6/19/46 Personal report on Life Reading by Mrs. [
3175] as
told to Gina Cerminara on June 19, 1946:
[3175-1] Par. 5: "One sensitive to slights" [GD's note: It
IS true; several instances are indicated in personal
letters.] - doesn't know if this is true or not; feels she
is often unaware of slights if they are intended.
"One sensitive to compliments" - well, like anybody else,
says she likes compliments, but doesn't let them ever give
her a swelled head.
Par. 7: "Abilities in vision, especially in dreams" - has
vivid dreams, which seem to be symbolic, and which come to
mind during the day.
Par. 10: "Innately an idea as to color schemes" - yes, was
always fussy about color combinations, even as a child; likes
interior decorating in her own home; does all color schemes
on covers of ... magazine, of which she is editor.
Par. 11: "Neatness, balance in dress, ability for home
building" - yes, this is true.
Par. 15: "In Neptune we find the mystical" - yes, interested
in the mystical, especially since her husband's death 3 years
ago.
Par. 15: "In Saturn...sudden changes" - yes, there have been
many sudden changes in her life; many times she has had to
begin her life all over again.
Par. 16: "Mars brings abundance of energies - yes, she is
energetic. "Anger to the entity is a fearful state" - yes,
this is very, very true; she hates to be around anybody that
is angry; ever since early childhood, has felt great fear of
anger in other people; does not herself get angry.
Par. 26: "In the present experience the entity may have a
home and then a career" - Yes, this actually happened. After
the death of her husband in June 1943, she became editor of
... or rather associate editor; reads all the manuscripts;
though she had worked in an office before her marriage, it
could hardly be called a career. This work however, would
seem to be more of a career.
Par. 31: "Entity's sensitiveness" - says she is sensitive
where her intentions are misunderstood.
Par. 41: "As a purchasing agent" etc. - says that this has
never appealed to her much, but that once she worked in the
shoe dept. of the largest dept. store in ... the buyer and
head man trusted her taste and judgement and wanted her to
become a buyer.
Par. 51-A: "In the experience before this brother and
sister." Says she was much struck by this because when she
first met her husband she felt like a sister to him; she
never had any brothers. Even after they were married she
felt periods of what was more sisterly than wifely affection
for him. Very happy marriage.
In what way the reading was helpful to her:
Says it's hard for her to distinguish between the reading
itself and the meeting with Mr. Cayce and all the other
things learned in general through the contact. What she did
learn was almost like opening a door to a room which had been
locked and forgotten; it was like finding something that you
once knew about and had forgotten.
It was as if her life had been incomplete before, but this
made it complete.
Accepted and instantly believed in all the teachings of Mr.
Cayce; though she isn't gullible about believing everything.
She felt Mr. Cayce's sincerity and integrity.
The reading was given just after her husband had died, and
she was at a loss to know what to do. The reading gave her
the encouragement that she would be useful and have a
career; thus it meant a great deal to her.
Additional: Has always liked children (previous life in
Philadelphia supposed to have taught children).
In Palestine experience she was wife of Nicodemus; reading
indicates that she was more of wife to him than chattel; he
brought seamless robe to Master which she made. One of the
last books she read to her husband before he died was "The
Robe" which dealt with this very thing. She says she thought
this was interesting, though as she read the book nothing
registered particularly. The book "The Robe" describes the
robe as being brown; the reading says it was pearl grey.
Enjoyed the book very much.
Par. 2: "'42 - changes" - her husband's health was failing,
his condition became serious in '42; "'39 - expectations" at
that time she thought she was going to have a child, but then
she didn't; "'30 anxieties" - doesn't know for sure what this
refers to, thought this was at the time of her father's
death, and her favorite sister, who was her best friend, was
quite ill at the same time; "'21 - changes" - yes, there were
definite changes which should would rather not tell of that
happened in '21; very personal.
