Edgar Cayce Readings, 2118-1

(Life Reading Suggestion)

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EC: Yes, we have the entity here, now known as [2118], and those relations with the universe and universal sources and forces, that are manifest in this present experience.
In entering this experience this entity, from the astrological view only, would have little that would be wholly in keeping with that which is ordinarily given from the astrological aspect; for this would have tended to have made more of an eastern than a western sojourning in the present experience, were the astrological aspects followed only, but with the coordinating of the astrological SOJOURN and the application of the entity's forces in the mental planes these, we find, bring an aspect that makes for many alterations from the purely astrological aspect. In sojourns then, while these make for that which may be termed innate feelings or activities, the application of self in the material experience influences the greater in the present.
Then, Jupiter's influences make for the aspects of changes in the entity's activities in the mental body in the present experience. These being in that aspect of influence from the position in the present will make for a change in this phase of the entity's present sojourn. These will then, with the attitudes or the manners in which the entity applies these influences, make for much change in the next two and a half to three years; for the influence begins in the present experience, in that period beginning with the middle of the present month and extending over the period of two and a half to three years, with those changes that may be made by such application of self in the mental field.
As to that builded as personalities in the present experience, this has made for that affability, with the reactions towards contacts or associations as of one often changed by circumstance, and the entity changing only in the attitude by those acts of others in THEIR relationships to that THEY hold as ideals.
One, then, that may be termed by many as positive, like positive in nature to the degree that some may term may term the entity even hard-headed, and others seeing such affability as to be tenderhearted, loving, and able to meet situations that arise through the depending upon that which has been builded in self as its background or basis for the standards of relationships to individuals, to conditions, to things, to that which is held as the ideal for self, for others.
One, then, that makes for friendships that are often binding, in that these aptitudes, affability, with the experiences of individuals, make for the carrying on of an ideal that draws the relationships to the entity, and to themselves, through those kindred activities as in relationships to others.
One that adheres close to obligations, duties, that must be carried on under whatever may be the circumstance or conditions that may arise. These have been builded much by the entity's sojourn, and the entity's activities in the experiences through which the entity passed in the earth's plane, rather than astrologically; though the astrological, as given, will have the greater opportunity to be of influence in the present than has been since the age of twenty in the present experience was passed; for Jupiter with Venus and Uranus are the ruling forces in the entity's astrological influences in the present, and for some little time to come.
The aspects in Jupiter make for nobleness, large experience, relationships with many individuals, mental abilities and affabilities in the experience of an entity.
Those influences in Venus make for the love, the relationships of friends, families, and the like, with that influence in the ascending of Jupiter and descending influence in Uranus which makes for more of the reasoning mentally that is tempered with spiritual and mental aspects of every character of relationships.
As to the likes and dislikes that have been builded in the present experience, that are in some respects - as we shall see - in opposition to much experienced by the entity in other sojourns in the present earth's environ, these make for stability of purpose, sureness of action whether mental or physical, loving and respecting the truth in all its phases or manners, desiring those of the beautiful associations in EVERY character of relationships - whether from those of low estate to those of high position; character being rather the criterion of judgement than of position in the material or mental world.
The entity has builded the dislike for those things that would make for sham, or for untruths in their essence, or that would be builded by those who would undermine or take advantage of situations for selfish motives and purposes; yet many of the dislikes, as well as many of those likes that have been builded, have crossed and DO cross their ways in the experience of the entity in the present.
As to the appearances, then, and their influence in the present upon the entity:
In the one before this we find in that period when there were the settlings of those lands that are now to the east of the entity's present sojourn. The entity was then among those that came into the land during, or just following the period known as the Revolution, when those peoples from the native land of the entity in the present found in the new land a place for the establishing of those tenets, in both religious and in carrying out the truths and activities of the peoples; then in the name Kuncio. In this experience the entity gained and lost. Coming into a new land with high hopes in the tender years of experience brought much material hardship, but satisfactions in the material and mental developments for the entity and those about the entity. The entity lost in the rebellions against those that would make for such tyrannical activities in the relationships of the home and the church, and the entity rebelling brought for self discontent in the manner in which self acted in relationships to others, building up much that became not only contention but the lack of abilities to consider the activities of others as those necessary forces for the experiencing in the affairs of their individual lives that necessary for the unfoldment to the expressions of, or manifestations of, the concepts of the entities (other than self) as related to moral and spiritual relationships. In the latter portion of the experience the entity again sought, through those of the spiritual forces, that which made for the easier and greater contentment in the experience. In the present we find from those influences much that makes for those conditions that arise within self's experience, as of rebellion in relationships to those that should be in the same position which the entity occupied in the one then; and there is seen much of what is meted by that the entity meted in that experience. When comparisons are drawn, as the entity did in the latter portion of that experience, the entity finds in the present that trusting in self only brings disappointments; for those that are in the position of measuring others, or self, BY self, become unwise, unstable. Those that measure by those forces that are innate from within, as to relationships of CREATIVE forces, are in nearer accord with that of being led by Him.
