This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 30th day of June, 1940, in accordance with request made by the father - Mr. [...], Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., via Mrs. [1100].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. [2294]'s father, Mrs. [1100] and Mr. [470] and Miss Ward. Born May 27, 1940, 6:07 A.M.Leigh Memorial Hospital, Norfolk, Va.

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, as I ask them:
2. EC: Yes, we have the records of that entity now known as or called [2294]. Should have named him Patrick!
3. In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them here, these are chosen with the intent and purpose that this be a helpful experience to those who have the opportunities and the privilege of entertaining and preparing this entity for its activities in this material experience.
4. As to the manner of the ENTITY'S application of self, - when it is twelve, this should be given again; for, as is indicated, there are some warnings as to the care of the individual entity's health in the present, and as to the material experiences because of the entity's position in the affairs of the land of which he is a native in the present.
5. Consequently, in the present we would not give other than the warnings as to the responsibilities attendant upon such an entity in this experience. For, the needs are and will be for such leaders during the reconstruction and the attending activities in this land. Hence in the developing stages there will be needed that care and that opportunity for its development, so that it may again take its place among the peers of the land for its activity during these periods, - as it did through those activities in the formation of this land, in and under the present form or manner of its government.
6. As to the warnings, - these as related to the health will deal primarily with the diet and the activities. There should be as little sugar as practical in the entity's diet until it has passed at least its sixth or seventh year; for the inclinations and tendencies will be towards a disturbance with the liver and the pancrean activity.
7. Hence we would guard greatly against such in the system, if there would be the normal development of this body towards the strong, strengthened body that will be needed for the entity's activities through the material sojourn at this particular period.
8. From the astrological aspects we find the influences indicating the energetic activity of the mind as well as of the body.
9. Also there are the tendencies for extravagance, which should be curbed or kept in a more normal manner through the early periods of its activity; for these will be a part of the inclinations, not only because of the Gemini influence but also the Saturn, Mercury, Jupiter, Mars and Venus influences.
10. As these planets were strong influences in the earth through the developing periods of this entity in gestation, they will in the early portion of the life manifest the greater influence.
11. Hence we find one that will indicate or show a general energetic activity.
12. One that will be considered or termed by some about the entity as indifferent to many things that a developing entity SHOULD pay a great deal of attention to. Not that there will not be affection, not that there will not be the inclinations for those experiences of preferences; but the very nature of the Gemini influence makes for the sudden changes of preferences, and the demonstrations in which there will be seen the influences of these upon the activities of the entity.
13. And these will gradually develop into the abilities to always want to "argue out" everything. Consequently, there should ever be given a reason as to WHY such and such may be as a suggestion, command, or advice, in the training or the attempt to guide the entity.
14. As an orator the entity may be found to excel, as in its former experience; but this as we find will necessitate the tendencies for the developing years - especially through the age from five to six to seven to ten years - towards training in those directions. For, as the awareness arises in the experience, and the argumentation as to various influences gives the opportunity for expression, we will find the entity inclined to shut self away at times, and at others to be OVERACTIVE in giving expressions.
15. Hence it will require the developments in the OUTSTANDING influences that arise as a part of the entity's experience, not only because of that part the entity is to play in the affairs of the nation, (as it did in that expression which has illumined the minds of most Americans, - that which was first proclaimed by this entity of "Give me liberty or give me death!") but because of the need for discipline. For, in the developing years, there will be the tendency to seek liberty for its own self at any cost; and there should be given the whys, the causes, and the expression of the abilities that are reached through the Mercurian high mental experience, as well as the benevolent influences through the Uranian sojourn, - so as to bring more and more the abilities to express for the universality of the activities, and not with the nature or intent of using the influences for selfish motives.
16. It will be easy for the entity to make money! It will be just as easy for him to get rid of it! For, these extravagances will be a part of that curbing needed in the early development, even before its twelfth year, - as well as the hoarding. These tendencies will need to be guided into purposeful directions during the early stages of its development.
17. Most of the warnings, then, would be given to those to whom the entity has been and is entrusted.
18. Know who the entity is and the activities that are expected of him.
19. Then, there should be first taken those precautions as respecting the physical welfare, - especially in those inclinations that will be a part of the early experience of the entity; that it may grow into a body equal to the needs of the position it may occupy, in carrying on the activities that are to be a part of the entity's experience in this sojourn.
20. Also in the mental, as well as in the material, there should be the counseling - with the activities of the entity - as to that concept of the inclination for developing towards those opportunities which are to be a part of the entity's experience, - provided, to be sure, that it is prepared for that activity to which it may attain here, in this experience.
21. As to the appearances of the entity in the earth, then:
22. Before this the entity was in the land of the present nativity, as we have indicated, and one whose general activities are well known, - in the name then Patrick Henry.
23. The influence wielded by the entity is too well known to attempt to even comment upon same here. Yet the frailties of the body through that experience find expressions in those tendencies which have been indicated, for the entity to be a recluse in the early portions of its life. Hence it will be necessary that there be the "drawing out" of the entity, as it were, and the preparation for those activities not only in law but as to national and international relationships.
24. Hence the entity should be trained in INTERNATIONAL LAW, rather than local; for the opportunities and the needs for such are to be a part of the entity's experience.
