This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 18th day of March, 1944, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [3706], Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research and 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.) Born in Ventnor, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England.

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 have the records here of that entity now known as or called [3706].
3. In giving an interpretation of the records here, there are many phases of the entity's experience and expressions to be considered. These are the choices we would make of the experiences in the earth and the application of the entity during such periods, which if applied in the present as we find may bring the greater helpful influences for the entity in this particular sojourn.
4. We would magnify the virtues, we would minimize the faults.
5. For the entity would be termed by some as an initiate, or one so imbibed with emotions, as well as abilities in the attuning of self to nature or to the infinite, as to bring into the material experience much that causes confusion to others. Thus in the emotional life or experience of the body in relationships to others there has oft come many confused situations. These are to the entity so real that there is little that may be said against such, yet the entity finds its interest in the unusual rather impractical, as some would say, and such activities more often bring disturbing forces in the entity's experience.
6. Yet we would find that if there are ideals set by the entity as to spiritual, mental and material relationships, these may be brought to such coordination as to give place for the entity's contribution to the various phases of individual experiences in such a way that it will be well for the entity.
7. Remember that man looketh on the outward appearance, God looketh on the heart and purpose of the individual entity. Thus, though experiences may arise.
8. There may be questionings by the associates, even by those of the entity's own household, there is nothing to fear or to be overanxious about - if the entity's ideal is set in the right direction. Not in what might be said to be an idea of its own as to become deaf to the pleading of others, but rather knowing self to be right according to the ideal chosen, remain in the spiritual, helpful moods and influences for the activities of the entity.
9. Astrologically we find Venus, Uranus, Jupiter, Saturn, Mars - and what a peculiar combination; yet that usually experienced in one form or another by those who are as high strung or as emotionally-strung as this entity finds itself.
10. In Venus one who is attracted to all things pertaining to the ethereal or emotions as of color. Just as the entity is moved as it observes color in a pansy, finding the divine in color, in harmony, in tone, in music - as if it were the voice of the spheres.
11. Such brings to many of those associated with the entity the appearances of the entity being impractical. Yet the entity in its interest in such may contribute in word - as in poetry or in prose - a voice that may be heard through the ages.
12. The entity may add to that in color, in painting, or it may contribute in music, that which would move many who would attune themselves to the music of the spheres or of nature itself.
13. In Uranus we find the extremes. Thus the entity in spiritual, in mental and in material things finds periods when it is as to the mountain tops and again in the depths of despair. Yet the intuition or the spiritual forces would cause the entity ever to be active as in Mars, so that even in its anger the entity may accomplish or carry its point when others would be crushed by disappointments that might be brought through such activities in self or in others.
14. We find in Saturn the great changes that have been a portion of the experience in its associations, its contacts, its relationships. These are all part of the mental and spiritual emotions of the entity.
15. As to the sojourn in the earth, all are not given here. For we choose from those, the ones which if applied in the present may bring to the entity the greater understanding of its abilities and as to how these may be applied in the present to bring greater harmony in the entity's experience:
16. Before that the entity was among those young people who came to the land of the present sojourn and settled about what is now Cape Cod.
17. Then in the name Jessica Cline, the entity was gifted in voice, in the abilities to work with the hands to create things having to do with artistic tendencies for weaving, basket making, painting, tinting the activities that it prepared for others.
18. The entity made closer relationships with the natives than most individuals. Thus the entity became a general contributing factor for the welfare of the groups of that particular period. Thus it was a periods of development, of gaining in mental and spiritual aspirations and purposes.
19. In the present the entity may use nature and the activities in same, may apply them in relationships to others to bring beauty, harmony, understanding and be ever a contributing factor in the lives of others for beauty and good.
20. In that the physical wasn't disturbed but mentally and spiritually the entity was in accord with nature.
21. Thus the study of nature, as well as of human nature, and in its reactions to mental-spiritual conditions and things, may bring a greater interpretation of life and its purposes to the entity, provided there are ideals set - spiritual, mental and material, and these are adhered to by the entity in such measures as to make a consistent life through the experiences of same.
22. Before that the entity was in the land of the present nativity during those periods when there was the expanding of the activities of the groups that had settled there from the Holy Land. [Stonehenge?]
23. The entity was among those who set about to beautify the lives of individuals by consistent application of harmony, love, beauty, not only as to the consistencies in the life but as to add beauty in the making of nature's activities more in keeping with the means of individuals' expression in those periods of worshipfulness both as a religious tenet and as to the daily life of the home builder.
24. The name then was Ersa Kent. The entity applied self to the tenets and teachings of its elders.
25. These have brought into the entity's experience duties oft for relation's sake, rather than for the keeping merely of the tenets of the Law of One in the experiences of the entity.
26. Before that the entity was in the Holy Land when the peoples were journeying to Egypt.
27. The entity was among those during the periods in the wilderness who prepared the hangings for the temple or when there was the building of the tent or the ark of the convenient, or the tabernacle in the wilderness.
28. The entity was among the children of Dan who prepared the weavings of fringes with the edges in the temple service. These brought the entity into closer relationships with those in authority in the tabernacle worship.
29. Thus the urges latent and manifested in regard to secular things, that there may be spiritual interpretations or the needs for symbols to indicate activity in the emotions of self.
30. The name then was Shaib.
31. Before that the entity was in the Egyptian land when the teachings of the Priest were bring spread, when authority was builded with the return to power in Egypt. The entity was among those set in the Temple Beautiful for preparations through music, through the coping as it wee of the songs, through the interpretation of music as well as the drawings that were a part of the temple activity.
32. The name then was Is-alb.
33. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, that to which it may attain and how:
34. First analyze and study self in relationship to that the entity sets as its ideal, not merely in mind or in thought but in daily practice. Know that the spiritual ideal chosen shall be in keeping with the fact that He is able to keep that committed unto Him against any experience.
35. Thus the Law of One as manifested in the way, the truth and the light, which has ever been in the earth in the various periods of activity, is now as the Savior in fact.
36. In the mental or soul activity, in the physical, let thy ideals ever be set not merely as tenets but as the practices of Him who is the way and the truth.
37. In the application of self in relationship with others, study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman not ashamed, rightly stressing the various phases of the activity and keeping self from condemnation of others or of self.
38. Ready for questions.
39. (Q) Why has my husband ceased to care for me?
    (A) These are material things. These are things that have to do with the application of self as related to ideals. Let this be rather as an experience to use and not to be used by same.
40. (Q) How can I get closer to him and be a better wife?
    (A) As indicated by studying to show thyself approved unto God, a workman not ashamed; not condemning but showing self worthy of that love, that confidence, that emotion which would bring the greater relationships one with the other.
41. (Q) How many times have I been an artist, and English?
    (A) Compare with that indicated. An artist in many ways, for the entity would be just as lovely an artist in writing a book as in painting a picture. The application of self has been in the study of nature. That keep.
42. (Q) How can I become a better artist?
    (A) Read what has just been indicated. Study nature, pattern after same.
43. (Q) Should I leave pastel and take up oil painting against my feelings?
    (A) These should be according to the temperament of the entity. For this is merely the means of expressing the entity's desire and design. Pastels are well. Oil is well. Each has its place. Use each according to the prompting of the inner self.
44. We are through with this reading.

