This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the home of Mrs. [2174], ..., N.H., this 20th day of November, 1941, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [2627], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by his wife and mother.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mr. [2627], Mrs. [2425] and Mrs. [2174]. Born August 5, 1915, in New York City.

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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 entity in the present, 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 - " - '40 - some confusions - '39 - yes, associations - '36 - inner anxieties.")
3. Yes, we are given the record here of that entity now known as or called [2627].
4. In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them here, many phases of the entity's development through material sojourns, as well as the activities of the soul entity in the interims, must be taken into consideration - if this would be a helpful experience for the entity.
5. But these we choose with the desire and hope that this may enable the entity to better fulfil that purpose for which it chose entrance in this special experience.
6. For, in the present, there are the needs - such needs - for soul or spirit evaluation in the daily application of what may at times become burdensome associations with individuals in various phases of material experiences.
7. In interpreting the activities, the information as may be of help is - as in thine own experience - to minimize the faults in others, magnify their virtues. For, with what measure ye mete, with what judgement ye condemn or laud, it is measured to thee again.
8. For, as ye do it unto thy fellow man, so ye do unto thy Maker.
9. In the latent and manifested urges that arise in the experience of this entity, those sojourns that are termed astrological aspects become a part of latent urges, opportunities, periods when activity - from the determination in spirit - has found lodgement in those faculties of an individual entity, that may the easier find expression.
10. Thus, there are those accredited influences from the zodiacal experience or planetary influence. These do not surpass the will of an entity, and - as indicated in the experience of this entity - naturally or innately, as well as manifestedly:
11. One who analyzes from those experiences produced in self or others from the activities.
12. One that finds the needs of direction, but desires to choose the more often its own experience. For, being an Atlantean as well as an Uranian, we find extremes at times play the greater influence in the urges, the desires, the choices even made.
13. Not that the entity becomes too highly emotional, but DOES at times become involved in the PROMPTING of the emotion; whether - as to whether same is of self, selfishness, or that it may be well-spoken of by others. This IS well if there is innately, in the determined factors of the entity, a basic principle upon which such choices, such emotions in their material expression, may be founded.
14. Astrologically, or from the planetary forces, we find Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Uranus and Saturn all have a part. Not combined, yet oft as a complementary influence, as well as the abstract in other experiences.
15. Those about the entity soon learn this from the manner in which the entity reacts to conditions or problems in the entity's experience, and it is oft observed when the entity is not aware that there has been such a manifestation.
16. In Mercury we find the high mental abilities.
17. We find in Venus the appreciation of beauty, of nature, of nature's storehouse, those products of the soil; those that combine good, beauty AND its effect FROM nature in the activity of the mental forces of the associates.
18. In Jupiter we find the benevolent influence for the entity. And when there are those astrological aspects that indicate Leo or Libra is in conjunction with the forces as indicated upon earthly influences from the Jupiterian, then act; not when they are in Saturn or Uranus. One will cause to overdo, the other to underdo those opportunities or possibilities in the material activities.
19. The Jupiterian influence brings the associations with others; as Uranus brings those extremes that have an influence upon the manner of the mental reaction of the entity, as well as the filial, as well as martial relationships in the entity's influence.
20. Saturn brings the many changes that have been in the present experience, as also indicated in such a VARIED activity as the entity has manifested in the material world; bringing what might be called an old soul, for it has manifested not only in those influences in the earth for good but in those that have been questioned by man. Yet the intent and purpose, the hope, the desire never began in such a purport - or purported activity; influenced rather by circumstance.
21. Thus that extreme that arises in the necessity, then, to reason with others, counsel with self. Oft turn to that spiritual import as so well applied, especially in the associations when the earth depended much upon the activities of the entity, physically as well as mentally and spiritually, for what it would become.
22. For, the entity was among those eight souls saved for a definite purpose, and brought that influence in the earth that is today that source from which spiritual and mental advance has been kept toward that more commonly termed the more civilized of the groups or individuals.
