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BIBLE SERIES:

NOAH AND THE FLOOD

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Noah and the Flood And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth. [Genesis 6: 10]

Contents: Pages:

A. Commentary on Noah and the Flood 5

B. Points of Interest

1. Listing of Noah and Family Members who had Readings 7 2. Present-day Family grouping 7 3. Places of Rebirth 7 4. Dates Readings were given 7 5. Biographical Excerpts from Dictionary of the Bible,

edited by James Hastings 8

C. The Flood: Miscellaneous Readings 11

D. Noah and Family Members who had Readings

1. Noah 14 2. Japheth, Noahs Son 18 3. Rezepatha, Japheths Wife 24 4. Child of Japheth and Rezepatha, Born on the Ark; no name given 31 5. Pelus, Child of Japheth and Rezepatha 35 6. Lapeth, Japeths Mother-In-Law 39 7. Shelobothe, Shems Companion 45 8. Maran, Hams Wife 51 9. Canaan, Hams Son 56 10. Jeurepth, Noahs Other Grandson, Parents not named 60 11. Methuselah, Noahs Grandfather 66 12. Noahs Descendants Involved in Building the Tower of Babel

a. 551-3 72

b. 5618-8 75

E. Study Aids

1. List of Index Headings 78 2. Index 79

F. Related Circulating Files and Research Bulletins*:

1. Bible Series: Exodus 2. Bible Series: Lost Tribes 3. Bible Series: Theory of Creation 4. Bible Series: Time of the Patriarchs

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Noah and the Flood

This is the second Circulating File in a series on the Old Testament. The first, A Theory of Creation, parallels the story of Creation given in the Bible.

In the first pages, an approximate historical date of the Flood is given. This flood

is pointed out as being a turning point in the souls continuing experience in materiality.

Assurance is given that the deluge was not a myth, but a purposeful happening to

require mans return to dependency, mentally and physically, upon God.

This compilation continues with the life reading of Noah, who was of the lineage

of Adam and a man perfect in his generation.

Life readings of eight members of Noahs family are included. The regrouping of souls in cyclic patterns is shown in this study, and can be seen reflected throughout the

readings, in families of all sizes.

There are also two life readings for individuals who had incarnations at the time

of the Tower of Babel.

Included in this file is an Index which gives a quick overview of main thoughts

for each excerpt.

There are also two special features which broaden the understanding of the

readings: Points of Interest and Study Aids.

Compiled by Mae Gimbert St. Clair

Fall of 1979



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Points of Interest

And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth. [Genesis 6: 10]

Reading Page

Number Number

Noah and Family Members who had Readings:

Noah 2547 14

Japheth, Noahs Son 2627 18 Rezepatha, Japheth's wife 2425 24

Their child, born on the Ark (no name given) 5367 31

Their child, Pelus 5008 35

Lapeth, Japheth's Mother-in-law 2625 39

Noahs other Daughters-in-laws Shelobothe, Shem's Companion 2624 45 Maran, Ham's wife 3653 51

Canaan, Ham's son 3345 56

Jeurepth, Noahs Other Grandson (parents not named) 2460 44

Present-day Family grouping (same as then):

Husband (Japheth) 2627 18

Wife (Rezepatha) 2425 24

Their son (Pelus) 5008 35

Wife's mother (Lapeth) 2625 39

Places of Rebirth:

England [2625] Kentucky [3653] North Carolina [2547]

England [3345] N. Hampshire [5008] Pennsylvania [5367]

Russia [551] New York [2627] Tennessee [5618]

Scotland [2624] New York [2425] Virginia [2460]

Dates Readings were given:

Noah and his family: 1941 1944 Tower of Babel: 1925 1926



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Biographical Excerpts from

Dictionary of the Bible Edited by James Hastings

NOAH - 1. Noah, rest The name is explained in Gn 5(29) by a play on niham, to comfort; but perhaps the reading supported by the LXX should be adopted, This same shall give us rest. In one tradition Noah is the hero of the Flood, and answers to Ut-napishtim in the Babylon legend.

See DELUGE. Ut-napishtim was translated to immorality; and this is perhaps referred to in 6(9b)

(cf 5[24] and see ENOCH). In another tradition he is the discoverer of the art of making wine

(9[20-27]). Elsewhere in the Bible, besides the references to the Flood, Noah is mentioned in 1

Ch 1[4], Ezk 14[14,20], Lk 3 [36], 2. No ah (Nu 26[33] 27[1] 36[11], Jos 17[3]. One of the

daughters of Zelophehad, of the tribe of Manasseh. They claimed their fathers inheritance because he had died leaving no sons. It was given to them, on condition that they were not

married into another tribe.

DELUGE. - 1. The Biblical story, Gn 6[5]-9[17] [6[1-4] is probably a separate tradition,

unconnected with the Deluge (see Driver, Genesis, p. 82)]. The two narratives of J and P have

been combined; the verses are assigned by Driver as follows: J 6[5-8] 7[1-5, 7-10, 12], 1[6b],

17[b], 22 ,23 8[2a-3b], 6-12,13[b], 20-22; P 6[9-22] 7[6], 11,13-16[a], 17[a], 18-21, 24, 8[1],

2[a], 3[b]-5 ,13[a], 14-19 9[1-17]. J alone relates the sending out of the birds, and the sacrifice

with which Y is so pleased that He determines never again to curse the ground. P alone gives the directions with regard to the size and construction of the Ark, the blessing of Noah, the

commands against murder and the eating of blood, and the covenant with the sign of the rainbow.

In the portions in which the two narratives overlap, they are at variance in the following points.

[a] In P one pair of every kind of animal (6[18-20]), in J one pair of the unclean and seven of the

clean (7[2f], are to be taken into the Ark. (In 7[9] a redactor has added the words two and two to make Js representation conform to that of P). The reason for the difference is that according to P, animals were not eaten at all till after the Deluge (9[3]), so that there was no distinction required

between clean and unclean. (b) In P the cause of the Deluge is not only rain but also the bursting

forth of the subterranean abyss(6[11]); J mentions rain only (v.12). (c) In P the water begins to

abate after 150 days (8[3]), the mountain tops are visible after 8 months and 13 days (7[11] 8[5]);

and the earth is dry after a year and 10 days (8[14]); in J the Flood lasts only 40 days (7[12]

8[14]), and the water had begun to abate before that.