8/47 Mrs. [
3175] married a professional writer, rather
suddenly, and traveled with him collecting interesting and
informative material for use in magazine articles and
stories. This is especially interesting in light of the Life
Reading's reference to "sudden changes" from Saturn's
influence, and to the many stories she might one day write -
later in life.
11/28/62 To this date Mrs. [
3175] has remained an active,
interested member of A.R.E.
9/64 Interview with Charles O. Rhoades, Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma:
Mr. Rhoades: What impact has your reading had on your life?
Mrs. [3175]: I can't explain what it feels like to have been
told that I was a friend of Jesus. I have always felt very
close to Jesus and having been told that I was there meant a
great deal to me. I always felt that men should be held in
high esteem ever since I was a little child. Next to God was
man. I have always loved boys. This may have come from
teaching boys, I don't know. I always thought that if I
could have only one child, I would like to have a boy. I
always thought that being the mother of a man would be one of
the greatest privileges a person could have. I never did
have any children. it was because of my previous husband's
illness that I got to know Mr. Cayce and came to have a Life
Reading. I have always considered my life to be a happy
life, despite any hardships that might have come along. I
accepted the reading from the moment that it was given.
Since then, it seems as though I were almost living in
another incarnation. Once you get to meet other people who
think along the same lines, things are different. After my
husband's death, I edited a metaphysical magazine. I had to
read and pass on manuscripts with this metaphysical magazine.
I had not thought seriously of marrying again but I did think
that if I did marry, I would try to marry some one who
thought along the same lines that I did - so that maybe we
could work together to help people. I got the reading at the
time of my husband's death and I was all alone. The reading
helped me to bear his death. I felt radiant as a result of
having had the reading. I realized there was something
beyond the church's teaching and this is what I had been
looking for.
Later on in her testimony, Mrs. [
3175] was asked by Mr.
Rhoades if it were true that Mr. Cayce used her as a sort of
leaning-post to help him when he gave readings. She
clarified the matter by saying that, after Edgar Cayce had
given her reading, he turned to her upon awaking and said:
"You were a very great help to me when I gave the reading".
Later on he asked her to be present in the room when other
readings were given for other people. When she asked him
what he meant by saying that she was a help to him, he
replied that she helped to to keep on the beam or something
to that effect.
When she went home Mrs. [
3175] tried to keep a period of
silence and meditation during the times at which the readings
were given. Mr. Cayce apparently knew when she was doing
this because afterwards he wrote her letters saying so.
During a physical reading that was given for herself, Mrs.
[
3175] was lying down in meditation at her home and tears
came to her eyes for no apparent reason. In a letter which
came shortly thereafter, Mr. Cayce asked her why she was
crying. On another occasion, she was out walking and had
knelt down, possibly at the gravestone of her husband, and in
a letter which followed, Mr. Cayce said that this helped him
to give a good reading. After Mr. Cayce passed on, Mrs.
[
3175] frequently felt pains in her wrist and every time she
did so, she was always thinking of Mr. Cayce. She does not
know whether there was any connection between the thinking
and the pain.
Later Mrs. [
3175] in the interview told about a dream which
she had prior to Edgar Cayce's death. She was sitting on a
chair in a long corridor and Mrs. Cayce came out of a door
from one side and went into the room across the hall but did
not show any signs of recognition of her. Later she came out
of the room and crossed back across the hall but left the
room ajar. Mrs. [
3175] could see Mr. Cayce lying in bed and
so she went in. She saw that he was trying to say something
to her but couldn't and he turned his face to the wall. Upon
awaking she said something was wrong and so she prayed for
Mr. Cayce and then thought of writing to Virginia Beach.
Thinking this would be too slow though, she decided to call
but put off the call until nine o'clock so as not to disturb
those who were taking care of Mr. Cayce. Just before she was
able to place her call, the phone rang and it was a call from
Western Union, a telegram informing her of Mr. Cayce's death.
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