This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 1st day of February, 1939, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [1809], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended and sponsored through Mr. Hugh Lynn Cayce, via Miss [1522] and Dr. [1210].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Born September 3, 1897, New York City.

TEXT

1. GC: You will give the relation of this entity and the universe, and the universal forces; giving the conditions which 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 for the entity; giving the abilities of the present entity and that to which it may attain, and how. You will answer the questions she has submitted, as I ask them:
2. EC: (In going back over years from present - " - '26 - how this entity has lost opportunities! - '18 - indecisions; and the desire to know so much, yet applying so little! '17, - '16 - " etc., on back to birth date.)
3. Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as, or called, [1809].
4. In choosing the interpretations from the records here, these are given with the desire to make this experience a helpful one.
5. For as to abilities as a psychic, in any field of activity, few might surpass the entity; if there is, or would be, the whole reliance upon those impressions from within.
6. That they have come in almost every form is mostly from the attempt of the entity to digest all the varied manners of influences which have been propagated by individuals who were not wholly as stable as they might have been.
7. But rather should the entity have turned to those influences from within; which have presented themselves oft in visions and in dreams, in symbols.
8. For we might say that the whole of the records are in hieroglyphics; that might be interpreted in the form of both Egyptian and Persian.
9. Hence it is in either of these that the greater understanding, or manner or means of expression may come.
10. But know that, as was demonstrated in Him who is the way, the truth, the life, and as may be interpreted in thine own experience as ye read that called the Scripture, this is the source in which every soul may find that peace, that harmony.
11. That those directions have been sounded by teachers here and there should be considered as but helping influences. For indeed as has been said, this or that teacher or exhorter may water, may even plant the seed, but only in HIM that IS the truth and the way and the life may such seed, or such hopes, such understanding, such peace and such security of every nature that is sought be found.
12. For though the heavens and the earth might pass away, though there is change day by day in the status of men's thoughts and in the consistency of their activity with their words, in Him, HIS WORD shall not pass away!
13. For He IS the Word, He is the truth, He is the life, He is the light; and only in Him and the ways He has shown throughout, from the beginning of a poor record though it may be as a history or as a concerted effort to give a story; yet it may be completed in thee, IF ye will but concentrate on that which is His purpose in the lives and the hearts of men EVERYWHERE, through every age, through every circumstance.
14. For He hath not left thee desolate, He hath not left thee hopeless; but behold, He stands at the door and knocks, and if ye will but open, what a work, what a comfort, what a hope ye may bring into the experiences of others!
15. What matter what astrological aspects may be! They are but signs to thee!
16. What matter as to whether ye were this, that or the other in thy experiences? Ye walked close with those who were known of Him, - yea, that were in His presence as a physical entity in the material plane. What matter it, lest ye boast, or lest ye become disheartened, discouraged?
17. Know that the world and all therein is His. He came unto His own and His own received Him not, yet blessed He every one of them!
18. Then be willing that thyself, thy personality, - yea, thy own body, thy mind, be even effaced; that His glory, His love - which is above every love, above everything in thy life - be made manifest in thy dealings with thy fellow man.
19. For those tenets, - yea, those laws as He made manifest throughout His experiences in the earth, may be indeed thine. But know that His promises are indeed sure, and they are THINE if ye will but make them so.
20. For whosoever will, let him take of the water of life freely. He is that water. He is that life. And as ye take hold and DO - not merely having the knowledge, but DO to thy fellow man day by day - so will His blessings, so will His promises, so will His glory, His abilities to work through thee, become manifested.
21. What saith He? "Greater works than I have done ye may do, for I go to the Father; and as ye abide in me and I in you, so may the glory of the Father be manifested in thy dealings with thy fellow man; that the Father may be glorified in the hearts and the lives, and the children of men."
22. Ye love nature, and the things that partake of same; the out of doors, the blossom of the rose, and the sunset, the fall of the water. ALL of these bring to thee the voice of that which has ALMOST persuaded thee as to how close He is to thee.
23. Open thy mind, thy heart. Turn again to those admonitions as were set by Moses; as He reasoned with his people as set forth in the thirtieth of Deuteronomy; as He talked with the Master on the mount as concerning what manner of means there would be for the bringing of the awareness and consciousness into the hearts and minds and lives of the children of men, - as to that the death, the passing on the Cross might mean. Yea, as He reasoned with Elijah also as to how the powers of the holy might be entrusted into the keeping of men and women everywhere! [See Deut. 30; Mat. 17; I Kings 17.]
24. As to these things, ye know. Read them, as He reasons with thee; not to others but to thee - if ye are one of His. If ye partake of His body, if ye partake of His ways, then ye are indeed His, - as ye measure them to thy fellow man day by day.
25. Use, then, that thou hast in hand TODAY, and He may increase it, - yea thirty, yea sixty, yea an hundredfold, - if ye will but harken and TRUST WHOLLY in Him.
26. We are through for the present.

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REPORTS

1. 2/02/39 EC's letter to Miss [1809]: "Trying to get your reading is one of those unusual experiences that comes too seldom but at times. Why it should take such a turn I do not know and unless you can figure it out for us - wish you would see my son there - and also Dr. [1210] and Miss [1522], discuss it, and then write me what you think.
   "Would like most of all to be of a help - just whether have been or not don't know, do know of myself can do nothing, but does this answer to something within yourself.
   "Hoping to have been of a service..."
2. 2/09/39 Miss [1522]'s letter: "I have read [1809]'s reading with Dr. [1210] and there is no one understands and knows her better than he does. He saw the situation in a moment and wrote to her the same day. Fortunately she has the utmost respect and confidence in him and I am sure we can help her to begin 'the life'. I think it is quite lovely and once one is on the way the rest will come easily. Dr. [1210] says she would make a grand nurse, so that may be her solution. She could take a course and find work through that channel Dr. [1210] wrote gently to her. She is in a terrific emotional condition, and gradually he will show her the challenge before her is the lack in her life. I am very fond of her she is really a grand person..."
3. 2/20/39 Miss [954]'s letter: "Say...that [1809] reading interested me. You said in that the record was in Egyptian hieroglyphics and Arabian... I used to see many such things...but still was unable to read them. George [...] said one night in a seance that I would learn to read them. The [1809] girl is very hard boiled, but [1522] is so drawn to her she sees no fault. You feel you touch a rock."
4. 2/26/39 Miss [1522]'s letter: "I have intended writing before this although there is little to report about [1809]. For instance the only word I have had from her is 'she cannot understand her reading' Dr. [1210] feels she is going through a very difficult emotional period in fact she said so, at times feels as if she would burst with tension. I have sent her medicine as she was losing sleep Dr. [1210] says it is a 'facer' to accept the reading and he is feeding her very little at a time... She is a highly emotional person - covering it up by an almost austre exterior, but is fundamentally a grand person...
   "Miss [954], [Dr. [...]'s secty] and Miss [1809] never got on together or understand one another - both missing the fine points and seeing only the failings. I tell you this not as gossip but to put you in touch with the situation. They must have had difficulties in a previous incarnation..."

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