2. The History of the story. Efforts to establish the historicity of the Flood by archaeological discoveries are futile. Stories of the finding of remains of the Ark on Mount Ararat

crop up every now and then, but even if the finds themselves can ever be authenticated, there is

no evidence to connect them with Noahs Ark. Usually, indeed, the stories refute themselves by presupposing things archaeologically impossible. More respectable claims have been made for

the thick layers of clay found in Babylonian excavations, particularly at Ur and Kish. That these

were deposited by flood is unquestionable, but they were not deposited by the same flood, since

they are demonstrably from different periods, and other sites in the region have no such deposits

from any of these periods. The inundations in question were, therefore evidently of a local nature.

The modem study of geology and comparative mythology has made it impossible to see in the

story of the Deluge the literal record of an historical event. The fact that marine fossils are found

on the tops of hills cannot be used as argument, for, though it proves that some spots which are

now at the tops of hills were at one time submerged, that is not equivalent to asserting that a flood

ever occurred which covered the whole planet-apart from the extreme improbability that the

submergence of mountains was within the period of mans existence. All the water in the world, together with all the vapour if reduced to water, would not cover the whole earth to the height of



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Mount Ararat The collection by Noah of a pair of every kind of animal, bird, and creeping thing,

which would include species peculiar to different countries from the arctic regions to the tropics,

is inconceivable. And no less so the housing of them all in a single chest, the feeding and care of

them by eight persons, the arrangements to prevent their devouring one another, and the provision

of the widely diverse conditions of life necessary for creatures from different countries and

climates. From every point of view it is clear that the story is legendary, and similar in character

to the legends which are found in folk-lore of all peoples.

3. Other Flood-stories.- Such stories are found principally in America, but also in India,

Cashmir, Tibet, China, Kamschatka, Australia, some of the Polynesian Islands, Lithuania, and

Greece. In the great majority of cases the flood is caused by some startling natural phenomenon,

which often has a special connection with the locality to which it belongs; e.g. the melting of the

ice or snow, in the extreme N. of America; earthquakes, on the American coastlands where they

frequently occur; the submergence or emergence of islands, in districts liable to volcanic

eruptions; among inland peoples the cause is frequently the bursting of the banks of rivers which

have been swollen by rains. Sometimes the stories have grown up to account for various facts of

observation; e.g. the dispersion of peoples, and differences of language; the red colour, or the pale

colour, of certain tribes; the discovery of marine fossils inland, and so on. In some cases these

stories have been coloured by the Bible story, owing to the teaching of Christian missionaries in

modern times, and often mixed up with other Bible stories, and reproduced with grotesque details

by local adaptation. But there are very many which are quite unconnected with the story of Noah.

(For a much fuller discussion of the various flood stories see the valuable article Flood in Hastings DB ii.). It is reasonable, therefore, to treat the Hebrew story as one of these old-world legends, and to look for the cause of it in the natural features of the land which gave it birth. And

we are fortunate in the possession of an earlier form of the legend, which belongs to Babylonia,

and makes it probable that its origin is to be ascribed to the inundation of the large Babylonian

plain by the bursting forth of one of the rivers by which it is intersected, and perhaps also, as

some think, to the incursion of a tidal wave due to an earthquake somewhere in the South. This,

among a people whose world was bounded by very narrow limits, would easily be magnified in

oral tradition into a universal Deluge.

4. The Babylonian story.- (a) One form of the story has long been known from the

fragments of Berosus, an Egyptian priest of the 3rd cent. B.C. It differs in certain details from the

other form known to us; e.g. when the birds return the second time, clay is seen to be attaching to

their legs (a point which finds parallels in some N. American flood-legends); and not only the

hero of the story, Xisuthros, and his wife, but also his daughter and the pilot of the ship are

carried away by the gods.

(b) The other and more important form is contained in Akkadian cuneiform tablets in the

British Museum, first deciphered in 1872. It is part of an epic in 12 parts, each connected with a

sign of the Zodiac; the Flood story is the 11th, and is connected with Aquarius, the water bearer. Gilgamesh of Uruk (Erech, Gn 10[10]), the hero of the epic, contrived to visit his ancestor Ut-

napishtim, who had received the gift of immortality. The latter is in one passage called Adra-

hasis, which being inverted as Hasis-adra appears in Greek as Xisuthros. He relates to Gilgamesh

how, for his piety, he had been preserved from a great, flood. When Bel and three other gods

determined to destroy Shurippak, a city lying on the Euphrates, Ea warned him to build a ship. He built it 120 cubits in height and breadth with 6 decks, divided into 7 storeys, each with 9

compartments; it had a mast, and was smeared with bitumen. He took on board all his

possessions, the seed of life of every kind that I possessed, cattle and beasts of the field, his family, servants, and craftsmen. He entered the ship and shut the door. Then Ramman the storm-

god thundered, and the spirits of heaven brought lightnings; the gods were terrified; they fled to

heaven, and cowered in a heap like a dog in his kennel. On the 7th day the rain ceased, and all

mankind were turned to clay. The ship grounded on Mount Nisir, E. of the Tigris, where it

remained 6 days. Then Ut-napishtim sent forth a dove, a swallow, and a raven, and the last did



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not return. He then sent the animals to the four winds, and offered sacrifice on an altar at the top

of the mountain. The gods smelled the savour and gathered like flies. The great goddess Ishtar

lighted up the rainbow. She reproached Bel for destroying all mankind instead of one city only.

Bel, on the other hand, was angry at the escape of Ut-napishtim, and refused to come to the

sacrifice. But he was pacified by Ea, and at length entered the ship, and made a covenant with Ut-

napishtim, and translated him and his wife to the mouth of the rivers, and made them immortal. The similarities to the Hebrew story, and the differences from it, are alike obvious. It

dates from at least 3000 B.C., and it would pass through a long course of oral repetition before it

reached the Hebrew form. And herein is seen the religious value of the latter. The genius of the

Hebrew race under Divine inspiration gradually stripped it of all its crude polytheism, and made it

the vehicle of spiritual truth. It teaches the unity and omnipotence of Y"; His hatred of sin and His

punishment of sinners; but at the same time His merciful kindness to them that obey Him, which

is shown in rescuing them from destruction, and in entering into a covenant with them.

5. It is strange that, apart from Gn 9[28] 10[1, 32] 11[10], there are only two allusions in

the OT to the Flood, Is 5[49] and Ps 29[10] (the latter uncertain; see commentaries). In the

Apocrypha: 2 Es 39[f], Wis 10[4], Sir 44[17f] (40[10] in LXX, but not in Hebrew). In the NT: Mt

24[38f], Lk 17[27], He 11[7], 1 P 3[20], 2 P 2[5].

