This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 1st day of March, 1943, in accordance with request made by the self - [2927], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research and Enlightenment, Inc., through Mr. [257].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Born September 23, 1893, in Durham, North Carolina.

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: Yes, we are given the records here of that entity now known as or called [2927].
3. In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them here, in the analysis or study of the records of this entity, and as to how this entity has applied self in the present, - we find that a study of the ideals to which the entity has adhered, and does adhere, might give - to those who would study, or who would seek to know the philosophy of such activities - the causes or sources of much that would be of interest.
4. These records, these interpretations we choose from same with the desire that this information may be a helpful experience for the entity; enabling the entity to better fulfil those purposes for which it entered this present sojourn.
5. For, it is never by chance but, as with all things in this material world, there are causes, there are effects. To be sure, at times there may be what might be called accidents. But these, too, in a causation world, have their cause and effect.
6. Little does the entity have to do with that ordinarily termed the astrological aspects, even from the records as might be given here, or as would be chosen. For, most of these, - save in a general manner, - have been met.
7. Thus, while the entity is a material-minded individual, we find that the deeper causes - or sources of the spiritual imports and implications - are the basic determining factors in the experience of the entity.
8. While the entity is an exceptional business-minded individual, it is tenderhearted, sympathetic, and recognizes its limitations as well as its abilities; and it doeth all things to the best of its ability - in the main activities of dealing with others.
9. One that in the younger years was inclined to be proud, and to preen itself on certain occasions. While this is not entirely eliminated from its make-up, or urge of the entity, it is much less prominent in its purpose in the present.
10. The greater urges, then, come from that combination of spiritual values of the entity's application of same through the material sojourns in the earth.
11. Hence we find the entity's acknowledgement of influences, or forces, outside of itself; yet not fully determined or set in its own mind as to sources or causes of - same yet with hopes, that are indicated in its abilities in the business world and in its application of same with others; for there is the acknowledging in self of this higher source or power.
12. Thus the admonition to this entity:
13. The purpose of one's entrance to a material plane is not for the gratifying of self alone but for the contribution such an entity, or each entity, may make to the glorifying of the sources of spiritual and mental application of the basic truth.
14. Thus may the attaining to the material things be the better or greater accomplishment of an individual entity.
15. The acknowledgement of this, deep and latent in self, may be termed the basis of the entity's success in this material sojourn.
16. The greater this is magnified, then, in the dealings with the fellow man, the greater may be the material gains and the satisfaction gained in its labors by the entity.
17. That this is to be accomplished for an ideal, or in meeting an ideal, should then be the greater purpose of this entity.
18. As to the appearances in the earth, - not all may be given, to be sure, but these indicate those activities - and the purposes gained that are the latent urges in the present experience:
19. Before this the entity was in the land of the present nativity, but more in those channels or places of the entity's present sojourn were the activities, - as Oscar Arche.
20. The entity then was an aid to those, or to several of those, who contributed to the welfare of those injured in the periods of the Revolution; when there were those wounded in battle, as well as those who were ill from the conditions of the stationary nature about the battle grounds of that period.
21. Thus we find those particular interests of the entity in those phases of mental or brain reactions. And these should be the greater outlets for the entity's activities in the present; as a surgeon, as a contributor to the effect of various forms of anaesthesia upon the brain and the nervous system. For these the entity through those experiences attempted to determine.
22. Before that the entity was in the English land, during those periods when there were the Holy Wars - as called in those periods.
23. There the entity was a contributor to those activities during the early period of those groups who set out from the home land to become defending forces for an idea, an ideal, in the Holy Land.
24. From the various groups with which the entity came in contact through those periods of activity we find in the present that latent urge for the appreciation of the outdoors, the effect of activities in nature upon the minds of individuals - as to the various conditions to which the environs cause responses to individuals, according to their tendencies, their temperaments, and their activities.
