This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 18th day of April, 1944, in accordance with request made by the mother - Mrs. [3299], Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research and Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Born May 28, 1923, in Chicago, Ill.

TEXT

1. GC: You will give the relation 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's 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 [5105].
3. In giving an interpretation of the records here, we find there are many activities in the personality of the entity that might be called commendable. There are those tendencies and inclinations for the entity to be speculative. For the entity is one of those individual entities who might be called very lucky at any game of chance. There should be warnings in respect to such.
4. There are those tendencies for the entity to be interested in any happening of an unusual nature, especially as would have to do with oriental habits, oriental customs, or such.
5. There are those abilities latent and manifested for the entity to make rhyme, or poetry; and if there is the application of self the entity might succeed in writing the words and the music for a popular song. This would be well to cultivate.
6. At times when there are those tendencies for meditation the entity has felt fear.
7. Here is an individual entity in whom the mother may put all confidence, as to the ability of the entity to take care of itself; which is rather unusual in one as well favored as the entity in its activities as well as in its person.
8. As to the urges latent and manifested from the astrological aspects, though not in the common term of astrology, but rather the urges arising from the consciousness of the entity through periods when not in the three-dimensional consciousness, we find:
9. The high mental activities or abilities are indicated, as well as the unusual activities from the Uranian influence which we find indicated in what might be called "chance" or "luck" in the extremes. These are well, provided there is kept the spiritual and the mental balance.
10. In the same relationship with Venus we find the appreciation of the beautiful; as in song or verse or poetry; for the entity, as indicated, may apply self and make a success, but the greater success the entity may attain may be in the home.
11. The career should only be a part-time job and not the whole time and purpose given to it. For the home and children should be the career of this entity, as indicated in the urges from Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mercury, in the order of their activities in the personality of the entity in the present.
12. As to the appearances in the earth, we find that these have been far apart, wide and varied. While all will not be indicated, these give the pattern as might be outlined from activities through special periods in the experience of the entity as an entity in the earth:
13. Before this the entity was in the land of the present nativity, during the early settlings in the land, when there were the associations with peoples of the land with natives, with nature, with the outdoors.
14. Hence that pertaining to activities out of doors, as to sports or games, becomes a part of the entity's consciousness. Yet the entity grows tired of same because of a latent urge from activities in that particular period, which became - as it were - an urge that was not completely in accord with the findings of the entity through that period.
15. Thus home, inside home, decoration in home and the like; yet the call to natural sources, the unusual things, the mystical, are parts of the consciousness.
16. Then in the name Clara Carlton the entity gained spiritually and mentally, though there were material hardships in materiality - as may be indicated by the forcing of the outdoor life in a portion of the experience.
17. Before that the entity was in the English land, in the periods when there were those separations, as it were, of church and state and the seeking of freedom for the common people.
18. The entity expressed itself in verse pertaining to the activities between Creative Forces and the common peoples.
19. Thus the ability in the writing of song or verse is a portion of the experience, or of that in which the entity may compose activities in story or book. The name was then Carlysle.
20. Before that the entity was in the Grecian land when there was the coordinating or cooperating of activities in a portion of the political as well as social life of Greece and Rome.
21. Then the entity was a Grecian, a man, during the period when there was the activity in speaking, in song, in the physical activities that made for closer relationships.
22. In the Roman land the entity was known as Rolo, and in the Grecian land as Mazesra.
23. Before that the entity was in the Egyptian land among those prepared for emissaries to the land of Saad and the golden land.
24. From those activities we find that the entity at present has an interest in things mystical, in things original, things oriental. These as indicated, while they are not to be indulged in to the extent that the more practical is not kept as the basis of the activities, are well at times.
25. As to the abilities of the entity in the present, that to which it may attain and how:
26. Take warning from those things indicated as would not apply in the practical sense. Do apply self first in analyzing self. Know the relationships between physical, mental and spiritual attributes of body. Do know the ideals of the body and that to which it would attempt to attain. Then study to show thyself approved, a workman not ashamed, rightly dividing the words of truth and keeping self unspotted from the world and from condemnation.
27. Ready for questions.
28. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Mother
    Copy to Ass'n file
    Copy for indexing

BACKGROUND

1. 8/06/43 Mother's letter: "...I am very anxious to have my daughter's Life Reading. She is 20 now, and just entering the business of life. I think it would help us a great deal to know what her background is and her talents, and get her started in the right direction. I am sending her application..."
2. 8/13/43 Mother's letter: "...April 18 will be fine for my daughter's reading. I know it is the best you can do, and it will give me time to get the monetary end of it cleaned up. You don't like to talk about money, do you? Well, I think you are very foolish. I realize that no amount of money could buy the gift you have... My daughter and I always used to go on our vacations together each summer. Now we have to go separately, because I can't leave mother alone at night..."
3. 9/27/43 Mother's letter: "...I am enclosing $5.00 check toward my daughter's reading... As soon as I get this paid for, I am going to ask you to save me another date..."
4. 3/25/44 Mother's letter: "It is very kind of you to offer to give my daughter her reading as scheduled. It makes me feel kind of small, and I will indeed try from time to time to send a little money..."
5. 4/04/44 Mother's letter: "I am enclosing data on my daughter. I don't know whether you need to know where she is at the time of the reading, but I have included that information on the data sheet in case you do need it. I am not asking any questions this time. We will wait and see what the reading offers. My only hope is that in the matter of past lives the information will be sufficient to enable me to do some real research on the particular periods."

REPORTS

1. 5/12/44 Mother's letter: "I hesitate to write you about this, but then I feel that it would be better for me to know definitely one way or the other. You were scheduled to give a reading for my daughter on the afternoon of 4/18. That was 3 weeks ago last Tuesday, and I have not received the reading. It may be that shortage of help caused you to be several weeks behind in getting out the readings... If it is not asking too much, will you please have Miss Davis or someone drop me a note and advise me. Naturally, if the reading was given, I am anxious to have the results. It was to be malled to me at ..., and not to my daughter..."
2. 4/24/52 Questionnaire-letter sent to mother. No reply.
3. 7/15/52 Comment by IMG: "There is no record in A.R.E. files WHEN the reading was mailed. Presumably, the mother received the daughter's reading, otherwise she would have written us again. [For additional information on background, see 3299-1.]
   The reader's attention is called to two factors in this case: 1. The mother made the request for this reading. 2. It is apparent, from the mother's correspondence, that the request was made without the daughter's knowledge. A.R.E. files do not indicate whether there was a verbal or written contact from the daughter, either before or after the reading. Although the mother ordered A.R.E. publications in 1948, 1949 and 1950, she did not submit any comment or report on her daughter's reading.
4. No record of verbal or written contact on this case since 4/13/50.

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