This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 19th day of July, 1944, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [5367], 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, Jeanette Fitch, Stenos. Miss [5367] and sister. Born May 25, 1907, in Hazelton, Pennsylvania.

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 are given the records here of that entity now known as or called [5367].
3. In giving an interpretation of the records, there is much from which to choose. These we choose with the desire and purpose that this may be a helpful experience for the entity enabling it to better fulfill the purposes for which it entered this sojourn.
4. There may be many unusual inferences in this experience for the entity, for the entity was a man in the experience before this and hence in many respects has most of the characteristics - not as mannish - but in the ability to be self-sufficient in itself. These are commendable provided they are not allowed to run to such measures as to be disregarding of others' feelings, of others' love, or other's hopes, of others' desires for good.
5. In analyzing the experience, then, of the entity and the urges which are latent and manifested, these arise, not only from the urges from the experiences in the earth, for to the entity there have been many, though not all will be indicated here - only the pattern.
6. Also urges are indicated from those experiences of the entity in the interims between the sojourns in the earth, and thus we find an entity who - not double-minded - yet has a great deal of trouble at times discerning between that which may be as the dreams of the entity and that which is reality, and yet an individual who is sensitive, and this entity is supersensitive at times, as will be seen from the application of self in relationships to spiritual things, mental things, and material things. While the entity ordinarily would be called rather material-minded, yet the entity deep within itself is far from being a material-minded individual.
7. Abilities in certain directions are indicated especially in the experiences of the entity, not only from the sojourns in the earth, but from the experiences in the realms between same. For astrologically, we find Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Uranus, Saturn all are parts of the experience. Not as is ordinarily termed in astrological aspects but rather from consciousness of the soul-entity, and remember the soul never forgets. For it is eternal. For the entity finds itself when it begins to analyze self, a physical being with the attributes of a physical body, with the emotions of the body regarding procreation, regarding relationships with individuals; those tendencies, urges and feelings which arise from a purely mental-body, as well as something deeper still, a soul-body. Thus each of these have their attributes. They have their limitations in materiality, no limitation of the soul or mind in spirituality but in materiality they reach limitations because of lack of means of expression.
8. The entity is especially gifted in ability to write. Do write. Write those interesting experiences of the realm of the spiritual, in the realm of the unusual, but not spiritualism or spiritism, but spirituality and the working of the spirit of truth in the mind and in the hearts and in the lives of individuals, in the lives of groups, in the lives of families, in the lives of nations. These should be the character of the writing of the entity. Not as of any specific groups, as a mystic or as a Rosicrucian or a Unity, or as a New Thought, as Divine Science, but rather the soul as a corpuscle in the body of God. This the entity may expand upon the rest of the next four years and then find itself famous if it would apply it in its daily dealings with others as it writes such. For in the beginning God said, "Let there be light." Ye, [5367], are one of those sparks of light with all the ability of creation, with all the knowledge of God. Will ye claim it and will ye apply it in thy daily life? Not, then, as one to mystify but to show love. Even as He, who hath not willed that any soul should perish, for it is the spark of the corpuscle in the body of God, as thyself. So are thy neighbors, so are thy enemies; so are thy friends, treat them as such. For they have the abilities even as thou; not as much light may have been shed on them or perhaps they have not used such, but rather abused the privilege.
9. Thus may the entity accomplish; thus may it give to its fellow man an insight, not knowledge but an insight into the knowledge which may be attained in just being patient, in just being kind, in just being longsuffering, in just being consistent. For that is the fault in the entity, as in every soul who has sought, who seeks gratifying only of an earthly appetite.
10. As to the appearances in the earth, these again mean little, though many have been the experiences of the entity, as:
11. Before this we find the entity was in the opposite sex and in those periods when there were those preparations for maintaining and carrying on the attempts of a nation, of a people, to free itself from oppression, and that has been and is a purpose in the entity's self in the present; free from want; free from persecution; free from jealousies; free from hates. These the entity seeks innately deep within itself, as it did in the experience before this as Samuel Gospweed. In the experience the entity supplied much which was strengthening to the man called the "father of this country." These again may the entity use as the background of this, thy soul, a corpuscle in the body of God, as the man who knelt in the snow to pray that God would take those poor, ragged men, supplied by Samuel Gospweed, and that as food was supplied by him there might be that purpose to give strength, and it did.
12. Thus does the entity find itself favored, and yet in same hath given up the ability in body to reproduce, save when in association with one in the opposite sex in the experience before that. These lacks become problems in the entity at times, yet these in themselves should give the entity the ability to visualize for others that their souls are but an atom, a corpuscle, in the body of the universal God.
13. Before that we find the entity was in the Holy Land when there were those teachers who were following in the footsteps of the son of man, even one Jesus of Nazareth.
14. The entity was one who in the period was used by others to interpret for men seeking material gain who were rebuked by Peter. Thus the entity was healed from the body being used by other influences outside of self for gain. Thus the entity was purified for a purpose, and became one who supplied in the laying on of hands, healing forces to others.
15. Keep away from thy interpretations, then, that it would tend to be of prophecy, but rather that which brings mental and physical healing because of the deep purpose within thy soul.
16. The name then, as would be called in the present, was Elen.
17. Before that we find the entity was in those periods when there were those judges in Israel, when there was one chosen of the entity's own sex who was the interpreter for Barak. The entity was then a sister of the one who aided in keeping the children of Israel in the way of the Lord, and the entity gained from the experiences that which brings within its powers in the present of memory, of vision, of color, as of pictures of places, of scenes of peoples who were of its sister through that experience. The entity was then in the name Shammar.
18. Before that we find the entity was in the land when there were those who gathered about the ark which had been placed in the Nile. The entity was then a maid to Pharaoh's daughter and one who was given the privilege to be in the household of Moses' mother during the rearing of the babe who became the lawgiver to the world. For, this is the basis of the activity. Thus the entity, in the name then Tanai, heard the prayers, not only of Jochabed but Miriam, as this entity saw the child grow and knew that for which it was destined, that there were those forces, those influences such that indeed the soul of each entity is a corpuscle in the body of God.
19. Before that we find the entity was in the land when there were those preparations that man would not be wholly destroyed but how that the Father-God warned Noah to build the ark and to gather his sons and their families. The entity was one born in the ark during those periods, for the wife of Japheth, the son of Noah, was heavy with child, and it was born during those periods in the ark.
20. The entity knows, then, the escape, knows the way innately, and that it is only through the hands, the arms of God. Keep that eternal. Do give that to thy fellow man.
21. Ready for questions.
22. (Q) To what extent should my psychic or clairvoyant abilities or powers be used?
    (A) Used as has been indicated, in the writing.
23. (Q) Am I sufficiently equipped along those lines to make that a life's work, or a part of my life's work?
    (A) As has been indicated, this entity may give that which will change the thought of the world, even as much as the Age of Reason or the first writing of the patriarch.
24. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file
    Copy for indexing
    [She and sister enthusiastic; said the reading fitted her to a "t".]

BACKGROUND

1. Questions submitted: 1. To what extent should my psychic or clairvoyant abilities or powers be used? 2. Am I sufficiently equipped along those lines to make that a life's work, or a part of my life's work? 3. Am I sufficiently equipped to make a career in public life, such as speaking from the platform? If so, along what lines should this be done? 4. Do I have sufficient ability as a writer to make a career of it? If so, along what lines should I write?

REPORTS

1. 12/19/47 Detailed report requested by GD.

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