This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 16th day of June, 1940, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [2282], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by her sister, Mrs. [2280].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [2282]. Born March 8, 1876, in Baltimore, Md.

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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 antity, and that to which it may attain, and how. You will answer the questions, as I ask them:
2. EC: (In going back over the years from present - " - 34 - what an interesting life; some sorrows, lots of sunshine, lots of worries, but all worth while - '31 - '20 - finding self - '19 - '16 - anxieties - '97 - an illness - " etc., on back to birth date.
3. Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [2282].
4. In giving the interpretations of the records, these are chosen with the desire and purpose that this be a helpful experience for the entity.
5. Yet, as we find, the greater help may be in the assurance of the intent and purpose the entity holds towards others, toward circumstances and conditions; that this be in keeping with that which was the purpose for the entity entering this experience.
6. Know that these are in keeping. Be thou faithful unto that time when ye may be called into the broader, the greater service. For there is no death, to those who love the Lord; only the entering into God's other chamber.
7. Then, in giving the interpretations of the records, these are beautiful in many ways.
8. Keep the bloodstone close to thy body, as combined with lapis lazuli. This if encased and worn upon the breast would bring healing, and decisions for the entity, because of the very vibrations that such create in their activity.
9. For, as is understood by the entity, all creation is a manifestation of that creative influence or force called God; and these elements bring such to this body, for they are a part of the evolution of vibration, - as may be seen from the entity's development through the earthly sojourns as well as through the astrological sojourns that have been a part of the entity's experience.
10. For, the search for God is found in self, as also in the manner in which ye treat, think and feel toward, thy fellow men.
11. Thus, as these elements are a part of its creations, so may they bring those helpful vibrations about the entity. Not merely as an omen; for each soul is a part of the whole creation, and gives off that help, or that urge which is latent and manifested in the relationships with others. So may these elements bring helpful environs, helpful forces in the experience of the entity.
12. The astrological aspects are not as an influence because the entity was born under certain environs, but the position of the planets, the sun, the moon and the stars, in relation to the entity, is governed by what the entity has done about universal consciousness!
13. For, the souls of men were given that pronouncement to RULE that which had been created for their understanding, their enlightenment, their signs and their seasons and their years.
14. Hence these have come about - the influences - by those very forces bringing the activities as related to the whole.
15. For, each soul and the spirit thereof is a part of that universal consciousness or God.
16. The spiritual interpretation of the signs of the zodiac, as in Pisces, is that the entity has sought and does seek so often in its dealings and in its relationships to others.
17. Hence in material manifestation the entity finds an interest in things and conditions that may be spoken of as concerning psychic or spiritual things. Let the greater interpretation of the word psychic to the self, to the souls of men, be rather as the soul forces of men than their disincarnate beings! For, as ye live and move and have thy being in and through the grace of the Creator, so may it indeed be true that whether ye live or whether ye pass into the other chambers of God's universe, ye are indeed His!
18. Keep ever before thee, then, the realization that "I am His; He is mine, - if I keep His ways bright before my fellow men."
19. These are the promises, then, which He so easily and so well gave, "If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments, and I and the Father will come and abide with thee. Lo, I am with you always, even unto the ends of the world."
20. It is not the end, then, because we pass from one room to another, from one consciousness to another. For, so is it proclaimed in that promise. Though we live in the physical consciousness, we pass - as this entity has oft - into those consciousnesses of Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus; for these are but steppingstones to the greater consciousness which He would have each soul attain in its relationships with and usage of its fellow men.
21. Hence these latent and manifested have been and are a part of thy experience.
22. In Jupiter, in Venus, we find the universal consciousness, the universal awareness, the desire to be more of a universal help, without making a show - or less and less of self, and more and more of that influence which brought to the mind of the man Jesus the Christ-Consciousness, the awareness of being at one with Him.
23. Hence beauty, the home, friends, - these have been and are the watchword as it were for this entity.
24. And know, no one has ever had so many friends that he can afford to lose a single one. Yet friends who stand as a helpmeet, as a hopeful experience, have at times brought the greatest disturbance to the entity. However, in the bigness of the heart the entity has learned - as through the benevolent forces of Jupiter - the lesson of patience; and in this, as He gave, ye will become more and more aware of thy soul.
