This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 2nd day of June, 1942, in accordance with request made by the self - Dr. [2761], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., through Mr. [257].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Born August 29, 1897, 60 miles from Minsk, in Borisoff, Russia.

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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 present entity, that to which it may attain, and how. You will answer the questions, as I ask them:
2. EC: Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [2761].
3. In giving the interpretations of the records here, these we choose from same - with the desire and purpose that this information may be made a helpful experience for the entity; enabling the entity to better fulfil those purposes for which it entered this present sojourn.
4. Yet, in attempting to add to those convictions and purposes which prompt the entity, little might be given as related to the abilities in the material phases of the entity's experience. Much counsel might be made as to the approach and the purposes with which the entity hopes to surround self with material things; not that a great name may be made for self, or that it might become self-indulgent. Yet too oft there are the promptings of the ego, because of a defeatism in the latent nature of the entity that at times tends to prompt activities.
5. Keep faith with thy better self, if the greater accomplishments would be had in applying the abilities of self through this experience.
6. In analyzing those influences which have prompted the entity's activity in the present, - there are urges from activities in the earth - as an individual entity. Also there are the same kinds of experiences as related to spiritual application in realms of other dimensional influences prompting the activities.
7. Thus we find these influences as latent factors, as might be a composite of material sojourns in the earth and realms of activities in sojourns about the earth:
8. The entity is one given to good deeds, in the body; sympathetic in its nature, yet determined in self to make a material success.
9. One given to the study of many books; a good literary critic; given to understanding of national and international relationships in varied lands; given to a study or an analysis of those influences that prompt various groups of a varied impulse arising from spiritual study and thought.
10. Thus, though quiet in mien, the entity is one capable of much good or much bad, - dependent upon the extremes taken in attaining the material activities, and according to the spiritual purposes which prompt the entity's choices of ideals that bring it to do and be in its dealings with others.
11. As may be indicated, much of these would be outlined to the entity from those sojourns in the earth.
12. Before this, then, the entity was in the land of its present sojourn. The entity was a soldier in the armies of those who would keep the land as a means for exploration. And yet the entity in its activity drew closer to those peoples of the land and their purposes; NEVER wholly giving way to becoming a deserter, and yet one who made use of others for gratifying self's determination to be thought well of; losing material things in the end.
13. The name then was Watt Eiderman. In the experience there were successes materially for a while, then reverses and hardships that made for a determining latent in self to succeed materially whatever the cost might be.
14. Before that the entity was in the Iran land during those periods when the activities of the Roman empire attempted to bring those portions of the land under subjugation.
15. The entity sought refuge in portions of Bessarabia, or in portions of the land to which the entity came into activity in this present experience.
16. There the entity gave self in defense of the land in the protective form; not hoarding, as would be called today in some places, but assisting to establish purposes and aims and hopes from the religious thought of the Iran (or Persian) land in that day of the entity's experience.
17. A philosopher, a writer, an educator, a teacher, a lesson performer in body-preparation as well as in the expression given to those with whom the entity came in contact, in what today would be called the arts of any people or land. Hence music, art, especially as would have to do with the sculpturing, the glassworking, the building of things pertaining to same, become of an interest to the entity. These arise from those activities, in the name then of Isdabezelli.
18. Throughout that experience the entity gained, for self was made as naught that others might enjoy its own home, its own land, and apply those activities of body and mind to the conveniences as well as pleasures, and the gratifying of same to the enlightening and enlarging of man's ability to appreciate nature and the lessons from same.
19. Before that the entity was in the Persian and Arabian land, in the 'city in the hills and the plains,' when there was that building of same for those activities that were turned into a place of healing, a place of refuge, - also as a part of a commercial activity between the east and the west portions of the land.
20. The entity was that leader of the caravan who first "stumbled," as it were, upon that one who became the teacher in the city then; a soothsayer, a student of the mysteries of the night, the voices - as it were - from the activities in the age or stage of the inter-between.
21. Then in the name Myrkaw, the entity was a power, a might; but took advantage of those situations, - not in that it studied and used the surroundings to self's own indulgence, but in that it used self - through the offices of that entity that builded the city, or under whose direction the city in the hills was builded - to encourage the weak to give outlets for the strong.
22. There the entity gained and lost and gained. And the abilities in carving stones and setting precious stones became the greater part of the entity's activity, some almost to the undoing - until the enlightening of those tenets of that leader in the 'city in the hills.'
23. Before that the entity was in the Abyssinian land, where there were those activities when the Priest was banished from Egypt and brought the entity in contact with those activities of other lands.
24. For, the entity was a might in one portion of the Abyssinian land, and a leader of a large band.
25. There the entity gained by the application of the tenets of the Priest, with its own teachings, in the name then Du-Lo.
26. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, - as may be indicated from the earthly application or experience of the entity, the entity may materially succeed in almost any field of activity.
27. In the finding of its true relationships to Creative Forces the entity may indeed contribute to the welfare of the land, WHEREVER the entity may choose to serve and to assist its fellow man. By faith are ye justified and not by deeds that fall far short of giving the comprehension to the mind or the purposes of an entity in its dealings with its fellow man.
28. We find that in those fields of precious stones, or of glass or prisms, or in literature or art, the entity may find the outlets for its application of abilities in this present experience.
29. Study to show thyself approved unto God; knowing, determining WHO is thy God, - the Maker of heaven and earth, or thine self? and according to thy choice there will be the supplying of that needed in thy experience.
30. Ready for questions.
31. (Q) Could I render a service to the U.S. Gov. in manufacturing prisms, binoculars or range finders?
    (A) If the abilities are tended or directed in that channel, it may render a service.
32. (Q) How can I proceed to get the equipment to make the proper lenses?
    (A) Indicate and demonstrate the abilities to produce that needed, and this may be supplied - through those channels of researches for the needs of supplying just such things.
33. (Q) With or under what division of the U.S. Gov. is it best for me to work?
    (A) The division under which there comes the supply of those things that are least obtainable in this field of activity, in the present conditions.
34. (Q) How can [257] aid me to get the order, the machinery, etc.?
    (A) Best that the entity indicate and supply those things that give evidence, without equivocation, of the ability to do that it states; and it may be forthcoming. For, then as [257] or any subject offers such as evidence, it will be given.
35. (Q) Where is the best place to manufacture?
    (A) Indianapolis or Columbus or Cincinnati. These are those to be considered because of the closeness to the fields of those things necessary in making that character of glass for lenses or prisms.
36. (Q) Who will be of most aid to me in being successful?
    (A) This will depend upon the channels through which circumstance causes the entity to go.
37. (Q) Is it better to work with Brunswick Radio or S. W. Farber, or as a separate entity?
    (A) With Farber AND Brunswick.
38. (Q) When will be best time to start this enterprise?
    (A) The sooner the better, or as soon as the entity may present the evidence that it can, it will, do what is needed. Indicate the abilities to produce same in this land.
39. We are through for the present.

    Two copies to [257]
    Copy to Ass'n file

REPORTS

1. 6/11/43 He referred Mr. [3150] for a Physical Reading.

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