Reincarnation & Karma. Edgar Cayce
own application; while it would not be always wholly applicable in the experience of others that are balanced in an opposite manner, or a variation, from that which has been indicated for the entity:
While there are those karmic influences that must be met, because of that which has been builded by an entity (that retains, maintains, kinship with the Creative influences), it must of itself meet that which is the measure according to the law as related to universal forces. Or, to put it in another manner:
It is not all for an entity, or a soul, to have knowledge concerning law; whether karmic law, spiritual law, penal law, social law, or what not. The condition is, what does the entity do about the knowledge that is gained! Is the knowledge used to evade cause and effect, or is it used to coerce individuals into adhering to the thoughts of self? or is it used to aid others in their understanding of the law, and thus bring the cause to that position where the will of the Creative influence is supreme; or the power that comes with making the will one with the law of love, of karma, of cause and effect, of every influence—one with Creation!
Hence the conditions that will be seen in the experiences of the entity now known as [342] in the earth’s plane:
In the one before this we find the entity was in and about that place, or plain, known as Fort Dearborn, during those periods when there was the establishing of the relationships with the peoples of the north country and the peoples of the eastern and southern country.
The entity then was among the peoples of the north country that were sent as emissaries, or to deal with the situations in the trading of that the peoples of the north country had to offer in exchange for those things made, created or imported into the land from other countries. Hence, not as a trader but as a mediator for the traders in their various capacities did the entity, then as Pericho, gain and lose in this experience. For, seeing how there might be brought about the taking of all that was then in possession of the post, for those peoples of the much larger powers in numbers, the entity then urged rather that there be the possessing of same without the formality of returning an exchange for same of equal value, and the entity lost. Yet, with the hardships that came about, with the losing of control over those the entity would in the experience direct, the entity learned a lesson, in bodily suffering as well as in the condemning of self for the position taken.
And each soul may find that self-condemnation becomes, after all, the hell in which it finds itself in the transition periods.
Hence in the present experience the entity finds much of the commercial field being of interest, especially that as in relationships to the trading between groups, masses and individuals; yet the field that offers an assurance and a security for individuals or groups may be made the more satisfactory to the entity in the present experience. [See 342–1 indicating he was in the Royalist Army during the American Revolution.]
In the one before this we find the entity was in that period when there were the gatherings of the peoples to enter into the holy wars.
The entity then was among the Crusaders that, with Bruce and others, started for the Holy Land.
Then the entity was a zealot for those of the few that would impel all to come under one rule of order, if not by persuasion then by coercion, and the entity gained and lost through this experience; for, entering into the lands about the Holy Land, being among those of the prisoners that were turned to those that were—to the entity in the beginning—as heathen, these became through their acts of kindness—such that the entity was rather inclined to be of a different mind, and became a zealot in this direction. Hence the entity was termed by many as a turncoat, or as one that rebelled for self’s own interests; yet the entity gained in the latter portion, feeling and knowing—through the experience of that period—that truly all force, all power of a spiritual or mental nature, emanates from a one source.
Hence in the present there is seen that much thought is given to the spiritual side of life.
Hence in fields of activity in which the home or the associations, or the business relations, may be assured to peoples—for not only the material, but for the mental aptitudes and welfare of groups, may the entity find a channel through which it may gain the greater self- development in the present experience.
Then the entity was in the name Charleon, and was of a northern and a southern France connection in that period.
In the one before this we find the entity was in that land now known as the Persian, among those peoples that had gathered in the hill and plain country for the teachings that were being given by a leader in the city that was established there, of tents; later being among the first wood buildings in this particular portion of the land.
The entity was among those that made for the gathering of those things that were as foods or provisions for the peoples; hence entering into the trading with the peoples in the various lands, as they brought their wares from the south, from the east, from the north, from the west, for exchange in this particular region.
Through this experience the entity gained most, for—coming under the direct influence of those that had been raised in their activities by the leader in this period (Uhjltd)—the entity, then in the name Phar-Zar, gained; and when the breaking up came by the invasion of the Greeks from the north, the entity was among the first that fell under this raid or insurrection.
So, in the present, the entity finds those influences that are seen in sympathy; in maintaining about self those things that have not so much of the commercial value but a great deal of value from what the little things present in the experience of a body.
In the one before this we find the entity was in that land now known as the Nubian, during those periods when the priests from Egypt were exiled. The entity came under the direction of the high priest that was banished, and with the return of these peoples to their possessions—or to their own lands, in the building up of that which enabled not only the Egyptian progress, but the Arabian, Indian, Mongolian, Carpathian, and the Carthaginian mountains even—the entity was among those who aided in establishing for these various peoples those things of commercial value, as well as those posts for the ministrations to the physical needs of peoples.
Hence in the present is seen the particular interest of the entity in the reports that come from foundations, or from efforts of groups of people in all quarters of the globe. The entity has often wondered in self why such an interest in such data, when so little in common with same; and it would be—and is—one of the best proofs to the entity of these experiences in the earth’s plane (or reincarnation).
Then the entity was in the name Hap-Zta.
As to the abilities of the entity, that to which it may attain in the present experience—and how:
We find, as we have indicated through those relationships builded innately—as personality and individuality of the entity, through the experiences in the earth and through the sojourns in these spheres about the earth, there are the influences builded in the entity making for the assuring of better conditions, better positions, of the peoples in the home. Though there may be the stalking of those things that make people afraid, through those material and spiritual influences that may be builded in the hearts of the young and the old, in these things may the entity build in the present that which will make for not only the material development, but the mental and soul development also.
Ready for questions.
Q: What did I come here to do?
A: To overcome all those things you’ve undone!
Q: Should I continue to use the initial S in my signature? [As advised by numerologist Ed Hall? formerly known as Victor George]
A: W would be better than S. If preferable (and such conditions-there are some reasons why this should be retained), we would continue to use the S. W would have been better, had it been chosen.
Q: What can I do that I can best succeed in, at the same time render the best service to humanity?