This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 15th day of July, 1942, in accordance with request made by the self - [2454], Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Born May 15, 1899, in Dayton, Washington.

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, that to which it may attain, and how. You will answer the questions, as I ask them:
2. EC: (In going back over years from the present - " - '39 - yes - changes - as a natural source of expansion for this entity - '36 - '28 - different outline - " etc., on back to birth date.)
3. Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as [2454].
4. In giving the interpretation of the records here, - quite a variation of ideals, as exhibited in the entity's experiences in the earth, are to be chosen from. Yet, as would be symbolized in the chart of the entity, this is a perfecting of many of those experiences in the present.
5. Hence a circle would be as the symbol, or the entity's seal; with this quite shaded from white with pink or very light pink, gradually shading to a deeper pink, with green next, then blue; with a very fine line of gold toward the center, leaving a white circle in the center about two inches across, and making the border at least four inches in width. And in the center put the maple leaf, - this in the variegated colors as of first turning in the fall; with the face of the Master on same, or as coming through same - this would be the face that is upon the painting of the Master in the garden.
6. In giving the interpretations of the records for this entity, - these we choose from same with the desire and purpose that this be a helpful experience for the entity; enabling the entity to better fulfil those purposes for which it entered this present sojourn.
7. As indicated, the material appearances have been quite varied; yet very sincere, very stern in most of the activities in the earth. Thus, in its relationships with others in the present, the entity is one qualified to interpret most any phase of an individual experience. Thus others will listen.
8. Hence the entity should be guarded, not as to what it would say or as to whether it would say, but as to what and how and when it says. Not that the entity speaks too often, but just remember that others listen and recall "Ye shall give an account of every word that is spoken." For in the speaking, thy words are given power.
9. In interpreting through the astrological aspects, or the interims of sojourn, - these we find apparent:
10. Arcturus comes in this entity's chart, or as a central force from which the entity came again into the earth-material sojourns. For, this is the way, the door out of this system. Yet purposefully did the entity return in this experience.
11. In Mercury we find the mental acuteness. (Notice, these are somewhat varied from those that may be given in some, as an interpreting of the influence of the solar-astrological reactions to the entity in the present.)
12. We find in Venus the maternal, the filial, the marital associations. Thus these find expression in the material associations in the present.
13. The greater force is Neptune. Thus the entity will have much in this experience to do with those who travel on, work in, travel over, acquainted with or a part of the water, oceans, seas, lakes, rivers. Hence the entity should always dwell close by water, especially running water. There, by such, the entity may meditate the better.
14. As to the appearances, - these are so varied, as may be indicated from the entity's appearance in the earth from Arcturus, or from the changes that come.
15. Hence the entity may be expected to experience, to be associated with, to be connected in some form or manner with not only unusual experiences for an individual entity, but with many who have had, who will have, much to do with the changing of policies, - local, state, national and international. For, these are as a part of a universal or broader consciousness to which the entity will in great measures contribute in this sojourn.
16. As to the entity's sojourns that influence the entity now, - returning, most all of these become then a part of the entity's present experience:
17. Before this the entity was in the earth when there were those journeyings from the east to the west - GOLD! In '49 did the entity, with its associates and companions, journey to the western lands.
18. Hardships were experienced on the way, yet the entity was among those that did attain, and saw, experienced, was associated in those acts with those that were comparable in their relationships to such conditions; rowdy, drink, spending. Yet the entity was one to whom many, many, came for counsel.
19. The name then was Etta Tetlow. Records of these may be found in some of the questioned places in portions of California, even in the present. In activities with all types of that early land did the entity have connection.
20. Thus, few of any language or of any clime are as strangers to the entity in the present. There is the NATURALNESS of how to meet varied problems as part of the entity's experience in the present.
21. Before that the entity was in the Irish or Erin land, or Ireland, during those periods when there were many of those who were determined to become a part of the New World.
22. There the entity was among those who not only favored such activities but aided others to make those changes, when there had been the experiences and the reports by the varied groups.
23. And the entity itself traveled over water, much water, many days; for the ship in which the entity undertook to come across the Atlantic landed in other portions of the land entirely; coming onto a portion first of the South American land, and eventually to that known more as the French quarter of the present land - or New Orleans.