In the experience before this we find in that period when there was the returning of those peoples to the rebuilding of the city, the Holy City, when under Nehemiah there were the replenishing and rebuilding of the walls. Then the entity sojourned from the eastern land towards the Holy Land, the Holy City; then in the name Neriah. The entity gained through this experience. While material conditions were then in that position that hardships, as would be measured from the present, were the lot of the entity, those mental and spiritual forces were for the establishing of a closer relationship again between the Creator and the creature. The entity was then among those that later assisted, or became (as is in the present relationships) the wife of one of the Korahites, or those that waited upon the altar. The entity gained through the associations and relations, giving much to those peoples that were so tempted by those peoples round about who under Sanballat and his kind tempted, and tempted, those that would serve even in those capacities. The entity in the latter portion of that experience became a teacher, and an aid to the establishing again of the schools for the prophets, for those that later aided in the keeping of those tenets in the minds, hearts, of the individuals that were to represent the peoples in this land. In the present is seen from the associations not only the material relationships that make for binding in the home life, but also the tenets that make for the spiritual and mental life that builds for making those characterizations in the activities of individuals that may be judged by that same law that made for the tenets in the rebuilding and rebuilt temple in the Holy City.
In the one before this we find during that period when there were being led a peoples from a land that had been as the land of bondage, for the periods of development. The entity was then among the children of the Levites, and those that later became the associates in the ones of the service in the wilderness, among then the daughters of Gershon; the entity being then in the name Mecliah. The entity joined in with those that served in the aiding to keep the records for those peoples, as they built up their relationships with that service in the temple, or the activities about the tabernacle of the Congregation, that represented the temple later. The entity gained and lost through this experience; gained in the service that was rendered, rebelling when - with the entering in of the peoples into the Promised Land, and the divisions came - there were those temptations and those rebellions against those divisions that arose for this particular branch of those that waited on the peoples. The entity then brought for self, condemnation in self, which in the present oft makes for those periods when self doubts self, as to being sufficiently strong in mental aptitudes to meet the moral and the material conditions that weigh upon self in relationships to its own ideals. Here we find also those influences arising in the experience of the entity, making for the adaptability of self as to those of any nation, clime or tongue, and a linguist, when so desires to use same for the relationships that may be built in any of the directions for self's understanding.
In the one before this we find in that land now known as the Egyptian, during those periods when rebellions arose when there were divisions among the native peoples, and also divisions among these who had entered in from the northern land. The entity was among those who waited in the Temple Beautiful, among those priestesses that aided in the altar service, the altar worship. With the driving out of the priest and those that followed, the entity was divided between the ways; following the priest, but not at the same period or at the same time; returning when there was the re-establishing of those tenets, and taking upon self the care of the altar that had to do with the moral relationships in the affairs of individuals; thence judging for the peoples that came for counsel and advice to the priest, and to those that waited before this altar. In the name Am-Masa, the entity gained through this experience, only losing through those periods when contentions arose within self and the material natures bound for the time to the carnal forces; yet gaining most through the experience. In the present will be found from those relationships in that period of developments with the return of the priest and the peoples to the temple forces, temple activities and dissemination of same, that peace comes when those same tenets that were gathered in that period manifest greatly in individual activity through those periods of returning to the temple force worship, and those that make for the activities in individual experience that bring the greater understanding in the entity's forces of power; whether for those in self's awakening, self's association, or self's giving out to others in THEIR activity.
As to the abilities, then, and that to which the entity may attain, and how:
In that the greater period of development came when as the aid to the priest in the temple as opened in the rebuilding of same, so with that priest in the present may there be builded those that may give the activities and the disseminations of much that brings the greater contentment, the greater activity in the present.
Keep the faith as in Him, through those tenets as ascribed in that temple in the Holy City - "The Lord is His name!"
Ready for questions.
(Q) Does the spirit of my father ever hover around his family, and -
(A) Oft, as the self has felt that abiding strength, through those periods when there seemed no end to the discontent as about self, does the body know and feel that spirit guiding, aiding, strengthening; for, as He has given, "He will give His angels charge concerning thee, lest thou unwittingly dash thy foot against a stone." As the spirit of power and strength of those about us gain in their activity, through the allowing of self to dwell upon the truths given in our mental being, so are THEY enabled to give strength to our faltering material selves.