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The Flood

. . . when the littleness of man had come up as a stench before the throne of mercy and grace. 3653-1

3653-1 F 28 (Housewife, Protestant), 1/7/44

For as has been given from the beginning, the deluge was not a myth (as many would

have you believe) but a period when man had so belittled himself with the cares of the

world, with the deceitfulness of his own knowledge and power, as to require that there be

a return to his dependence wholly - physically and mentally - upon the Creative Forces.

364-6, Creation/Atlantis Reading, 2/17/32

(Q) In relation to the history of Atlantis as presented, at what period did the flood as

recorded in the Bible in which Noah took part, occur?

(A) In the second of the eruptions, or - as is seen - *two THOUSAND - two-two thousand

and six [22, 006?] - before the Prince of Peace, as time is counted now, or light years -

day and night years. Not light years as the akashic records, or as the esoteric records, or

as counted by astrology or astronomy, in the speed or the reflection of a ray of light; for,

as records are made, the akashic records are as these: Activity of ANY nature, as of the voice, as of a light made, produced in the natural forces

those of a motion - which pass on, or are upon, the record of that as time. As may be

illustrated in the atomic vibration as set in motion for those in that called the audition, or

the radio in its activity. IT passes even faster than time itself. Hence LIGHT forces pass

much faster, but the records are upon the esoteric, or etheric, or akashic forces, as they go

along upon the wheels of time, the wings of time, or in WHATEVER dimension we may

signify as a matter of its momentum or movement. Hence as the forces that are attuned to

those various incidents, periods, times, places, may be accorded to the record, the

CONTACT as of the needle upon the record, as to how clear a rendition or audition is

received, or how clear or how perfect an attunement of the instrument used as the

reproducer of same is attuned to those KEEPERS - as may be termed - OF those records.

What would be indicated by the keepers? That as just given, that they are the records

upon the wings or the wheel of time itself. Time, as that as of space - as inter-between.

That inter-between, that which is, that of which, that from one object to another when in

matter is of the same nature, or what that is is what the other is, only changed in its

vibration to produce that element, or that force, as is termed in man's terminology as

DIMENSIONS of space, or DIMENSIONS that give it, whatever may be the solid,

liquid, gas, or what ITS FORM or dimension!

* . . . the entity was in Atlantis when there was the second period of disturbance - which would be some

twenty-two thousand, five hundred (22, 500) before the periods of the Egyptian activity covered by the

Exodus; or it was some twenty-eight thousand (28, 000) before Christ, see? 470-22



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1007-3, Female 67 (Widow, Unitarian), 7/26/38

3. In interpreting the records made by the entity, it is with the desire and hope that

these may be applied in the present in such a manner as to bring peace and harmony, and

the answering within of the desires and purposes for sojourns through material

experiences.

4. Then in the presenting more of the activities of the entity through the Atlantean-

Egyptian experience, something of the background - or that might be called history of the

period or time - would be well; that the entity might see as to how those experiences may

be said to fit that as the entity finds about self even in the present.

5. For if time and space become nil when the spiritual purpose of an entity is

considered, then we are what we are because of what we have been.

6. And if that has been constructive, or of a creative nature in the experience, and

carried a conviction or purpose in which self has been spent, then such may still be a

portion of the real entity in the present.

7. For only good, or purposefulness, lives on; for it is a part of the eternal oneness

- or at-onement with the purposes of Creative Energies or Forces.

8. In that sojourn, then, we find that Assen-ni was of the children of the Law of

One; with the children of Belial as the negative influence or force among the children of

men.

9. And there was the realization by Assen-ni that those who had been born were

through no fault of their own being used as creatures for exploitation; and that through

the very influence and power of the children of Belial the Creative Energies were being

used for destructive purposes - or as cloaks behind which their activities might be carried

on.

10. Thus those disintegrations were brought about that were so well given in the

injunctions later written in the admonitions to Abraham, to Jacob, to Moses, to Elijah, to

Joshua, to all the children of promise - of which we have records.

11. And if the entity will interpret the admonitions of Moses, much of that which is

THE INNER BASIC PRINCIPLE of the entity may be found.

12. With the realization of the children of the Law of One that there was to be the

final breaking up of the Poseidian-Atlantean lands, there were the emigrations with many

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257-201 M 45 (Sales Mgr., Hebrew), 9/4/38

5. But first let's begin with that premise from which there is a reasoning. And, as

is well or better understood by the entity, owing to its material experiences through the

sojourns in the earth of such a varied nature, all must answer to a something within -

before it may be made a part of the entity and the entity's experiences.

6. Each soul as it has entered and does enter into material manifestation is to fulfill

a purpose, with the Creative Forces or God. For He hath not willed that any soul should

perish, but hath with every temptation, every fault, prepared a way, a manner, an

opportunity for the entity to become as one with Him.

7. For that is the purpose of the soul's being in the beginning. Hence without

beginning, without end.

8. Hence as we find, when souls sought or found manifestation in materiality by

the projection of themselves into matter - as became thought forms - and when this had so

enticed the companions or souls of the Creator, first we had then the creation in which

God breathed into man (God-made) the breath of life and he became a living soul, with the abilities to become godlike.

9. Hence we find the first preparation or estate, or manner in which those souls

might through material manifestation acclaim - by the living, by the being - that which

was and is and ever will be consistent with the purposes of creation - was given into the

estate of man. [Atlantis?]

10. The entity was among those first who through those channels came into

consciousness, awareness of the relationships of the material man to the Creative Forces;

that came into material activity during the early portions of man's CONSCIOUSNESS of

being an independent entity, or body, in a material existence. [Atlantis?]

11. Thence we find the entity passing through those experiences, becoming rather

aware, with the sons of those activities in the experiences when all thought forms in

matter were put away - through the experience of Noah. [2nd destruction of Atlantis

portion by flood?]

254-35, Work Readings, 6/4/27

4. Those things as concern each individual should be set forth in the literature that

may be sent to all such individuals; for many will be interested - many will laugh at such

endeavors; yet same was true even when Noah was called into the ark.



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Noah

Text of Reading 2547-1, Male 4, 7/29/41

This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic

Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 29th day of July, 1941, in accordance with request

made by the father - [...], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research &

Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by his uncle, Mr. [416].

P R E S E N T

Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Father and Uncle of

[2547].

R E A D I N G

Born August 8, 1937, in Oxford, N.C.

