This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 25th day of August, 1927, in accordance with request made by self - Mrs. [2720].

Present: Edgar Cayce; L. B. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Born December 10, 1900, San Francisco, California.

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1. LBC: You will give the relations of this entity with the universe, and 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 the 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 that to which it may attain, and how.
2. EC: Now, we have those relations with the universal forces as are latent and exhibited in the present earth's plane.
3. We find the entity coming under the influence of those forces in Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune and Sun, and Moon adverse.
4. We have, as we find, quite an interesting entity here, from many viewpoints, and from the astrological aspect entirely one that would be almost contradictory to those mathematical tables as have been set for the study of one that has had - and IS PROVING - the development in and through the earth's plane.
5. Coming under Venus, love rules in most respects for the entity; yet without that of high regard, or of the highest honor, love suffers with this entity - when we speak of love as is ORDINARILY considered affection. When we speak of love as law, and as an IDEAL, this becomes to this entity an entirely different aspect.
6. While, with the influences of Jupiter and of Neptune, we find one that regards what others may say, still continues to have ideas and ideals that are not always in keeping with what is ORDINARILY considered as being just in track with the common run of social conditions or social positions. Hence we find one - to many - a very unactive entity in many respects, when the mind and the inner expressions of the entity are so out of the ordinary as not to be even classed with the common run, as would slangly be expressed.
7. One, then, that does not always hold to what is considered the tenets of the social elite, yet one that holds to tenets that to the entity are above what ANY may think.
8. One that has consideration for others, and even to the expense of self's feelings in this considered - which is WELL for the development of the entity under the existent environs, but on the other hand - in the study of the development, the entity - or one considering same - might call this the cosmic influence, yet this is found to be rather the training of self, or of often forcing issues with self and taking very definite stands concerning the actions of the entity in regards that the entity sets as its criterion or as measure for its own development. Hence one not always understood by others, yet loved, honored, respected, by those who THINK - yet who thinks? or how few there are that really take the time TO think, letting others do the thinking and they becoming then reflections of mass thinking, rather than being the individual as one SHOULD be - though again one comes, in considering the entity here: That this is the end of all thought, that one and in one all become developed - yet the entity stands out as INDIVIDUAL, and with the balance kept much in the way that the last three years has given this entity, much will be accomplished toward the development of self, and in setting the way in which many more will be privileged - THROUGH application of self's development - to attain a glimpse of that as will be materialized by this entity.
9. One high minded, in Jupiter, yet often misunderstood as to the manner of APPLYING high minded ideals - for the entity judges from the HEART, or the source, when many judge from that as is seen.
10. One loving mystery, the sea, the mysteries of mysticisms, and a student of the arts as pertain to isms or schisms. Keep self WELL IN HAND concerning such, else there may come unstable mindedness, by being led rather than LEADING the way through manifesting that ATTAINED by self. BE SELF, in spite of might or main, for in self the greater development will be brought about.
11. In applications, we find one that is capable of preparing self, or making self fit into the various or varied conditions in which life - with its various phases, turmoils, strife, joys, pleasures, hardships - the entity applies self to meet the needs of conditions IN SELF, though again misunderstood by many - for the entity feels that it knows in whom it has believed. Keep self, then, against that day when doubt may arise from being in the position wherein compatibility does not appear to bridge the variations in conditions arising.
12. As to appearances - these, while not great in number, are seen to be those INNER expressions of the self that seeks to find the expression in the varied phases of life's endeavors.
13. In the experience before this in the earth's plane we find in the land when there were many turmoils and strifes going on between the peoples within and those that would keep the peoples under subjection. The entity then rose to meet the needs of the hour, in leading the charge against the red coat. Then in the name Pitcher, and the entity GAINED through that experience. Not in the warlike spirit, as SOME would have it, but rather as meeting the needs of the hour for the best for the most people, guiding and directing in home, in groups, and in extremities. The urge as is seen - the ability to meet the needs of the occasion under whatever may be the environs. FEAR NOT, and let not doubt assail thee, for Will will build - with the Mind the builder.
14. In the one before this we find in the land now known as the Indian country. The entity then among those who gave the lessons to the peoples through that of being the interpreter to the leader in religious or in the spiritual training of the period. In the name Alphi, and the entity gained and gained, and lost and lost - through the inability to contain the physical expression of desire of the flesh, and in the conditions as appear as urges - that of susceptibility to those conditions pertaining to sex and the study of same. The entity becoming, through same, one that would make - and DOES MAKE - the exceptional psychoanalyst, for the study of mind and the application of same exceptionally developed in the entity.
15. In the one before this we find in that land known as Atlantis, when the peoples were in the stage of high civilization, as termed - or men and women with the ability to apply so many of the laws of the universal forces. The entity among those who saw, experienced, and applied - in the manner - these laws; yet not wholly attached to the development in any particular strain or element - yet all scientific problems of the day especially interesting to the entity, through seemingly an urge not yet developed to the point where the entity can tell whether it is mechanical, scientifically mechanical, or of just DREAMING that brings so much interest to self from the exploits of those who win in scientific investigations, whether of mechanical, physical, spiritual, or material. Then in the name Emai, and the entity gained and lost - yet, as given, applied little in self, save by absorption. In the urge is seen that of the love of the exploits of those who succeed.
16. In the one before this we find in those days when man was the one pursued, rather than being master over the beasts and the creeping things of earth. The entity among those that went as an envoy or representative to consider the ways and means of unity among the peoples that would rise and possess the land - through that injunction given to subdue the earth. Then in the name Shaiti, as would be called to-day. The entity a leader, a guide, a director, a POWER among the peoples of the day. In the urge as is seen in the present, a fear that is unconquerable, save in the quieter moments when there is the study of self.
17. In the abilities, there are seen many - yet, as is seen, again that in being the leader, and in being the teacher, and in being the interpreter, and in being to many that that would save the many, is the work of the entity in this present experience. Keep self in that stable manner that brings to self the rendition of the best in self to He who gave, "Come unto me all that are weak and heavy ladened and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, and I am with you ALWAYS," and in this there is seen as the whole truth, being: Love the Lord thy God and thy neighbor as thyself - for this is the whole law and the gospel, and in the application of self to these truths there comes the peace that passeth all understanding.
18. We are through for the present.

BACKGROUND

1. 7/20/27 Letter: "Will you please send my reading in a plain envelope, without your return address? Thank you."

REPORTS

1. 11/16/27 Letter from [2720] to EC: "Thank you very much for the Life Reading - I trust I may benefit much through this wonderful knowledge that comes to you from the Universal Intelligence. I am very happy to be made a member of the Association and am taking advantage of the privileges you extend by enclosing my request for a physical reading - If you would let me know a few days ahead of the time set - and if the time could be in the morning - I would be grateful.
   Again thanking you for this privilege that comes through your God-given power..."
2. 12/17/27 See 2720-2, a physical reading.

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