This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce the home of David E. Kahn, 44 West 77th Street, New York City, this 3rd day of May, 1931.

Present: Edgar Cayce; David E. Kahn, Conductor; B. B. Sidelman, Steno. [2897].

TEXT

1. DEK: Now you will have before you the body of [2897], who is located in this room at 44 West 77th Street, New York City. When you have located the entity and the mentality of this body, you will give him the information that he desires about himself, his past incarnations and advice, such as he will need to be successful in life.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, [2897].
3. This we have had before as well as the associations of the entity through the varied earthly experiences. In those experiences given these to be sure only a portion of same or those in which there were decided changes in the development of or retarding of the entity through such sojourns.
4. In the present we find there are many various channels or experiences coming to the entity from unseen sources of physical activity. These as we find are in accord with the entity's mental and spiritual application of those abilities that deal with the mental and spiritual forces or influences in the present entity's experience.
5. There are as a special interest shown in the present experience through that vibration as is seen in the entity's experience and contact with one in the unseen forces as was not a consort or rather as one who reasoned WITH the entity in that experience when as the musician, the artiste and one that went far in that experience of making many changes that have influenced the thought of many groups, many individuals, much of the mass of the people as advisor.
6. The entity gained and lost as has been seen, yet as that one aids in the present, reasoning with the entity in the unconscious forces as gained in dreams, in visions and especially in that as may be termed as the periods of reverie - not revelry - but reverie, and in the periods of concentration and thought. Especially in those of the channels through whom the entity gains much of a proper insight into material relations. Ready for questions.
7. (Q) Who is Azool? [Azul? See 2897-4, Par. 4-A--7-A.]
   (A) Just that one being spoken of as an aid and friend during that experience.
8. (Q) Who was Atool [Azool?] in that period? What was his position?
   (A) As a co-laborer or friend of Leonardo Di [da] Vinci.
9. (Q) Was [2897] Leonardo Di [da] Vinci in that incarnation?
   (A) That has been given; that is understood.
10. (Q) Has Azool anything special to advise in the present work which [2897] is contemplating?
    (A) These are often given, in a line; here a line, and maybe best gained, best assimilated or used by the entity as these are received. See?
11. (Q) In the last reading [2897] was spoken of as Antonio, not Leonardo Di [da] Vinci. Why was that?
    (A) Antonio and Leonardo were one and the same in that experience. Antonio, Leonardo Di [da] Vinci.
12. (Q) What was meant by the Fifth String in the last reading? [See 2897-2, Par. 4-A.]
    (A) That ability to add to those vibrations in the musical forces or sources that give that perforce as is so aptly described by a master of band music - that the Fifth String sometimes as that source of the spiritual interpretation of musical forces to those of the listeners of same. Read that book "Fifth String" and this will be better comprehended as something that materially exists from material forces but that that MORE than materially exists when the SOUL of one goes with musical composition or musical rendition of a composition.
13. (Q) Who wrote "Fifth String"?
    (A) John Phillip Sousa.
14. (Q) Is Miss Hood the right medium to assist [2897]?
    (A) Miss Hood as we find may be of exceeding help and aid in MANY directions but the greater development for [2897] may be gained through self for they become self's experience in all of the various phases of unseen forces as they manifest; for when in accord with that being attempted to be gained, the body may see in self through self those very forces active that may be verified through Miss Hood or other channels as the entity finds same. Depend more, though, upon self than any other source.
15. (Q) Was [5502] important or close to [2897] in last incarnation?
    (A) Rather in that position of being one around whom much of the entity's activities centered in that period, being one felt as often an aid and others as hindrances; as has the contacts or experiences of the entity in the present found periods when the contact became burden, yet in some of the moods of some of those conditions as arise, most quieting or giving to self that of an understanding, see?
16. (Q) Is this the time for [2897] to assist in bringing the truths of Cayce's work to the world and how can it be accomplished?
    (A) In bringing the attention of the public to an individual, one in the position as [2897] occupies, should be very, very careful as to the manner and way such an influence would be given. Firstly, convince self, for without credence for self, little sincerity may be given by any. Yet in the beginning the manner would be to influence by word of mouth; others to make for themselves contacts with such sources of information. Such sources of activity done rather in the moral and physical support aid those in giving an outward expression of that as may be most helpful to aid others in understanding themselves and through same becoming more worthwhile to many another.
17. (Q) Is this the time for [2897] to assist his own development by joining in the further development of the work of the Atlantic University?
    (A) This would be WELL for the entity for in such an attunement of forces as are set in motion by the entity himself and that vital core of that undertaking in Atlantic University would be WELL for both.
18. (Q) How should he approach the work and how can he best assist now?
    (A) In making contacts for individuals attempting to give to others seeking assistance of the very natures and through same the moral support of self with that as may be given by others who may be brought into that vibration, that contact. The assistance would come.
19. (Q) How can he recover the powers that he had attained in the Atlantean period?
    (A) By that dependence more upon self and self's contact with the unseen forces. Fear having entered in through much of that experience as has been given and through other periods of sojourn and especially in that period when such a diversity arose that in the present being able to understand that spiritual source as comes through that is so aptly termed the "Fifth String" or that chord necessary that makes for the spiritual awakening in the individuals whether it be in jazz, in song, in cymbal or in the muffled drum, that makes for the various forces as combine themselves in periods of exaltation of body or mind, - may the entity gain that source. Make same accessible to self, use same, though, aright.
20. (Q) Who was Blanche [...] in his last incarnation?
    (A) We do not find them here.
21. (Q) Were they ever in the same incarnation before?
    (A) This should be obtained from other sources; there has been associations as we find.
22. (Q) Should [2897] practice celibacy and to what extent to aid him to attain the position he desires?
    (A) As it is given, the entity from day to day is of development or retardment for a line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little, there a little, using day by day that gained in the quieter moments, will bring the greater development, the attaining of the entity to that as will make for the developments in the present experience. We are through for the present.

BACKGROUND

1. See 2897-1 and 2897-2.

REPORTS

1. 5/04/31 See 5502-2, Par. 18-A, 19-A in re their past associations when he was Di Vinci.
2. GD's note: See subsequent reports filed in 2897-1.
3. 8/14/31 See 2897-4.

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