25. For as ye are in body, mind and soul one, so is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit one.
26. So as these are brought to coordinate in the material plane - as the physical, mental and soul consciousness - the beauty of love, as it is manifested in the life, comes to mean more and more to this entity.
27. In Uranus we find the extremes that have been a part of the experience; the extremes in social, material, - yea, at times in the mental and spiritual experiences. Yet its search, its hope, its patience most of all - that has indeed become as the living virtue within the experience of this entity - has brought it haply along that way of knowing, realizing, hoping for, the better things - even for those who have misused the privileges, the opportunities that have been a part of the entity's experience in its attempt to help others.
28. Yet these, as we find, - as will be shown through the experiences of the entity in its sojourns in the material plane, - bring one closer and closer to that awareness that ye may indeed walk and talk with thy God.
29. WHO then, and WHAT then, is thy God?
30. What is thy ideal?
31. This alone the entity should impress upon others. Not that all will be like these; for they each have been - in His wise providence - given their own talents, their own purposes, their own desires to use or abuse; yet ever with that privilege, as thou hast found in thy experience, of bringing them all to Him - in a way and manner that has made, and will make life, the experience in a material sojourn, worth the effort.
32. Indeed do offences come, but pray oft that that required of those who bring same may be lessened, by their desires to be at an at-onement with God's force, God's manifested activities in the material plane.
33. As to the sojourns in the earth, then:
34. Before this the entity was in the land of the present nativity, during the early periods of the settlings in the land; when there were the desires of many to seek a new land where one might worship according to the dictates of the own conscience; where one might feel closer to the God-force as manifested in the material earth, that it might be a part of the own experience.
35. Thus we find in the present that freedom has been and is an innate and manifested activity on the part of the entity's experiences in the earth.
36. The entity's name then was Martha Ann Archibald; and the entity brought to those peoples around the land of its present birthplace a closer knowledge of man's relationships to the Creative Forces as expressed in nature.
37. Thus the entity was a teacher, a minister to the young; as well as one aiding in the preparations of homes, and homes and lands.
38. Hence in the present we find that lands and homes are ever a part of the entity's consciousness, as well as the hope of the young in THEIR dealings with others.
39. Before that the entity was in the Promised Land, during that period when there were the establishings of the church in the various portions of the land.
40. The entity was young in years during the ministry of Jesus in the earth, and was among those who were blessed by His hands.
41. Thus the entity grew in grace, in knowledge, in understanding, under the tutelage of those of the faithful in that experience. And thus in the various churches in and about Jerusalem the entity found places of helpfulness for those who were doubtful, those who were often fearful.
42. The entity in the present, then, is often called on by those of every walk of life for counsel, for advice, for help in this or that manner; for material aids, for spiritual understanding, and for a mental assurance of that which is and has been a part of the individuals' experiences as they journey along life's highway.
43. Then in the name of Hannah, the entity was a companion with Luke and Lucius in the experiences as they journeyed with the teachers of the experience; the entity aiding and helping in the various activities.
44. Thus we find in the present there has oft been the inclination for the entity to aid those who have desired or sought for aid in becoming an active force in the various activities for an understanding, - whether in relationships to the church, to the state, or to other lands. For, there is the desire to be much as He gave in His last command, "Go ye into all the world, teaching all." This has been a part of the consciousness of this entity in the present experience.
45. Before that the entity was in the Grecian land, when the entity was beautiful in body, beautiful in its activities and desires to aid and help.
46. The entity was among those chosen and sent to the "city in the hills and plains" as ones who might interpret the activities there for those who were the leading forces in seeking worldly and mental wisdom in that experience.
47. Coming under the influence of the teacher in the "city in the hills and plains" of the now Persian land, the entity adopted rather those influences that would aid in bringing health to those who were afflicted, to those who were in need; and the entity became then a helper to Uhjltd through that experience.
48. The name then was Cherien; and from that sojourn we find in the present the desires oft to search out teachings of various groups, or various activities, that may be a part of the experiences of individuals throughout the land. All of these are a development for the entity. Balance them in the one principle, - that which is thy ideal.
49. Before that the entity was in the Egyptian land, when there were turmoils and strifes brought about by dissensions in the activities of individuals from the Atlantean land, and the turmoils among the Natives.