Time of Reading 10: 30 to 11: 05 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., N.C.

1. [Life Reading Suggestion: 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 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

[2547].

3. In giving the interpretations of the records here, for this entity the greater

portion in the present would be as counsel to those responsible for the training, the

developing of those abilities - spiritually, mentally - that are apparent in the activities of

this entity; that it may better fulfill those purposes for which it entered this experience.

4. Fortunate indeed may be those who have a part in the formulating of the ideals

of this entity in the present. For he will formulate ideas for many, no matter in what turn

the activities may be. But if these are guided in those channels through which the

activities of this entity have been in the earth plane, we will find the GLORIFYING of

the Christ-Consciousness in manifested manners of spiritual activity that has not been

seen since the entity in its expression in the earth gave counsel to the many.

5. Astrologically we find little influences in the experience of this entity. For, the

activities in the earth have so outweighed, outnumbered those. And no individual entity

save the Master himself has given greater material demonstration of the activities of the

spiritual forces in the earth of EVERY nature.

6. Astrologically, then, we find only the latent dreams of the entity. For, the

manifestations in the earth plane have been so outstanding; in the period before this as a

reformer, a Scotchman.



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7. Hence we will find unusual, characteristics in the care the entity takes of certain

things about it, and in others as an extremist in his expression, in his words, in the

contemplation of his activities.

8. But these need spiritual guidance, - not that the entity is to be PROMPTED. For

the entity will do most of the prompting, if it is guided in those activities that are to be the

formulated ideals of the developing mind.

9. Thus it should be trained in spiritual truths. Most of these the entity will give

expression to, in the attempt to direct. And little may be told the entity of the stories of

the Scripture that it cannot tell you more than you will tell the entity! But there should

not be a forcing of the issue; rather let there be a NORMAL development.

10. DO NOT QUESTION the entity as to the sources of his information. DO NOT

CORRECT the entity as to that given, but keep a detailed record of what is given.

11. Do not impress or give the impression that the entity is different from other

individuals.

12. DO have the development physically AND spiritually as one.

13. In giving this interpretation, then, these are the activities of the entity in the

earth plane that we would give as the background; not appearances in great number.

Thus the entity is a dreamer, and at times quite talkative, at others very quiet.

14. The entity does not know the meaning of stranger, yet is one that analyzes

every individual it meets.

15. As to the appearances in the earth, then, - these, as indicated, have been few.

16. Before this the entity was in the Scotch land. The entity began its activity as a

prodigy, as one already versed in its associations with the unseen - or the elemental

forces; the fairies and those of every form that do not give expression in a material way

and are only seen by those who are attuned to the infinite.

17. Then the entity in the developing was in the name Thomas Campbell, the

reformer in the land of the present nativity; which, as combined later with Barton Stone,

brought into activity that known as a denomination.

18. The intent and purpose was to UNIFY all Protestant thought, speaking where

the Book spoke, keeping silent where it kept silent upon the activities or associations of

individuals in relationships to groups or to masses.

19. Hence the entity throughout its experience was not disposed to be other than a

speaker.

20. And the abilities as a speaker, as a minister, will be a part of those faculties,

characteristics, that should be considered as the entity develops normally.



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Noah, Reading 2547-1 (continued)

21. Do not allow the entity, in the first ten to twelve years, to get away from the

spiritual truths in the Old and the New Testaments; not as an ism, not as a cult. For it will

be easy for a cult, an ism, to be formed about the entity and its prognostications. But

rather let it be as one glorifying the truths that are promised in the thirtieth of

Deuteronomy, and in the 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th chapters of John. These impress.

Accredit the entity's abilities to these sources. When there are questions as to the source

from which the entity obtains its information, agree that it comes from the infinite. For,

these are the developments.

22. For, before that the entity was that one upon whom the mantle of Elijah fell, -

who in his material activity performed more unusual acts, or miracles, that are only

comparable with the Master himself.

23. The entity then as Elisha brought into the experience much that was of the

unusual in expression.

24. So in the present, in the experiences of this entity, there may be expected just as

unusual expression; as those coming to the entity to receive the blessings from the

handkerchief, the photograph even, or those things that the entity may touch or bless.

25. But let these be as NATURAL sources, NOT as something unusual. For,

remember - those that have the training - those whom the Lord would honor He

chasteneth.

26. These, then, are the manners: Let each day be an opportunity - not in coddling,

not drastic measures, but loving - as an honor, as a privilege to be appreciated and active,

- in that there may come those blessings to the entity.

27. Here we may see a demonstration, an illustration of that which has been

indicated or intimated through these channels, as of a PERFECT channel being formed

for the advent of an entity-soul that would bring blessings to all - IF there is the directing

of the developing years.

28. The responsibility, then, rests with the mother, the father, for the next eight

years. There will then be given, here, those studies. For, it will be easy to teach him

Greek. It will be easy to teach him those things that were portions of the activity.

29. For, before THAT the entity was that one to whom was entrusted man's advent

into the world - Noah.

30. From this we find those weaknesses. Then, not as one refraining from those,

but beware ever of any strong drink or fruit of the vine passing the lips of THIS entity -

through these early periods, especially.



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31. Do these, and we will find blessings to man - through this entity.

32. Ready for questions.

33. Let this be the prayer with the entity, daily:

FATHER, GOD! IN THY LOVE, IN THY MERCY, THOU HAST GIVEN US THE OPPORTUNITY TO SEE THE MANIFESTATIONS OF THY LOVE

AMONG MEN. LET US APPRECIATE THAT OPPORTUNITY THOU HAST

GIVEN. AND MAY EACH OF US, DAY BY DAY, KEEP THE FAITH IN HIM WHO

HAS PROMISED, 'LO, I AM WITH THEE ALWAYS, EVEN UNTO THE END OF

THE WORLD.'

34. We are through for the present.



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Japheth (Noahs Son)

Text of Reading 2627-1, Male 26 (Dairy Farmer, Protestant), 11/20/41 This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the home of Mrs. [2174], ..., N.H., this

20th day of November, 1941, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [2627],

new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended

by his wife and mother.

P R E S E N T

Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mr. [2627], Mrs. [2425]

and Mrs. [2174].

R E A D I N G

Born August 5, 1915, in New York City.

Time of Reading 10: 40 to 11: 30 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., N.H.

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 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 entity in the present, that to which it may attain, and how. You will answer the

questions, as I ask them:

2. EC: (In going back over years from the present - - '40 - some confusions - '39 - yes, associations - '36 - inner anxieties.)

