This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 7th day of January, 1944, in accordance with request made by the mother - Mrs. [3644], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mrs. [3407].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. [3644], [3407], and Della H. Warfield. Born February 5, 1936, 12:00 noon, in Norfolk, Virginia.

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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 have the records here of that entity now known as or called [3621].
3. In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them here, there is much to be considered, but these we choose with the desire and purpose 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.
4. Here would be given an emblem of the pattern of life for this entity, and this of an unusual nature or design; in the center of at least a fourteen inch circle: put in color what has been called the black-eyed Susan, in full bloom; not too stiff, not too erect, but with some of the foliage with same. On one of the blossoms put a honey bee. About to light put another bee, but this a bumble bee, not a honey bee.
5. These are as emblems significant of the choices the entity is to make in this life experience.
6. In the upper lefthand corner (as of the experience of the entity in the earth's plane) put the court of the Queen of Assyria, and the entity as the dancing girl with the tiger as a companion. This should have many figures in same, but not indication of man about the scene. This would not be too large, to unbalance same.
7. On the righthand at top put the view of Peter fleeing from the Cross, with the silhouette in the background of three crosses, with the heavy lightning in and from a darkened sky.
8. In the left lower portion put the caravan, with at least three camels, though two in the distance. In the front would be the figure of the girl in same; the face half veiled but mounted on the camel, led by a robed individual. This should be in color, as should all of these figures.
9. Put in the lower righthand the figure of the golden calf that was set up while the lawgiver was in the mount, and the figures dancing about same; the priest in the background but the dancer more in the foreground.
10. These, as we find, are the symbols of the individual experience through the earth.
11. In analyzing the urges latent and manifested, we would magnify the virtues and minimize the faults. This, too, should be that lesson of greater importance in the developing mind of this entity; else the entity - as may be indicated from the character of the experiences - may become self-centered, and this would be to the detriment of the greater development of this entity. Magnify the virtues of all, as ye would have thy God, thy Maker, magnify thy trying, thy attempts to be holy - not righteous; so few can ever attain that - none in the material world - [but] they can try. All can be holy; that is, dedicating body, mind and purpose. That is being holy!
12. Then, the try may be counted to thee as righteousness. For righteousness is of God.
13. As to the latent urges - we find music, harmony, using of rhythm as a part of the experience of the entity, and it should be through such channels that the entity may make the greater material success in this material plane.
14. If there is set the purpose and aims of the entity, then, the entity also through same may make the greater mental and spiritual development. But if there is the fleeing from hope, as indicated, if there is the lack of creative activity or the allowing of the disturbance as indicated in the bumble bee, the entity may be prevented from gathering, as it were, honey from the holiness in purpose.
15. These, then, are as the warnings to those who would direct and encourage the entity; not by might or main but by love, by patience, by putting the first things first in the activities of this unfolding entity in the present.
16. For remember, as given, train the child in the way it should go, and when it is old it will not depart from it. But training for this entity, as for most entities, is better by example than by precept, or by "You do this" and "You do that." These are poor examples for one already inclined to see material things first, and yet in the very rhythm and harmony of the soul there are the opportunities and possibilities of the entity.
17. Astrologically we find Mars, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter, and note their importance. Anger may upset the body and cause a great deal of disturbance, to others as well as to self.
18. Be angry but sin not. You will learn it only in patience and in self-possession.
19. Also there is activity and beauty as may be attained by the entity in body and in mind.
20. In Mercury, the judgement - which will ever depend upon or between love and duty. And these may become good or bad, dependent upon that set as the ideal of the entity. Learn that virtue, honor and glory are things that have their own reward within them, for good of the body, good of the mind, and the respect the soul has of both.
21. We find in Venus the grace, the activities, love that may be material, mental or spiritual. For these are within the realm of the entity's experience.
22. In Jupiter we find the reflections of self, in the application of the other three urges.
23. As to appearances in the earth, these have been disturbing, in a manner, in the present. These bring urges latent and manifested. Not all may be given, not all are visioned, but these we find as applying in the entity's particular second cycle of experience in this material sojourn.
24. Before this the entity was in the land of the present activity when brother was sent against brother.