24. Trials and turmoils were a part of the entity's experiences, and much that had to do with sailings and sailors and activities having to do with those peoples.
25. The name then was Rosa O'Deshea; in those activities when the changes were wrought in those portions of the land, when the Princess came to that part. For the entity was associated there, as well as in another portion of the land, with royalty.
26. Thus the regalness of the entity; its abilities to look well without ANY adornment, or without any character of adornment; the abilities to control, to lead the associations of many varied tongues; all of these are a part of the entity's experience.
27. Before that the entity was in the Palestine land, during that period when the Master walked in the earth. There the entity was among those who came under the direction of the teachings not only of the Master Himself, but of the Apostles; having that deep sympathy with - and in association with - the disciples, the Apostles, and the gatherings with those activities during the experience.
28. Coming into the experience as a professional mourner, the entity came in contact with the teachings first through an association with the widow of Nain, when the son was delivered again to the mother.
29. In the name then Pegler, there came the greater development; yet turmoils were brought following the persecutions, and the entity following those into the Persian land.
30. Yet from that sojourn there are great latent talents as a teacher, a leader, an instructor, a director. All of these abilities are a part of the entity's present experience. Yet there was so little of the home life in that sojourn. It was for this that the entity returned in the present experience.
31. Before that the entity was in the Roman land, when there were those changes wrought as to the attempts to sail in other lands.
32. There the entity was a man. In those experiences the entity itself was a sailor, and had charge of the Roman fleet that came into a part bf Ireland, England, and the coasts of that land. For, the entity came home with the conquering types of entertainment for the varied things that could be added to an empire of that experience.
33. Thus again we find the abilities within self to meet the varied situations; control, as a leader, as a teacher, as of every form of contact with others, - whether requiring the purely material control, mental or spiritual guidance or direction.
34. Those were a part of the entity's experience then, as Romolonoun. In the experience the entity gained, as in most of the activities through its journeys in the earth; though oft - as in that period - the entity had those disturbances in overcoming the tendencies that are oft accredited to those of its own present sex.
35. Before that the entity was in the Persian land, being among those in authority - or being next related to Semiramis; lady in waiting, or - as would be called in the present - the secretary, or really the ruler.
36. For, the entity then in such associations brought the interests of the mental and of the material things of the land.
37. Hence in the present we find the interest in the oriental, the abilities to compare the teachings of the near East and Far East; which comes also from the period in Palestine which just preceded this one.
38. But from this experience there came the determinations of the entity to appear next in the opposite sex, because of the relationships brought by the activities of Semiramis in the Persian activities.
39. Thus the abilities and directions and choices in those things having to do with the Persian, the Orient and oriental teachings, oriental hangings, oriental garments, oriental activities.
40. Then the name was Sedler.
41. Before that the entity was in that known as the upper land, or in that city called Damascus, during the periods when the first of the nomads or the children of Israel were brought in as prisoners.
42. For, the entity then was among those of the household of Benhadad, in the name then Ben-ner; being a princess, yet never choosing the social life, but rather the study of the various peoples and the conditions which arose.
43. The entity became acquainted with those teachings through the associates that had been brought in as prisoners, or as a maid. The entity learned of those activities by the prophets in the land. These activities of the entity brought the eventual reaction in Xerxes, but this was many, many years later, to be sure, for the entity was not in the material plane during that period of Xerxes' sojourn - but influenced same materially by the teachings the entity instilled in those who eventually came into authority and power.
44. Before that the entity was in the Incan or Peruvian land, when there was the building up of those tenets that had become a part of those experiences of those who had journeyed into the land.
45. There the entity was a teacher, a priestess who was forbidden to have associations with men, through the teachings that had raised the entity to that position of authority.
46. Though the entity was surrounded with pomp and with all conveniences, turmoils were within the experience of the entity. For, these segregations were not a part of the entity's choosing, though the entity knew much of those laws pertaining to such activities.
47. Hence in the present there is the interest in such, but of such a nature that bespeaks of the mental and spiritual rather than of the material.
48. The name then was Euga.
49. Before that the entity was in the Egyptian land, during those periods when there was the rebuilding after the turmoils and strifes that came about, which brought about the changes, after those periods when the Atlanteans had entered.
50. The entity was among those who were in the activities close to the Priest in that period of preparation for the peoples who were to become the mothers and the ones preparing for the future generations.
