This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 14th day of August, 1930, in accordance with request made by self - Dr. [1720], via Dr. [2723].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Dr. [1720]. Born September 14, 1904, Dayton, Ohio.

TEXT

1. EC: Yes, we have the entity and those relations with the universe and universal forces, as are latent and exhibited in the present entity.
2. In entering, we find astrologically the entity coming under the influence of Venus, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Uranus. These, in their variations in the present entity, present an influence that, taken advantage of - with the application of will as respecting same - may make for the entity in the present experience a wonderful spiritual, mental, and material development.
3. In Venus, we find those of the influences as make for sympathetic conditions as influencing the life in many respects, and - as the entity would, in a manner, turn retrospective in view - will find that such in the present experience, even without being able to consciously name the cause, has played an important part in the experiences in the present experience; yet in the same manner will the entity find that the little courtesies, the little kindnesses, the little gentlenesses as has been exhibited in self, has builded that as may be turned, or termed in the present experience, as opportunity. Do not let success, socially, financially, or mentally, make a fool of you!
4. In the experience as is seen, and as is innate in the present from Mercury, we find this makes for those abilities, or those opportunities as may be had in the present. While these as manifested oft are seen as those of differentiations as to application, yet termed by many in the present as slow, plodder - yet INNATELY the entity finds that with the application of that as known, as held as experiences by self, APPLIED in the daily relationships with individuals, with circumstances, with experiences, brings for the entity that of a contentment that becomes worth while; UNLESS it, the entity, becomes SATISFIED in self and attempts to exalt that as IS gained for self's OWN aggrandizement, when same would then bring as destructive forces as may be DEVELOPING, when applied irregularly, or applied in accord with the will and influence of a universal experience or law.
5. In the warning here, be mindful of conditions during that period of the thirty-eighth year as will bring for accidents, through fire - or the knife.
6. In the experience in Jupiter, these are well - though the influences are UNDER that as comes through Uranian, making for change of scenes, changes of ideals, changes of purpose, changes in relationships, changes in surroundings. These MADE compatible, these used in will's influence in conjunction WITH that attained in Mercury and Venus, will BRING for the entity a position that may be envied by many. Use conditions, use those of every experience as a stepping stone for success; but DO NOT make the mistake to feel that to make a FINANCIAL success is to succeed in the best or the whole matter. While position, power, wealth, is to be sought, to be sure - but let these conditions be rather that of the result from service given in little things, service rendered to the fellow man; for know that he that lendeth aid in ANY manner with the proper purposes in view - that is, to give self IN such a service to the fellow man - lendeth to the Creative Energy, that is able to give that as exalteth, that as bringeth understanding, that as bringeth for the self that contentment that makes for the personality that leadeth, the INDIVIDUALITY that commandeth; for remember, this may be termed as a TRUE definition of the two: Personality leadeth. INDIVIDUALITY commandeth; not as men call command, "obey" and he obeyth, through fear - but commandeth and commendeth, being nearer of the same term.
7. In the influence as seen from Mars, brings those that - in a manner - the entity has CONQUERED, or at least allayed within self, of wrath, contempt, and of littleness. These have been innate from experiences, and the entity must war, as it were, against such.
8. In the appearances and influence:
9. In the one before this we find in that land, in the country known now as Georgia. The entity then with those peoples who founded same, and with the Oglethorpes, both in England and in the new land. The entity among those that aided in the keeping together of the peoples when the governor, or the leader, was afar - in the name Wygland, and these RECORDS of same may be yet found in some of the archives - both in Savannah and in Atlanta. In this experience the entity gained and lost. Gained in the manner of service rendered, as the country's development. In the death of the governor, away, CONTEMPT was heaped upon the entity; though not at fault, yet RESENTMENT was builded in the entity in his relationships to others, and an air of fear is exhibited and BUILDED in the present experience. This must be overcome. Not in that as of cocksureness in self, but be VERY sure as to purpose and as to the trust in the divinity, and the divinity's relationships in each. Then, be oft in prayer, oft in silence. This will be the safeguard for the entity. This is INNATE. MAKE same applicable in the every DAY experience.
10. In the one before this we find in that land known as the Grecian, in the days when there was the return from the eastern invasion; and as the entity was among those of the soldiery that went and returned, young in years, old in experience, staid in the use of that gained, the entity gained much. While in a mediocre position as to status, yet as to service given, as to the manner it displayed, gain was the experience of the entity through that period. In the present, much of that of the courtesies, that of the loving kindnesses, that of the abilities to step aside for a friend or a foe, comes from THIS experience. In the name Zendi.
11. In the one before this we find in the land known as the Egyptian, during that period when there were divisions in the land, when there were the establishing of the conditions for the building up for the return of the banished priest, for the establishing of closer relationships between the native and those in political power, in the establishing of the relationships of penal law, material law, martial law, religious law, as compared to the experiences of the sages, or of the lands far and near. The entity then among those who were of the household of the king that invaded, and was the king's custodian of those of the buildings for the body, or as would be termed in the present the modiste, or tailor, for the royalty of that period. Gaining through the experience through the ministry as given, also as to the conditions that the entity served under during that experience; becoming of those that were ambassadors later to other lands, and the entity among those in the land who went as an emissary to what is now America. In the experience the entity gained. In the present, much of that experience, much of the associations of that experience, will the entity contact in the present. The abilities in many fields, the outlook from many angles, does the entity gain; yet most become a jumble in Jupiter and Uranian from this experience. They may be made VERY good, VERY bad - or they may make for that that, exaltation coming in self and self's abilities, destroy much. In the abilities of the entity, and the periods through which the entity gained MUCH, may be viewed from that experience. In the name Sen-Orn.
12. In the one before this we find in the land known as that of the Atlantean, in the first of those periods as the peoples began to apply those laws as appertain to those of the combustion as made for the filling up of the skins that were used as those of transportation. In the use of the elevator in the buildings in the earth, the entity excelled during that period. In the name Elmn. In the present, those of mechanics and of air brakes have a peculiar influence on the entity; yet from the experience the fear of the outcome from same has prevented much of the entity's application in that direction.
13. As to the abilities and the use of same in the present:
14. Keep in that of the SERVICE to the fellow man, as is in keeping with that as has been gained in the experience of the entity; applying same in the relationships of the everyday life, whether as that of one or the other, these yeas, these nays, should be in accord with that as may be set as the criterion, or as the ensample, or as the ideal. HAVE one! MAKE self keep THAT in view. Ready for questions.
15. (Q) Where would be the best location for the body to practice osteopathy? and to establish his home?
    (A) In the South.
16. (Q) What part of the South?
    (A) Any portion near Georgia or the Carolinas - any of these would be well.
17. (Q) Would the wife be willing to go to one of these places?
    (A) We haven't the wife.
18. We are through.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n office (2 copies)
    Copy to Hugh Lynn Cayce

REPORTS

1. GD's note: I understand that he did establish his practise in North Carolina.

Edgar Cayce Readings © 1971, 1993, 1994, 1995 by the Edgar Cayce Foundation