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:
EC: Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known
as or called [
3094].
In giving an interpretation of the records, these we would
choose from the records here with the desire and purpose that
this information may be a helpful experience for the entity;
enabling the entity to better fulfill the purposes for which
it entered this present sojourn.
Know first within self, it is not by chance the entity
entered this experience through these periods of turmoil and
strife. There is a pattern that, applied in the present
experience the entity may know within self that the Lord
liveth and directeth the ways of those who seek to know His
biddings.
To be sure, there has been sorrow, sadness, in the experience
of the entity; not only of a personal nature but that rather
of a universal nature, owing to those things that have been
and are happening within the land of the entity today.
Thus it becomes rather of a national nature. But, as the
entity has entered those activities in the land of the
present sojourn, know that these - too - have their influence
in the abilities of the entity and have an influence upon
those groups or individuals with whom the entity may come in
contact.
We find the entity one well gifted in many abilities in the
material world; vivacious, pleasing, pleasant, and too easily
may the influences about the entity call for the answering
within self. The more and more there is the application of
those things that bespeak of an ideal, rather than the
glorifying or gratifying of self's desire, greater indeed may
be the beauty of living.
In the abilities we would magnify the virtues, we would
minimize the faults. Let this also be a part not only of the
policy of the controlling of the emotions of the body;
minimize the faults in others. For, those who are in the
earth in the physical body are manifestations of the Father's
love for each individual soul-entity.
Life itself is the opportunity. Then, use same in a way and
manner not as a justification of this or that thought, but
ever as the glorification of His purpose with thee;
remembering ever as He has given (and His promises are sure),
"Though ye may be afar off, if ye call I will hear - and
answer speedily."
The natural inclinations are to be optimistic, but analyze
self often and know whether that optimism is the satisfying
of self's desires or for the glorifying of a God-given
purpose.
The greater abilities of the entity will be in the home in
making and creating a home; not only for self but for those
that are naturally attracted to and by the entity. For, the
whole purpose of the entity as will be seen in the pattern of
the life, is the home.
Hence this would be as a seal of the entity:
In the circle (such as one eight to ten inches in diameter)
put a home - as is depicted oft by the little gray home in
the west; this with a foreground of not too much shrubbery
but a great many flowers with bees and birds in same.
Upon the left put a field over which the sun is shining -
corn field - Indian corn; a full ear, with the silk and the
tassel, on the right side put a field of wheat, with several
small shocks and a sickle by the foremost shock.
The interpretation, as will be seen through the pattern of
the life, is; the seeking of supply, of body - as indicated
in corn; in the mind as indicated by flowers, by homes and by
those outlets for the expression of home; and a full life in
same indicated by the ripened grain and the sickle of life.
Astrologically we find Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, Saturn as
those influences.
Jupiter here indicates the universal consciousness as in the
supply of body, of mind and of purpose.
In Venus we find love, lightness, beauty in body of self; but
remember beauty is also of character as well as of face or
form.
Saturn indicates the great changes that have come and that
may be a part of the entity's present experience.
As to the appearances in the earth, while all may not be
indicated here, these are given indicating the pattern also
the interpretation of the seal or the pattern of the entity's
experiences in the earth:
Before this the entity was in the land of the present sojourn
during those early periods of settling; in those lands about
Providence, R.I., when the people were beginning to settle
there, the entity was among the early children born in the
new land, where the entity's parents (Huddlestrohm) had come
seeking freedom from persecution and to build and make a
home. The entity then, in the name Rachel Huddlestrohm used
its abilities in making close associations with the natives;
becoming adept in the weaving of baskets and the making of
chairs, the making of those things used by those people with
whom the entity was associated. The entity was light of
body, beautiful in figure and brought joy into the groups and
among those peoples with whom the entity was active.
The entity gained, making a contribution to harmonious
effects in the activities. From same we find in the present
the abilities as the home maker, the housekeeper; the
abilities as a weaver, the abilities to make beautiful
applique work on cloth.
Before that the entity was in the Norseland, when there were
those periods of constant turmoils with those as the Huns or
of the German land.
The entity was among those who suffered from those
persecutions and turmoils. Thus the desires, the seeking for
safety of home, safety of those things that would supply the
needs - as indicated in the seal; food, provender for body
and for all about the entity.
While material things have ever and will ever be a constant
thought in the entity, we find that the beauty - as indicated
in the foreground about the home - should ever be to the
satisfying of the mind, but building of purposes of hopes, of
the dependence of one upon the other in the gratifying of the
beauty and the love of the Lord.
The name then Erna Ollon. The entity gained mentally and
spiritually. Questions might be put regarding the material
gain. Safety and security, even the desire for home, arise
from that experience.
Before that the entity was in the Persian and Arabian land,
when there were those periods of activity in the "city in the
hills and the plains."
The entity was among those that had been hangers-on for those
groups of people who, in treks from the land Saad to the
Egyptian land, passed through these portions of the land.
Hence the entity was among those of the caravans that were
left, because of their illness in body, in the "city in the
hills of the plains" and the entity came under the influence
of the teacher Uhjltd, and thus joined in creating those
environs of the home for the aged, for the infirm, and for
the young. These were the activities of the entity in those
experiences after the healing there.
In the present activities then, we will find the entity as a
comforter to those in distress, as well as a companion to
those who are on the mend; not too much of those that are ill
but those on the mend.
Thus may the activities become as a constructive influence in
the experiences of others, because of the temperament, the
cheerfulness and optimism of the entity. May the entity ever
keep these, that they may be furthermost in the application
in the entity's own home. For, this should not only be the
seeking as to activities but the purpose and ideal. For the
home is the representative of that hope of every soul, not
only the material home but the heavenly home; and that in the
earth may be made as the shadow of things to come.
The name then was Shalzarch.
Before that the entity was in the Indo-China land during
those periods of the height of those activities of the Queen,
when those combinations were created by the associations of
that Queen with those of the the Gobi land; when the mines
and the sacred places for the treasures of the earth were
set.
These have been the dreams, as it were, of the entity through
many of its periods in the earth and may yet be realized.
For the entity will yet be a world traveler, and visit many
lands; when the companion's activities are established in the
periods preceding the home building.
The name was Arzen.
As to the abilities of the entity, that to which it may
obtain [attain] and how:
First find self. Know self's ideal, spiritually, mentally,
materially. Put the first things first. If the spiritual
life and purpose is not ideal, the mental and material life
can not be safe or content. But day unto day uttereth
speech, night unto night showeth knowledge. So it is in the
application of self's abilities in the home building, in
administering to the needs of others. But seek to build
thine own home - yes, be married again. You will find one
that will also be seeking world travel.
Let that which prompted thee in many of thy sojourns in the
earth guide thee in the present. In appreciation for what
others and God have been to thee, be ye so to others. For,
in the manner ye treat thy fellow man, thy neighbor, ye are
treating thy God.
Let thy yeas be yea, thy nays be nay. For the love of God
made manifest in the daily life is the purpose of each soul
in the earth.
We are through for the present.
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(At your convenience, we'd suggest that you get in touch with
one of our members who must have been very closely associated
with you in the Indo-China period: Miss [1298].)
BACKGROUND
5/12/43 See letter under
3094-1 Background.
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