3. Yes, we are given the record here of that entity now known as or called [2627].

4. In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them here, many phases of

the entity's development through material sojourns, as well as the activities of the soul

entity in the interims, must be taken into consideration - if this would be a helpful

experience for the entity.

5. But these we choose with the desire and hope that this may enable the entity to

better fulfill that purpose for which it chose entrance in this special experience.

6. For, in the present, there are the needs - such needs - for soul or spirit evaluation

in the daily application of what may at times become burdensome associations with

individuals in various phases of material experiences.

7. In interpreting the activities, the information as may be of help is - as in thine

own experience - to minimize the faults in others, magnify their virtues. For, with what

measure ye mete, with what judgement ye condemn or laud, it is measured to thee again.

8. For, as ye do it unto thy fellow man, so ye do unto thy Maker.

9. In the latent and manifested urges that arise in the experience of this entity,

those sojourns that are termed astrological aspects become a part of latent urges,

opportunities, periods when activity - from the determination in spirit - has found

lodgement in those faculties of an individual entity, that may the easier find expression.



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10. Thus, there are those accredited influences from the zodiacal experience or

planetary influence. These do not surpass the will of an entity, and - as indicated in the

experience of this entity - naturally or innately, as well as manifestedly:

11. One who analyzes from those experiences produced in self or others from the

activities.

12. One that finds the needs of direction, but desires to choose the more often its

own experience. For, being an Atlantean as well as an Uranian, we find extremes at

times play the greater influence in the urges, the desires, the choices even made.

13. Not that the entity becomes too highly emotional, but DOES at times become

involved in the PROMPTING of the emotion; whether - as to whether same is of self,

selfishness, or that it may be well-spoken of by others. This IS well if there is innately, in

the determined factors of the entity, a basic principle upon which such choices, such

emotions in their material expression, may be founded.

14. Astrologically, or from the planetary forces, we find Mercury, Venus, Jupiter,

Uranus and Saturn all have a part. Not combined, yet oft as a complementary influence,

as well as the abstract in other experiences.

15. Those about the entity soon learn this from the manner in which the entity

reacts to conditions or problems in the entity's experience, and it is oft observed when the

entity is not aware that there has been such a manifestation.

16. In Mercury we find the high mental abilities.

17. We find in Venus the appreciation of beauty, of nature, of nature's storehouse,

those products of the soil; those that combine good, beauty AND its effect FROM nature

in the activity of the mental forces of the associates.

18. In Jupiter we find the benevolent influence for the entity. And when there are

those astrological aspects that indicate Leo or Libra is in conjunction with the forces as

indicated upon earthly influences from the Jupiterian, then act; not when they are in

Saturn or Uranus. One will cause to overdo, the other to underdo those opportunities or

possibilities in the material activities.

19. The Jupiterian influence brings the associations with others; as Uranus brings

those extremes that have an influence upon the manner of the mental reaction of the

entity, as well as the filial, as well as martial relationships in the entity's influence.

20. Saturn brings the many changes that have been in the present experience, as

also indicated in such a VARIED activity as the entity has manifested in the material

world; bringing what might be called an old soul, for it has manifested not only in those

influences in the earth for good but in those that have been questioned by man. Yet the

intent and purpose, the hope, the desire never began in such a purport - or purported

activity; influenced rather by circumstance.



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Japheth, Noahs Son, Reading 2627-1 (continued)

21. Thus that extreme that arises in the necessity, then, to reason with others,

counsel with self. Oft turn to that spiritual import as so well applied, especially in the

associations when the earth depended much upon the activities of the entity, physically as

well as mentally and spiritually, for what it would become.

22. For, the entity was among those eight souls saved for a definite purpose, and

brought that influence in the earth that is today that source from which spiritual and

mental advance has been kept toward that more commonly termed the more civilized of

the groups or individuals.

23. But, as to the appearances in the earth, - these, as indicated, have been quite

varied, and at times questioned. Not all of the appearances are given here, but those that

apply in the present to those associates, those activities needed for the entity to find self

and its relationships to groups, to individuals.

24. Before this, then, the entity was in the land of the present nativity, but in the

southern portion - or Louisiana.

25. There, as the brother of Jean Lefitt [Lafitte - see 2627-1, Par. R1], the entity

became so involved as to bring not only condemnation to self from many, but

disappointments in self. For, though the world looked on the entity as piratical, or a pirate

in some respects, these grew out of circumstance, and not of purpose in self.

26. Hence the entity finds in the present that SELF is the greatest combating factor,

as to the abilities to choose directions in the activities in relation to conditions and its

relationships to others. Not of choice of associates, not of its purpose as it desires to do,

but manner of application of that purpose.

27. Hold fast to that purpose as prompted the first activities in that land; the use of

the soil for those developments in its supplying the needs to man, not as man to be

complied by same, as eventually became the material activity.

28. In the experience the entity gained, the entity lost, the entity eventually gained

again - though through material suffering, through material hardships.

29. Thus the entity has chosen those environs in which, as will be seen,

circumstance has brought the entity into relationships again with many with whom the

entity was associated AS an influence for (mentally called) evil; while spiritually much

was and is a cleansing.

30. Hence we find abilities of the entity will and should have to do with the things

of the soil, with the products of nature, for not only sustenance - not merely sustenance;

but look upon same as upon the supply. For, that which in nature aids the individual man

to FULFIL HIS purpose towards the Creative Influences, or God, is fulfilling its mission

in the material world. As the product, the fruit of soil, - its purpose is to supply the

physical strength for man's sustenance, and is in spirit of the same source as the spirit of

man.



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31. Then, give that import as ye supply that which aids the plant, the animal, the

tree, nature itself, to better give greater sustenance, greater strength, greater purpose for

its MATERIAL manifestation in the earth. This will enable the entity to keep that

balance. For, know - the silver and the gold is the Lord's, the cattle on a thousand hills is

His. These are lent to thee that ye may use that substance as unto GLORY of God, not

gratifying of self-indulgence nor of self-glorification.

32. Before that the entity was in the Roman, Palestine, Grecian and Archean (?)

land; that one who truly, it may be said, gave the emphasis to the statement: He that

serves Rome the better is the greater Roman of all.

33. It was during those activities in that period of the expansion, when Caesar

Augustus made those attempts to UNIFY the service for peoples in every land; following

closely in purpose that as had been the ideal materially of the emperor Xerxes and Midias

(?).