25. There the entity was a leader, embracing much of the needs for those changes that gradually came about in the activities when those various groups were active in that war.
26. Hence an urge respecting the tenets of the entity's faith as to spiritual things, as to that it - the faith, the hope - produces in the mind of the individual, rather than that as may be practised as an individual dogma or tenet.
27. The name then was Chauncey Chause.
28. Before that the entity was in the Egyptian land, during those periods of what is termed the reconstruction, or the development of individuals to particular or definite activities in the vocational forces.
29. There the entity was most active in the Temple of Sacrifice, with its establishments and the abilities for using those things which had been presented from the Atlanteans, where electrical forces - as termed in the present - were used as the means for removal of forms of appendages, or of those things that caused forms of reaction in the combination of the brain forces of body-influence, and the environmental forces as produced through those periods of unfoldment of knowledge and the use of same in the experience of individual lives.
30. The entity then was in the name Ajax-Totertenm.
31. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, then:
32. First, know thyself and thy ideals, thy purposes in the earth. These, as indicated, have basically those ideals and idealistic ends. Use them to the glory of thy ideal and to the honor of self and thy fellow man. Know the universal law of cause and effect, and the universal law of divine influence, - as ye sow, ye reap; as ye measure, it is measured to you; as ye do to the least of thy brethren ye do to thy Maker. It is self ye are constantly encountering, that is the helpful force or the stumblingblock to thine own universal endeavors, for the manifestation of Creative Forces in the earth.
33. For, nothing may separate thee from the love of the Father as manifested in the Son, save thyself.
34. Ready for questions.
35. (Q) What can my contribution be on this plane to medical science and surgery?
    (A) As to the use of electrical forces, as to the application of those forms of anaesthesia, and especially to that of the mental and brain reactions.
36. (Q) Through what avenues can I best aid humanity?
    (A) In thy contributions to aiding individuals to adjust their bodies and their minds to creative influences in their own experience, FROM the physical as well as spiritual angle.
37. (Q) What would be the best manner for me to approach psychic phenomena for its application to medicine, which would be in conformity with the best medical ethics and practice?
    (A) That having to deal with the power of suggestion, as indicated in thy knowledge of the influence of environments and of reactions to the various impressions received in the reaction of impulses in the physical body.
38. (Q) Is it indicated that I will be called upon to make any contribution to the present war effort beyond what I am now doing?
    (A) That depends much upon self. If there is the offering of self, and as ye have gained, as ye have contributed much, this would be well - if it is thine own conscience that prompts thee to offer self.
39. (Q) What have been my former associations with the following; and how may we be of mutual aid in the present: First, [257]?
    (A) A knowledge of, or associations with, in the experience before this. As to the contribution one may make to the other, - that as for the common good of the universal consciousness, rather than to individual activity of either one.
40. (Q) [759]?
    (A) An associate; worked under [759].
41. (Q) What journeys should I take for pleasure, which would be most interesting to me in this life?
    (A) These should be chosen from the promptings of that as would be contributory to meeting some of the hobbies of the entity, and in its relationship to the general contribution of knowledge to the universal activity.
    Let that mind be in thee which was in Him, who gave, "I and the Father, God, are one." So become ye in thine own mind, as ye contribute, as ye attune thy inner self to those greater ideals; for it is not all of life just to live, nor yet all of death to die. For, they that put their whole trust in Him have passed from death unto life. And to such there is no death, only the entrance through God's other door.
42. We are through for the present.

    Two copies to Self (one for Mr. [257])
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. 2/17/43 Mr. [257]'s letter: "Dr. [2927] has done a great deal for me. He was born at Durham, N.C., has read your book and is deeply interested in you. He started operating at the age of 15, studied abroad and is a specialist today of the first bracket in N.Y. He would like to get a Life Reading and I wish you would let me know what day you could make it. I am sending the application down now so that if you happen to have an opening before you could answer him, you might go ahead and take it."

REPORTS

1. GD's note: Subsequently people who had readings reported that they received Dr. [2927]'s cooperation in following them.

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