23. But, as to the appearances in the earth, - these, as indicated, have been quite varied, and at times questioned. Not all of the appearances are given here, but those that apply in the present to those associates, those activities needed for the entity to find self and its relationships to groups, to individuals.
24. Before this, then, the entity was in the land of the present nativity, but in the southern portion - or Louisiana.
25. There, as the brother of Jean Lefitt [Lafitte - see 2627-1, Par. R1], the entity became so involved as to bring not only condemnation to self from many, but disappointments in self. For, though the world looked on the entity as piratical, or a pirate in some respects, these grew out of circumstance, and not of purpose in self.
26. Hence the entity finds in the present that SELF is the greatest combating factor, as to the abilities to choose directions in the activities in relation to conditions and its relationships to others. Not of choice of associates, not of its purpose as it desires to do, but manner of application of that purpose.
27. Hold fast to that purpose as prompted the first activities in that land; the use of the soil for those developments in its supplying the needs to man, not as man to be complied by same, as eventually became the material activity.
28. In the experience the entity gained, the entity lost, the entity eventually gained again - though through material suffering, through material hardships.
29. Thus the entity has chosen those environs in which, as will be seen, circumstance has brought the entity into relationships again with many with whom the entity was associated AS an influence for (mentally called) evil; while spiritually much was and is a cleansing.
30. Hence we find abilities of the entity will and should have to do with the things of the soil, with the products of nature, for not only sustenance - not merely sustenance; but look upon same as upon the supply. For, that which in nature aids the individual man to FULFIL HIS purpose towards the Creative Influences, or God, is fulfilling its mission in the material world. As the product, the fruit of soil, - its purpose is to supply the physical strength for man's sustenance, and is in spirit of the same source as the spirit of man.
31. Then, give that import as ye supply that which aids the plant, the animal, the tree, nature itself, to better give greater sustenance, greater strength, greater purpose for its MATERIAL manifestation in the earth. This will enable the entity to keep that balance. For, know - the silver and the gold is the Lord's, the cattle on a thousand hills is His. These are lent to thee that ye may use that substance as unto GLORY of God, not gratifying of self-indulgence nor of self-glorification.
32. Before that the entity was in the Roman, Palestine, Grecian and Archean (?) land; that one who truly, it may be said, gave the emphasis to the statement: He that serves Rome the better is the greater Roman of all.
33. It was during those activities in that period of the expansion, when Caesar Augustus made those attempts to UNIFY the service for peoples in every land; following closely in purpose that as had been the ideal materially of the emperor Xerxes and Midias (?).
34. This was that there was innate in the soul of man the ability to rule himself and his household, either for weal or woe, but the privilege of such, of doing such, should be the privilege of groups, of masses, - yea, of the individual.
35. Thus the entity in its service, in its activity, made those expansions in the correct directions. However, these brought disturbing to many - for some groups, whose purpose, whose ideals were self-indulgence, self-laudation, that it might be the better spoken of, or considered the greater influence for those activities that made their impressions upon groups. These brought some disturbing factors in the lives of many.
36. The entity served as that counselor to those placed in authority in the varied lands, for the gathering of taxes; not as taxes, according to the entity's purpose, but that the various groups might contribute to that purpose that was the prompting of the entity's emperor.
37. The name then was Philo, and the entity brought great advancements; yet, as indicated by the next appearance, fell - by circumstance - into that very slough of despair that it attempted to point a great empire away from.
38. Hence the extremes that have been, the ability the entity will find in the present to become a leader, a director of groups who would make the application of spirituality in a practical, everyday life; as may enable groups to induce the soil to supply that which is its privilege - a blessing to its Maker.
39. Before that we find there was the experience of the greater period of development for the entity in the material world.
40. For we find the entity, as the son of Noah, chose the better way for transmitting in fact, in activity, to his peoples after the sojourn in the ark, not only the needs for the establishing of homes but of home altars, and the uniting of those home altars in a group, a nation, a national activity.
41. The name then was Japheth. In the experience the beauty of the companionship, of the entity's activities, not only before but after the period of preparation and throughout the sojourn, found its expression and activity in that channel through which the hope of the world did and has come again.
