This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 322 Grafton Avenue, Dayton, Ohio, this 3rd day of August, 1925, in accordance with request made by his sister - Mrs. [538].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Born July 31, 1884, near Hopkinsville, Ky.

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1. GC: You will give the relation of this entity and the Universe, and the Universal Forces, giving the conditions that are as personalities, latent and exhibited, in the present life. Also the former appearances in the earth's plane, giving time, place, and the name, and that in that life which built or retarded the development for the entity, giving the abilities of the present entity and to that which it may attain, and how.
2. EC: Yes, we have the entity here, with those universal influences as are manifest in the present earth plane, with the urges as are manifest and latent in the entity, acting as the personalities, as are exhibited in the present earth's plane. These, as we find, are changed through will's forces in the various planes, which become the developments for the entity from age to age.
3. In taking the position in the present plane, we find the urges, and the manifest and latent, are from those of Jupiter, with Venus, Mercury, Mars, and of the Pleiades. Then we have these as manifested conditions and those as latent in the life of the present entity. From the position as taken, with the time of the entrance into the earth's plane, the greater influences as are shown in Jupiter and in Mercury come in the later days of the present sojourn. This, then, gives those high ennobling influences as are manifest in the entity.
4. The ones as we have from other spheres give many of latent urges.
5. One who gives every ennobling influence to those whom the entity may contact. One who easily makes friends in every walk of life. One who does not consider one above another, save in their actions in and before their fellow man.
6. One that places the principle that imbues every action as the highest incentive of construction to be placed on deed or on life of individual.
7. One, we find, who will and does accede to place and position when others feel that it would be out of question for entity to even attempt to such position or place.
8. One, we find, who has made, through will's forces and through the spirit of truth as held in the spirit forces, and through the ennobling influences of other sojourns, brought, the better elements in the present plane, and will bring these farther in the present plane, being then in the coming years given places of responsibility as guiders, directors, leaders, in the offices to which the body will accede toward.
9. One who, through the love influence, makes for the home, and as a parent, good in every respect. One that we find brings joy to many, though in some respects brings those torments at the same time, for these we find come through other influences, as we shall see.
10. One that will, in the coming years, through the influence as is given in love and in home, see the results of same in that attempted by the entity.
11. As to the appearances, with the various urges as is seen:
12. In the one before this we find in the name then of Iaxol, and in the Court of Charles the first in England, and in that of the jester for the King, being of the same house and lineage of the Queen, and the entity, after the beheading of King, brought much troubles to the peoples who tried and did succeed in rule of the land, for with the gesture as was given in jest to the peoples, we find the founders of the now comic and jestic papers were founded by the entity in that day. In the urge, we find the entity one that loves the joke, loves the jest, loves to be able to tease, torment or berate people, in a manner that gives a wonderful lesson, would they but take it in the proper manner. This the entity should use with care and discretion. This, as we see, would have also made the entity, had same been applied, an editorial writer for papers. With the condition in that age, we find both retarding and developing periods in the entity's forces, for with those influences felt at that period from Pleiades, the entity found those diversions and those conditions that were extreme in many ways.
13. In the one before this we find in the Persian rule, when the King was being dethroned by the officers of the Grecian forces under Alexander. The entity then in that position of the officer to the King's exchequer, being then in the name of Eoso, giving then much counsel to the manner in which the entity was assistance to the King. This, as we see, brings in the present urge the ability for the entity to finance self and conditions about which the entity labors when seemingly from others the entity would be unable to accomplish that done. This also will prove the greater urges in the latter part of the present sojourn, for in the years we find influences of Mercury, with Jupiter and Pleiades, coming in that position when Venus' benevolent influences, with Jupiter, gives this reoccurrence of the urges, for great amounts of money (of other peoples') will pass through the hands of the entity. In the time the entity developed in many ways, yet in the latter portion, when the imprisonment came to the entity, hard feelings and desires were held against such captors. Hence the love of the open as again manifested in the entity.
14. In the one before this we find in the Mongoloid region, when the entity then in the name Tau, was the beginning of the rule from which the later dynasties and portions of same are seen now from the descendant, where now occupy Mongolia or China. These, as we see, brought many developments. Hence the inner urge as comes to the entity to seek few for counsel, but that of the best, and those urges as come in the peculiar makeup of dress and of desire of the self in dress comes from urges received in that sphere and position. All development through that plane.
15. In the one before this we find in the Peruvian forces, when the Ohlms [Ohms? Ohums?] were in that [Aymaras] country, giving then the development of the laws as pertain to sacrifice. The entity then in the Temple of Mu and giving the sacrificial service over which the Priest of Ohlm gave the first of sacrifice as offered by man which partook not only of the highest as was received, but of the best. The entity in this, we find, developed in many manners, in many manners retarded, for we find in the closing of the earth's sojourn, when the entity gave of the sacrificial forces, and it applied to human forces, these brought destructive forces to the entity in its end, for with the conditions as presented, gave the influences of the lower forces. This, as we see, is seen in the earlier days, when the entity desires to see suffering in a manner and form for error as is seen by the entity. This, we see, has been overcome in many of the planes through which the entity passed. In the present, the urge as is seen from this is that of the indifference towards that of others, save as sympathy would give out to that one.
16. In the one before this we find in the days when the first of the peoples came into that country of the Jardines [Gadarenes?], when the Atlantean forces were in the power and rule. The entity then in the form and manner of the peasant to the peoples and gave of self in the development of the peoples towards the agricultural intent of storing up foods for those who were of the less fortunate of the peoples. This then, the entity, in the name of Diu. The entity in this developed much, for the first of brotherly love shown in the earth. In this we find the entity covers many of the conditions that would become amiss in the present plane, through this universal love of all.
17. As to that which the entity may attain in the present, those conditions as have been and are set. Keep in that way and manner, knowing that unto Him, the Giver of all good and perfect gifts, must the inner self respond, so that self in every manner and form may magnify Him in the earth, for the closer relations as is held between self and His love as is manifest in His Son, Jesus, in the earth, this becomes the magnifying of self in earth for others.
18. We are through.

BACKGROUND

1. His mother, Mrs. [265], had previously obtained a Life reading.

REPORTS

1. Mr. [2698] subsequently obtained Physical readings for his wife, Mrs. [522], and Life readings for his sons, [1715] and [309].
2. 7/19/32 See sister's reading, 538-32, Par. 23-A, indicating that [2698] was [538]'s son in the Persian-Grecian incarnation.
3. Mr. [2698] died suddenly ten years after his Life Reading, on 12/02/34 from an attack of angina. The year before his death he had moved up to the job of General Agent of the ... Railroad.
4. 12/15/34 See EC's letter about him to his wife, under 522-5 Reports.

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