09/18/2026
This reading excerpt, taken from ‘life’ reading 5733-1, was given in April 1944 for a 54-year-old male (D.C, N.D.). Dr (5733) was not present for the reading.
The reading began with Edgar Cayce commenting on Dr (5733)’s birthplace in Switzerland: ‘Winterhur - isn't it pretty! Nice, beautiful stream - that's a good place to fish!’
The reading then pointed out some of Dr (5733)’s shortcomings: ‘In giving the interpretations of the records as we find them here, there is much that is good, there is much that may be questioned by many.
We would refer this entity, and not as in ridicule, to that written by one Franklin, whom the entity knew in an experience; also to the life of the patriarch known as Abram or Abraham - on tolerance. This might apply very well to this entity. Not that the entity hasn't the knowledge, the understanding, but it is so lacking in patience with others, and lacking in tolerance with those who see, believe or have confidence in other directions.
One can only know by experience. We only hear of others and their application of principles and tenets in their dealings with an application to things pertaining to the activities in the earth.’
The reading then briefly addressed Dr (5733)’s very limited astrological influences: ‘Astrological aspects to this entity, in the present, mean little. It is indicated that Mars and Mercury are parts of the consciousness. These have been more or less discarded except that stubbornness in the experience so oft, which has not been entirely eliminated from the experience of the entity.’
The reading then offered these general comments on Dr (5733)’s former incarnations:
‘Thus the sojourns of the entity in the earth become the greater ruling influences. But, as indicated, the greater study of man is man.
The entity will find that it is made up of, or in fact is, a body, a physical being, visible; a mind, a body. Only the effects of same may be seen in that which causes the entity to speak or to act in this or that manner towards its fellow man. Then it is the soul-body or the entity, that is eternal. These are one; just as the material concept of the Creative Force is Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and the answer to those influences as of the bodies represented in the individual entity. These should be treated as such, for each has its attributes and that in which it is affected by or affects or acts upon in response to the same influences in the individuals whom the entity may call friends or foes.
But if you would have friends, be friendly. If you would be forgiven, you must forgive, if you would be thought well of, think well of others - not for thine own individual self, but for that which is thy ideal, that the principles and purposes, hopes and desires of self may be glorified in the earth.’
The reading then discussed four prior lifetimes for Dr (5733) - in the US, in the Grecian Land, in the Arabian and Persian Land (in ‘the city in the hills and the plains’), and in the Egyptian Land (in the Temple of Sacrifice).
The abilities of the entity, that to which it may attain, and how :
Study self in association with that ye hold as ideal physically, as ideal mentally, as ideal spiritually. Find where and when these coordinate and then apply same in self's own experience.’
Only one question was then asked:
‘(Q) What should be the life work?
(A) As the pattern is set out, the entity has been an assistant in distributing, in giving out that which to others is as life itself. And life is truth. Truth is love. Love is God. God is life.’