(Q) Have my husband, [4163], or children been ever connected or related to me in any previous life?
(A) As given, the husband was the priest in the Holy City in that period of the re-establishing of the temple service, with the rebuilding of the walls by Nehemiah, when Zerubbabel was the high priest; and the entity, with the companion, acted in those capacities for the temple service, as the Korahites in that period had charge of that portion as given or meted to them in that service, the offerings of that presented for sacrifice.
As for the children, these were in various periods - and may be best found through THEIR own sojourns; for there are more than one.
(Q) In what way may I add to the happiness and spiritual and physical welfare of my husband [4163]?
(A) As it was meet to be in that capacity of the tower of strength to the companion in that period, so may the entity be the tower of strength in encouraging, in gentleness, kindness of word, that loving experience which makes for the strength in the mind and heart of every man that would serve his God; so in those manners that make for strength of purpose, of duties, of obligations, may the greater strength come that may be given; for he that enableth another to help himself has gained more than one that taketh a city.
(Q) In what way can I be helpful and effective in furthering the happiness and best interests of my daughter Peggy?
(A) As this presents a problem in the nature of many varied experiences of self, as well as of the daughter, these may be better approached by the correlation of those activities of each in their sojourns together. Patience - patience - more patience! Find not fault, for those periods when there might have been the strong arm raised have passed; hence kindness, precept and example, can only be meted. Find the faults greater, that may be aided the most, in what were those associations in those experiences.
(Q) In what way can or should I reach [911] if at all, so as to further her progress spiritually, and help to bring about her cure?
(A) As this offers also problems that are of the nature of rather TEMPERAMENTAL resistance and rebellion on the part of the daughter, these may best be met by weighing, counseling, and keeping just as patient as may be done.
(Q) How may I best help my son, and is he headed in the right direction?
(A) As we find in this particular association, there may be the best gained by putting in the way of the son much of that which has been gained, or may be gained through just such a source or channel as this; for these may be used in those studies that are ahead of the body to become most helpful in establishing a closer relationship with many of the things that falter in the present.
(Q) Is it well for me to advise my family or is it best to let them decide all matters without injecting my particular thought or philosophy of life?
(A) Be that that is self at all times, in all places. When there is the opportunity to inject, or project, that philosophy of life that is builded in self from the beginning, well that it be given. Remember those injunctions thou gave, when it was given, "Put them in the hearts of thy children, that when they sit at meat, or when they rise to play, those tenets of the living God will be in THEIR thoughts by night and by day." Bind them upon thy doorposts, put them about those places where they - when they ask questions of themselves, as they must - will know who, how, where, when HE led them into those promises that materially brought the promise of all that was beautiful, but being rejected in the SPIRIT as was given brought those of dissension, and the desire to flee from the wrath that appeared. So act day by day that, as He has given thee, today, will ye hear His voice, "today, will ye try with me, I will be your God; yea, I will be your companion, your aide."
We are through.
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REPORTS

GD's note: Mrs. [2118] stated that the reading was so true as to her innate characteristics and ideals. She hoped to be worthy of the great privilege of obtaining such an inspiring analysis.
2/02/33 Letter: "Surely you who see beyond the veil and can intuit many things, must also know beyond a doubt that my thoughts are often with you and most often by [my?] heart too. In fact, in all this chaotic world I find the Cayce urge and lure and interpretation of life to be the most compelling thing in my present experience - to me it is an oasis in this desert of arid misconception and universal waste. When my soul is athirst, I go back to your readings and to the fountain source of all readings - the Bible. Since my contact with you that noble book has taken on a new beauty and my understanding has enlarged, and my appreciation has increased a thousand fold.
"I find [911] quite different in many ways. She has found an anchor to her soul. I have you to thank for that. She tries to remember your teachings, your talks with her, and your letters bring her peace and understanding. She is making a real effort to rebuild her life..." [6/38 Mrs. [2118]'s daughter, [911], committed suicide.]
10/16/32 GD's note: Mrs. [2118] was present for Group #1 reading 262-30 and subsequently wrote the poem for the lesson THE OPEN DOOR, in Book 1 A SEARCH FOR GOD.
12/27/32 See EC's ltr. to her under his dream rdg. 294-155 Reports in re S.S. class.
9/28/36 Mrs. [2118] obtained a Physical Rdg. for her sister-in-law, Mrs. [1267].
3/16/39 Letter: "If ever such as you were needed on earth to heal human woe, to bring back love where there is so much hate, to bring back peace where there threatens to be but war, to bring back spirituality where materialism has run riot, it is at this hour in all history. You seem to be one of God's anointed, using all your gifts nobly, reaching multitudes not by might, nor by power, but by your spirit."