34. This was that there was innate in the soul of man the ability to rule himself and

his household, either for weal or woe, but the privilege of such, of doing such, should be

the privilege of groups, of masses, - yea, of the individual.

35. Thus the entity in its service, in its activity, made those expansions in the

correct directions. However, these brought disturbing to many - for some groups, whose

purpose, whose ideals were self-indulgence, self-laudation, that it might be the better

spoken of, or considered the greater influence for those activities that made their

impressions upon groups. These brought some disturbing factors in the lives of many.

36. The entity served as that counselor to those placed in authority in the varied

lands, for the gathering of taxes; not as taxes, according to the entity's purpose, but that

the various groups might contribute to that purpose that was the prompting of the entity's

emperor.

37. The name then was Philo, and the entity brought great advancements; yet, as

indicated by the next appearance, fell - by circumstance - into that very slough of despair

that it attempted to point a great empire away from.

38. Hence the extremes that have been, the ability the entity will find in the present

to become a leader, a director of groups who would make the application of spirituality in

a practical, everyday life; as may enable groups to induce the soil to supply that which is

its privilege - a blessing to its Maker. 39. Before that we find there was the experience of the greater period of

development for the entity in the material world.

40. For we find the entity, as the son of Noah, chose the better way for transmitting

in fact, in activity, to his peoples after the sojourn in the ark, not only the needs for the

establishing of homes but of home altars, and the uniting of those home altars in a group,

a nation, a national activity.



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Japheth, Noahs Son, Reading 2627-1 (continued)

41. The name then was Japheth. In the experience the beauty of the

companionship, of the entity's activities, not only before but after the period of

preparation and throughout the sojourn, found its expression and activity in that channel

through which the hope of the world did and has come again.

42. Thus in the present may the entity, with those associations, those

companionships, bring - has brought - an activity which may add to that harmony in the

material world, that will again SING - as the entity did through that period of activity -

the realm of the infinite made manifest in man's heart, man's purpose, man's joy.

43. Leave aside, then, those things that would easily beset, knowing thy purpose

and thy ideal, thy IDEAL, - physically, mentally, spiritually. Know that all that takes

place or that takes form in the mind is prompted either by the spirit of truth or the spirit of

rebellion. Which WILL YE choose?

44. Know the ideal, then, must be as was manifest in Him, who gave, If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments - and I will come and abide with thee. That promise is in spirit, is in truth.

45. Hence those as this entity may bring, with its companionship - as did bring, as

did keep the home fire bright to the altar of the Lord - may bring again to man, in those

activities in the earth, that of a joy. Not easy from the material angle, unless that ideal is

held aloft in spirit, in mind, in material things.

46. Before that the entity was in the Atlantean land, when there were those periods

of necessity of the groups being separated, owing to the upheavals as were being brought

by the sons of Belial - in using spiritual forces for self-gratification, self-indulgence.

47. The entity was among the children of the Law of One, and among those that

went first to the Pyrenees, then to the Egyptian land; where there were, with those periods

of purification, the attempts of the teacher or leader to unify the activities.

48. And under the varied groups that bound themselves for a single purpose for the

establishing materially of the things that be of God, the entity joined there in a service

that brought the abilities of that land to produce those products that became the activities

which have preserved the records later of that land.

49. The name then was Ash-tep.

50. As to the abilities of the entity, then, in the present, and that to which it may

attain, and how:

51. First, study to show thyself approved unto thy ideal, rightly dividing, rightly

emphasizing the words of truth; keeping self from condemnation, of self or of others.



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52. In those fields of service and in the activities with the soil, with the products of

the soil, with those groups that would make practical not merely by theory but by

LIVING practical spiritual evolution, do we find the abilities of the entity in the present.


54. (Q) In farming, what should my emphasis be on?

(A) Each product is to supply certain elements to the body of man; not by man's

changing same, but that purpose the Creator gave it as food, as a supply to man's physical

need IN even a changing world. Thus the stress should be upon each product being given

ITS opportunity for fulfilling its mission in relationship to man; or the study of the soil as

to how BETTER to produce grasses, vegetables, fruits, berries or the like; or to supply

the elements in the animal kingdom - as of the pig or the cow; that its flesh, its milk, may

have those elements NECESSARY for supplying to man that which has its spiritual value

and not in a cantankerous or a diffusing manner. For, as man assimilates in the mind, so

it assimilates in the spirit. That is why the entity in its experience with its associates

when leaving the ark, found it necessary for taking these things into consideration - as to

those very necessary elements.

55. (Q) What have been my associations in the past with, - first, my wife, [2425]?

(A) The greater experience, the greater advancement is in that innate or soul

urge from that period in the ark.

56. (Q) My son, [2607]?

(A) These will best be found by paralleling. But in the Roman experience the

son was then rather one in authority over the entity. Also there were associations in the

Atlantean-Egyptian experience, as well as in a Persian experience not urging the entity in

the present.

57. (Q) My mother, [2174]?

(A) In the Roman as well as the Egyptian-Atlantean. Counseled together oft;

sat upon more than once, but proved worthy. Do so again.

58. (Q) [2615]?

(A) Closest association in the one before this, from which there may be found

at present great differences, - but spiritual purposes and ideals may be one.

Let thy meditation oft be that even as ye did upon the hills in Ararat:

LORD, THOU ART MAKER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH. THOU HAST PRESERVED THY SERVANT FOR A PURPOSE IN THE EARTH. THOU HAST

GIVEN ME, TODAY, OPPORTUNITIES. HELP ME, O GOD, TO CHOOSE THE

RIGHT WAY; THAT I MAY EVER BE A CHANNEL OF BLESSINGS TO OTHERS,

POINTING THE WAY EVER TO THEE.




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Rezepatha (Japheths Wife)

Text of Reading 2425-1, Female 21 (Housewife, Protestant), 1/3/41

This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia

Beach, Va., this 3rd day of January, 1941, in accordance with request made by the self -

Mrs. [2425], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.,

recommended by her mother-in-law, Mrs. [2174].

P R E S E N T

Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.

R E A D I N G

Born January 18, 1918, in New York City.

Time of Reading 3: 40 to 4: 40 P. M. Eastern Standard time. ..., N.H.

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 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 entity in the present, that to which it may attain, and how. You will answer the

questions, as I ask them:

2. EC: (In going back over years from the present - - '39 - some upsetting experiences mentally - '36 - growth, development, change - etc., on back to birth date.)

3. Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [2425].

