This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 20th day of January, 1931, in accordance with request made by self - Miss [1920].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Born June 12, 1899, in Lunenberg County, Virginia.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the entity, [1920], as now known, and those relations with the universe and universal forces that are latent and exhibited in the present personalities of the entity.
2. In entering the present experience, we find the entity astrologically coming under the influences of Mercury, Jupiter, Neptune, and Venus.
3. In those builded in the experiences of the entity, these have altered according to the application of the entity's will, as will be seen in the variations that have existed in the experiences of the entity.
4. In Mercury we find one of mental abilities that make for that, with the Jupiterian forces, of a high minded and ennobling influence; yet in the present experiences and periods passing through that which has been, will be, as a test period for the entity.
5. In those that we find in Neptune, bringing a love for the mysterious forces, yet applying self rather in a material manner as to the benefits the self may render others - but the mystic and occult make for an interest to the entity that may be builded or applied in the present experience.
6. In Venus the love, with the Jupiterian influence, will make for the influences of a development applied in its proper sphere.
7. These building in the present, THIS as the personalities of the entity:
8. One even tempered in the approach to individuals, things or subjects; making friendships easily, and SOME are forgotten just as easily - unless drawn to same through those influences that act as innate urges - these mean the ones that make for a lasting relationship with the entity.
9. In the feelings or innate expression of self, gives that tendency towards the caring for others - as in the nursing field, ministering field, or as teaching and ministering to others.
10. In those felt in the broader sense, making for those forces of the occult nature - that may make to the entity that ability to aid others in the holding to that in self that may manifest through the abilities of self to give others the better understanding of their relationships to their own problems, as well as to the conditions as related to their physical beings.
11. In the activities of the entity, these - as we find - turn towards change in scenes, change in relationships, change in environmental forces, from which the ordinary - or the training or the environmental has made natural. These bringing for the broader field of study, of experience by the entity, turning more into that of the philosophical field and to the field that pertains to metaphysical, than of the material - yet material ACTIVITIES, to the entity, MUST be the expression of same. When the entity is enabled to lose self entirely in the forces that may manifest THROUGH the entity, the greater period of the successes (as may be termed in a material world), and the greater developments that may be had in a mental and a spiritual world, will be had by the entity. These, then, may be builded - or may be accomplished in the manner as they entity has undertaken in part to demonstrate, yet losing faith, losing contact, by the MATERIAL conditions that arise in the entity's affairs.
12. In the appearances in the earth's plane and their influence upon the present experience:
13. In the one before this we find in that land known as England, and during that period when there were the rebellions in the land over those conditions as pertain to the religion and the conditions as had to do with the common peoples. The entity was then of those common peoples, and in the household then of the one making himself ruler in the land. The entity gained and lost through the experience; gained in the service as rendered to others through the ministering to the needs of those that suffered in the battle fields, and LOST in the attempt to make for self those high positions - through the place FELT by self to have been made. In the name, then, Elian. In the present, this we find as innate: The study of history, travel and such, is an innate FEELING or desire in the entity, as well as the ministering to others being helpful to self as others, yet held aloof from same by that innate fear as BUILT during that experience.
14. In the one before this we find in that period when there were the returning of the peoples to a promised land, during that period when the second of the peoples or groups of peoples left for the land, and during the rebuilding of the walls of the Holy City. The entity was then among those that came with Nehemiah, and with those that builded in the Holy City. The entity was of the household or lineage of the Levites, ministering with those peoples that ministered in the temples - with the replenishing of same. This in the present makes for that desire for a holding to a oneness of worship by the entity, yet making the entity - as it were - see in all such service SOMETHING good; making, then, for the tolerance that is seen in the entity's experience, yet holding to form or to ritualistic influences as to ATTAIN a spiritual insight. This as innate, rather than applied. In the name Enial.
15. In the one before this we find in that land now known as the Egyptian, and during those periods when rebellions arose in the land, when there was the casting forth of the priest in that land. The entity then was among those who went WITH those people, as one who would aid - rather than as a watcher or hanger-on, from the king's command; not as a spy, neither as a tale bearer; rather as one that would suffer WITH those, being in the temple service, and returning in the periods when there was the building again which meant the establishing of that which later became the foundations of many of the tenets that were laid in many periods later as the beginning of man's relationships with individuals, and with the Creative Forces. In the name El-Lai. In this experience the entity gained, and gained most as pertaining to the UNDERSTANDING of the relationships of individuals to the Creative Energy, that may be made manifest through individual activity, whether of the mental, of the mystic, or of the occult influences. In this the entity may gain the more in the present.
16. In the abilities of the entity, and that to which it may attain in the present:
17. These, as we see, lie in that field in which the entity - gaining an understanding of self, self's relationship to Creative Forces - the ability to apply same in the active forces of teaching, ministering, aiding in those that would aid themselves, in those that would be aided through such an understanding - may accomplish the most. Either in that of the reader, or of the minister - in the capacity of those that wait upon those with the bodily afflictions, and aiding in the ministering to same - may the entity gain the most in the present.
18. Keep first and foremost those tenets as gained in that experience when there was the building in the temples which meant the relationships of individuals TO individuals, and the ministering of same meant the application of the laws as gained between the mental being, the spiritual forces, as a continuity of life in the earth's experience. Keeping in these may the entity gain the more in the present. Ready for questions. We are through for the present.

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BACKGROUND

1. 4/23/30 [1920]'s letter to EC:
   Mr. Edgar Cayce Virginia Beach, Va.
   Dear Mr. Cayce:
   Last Saturday I had the pleasure of visiting the Hospital, also meeting Miss Cayce; and I am especially indebted to Mr. Shroyer for his kindness.
   For years I have wished for an institution of this kind, and it will be the fulfillment of my dreams to be association with such for it is my greatest interest in life.
   I am asking for a Membership application blank, and one for a Life Reading.
   Thanking you in advance, I am
   Very truly yours, Miss [1920]

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