Edgar Cayce Readings, 5275-1

Time and Place: Set bet. 10:30 to 11:30 A. M. Eastern War Time. ..., Mass.

TEXT

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 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.
EC: Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called: [5275].
As we find, many are the virtues of the entity and yet there are faults and tendencies to same bringing the entity a great deal of anxiety and trouble at times.
As we find, this is an entity with not only a pleasing personality, but one gifted with speech or conversation. Thus a good speaker. As a minister, as a speaker or teacher might the entity well excel, provided it isn't self that is attempted to be exalted in the conversation or in the lecture or in preaching. Know your subject, have something to say, especially as a minster, a promise to keep and the promise is not of self.
Be ye mindful that He of whom ye speak, when ye preach, giveth power to the words, only as ye practice it in thine own life. Ye may not expect to succeed in convincing thy brother that he should be patient or kind, or even hear thee unless ye are patient and kind thyself. Don't preach one thing and practice another. For this is inconsistent, and inconsistency is sin, and be sure thy sins will find thee out.
In the activities, then, first choose thy course and then, in thy might and thy power, give thyself to thy Maker and let it ever be, "Not my will, O God, but Thy will be done in and through me just now." Ever that. Then live as ye pray.
Don't keep telling people what they ought to do, nor keep telling them what a great personage thou art, but so live that thy life is consistent with what the word speaketh. For as ye may know, and should know by this period, "Thou shalt love the Lord, thy God, with all thy heart and mind and body and thy neighbor as thyself," is the whole gospel and as ye live it ye can preach it. For ye can persuade others. For whatsoever a man soweth that he also must reap.
These do and ye, thyself, will find grace, will find mercy, not merely with the giver of all good and perfect gifts but with thy fellow man. Be a servant to all, that ye may be the greatest among those whom ye would serve.
As to the appearances in the earth, these are quite varied. Not all may be given but here it would be well if ye would, as an entity, study several of them individually. As ye minister thine own self so may ye minister to others, to the glory of thy Maker.
Before this we find the entity was in the land of the present nativity, during the periods when there were the activities for the Revolution. The entity was among those who spoke for the activities and then became rather weak when hardships came. Yet being purposeful gave the greater concept through associations with some of the great leaders of the period; as Lee, Grant, Putnam, Washington.
The entity became a power in the name then Fluvious Powers. In the experience the entity gained and lost and gained.
Use thy purposefulness, as may be fired not merely by the imagination but the desire of the body, the mind and soul, the soul to be known of God rather than of man.
Before that we find the entity was in the Roman land and the entity was among those of the soldiers, of the caretakers, the assistant to the caretakers in the arenas when there were many of those who had named the name used as playthings for the vile in heart and mind, yet the entity seeing the sincerity of the many of those who were persecuted, many who lost their lives even in same, learned a lesson and straightway forgot it when it came to being self in power, but learned again when there were those of its own household who had embraced the new-found thought, who were torn in the arena by the lions.
The name then was Denetro.
As a leader, then, of the flock, as an instructor of those who would seek the Lord, let thine own life, thine own words be such as to ever encourage others to be patient, to be kind, to be gentle, to be longsuffering with their fellow man.
Before that we find the entity was in the Holy Land when the children of Israel passed over the Jordan into the Holy Land. The entity was among those who were of the children of Levi, among those who bore the ark as it passed through and over Jordon, though never acting in the capacity before being trained for same.
The name then was Emeliel.
As to the abilities of the entity, then, in the present, that to which it may attain and how, may it only be necessary to say this:
Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman not ashamed, rightly dividing the words of truth and keeping self unspotted from the world.
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BACKGROUND

Questions submitted 6/02/44: "Why is it that I cannot get a larger field or service through public speaking [as a Protestant minister]? I seem to be in a pocket parish; how can I get a church to my liking? Why is it hard for me to understand men and their so-called "he ways." Why do they not seem to understand me? Why is deafness a part of my handicap - and what can I do about this? Why do I not have confidence in myself when faced with competition? How may I overcome this? Should I follow through with my interest in the Congregational Church in ..., Ill? How can I get myself before the committee so as to be heard and receive a call to be its pastor?"