicated, know thy own ideal. Know in Whom as well as in what ye believe; that is, know the author (as is thy nature) of each impulse as may be the promptings, the teachings, of policies, of philosophies, of activity. Or keep HIM - who is the Way - as thy guide?
    For His promises are to thee - He stands at the door and knocks. If ye will open, He will enter - and as has been given, "If ye love me, keep my commandments - and what ye ask in my name, BELIEVING, will be done in thy experience."
56. We are through for the present.

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BACKGROUND

1. 8/24/38 [1681]'s letter to EC:
   Dear Mr. Cayce,
   My parents, [...] and [...] have just returned today from a most interesting and beneficial visit to you.
   Their enthusiasm has caused me to desire to join your Association, and to request a life reading on myself as I feel that there are a number of points in consideration of life which it may be good to change or modify in order that I may more fully use the powers of which I feel possessed from time to time for the benefit of my fellow man. Of course, I understand that there may be no such use destined for me in this life, but perhaps there is some field wherein my occupation may be of more use indirectly than the one in which I now find myself. It would of course be interesting to know how and to what extent any previous life of my spirit may have had an influence in pre-arranging my present condition of life and spirit.
2. 9/01/38 [1681]'s letter:
   ..., Pa.,
   Dear Mr. Cayce,
   Many thanks for you letter of Aug. 25. The time and date are quite satisfactory. I am returning the requested information blank. As I noted in my first letter to you, I was named at birth [...] or rather [...], for my grandfather. I have discontinued the use of the [...] however, but mention it in case it may have some bearing on the matter at hand. I have read with interest the pamphlet on Life Readings which my father had at his home. My present occupation seems in line with my temperament, but I feel that it is possible that some other line of work might be more use to me and to those with whom I come in contact. I have a hobby, amateur radio, which I have pursued avidly for quite some years, and have developed it now to the point where it is being of considerable use to others - the natural course of it is to justify the time and money I have put into it. I do often wonder, however, whether I give it too much time. I do not want it to become a burden, nor to let it interfere in any way with a normal family life at home. I have been married for nearly one year, and have striven with this hobby for over 14 years, and it is therefore well established as a part of my daily routine, and is a source of great personal satisfaction and relaxation especially since development of the present activities which are two in number: 1) the relaying of personal messages between friends and relations here and in the Far East (Philippines and China), and 2) operating semi-weekly schedules with two Carnegie Institute observatories in Peru and Western Australia. All of this is without charge.

REPORTS

1. 9/07/38 Miss [1680] also had Physical Reading via his recommendation.
2. 6/08/39 Letter from [1681] from Penna.: "That you have had no word from me since sending me the report on my Life Rdg. does not mean that I have not been giving the subject considerable thought. I have, and though that Rdg. was of immense interest, I have felt that there are other more useful requirements for your efforts than to bother you with comments on this phase."
3. He requested Physical Reading for Mrs. [1943].
4. 6/23/39 He requested Physical Reading for Mrs. [1936].
5. 7/14/39 He obtained a Physical Reading for himself - See 1681-2.
6. 4/19/43 He requested and was sent another copy of his Life Reading.
7. 7/24/65 [1681]'s letter:
   ... Ave. ..., MN
   Dear Friends,
   Would it be possible to obtain copies of both Life and Health readings which I received from you back in the early '30s or '40s? You will find that my address then was one of the following:
   ... Ave., or ... Ave., (Both in ..., Pa.,) or ..., Penna.
   My late father [1662], was known to Mr. Cayce - I believe they had considerable correspondence. Both my parents were greatly interested in the psychic side of life, and were able to break through the "con-man fringe" of mis-use of these wonderful, natural human abilities, undoubtedly latent in most or all of us, to where they were able to be of great use to many of their friends. My mother [1661] communicates with my father almost at will, using a ouija board, but her impressions come so fast that the ouija board seams to be nothing more than the switch that turns the "receiver" off and on.
   Over the last 15 years or so we have been out of touch with this subject, busy raising 6 children. Several recent books have brought us back to thinking about it again, and we would like to try to find some way to be of service in it.
   Yours very truly, [1681] Association for Research & Enlightenment Virginia Beach, Virginia
   cc to HLC
8. 9/16/65 Mr. [1681]'s letter to GD:
   Dear Gladys,
   I've been very slow in answering your nice note, for which my apologies.
   It was good to hear that you are still a part of the A.R.E. group. I can imagine that having once become a part of that wonderful work it would be almost impossible to do anything else.
   The enclosed check is for the Xeroxing of my former Life Reading, and the balance please use as may be desired in the work of the A.R.E.
   You are undoubtedly well aware of the work of Mrs. Dixon [Jeane Dixon], in Washington. She certainly follows the path of true dedication. My wife and I have been following her work with great interest. Although it would be almost too good to be true, I suppose there is no chance that you could interest her in joining A.R.E. and doing her work there. She seems to cover a lot of ground, however, but we have seen no reference to possible ability in the Life Reading direction, but might have it, nevertheless.
   I had really forgotten much of the data in my Life Reading, and was amazed to find closely the last few years have followed the general direction of communication which it mentions. In addition to my amateur radio interest - now centered entirely in communication between Eye-Banks, to keep them informed as to need for and availability of corneal transplant material, it has been a duty and pleasure to lecture to several hundred groups on the drug industry, socialized medicine, etc., the effort being in trying to get people to see that hand-outs, per se, undercut the natural initiative of the individual and do nothing to strengthen the spiritual attack on our problems. We never know when someone will "pick up the ball and run with it", so you really can't stop even though you see no direct results.
   My wife and I were in Norfolk several years ago for a fleeting visit with #3 son who was in the navy, there, but hope that we may have enough time to drop in at A.R.E. next time we are in that area.
   Sincerely, [1681]

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