25. Before that the entity was in the Roman land, when there were the needs for those who were capable and able to give expressions to the desires of the peoples, as well as of those in authority, - that is, as to that chosen to be expressed by the common people.
26. Thus in the present we will find the entity inclined to seek out those of various positions or conditions in life. These tendencies also should be guided, - not curbed so much, but the whys and wherefores of these given or reasoned with the entity concerning, in the early developing period; else we may find those tendencies to associate with those who are questionable characters, - for the entity may easily be turned into those directions of using its abilities that would not be the constructive force.
27. Hence the needs for the spiritual welfare of the entity to be considered during its early periods of development.
28. For, the entity then was not only the historian but the speaker, as well as the poet. All of these will find their expressions in the present activities of the entity, for the entity then was in the name Tacitus.
29. In the present we will find those tendencies at times to choose those to and through whom he may lord those activities over others, if there is not kept the better physical forces throughout the experience for the physical, mental and spiritual balance - which should be stressed in the training of the entity during its early life.
30. Before that the entity was in the Persian and Arabian land, during those activities in the 'city in the hills and the plains.'
31. The entity acted in the capacity first of aiding in heading the caravans of the day.
32. Hence in the present we will find the inclinations and tendencies for the entity to travel fast, either in cars or in airplanes. Be mindful of these in the early years, and let them be used in a way as to be of benefit of the whole, or of the masses, rather than for the individual.
33. There the entity excelled as the tradesman between the eastern and the western lands during those experiences, making many trips to what is now Indo-China, India, Egypt, and also to the Mongoloid or Gobi land.
34. Hence those tendencies will arise in the present for the entity to be associated with people in all walks of life. This tendency in the early years may be used as a means for giving the training in those activities necessary for the abilities of the entity in and through the experiences in which he will play an important part, - in the affairs of his own land, - when so much needed.
35. Before that the entity was in the Egyptian land, among those in the household of the Priest, - being a grandson of the Priest, and a son of one of the daughters of the Priest by his first wife.
36. This brought the opportunity for the use of the entity's abilities in those activities during the development of those periods when the emissaries and representatives were being prepared for the many lands.
37. The entity then acted in the capacity of heading the various groups that were sent as representatives, as missionaries or emissaries, not only as a political and economic influence but for the preservation of those activities in the relationships with others.
38. Hence in the latter portion of the entity's present sojourn, provided there are the developments carried forward as indicated, we may find that the entity will represent his own land in other courts, in other lands.
39. The name then was Ar-Ter-Tel-Um.
40. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then:
41. Much in this experience, as indicated, will depend upon the manner of the training as to activities in the early portion of the entity's sojourn here. Hence the responsibilities lie mostly with and upon those to whom the entity has been entrusted.
42. Then, as has been given, during its twelfth to thirteenth year we would give further information as to the possibilities, the means and manners of training as to the fields of activity through which the entity may find the greater expression. But the entity's greater expression MUST be in the representing, or presenting, of the needs - as well as the benefits - of its own land.
43. The counsel in the present, then, as indicated, is rather to those who are entrusted with this responsibility. For, blessed indeed are those to whom it is given the care of those who are to direct the destiny of a nation!
44. Accept same in that humbleness, yet in that glory as befits one who would be a channel through which many peoples, many individuals, may be indeed blessed.
45. Ready for questions.
46. (Q) What was his relationship in the past to his present mother [1628]?
    (A) Here we find the relationships were especially close in the Roman period, as well as in the Persian and in the Egyptian; there being only the knowing OF and desires toward, through the experience just previous to the present.
47. (Q) His present father?
    (A) These relationships were the closer in the period just previous to this, when there were those activities in conjunction one with another, in which much that was accomplished through the abilities was because of the encouragement of the one who is now the father.
48. (Q) His Aunt [E...]?
    (A) The closer relationships here were through the Roman periods, and only through those experiences. Thus we will find that the relationships existent in the present will be that of domination from both.
49. (Q) His Aunt [J...]?
    (A) We do not find a relationship.
50. (Q) His maternal grandmother?
    (A) These relationships were at varying periods; that is, the experiences were only as awarenesses one of the other, yet having an influence - though not a relationship as would be called blood relationship.
51. (Q) What was the exact local time of his birth, and what does it indicate?
    (A) As we find, this was in the early hours - that is, the physical birth, and the spiritual birth very soon thereafter; 6:07 in the morning.
52. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Parents
    Copy to Ass'n file
    Copy to Mrs. [1100]

BACKGROUND

1. GD's note: See mother's readings 1628-1 and 1628-2, on 7/04/38 and 5/26/39, in re preparation for [2294]'s birth.

REPORTS

1. 7/02/40 Letter from [1100]: "...By the way, in my excitement following little [2294]'s reading, it didn't dawn on me at that time that he must have been [470]'s child, also in Egypt, as [470] and I were man and wife at that time. It was all very interesting and I believe Mr. [...] is awed with his responsibility. However I sincerely feel that both he and Mrs. [1628] will do a good 'job' of it..."
2. 8/11/40 Letter from [1100]: "...P.S. I'm not so sure now that [2294] was my son in Egypt, as I notice the reading says he was the son of one of the daughters of the first wife. How many daughters did she have?...
3. 12/31/41 Father of [2294] was contact for Physical Reading for Mr. [2366].
4. 10/26/43 Letter from Mrs. L. A. N.: "...I am very anxious to have children and have spent a lot of money going from one doctor to another... My husband was talking with a former client of yours...who took his wife [1428] to you after having tried everything else and they had very satisfactory results [[2294]!!], and has suggested that I get a reading from you..."
5. 6/45 GD's note: Address unknown.

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