This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 9th day of December, 1939, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [2058], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mr. [1797] and Mr. [257].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Born May 26, 1900, in Ringtown, Penna.

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 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 he has submitted, as I ask them:
2. EC: (In going back over the years from the present - " - '33 - yes, testing periods - '30 - '26 - the opposite testing - '24 - '18 - formative - '16 - " etc., on back to birth date.)
3. Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [2058].
4. In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them, these are chosen with the purpose or desire that this be a helpful experience for the entity; enabling the entity to know why, for what purpose there was the entering of this material experience; and how, through the urges latent and manifested, that are indicated in astrological aspects as well as material sojourns, to use the experience as a helpful force, - thus fulfilling those purposes for which the entrance was made.
5. Then, in choosing from the latent urges and manifested things:
6. From the astrological aspects we find that unusual phases of the entity's latent abilities and talents are manifested, - as from the very astrological sign of the zodiac; giving the entity those impressions such that it would be very much interested in certain phases of character acting, - as it may have been through some experiences through its developing years.
7. Thus the entity appears in quite a different light oft to people of different thought.
8. Being under Gemini gives the air, as it were, not exactly of deceitfulness but of being too often taken literally when only an illustration may have been meant, or taken in the abstract when only the concrete was the intent and purpose; not taken seriously enough at times and at others taken so when not intended to be serious at all!
9. This does not mean to indicate that there is an inferiority complex, but there have been periods when such an experience was a part of the entity's activity or related influence or force - until there was the study or the analysis of purposes and desires, or the use of psychological aspects.
10. These influences are apparent from a combination of the sojourns, or a composite of latent urges from astrological sojourns as combined with the sojourns in material associations, - but without respect to the application made by the entity:
11. One that is a very good mixer with others, so that it is oft taken as one to be sought in finding what is the purpose of any activity taken, - whether in the material or social, or in the regular business relationships. Or, the entity is one in whom many find the ability to put confidence, - for the entity often sells himself or his personality to others.
12. From the astrological aspect we find Venus, Mercury, Saturn and Jupiter are rather the ruling forces, as may be related to the innate abilities as well as desires of the entity.
13. One, then, - as indicated from the composite reactions, - that may easily apply self in any sort of acting; though to the entity it may not be acting at all, - yet the seriousness of same at times becomes disturbing.
14. From the combination of Venus and Mercury, there is an attraction to the opposite sex; though it is not always easy to live with nor to find harmony as would mix with the innate or manifested activity of the entity.
15. Also from this same combination, the entity would find real expression in acting as the secretary for some wholesale or retail organization, rather than in the selling or the directing capacity, - other than that as would be combined in the relationships with the many activities of others that were acting in the capacity as distributors or salesmen for such organizations.
16. Those things, elements or influences having to do with home building, or the building game, or the building as a process, - and such as would supply the furnishings for same, whether materials for the exterior or the interior, but those as would have to do more with the personal effects as would be indicated by the sojourns of the entity and its activities in the earth, - would offer the channels for the expressing of self in the present experience.
17. In Saturn's force we find great changes that have taken place, or that may take place in the experience of the entity, - whether in its field or direction of thought, or in its associations or activities among its fellow men. These may also bear relationships to friends and foes alike; for these come to be rather extremes.
18. As to the sojourns of the entity in the earth, and those influences that arise from same that find their greater expression in the emotional side or emotional life of the entity itself:
19. As may have been indicated from the first premise of the activity of an individual entity or soul in material experience, - no entity enters by chance, but as from the will of the Father, through that application of each entity or soul respecting its development or its evolution to its estate for which there is the purpose of expression, namely: to be as a companion with the Creative Forces, or God.
20. Hence the entrance of each entity into an experience in the material or manifested form is that this desire, this purpose, may be furthered in its evolution or its development towards those relationships which the entity, as a unit, bears towards the Creative Forces, or God-Activity.
21. Hence the purpose for each soul's entrance is that it may have the greater opportunity under the environs or associations or activities that are necessary for the proving of, or the developing towards, that very purpose or experience in the affairs of each entity.
22. Thus the growth depends upon how well the adherence in relationships one to another is in that direction of making manifest the glory as seen, or felt, or sought, in Creative Forces.
