8/23/58 Oral report to GD in response to questions asked him:
His wife, he said, was a blonde - Scandinavian; three
children, the oldest a daughter born in 1945, another
daughter in 1947, a son in 1948. He assumed his daughter was
an Atlantean, because she was born in 1945. The reading's
advice to marry one of his own coloring he had interpreted at
the time to mean one with the same tastes, background, etc.,
though it could have meant actual skin coloring, etc. He is
fair of skin (also all three children) but his eyes are light
brown and his hair dark.
When asked about his work he said he had done the wrong
thing, he had studied law and had become a lawyer - law was
always very easy, he could master it with little effort. He
then became an army officer for many years, was active as
engineering official in international affairs, geo-politics;
was with war crime commission, sitting as judge in
prosecuting courts; is now a war planner, representing the
U.S. in the writing and negotiating of treaties. However,
the tension, frustration, nervous strain, etc., is getting to
be too much for him; he definitely feels that he is in the
wrong work - morally, etc., he thinks he should have nothing
to do with war.
Language has been very easy for him - could pick up Japanese,
Italian, German, almost any language very easily when spend-
ing a little time with it.
His reading mentioned an aptitude for music. At that time
(of the reading) he could play the piano - was struggling
through Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, etc., without instruction.
However, for ten years he had practised on the violin without
results.
In school he took Latin for five years; didn't have to study,
it just flowed.
When ten years old he knew more about Egyptology than he does
today; was very good at it.
As a soldier this time he feels he has relived his life as a
Roman soldier, though the Persian incarnation does not find
an answering within - he can feel nothing about it. An
assistant professor at the University of Padua (also Padove),
in Italy, recognized the name Zebra as being the insignia of
a particular legion whose commander, by that name, had lived
at a period parallel to the Crucifixion and knew of Jesus,
was persuaded to believe in Christianity, but didn't do much
about it. He died in Rome.
The name [middle name this incarnation] has meant much in his
life this time, having been the name of his Scottish
ancestors; his mother has told him much of this ancestry.*
A William Edmundson he found in the Library of Congress, born
about 1624, in England, described in a couple of books about
himself, an autobiography in approximately 1700 - died in
1712. An account is given of four trans-Atlantic journeys to
America, stopping at Salem each time. He was asked not to
stop at Salem again, due to his speaking against the use of
force by man against man - making it difficult to retain and
maintain the militia. He had attended Friends' meetings in
Maryland and along the coast as far south as South Carolina;
he was at that time sort of an organizer or, rather,
protagonist of the Friends, spending the bulk of his time and
energy to promote the cause of friendship among men.
(Perhaps ancestor or relative of THE Bill Edmundson of Salem,
mentioned in the reading?)
* [
8/29/64 GD's note: Mr. [
2021] visited A.R.E. and on
reading the above made the following correction:
P.8, para 4. [2021-1, Par R5 above]
Anent my middle name, "Bruce". The name is NOT a family
name. None of my ancestors were Scots. But, for no apparent
reason, my mother insisted on giving me this middle name.
That the reading suggests the same name in another life is
perhaps explanatory. It has been speculated that my present
mother was also my mother before in the incarnation as
Bruce.]
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