This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 6th day of September, 1941, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [2583], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mr. [257].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Born September 17, 1890, in Sheffield, England.

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 - " - '20 - changes - '19 & '18 & '17 - " - etc., on back to birth date.)
3. Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [2583].
4. In giving an interpretation of the records as we find them here, these are chosen with the desire and purpose that this be a helpful influence; enabling the entity to better fulfil that purpose, that opportunity for which it entered this present experience.
5. The help may come from the interpreting of same in the spiritual and mental life of this entity.
6. For, one may be entirely a material success and yet fail miserably in the mental and spiritual aspects of its experience, and thus have that mental, that spiritual anguish that becomes as a constant thorn in the flesh.
7. For, it is not all of life to live and to gain material things. For, as the entity may find itself, it is in body, in mind and in soul.
8. True, those environs are needed in a material plane in which there may be the supply of material things. Yet fame or fortune may take wings and fly away, or fortune may become that stumblingstone over which mental and spiritual things are forgotten.
9. Thus, that portion of an entity may find anything but peace in the material surroundings.
10. For this entity we find there are abilities in any field of activity it may choose, especially having to do with things pertaining to exchange or real estate, or holdings of natures as have to deal with the social, the material and the earthly things. Yet these, unless there are the spiritual and mental aspects, may become very disturbing to the body.
11. Also we find indicated that affection, that sentiment has oft played a part in the entity's experience. This may either be well or evilspoken of. Hence, unless there is kept circumspection in the experience and in the relationships one with another, it may become that upon which individuals may bring every form of hate, jealousy, backbiting, and all of those things that are in opposition to the spiritual things, - as love, fellowship, kindness, patience. These may only be found in keeping body, mind AND soul in accord with purposes for which a soul enters a material experience.
12. Little of the astrological aspects appear as an influence in this entity's experience, yet they lie innate - only as disturbing factors, or as warnings that arise in the innate dreams or visions of the entity. These may only be put aside by the attempts, by the surrounding of self with that spiritual influence which does away with hate, jealousy, those things that make individuals or peoples afraid.
13. Live that life so in keeping with truth, harmony, justice, patience and love, as to be able to tell every individual where he may go.
14. Thus may the entity find harmony. For so long as questionings remain in the entity's self as to its conduct, as to its relation, as to its purposes, as to its activities with any soul, that shadow of truth, that shadow of doubt, that shadow of fear keeps the entity aware that there is a questioning in self.
15. As to the appearances in the earth, - not all are indicated in the present application of the self. These merely indicate the characteristics, the general conditions in the body:
16. Before this the entity was in the land of the entity's present sojourn.
17. The entity was among the early settlers in that now known as then eastern portion of the land, or about Newport, about Philadelphia, about the land of the entity's present sojourn. For the entity, though not beautiful in body or in face, USED its personage as a means for attaining ends in material association with those who were the founders of what is the land of the entity's sojourn.
18. The entity was a friend of Franklin's, and one questioned by the many, yet in the using of same the entity brought those things and conditions to pass that made for material things.
19. The entity lost, the entity gained. For, there came the experience when there was the realization that material things DO NOT bring mental peace or soul satisfaction.
20. Then the name was Frances Cabell.
21. In the present, use those abilities in the opposite direction. For, the purposes and desires were for beauty of body, for beauty of face, for beauty of figure. But do not allow these to become stumblingstones. They are the gifts of thy better self, for thy purposes to use in fulfilling the purpose for which the entity entered this experience; not in that as may separate self from that which is the dearest heritage for each soul - to be a manifestation of GOD'S PURPOSE! For ye ARE as gods. Live like that, then, in thy daily experience.
22. Before that the entity was in the Grecian-Persian land, when there were those activities in which there were the Roman powers being manifested in the lands of eastern Asia as known in the present.
23. The entity was a Grecian - beautiful in body, beautiful in purpose, beautiful in the abilities; yet - as one of the associates or companions of a Roman officer - the entity used same to insure the material welfare of the entity in that period of experience.
24. The name was then Sophia Delhan. In the experience the entity lost, the entity gained; but the abilities in the political, in the activities as attain to the fields of service in relationships one to another, arise from those experiences. Use same in thy daily activity.
25. FIND self. Find what is thy purpose in the earth. Is it merely to attain place, merely to live at ease? These may bring some material satisfaction, - NEVER mental or spiritual peace or harmony!
26. Before that the entity was in the Egyptian land, when there were those separations, those trials with the Priest there.
27. The entity then was in the land to which the Priest was banished, and one of the associates of the Priest - the aide or the armor bearer [257] for the Priest - became enamored of the entity.
28. The Priest eventually returning to the power in Egypt, the entity then - through those associations in the Temple of Sacrifice - brought greater harmony into the experience of self as well as into the activities of that sojourn. For the entity then aided those who would find themselves in their relationships to their activities one with another; thus making that experience in which there were those offices for vocational guidance of both men and women - as would be called in the present.
29. These brought greater happiness to the experience of the entity.
30. The name then was Is-Eldeph.
31. Then, as to the abilities of the entity in the present:
32. First, analyze thyself. Know thyself and thy purposes. Know what ye believe, physically, mentally, spiritually. Know the sources of thy beliefs. For in such an analysis one may find self.
33. Know thy ideals, - not as to what ye would want others to be to thee, but the ideal as to what ye would be to others - in keeping with that ye would live with eternally - or thy spiritual self.
34. THUS ye may come to know thy present problems and how ye may meet them.
35. Analyze this. What sort of a mother, what sort of a friend would ye be - or would ye like for thy mother to be if your problems were reversed with thy son, thy daughter?
36. Then be that. Know, God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man or woman soweth, that he or she also reaps.
37. As ye have found, as ye will find in thy material experience, thy problems in or through thy sojourns in the earth have been mostly of thine own making. The division that is within thine own person, as indicated by thy being alive, by thy having the opportunity for activity in this material plane, indicates that He is mindful of thee. Hast thou taken thought, or dost thou take thought of what ye owe Him?
38. Not that any soul is to be goody-goody, but good FOR something; not merely to supply material needs. For man lives not by bread alone, not by apparel, nor by homes, nor by that which is of the earth-earthy, but rather by the spirit of truth.
39. And do ye make the world better for living in same?
40. Are individuals, are groups that ye meet day by day improved in any phase by thy having met with them?
41. These questions ye alone must answer. For they refuse to be put aside. For they are a part of thy experience.
42. So live, then, that ye are not questioning thyself, and others will not question thee.
43. Give that activity in which ye may so examine thyself that ye will not find that which condemns thyself or others. For with what condemnation ye condemn, ye shall be condemned thyself.
44. Then, study to show thyself approved unto thy ideal, thy God; rightly dividing, rightly interpreting, rightly living the words of truth.
45. Keep self unspotted from condemnation of self, and these will bring harmony in thy experience.
46. Ready for questions.
47. (Q) What have been my past associations with my son, [...], and what should I do about present conditions?
    (A) In the experience before this, closely associated. Questions arose, for he - too - was thy friend, but doubted thee for the activities in which ye were associated with others and disregarded those problems and promises made.
    In the present, as indicated, study thy life, thy purpose. So live that there may be no questions.
48. We are through for the present.

    Two copies to Self (one to be sent to Mr. [257] if you wish him to help interpret your Reading)
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. GD's note: She did not list her religious preference, but her name was Gentile.

REPORTS

1. 11/05/41 Verbal report by Mr. [257]: "Mrs. [2583] told me the reading hit her exactly - that I probably thought she was crazy but her son began to improve from the time she got the reading and it told her what her attitude should be."

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