23. Hence all purposes, all desires, all growth, depend upon what attitude each takes towards Creative Forces.
24. The ideas and ideals, then, and the application of self in the material relationships, should be in keeping with that which is ever constructive in the experience, and never of the material or the mercenary nature as the first cause; for, as the intent is manifested, each soul, each entity lives and moves and has its being in the Creative Forces.
25. Thus there is latent within each soul the ability to make itself one with the Creative Force.
26. Thus the expression is made manifest that as you do it day by day to those about you, you do to your Maker, - or to your better self.
27. Then, to take advantage, or to create that in the experience of others which brings dissension, disputes and hate, and such, is to bring disturbance, dis-ease, disheartening, disloyalty to self.
28. For as ye do it unto these, ye do it unto thy Maker.
29. As to the appearances, then:
30. Before this we find that the entity was in the land of the present nativity, during those periods known as the Revolutionary periods.
31. There we find the entity was among the young of that day, in the areas about Brandywine, Camden, Princeton and the like.
32. For the entity then, though young in years, acted in the capacity of carrying information back and forth to the various portions of the contending forces; not so much as a spy, but rather as one seeking to be of help.
33. Thus in the present there may be seen the latent and manifested experiences sought in the entity's activity in its relationships to others, - the questioning on the part of each; and at one time appearing as if in one role and at another time in another, - yet LATENTLY and manifestedly the entity is ever seeking an expression of freedom, - whether in speech, in expression as to material gains, or in activity relating to any condition, experience, or phase of man's sojourn.
34. Also there are the abilities to direct the activities of individuals, UNDER the supervision of others, as well as the abilities in the mathematical or secular or monetary forces as related to business and its relationships to groups, or companies, or organizations, or corporations.
35. In that experience the entity gained.
36. Before that we find the entity was in the Roman experience, during those periods when there were the needs for the extravagancies of many activities for the collecting of greater customs in other lands, - in the latter portion of the reign of the Caesars.
37. The entity was among those who levied the taxes necessary for the various needs to supply the political forces or activities during the sojourn there.
38. Again the entity in the present might act much in that same capacity, though more as related in the present to activities in a commercial field, rather than the political; yet all having to do with economic conditions as related to groups or organizations.
39. The name then was Clemenden; and close relations with one whose name was similar in that experience were a portion of the entity's association and activity.
40. Before that we find that the entity was in the Persian or Arabian land, but rather among those who were attracted to the activities in that 'city in the hills and plains' from the Indian land; for the entity then was among the merchants who were the greater active in all forms or manners of conducting the distribution of the various products needed by the people, - not only those products of that land - as cloth and spices especially - but those as related to the means of exchange of various natures of cloth, as well as various nogs (?) that were a preparation from the Egyptians.
41. Through the period the activity brought the entity in contact with those influences in the 'city in the hills and plains,' being attracted because of the influence same bore upon the many characters or various phases of man's experience there. The entity established self close in conjunction with many of those things that were brought to bear upon the experience. Though not wholly in accord with the teachings of the leader there, the entity attempted to build upon and use same as a circumstance.
42. Hence those forces as may make themselves manifest in the present, - the entity's questioning ever as to the disturbances that may arise, or as to the purposes and sources, the reasons, the WHYS and the WHEREFORES of every activity in which man becomes engaged in his relationships one to another, and as to whether these are for secular things or for social or religious, or any other form of activity which becomes a part of man's experience in the heterogeneous or conglomerate relationships as to various activities of groups one to another.
43. The name then was Sibeund; and in the experience the entity gained and lost. So long as the abilities were applied in relationship to the better good of the most, there was the gaining. When they became manifested for a selfish motive, or for the aggrandizement of appetites as related to physical activities, as well as for power or authority, they brought destructive forces.
44. And these may be applied in the same sense in the present experience. The choice is to be made in self.
45. Before that we find that the entity was in the American land (as now known), during those periods when there were those who journeyed there from the Atlantean land.
46. For the entity was among those who settled in what is now the Yucatan land.
47. Hence the entity, as has been experienced or may be experienced more through the enjoining of self to such, as a study or a reading of same, or as a directing of such activity in the experience, may experience these as a fact. And much more may be described by the entity, by thought upon same, than has even yet been put into expression! For the entity was among the priests who aided in establishing the temple there.
48. The name then was Lugum.
49. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, and that to which it may attain, and how:
50. As indicated by the activities of the entity in the present, and those purposes and desires for expression in any material experience (as we have indicated), - there are the possibilities and the probabilities for the greater development in this material experience.