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BACKGROUND

1. 1/19/44 Questions for Life Reading:
   1. Why has my husband ceased to care for me? He has erected a wall for years. How can I get closer to him and be a better wife? 2. How many times have I been an artist and English? 3. How can I become a better artist. Should I leave pastel and take up oil painting against my feelings? 4. How can I be more useful in my world? 5. Why my intense love of high places and mountains and solitude? 6. Why do I adore great music? 7. I am the mother of a fine boy, [...]. Am I right in sensing that he was a spiritual teacher in a former incarnation? 8. Was I wrong to obey the tremendous urge to go to South Africa in 1937? What is Harold [...] to me? 9. Why am I burdened with a lawsuit since 1937? How can I be free of it with justice to all concerned? 10. Shall we buy this house?

REPORTS

1. 3/26/44 [3706]'s letter:
   Denver, Colorado
   Dear Mr. Cayce:
   I am most grateful to you for the two readings which came a few days ago - one of the most interesting events in our varied life! Will you please thank Mr. Cayce for her part in it and the two ladies who took the notes and typed the readings - they are beautiful job of typing. Of course the "Life" reading was the most thrilling to me - I knew I was a mixture and almost a battleground of emotions and the surprise is that I was a pretty decent person as far back as you record! Why even in this lifetime I have had such surging passions and longings - been so deeply in love many times, that I've hardly known how to keep living normally! But as you saw, I have always had the spiritual ideals to keep me straight. They are stronger the longer I live.
   I remember when I went through conversion at 19, in our church near London, how surprised my family was at the thorough way it "got me" - I gave up theaters and dancing for something when there was a need - it was just my intense nature's way. Father said I didn't need to be so Puritanical and that is something I remembered as I read of being Jessica Cline in the Cape Cod settlement. I suppose I was one of the pilgrims? and they were Puritans. Did I come over on the "Mayflower"? It's just like me to be friendly with the natives in that area - I've always been like that - in the Rockies I want to know all the miners and natives I meet. I love real mountain people.
   Strangely enough that Cape Cod life has left no remembrance - tho not so long ago as reincarnation usually goes. I have NO drawing to that area - I'm a lover of mountains and the Great West.
   What I had expected to read was that I had something to do with Leonardo da Vinci. I have a tremendous [?] and attraction to him - and hoped I might have been a humble pupil or at least a paint mixer for him. I feel very at home in Italy, when my parents took me there when I was 28. I have also felt very drawn to the Greek art - being a lover of pure line and form. So I've been an artist and nature lover as far back as you looked! That makes me deeply happy - in fact, four readings exalted me all day long. I think it was your mention of my being a kind of initiate. Yes - at my height I am - I have found the "pearl at great price" probably only in this life time and it is almost no higher an ideal to live up to.
   I'm glad you think the rift between my husband and me is only of material things - for altho' I only have a mother love for him now and we go our separate ways because of things so very different, I shall always be loyal and long to help him all I can. He should have married someone more domesticated! [Rest of her letter see under 3706-1 Reports. Also EC's letter of 4/05/44, etc.]

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