This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Va. Beach, Va., this 27th day of March, 1939, in accordance with request made by the self - Dr. [1851], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Miss [1468], sponsored by Edgar Cayce.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Dr. [1851] and wife. Born June 12, 1873, in Drogheda on Boyne, Ireland.

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 which he may submit, as I ask them:
2. EC: (In going back over years from present - " - '36 - yes - a new environ and surrounding - '34 - '31 - good and bad, and the changes in activities - '29 - '19 - dangers always near - '17 - '03 - a new light! - '01 - '98 - what a power in self! '96 - '79 - yes - the visions! why didn't he hold to those! - '78 - '77 - " etc., on back to birth date.)
3. Yes, we are given the record here for that entity now known as or called [1851].
4. In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them here, these are chosen with the desire that the experience may be a helpful one to the entity, - in assurance, in understanding, in application.
5. Not all, to be sure, may be drawn at once. As the greater incentive is for each soul to experience the promise which IS in Him, YE may of thyself turn within and know - through thine OWN inner self - the assurance of that promise that ye may know ALL things since the foundations of the earth.
6. In the emblematical, - the entity is ever the torchbearer; and this should be as an emblem to remind the self of the needs of purity and of life, that the truth itself may be the more readily grasped by those who seek; and again to aid the entity in not casting before those who are not ready that which may become a stumbling-stone in their experience.
7. For the purpose (as is comprehended) is that each soul may know its relationships to the Creative Forces as are manifested in the manner of application of same in relationships to the fellow man day by day.
8. So live, then, in the light of that which IS thine own experience, that thy life may become more and more the pattern to those who must have that which they may visualize in their experiences for the practical application.
9. For, tenets, theories, those things which stand even as an emblem of order, - even as light, - must be PRACTICAL things, conditions, experiences; that man in his search may know more and more that those tenets are those that must be applied in the relationships one to another.
10. For, as ye do it unto the least of thy brethren, ye do it unto thy Maker.
11. And as a light bearer, hold, HOLD HIS faith, His principle, before thy fellow man.
12. As to the astrological aspects, - these as we find, as the entity has applied self in the present sojourn, would come to mean little, - save as signs, as emblems as it were along the way.
13. Yet these in the analysis of the relationships of Creative Forces as manifest in those things that are spiritual as well as terrestrial, are indeed one; yet it depends upon the manner of application the individual entity or soul makes of same as to how great or how little the influence of such becomes in one's experience.
14. These as we find, then, as in the Uranian, the Jupiterian, the Mercurian, the Venus, all become portions of the entity's experience, by the very sojourn of the entity through those environs in the interims between earthly sojourns.
15. Hence the extremes that so oft become a part of the entity's experience in materiality, - the relationships to the masses, and yet how close the individual activity has been in the entity's searching out the minds, the intents, the purposes and the sources of imports of individuals! making the very extremes become AS the manifested activity in the entity's present experience or sojourn.
16. The Mercurian influence makes for the mental forces, as in Venus the sly, - yet the beautiful, yet the harmonious, yet those that make for the relationships in which material activities are more or less forgotten, as is self. For only that which ye give do ye possess. This ye know.
17. For if ye would have life, give it, - if ye would have friends, show thyself friendly.
18. These are laws, as ye understand and comprehend in the light of the activities that have been through the experiences as well as in the present activities.
19. As to sojourns in the earth, these are they - as we find from the records here - that are influencing in the immediate. Many ye have passed over, - a few ye are yet to see.
20. Before this we find the entity was in the English or Scottish land when there were those activities of the peoples who through their very exodus from the Holy Land brought much of those activities from ancient days, - in their manner of CONDUCTING their activities in relationships to the worship of a Supreme Being.
21. The entity was one that counseled, yet one that led as a priest - as would have been termed in the days of old - in the manner, the mode, the realm of activity of various individuals, - as to how the various realms of the stone, of vegetation, of animal, all had their part in the evolution of ideas as well as mannerisms of activity of individuals.
22. The name then was Kremel, if it were to be interpreted into words or letters of the present.
23. In the experience the entity gained, and - as indicated as the emblem - was a light bearer.
24. For as he set a light upon the hills of those of that land for the guiding of others for principles and purposes that were creative in their natures, those purposes and aims were builded that are being sought and seen, that are being given into the lives of others in the present.
25. Before that we find the entity was in that now called the Promised Land, during those days when the Master walked in the earth, - and among those who crowded about the Master, especially upon the mountainside.
26. We find the entity, as one Zacheus (not the little man), but was of the Judean country where those activities were just beginning, during that early portion of the ministry, to become a thought or tenet of those peoples.
27. There we find the entity holding both to the form as well as to the principle that was being proclaimed. For the entity was of that group of Essenes of which John and others had been a portion. Hence to many of the peoples, especially of the Pharisee group, the entity was termed a rebel, a radical. Yet the entity gained through those activities much that brought - while disturbing forces and hardships in the material activities - the love of nature, the love of the beautiful, the listening to the voices as for the interpreting of the message from the teacher that proclaimed, "Blessed are the peacemakers - for they shall inherit the earth."
28. Practise this again in thy experience, - not as one that is a pacifist for the secular forces or reasons, but that there may be an opening into the mind and heart between the spiritual and mental forces of each soul to know that peace which passeth all understanding! and that giveth a surety in the minds and hearts of those who know the consciousness of His abiding peace within.
29. Before that we find the entity was in the Persian land, during those periods of change as wrought by the Grecians as well as the teachers in the "city in the hills and the plains."
30. There we find the entity acted in the capacity of one who was not exactly a soothsayer, yet as an interpreter of the experiences of others through their visions, their activities, - as of the sun, the moon, the stars, the seasons and the astrological aspects that become a part of each and every soul, as combined with not only its racial tendencies but the heritage through the associated activities of each soul in its environmental forces of each period.
31. The entity there, as Mekeael, counseled with Uhjltd as well as the individuals from the Grecian land, to make for rather a united effort in the healing arts as were proclaimed by Uhjltd in those associations.
32. In the present the application of that gained is the inner knowledge which arises by the deeper meditation into the realms of not merely the tenets or lessons of others but within the inner self.
33. Hence those things pertaining to the affluences and activities arising from all such relationships become as a realm of thought, as well as activity for the entity in the present; and will be developed more as these progress in their application.
34. Again we find the entity, before that, was in the Egyptian land during the very early periods.
35. For the entity was the eighth from Adam [Methuselah, son of Enoch? See GD's note, 1851-1 Par. R3.], and in the days of the exodus and the periods of understanding through those activities; journeying more from what is now the Chaldean than the Egyptian land, though spending many of the periods in the activities through which the records were set as for things that were, that were to be, - these became a part of the study of the entity throughout those periods.
36. Hence oft the entity may lose self in those things that are found there. For, as that was the interpreting of the earth as it was, as it is, as it is to be, so came those activities to preserve same for the seeker to know his relationships to the past, the present and the future, when counted from the material standpoint.
37. And as the entity sought in those experiences to make time and space, as well as patience, the realms that express the universality of the Force called God, so may THIS become in the present experience that in which the entity may excel, - in giving that assurance to those who seek their closer understanding of the relationships one to another.
38. As to the abilities, then, - that to which it may attain, and how:
39. WHO is to give the sage knowledge, but Him Who is the Creator, the Maker of All?
40. For as ye and others know and realize ye were in the beginning, then study to show thyself approved unto thy Maker, a workman not ashamed, rightly dividing the words of truth; keeping self pure in such a way that thy conscience never condemns thee, or from man unspotted of the world.
41. Ready for questions.
42. (Q) I have a certain plan in my mind regarding the West. What do you think of its possibilities?
    (A) The plans are excellent. As to the seeking to give to others the material or physical activities, this requires thought and consideration. These should work well.
    We are through for the present.
    Much might be given as respecting individual experiences, or as to thought and purposes. Keep thy faith in Him!
43. We are through.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file

