In Mercury (that of the mental) we find those inclinations
and tendencies for the entity have ever been rather of the
exceptional in abilities, and in the manner or matter of
expression. Often has the entity felt self, in the present
experience, at a disadvantage in the attempts to give forth
even that experienced or felt as an advantage that had been
gained, save as to individuals; yet the innate feeling or
expression has ever been, and is, that rather could - or
would - the best of self, or of self's abilities, be
expressed rather to the group, to the classes, or masses. As
we find, these abilities will rather find their expression in
those years just before the changes will come in the
experience of many in the earth's plane, or during those
years when Jupiter is in the ascendancy and Uranus rather as
the beneficent and the other extreme as related to those that
are under the influence of Jupiter - and in the opposite of
the Uranian. These appear, then, through those periods of
the latter portion of thirty-three, four, five ('33, '34,
'35), and a part of thirty-six ('36). The greater
development, then, for the entity, through those periods of
thirty-five, thirty-six to forty ('35, '36 to '40), will be
those periods when the abilities as to the mental forces will
find their channels of expression. This is as astrological.
As to what the entity chooses, or WILLS to do with those
opportunities that appear through those periods - these, as
we find, will present themselves rather in the form of
opportunities in much the manner as those of the opposite
have presented themselves during those periods as given.
The influence in Venus, with the beneficent influence also of
Uranus, makes for those periods when affection, love, or
associations in those directions, will be the greater
magnified in the experience of the entity also. That in the
latter portion, then, of thirty-four ('34) becomes the period
when these have their greater influence, and the
opportunities - the abilities - will be in the experience of
the entity during those periods.
As to that builded in the personality of the entity from the
experiences of the sojourn, irrespective of the activities or
experiences in the earth (as we shall have from the
appearances), we find these as tendencies and inclinations in
the experience of the entity:
In Neptune - as the opposite from Uranus - we find also
influences appearing at times, but from the sojourns.
In Mercury we find the mental abilities of the entity; with
(Jupiter and Mercury) the tendency for a quiet mien, for
rather the deeper feelings, but with less of the show that
comes with one quickly-spoken; with the abilities to get mad,
but with the abilities also to control such wrath. Hence the
entity is often termed as one rather retiring, rather quiet,
rather with the disposition or the tendencies of the opposite
sex; not as a sissy, no - but rather as one with the
TEMPERAMENT such as might be expected from one of a much less
ability to be fiery, or strong, or exceedingly masculine in
action, mien or disposition.
One with those expressions or tendencies (from Jupiter AND
Uranus) to be rather in very, very good spirits or very, very
much "in the dumps."
One with the abilities also to fit self for whatever
condition or position in which it finds self, and to make for
the best of same in a very graceful way and manner.
Disappointments hurt, as in one of a much more fiery
disposition or temperament, yet there is the ability to put
ever the first or best foot foremost, as may be termed, or to
make for the continual arising of hope springing eternally
anew within the activity of self.
One who finds that self must ever be kept busy at all times,
physically and mentally, else there comes the greater period
of losing the hold on self.
So, in mental and material - or physical activity, does the
entity find for self the manner, the means or the ways of
expression; and self will find - as given - that in the
coming year, or years, there will come the greater
opportunities for the expression of that which has been as a
building experience for the entity during this formative
period. It will be found that there has been no experience
that may not be used as a steppingstone for greater
successes, whether for the advancement for the material side
or for the mental and spiritual aptitudes and forces of the
entity's experience.
Keep the self well-balanced. Keep the mental and spiritual
coordinating, with the advancements that are to come in the
material and the physical things of the experience.
As to the appearances, and their effect upon the present
experience of the entity - that may be termed as the environs
of the soul body, or the mental forces of the entity:
In the one before this we find the entity was during those
periods when there were the establishings of the government
as a government in this present land, during the sojourns of
the first presidents of the land. The entity then was one
associated with one of the greater presidents of the land in
the many ways and manners that that body served the land, the
peoples, the countries, in that period. Then in the name
Thomas Screws [?] the entity was associated with that one,
particularly, known as Jefferson - which may be found even
among those records of that entity during that sojourn, both
in Monticello and in Washington.
There has ever been in the experience of the entity something
of a hallowed feeling towards the life of that person, yet
something that has held self aloof from the closer
associations or students of that particular period. The
developments into same, in some portions of the entity's
experience, may bring the greater abilities, mentally and of
the material forces, to put to fore some of the IDEALS the
entity has held and does hold as to its associations and
relations; whether as to the material things that have to do
with manufacturing or making things - as patents, or the
like, or as to the association with the GOVERNMENT of bodies
- whether these relate to social, or to the penal codes of
the experience with groups and individuals.
The entity gained and lost through this experience. Gained
so long as there was held in self the activities for the
service, for the good or the betterment of the many. When
there became the doubts, the fears, and the false reports
that made for the losing of confidences in individuals, then
did the entity bring censure upon self and associates - in
such a way and manner as to bring the destructive rather than
constructive forces into the experience of self.
