This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 28th day of June, 1936, in accordance with request by those present at this meeting of the Fifth Annual Congress of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Gladys & Douglas Johnston, David E. Kahn, Helen & Alec Ellington, Jane (Minnie) Williams, Myrtle & R. L. Demaio, Hannah Miller, Mary Blood, Chester Robinson, Florence & Edith Edmonds, Esther Wynne, Helen Storey, Ethel & Edgar Parry, Anne & John Penn, Lillian Barclay, Frances Y. Morrow, Ruth LeNoir, Jennie Moore, Henry Hardwicke, Elizabeth Perry, Abbie Kemp, & Hugh Lynn Cayce; also Sally Jones.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 4:00 to 4:15 P. M. Eastern Standard Time.
1. GC: You will have before you the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., members of which are present here. You will consider the work of this organization in studying and presenting the psychic work of Edgar Cayce. You will give at this time a discourse which will set forth the standards for our activities during the coming year and giving such specific suggestions and council as may be helpful to the members of this Association.
2. EC: Yes, we have the purposes of the Association for Research and Enlightenment, the members that are present; as a group or a membership and as individuals.
3. In considering the work of such an organization and its standards, that as composed of individuals of all character of experience, all influences that are of a nature that has brought about the interest in a work of that purposed by the activity of such an Association, we find it is - as has been given oft - first to the individual, then to the groups, then to classes and masses.
4. As to the activities that are before this organization, first - as we find - there is a period just ahead in which there will be given the greater opportunities for service by each and every member. This is not only owing to the general conditions of an unsettled nature but to the termination of a period and the beginning of a period when there is to be the LIVING by individuals of that which has prompted them. Not as ones seeking for self-exaltation, not as individuals seeking for an easy way, not as individuals seeking for a manner or a means of escaping their own selves; but rather as in using their understanding, their
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comprehension, their knowledge, their love their patience, their long-suffering, in such ways and manners that there may not indeed be the perishing of hope and faith in the earth.
5. Such opportunities are before all those who have purposed in their heart to DO good unto those not only of the household of faith in their individual tenets or beliefs but unto ALL, because each soul that manifests itself in human form IS thy brother - and the spirit and soul of same is in the form of thy Maker. For the Lord's sake, then, the opportunities are not to be used to self's own glory but that the glory of the Father may be made manifest in the earth.
6. THESE be the opportunities, THESE be the experiences through which each and every soul will pass within the next year.
7. For there is set before thee those choices to be made, as to WHOM ye will serve.
8. As to MANNERS, then, in which each soul shall conduct self as respecting this as an individual organization, it has oft been given that this is not under any schism or ism or any individual tenet other than that which has been of old, "I AM my brother's keeper!" That should be the cry that should be in the heart of every member, every individual, "I AM MY BROTHER'S KEEPER!"
9. Then so live, so act, so conduct thyself in thy dealings with thy fellow man day by day that they who are astray may be set aright. Not those who are astray only according to THINE own interpretations, but those who are seeking! Art thou astray? Art thou troubled? Art thou discouraged? Art thou fainthearted? If so, then THOU art astray!
10. For "Lo, I am with thee always" is the promise to those who have put on the whole armor. "If ye will be my children, I will be thy God" is to every soul. Have ye lost touch? Have ye lost faith? Have ye lost hope? If so, then ye YOURSELVES are astray!
11. In thine dealings with the Association, then, and its purposes, and those sources or channels through which ye may seek for that comfort, have ye APPLIED in thy DAILY experience that thou hast heard, that thou hast found good, that thou hast experienced in thine OWN life? If so, THEN ye may INDEED know the manner, the way in which ye may use thyself in whatever sphere or phase of activity ye find yourselves; that ye may be a BETTER member, a better servant of a living God! For ye who would be the greatest will indeed be the servant of all, as He hath given from the beginning. Yea, thy Lord, thy God, showeth thee this day by
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day in His dealings with thy fellow man, to show those promises that have been made sure in the experiences of those that seek. For He giveth good and evil unto all, and ye choose through the WILL thy relationships - as to whether they shall be for self-exaltation, self-glorification, self-indulgence, self-gratification, or for the love of life, of truth, of hope, of honor, of virtue, of patience, of brotherly love. Ye yourselves show forth these in the manners, the ways ye deal with thy fellow man!
12. Forgive, if ye would be forgiven. Be patient, if ye would have thy Father be patient with thee.
13. In what manner, then?
14. First having convinced thyself through thine own personal application, then, as has been given, that which is good, that which is life, if ye would have same give it unto others. For in so doing ye gain that understanding that bringeth to thine own experience that which makes for the fulfilling of that purpose for which ye came into this experience.
15. For He hath prepared a way of escape for each soul; He hath not willed that any soul should perish. Nothing may separate thee from the knowledge save thyself!
16. In the experience of the group, in the experiences of all, we will find in the coming months, in the coming year, those periods when there will be a greater seeking through these channels. Will ye be ready to set that as is the standard? What, then, is the standard? "OTHERS, Lord, not myself but others, that the glory of the Father may be manifested in the earth; and as the day of the Lord approaches that many may be ready and willing to answer, 'Here am I, use me.' 'Here am I, use me.'"