50. The entity then among those peoples of that land who aided in establishing the abilities of the Priest, with his return, to be as a minister to the many. Thus the ideas of the representatives, the individuals who became the emissaries and teachers, grew from the efforts of the entity then, - as Shu-Tai-Tan.
51. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then:
52. Who may tell the rose how to be beautiful? or the incense as to what beauty it may raise in those for whom it is offered?
53. Love the Lord. Keep His ways. For thou hast chosen well.
54. Be the helper here, there; for, as ye have learned, it is indeed here a little, there a little, line upon line and precept upon precept in which the growth comes to those who seek.
55. Cast not thy pearls before swine. Know, as ye have found, only those who seek may find. For as He gave, He came not to save those who are satisfied but those who hunger for the Lord, for the knowledge of Him. And to these minister thou, in thy counsel, in thy help, in all manners as ye have through thy sojourns in the earth.
56. Thus indeed may thy star shine before others, that others seeing thy works may take hope and thus bring the glorious day of Him - who is the light of the world - into the consciousness of others.
57. Ready for questions.
58. (Q) Regarding my health, and the arthritis condition, is it indicated as to what I should do for relief?
    (A) Keep down the acids in the system. Keep away from too much flesh in the diet; having more of NATURE'S foods; as carrot, spinach and celery juices, as well as these in bulk for food.
    Use weekly Epsom Salts Baths; having the saturated solution of Epsom Salts, not too hot but sufficiently warm to produce a perspiration, or an increase of eliminations through the respiratory and perspiratory system. Let such a Bath be followed by a tepid or warm bath, and then a rubdown over the entire body with an equal combination of Olive Oil and Peanut Oil.
    This will alleviate, and bring about bettered conditions.
59. (Q) As I name them, please tell me what I should do to help the following individuals. First, my son, [2284].
    (A) As it has been given of old, train him that is young in the ways of the Lord, and when he is old he will not depart from them.
    Counsel well with him, - this will be better than too much indulgence or too much of words. But in patience preserve thy hopes; and let thy prayer be, "Thy way, O Lord!"
60. (Q) My grandsons [...] and [...]. Is it indicated as to whether they will have to go to war? What is the best thing for me to do to help them?
    (A) They will not HAVE to go to war, unless they choose to do so.
    As we find, these are quite different in their temperament. One by precept, the other by example, may be brought to the better understanding as to their places, their activities.
    Teach them, train them, in self-reliance; but that reliance most in the God-force within each.
61. (Q) My young granddaughter, [...]?
    (A) Give HER a musical education!
62. (Q) The little girl, Mimi [...] in whom I am interested?
    (A) Aid in the developing of those unusual talents, those unusual abilities; through arousing within of its latent powers.
    For in this entity, as in each and every soul, there must be the answer to that something within. For, as His promise has been, "I will meet thee in thy holy temple."
    Then, encourage that entity to consider the body indeed as the temple of the living God, and there to meet him often.
63. (Q) My niece, [C...] in the American Volunteer Service abroad? Is it indicated that she will return safely?
    (A) With the marks of the fray, yes.
64. (Q) My niece [E...]. Should she have a Physical Rdg.?
    (A) For those hindrances in the structural forces, yes.
65. (Q) My niece [H...]. Should she marry again? and how may she be helped financially?
    (A) As we find here, these conditions within themselves offer problems. Best that this be understood from the karmic conditions, as well as the manner in which she has used her abilities through the sojourns in the earth.
66. (Q) Am I doing my best for all of these individuals about whom I am so worried, or what else should I do?
    (A) As has been given from the first, keep that faith, keep that patience that ye have had to learn so oft. Put them not upon thine own heart so much, but share thy burden rather with Him who is able, and who has given, "Take my yoke, and I will make it easy, and thy burden light." For in Him is there help, strength, understanding, knowledge.
    Walk and talk with Him oft.
67. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file
    (See Case Study of Arthritis [which was enclosed], with a paragraph marked that gives directions for taking an Epsom Salts Bath. Also see Alkalin-Reacting diet List [which was enclosed].)

REPORTS

1. 6/17/40 She obtained a Life Rdg. for her son, [2284].

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