This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the home of Mr. David E. Kahn, 20 Woods Lane, Scarsdale, N.Y., this 27th day of November, 1940, in accordance with request made by the self - Dr. [2410] [Ph.D.], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mrs. [2174].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Hugh Lynn Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Dr. [2410] and Mrs. [2174]. Born November 17, 1907, in London, England.

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1. HLC: 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, that to which it may attain, and how. You will answer the questions, as I ask them:
2. EC: Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [2410].
3. In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them here, much might have been indicated in those periods of change in environs as well as in the MANNER of thought the entity has experienced through this present sojourn. Causes, or those influences, may be well indicated - or better - in the records as we find them here.
4. These, then, are chosen from the records with the desire, the purpose, that this may be for the entity a helpful experience; enabling it to fulfill that purpose for which it chose to enter the earthly experience at this time.
5. However, as many will find, the entity if oft rather hardheaded and not easily persuaded. But look within self, and analyze self as to the purposes, the hopes, the desires, here and now.
6. For, with each life experience, each entity is shown grace and mercy by a divine justice. For, He hath not willed that any soul should perish, but hath with every temptation offered a way, a means of regeneration of activity in which the soul may find its relationship to the Creative Forces.
7. Hence this is the purpose for which ye sought thy experiences in interims between material manifestations, as well as the earthly sojourns.
8. These indicate that there ARE virtues as well as vices. MAGNIFY the virtues, minimize the vices; that ye may know - truly - that thou hast in thyself that which will, which may, which can, awaken to the divine within each manifested soul in a body.
9. For as ye analyze the bodies of individuals ye find in this causation experience or earthly sojourn that there is a body-physical, a body-mental, and a body-soul or spiritual; each with its attributes. Thus it is easier to comprehend that which is so hard at times for material-minded individuals to understand, that Father, Son and Holy Spirit are one; indivisible without injury to the whole.
10. So to these bodies oft it has been said, rather than to the group, "Be ye of one mind" - in body, in mind, in purpose or spirit. For to the soul, to thyself, it is an INDIVIDUAL knowledge of the Creative Forces that makes thee aware. And it is its universality of material application that gives one the opportunity to work WITH others in such a way as to not cause strife, hate, vice, but rather to express the fruits of the spirit. It is in the manifesting of the fruits of the spirit, then, that ye may know the truth that indeed sets thee free from those things as would hinder or make thee afraid.
11. Not that there is the attempt, in giving this information, to be other than helpful. Then, study this well.
12. In the interpreting of the records here, we find those channels through which signs or symbols may be indicated as to directions the entity as a whole has taken in varied consciousnesses. Also we find written upon time and space the records from varied earthly sojourns or material manifestations. Then it is through patience that ye may, thyself, become aware of same in thy dealings with thy fellow men; or that ye may, as the Teacher of teachers gave, become aware of thy soul and its oneness with God.
13. In astrological aspects there are those influences to which and in which each entity may gain knowledge. The natural attraction, law of attraction, or law of repulsion, becomes manifest. For, separated from the body, the mind and the soul are drawn to that influence manifested; just as in the material world those that are thinking along the same lines, or who are desirous of individual achievement, are drawn to those sources from which help or stimulating influences may be had.
14. So, as we find here, - Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Uranus are as the leading influences; Saturn as an adverse.
15. In Mercury we find the high mental abilities, - one especially given to those activities dealing nature's storehouse; also, as will be seen (that is complementary to same), the sojourns in the earth have been close to nature in many ways of activity.
16. Venus, as an adverse as well as a creative or helpful force, brings activities that are to be met, to be overcome, to be studied, to be used as stepping-stones rather than difficulties or hindrances. Thus we find an appreciation of beauty in many forms, and the abilities to apply same in a manner as to become helpful OR detrimental, when applied in a selfish way or manner.