51. However, let those influences of the spiritual nature be the guiding and directing forces, - and thus the material and the social and the secular things be the result of the correctly divided or directed undertaking from the spiritual angle, - rather than the spiritual development being the result of, or a bolster for, material activity.
52. The fields of service in those directions as indicated, - in the capacity of the secretary of an organization in which there would be the handling especially of building materials or furnishings for buildings of any sort or nature, - would be outlets and channels through which the entity may find the means of the greater expression, and the greater development in all phases and fields of its experience.
53. Ready for questions.
54. (Q) In what particular department of this work should I devote my efforts, to find the greatest happiness and success?
    (A) As just indicated, - this is as particular as it can be stated, the secretary!
55. (Q) When should I start my new work?
    (A) When it has endeavored to materially prepare itself, and has made such associations or connections as will enable it to carry on.
56. (Q) To whom should I go for advice and help?
    (A) Seek such a channel as may fit self for such an executive's place.
57. (Q) In what city, town or section of the country should I locate?
    (A) Wherever there are those sections, cities or places that fit with the possibilities and probabilities indicated, we will find the greater channel. Of course, those sections in which there were the activities in the former sojourn would be the greater; as New York, Philadelphia, Camden, Princeton or the like.
58. (Q) Is there any future for me in my present work?
    (A) This as we find is constantly cramping the entity, and necessarily producing questionings within the entity - in the present associations and environs.
    And in such relations as indicated, there would be that freedom necessary, and yet that ability to aid others in all phases of the experience.
    Let the directions taken be based upon the spiritual principles, and we will find much greater ability, much greater happiness and harmony.
59. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. 11/28/39 He secured a second Physical Reading for his wife, Mrs. [1853], and submitted questions for his own Life Reading.

REPORTS

1. 12/19/39 Mr. [2058]'s letter to EC:
   Dear Mr. Cayce,
   Thanks very much for your letter, also the reading which came last week. I am glad you requested I write you if I needed some help.
   Mr. [257] is out of the city for a month so Mr. [1797] told me to ask you the questions which came to mind after I made a study of the reading.
   Possibly you can tell me how to proceed, to find the business or position stated in the reading or any other information or instructions you think I may need.
   Having never had a reading of this kind it is possible that I don't get the full substance of its contents.
   Thanking you again and with kindest wishes, I am,
   Sincerely, [2058]
2. 12/21/39 EC's letter to Mr. [2058]:
   Have yours of the 19th - am glad to try and help where ever I can. Having read your reading tho, think it is about as definite directions as one could have. As to just what firm or corp for you to seek employment or connection with, that you will have to work out your self. There are am sure channels, connections with Banking firms or the like in the businesses suggested that are seeking for competent men to handle such businesses - or one can become associated with such organizations and work toward the place indicated. Such information will tell you what is best for you - but the seeking must be done by ones self - just as it may tell one what type of treatment is needed to correct trouble with ones body - but one has to have some one else make the application. But am sure you will be able to work this out IF you really feel you wish to use the suggestions made, for in the very act of a try, such things will open up for you.
   Yes saw Mr. [257] yesterday, passed through here. Guess he will be away for nearly a month, but you need to get busy in the journals of such organizations as mentioned - or Banks who have control of such Corp. and am sure you will find just the right thing, IF you are convinced the information has the right slant on you if you haven't that - would never advise that you even try it.
   Sincerely hoping to be of a service
   Sincerely [signed] Edgar Cayce
3. 12/26/39 Mr. [2058]'s letter to EC:
   Dear Mr. Cayce
   Thanks very much for your letter which came this morning. You have given me a very good idea about the plan I should follow, and I shall work to that end.
   For a long time I have had some ideas about the building business. Now I possibly should try and put them to work. At one time I was associated with a builder's Supply Co., so I know some thing about the business.
   Again thanking you - and I know Mrs. [1853] joins me in wishing you a Very Happy and Prosperous New Year.
   Sincerely [2058]
4. 2/15/40 Mr. [257]'s letter: "[2058]'s wife [1853] is better and his reading wonderful. Each one came to me and I read them with them."
5. 1/29/42 His wife phoned for an emergency Physical Reading for him - See 2058-2, on 1/31/42.

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