Hence in the present there is that innate feeling of the
wonderment, or the doubt of associations in some particular
phases of the entity's activities in associations with
others. Well, or better, that one - through the own self -
doubt not; for with the doubting comes the destructive
thoughts that make for the hardships which must be met
somewhere along the way. With constructive thought the
building is made. With destructive thought hardships must
ensue in some association, channel or relation.
In the one before this we find in that period known as the
Roman, when there were those destructive forces brought in
the material experience of many peoples. The entity then was
in the capacity of a guard, or a soldier of the legion, and
among those that were required to bring much of the
persecution upon those that adhered to a faith, or that chose
to name a Name that brought doubt and fear in the hearts of
many.
As Adrieal in this experience, the entity gained - though
in hardship, though in toil, though in strife often, though
suffering in body and in mind often for those that were
brought to suffer in body from the very acts of self as an
individual; for the entity embraced that thought, and in the
end suffered with many of those that were forced to act in a
manner as to be made sport of, and to supply entertainment to
those that were hardened through their activities in that
period.
There is seen in the present that feeling, or that expression
that is given for those that parade themselves in ornaments
- whether those of the soldiery or those that would laud
themselves in any position; and the gentle faith that makes
for the quieting experience in the entity's inner self. From
the experience also does the entity find that ability within
self to turn retrospectively within self, and whatever the
trial may be in Him, in that faith, comes hope, comes the
way, comes the CROWNING of hopes springing anew day by day.
In the one before this we find in that land known as the
Persian, during those periods when there were the turmoils
and strifes from the rebellions that had arisen from those
invasions of the Grecians into the land for the destruction
of that which had been builded by the plainsmen. The entity
was among those that defended in this period, and brought to
self that of aid, that of understanding; even though it were
for the period a LOSING experience from the material
standpoint, from the mental and spiritual was there born in
the inner self of the entity that which becomes sustaining to
the entity - in the ability to become a minister, a teacher,
an aide in all the experiences of life, whether they be for
the material, for the physical, for those as of the mental
accomplishments, mental abilities, but to temper all with the
spiritual forces that arise from the awakening of the
consciousness within each soul of its kinship to the Creative
Forces that may be manifest in the highest of the creation in
this material plane - man.
In the one before this we find in that land now known as the
Egyptian, during those periods when there were the gathering
together of many that had been scattered abroad (through the
rebellions that had arisen) - with the return of the priest
to the land.
The entity was then among those of the king's own household,
that aided in bringing the quiet, the harmony, the peace out
of turmoil. During this portion of the experience the entity
acted as a personal advisor to the young king, that had been
set as one to meet all the forces presented by the native -
who brought destruction through those forces brought against
the one that WOULD aid in the better understanding of man's
relationship to the fellow man, and man's correlation of the
forces within and his relationship to the Creative Forces
that were manifest, are manifest, are EVER manifest in this
material plane in the INNER man.
In the name El-Ptho, the entity gained and lost in this
experience, AND gained. With the coming in, and the
establishing of the period of the king's activities, when
those rebellions arose and the questionings were oft set up
as to the activities of individuals, the entity changed oft;
yet with the return of the priest, with the return of the
peace, the harmony, and the turn towards the activities that
were to be constructive for individuals in the land - and in
all lands, with the dissemination of the truths the entity
again advanced, becoming one of those that aided much in the
distribution and in the building up of those abilities of
groups and individuals to disseminate the truths that were
gathered. Hence those conditions, or the sojourn from there
in Uranus, brought much that is of exceptional influence in
the experience of the entity in the present; and the
ABILITIES of the entity from the experience bring much that
is often hidden within self; yet, as given, there will be
found the experiences in the coming periods for the
expression of same before groups, masses, classes. There
will be then the greater necessity that self be kept
well-balanced in that of the ideal that makes for the
balancing of self in this material plane.
Taking, then, all those influences - as that to which the
entity may build in the present:
Use that thou hast in hand today; for, as the opportunity, as
the time comes for the giving out, be sure it is ever
seasoned well with the words of truth that make for
developments in the experiences of others towards
constructive influences leading to God - for he that abides
in Him shall want for nothing.
Ready for questions.
(Q) What entities in this present experience will have an
effect on this entity?
(A) Those that were in the associations, or those that
affected the entity during the various experiences through
which the entity passed, to be sure; for these - as given -
are rather that as may be called the ENTITY'S environment,
while the sojourns become rather that as inherited - or
hereditary influence from the spiritual viewpoint.
We are through for the present.
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REPORTS
7/03/34 See
341-41, in re Mr. [
2136] and Mr. [
341] conducting
Boy Scouts on auto trip out west.
Later Mr. [
2136] married the girl who attended his Life
Reading with Mrs. [
267].
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