Planetary Influences & Sojourns. Edgar Cayce

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      For, the soul seeks from the realm of spirituality to give expression of that it as an entity or soul may do with its experiences in the mental realm, as well as about that it has done in a physical realm.

      Hence the law that is ever present; like attracts like; like begets like. Hence there is the attraction as from the desires of those in the physical calling to the sources of generation in the flesh, to the sources of creation or of spirit in the spiritual realm.

      Hence there is often a real purpose in the soul, as in this soul, seeking a period of expression of self; and finding it in that about the bodies when there is the period of presentation. For, while the physical begins at conception, the spiritual and mental is as the first breath taken into the physical—that becomes then a living soul, with a physical organism for manifestation during the sojourn in that particular experience.

      Then, what influences such a journey, such an advent of the soul from the unseen into materiality? Development of the soul that it may take its place, through the lessons gained in physical experience, in those classes or realms of soul activity in an infinite world—among those that have passed in their activity through the various realms; seeking then (as that which first called every soul and body into experience) that of companionship. Hence we have as much hereditary and environmental forces in soul's experience (or the developed soul to such an experience) as we have in the law of the earth, as to that which is hereditary from the parentage of a body—and the environs of the body, as to what is the trend of thought.

      Reading 553-1

      In coming into an experience such as this entity and soul did on the 27th of June, 1900, in Centerville, Michigan, was this by accident—or was the soul from another realm or plane seeking for expression that it, the soul, might build or renew self in specific directions for that purpose for which it has come into experience or consciousness in materiality?

      Then, it behooves all that there should be as great consideration given as to where the soul came from as to where the soul is going!

      For, as in thine own experiences in the material things, if the composition or nature of wood, stone, or plaster even, is given to the builder (as in self), it is known by the experience as to what it (the material, as the soul) will do in response to certain conditions in its experience as a useful material in a given line. It is known how much exposure it may bear, how much textile strength in its various usages or environs it will meet, and what necessary elements are required as a stimuli in coating, mixing or the like, to aid it to be a better material.

      So the soul in its activity, if it is known from what environ it has received its training—as in mental impulses—or what are the environs through its earthly sojourns, it may be seen or known as to what may be the necessary influences to make for better preparations in the present.

      That the systems in the earth's environ or earth's orbit are places or conditions or spheres of abode for those particular classified environs of a soul, is not only reasonable but a practical thing—if properly considered.

      Hence we find some variation as to what has been considered a source of information respecting influences in the affairs of human endeavor.

      That the soul may have sojourned in an experience in Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or any of those sister planets of the Sun in this particular environ, makes for a nature in the mental capacities and abilities of a soul.

      So that when there is (as has been proclaimed) a bombardment, as it were, of the planetary influence upon any other realm by its proximity of the relative position—or by the influence in the realm of etheronic energies that affect the activity, these influence the soul-mind much in the manner as an earthly training in any particular division of human or commercial endeavor trains a mind, a body, to meet emergencies in the experience of the body-associations with conditions in the human experience.

      Reading 555-1

      As to the sojourns in the environs of the earth known as the astrological influences through the entity or soul sojourn in those environs, they come as habits or experiences might by living in such an environ in an earth's experience that influences the aptitude or activity of a soul. But ever as the balance, as the safety, as the governor for each soul stands He that has given, “In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you; that where I am, there ye may be also.” If the soul then makes those preparations in the activities in any sojourn, or in the varied experiences with the relationships it may have with its fellow man, the preparation then comes for that sojourn, that experience, that home, where the sojourns of earth, the turmoils and strife of the experiences in any material relationships may be—not forgotten, but used in such ways and manners as to bring to that soul the awareness which He has promised: “I will bring to you remembrance of those things from the beginning, that where I am there ye may be also.”

      Reading 566-1

      As there was in the entering of the entity's inner forces into this physical body, the first will come at the age of seven, at fourteen, at twenty-two—these will be decided changes, or one will so lap over the other—but may be said to be periods when changes will come to this entity; for there was some lapse of time (as time is counted from the material) between the physical birth and the spiritual birth.

      Reading 585-2

      …Do not confuse the sojourns in the astrological with material things, for they are mental urges—yet acted upon from material things may oft bring confusion.

      Reading 688-2

      The astrological influences also have their place in the inner urges that are latent and awakened, through the application of self as respecting will and opportunity in relationships of that which is the motivative force in every mental process in the soul's activity. For with the purpose, with the desire, ever does there come—as has ever been seen— the opportunity, the experience, for what the soul does about that it has gained in its sojourn through whatever realm of consciousness it has passed or is passing. That which remains as being unaware in the consciousness of an individual entity remains as the mysteries or the hidden influences.

      SELECTED CASE STUDIES

      Reading 122-1

      Mrs. Cayce: You will give a horoscope reading for this entity, a reading giving the effects of the solar systems on the life and destiny of this entity in the present earth plane, naming the planet, or position, from which the soul took its last flight. You will give the vocation in life for which this body is best adapted, or may adapt itself, giving also the high points of the life in former appearances, giving the name and place of sojourn in the earth plane, with the characteristics as brought forward in its personality in the present life.

      Mr. Cayce: Yes, we have the entity as here, December 29, 1876. In this we find the present entity completed in the afternoon, two fifty-eight, and in the present sphere we find the position taken from that of Venus, with the help of those influences from Mercury, Mars, Saturn and Uranus at times, with the assistance of Jupiter; afflictions coming in Moon's effect and in Sagittarius. Hence we have an individual, without respect will's manifestation in the present earth's plane, of exceptional abilities, and of many contradictory manifestations of the effects of planets, or of astrological conditions as has been considered and studied by peoples for many ages; yet, with that influence as will be seen through the correct interpretation of astrological effect in earth's development that would be manifest in the present entity, and the views as are held on life in earth plane, and the body's precept and concept of life and its effect, and the transmutation through the earthly sphere.

      Then, without respect of the will, we have one given to be very much attracted to many peoples, of many climes, of many conditions, of many positions, of many phase of many actions. Hence the ability of the entity, when the influences of Mercury, especially, are considered, to gain much by what has been and is termed in physical plane as actual experience, and many learn only from such.

      [This is] An entity that would be, and is, a wonderful study from the psychological and pathological viewpoint of the development in the mental and