51. Hence the entity, as a nurse pertaining to things of that nature, - is a part of the entity's experience, as well as rituals for the preparation for motherhood, or those things as would attain to the relationships that would bring about certain effects in the lives of the offspring.
52. For the entity was a student in the Temple of Sacrifice, more than the Temple Beautiful.
53. The name then was Eu-Eul-Lo.
54. Before that the entity was in the Atlantean land, when there were those activities when one individual first saw those changes that eventually made for that opening for the needs of, or the preparation for, the Universal Consciousness to bring into the experience what is known to man as the first created man.
55. THIS entity was the companion of that beginning of activity in the Atlantean land. Thus, not as the mother of creation of those activities, but as an advisor to those who would change in their form of activities; or the attempts as later expressed in the entity of being rid of the appendages of materiality.
56. Thus the deep innate desire of those activities in the experience of the entity in the present.
57. The name then was Muglo.
58. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, - a home builder, a community maker, a nation aid, a universal mother, in the advice or counsel or direction to the young as well as the companionship to the old and young.
59. Ready for questions.
60. (Q) What development am I seeking in the present experience?
    (A) Read that as we have indicated. There is the seeking throughout. Ye are chosen. Keep in the way.
61. (Q) Should I develop my inclination toward writing and along which lines?
    (A) That line especially explaining motherhood as related to psychic and spiritual subjects.
62. (Q) How can I best prepare myself to develop this ability, and which mediums would be best through which to reach those to whom it might be helpful?
    (A) Entering within and meditating upon that desired to be accomplished. And it will come, as the visions which ye have oft had.
63. (Q) Which mediums would be best through which to reach those to whom it might be helpful?
    (A) By the publications of such writings.
64. (Q) Have I ever been married to or associated with my husband, [2746] in any former experience?
    (A) In the Egyptian, the close associations in the Persian - the lover. In the experience before this you knew of, though not closely associated with him.
65. (Q) Where have I been associated before with each of my children? First, [2677]?
    (A) These all should be paralleled by the experiences in the varied lands. And as these are interpreted in the light of the activities of each, it will be seen as to how and where the associations were.
66. (Q) How can I better understand and guide my son [2542]?
    (A) This is a natural tend and trend. Fear not; only know the author of thy ideals - and keep in that way. And as ye seek to direct him in the spiritual understanding, ye will be guided. For the spiritual understanding is first. For, this attained - the mental and material will be a natural, normal result. Hence not as a cloister activity, but as practical Christian living. That teach, that direct to thy son. These abilities are innate, and what ye seek in the present - and they will have their effect upon future generations.
67. (Q) What is the meaning of the pulling sensation in my fingers and hands?
    (A) These should come more from the tendencies that are a part of the experience - the writing, see?
68. (Q) How can I best apply my understanding for the benefit of others?
    (A) Put it on paper, and publish it!
69. (Q) Should I institute a study group at this time, and what would be suggested as an approach to this particular group?
    (A) What is thy ideal! That teach, that practise. Use that of ANY, but most the Book itself.
70. (Q) Do I use the understanding I have to the best of my ability?
    (A) Read what has been indicated. Only keep in that way that is the Christ-Consciousness way.
71. We are through for the present.

    Two copies to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. See 2454-2.

REPORTS

1. 8/26/42 [2454]'s ltr. to EC: "I have been a long time about writing but I honestly didn't know what to say as to my reaction to my life reading. I know I was nearly startled out of finishing this sojourn.
   "Of course, having the established convictions of its truth, I could not doubt the information given. But - it seems to me I have spent much time and effort with other peoples affairs when I might have better tended my own.
   "There is many things I of course do not understand, after much study, and as always I seek your counsel:
   "1st - What is the meaning of the maple leaf in the life seal [Par. 5]?
   "2nd - The paragraph on page 2, 3rd from the top [Par. 8], just WHAT does those TWO WHATS mean?
   "3rd - In the 5th paragraph [Par. 10]; just what role does Arcturus play outside of being the gateway? and does that infer that this is the only material system? and does one have, well I don't believe I know how to ask this question; what does it mean by the line; yet purposefully did the entity return in this 'experience' what would you think was the purpose?