17. In Jupiter we find the universal approach, or the abilities to be a helpful force in the experiences of the many, - and applicable in group as well as mass manner. For, that ye term in the material plane as mob or group psychology is an experience the entity may manifest in this experience.
18. We find in Uranus the extremes, - the desires oft to dispute, to determine WHY others are at variance to the purposes of self or to the material aspirations of self. These are well, if they are not allowed to become such an influence as would SEPARATE thee from the spiritual purposes in thy application of thy understanding in relations to others.
19. Then in Saturn we find the adverse forces, as indicated, bringing disturbing influences - as have been indicated as a part of the entity's present experience. Hence there should be the holding to that principle of divine forces being active in the changes wrought. KNOW that what is done in secret is proclaimed from the housetop of thine own conscience. Ye may not hide that ye think in secret. Do not fool thyself. For, that done in secret is proclaimed from thy own reaction, thy own activity with others. Do not condemn others for that ye are condemning in thine own self.
20. As to the appearances in the earth, that find expression through the emotions of the entity, through the emotions of the physical being rather than the spiritual self, - know that MIND is the builder, also the equalizer or the balance or the liberator from confusion, or the force that may prevent peace or harmony; depending upon the will of self as in relationship to that ye have chosen within thy inner self as thy ideal.
21. What IS thy ideal? Have ye taken account of same? WHO is the author of same? Is it self, or He that would have thee as one with Him - yet knowing thyself to be thyself? Is it the I Am or the I AM that is thy ideal? Not as to what ye would like others to be, not what ye would like to be thyself, but that Author who faileth not, and whose promise is and has been, "If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments and I will abide with thee."
22. Not all of the appearances are given, but these have been quite varied - we choose those that may be of the more help at this period:
23. Before this the entity was in the land of the present sojourn, among the Natives of the land, of the tribes of people who lived near to, and who had gathered much of their understanding from quite a different undertaking, known in some circles as the Mound Builders.
24. There the entity was among those who brought into the awarenesses of many great patterns, great symbols, in their manner and way of manifestations that would indicate the developments of individuals toward being a helpful force in the affairs or lives of the many.
25. Then the name - as would be interpreted today - was Shando. The entity gained, the entity lost. In the early portions there were those attempts of the entity to apply the laws of natural or nature's sources as a means of helpful influence in the lives of others. When these became so useful as to bring the many to seek from the entity the interpreting of same in their experience, selfishness crept in - and that inclination to dominate by self's own personality.
26. In the present, then, individuality must be manifested. Lose thy personality in the individuality of the Creative Forces, here and now.
27. Yet abilities towards things of nature, towards things of nature's activities, are those ways and manners through which the entity may find the way of greater expression of the abilities. And minimizing the faults even of others ye minimize thine own.
28. Before that the entity was in the Grecian land when there arose those teachers; especially that one who was forced - for a purpose, for an understanding, for an ideal - to drink the hemlock that it might not undermine the youth of the land.
29. The entity was among those who judged that individual, - which made those experiences that brought disturbing forces after the realization of what had taken place.
30. Thus in the latter portion of that experience, as Angonasto, the entity gained through the desire and hope of undoing those judgements that were made from FEAR, rather than mental and spiritual conviction.
31. In the application of those experiences in the present, teach thyself through meditation to be a better listener to others. WEIGH them well, and that on which ye would pass judgement. Know that there is one Judge who judgeth all things; and it is with what measure ye mete that it is measured to thee again, - physically, mentally, - in those phases of thy experience.
32. Before that the entity was in the land to which the peoples were banished, through the sins and the neglect of conformity to rules and regulations, and that they might be brought into the awareness of the needs for their dependence upon those promises, those truths which had been apparent in the lives and experiences of their forefathers.
33. The entity was among those under whom those peoples were put, and not of the Jewish or Hebrew peoples but of the Chaldean - at those eras in which Nebuchadnezzar had his great vision.