25. The entity was young in years during those periods, and oft in its visions, dreams, the entity has seen the colonial home of the large columns and the home destroyed by the activities during those experiences. For it was in the way of a march to the sea.
26. In those experiences the entity lost its life. Thus a fear of things pertaining to arms, as pertaining to uniforms, as pertaining to certain definite applications. Yet there came with same the music as of the spheres. For the entity gained through those experiences, in the name Jane Page.
27. Before that the entity was in those lands when the Master walked in the earth, when there were the disturbing forces by the Master's being offered up as the Lamb of God; yet in these the entity found hope, also fear. For the entity followed in the wake of those who interpreted that expression of the promises of the Master on the day of Pentecost; dancing with others for joy, that the Lord had answered in sending the Holy Spirit to abide forever with man.
28. Forget not that promise in thyself. Learn this above every other, that the Holy Spirit abideth ever with those who seek the Lord.
29. Then the entity was known as Ruth, and was in the household of a sister of Peter's.
30. Before that the entity was in the Holy Land, when there were those traveling from Egypt to the Holy Land.
31. The entity was among those born in the wilderness, and saw in its early life those rebellions at Mt. Sinai. These remained with the entity, as the men, the women of the period forgot those lessons that had been learned from the Lord as he spoke from the mount - soon forgotten, and the dance of revelry brought disturbing forces, death to many of those when the torture came, from sorrow, sadness.
32. Thus while there is the outlet, there are also the trials in preparing the body - in body and mind - for the dance. But as a dancer may the entity gain the most, the greater activity.
33. The name then was Smethele.
34. Before that the entity was in the Egyptian land, when those from other lands came for the interpreting of tenets and truths that were the experience of many.
35. The entity as a princess came from the land of Saad to the Temple Beautiful for the gaining of the tenets and teachings in those particular experiences, and the entity carried back to its own land the ideals of those teachings in the Temple and in the Egyptian land, and with same the expressions that may be given in the dance that was a part of the experience of those teachers in the Temple Beautiful.
36. The name then was Tech-kelum. The entity was beautiful in body, in experience, in purpose; as it may in the present gain much of that which will be in keeping with those tenets and activities of that period.
37. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, that to which it may attain, and how:
38. Much will depend upon the manners in which the tenets of truths are manifested before the entity.
39. In the dance may the entity materially gain, and may mentally and spiritually make application in those ways to bring a unison of purpose, whether the lesson is gained from the giving of one's self in one or another manner. For the shoe shiner may glorify God to just as great an extent as the king or the president, and possibly more.
40. Ready for questions.
41. (Q) What is the significance of the following: Strange music heard by mother at time of [3621]'s conception?
    (A) The attunement of the channel, rather than of the individual entity.
42. (Q) Her birth at the stroke of noon?
    (A) Just a complete fulfilment, as was the hour when the heavens rent the veil of the temple from top to bottom.
43. (Q) Why does she have such a sensitive nature?
    (A) Sensitiveness is the acuteness in every manner, and if we will analyze the experiences in the earth - as well as the pattern - we will understand why. There should also be interpreted from same as to what is to be done about it.
44. (Q) What latent talents does she have?
    (A) The greater are the music and dancing
45. (Q) How should these be developed?
    (A) Read what has just been given.
46. (Q) What musical instruments would be best for her to play?
    (A) The application is not to be so much in the music itself as in the movement of body and feet to same.
47. (Q) What was her purpose in entering the earth at this time?
    (A) As the purpose of each soul, to glorify God. Then give her the opportunity - through the direction as to the choice of its purposes.
48. (Q) What have been the past associations and what are the present responsibilities to the following individuals? her mother, [3644]?
    (A) In the Holy Land, both at the periods when the Master walked in the earth and at the time of Joshua.
49. (Q) Her father, [...]?
    (A) There's a fear here, and this comes from the Egyptian experience - because there was a disagreement there.
50. (Q) What explains her great love for animals and birds?
    (A) The love of nature and outdoors.
51. (Q) Why is she slow in grasping and understanding schoolwork, and what will help her most at this time?
    (A) Because these are in attune more with the things in the infinite than the material or concrete. These will come of themselves. Don't force the issue, but gently, firmly indicate the needs of these in the material experience - but learn the first things first.
52. (Q) Does this also explain her frequent pre-occupation?
    (A) To be sure.
53. (Q) Why does she walk and talk so much in her sleep?
    (A) Close to the music that spans the distance between the finite and the infinite.
54. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Mother
    Copy to Ass'n file

REPORTS

1. 6/63 See Source Key File #3621 for Astrological Chart made by a professional astrologer which Margaret Gammon had made and added to [3621-1] file.

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