   "And that Etta person, I'm sorta ashamed of her, [2746] thinks I should look in the police records for the information mentioned. It made me very happy to find that [2746] and I both were close to you in the Egyptian period. It must be the reason you mean so much to us now.
   "What would you say about the Atlantean period? I don't think I quite understand or catch the real importance of 'this entity was the companion of that beginning of act entity.' Was I in material form as man or only spirit? This must have been the beginning of the Law of One.
   "This has been a long letter of questions for you to go over but if you can give me this information it will be deeply appreciated. I will send you [2677]'s comment as I think you would enjoy it. [See 2677-1] I sent him a copy. He is still in Ft. Douglas, Utah, waiting to be sent to Officer's Training School, and I am hoping it will be somewhere here in the East.
   "Have you become grandpa yet? You will have to hurry as I will be grandma in Oct. and ... my youngest daughter is to marry next month. Seems when you have a family there is never a dull moment. [2746] is still away, but thinks he might get to come home some time soon as ten months seems a long time. Well Mr. Cayce [copied into 2677-1 Reports] here is what [2677] had to say: "'I think Mr. Cayce can be justified in any pride he might secretly feel, for being the means through which such wisdom is transmitted to the senses of man in the material.' And also he says to me: 'You to have a job to do mother dear - see that you do not destroy your possibilities by too much industry. A slow development and a sincere desire to benefit are essential. I think you will succeed for you have the desire - perhaps too much so. Go slow mother and reason well. There is much to be done.' I almost feel I am his child instead of he mine. Well dear Friend give all our love and write about yourselves..."
2. 9/01/42 EC's letter to [2454]: "Have yours of the 26th - think you have a wonderful reading don't see why it should have startled you so - true seems there is a good deal expected of you this time, but you are capable of meeting it. You like all of us have your problems, but are we all as well qualified to meet them?
   "Well - oft what we do for others oft helps us better to help ourselves, you see you are good for other people - and everybody can't lay that claim for themselves, you should delve into other peoples affairs for you have the qualities that can help - and you are not doing your best unless you do just that - for never have you been a meddler - but a helper.
   "Do not know that I can correctly say just what the maple leaf means but when put in the light of the rest of the information to me it would mean - excellency of purpose - helpful - mothering of many who are disturbed - strength - power - might yet with the beauty of life itself.
   "page 2 - 3rd paragraph [Par. 8] - the whats - as individuals look to you for guidance it is well that you appreciate the position of those you work or reason with - merely as a warning to you - not a condemnation at all.
   "Arcturus - from the information is the means of one passing from this immediate solar system - and those who return from same - do so of their own purpose, for some definite purpose in the Earth - hence those of whom much is expected - happen to be one of those myself, have had very few of them through the years of experience with such information - only three as I recall just now but may have been more - each are in the position that others look to them for guidance often.
   "Do not think you should be ashamed of "Etta", few of us learn much but by experience, and with experience one may help others whatever their position in life may be, so it is now to be used as a stepping stone for self and others - not as a stumbling stone.
   "Am glad too to find those I think so much of now associated in activities with me - when we were trying at least help others.
   "In the Atlantean - there is some data that you would have to read to get the theory the information is attempting to present. We had a series of readings once - on spirit - [See [364] series] - the idea is something like this will make it as brief as can to make it clear to you - When the earth was created the intent was that - souls that we know as man now - would bespirit or able to come and go in creation as they choose - but Satan took advantage of this and projected self into things - animal matter in the earth - mixing with such - this produced things - or beings with all sorts of appendages - part man-part horse - part tree-part man or all the mythological ideas of old but one soul - sought a way to get back to GOD, and began the use or application of forces to that end. Then it was GOD made man in His own image and you were then acquainted with that Soul - possibly in a form of a physical body, thus were among the early Souls to recognize the need of GOD in the material experiences. Do you get the idea, may be so foreign to you that you may only glimpse it but when this data is gotten together think you will get that - don't believe we have had another that was given an experience in that period of time. Yet - there must have been such a time so you are indeed an old Soul as some groups assert about individuals.
   "Yes - it was the beginning of the interpretation of Law - thus was the source of the idea even of the Law of One.
   "Hope have answered most of your questions helpfully. Will be very glad to have [2677]'s comments - like him and hope all is well with him and his plans for activity here at this time.