34. Hence we find the entity was acquainted with and understood much of the law of the Medes and Persians (as it has come to be called) that changeth not; and that is of the spiritual, mental and material law. For, the Lord is one. Hence love and law are one; yet man's interpretation oft sets them far apart.
35. In that experience the entity gained much through contact with the people of that race who had been leaders or rulers. Hence, in comparison of those things wrought in the lives of individuals to the material, the mental benefits, the entity gained that concept of the need for a SPIRITUAL background, that as would PROMPT the needs and the application of tenets and truths of every nature.
36. The entity then acted in the capacity of an attendant to the King, in the periods of his indisposition or illness, and became one especially versed in dietetics - as would be termed in the present; as a dietician, as a follower of those things in which the interpretation was given that ye become that upon which ye feed thy bodies, thy minds, thy soul.
37. For, as may be interpreted in the present experiences, ye GROW to heaven, ye GROW to friendship - that is closest to heaven's own law.
38. The name then was Shezar.
39. Before that the entity was in the Egyptian land, during those periods of reconstruction when there had been the recalling of the Priest.
40. The entity was closely associated with the Young King, in those periods of attempting to put down the internal rebellions, to make peace with the Atlanteans; the entity acting in the capacity as the mouthpiece for the King.
41. Thus the entity became acquainted with many of the problems of state as well as the conditions which arose between the various factions within and without.
42. With the reestablishing of those principles or tenets of the Priest, the entity aided in the qualifying of individuals for the various places entrusted by state, as well as by the spiritual leaders of the period.
43. The name then was Ar-Tek-En.
44. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, that to which it may attain, and how:
45. First, know thy ideal. Then study to show thyself approved unto same; never condemning others. As ye would not have others condemn thee, condemn them not.
46. Keep self unspotted from things that would make thee afraid. LOVE truth. Seek peace.
47. Ready for questions.
48. (Q) Where will my profession as a Psychologist lead me?
    (A) What direction do ye take? This depends upon what are thy purposes, hopes, desires. Are they that ye may gain material fame or material gains irrespective of what the truths propounded may bring into the lives of others? or do ye seek to apply same that ye may make more hope in the experiences of others? not merely for material gains but for spiritual awakenings. If THESE are the seed ye sow, let them guide thee especially towards a center in what is called the mid-west - or that direction; and THERE apply same, - as ye did among thy brethren in that sojourn before this; and ye will find contentment of mind, peace within self, and the material things necessary for carrying same forward to the GLORY of God - not for [2410].
49. (Q) What part am I going to play in the occult movement?
    (A) This again depends upon the application, the purposes, the aims, the hopes. Remember that the influence or the stimuli must come from the spiritual truths, - not from tales told, not from merely purely material gains but from the hope that ye may gain from an attitude of meditation and prayer, - as in this; let thy meditation oft be:
    "LORD OF THE UNIVERSE, GOD OF OUR FATHERS! HERE AM I - THY SERVANT. USE ME IN THE WAY THOU HAST PURPOSED THAT I SHOULD GO, THAT I MAY PRESENT TO THEE THAT GLORY THOU HAST SHOWN IN THY LOVE, THY MERCY TO THE CHILDREN OF MEN. NOT MY WAY, LORD, BUT THINE BE DONE IN AND THROUGH ME, EVER."
50. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file
    [Questions submitted not asked: Have Mrs. [2174] and I met before? I expect to marry by next summer. I want to know about my future wife, whose name is [...].]

REPORTS

1. 12/05/40 Mrs. [2174]'s letter: "[2410]'s Life Reading was a terrific document to me. I knew he had great potentialities and that he was beginning to find his balance from a very uphill fight. He has given it to me to read. I do think something is going to come out of it. I owe him personally a great deal. There was certainly nothing weak in his reading. It was strength positive and strength negative."
2. 1/09/41 Is Dr. [2410] the one referred to in EC's letter to Mr. [2420]?
3. 5/13/63 GD's note: Through routine mailings we know that Dr. [2410] did move out west, also that he has done some writing.

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