22/10/2026
This reading excerpt, taken from ‘life’ reading 347-2, was given in June 1933 for a 59-year-old female (Proprietress "Scientific Food Shop", Protestant). Miss (347) was not present for the reading.
The reading commenced with a general explanation to Miss (347) about how her life was influenced by her astrological influences, from sojourns between earth lives:
‘In entering the present experience, the astrological influences are rather the experiences of sojourns of the entity; hence are innate and manifested in a greater or less degree, dependent upon the activity of the will of the present entity (this referring to the present experience).
Then, do not let those conditions that are innate and manifested in a degree become confusing to self, in making application of that which may be given for benefit to the entity in the present experience.
Coming under the influence in Venus, with Jupiter in the positions that the entity occupied in these environs, the entity is one inclined or tending to be shy, petite, rather recluse. While the entity is aware of many conditions that are felt in self, there is a reserve - or has been through the experience - that has kept the entity from giving expression to that which is known; and the entity has had those experiences oft when there were the urges within self to act, from those things the entity contacted, from these individuals the entity contacted - and had the entity acted upon the impulse, as it has found, a great deal of change would have been in the experience.
Hence questions that have arisen oft in the mental application of the entity's experiences, as to whether there is an impelling influence from without self that controls the mental and active forces of self, or whether it is lack of stamina or judgment in self as to the activities.
These may be found to be contributory conditions in the experience, whether related to the material or mental; whether related to the material things of life or to the mental attitudes that the body has assumed towards conditions, as to relationships with individuals, groups or tenets that have been in the experience of the entity.
As the entity should understand, there is an influence; yet, as to an entity's application of self - it is as to what the entity, the will, the soul, does about what it knows or feels, that makes for weal or woe.
Hence, when self is guided by an ideal that is set, as to its mental relationships, as to things, conditions and individuals, the results are the builded influences; hence have their application in the experience of every entity in its journey through the material or earth experience.
In this application also does there come oft to the entity (and to many another under such experiences, or such environs) much intent and purpose (or study) towards that relating to what may be termed karma, or the destiny set, and what an entity may do.’
The reading then offered advice about what Miss (347) could do, especially in holding an ideal:
‘What may an entity do?
There is set before thee two ways, ever; and the choice is given to a soul as to whether it (the soul) chooses that in keeping with the ideals set in Creative Influences, or God, making the will one with, not blaming Him with that which comes to self, but self - as to what has been builded, and what self does about His love, law, and experience - in every relation.
From those influences also in Jupiter we find the individual application respecting those influences in individual experiences.
Hence all those forces that may be termed of the environmental (as astrological, numerological, the aura, color, vibration, etc.) are a portion of the entity's experience, and at times becomes confusing to the entity - as to whether these influence the experiences, or the experiences influence these in the activity of the entity.
It will be found that all have their place; for, as we have given, every force - in its manifestation - is from the One, or God. And that which is manifested in material things is a result, and not the motive force; for mind, mental (which may not be seen with the eye as termed in the material world, but with the spiritual eye) is the builder.
In this relation, too, the entity will find that in self these influences as related to material conditions may be made a portion of the entity's experience, in aiding others to analyze themselves.
For, first one must know self, and that it as a soul desires to do about that it has attained in the mental world. This is making an ideal. Is this to be used, then, for self- indulgence, for self-aggrandizement, for self's laudation; or is it to be used that the power of the universe, the love of the Creative Force, may be made manifest the more in the experience of self and in the experiences of those whom the entity contacts?’
The reading then examined three prior lifetimes for Miss (347) – in the US (in Philadelphia), in the Roman Land, and in the Egyptian Land (setting the diet for those coming to The Temple Beautiful).
The reading then offered these comments about Miss (347)’s present opportunities:
‘In the present the entity may gain much through the development of self in this direction; for, as the body builds - through the attitudes of its mental attributes, either through the experience in environmental influences or as to what it does about the knowledge or the understanding it has as related to the Creative Influences - so may the understanding come to self.
For, in the application of love is love begotten : In the application of hate is hate begotten. In the application of selfishness does doubt and fear arise.
Hence, keep for self - in these periods of meditation, as given - that which will make for using of self, in its abilities in EVERY way, to further not self's ideas but that which self has found good in self's experience, in making known HIS love, HIS laws, in a material world.’
No questions were asked, but the reading then offered this final advice to Miss (347):
‘Keep the face upward. Keep the face to the light. Let the smile of His love find, in all that thou seest, a manifestation of His glory. Let those that ever behold thee, in thy daily ministrations in a service of any kind, see the light of having been oft in prayer, oft in His presence, in the light of thine eye.’