   "No - the occasion doesn't come off until Oct. believe some time - just had a very nice little trip - went west for a bit of business and used some time seeing family in Tenn. and Ky. Enjoyed it all - will send Mrs. Cayce to Ky. Wed. or tomorrow, guess he [she?] will be away for three, four weeks.
   "Yes - this business of raising a family is something - both our boys married within a year - as I told them - just when they might have been able to help me out, they assumed their own responsibilities and I have to dig deeper to help them out, but is fine and we have two lovely daughters. Hope you have as lovely a son as we do daughters.
   "Am sure you will be glad to have [2746] home for a while - please remember me to him very kindly.
   "A very lovely compliment from [2677] - Just hope and pray I may keep humble and patient so that as the 'TRUTH' comes it may be a practical thing in the experience of all. Please thank him for me - and tell HIM I need the prayers of all that I may keep in the way as that only the truth of the Living God may come through me.
   "His advice to you is beautiful Mrs. [2454] - know you must get a real thrill from that.
   "Thanks again and again for your letter - if haven't answered your questions fully enough - maybe what have said will lay the foundation for other questions that we may build on - so don't hesitate to ask any that may come to you.
   "With love to you and yours from all here - the Bible group are doing very well expect them tonight."
3. 10/12/42 She requested a Physical Rdg. for her little boy - see 2542-2.
4. 12/26/42 She obtained a Mental-Spiritual Reading - see 2454-4.
5. 8/15/50 A.R.E. issue of THE SEARCHLIGHT contained Lydia J. Schrader Gray's article on THE KARMA OF DIVORCE in which she used an example of Mrs. [2454], after discussing her life with her.
6. 7/23/55 Verbal report of [2454], told to Gina Cerminara:
   "This time I came here for BALANCE. All my incarnations were extreme. I had a lot of experiences, and went as far as I could, but had no home life and no balance. 'Purposefully did the entity return in this experience... Yet there was so little home life and for this the entity returned...'
   "Home life requires that you deal with so many different people, personalities, clashing of temperaments; you have to handle all this.
   "I've had lots of opportunities to go in the business world. They come constantly. To teach homecrafts; to have an exhibit in New York, etc., etc. But I don't want to take them. I don't want to leave the home.
   "Any other type of balancing in your life?"
   "Yes; my emotions are very strong. I have to struggle to keep them in check. Also I can take responsibility so easily that I tend to take it all the time. I have to learn to delegate responsibility.
   "Also in the physical reading. I came to EC for my health (through [1223]). The acute condition left in 3 days; in 6 months I was able to lead a normal life; and I've had to watch it ever since, but the reading definitely helped tremendously.
   "I was working very hard, as a widow to support my children; would work 18 hrs. a day; then I would stop and turn within for strength. Unconsciously I was touching the Christ consciousness. Reading said this was fine; but remember! You're in a 3-dimensional world! Build up the blood in the physical! So this was again balance."
   "Periods of influence?
   "I was a prostitute in the incarnation before this. I believe I met this in my first 2 marriages; both men were almost like strangers. Neither of them would work; I had to go out and work so I left them both; I expected and wanted a man to give me a home. The first one gave me 3 children, but that was all. The relationships were both purely physical.
   "The seal: 'A circle would be a symbol of the entity's seal'. The face of the Master in the center. This is a balancer for me. Master's life is my pattern."
7. 5/24/56 Report by [2454] to Mae Gimbert St. Clair: "Said I should write on psychic motherhood, and I didn't know what it meant - HLC gave me 2 or 3 suggestions but I didn't understand it, so I put it aside.
   "'Universal mother - teachings of this person will affect future generations.'
   "Right after I became pregnant with [2542] - a next door neighbor wanted very much to have children. I was quite old when I became pregnant with [2542] - and I had prayed to attract a soul that would be a help to the world. ([2542]'s reading bears that out)
   "I talked with him before he was born - knew who he was and talked with him - I knew he was Polish in the last incarnation - and the reading said that I knew this entity completely. In my reading it pointed out that I was the only one that [2542] would stand in awe of - that he had no fear of anyone else.
