This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 22nd day of March, 1943, in accordance with request made by the self Mrs. [2880], Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.

TEXT

1. GC: You will have before you the entity now known as [2880], born July 23rd, 1886, at Liverpool, England, who seeks detailed information concerning her Palestine sojourn as Zermada at the time [1472] was leader of the Essenes, covering the entity's entire life, work, and associations throughout that experience from her entrance to her departure. You will also give the developing or retarding associations and influences of that incarnation which bear on her present life, activities, and associations, and how they may be best used in the entity's present experience for her individual development and greatest service to others. You will then answer the questions she will submit as they are asked.
2. EC: Yes - we are given the records here of that entity now known as or called, [2880], and the experiences of the entity in that period high-lighted by the associations of the entity with the Essenes and the leader in Palestine of that particular group.
3. As indicated, the entity now called [2880] - then Zermada, - was rather of the Syrophenician, or the Persian and the Syrophenician peoples - as they were known in that experience.
4. In its unfoldment during the period the entity, as would be called now, took on the study of astrology, or astrological activities; growing in the early period in the experiences as a dreamer, as a meditator, as a seeress or prophetess; making those associations with the peoples of then far east.
5. Coming early in its experience to the conclusions, from its own experiences, that the looked for changes were coming in the Holy or Promised Land, the entity - before the birth of the Christ-child - made many journeys, and finally there were the closer associations with the leader of the Essenes and the entity dwelt in Carmel.
6. Through those associations there came more communications and interpretations of those records or signs that eventually brought the journeys of some of the Wise Men, of which we have records. These were the high-lights of the entity's experiences through that particular period of activity.
7. As to the associations, many of those of other lands came to the entity, with the counseling together. The associations with Judy as the leader of the Essene peoples only intensified or made the preparations as to choosing the groups that were to be the channels through which there was the possibility, the probability that the awakening should come to the peoples of that period; as well as to the world.
8. There were many of those who were a part of the associations in those activities; some where there were disputations, some where there were agreements. And as indicated for the entity, in the application or use of the findings, studies or interpretations of the various combinations of astrological influences, - the Persian manners of interpretation should be used. These would come to be more in keeping with those that were the unfoldments and developments of the entity through that particular period.
9. As to the developments or retardments in the experience, - these are the same problems that the entity has in the present; the intenseness of the entity, the ability to give those interpretations not only through the findings of others but through the intuitive forces as related to the soul-development of the entity.
10. The individual problems with individuals through the experience, - these, as then, have not as yet been concluded in their relationships.
11. For, this would bring questions, such as this: What is the purpose of an individual's entrance into the activities in the earth? That the soul may be a witness to the glorifying of the first cause or purpose, or God, in the earth. Whenever these have not been wholly attained, they continue to be problems in the individual entity's experience.
12. After the birth of the forerunner, and the problems that such brought to the priests that had conformed to or become a part of the experience, the entity was not altogether a dweller in Carmel - or the Promised Land, for fear of those in political power as to the activities. This caused the entity to go back and forth a great deal. Much of these were secret meetings, or what would be called not open visitations. Yet the entity throughout its experience continued to be one to whom many in places came seeking information, for direction and counsel.
13. The entity lived to be nearly ninety years of age in that particular period, passing into the other consciousness in a period of journey coming toward the Carmel retreat.
14. Ready for questions.
15. (Q) Please give me the origin of the seal referred to in my Life Reading; an interpretation of its figures; its relationship to my activities both past and present; instructions for arranging the figures to form the symbol mentioned; how the symbolism can be constructively used so that its meaning can be recognized and applied, and tell me if it should be used as a motive for meditation?
    (A) If the Life Reading is interpreted, it will be seen the activities in the experience are represented in the seal by the symbols. The interpretation is that these symbols should enable the entity to visualize the proper interpretation of problems in the lives of others. It is NOT as a motive for meditation, but the symbols are signs - just as given in the beginning, that the sun, the moon, the stars are given as signs, as symbols; and these should allow - in periods of meditation - the questions and answers to others, as well as enabling self to be made aware of - or given, we might say - the cue, or the key, or a prompting. Not to be used as a reason for meditation, rather as the answer in meditation.
16. (Q) What are the intents and purposes for which I came into this present experience as referred to in my Life Reading?
    (A) Just as indicated, to COMPLETE the purposes in using each ability to the glory of the First Cause, or God - never as that of gratifying, satisfying of self alone, but as an enlightening influence, as a helpfulness, as an inspiration, as a guiding force to many.
17. (Q) How can I attain better integration and greater balance?
    (A) Losing self in Him. Or, as would be put orthodoxly, "by faith." As may be put by reason, "studying to show self approved unto God, a workman not ashamed, but rightly stressing those things in the experience of all that are creative; minimizing faults, magnifying virtues."
18. (Q) Please give me a full account of the relationship and activities with my present son, [2850], during my incarnation as Zermada in Palestine, as well as other periods, explaining the cause of my present intense desire to protect him from harm or unhappiness, instructing me as to how I can be of the greatest service to him in the present?
    (A) Only as may be indicated here in this experience may it be given here, for these are the records as we have. As indicated in the records of each in this particular period of activity, - one - the son now - was rather intense, headstrong in his activities. The entity itself was rather inclined to temperate activity, and not too much of the urge to be so aggressive as the son was. Hence in the present we find those undue anxieties of the entity, knowing innately the intenseness to which this soul-entity, the son, would and does go in his seeking.
19. (Q) Please give me a detailed account of my association during my palestine incarnation as Zermada, as well as during other life periods, with my present husband, [...], the purpose of our present relationship and how we may best further the development of each other now.
    (A) These should be taken as a whole, if there is to be the perfect understanding. In that experience it was rather the passive period of activity, as it finds in the present; yet there were other associations which, as indicated, create or give the tensions. But the beauty, the rhythm, the symmetrical activity, comes from that particular period of sojourn. Hence the bond of sympathy, the bond of a united effort is the channel, the manner; not only in the material things but in the meditation and purpose, the hopeful purposes. These should be coordinated, that collaboration in the application of abilities of each in the present may be rather unified in their interpretation in material things.
20. (Q) Please give a fuller account of my association in Palestine with the entity now known as [1472] - then also called [1472] - and interpret the frequent vision in which I see us together on a high tower or battlement looking out over what seems to be a desert land, giving the significance of the fact that, in the vision, [1472], wears a headdress with her robe, while I wear a similar robe without a headdress?
    (A) There's little more than that as given. They counseled together oft, but they each considered self as an authority in or among their particular group. Do not get the idea that there was whole consideration of either, but that each had her own inner groups to which the counsel meant much, when to others at that period it meant little. Yet there was kept ever that bond of sympathy, that bond of purposefulness between the two; for each realized in the experience the less of self - or as was aptly given by the forerunner, "He must increase and I decrease." Neither finds that in self in the present, but that must be the principle. In the interpretation of the Christ-Consciousness, it must increase while self is lost in the giving to others. Neither holds to this, but you will find it in the end.
    As to the vision, - this is an interpreting of experiences when individuals met in Carmel. The battlement was where the two entities met in their discussions of their findings, and for their choice as to which each is to give to her own particular group. The vision of the headdress merely represents the customs and the differences of the peoples or tribes or groups to which the two belonged.
21. (Q) Considering the statement in my Life Reading that my present son, [2850], my present husband, [...], and the entities now known as [1472] and [2795] were all closely associated with me during my Palestine incarnation as Zermada, please give the character of the relationship between each of us at that time, and its bearing on the present, especially that between [2850] and [1472] and [2850] and [2795].
    (A) We haven't [2795] or [2850]. We are giving as to what THIS entity, [2880] may do! These are THEIR problems! For this entity the problems then, as outlined, were the considerations given each for a general purpose or awakening for all, see? as a universal truth; not as an individual but as for a universal truth. This may be best illustrated in that just given. Thus the activities in the present of the entity as in relationship to each of the individuals named, - Judy, the husband, the son, the friend, - aid as a stimuli to each in that unfoldment of the knowledge, of the application of the consciousness of the power manifested in the Christ-Consciousness in the heart of each; magnifying the virtues, minimizing the faults of each, and as one to another; taking the broader view, not the individual characterization of same.
22. (Q) When, where, and what has been my association in former incarnations with the entity now known as Olga Worrell, and what is the purpose of our present friendship?
    (A) We haven't Worrell.
23. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to [1472]
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. See 2880-1.