4. In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them here, many phases of

the experiences of the entity through the earthly or material sojourns, as well as the

astrological aspects, present themselves for consideration.

5. But these are chosen with the intent and purpose that this may be a helpful

experience for the entity; enabling it to fulfill - in a greater measure - those purposes for

which it chose to enter this present material sojourn.

6. For, it is not by chance, but - there being those influences from the race as well

as of a physical character of environ created, through which the cosmic forces viewed the

opportunities - the entity chose to enter at this particular time.

7. Hence first we would then give that which appears as the life's seal of the entity;

indicating, to be sure, in a manner, or in symbols, the composite nature of the

developments of the entity in material and astrological aspects:

8. A shield in figure, with a growth or a plant bearing three stamens or stalks upon

which there is the white, the blue and the purple bell-shaped flowers; the white, purity;

the purple, high mental abilities; the blue, the sincerity; the blossoms themselves, the

ringing out of the message as may be a portion of the entity's experience in the present.



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9. In choosing the interpretations here, the desire is to awaken more those abilities

latent, - that arise from the entity's own spiritual or soul development.

10. Know that the power lies latent within self, and may find expression through

whatever channel is chosen; for the response is found in self through the expression of

the sensory or emotional forces of the body.

11. Hence these activities, of whatever nature, must be interpreted within self, and

not imposed upon others, - any more than would the growth of the flower (as the symbol)

in shedding its aroma, its seed, for WHATEVER source that may choose to benefit

therefrom.

12. Then, in interpreting the records, two channels of urges arise - as indicated -

that are related to material experience.

13. The body in analyzing itself finds a physical, a mental and a spiritual body.

Thus there may be the questioning as to why two phases of urges arise. These, as will be

seen, are as the cause and effect in materiality, or the body and mind - choosing from

SPIRITUALITY.

14. For, the ideal that is chosen - in whatever consciousness an entity may find

itself - is acted upon by that embraced, as well as that done ABOUT that conceded as

truth.

15. Thus we find the astrological sojourns of the entity-consciousness, as well as

the material sojourns from which the physical urges arise, have their phase. By

astrological sojourns we mean those phases of our - or the entity's own - sun's environ.

16. Thus to each consciousness there has been accredited certain influences in

which the astrological aspects become a part; not because of this or that position of a

planet at the entity's birth, or any particular phase of the consciousness or of the urges,

but because of the environmental force in that consciousness.

17. As we find, then, - the entity is influenced by Uranus, Mercury and Venus;

Jupiter and Saturn, with Mars.

18. Hence the high regard for the occult and mystical forces, or the influences or

development of psychic abilities; as well as the high mental abilities from Mercury.

19. Thus the entity is a reasoner within self's OWN right, yet with the environs of

Mars at times it is easily upset.

20. The influence of Jupiter is rather the not caring, but influenced BY what the

great consciousness of masses may think or do.



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Rezepatha, Japheths Wife, Reading 2425-1 (continued)

21. Hence at times - rather at those periods when the influences of Saturn's forces

have been or are a part of the experience - the entity finds it does consider what others

say.

22. Venus brings the great love life. For, as has been and as will be the experience,

all who come in contact with the entity will learn much of the benevolent, beneficent,

beautiful influence of love and what it may do.

23. Many, even from the consciousness of meeting the entity, may be able to

interpret some phases of their own physical as well as mental and spiritual love life. For,

remember, love - as a soul, as an entity, yea as a physical body - IS! For, is not God

love?

24. Hence, - dependent upon their material, mental, spiritual or soul development, -

it finds many phases or states of consciousness, or being - that called love.

25. In the entity's experience this is a great part of its consciousness, its experience.

From the latent influences, there is not always the peace from same, not always the joy;

yet it is an influence that may be made to be the greater motivative power in its present

experience of the entity.

26. Abilities as a home maker, as an artist in many senses, abilities of

companionship, abilities as a speaker and as a writer, all arise from that phase of the

entity's character - or being, rather.

27. Then, in giving the urges which arise from the material sojourns, - it will be

found that these will at times appear to conflict with the latent or soul urge. Thus, by

many students of occult science or force, it may be indeed said that the entity is an OLD

soul; though all souls, to time, are as one, - even as love, as life, is one. And in physical

consciousness, it is according to what an individual entity has done or does do about such

an awareness, such a consciousness OF this state of being in any or all of these, that gives

even the words to say, or to be classified in any such manner.

28. Thus it may be determined that the entity has used the material as well as the

astrological sojourns as an active entity, and we find same manifested in the very BEING

of the entity in the present.

29. For, whether it is to the senses of the physical being as arise from the

awarenesses of the sensory forces, or from the deeper inner consciousness, the entity is

ever aware, alive to the awarenesses about the entity.

30. Hence it may be said that the entity is supersensitive to its environs, physical, -

just as experienced in the sojourn before this in the material plane.



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31. For, the entity before this was in that land now known as Delaware, during

those periods when there were activities in which there were the political factions and

factors having to do with this land of the entity's present sojourn coming into being as a

separate or as a definite country, or government.

32. The entity in its present sex, though not outspoken in activities, was among

those who wielded an influence in the affairs of those about them, that prompted the

associates, the friends of the entity to be among the first to declare themselves FREE and

independent.

33. The name then was Margaret Weiss. In the experience the entity was not only

a home builder, but a state and a nation builder.

34. Hence we find in the present experience of the entity that it takes very sudden,

very definite stands as to its beliefs in this or that activity in which others may be

engaged; not merely respecting the home or the state or nation, but as to associations

even and their influence or activity in relationships to questions, - whether they be

pertaining to a mental or a material development for others.

35. Before that - which has again come as an urge in the present experience of the

entity - we find that the entity was in that land now called by some the Promised Land,

during those days when there was the looking forward to the channels through which

there was expected to be the coming of the Messiah.

36. The entity was among those of that group chosen as ones to present themselves

as a channel worthy of acceptance to be such.

37. Hence in its youth, as well as through those periods of girlhood, motherhood,

the entity knew many of those who were so active - as was the entity - in those periods

for a DEFINITE religious experience, as would be called today.

38. The entity then was of that sect or group known as the Essenes, and of those

who were of the house of David, but of the kinship little to Joseph or Mary - and yet of

those same groups.

39. The entity was among those who saw that vision on the stairs, when the first

choice of the maidens was made. The entity knew then of the voice of the unseen forces

as were aroused within the groups, that made for the speaking with the unusual tongues;

not unknown yet unusual tongues, or the ability to make known their wishes to many in

many tongues.

