This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Va. Beach, Va., this 8th day of January, 1933, 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, H. L. & L. B. Cayce, Mildred Davis, Ruth LeNoir - and Dr. Jas. R. Parker toward the last.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 4:00 to 4:15 P. M.
1. GC: You will have before you the group gathered here and their work on the lesson "The Cross and the Crown." You will please give further material on this subject which will aid us in developing this lesson. You will answer the following general and individual questions, as I ask them:
2. EC: Yes, we have the group as gathered here, as a group, as individuals, and their work on the lesson "The Cross and the Crown."
3. As indicated by the outline, or the basis of thought, as well as the meditation and the questions that each should ask themselves, the group, the individuals, have reached then that place in their study, their work, where - as it were - they are, as individuals, to apply that in their experience, in giving out to others in the lessons that are being and are to be prepared, that they have experienced in preparing themselves for the various channels of blessings each are to be in the service as of furnishing data in lessons for others. Much in this manner:
4. Why has the way of the Cross been chosen by the group?
5. Why is it necessary that each must bear a cross? Just because the cross was borne for us by another?
6. Why was it necessary that He, the maker of heaven and earth, bear a cross as a man?
7. Why did He come into the world as a man, that He might as a man bear a cross?
8. Why do we as individuals necessarily bear much that He did, yet we say taking His yoke upon us the cross becomes easy?
9. These and similar questions must be answered by each individual, and give in their own hearts an answer that will satisfy them in the light of that which has been their experience through the living of the lessons that have been given to others.
10. Does the life, do the lives, lived in accordance with thine own faith, thine own virtue and understanding, thine
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own walking in the Presence, make for the explanation of why each soul must bear a cross?
11. Why has the Cross been chosen, rather than many of the other philosophies of thought that make for a unison of conditions in the experience - and make for the correlation of the material and spiritual life?
12. Why is the Cross the emblem of shame yet necessary, for the Crown that is to be in the experience of those that bear same? For we have reached that place in the experience where WE, as individuals, will walk no more with this thought or else say as Peter, "Thou alone hast the words of eternal life, to whom shall we go?"
13. These, then, are the questions that each individual should ask SELF, and put into the lesson; as: "Why I as a soul, in the development through this material plane, must bear a cross."
14. Then, when this portion has been received by selves, and the answer written, we may give "Why the Crown."
15. We are through for the present.