REPORTS

1. 5/06/62 GD's note: Wife of Dr. [1851] wrote thanking HLC for stopping by to see them on his way out west. It is interesting to note that Dr. [1851] was still active, just about to enter his eighty-ninth year.
   In Mr. Cayce's Bible group I heard him refer many times to Enoch as the "seventh from Adam", who walked with God and was not because God took him. If this is true, then Methuselah would be the "eighth from Adam"?
2. 11/25/74 Mr. [1851]'s niece, Hermine Anne Magnus visited A.R.E. and obtained copy of her uncle's reading. He is deceased and she will write us exact date he died once she obtains information from her aunt.
3. 9/04/80 GH's compilation of dates between Adam and the Flood:
   1 Chron. 1:1-4 Adam, Sheth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah, Shem, Ham, Japheth. [Note variant spelling of names in Genesis below]
   Jude 1:14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam...[making Methuselah the eighth from Adam]
   Genesis 5:1-5 Adam lived 930 years 5:6-8 130 130 Seth lived 912 years 5:9-11 235 105 Enos lived 905 years 5:12-14 325 90 Cainan lived 910 years 5:15-17 395 70 Mahalaleel lived 895 years 5:18-20 460 65 Jared lived 962 years 5:21-23 622 162 Enoch lived 365 years 5:25-27 687 65 Methuselah lived 969 years 5:28-31 874 187 Lamech lived 777 years 5:32 1056 182 Noah lived 950 years, Genesis 9:29 7:6 1656 600 Flood

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