Edgar Cayce Readings, 2537-1

(Life Reading Suggestion)

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EC: Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [2537].
In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them here, these are chosen 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 chose to enter this present sojourn.
As will be seen, the entity is an Atlantean as well as an Uranian. Thus by some the entity is considered eccentric. And the entity will either make what is called a material, mental or spiritual success, or a failure - in all, or in one or the other, in this experience.
Yet, this interpretation may be helpful - if there will be the application in the experience of the entity - in knowing that the entity gained once, and yet found again and again those diffusions.
Know the first principles: There is good in all that is alive. That which is constructive in each influence, each tenet, each truth, is either a living truth or a part of a truth; that may be kept alive by its natural influence, or by those who may give of themselves and thus have the shadow of a living truth - yet egotistical in the life.
Truth and life emanate only from one source. Man - the offspring of the Creator - may diffuse, disseminate or alter same as to cause half a truth to appear a living truth.
But analyze all. Know the author of what ye believe, and let that author be that living truth which fadeth not, - who is able to keep EVERY purpose, every hope, every desire against ANY disturbance that may arise in thy experience, - mentally, spiritually, materially.
For, as ye find, - thy body, thy mind and thy soul are each in their sphere of awareness ONE. Hence the ideal must be one.
Thus He that came into the earth as an example, as a way, is an ideal - is THE ideal. They that climb up some other way become robbers of that peace, that harmony which may be theirs - by BEING at-one with that He manifested in the earth.
In giving the urges, and in the interpretation of these records, - these are chosen that ye may magnify the virtues - in self, in others; that ye may minimize the faults - in self, in others. For as ye do unto the least of thy brethren ye do unto thy Maker. And thy purpose in the earth is that ye may so magnify virtue in EVERY phase - beauty, harmony; symmetrically, rhythmically, in every form - as to glorify that creative influence. Not unto glory of self but into the glory of Him that giveth thee the abilities.
As we find indicated, there are those latent forces from the Uranian as well as the Atlantean sojourn that make the entity the more sensitive than the ordinary individual.
Thus every form of teaching, of need, appeals to something within the entity.
Do not allow that to grow that is of a selfish nature. DO cultivate ALL that bespeaks of love, beauty, rhythm, harmony, and the glorifying of good in human experience and in human relationships.
Astrologically we find Venus as combined with Jupiter and Uranus as influences, - not because of a position at birth, but because of the sojourn of the entity's consciousness in those environs.
Thus art in any form, symmetrical lines, beauty of nature and of form and of activity are appealing, as well as uplifting to the entity. Then, cultivate same.
The universality in Jupiter, in the universal consciousness, may take material form or become very carnal. Beware in the approaches, then.
We find in Uranus the extremes; the ability to be very high emotionally one day and even in the same day find that which engrosses and pushes down that as would give expression. These are the securities, and yet the stumblingblocks to the entity.
Keep in that consciousness and awareness that ye remain at one with thy ideal.
As to the appearances in the earth, - these have been quite varied. While the one before this was of short duration, compared to the others, its urge in the present experience is far-reaching - and also brings doubts and fears; for it is combative with the spiritual import of both those influences in Venus AND Uranus.
Before this, then, the entity was in the land of the present nativity, in the early settlings of the land; and because of the great hopes that were a part of the experience of the entity entered there - in what was then Fort Dearborn.
In the early period of the experience, at sixteen, the entity was among those disturbed by the necessity of the preservation of the material life - and the entity had caught a glimpse of nature's beauty, the abilities to take from nature that as would answer back to something within.
With the needs for flight, there was sympathy and the determination to answer to every cry for help - which has been a part of the entity's latent and manifested experience. This, to be sure, can become a material undoing - will never be a mental or spiritual undoing. But do not let such become a stumblingstone to thy better service to others.
Keep the faith, and let the answer be ever that as comes from within - "What would my Lord have me do?"
The name then was Marie Clarke. While losing its life in the experience, the entity gained throughout that sojourn. And EVERYONE with whom the entity may come in contact in the present may be bettered, even by the hardships the entity experienced in that sojourn.
Before that the entity was in the Grecian land, during those periods of activities in which there was the glorifying of the body, the glorifying of nature, in sculpture.
And the recent destructions of Crete brought home much of the feelings for nature and the manifestations as the entity acquired there.
The name then was Polygahn. In the experience the entity gained. For, all of those activities there were in the desire not only to preserve for future generations the beauty, but to give such expressions of helpful natures as to alleviate the carnal desires in man's relationships to man.
Hence we may find these becoming a part of the entity's experience through this particular sojourn.
Hold fast to such. For this is that in which the entity may gain, and find an outlet for the expressions of self in all forms of drawing, of sculpture, of frescoing or the like. These may be a part of the entity's experience in the present.
Before that the entity was in the Atlantean land, then there were those periods necessitating the exodus because of the destructive forces being used by the children of Belial.
The entity was a priestess in the Law of One, and among those who - ill - came into the Egyptian land, - as the elders in those groups for preserving the records, as well as for preserving a portion of that race, that peoples.
With the periods of reconstruction after the return of the Priest, the entity joined with those who were active in putting the records in forms that were partially of the old characters of the ancient or early Egyptian, and part in the newer form of the Atlanteans.
These may be found, especially when the house or tomb of records is opened, in a few years from now.
There the entity gained throughout, - being active in the greater expression of the figures, the casts. For, the entity then cast the figures of the Priest's companion, as well as of the Young King, that became a part of that worshiped for its BEAUTY - NOT for the character it represented! Please interpret aright the difference there! It interpreted the beauty as from the winged pharaoh, the goddess of love, - not because it represents a portion of any experience but the beauty depicted by the character of the individual in the figure so made.
The entity in that experience was known as Asa-Masa-Me.
As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then:
These are exceptional, as we have indicated.
But the answers to the ideal must come within self. They must be one. Not that all must not be considered - it must! Put the emphasis where it agrees with the ideal, rather than where it disagrees; else confusion - as ye experienced in the Atlantean and Egyptian land.
Keep thy faith in that which is good. For good alone lives, ever.
Ready for questions.
(Q) What is best for me to do this summer?
(A) This as we find should be answered mostly within self. Find self through this summer, so that in thy activities - as ye go from here - ye may be at one with thy purposes and with thyself.
(Q) Should I go on living in the same place next year and teach again in the school, or should I give all my time to my own work?
(A) Teach again in the school next year, and by the end of that or the following year ye may stand alone - IF YE HAVE FOUND THYSELF, THY IDEAL!
We are through for the present.
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BACKGROUND

