This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 28th day of August, 1943, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [3184], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by the book, THERE IS A RIVER.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. (Notes read to and transcribed by Jeanette Fitch.) Miss [3184] and mother. Born April 15, 1913, in New York City.

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 - " - '42 - yes, changes - '39 - awakenings [See 3184-1, Par. R1] - '34 - preparations - " etc., on back to birth date.)
3. Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [3184].
4. In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them, these we choose with the desire and purpose that this may be a helpful influennce in the experience of the entity; thus enabling the entity to better fulfill those purposes for which it entered this material sojourn.
5. The entity is an Atlantean. Thus - as we have oft indicated regarding individuals born under such an influence - the entity is one of exceptional abilities, either for weal or woe. Thus the experience in the earth's plane at this period will have far-reaching effects upon many. As to whether for good or bad will depend upon the manner in which the entity uses its opportunities.
6. As will be seen from the sojourns in the earth, these have been in periods when there were the needs for activities that had purpose and not selfishness in the minds and activities of individuals directing conditions in that particular period.
7. When the records here are viewed in the manner as of a oneness of the universal energies, as of material sojourns and the interims between these, we find a composite of these influences giving these characteristics:
8. One that often in its experience has been confused.
9. One that often is very determined in self when it is convinced in self that it, the entity, is correct in its conclusions.
10. One that often is very, very, lonesome; a longing for something within self that has in most instances defied answering and it has required and does require adventure, the seeming unreal things.
11. The entity in many respects is very, very practical; yet interests in the unusual, the psychic, or things of the spirit keep presenting themselves in a most unusual manner.
12. Oft, when in those moods of loneliness or longings the entity finds itself moving almost out of itself.
13. Astrologically, we find these influences; not because the sun or the moon, Mercury or Mars, Jupiter or Uranus, was in this or that position or house at the time of the entity's birth, but because of the consciousness of the soul-entity in those environs to which certain influences are accredited. We find these as the soul or real self urges latent and manifested:
14. In Mercury we find the high mental abilities of the entity, the attraction to problems that others have questioned - and the entity may find the answer. Mathematical precision, minute detail, those things pertaining to machinery; not merely a motor or the like but the machinery of political, economic, or social orders of groups or individuals. The entity is attracted to or spends time wondering about these.
15. Then, these are the things the entity should analyze the more in self - as will be seen from the periods of expression in the earth - as to what are the promptings of the individual's urges. For each individual finds the motivative influence of its life within its own self, and that is correct - as was stated of old by the lawgiver; Think not as to who will descend from heaven to give a message or who would come from over the sea that ye might learn and understand. For lo it is within thine own heart, thine own mind. Thy body is indeed the temple of the living God. He has promised to meet thee and, know that all in the mental, all in the material, has its inception, it conception, in spirit, in purpose, in hope, in desire. Know thy relationship, then, first, with that ye hope for. For life (or God), immortality of the soul, is real; as may be seen from thine own urges - if ye analyze them correctly.
16. We find in Jupiter that universal consciousness, that longing for the knowledge of something outside of self. In that we find the universal desire or the desire to be of help to many irrespective of the cost to self - if correct. Let that motivating force be of the spirit and not merely of the own ego to hide thing own loneliness. For if He, the spirit of purpose, the spirit of hope, the spirit of universal love be with thee, He shall free thee indeed - and all will call thee blessed.
17. In Uranus we find the extremes that have been a part of the entity's experience. The demands of the entity in affection are strong, but when not always supplied - know that self-love, self-egotism will never answer.
18. If ye would have friends be friendly. If ye would have love, love others. If ye would have hope manifest same in thy dealings with others. Though there may be periods when hope seems abandoned, when oppression seems to be on self, look not upon same for condemnations. For, as ye are forgiving, so are ye forgiven; as ye hope, as ye work, as ye manifest, this, that or the other characteristic, it brings its reward - if done in the spirit of truth.
19. Individual personality demands that time be considered; yet know, too, in self that time and space are also manifestations of that universal consciousness ye know as God. In patience ye may find that relationship.
20. Learn patience, which at times is far from thee. In those periods especially of loneliness or of turmoil.
21. In Jupiter with Venus we find that pleasing personality, that ability to get what you want - not always when you want it, but in time, in patience, and in using that thou hast developed as thy activity in the virtue that is eternal. Pleasing, ye may attain same.
22. As to the experience in the earth, all may not be given; yet these indicate the pattern, and that arising in the emotions of the body. As astrology is that influence in the mind of the entity, so the appearances in the earth influence the emotions - or those things that are "sensed" by the body.
23. These may not always be in order. For as indicated there is naught that may separate thee from the knowledge of the eternal save self. If self finds the emotions at times injected in the mental, turn it over - look at the other side. For, upon the side marked END, on the other is marked GO - go do the biddings as may be the prompting of the eternal influences within; and ye will find peace and harmony in thy undertakings.
24. Before this the entity was a messenger to those in authority in various portions of the land during those periods during the following the reconstruction periods of the Revolution, as so called.
25. Certain portions of the land, then, become rather as something which the entity has felt rather than seen. Thus those portions of Jersey, Maryland and Virginia will be unusual experiences for the entity if it will allow itself to dwell on same.
26. As a messenger the entity acquainted those leaders with those happenings; not as a spy, no; rather as a messenger - secret messenger. The name then was Margaret Angel. The entity gained, and yet found disappointments in that the individual entity felt its efforts were not fully appreciated by those in power.