   "Now about this neighbor - after I became pregnant - she was saying 'O how I wish I could become pregnant - I am no older than you are' - and I said 'why can't you?' - she said 'I never have been,' so I said 'you can, - I'll pray for you.' Very next month she was pregnant - she carried her baby all through - and she was delighted.
   "About 10 years later, a navy couple wanted so much to have a child. She had been pregnant - but could never carry the child through. I laughingly told her I would pray for her - but deep down I meant it. Well, the very next month she became pregnant - and had twin boys.
   "Another neighbor - who had two boys - said 'I wouldn't mind being pregnant again, if I could have a little girl,' and I said - 'well why can't you?' I don't remember whether I prayed for her or not but the very next month she became pregnant. She had a girl - and when I saw her 3 yrs. later - she ran to me with her arms out and said 'you are my mother'. They came to see me because I was her Godmother - and was at the christening - and I didn't see her again until 3 yrs. later.
   "Another case - this girl - wife of a friend of [2746]'s - was in ... - called me and suggested that we get together for lunch. She told me that had been married 8 yrs. and she had lost all her babies - I would say about 2 or 3 times. So I asked her if she would mind if I put her on my prayer list to have a baby, and she was delighted. I did this and she became pregnant the next month. I kept her in the prayer list through her time, and about 3 days previous to her birth which took place on my birthday - I had the following experience. I was thinking about her - as I went to bed, and praying for her and dropped off to sleep, and this experience woke me up. If it had been a voice - it would have said 'you know all this - the reason she miscarried previous times goes back to the activity in the Temple Sacrifice, and you are responsible for the Rh factor in her blood - which is a deficiency of the life force in the blood stream. It may be something else, but we know it has the Rh factor.' The indication was that it was a negative - or karmic condition, where I put so much of self in my interest in experimenting with blood transfusions, on the daughters of 'the sons of men' trying to help them bring better or more perfect bodies through reproduction - freeing them of 'things', appendages, etc.
   "Also this came through - that this A.R.E. work is a living thing like wine. You know it is not like church work - it's like a stream of activity, and the A.R.E. is so great that there just isn't any limit to it.
8. 4/25/63 GD's note: Mrs. [2454] has done quite a bit of lecturing for A.R.E. and writing. She has remained an active supporter of A.R.E. work.
9. 12/09/71 GD's note: Today Mrs. [2454] told me to list her writings that have been published, so it will be known how she has followed her reading in regard to her abilities mentioned. Her reading [2454-3] was mentioned in Jess Stearn's book, EDGAR CAYCE - THE SLEEPING PROPHET, using her name, so she doesn't mind revealing her name AND her Case Number, if a study of her case will help someone: A TRILOGY ON CREATION EULA ALLEN
   Compiled from the author's long study of the Bible and the Edgar Cayce psychic readings.
   B19 - BEFORE THE BEGINNING relates the spiritual concept of the soul as a companion with its Creator. Each creation, imaged by God, takes place in spirit before it is manifested in materiality, and its slow and continuous progress is what we call evolution. $3.00 - 8 1/2 x 11, soft back, illustrated.
   B30 - THE RIVER OF TIME presents the next stage in the great and continuing pageant of Creation. The soul takes on material form - but the Sons of God, with their gift of free will, sometimes choose to become the Sons of Darkness, or Evil, and must be shown the Way. $3.00 - 8 1/2 x 11, soft back, illustrated.
   B34 - YOU ARE FOREVER completes this dramatic trilogy, as we follow Man on his long struggle to return to his Father's house and regain his birthright as a Son of God and inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven. A thrilling upward progress. $3.00 - Any Two Titles $5.00 - All Three $7.50
10. 7/78 A.R.E. News:
    EULA ALLEN TRIBUTE
    Eula Allen, author of THE CREATION TRILOGY, a long-time member of Study Group #1 and a close friend of Edgar Cayce, died at two a.m. on March 1.
    A tribute to her will be held Friday, June 16, during Congress Week at 11 a.m. in the Library's main auditorium.
    Harold Allen has chosen some of those who knew and studied with Eula to speak briefly during this hour. There will also be prayer, meditation and music. All friends are invited.
