This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 15th day of February, 1943, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [2915], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Messrs. R. N. Ladd and David E. Kahn.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Born February 11, 1900, in Baltimore, Maryland.

TEXT

1. GC: You will give the relations 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: (In going back over years from the present - " - '41 - periods of anxiety and expansion - '35 - change in activities - '33 - '21 - preparations - " etc., on back to birth date.)
3. Yes, we have the records here of that entity now called [2915].
4. In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them, these are chosen from the many experiences of the entity, both in the material and the interims between material manifestations. These we find as definite characteristics, latent and manifested, as may be gained or gathered from the composite of material and the cosmic, or the experiences between those material sojourns.
5. One with a very high sense of responsibility.
6. One very hard to convince, at times.
7. One with very definite convictions, yet when convinced - a sincere activity.
8. One that takes discouragements rather pessimistically; thus conflicting emotions as to relationships with individuals, yet the sense of responsibility and the sense of fair play rules, outwardly - and often hampers inwardly.
9. Astrologically we find urges from Mercury, Mars and Venus; and Venus might be put before Mars - and yet they are interchangeable. These bring the influence of the high mental ability; the urge for activity.
10. The entity would never be called one lazy, nor a shirker; yet the necessity for sincere convictions often makes for dilatory activity, which should be overcome - as should those latent urges that arise from disappointments.
11. In Venus and Mars we find the artistic temperament, and hence those activities as would have to do with pattern making, or designing of anything made of metal or wood - in these the entity might gain the greater outlets for abilities latent and manifested in the entity.
12. As of copy work, or the designing as in commercial drawings, reading of prints, blue prints or the like - these are urges arising from the astrological sojourns, as well as reinforced through the application of self in the earthly experiences.
13. As to the earthly appearances, - while all may not be indicated, these as we find have very definite urges in the activities of the entity in the present cycle of experience:
14. Before this the entity was in the land of the present nativity, during those periods known as the American Revolution.
15. The entity was a message bearer with the offices of making maps for the activities of those in authority in the struggle for American independence.
16. Thus the latent abilities as a pattern maker, as a designer, and we will see why wood or metals are those channels through which the entity may best express - as it did then, as Carlton Dribbel.
17. Before that the entity was in the English land, during those periods of the efforts in the defense of an idea, of a principle - or the Holy Wars.
18. The entity then was closely associated with those who brought the designs of the East to those activities in the reconstruction period, after the sojourn of the entity in the Eastern lands. This was not only in wood working but in cloth, as well as in metals.
19. These give latent abilities for the entity in the present activities. The entity's application of these needs be tempered with the greater spiritual purposes, than that to which it gradually allowed itself to drift in that period, - as Cerbus.
20. Before that the entity was in that land when the Master walked in the earth; being among the Levites that cared for the building of the temple itself, in the repairs, in the making of mouldings, in the repair of many of those things that had to do with that activity.
21. This gave the entity as sense of those purposes and ideals for which this edifice stood, and only in the latter portion of the entity's experience did there come the sense of the spiritual rather than the purely material application of the tenets and truths in the law of Moses.
22. Coordinating those with the teaching of the disciples and the followers of the Master became the problem of the entity through that period. And the entity saw the destruction of the temple of that day, but in the latter part of its sojourn in the earth, - as Eliazaer.
23. Before that the entity was in the Egyptian land, through the period of turmoils when there were those coalitions and the return of the Priest.
24. The entity was one that would be called the supervisor of the building of the Temples of Sacrifice and the Temple Beautiful; especially as to the interior decorations, and the activities that required the preparations of the peculiar characters of furniture or fixtures that were a part of the experience through that particular period.
25. The name then was Il-Ar-Ar-El.
26. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then, - that to which it may attain, and how:
27. First, - there should be that conviction within self of the purposes of the entity in its relationships to things, to conditions, to individuals. Coordinate these with the ideal of the spiritual forces in the entity's experience; realizing that indicated in the admonition of the lawgiver, that it is within self, the body, thine own body, the temple. And that temple as ye repaired is merely the symbol of thine own body.
28. Then repair, prepare, thine own body, thy mind, and thy soul, as in a service to Him. For there, in thy temple, as in the temple of old, He hath promised to meet those who seek to know His will, His purpose with each soul.
29. Study, then, to show thyself approved unto God, a workman not ashamed, rightly dividing the words of truth, keeping self from condemnation of any; most of all of self.
30. As to channels of material activity, - those things having to do with pattern making; whether this is - in the present - the interpreting of drawings of others or in making such as of self's own abilities in designs, as of furniture, as of mouldings, as of interior decorations; or whether applied to metals - as of lamps, as of fixtures, as of things pertaining to household or office activity.
31. These might be channels through which the entity may accomplish the greater service in the present experience.
32. Ready for questions.
33. (Q) Shall I continue at my present work? or what line should I follow?
    (A) When there is the ability to apply self more and more in those channels indicated, greater accomplishments and greater service may be rendered.
34. (Q) Should I go at any particular time to seek this line?
    (A) It should be a growth, an unfoldment, an activity in keeping with good judgment, but not to the considering of the material gains only, or first.
35. (Q) Through whom and where should I go?
    (A) Those who have the needs of such. These may be attained or gained as there is the better adaptation of self to such lines of endeavor.
36. (Q) In what city and state should I make my home?
    (A) That which is in keeping with self and self's environs. Where thy hands find that to do, there apply self. No special state or city, but that wherever there is work to do, do it.
37. (Q) Can I give more aid to win the war? If so, in what way?
    (A) In better designs for the better service to others.
38. (Q) What has been the past association with my present wife, [...]?
    (A) In the experience before this, and in those experiences in the foreign land during the Holy War, and in Egypt.
39. (Q) With my father?
    (A) In Egypt.
40. (Q) With my mother?
    (A) Here we find rather a distant association; an appreciation, rather than close associations.
41. We are through for the present.

    Two copies to Self (one for Mr. David E. Kahn)
    Copy to Ass'n file
    Two extra copies to Self by GD, 3/15/43

BACKGROUND

1. 2/10/43 He submitted the questions.

REPORTS

1. 3/29/43 Letter: "I'm glad to say I received my reading and am very much pleased with same. I know it will be so much help to me in the future."

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