This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 5th day of December, 1940, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [2390], Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [2390] and Mrs. [2175].

TEXT

1. GC: You will have before you the life existence in the earth plane of [2390], born August 24, 1910, in Marietta, Georgia, and the earthly existence of this entity as Leila Cayce in the period just prior to the present sojourn. You will give a biographical life of the entity in that day and plane of earthly existence, from entrance - and how - into the earth's plane, and the entity's departure, giving the development or retarding points in such an existence. You will answer the questions that may be asked concerning that sojourn and its influence in the present:
2. EC: Yes - we are given the records here of that entity known as Leila Cayce - Leila Beverly Cayce; and those records as respecting the entrance and the activity and the departure, the influence upon those about the entity and that upon the soul experience of the entity.
3. In that the sojourn of the entity in the material experience was short, as counted by material means or man's count of time, we find that the manners of activity about the entity during that period should be of interest, and their influence that prompted much in the experience, also the influence the entity had upon others. It should also be of a real study to those who analyze such as is CALLED the psychology of life.
4. We find many interesting facts in the experience that might be indicated. While not given here at first in chronological order, these should be put together in real outline.
5. For, the entity's departure and entrance in the present covered an earthly cycle, according to that accounted by those of Holy Writ. The entity departed on the 24th of August, 1876. It entered again the 24th of August, 1910. Thus a cycle.
6. In giving the interpretations of the records, - ye may ask what this has to do with the influences, the environs in which the entity sought entrance in this experience, as related to its experience when it departed - as it were - so early.
7. Something of the background of that environ may be given, then:
8. We find that the entity was born of a peoples and an environ created by a union of two very differently tempered individuals; and the entity seeking expression - as Leila - sought for that which was the greater hope and desire of the mother. Then an activity upon the part of the earthly parent, the father, brought that disappointment, that activity which caused the entity to seek deeper meditation - as indicated - or to realize the decision NOT to live.
9. For, life itself - as has been given - is a manifestation of God. Thus a soul, an entity, may hold on to life so long as it WILLS to obey that which is the consciousness as to the relationship OF the entity to life - or God.
10. Thus, as has been given and as is demonstrated or illustrated here:
11. Man may seek to give names to many of the conditions that arise in the experience of the young - or children. For, as is known, the greater numbers of the changes are during the first, second and third year of experience in an earthly plane, - because of disobedience upon the part of one or the other, or both, such as to cause conditions that make the desire on the part OF such an entity NOT to maintain the consciousness in materiality. Thus it seeks ways, manners - as did this entity - to return to that effacement, and enfacement, in which its conscience at that period becomes aware of.
12. This is demonstrated in this entity's experience in this particular sojourn in the present, - that at the same age in years (earthly) there was that consideration for the same experience as HAD been gained or had before. For, as is and was understood by the preacher (Solomon - in Ecclesiastes), "What IS has been, and will be again."
13. As to that gained by the entity, then:
14. The material environ of affection, of association, of care, finds an expression in the present entity in a manner that at times it does not even acknowledge to self; yet it is latent.
15. The entity is affectionate to an exceptional degree, at times; yet with every man holds afar, and seeks first to establish relationships as a friend, as a pal, - though deep within self there is that affection as was so lavished upon the entity by the NUMBERS about the entity during that sojourn.
16. There is another latent experience which has come to the entity in vision, in dreams, - a face in smiles, with a peculiar cut of beard upon same, oft associated with a lake - or water. This has come as flashes, as dream, and was a portion of an association, an affection the entity experienced through that sojourn, - that caused the undeterminate manner - and thus the lolling away, the wasting as it were, not understood; holding as to what were the manners of expression between disappointment upon the one hand and that of affection from one to whom the entity was never so close and yet so, so very near in many ways or manners.
17. In the experience, - it is given that the entity gained, and created in the minds of those a tie that gave the expression to many, as to the love expressed in Him.
18. To those about the entity, then, to know the entity was to love the entity, - to see that expression in same that brought the expression oft, "A little angel!" This was oft the expression of those about the entity.
19. Hence the entity in the present oft cringes to those who would speak endearing words; and some words of endearment, of endearing terms, even cause the entity to shudder in the present.
20. Ye may ask - rightly - WHY such urges are in the experience so definitely as is being indicated. Because, as given, of a one cycle. For, remember, - death in the material plane is birth in the spiritual-mental plane. Birth in the material plane is death in the spiritual-mental plane. Hence the reason that when those physical manifestations began to be impressed upon the brain centers - those portions of an individual entity that are a constant growth from first conception - there were the impressions to hinder rather than aid the memory of other experiences.
21. Yet here we find a manifestation where THIS entity, as indicated, should it choose or determine to do so, may see and experience (as it has in flashes) much of that experience now being interpreted here for the entity, as well as others.
22. These then are experiences that the entity may see, may experience:
23. Many of those who were about the entity, as to their physiognomy, as to the lay of the lands about the entity, the character and shape of the orchard where the entity wandered so oft and where it played the most; the garden, the barn, the rose arbor, the grape arbor where it mashed its finger one day; and the views about the lake, the woods of that experience.
24. All these, to this entity, may become a part of its own consciousness, as it meditates, as it dreams, as it visions into retrospection within its mind. Call it not imagination. For, - as ye gained from same, and as it made or builded that tie by the activity through the experience, that brought a spiritual attunement to those who had known the entity even for the span of the two years and eight months (to the day), - there may come a usefulness in same, in moulding the ability to have - PHYSICALLY - that it longs for, hopes for, - PEACE in Him.
25. Ready for questions.
26. (Q) Does a soul ever enter a body before it is born?
    (A) It enters either at the first breath physically drawn, or during the first twenty-four hours of cycle activity in a material plane. Not always at the first breath; sometimes there are hours, and there are changes even of personalities as to the seeking to enter.
27. (Q) What keeps the physical body living until the soul enters?
    (A) Spirit! For, the spirit of matter - its source is life, or God, see?
28. We are through for the present.

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BACKGROUND

1. See 2390-1.

REPORTS

1. Experience had by (Mr. Cayce) (294-10 folder) during this Reading:
   "It is the only time I've had the Keeper of Records to point out to me what I can read. Always before he has merely handed me the book but I didn't remember reading out of the book. Here he guided my reading of the book, and pointed with his finger at the passages I might read, and told me what parts to skip until later."
2. 3/08/41 See 2390-3, a Check Life Reading on her Laodicea incarnation.

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