11. 6/02/78 GD's brief to HLC on Eula Allen; for 6/16/78 Memorial Service at A.R.E. Congress:
    2/18/41 Eula came to Edgar Cayce for a Physical Reading, referred by Mignon Helms, a neighbor, in Norfolk. Harold was in the Navy, stationed in Norfolk. Subsequently they both had Life Readings for themselves and their son Lorie, and referred other members of the family and many friends. Eula followed Harold in the Navy to Baltimore, New London, Conn., Jacksonville, Fla., San Francisco, San Diego, etc. Everywhere Eula went she introduced new people to Edgar Cayce's work. While in Norfolk she had attended SFG Study Group meetings, Prayer Group Meetings, and - most of all - Edgar Cayce's Tuesday Night Bible Class.
    After the war they settled back in Norfolk. Harold had written Gertrude from overseas after Edgar Cayce's death: "I miss everyone so very much and hope some day soon I can come home and do my share of the work."
    Eula immediately became involved with A.R.E. activities at Headquarters, including the House Committee with Lydia Gray. Harold was soon made a member of the A.R.E. Board and the Executive Committee, where he served for many years until coming on the staff as Manager of A.R.E. Press. Then Eula was a trustee well into the 1970's.
    In 1946 Eula Allen and Ruth Denney were the first two chosen by lot by the SFG Group #1 members to substitute for Edgar and Gertrude Cayce, to keep the number at twelve.
    Eula was always one of the hostesses for A.R.E. Congress. She would pinchhit wherever needed. In 1948 she was asked to write the weekly A.R.E. Newsletter, which she did off and on for the next two years. [See Source Key File #2454 for 6/09/48 sample newsletter; also for 9/78 A.R.E. News Memorial Service on Eula Allen.]
    At the 1949 Congress Eula was on the program, her title: The MEANING OF REINCARNATION for the World Today. Besides attending Group #1 meetings weekly, she also had a group in her home studying the Bible and Creation. In the 1950's she lectured for A.R.E. on UNDERSTANDING GENESIS.
    4/52 Aida Branda wrote from N.Y.: "Eula's classes were just simply enlightening from beginning to end, and then some, for we couldn't tear ourselves away from her, grouping about to discuss many things with her that arose from the talks and to listen to her tell some of her own earlier and personal experiences. She was delightful, rich with knowledge and not a whit hindered from giving it out. And not only that! The way she gave it out, at least for me, meant the putting into place of many of the things that bothered me before, giving me the missing parts of the puzzle until I could look at last upon a perfect picture.
    "In all these years Eula especially, been a guiding light for many, many young people who have been drawn to A.R.E. She has helped them to keep their feet on the ground and their minds and hearts turned toward their Maker who has given them this opportunity in the earth.
12. 7/15/42 Eula Allen's Life Reading [2454-3] was given by Edgar Cayce. Here are some quotes from it: ...quite a variation of ideals, as exhibited in the entity's experiences in the earth, are to be chosen from. Yet, as would be symbolized in the chart of the entity, this is a perfecting of many of those experiences in the present... ...the entity is one qualified to interpret most any phase of an individual experience. Thus others will listen.
    ...Arcturus comes in this entity's chart, or as a central force from which the entity came again into the earth material sojourns. For, this is the way, the door out of this system. Yet purposefully did the entity return in this experience...
    ...the entity may be expected to be associated with, to be connected in some form or manner with not only unusual experiences for an individual entity, but with many who have had, who will have, much to do with the changing of policies, - local, state, national and international. For, these are as a part of a universal or broader consciousness to which the entity will in great measures contribute in this sojourn.
    ...there are great latent talents as a teacher, a leader, an instructor, a director.
    ...a home builder, a community maker, a nation aid, a universal mother, in the advice or counsel or direction to the young as well as the companionship to the old and young...
    Excerpts from 2454-3:
    (Q) How can I best apply my understanding for the benefit of others?
    (A) Put it on paper, and publish it!
    (A) [in re guiding son Lorie]...practical Christian living. That teach, that direct to thy son. These abilities are innate, and what ye seek in the present - and they will have their effect upon future generations.
    (A) [in re best using the understanding I have]...Only keep in that way that is the Christ-Consciousness way.
13. Eula Allen's CREATION TRILOGY books [Before the Beginning, The River of Time, You Are Forever] were published April 1963, June 1965, June 1966.
14. See Source File Key #2454 for A.R.E. News Article "Tribute to Eula Allen - A Joyous Occasion" re 2454-3.

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