But to analyze same, and to undertake to tell the entity what
to do with its abilities, its choices, its determinations,
its desires, aspirations and hopes, would be as attempting to
tell a rose that because of its beauty, its aroma, it must
not be given except to those who are worthy of same. Or it
would be as attempting to tell that whose nature is to give
off sweetness how to be sweet, or as telling the bee - with
all of its abilities for gathering God's beauty and holiness,
as expressed in the various forms from which it gathers
sweetness - how to do its job.
So, the entity has the natural tendency or trend for wit; the
ability to draw out others, who may have determined in their
minds to "get even" with this or that individual, and to make
them feel in the presence of the entity ashamed and
athwarted, - not as of being hindered, but as of the desire
for such being eradicated. And others are caused to forget
their disturbances in aiding the entity to enjoy the beauty
of the moment, in whatever environment this may occur.
As to the appearances, then:
Before this the entity was in the English land, during those
periods when many of those of the more virile had determined
to explore, or to know themselves if, that new land in which
the entity finds its expression in the present.
The entity then was among those who saw the loved ones leave
on that journey; for the entity even saw that one leave to
whom it had hoped to be wed. And there was the determination
within self that some day, somewhere, somehow, it would know
the fruits of that land born and maintained through the
greater portion of the entity's experience.
Then the name was Mildred Longacre. Through the experience
the entity felt mentally thwarted or hindered; yet knowing it
should, and feeling, determining in self to make the best of
whatever might be the happenings of the experience; living
and acting in such a manner as to spread and to give to
others that hope also.
Before that the entity was in what is now known as the
Promised Land, during those periods when there was the
reestablishing of the land as an abode of a peoples for a
definite purpose to reconstruct that which had been as
hearsay to most.
Only those who had held themselves close to the tenets and
the precepts which had been handed down from father, mother,
to son and daughter, were able to really know the joy, the
beauty in service to a living God.
The entity was among those who were the early births in that
land, and in the household of Ezra, the scribe, as his
daughter by Athelie, - and the name of the entity through
that sojourn was Astedoth.
The entity aided much in the interpreting of the parchments
or scrolls that were found, translated and written for the
peoples of the period.
Thus the entity in the present would find the abilities to
WRITE - EVEN YET - of those things, conditions and
experiences which would enable individuals and groups to see
and to foster and to cherish the BETTER experiences in their
activities through this material plane.
Before that the entity was in the Arabian and Persian land,
during those periods when there were the tenets of the
teacher Uhjltd being spread abroad among the peoples of all
nations who had of themselves come to hear, to see, to
experience the recreating of purposes and hopes within the
experiences of individuals, no matter what their station in
life had been or was.
The entity was among the children of those who had been taken
in raids by the leader's own people, - then in the name
Usula.
In the experience the entity determined to know much of the
habits of peoples of varied lands that came for the different
purposes; and, attempting to correlate these, aided in
creating the records which became a part of the experience of
many.
Thus the entity is not only the conversationalist, but one
rather gifted in the languages chosen to be a portion of the
experience in the present.
The entity had a great family in that sojourn, not only of
its own but those whom it gathered around it; for there the
entity was the companion of that one who has been its
companion in this present sojourn. And most of the children
in the present were a part of that experience, either as the
own children or those under the direction of the entity.
Before that the entity was in the Egyptian land, and from the
peoples of the Atlantean experience; being among those chosen
to help in the hospitalization, or the attempts to prepare
places, circumstances and surroundings for individuals who
preferred that the changes be wrought - even in the
appendages, as well as in disease or dis-ease considered in
those periods, as in the present, hopeless - or as a part of
the experience of an entity.
The entity arose to one in authority, through that
experience; aiding not only her own peoples but the priest
and those who would further such activities in that material
experience.
In the present, - that to which the entity may attain, and
how:
Keep that thou hast purposed in thy heart.
If there is the choice, the desire, to leave other than that
which has been builded in the minds, hearts and experiences
of those who have come in contact with the entity, - then
dictate those experiences of the entity under the varied
hardships, or that appeared to be such, for the edifying and
instruction of those who feel, who are persuaded by their
lack of vision, that they have the hardest time of all.
For, in and through such there may be given a vision, a help
to others.
Ready for questions.
(Q) Should this be as an autobiography or novel?
(A) Rather as short stories, or storiettes, than
autobiography or a novel. Stories - short stories.
(Q) Was I associated in the past with the entity who is now
my osteopath?
(A) In the Egyptian experience, the entity directed rather
that entity who is now the doctor; as one who might, if there
were the proper applications, add much to the comfort of
others.
As a friend and associate.
(Q) Was I in Atlantis?
(A) Of the Atlanteans, not in Atlantis.
(Q) India?
(A) Not in India other than as an emissary or visitor.
(Q) How was I associated in the past with the following
individuals: My husband [...]?
(A) As indicated, in the Persian as well as in the English;
as the companion in the Persian; as the friend - or hoped for
companion - in the English.
(Q) My daughter [...]?
(A) Associate in the Arabian, and in the Egyptian.
(Q) My son [...]?
(A) In the Persian.
(Q) My son [...]?
(A) In the Persian.
(Q) My son [...]?
(A) In the Persian and in the English land.
(Q) Is it indicated that my son [...] will be married again?
(A) We haven't the records of that entity, except as related
to the entity itself here, but we find this very probable.
(Q) Have I made any progression in life?
(A) As indicated.
We are through for the present.
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