27. Do not in the present make the same sort of error. Do thy biddings, do thy purposes to be seen of God, not of man. Let thine inner soul, that communes with Him, be satisfied; and condemn not others nor self because of their short-sightedness.
28. Before that the entity was in the Roman land when there were those periods of expansion as an empire; when the thoughts of the leaders in those periods were for the good of all rather than the gratifying of personal desires.
29. The entity was among those that planned the manner or means of communications with other lands; thus in what might be called today a diplomatic service.
30. Here, too, again may the entity in the present use those abilities in those directions of making connections and associations with those of various lands. For, there will be the needs for the use of many in these directions in the reconstruction days to come. When communications with other lands are so established, by those means of activity, the entity may have an important place in some of these connections; especially with those such as the coast of the Mediterranean, the coast of the Iberian Peninsula. These especially will be fields, for, to these - as we will see - the entity has come oft.
31. The name then was Gialdo, and the entity then was not in the present sex but a man.
32. The entity applied self well; and in the latter portion doubting some of its best friends. Hence in the present the entity finds hardships at times in trusting those whom the entity feels are much indebted to the entity. Remember the first principles, - do not that in any activity to be seen of men; rather with that purpose to be seen of thy Maker (as we will interpret further).
33. Before that the entity was in the Grecian land, in those activities in the 'city in the hills and the plains,' when the peoples of Greece undertook the subtle manner of meeting those activities in the 'city in the hills.'
34. The entity was among those maidens sent to that land, first as an emissary to direct or control the activities of the many that had been sent to undermine the activities in that 'city in the hills.' Yet the entity in the means of establishing communications brought a forward development, in the manners in which steerings for the ships were used in that period, as well as the compass, as to its manner of being installed in the means of communication.
35. Hence, as has been seen, the communications of every nature will be a part of the entity's consciousness; and it's in and through these that the entity may find the outlet for self and self's abilities. The name then was Cercema.
36. Before that (and that which the entity is meeting most in self in the present), the entity was in Atlantis during those periods when there were the separations, just before the breaking up of Poseidia.
37. The entity then controlled those activities where communications had been established with other lands, and the flying boats that moved through air or water were the means by which the entity carried many of those to the Iberian land, as well as later those groups in the Egyptian land - when there had been the determining that the records should be kept there.
38. Thus we find the entity in the capacity, of the leader in making overtures in the Egyptian land. Finding the land in turmoil because of rebellions, the entity - with one Ax-Tell - undertook to set up the own activities. For the entity then was an associate of Ax-Tell, not a companion but a fellow worker with that leader Ax-Tell in Egypt.
39. With the return of the Priest, by the edicts, and then the establishing of the groups that controlled the religious and the political and the varied activities in that land with the return of the Priest. The entity first became sullen; then joined in with those movements for the preparation of people for the regeneration of the bodies of THINGS in that period.
40. Again the entity was in communication activities. Those influences that prompted the entity's abilities in the present arise from that experience.
41. The name then was Ae-Ne-An.
42. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, that to which it may attain and how:
43. These are limited only by the manner in which the entity approaches or uses its abilities, especially in the establishing of communications with other lands.
44. Languages that have been and are at times the disturbing element with individuals, may easily be put aside - if there is the application of the special service in the lands or areas indicated.
45. Then, DO, assist in establishing the airways with those peninsulas or lands of North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula.
46. Do keep self first in that attitude and purpose of a universal consciousness for the good of all.
47. Keep the faith in self and in self's abilities. But let that faith be guided by the divine and not of self or selfish interests. The law of the Lord is perfect; so may be thy purposes with thy brother. These keep.
48. Ready for questions.
49. (Q) Should I go to England to fly?
    (A) May in England, but better in North Africa and in the establishing of the routes between Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, or Portugal and Spain.
50. (Q) Should or will I be able to make flying my life work?
    (A) You can will to do whatever you like. Whether you want to or not, or whether others want you to or not, you will make it a life's work. It can be most worthwhile to self and to many others, if an association in the establishing of such communications; but let it be with those portions of the land indicated.
51. (Q) Is there anything I can do to help other girls who want to fly?
    (A) Only interest them and instruct them in the first things necessary - the confidence in self, but the trust in the Lord.
52. (Q) Should I plan to marry in this life or devote my entire time to a career?
    (A) This will come later in the experience, after or when a career is at its height. About eight years from now you will be married, or you will refuse several times at least.
53. (Q) If marry, advise as to the type of person I should marry?
    (A) That ye will find most within self. For, here you will find, there must be the association not as of opposites but those that would be attracted to and for the same purposes and causes.
54. (Q) Is it indicated that I will have children?
    (A) We do not find it such. This is not impossible or impracticable but other things are first to the self in the present.
55. (Q) How and where have I been associated in the past with my present mother, [...]; what are the present urges and how may we use them for our mutual benefit?
    (A) These have been in more than one and oft the conditions have been very much as they have arisen in the present. Before this, very closely associated; but ye mistrusted the entity who is now the mother, and in the present you find at times you wonder whether that's best or not.
    In Atlantis you were in the same positions as in the present. The closer association brought the unfolding of the entity's abilities in Egypt after the great disappointment.
    Use these associations in the present - you can each learn much from the other but do not try to control either. Keep first those things that are first. Let the spirit and purpose guide. For, as indicated, the intenseness that is the natural heritage of Atlanteans that were thwarted in some period of activity, is such that they will have their way. Do not do so to your own undoing.
56. We are through for the present.