7/07/41 [2537]'s ltr. to EC: "Thank you for sending me the info. about the A.R.E. I am mailing my membership check with this ltr.
At this time in my life, and in the world situation, one's own constructive development seems more important than ever. I have heard from many people of your amazing contact with the sources of living & how you have drawn upon it to help them. I know in the end one must work out one's own problems but since I happen to live at the same time with a person of your great insight, the opportunity of your help in finding out how and why my inner forces work against each other the way they seem to do, is something I feel the necessity of taking advantage of.
I am constantly torn by the need of working alone and yet a sense of guilt, that in this time it is perhaps a selfish occupation - or can I give more by following the lines I am now in? I shall be eager to know when you will be able to give me the rdg.
Any information about my past lives, present, or future, and the persons with whom I should be would be very helpful.
As I have always been torn between a number of different mediums of expression - any clear indication about that would be appreciated too. Is it my nature to follow several different expressions and should I just give in to it or should I take a decision to do just one thing and suppress the rest? & if SO what is that one thing?"
7/09/41 Letter: "...I should like to know what connection, if any, I have with the Greeks of the pre-Christian era which affect my activities now.
I should also like to know what it is best for me to do this summer. Should I go on living in the same place next year and teach again in the school, or should I give all my time to my own work? Am I following the line of art which is my life work, or should I be developing in another field? Is it wrong for me to avoid people for whom I seem to have no vital connection?
I seem in some ways to have come to a kind of spiritual crossroad where for some reason I do not go ahead with all the powers at my command.
It is a privilege to be able to come to you with these problems and I shall appreciate hearing whatever you feel free to tell me of good or evil which may clarify the directions I should take."