This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the Edmonds'' home on Pennsylvania Avenue, Norfolk, Va., this 22nd day of January, 1933, in accordance with request 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, Frances Y. Morrow, Hugh Lynn Cayce, Mildred Davis, Helen Storey and Ruth LeNoir.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 4:00 to 4:30 P. M.
1. GC: You will have before you the group gathered here, and their work on the lesson of The Cross and the Crown. As the questions suggested in the last reading have been answered, will you please continue the counsel as "Why the Crown", giving that which will be strengthening and helpful to each in their daily life. You will answer the questions as I ask them.
2. EC: Yes, we have the group as gathered here, as a group, as individuals, and the work of each that have contributed to this present understanding.
3. In the study, in the thought, this is found to be experienced by all - that there was the necessity, for man's understanding, for the entering in of the Son of man, and that the Cross becomes the emblem of Him who offered himself, of himself. For that cause, for that purpose came He into the world, that He himself - in overcoming the world - might gain the Crown.
4. So, each in their respective lives, their own experiences, find their cross overcoming the world, overcoming those things, those conditions, those experiences, that would not only enable them to meet the issues of life but to become heirs with Him of the Crown of Glory.
5. What, then, is this Crown of Glory? Does this bespeak only of those things, those conditions, that have to do with the spiritual life? Did the overcoming give the authority? Did the overcoming make this Son of man the Lord, the Glory, the Crown of Life?
6. So He, as the pattern for each, makes the way clear, the way open that each soul - as it meets the crosses, endures the temptations and overcomes them - may become an heir, JOINT heir with Him to the Crown of Glory; with power temporal, power mental, power spiritual to become the Sons and Daughters of God, as many as are called - and all that fulfillthat purpose for which they, as individuals, are
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called - and carry on in that manner, overcoming, meeting, bearing within themselves. Not in sorrow, not in wailing, but in the JOY of the Lord.
7. Then, the first of the signs that may be given - to as many as have met the cross, as have endured, is given that which enables them - in whatsoever state they find themselves in meeting their crosses - to do so in the JOY of the Lord. Happiness and joy go hand in hand.
8. He that overcomes, then, is joyous in the knowledge that power to meet, power to use, power to overcome is given in his understanding.
9. With joy, then, do such individuals enter into the service that may be their part, their portion, as the channels, the ways in which they may serve in the making known to others the Way of the Cross and the Crown of Glory that comes with the same, in the knowledge of the life being spent in a way that He would have one go; for His presence then abides ever. The door is open. The virtue and understanding finds activity. The faith is renewed day by day, for self is understood in the relationships of each and every condition that arises - either from the mental, the material or the spiritual forces; for the access of the Father is held as a cooperative force in whatsoever sphere of activity an individual is engaged in this service.
10. Then, let each know that in enduring the cross, the patience that makes for the awareness of the soul - finds its kinship with the Father in the manner of service that may be rendered day by day.
11. As He has given, and as has been presented again and again, not in times nor seasons, not in new moons nor in any place, but EVERY day, EVERY hour we show forth His love in a manner that makes for the knowledge of all contacting us that He walks with us, that He is our friend.
12. With the cross comes the crown to those that are faithful in the few things, and their joys shall be many in the service that each are called to do; for His ways are made known to those that seek. As He has given, he that seeks shall find, to him that knocks shall it be opened.
13. Ye shall enter into the joys of thy Lord, ENJOYING that crown that brings joy, happiness, harmony, peace; for HE is the Prince of Peace.
14. Ready for questions.
15. (Q) The paper, "Present World Conditions" which we sent to the Argosy Publishing House, Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C., has been returned to us, unclaimed. Is there any further advice to us concerning this address or the paper? [See 3976-11 Reports.]
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(A) That is the address, that is the building. If these are rejected, then send on to the others.
16. (Q) Upon what is His glory in the Crown conditioned? (A) Faith-ful-ness.
17. (Q) Please explain, "He with the cross, represents something in the experience of every entity in their activities through the earth and has led in all the experiences of thought in any of the presented forms of truth in the earth and comes at last to the cross." (A) As we have given, and as was given by Him, in the beginning He was the Son - MADE the Son - those of the Sons that went astray; and through the varying activities overcame the world through the EXPERIENCES, BEARING the cross in each and every experience, reaching the FINAL cross with ALL power, ALL knowledge in having overcome the world - and of Himself ACCEPTED the Cross. Hence doing away with that often termed karma, that must be met by all. The immutable law of cause and effect is, as evidenced in the world today, in the material, the mental and the spiritual world; but He - in overcoming the world, the law - became the Law. The law, then, becomes as the schoolmaster, or the school of training - and we who have NAMED the Name, then, are no longer UNDER the law as law, but under mercy as in Him; for in Him - and with the desires - may there be made the COORDINATION of all things. Remember the pattern in the mount, in self, in the physical body, in the mental body, in the spiritual body. THAT is the mount! So long as there is perfect coordination in the mount, all things work together for the GOOD of the mount. When there is the rebellion in the mount, then there is disconnection, destruction, disconcerted effort, and the coordination - the cooperation of activity - is made awry. Hence death in the physical ensues, by the disintegration, through the disconcerted action, through the INCOORDINATED action and this mental, and physical, and spiritual. So, in overcoming all He set that as the Throne, or the mercy seat, that is within the temple, as the pattern, as in the mount - and in the mount, "I WILL arise and go to my Father, in Him, through Him. I WILL! I WILL!
18. (Q) What is to be understood by the definite stand we all must now take? (A) As the reason, MATERIALLY, that the Cross - rather than the mental, or any other phase of experience - is accepted as the Ideal.
19. We are through for the present.
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