This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office in Pinewood on Lake Drive, Va. Beach, Va., this 20th day of March, 1932, in accordance with request made by those present.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Minnie & C. A. Barrett, Esther Wynne, Florence & Edith Edmonds, M. L. Black, F. M. Freeman, F. Y. Morrow, C. W. & M. L. Rosborough, H. L. and L. B. Cayce, Mildred Davis, Helen Storey, Sarah Hesson, S. E. McPherson, Helen Ellington and Mrs. LeNoir.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 4:30 P. M.
1. GC: You will have before you the group gathered here, and their work on the lessons which they are preparing. You will please answer the questions regarding this work that they will ask.
2. EC: Yes, we have the group as gathered here, as a group, as individuals, and the work as is being done in the preparation of the lessons. Ready for questions.
3. (Q) We present at this time the lesson on WHAT IS THY IDEAL, a copy of which I hold in my hand. Please make suggestions, any corrections or expansions that should be made, as I call each paragraph under the various headings. First, Par. I, under Meaning of an Ideal. (A) Correct.
4. (Q) Par. I, under Ideals Grow with Development. (A) Very good.
5. (Q) Par. II, under Ideals Grow with Development. (A) Illustrated, would be better, in the form of the application of the ideal in the life.
6. (Q) Par. I, under the True Ideal. (A) Correct.
7. (Q) Par. II. (A) Well.
8. (Q) Par. III. (A) Very good.
9. (Q) IV. (A) Good.
10. (Q) V. (A) Good.
11. (Q) VI. (A) Well.
12. (Q) Par. I, under Attaining the Ideal. (A) Very good.
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13. (Q) Par. II. (A) Very good.
14. (Q) III. (A) Well.
15. (Q) Par. I, under Conclusion. (A) Good.
16. (Q) II, under Conclusion. (A) Good.
17. (Q) Par. III, under Conclusion. (A) Good.
18. (Q) Any other suggestions regarding this lesson? (A) Well that the ideal in the suggestions as given be that rather of the personal nature, as INDIVIDUAL, than personality presented in same. In the lesson as has been outlined, as given there would come the sign for each as they applied themselves in knowing their OWN ideal and how same is applicable in their own experience: To some has come in the form of tests, that that as is proclaimed, or claimed by them, must be acted in their own experience, as to relationships to others. In some in the form of greater opportunities, in the manner in which there may be given more and more of that which will arouse in the inner beings of others a closer concept of an ideal. In others a vision of those forces as may manifest in the activities of their OWN selves towards others, as well as to those who have experienced the presence of that consciousness that His abiding promise is true in this period of their experience.
19. (Q) Please give us at this time that which will aid us in beginning our next lesson. (A) Faith. As each have their own concept of faith, as to whether this is grounded in experience in relationship to life's activities in the material, or to the activities in the mental, depends much upon what has been held as the ideal of that individual. In the beginning, then, as we would find, the analysis of self as to whether this that is held is confidence or faith is the first question as would naturally arise in the minds of each individual. Faith, as has been defined by Barnabas, is the substance of things hoped for. Then there is illustrated the activities of individuals as to how, through the exercising of that prerogative, that through which is brought into beings the worlds as is manifest before each individual that looks about them with the view to ascertaining that they are a portion OF the Whole, yet with the abilities to discern all, and able to use that that will bring the same exercising of that
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prerogative as the spirit of the Father brings through faith into that BEING where this may be of this or that sphere of man's own perception. Brought into material aspects, we find the greater portion as partakes of that as has been termed the sensing, or that of the whole of the nervous system in a physical, living organism, that makes such an individual aware OF that concept. This is rather confidence. That that has been brought into the consciousness through the activity OF the spiritual forces manifesting in and through that of the spiritual force of the individual. Then becomes the essence of faith itself. Hence, as has been termed by many, that FAITH - PURE faith - accepting or rejecting without basis of reason, or BEYOND the ken or scope of that as is perceived through that that man brings to his own activity through that of his five senses; yet to most individuals there is seen that LITTLE becomes in the scope of acceptance except they LIVE by faith that they become aware of; for, as has been said, ye with faith as much as a mustard seed may say unto the mountain be thou removed and cast into the sea. MOST say they believe, and yet begin at once to explain as to how this means in the mental rather than in the material source. Hence we find faith not of the senses, else it becomes confidence in personalities of the experiences of the senses within themselves or others. Then, when troubles and doubts arise, they immediately begin to sink, even as Peter in the presence of Life itself. [See also 262-15, Par. 14-A.] In the concepts then, as individuals in the group, in the first portion of this lesson let each so examine themselves in the light of that they have attained with the concept of their individual ideal, and we will find upon what faith is founded in THEIR experience. Ready for questions.
20. (Q) Is there anything more this group may do in aiding in finding the Lindbergh child? (A) Those have been set in motion, as has been given. Be thou NOT of little faith.
21. (Q) Should we begin to distribute the lessons as already prepared? (A) WELL that first there be found those in the various outlined principals that are to be teachers, ministers, or one FORMING such groups, and prepare THEM FOR that they ARE TO do in their respective spheres; else it will turn again with that as is poorly prepared.
22. (Q) [333] & [602]: How may we as members of the group
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through cooperation grow stronger in faith, and through a knowledge of self attain to those ideals as are set in self for the part in this great work that each would accomplish with the help of all? (A) Studying to show thyself approved unto God day by day, rightly dividing the words of truth, and keeping self unspotted from the world. There is builded in the meditations, and in the gathering of others here, there, to gain the understanding necessary to bring about a revolution, a revelation, an awakening in THIS place as HAS not been seen in many a day! Making those truths as are known in self LIVING truths, through the active force of the SPIRIT of TRUTH itself. Do that.
23. (Q) [255]: Is the faith of man in Buddha or Mohammed equal in the effect on his soul to the faith in Jesus Christ? (A) As He gave, he that receiveth a prophet in the NAME of a prophet RECEIVES the prophet's reward, or that ABILITY that that individual spiritual force MAY manifest in the life of that individual. Hence, as each teacher, minister or seer, or prophet, receives that obeisance as is giving the life from that faith and hope as held by that as an individual, in the Christ is found that as the advocate WITH the Father and the spirit of the Father glorified in him that approaches through that manner, without that as is approached in the spiritual activity of any individual; for individuality is last lost, even as man in spirit overcomes death in the material; even as He overcame death in the material, and able to put on immortality in a material world, bringing to man not only of flesh that endowed WITH the ability to be one WITH the Father but magnifying the Father IN the individual yet in the material plane. Hence, as we find, each in their respective spheres are but stepping-stones to that that may awaken in the individual the knowledge of the Son in their lives.
24. (Q) How can I so strengthen my faith so as to become a fitting channel of help in God's healing of my daughter, [275]? (A) Magnify in the words of mouth, the acts of the body and hand, that as is GIVEN day by day. As the ideal is a growth, as the activities of the physical and mental consciousness through confidence brings that seeking of the mental and material body to awaken to the spiritual activities, so may the GROWTH in faith BRING the activating forces of the spirit that makes alive in the flesh.
25. We are through for the present.