REPORTS

1. 4/01/43 [2880]'s letter to EC:
   New York, N.Y.
   Dear Mr. Cayce,
   I have been intending to write to you about the reading, several days ago indeed, but the last few days I have been in the country cleaning up the house out there, and left answering your kind letter until I returned.
   I think the reading is most revealing Mr. Cayce, and tells me more and more about the things that help me in growth and understanding. It is really wonderful how one can read and re-read and learn things about oneself, especially the faults which are most in need of correction. In this connection, there is one item in the reading which came last, that is really something that I recognize must be changed before I can go much further. Always I have known that it was part of my nature, and that it kept me from doing in a much better way what I attempted, but when I see it written down, and find myself faced with it, and realize that it is just that, and that alone which withholds what could be complete success, it is at once half way to being conquered. I speak of my own intenseness in approaching things.
   I really wear myself out with my own intensity, almost over eagerness you know. This then, has helped me very much indeed, and if just that one element has been pointed out with such clarity, the reading has served a splendid purpose for me. Not to mention the information concerning that particular experience.
   Yes! I too wish that I could be present at a reading. Sometime, perhaps when Judy [Julia Chandler] is going down to Virginia Beach, I may find myself able to come along with her. Who knows?
   With kindest regards,
   Very sincerely yours [2880]
2. 3/26/52 GD's note: To this date Mrs. [2880] has remained actively interested in A.R.E. work.
3. 7/02/84 [2880]'s letter to Mary La Croix:
   "DICARNEL" RAVEN ROCK STOCKTON, R.F.D. 2, NEW JERSEY 08559
   To Mary La Croix - [Author of THE REMNANT] Recently a friend gave me a copy of your book, which really touched me very deeply, because I knew Edgar Cayce very well, I had Life Readings [See 2880-1 and 2880-2] from him - and worked in the Assoc.
   What interested me in particular was the reference (in the 3rd Chapter) to "Zermada." I am that person!
   If your "Judith" [1472] can (is) identified with Judy Chandler (which I do-) she and I worked together both in New York, where we lived, and at Virginia Beach.
   If you ask Gladys Davis Turner who was Edgar Cayce's Sect. she will remember me.
   Thank you for "Remnant." It is a lovely book.
   [signed] [2880]
   I would also like to have of copy a Edgar Cayce's interpretations of "The Dead Sea Scrolls" - but do not find it in the catalogue. If you will send one I will mail my check at once.
4. See subsequent reports and correspondence.

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