42. Thus in the present may the entity, with those associations, those companionships, bring - has brought - an activity which may add to that harmony in the material world, that will again SING - as the entity did through that period of activity - the realm of the infinite made manifest in man's heart, man's purpose, man's joy.
43. Leave aside, then, those things that would easily beset, knowing thy purpose and thy ideal, thy IDEAL, - physically, mentally, spiritually. Know that all that takes place or that takes form in the mind is prompted either by the spirit of truth or the spirit of rebellion. Which WILL YE choose?
44. Know the ideal, then, must be as was manifest in Him, who gave, "If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments - and I will come and abide with thee." That promise is in spirit, is in truth.
45. Hence those as this entity may bring, with its companionship - as did bring, as did keep the home fire bright to the altar of the Lord - may bring again to man, in those activities in the earth, that of a joy. Not easy from the material angle, unless that ideal is held aloft in spirit, in mind, in material things.
46. Before that the entity was in the Atlantean land, when there were those periods of necessity of the groups being separated, owing to the upheavals as were being brought by the sons of Belial - in using spiritual forces for self-gratification, self-indulgence.
47. The entity was among the children of the Law of One, and among those that went first to the Pyrenees, then to the Egyptian land; where there were, with those periods of purification, the attempts of the teacher or leader to unify the activities.
48. And under the varied groups that bound themselves for a single purpose for the establishing materially of the things that be of God, the entity joined there in a service that brought the abilities of that land to produce those products that became the activities which have preserved the records later of that land.
49. The name then was Ash-tep.
50. As to the abilities of the entity, then, in the present, and that to which it may attain, and how:
51. First, study to show thyself approved unto thy ideal, rightly dividing, rightly emphasizing the words of truth; keeping self from condemnation, of self or of others.
52. In those fields of service and in the activities with the soil, with the products of the soil, with those groups that would make practical not merely by theory but by LIVING practical spiritual evolution, do we find the abilities of the entity in the present.
53. Ready for questions.
54. (Q) In farming, what should my emphasis be on?
    (A) Each product is to supply certain elements to the body of man; not by man's changing same, but that purpose the Creator gave it as food, as a supply to man's physical need IN even a changing world. Thus the stress should be upon each product being given ITS opportunity for fulfilling its mission in relationship to man; or the study of the soil as to how BETTER to produce grasses, vegetables, fruits, berries or the like; or to supply the elements in the animal kingdom - as of the pig or the cow; that its flesh, its milk, may have those elements NECESSARY for supplying to man that which has its spiritual value and not in a cantankerous or a diffusing manner. For, as man assimilates in the mind, so it assimilates in the spirit. That is why the entity in its experience with its associates when leaving the ark, found it necessary for taking these things into consideration - as to those very necessary elements.
55. (Q) What have been my associations in the past with, - first, my wife, [2425]?
    (A) The greater experience, the greater advancement is in that innate or soul urge from that period in the ark.
56. (Q) My son, [2607]?
    (A) These will best be found by paralleling. But in the Roman experience the son was then rather one in authority over the entity. Also there were associations in the Atlantean-Egyptian experience, as well as in a Persian experience not urging the entity in the present.
57. (Q) My mother, [2174]?
    (A) In the Roman as well as the Egyptian-Atlantean. Counseled together oft; sat upon more than once, but proved worthy. Do so again.
58. (Q) [2615]?
    (A) Closest association in the one before this, from which there may be found at present great differences, - but spiritual purposes and ideals may be one.
    Let thy meditation oft be that even as ye did upon the hills in Ararat:
    "LORD, THOU ART MAKER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH. THOU HAST PRESERVED THY SERVANT FOR A PURPOSE IN THE EARTH. THOU HAST GIVEN ME, TODAY, OPPORTUNITIES. HELP ME, O GOD, TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT WAY; THAT I MAY EVER BE A CHANNEL OF BLESSINGS TO OTHERS, POINTING THE WAY EVER TO THEE."
59. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Mother
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BACKGROUND

1. Life Readings previously had been secured for his wife, [2425], and his baby son, [2607].

REPORTS

1. See Source File Key #2627 for article on Jean Lafitte from the Encyclopaedia Britannica re 2627-1.
2. 1/12/44 He and his wife, [2425], requested a Life Rdg. for another baby son, [5008].

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