In the experiences in Venus, as is seen innate - and the
contradictory influences, as has been and will be experienced
in same; this that faltering influence as has occurred in
self, and may be experienced, dependent upon how the entity
applies self in THAT direction. This bringing those
conditions wherein marital relations, or friendships, and the
home life, and those close associations, have been, may often
be, SUDDENLY broken asunder; yet these must have their
influence in the experiences of the entity, and may not
always be passed so lightly aside, for the exercising of the
necessity of the moment; for that builded within self may
only be submerged to the detriment of an individual's
experience and an individual's OWN development. Individual
meaning, the soul's force - or that as must be lived WITH by
the entity in WHATEVER experience or sphere through which it,
the entity, may pass.
In those influences, as has been applied BY the entity:
Things, and not so much as people, as interesting to the
entity. Things that have to do with those of the ethereal
nature, or those that have to do with the messages or the
experiences of others, as may be expressed one to another.
THESE will have their greater influence in the entity's
present experience; for oft has the entity been a messenger,
an the manner and the way, or the means of finding such
communications as may be transmitted from individuals or
groups to others, has always found within the entity that
desire, that means of transmission, that means of expression.
In the experiences in the present, these may have much to do
with the entity's mental, physical and material development,
and whether they be of wires, stocks, bonds, or of whatever
nature as has to do WITH things - these will always bring the
greater expression of the entity's activities into actions,
and should be followed by the entity for the better
development for the entity, in mental, physical and material
ways and manners.
Those conditions as are manifested in the entity as
personalities:
One that LOVES a story, well told - and is bored by one who
tells the same one often.
One that is expressive in the manner of approach to others.
Hence the ability to interest and influence not only
individuals, but groups - yet the entity finds that the
successes are BUILDED first by individual associations and
their relations one to another, rather than wielding such a
great influence over a group at ONE time.
In the expressions of self, the entity find that those
conditions as has to do with water, large bodies of water,
expanses, and large unknown places, always have a call or an
influence to the entity. Hence those of stories that relate
to explorations, history, and such, is of especial interest
to the entity; while those of detail and minutia have their
place and their part, yet not the same to the entity as those
that take in the whole at a glance.
In the experiences in the earth's plane, and the influence
those have upon the entity in the present:
In the one before this we find during that period when there
were struggles in the land in which the entity now resides,
during that known as the Revolution. The entity then the
emissary for those of the leaders in the land in the
northeastern portion, and was closely associated with Israel
Putnam during that period, being of the same name, yet of
distant relation; and to the entity there has ever been for
the manifested forces of this individual (Putnam) and his
relations, some peculiar interest for the entity, as not
WHOLLY understood. In the present there will be found that
in this land, in this portion of the land, may the entity
succeed the better - mentally, socially, financially.
In the one before this we find in that land now known as the
Grecian. The entity then in that period known as the Trojan,
though often called of a mythological nature this REALITY to
the entity, and in that experience the entity gained much of
that ability to meet circumstances, conditions, relations,
that are often hard to be understood by others; yet to the
body they become as stepping stones for the successes as may
be brought, whether of the mental or of the physical, or of
the financial nature. In that period the entity served in
the rule of those who defended the city, yet sent as the
emissary or the messenger for those in the eastern coast. In
the name Odessa. In that experience the entity gained and
lost. Gained through the abilities to serve others. Lost in
being put into power and aggrandizing of selfish interests
brought detrimental influences in the life and the experience
during that experience. In the present, the ABILITIES are
present. The USAGE of same has often been a WONDERMENT to
the entity. The applications of same in the present may be
either for the weal or for the woe of the entity's own
development, in that direction of ruling, controlling, and
being able to keep that committed unto the entity for USAGE
in physical and mental ways and manners.
In the experience before this we find in that land known now
as the Persian, and the entity then among those that were
driven by the nomads into the hill country, and the servant
and the aide to king Croesus; and to the entity, the entity
represented - and the power as is represented in that
individual - a force, a power, something to be reckoned with.
As experienced in that experience by the entity, this should
be known: That MIGHT does not make right; neither does the
possession of wealth give that security against those who
have power of right in THEIR own defense. In the name Eliot.
In that experience the entity gained much during the early
portion of the entity's experience; in the latter portion
becoming rather the student, after the divisions of the land
and the Bedouins becoming pitted one against another - the
entity rose to power after the release and the return from
the hills, and builded much for the peoples of the land, and
SOME of those efforts as were founded by the entity may STILL
be seen in those hills lying just southeast of what is now
Shushtar. This the entity builded as a memorial to the power
of Croesus, and there is much gold there. In the present the
entity has much to be warned concerning the power of fame or
of wealth, but used aright may be made that which will
develop an individual, in mental and spiritual forces, giving
food for the soul of a body.
In the one before this we find in that land known as
Atlantean. The entity then among those that knew OF and USED
those of the universal forces in the manner of communciations
in that land, and the varied peoples in the different lands,
and the entity used these to self's OWN destruction; for
rather than being used for the UPBUILDING, these were turned
into destructive forces for the satisfying of individual
desires of the peoples in that period. Hence the entity lost
through this experience. In the name Esla. In the present
these have much to do with the entity's own innate abilities,
as to those conditions in the mental forces of the body.
Hence those things that have to do with mechanical devices
have a call to that something from within. Applied aright,
whether to him who would use or him to whom the message is
sent, keep the faith, that service to the fellow man is
lending to the Creative Energies, to whom each and every
soul, every individual, must give an account for the deeds
done in A body, THE body, EACH body; for in the application
of that known comes understanding. In understanding comes
knowledge. In knowledge comes power. Power, MISDIRECTED,
only destroys that which MIS-USES same.
In the abilities of the entity in the present, and that to
which the entity may attain:
As is seen, those things that have to do with the
transmission of messages, transmission of thought,
transmission of ideas and ideals - these will have their
particular influence, and in these may the entity attain for
self abilities that will surpass many during the present
experience. Use same for the service of others. Ready for
questions.
(Q) Am I in the right business?
(A) So far as it conforms to that as has been given,
correct.
(Q) Am I in the right company?
(A) WHATEVER company thou findest self in, use that thou
hast in hand and build to that thou desirest. Be sure that
there is the IDEAL and work toward THAT ideal. Be content in
whatever position thou findest thyself. Be not SATISFIED,
for that one satisfied has already lost the ideal or the
ability to go higher.
(Q) Will my company progress this year?
(A) It should!
(Q) Will I change my company in the near future?
(A) Is the desire to do so, then do it! Is the desire to
remain and build up, then do it!
(Q) Will I ever marry?
(A) Would be best not to, too soon - for there are those
conditions, as has been given concerning warnings as to
marital relations; for these will ever prove very
unsatisfactory - for while the entity is drawn to the
opposite sex, yet to depend upon one is hard to do!
(Q) Will it be someone I now know?
(A) If it's chosen to be!
(Q) When will this be?
(A) It's best NOT to be, too soon - as has been given! If
it's to choose within self, then it may be MADE soon! We are
through for the present.
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