40. Throughout that experience the entity gained, though - as many that were of

definite groups that set metes and bounds for their activities in relation to groups or

masses, or even individuals - there were periods when the entity doubted.



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41. But with the advancing of the activities which brought about the fulfilling to

the entity of the various experiences, that answered to all phases of not only the material

but the spiritual and mental phenomena, the entity was a believer, and among those who

in the last day stood at the Cross.

42. The name then was Sophie.

43. As to the activities in the present, - let those things which have and do come be

controlled by what thy ancestors have given as religious experiences, and not merely

phenomena. For, phenomena - or phenomenon - is but an awakening to that in which

there ARE to be choices of activity upon the part of the self, and is as an assurance and

not to be boasted of, nor to be other than that of the ANSWERING to that within. For,

thy body - as ye experienced then - is indeed the temple of the living God, and there He

hath promised to meet thee. There His awareness - even as then - may be seen, may be

heard, may be felt, may be tasted - yea, experienced in all manners; but the reality is to

self, not to others.

44. For, of thyself ye may do nothing; but as His spirit, His truth may work in and

through thee, ye may indeed be a channel, a blessing, a way for others to become aware

of THEIR relationship also to that divine experience.

45. Before that the entity was in the Persian land, during those activities when the

entity came to know of the teachings of that teacher in the city in the hills and the plains.

46. The entity asked for and sought the meanings of those undertakings there. In

those periods the entity became aware of those activities as tenets that were made

practical experiences in the lives of many.

47. Then in the name Zanzeba, the entity gained, the entity lost. The entity gained

in the seeking, the entity lost when the application was turned to that of self-gain for

position or for fame.

48. In the present experience, let that lesson be practiced, Seek and ye shall find, knock and it will be opened unto thee. But know the ideal, and that the application is for others rather than for self.

49. Before that the entity was in that activity when there were those preparations

for changes being wrought in the relationships of Creative Forces with the sons of men.

50. The entity was among those, or that one chosen by Japheth as the companion in

the ark.



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51. With the relationships to that activity, the entity finds within self the visions of

changes, in the relationships that are again soon to be established by and through the

elements themselves in their dealing with man and Creative Forces or God's laws.

52. The name then was Rezepatha.

53. To be sure, many other experiences in the earthly sojourns may at times

become a part of the entity's awarenesses or consciousnesses; as there is caught the vision

in some. But these are here given that there may be the greater awareness of thy purposes

to fulfill that He would have thee do.

54. As to the abilities in the present, then:

55. These lie in whatever direction the entity may choose; and these should be

rather chosen as definite activities, - a home, a teacher, a writer, an artist. This fourfold

life should be the outlets, as it were, one with the other; that there may be the greater

appreciation of the abilities, - yea the virtues of the entity, - without the self growing

weary in any.

56. Study then, first, to know what is thy ideal, - physically, mentally, spiritually;

the ideal relationship of God to man, of man to God; the ideal relationship of home, of

neighbor, of friend, of foe. These not as to what others would be, but thy relationship in

each of these phases of man's experience.

57. And then know that these are that activity in which ye shall judge thy own

relationship to others.

58. Study to show thyself approved, then, unto God; a workman not ashamed but

rightly interpreting, rightly placing the accent, the emphasis, upon the various phases of

thy endeavor; and keeping self so attuned to Creative Force and Law that others may

never find aught for which to censure thee.


60. (Q) Is there any reason I should not conceive a child now? What can I do to

help me in this?

(A) No. This, as we find, needs only that care, that attention which was given

as a part of thy development through that Palestine period; that is: a body strong in the

activity of accomplishments in physical strength, a mind attuned to Creative Forces, and

an attitude of:

FATHER-GOD! USE ME AS A CHANNEL OF BLESSINGS TO OTHERS; TEACHING ME, IN BODY, IN MIND, THE MANNER OR WAY TO

PROTECT SUCH AS WOULD BE GIVEN ME, THAT THEY MAY BECOME

GREATER BLESSINGS IN GLORIFYING THEE.



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61. (Q) Do I have psychic and mediumistic powers?

(A) As has been indicated, all forms and natures of same may manifest through

the entity. As to the branch that may be chosen, THIS is to be determined by the entity -

when it has analyzed itself.

62. (Q) Do I need training and further guidance other than that which I receive

through myself?

(A) Thy body is the temple. THERE He hath promised to meet thee. Be not

overcome by others, but overcome in HIS name - Christ's name!

63. (Q) In what ways have I pursued such activities in former incarnations?

(A) As indicated, in the manner in which there was the preparation - in the

vision, in the activities, and in the directing of others in other appearances.

64. (Q) Any advice as to what form of mediumship I should use?

(A) Rather this should be, as indicated:

FATHER-GOD! HERE AM I - USE ME; NOT AS I WILL, BUT AS THOU SEEST IS THE MANNER IN WHICH I MAY BETTER SERVE THY PURPOSE

WITH MAN!




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Child of Japheth and Rezepatha (Born on the Ark) No name was given

Text of Reading 5367-1, Female 37 (Stenographer), 7/19/44

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.

P R E S E N T

Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Jeanette Fitch, Stenos. Miss

[5367] and sister.

R E A D I N G

Born May 25, 1907, in Hazelton, Pennsylvania.

Time of Reading Set bet. 3: 30 to 4: 30 P. M. Eastern War Time. ..., New York.

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.

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Child of Japheth and Rezepatha, Reading 5367-1 (continued)

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.



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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.



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Child of Japheth and Rezepatha, Reading 5367-1 (continued)

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.


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.


[She and sister enthusiastic; said the reading fitted her to a t.]



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Pelus

(Child of Japheth and Rezepatha)

Text of Reading 5008-1, Male 1 (Christian Background), 4/14/44

This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic

Crescent, Virginia Beach, Virginia, this 14th day of April, 1944, in accordance with

request made by the mother - Mrs. [2425], Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research

& Enlightenment, Inc.

P R E S E N T

Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.

R E A D I N G

Born June 15, 1943, Peterborough, New Hampshire.

Time of Reading 10: 55 to 11: 15 A. M. Eastern War Time. ..., New Hampshire.

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 called [5008].

3. As we find there are those unusual qualifications about this entity. Here is an

entity in whose activities precautions must be taken through the developing years as to its

health, especially pertaining to the respiratory system; else there may be hindrances

which would prevent the fuller or more complete development as to the abilities and

virtues that are a part of the entity's activity in

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