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BACKGROUND

1. 8/01/43 Mother's letter: "I think the book, THERE IS A RIVER, came to me as an answer to prayer. I am a member of the Divine Science Church, 'The Church of the Healing Christ', of which Dr. Emmet Fox is the pastor... My daughter [3184], who at present lives in ..., Texas, is doing work which she does not like and yet fears to give it up, not knowing just where she can get a position doing the work she loves... I can only tell her that if she can cast all fear and doubt out of her thoughts and really believe that God is guiding her to her true place where she will be happy and most useful, that position will present itself, but it is difficult for a young person who was raised in the Catholic Church to do this."
2. 8/28/43 In filling out her membership application prior to the reading, she listed her occupation as "Aviation" and her religious preference as "None."

REPORTS

1. GD's note: Both she and her mother seemed very pleased with the reading. The mother said that it was in '39, as the reading indicated, when she became awakened to the necessity to 'fly'.
2. 3/31/43 Mother's letter: "We were both thrilled and excited over the reading and thank you so much for giving us the time. I know [3184] will try to follow out the suggestions and already it has helped me to understand many things about her which were difficult before."
3. 9/05/43 [3184]'s letter:
   It is exactly one week since you gave me a reading, and the reason I have put off writing you, is that I hoped to be able to say that I had looked up the references, and understood all that the reading meant.
   It seemed rather abrupt to leave immediately after the reading without saying good-bye to you, but Mother had the idea that you were tired and would rather not see us again, and indeed, we did take an awful lot of your time, which must be valuable. I should have liked to say thank you again!
   I must admit that I am sorely puzzled! I have spent the greater part of this week reading "There is a River", and looking through the public library for some mention of what I was in former incarnations, but without success. I had hoped that by reading Atlantean history to gain some insight as to the method by which I could put into action the suggestions for this life, but although I read 3 histories I found nothing, so I must have gotten the wrong books, as you all seemed quite familiar with that period and the people!
   Also, had I read "There is a River" before the reading, there would have been many other questions I could have asked, but didn't and they are bothering me now.
   If you read what you said, you can probably guess some of them, such as; What should be my next step in the immediate future, or the next job I should look for? Does the communication with North Africa and the Iberian peninsula start now, or after the war (whenever that is)? How do I go about it? Is it as a part of an already established airline, or will it be an entirely new development? The reading implies (I think) that I need not know any Spanish. How come? The answer to the first question I asked said that rather than flying in England I should fly in North Africa. I wonder if that means now, and if so, how?
   That is the gist of my puzzlement, and it is great!
   I should like very much to be able to come down and do some research on my own and other peoples problems as presented in the book, and my reading, and if time permits, I shall request your permission, but the immediate necessity is to find a job, and since last Saturday, I have been wondering where I should look for it. In the meantime, wonder if you could make some suggestions as to where I should look for references to those persons whose entities were mine.
   May I say again how much I appreciated your giving me a reading last week, and also for all the time you took from your work to talk to us so interestingly.
   Since I had such good luck in getting a reading without waiting for it, I am taking the liberty of sending you a check for $10, in the hope that, if ever anyone else cancels out or anything, you could squeeze in the answers to my questions, and so enlighten me further.
   Please remember me to Mrs. Cayce, and Miss Davis, and thank them for their part in my wonderful experience, and again many, many thanks to you, and may your good health continue for many years!
4. 11/10/43 See Check Life 3184-2 answering her questions.

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