This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the Edmonds'' home on Pennsylvania Ave., Norfolk, Va., this 28th day of May, 1933, requested 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 and Ruth LeNoir.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 4:25 to 5:10 P. M.
1. GC: You will have before you the Norfolk Study Group #1, members of which are present in this room; also their work on the lesson Love. We present a copy of the preparation so far, a copy of which I hold in my hand, and seek guidance in completing this lesson. You will answer the questions that may be asked.
2. EC: Yes, we have the group as gathered here, as a group and as individuals; also their work and that presented on the lesson Love. Much of that is good.
3. Rather than presenting so many illustrations of that which may be termed as applied by seeing in others, or things, the expressions or manifestations, present more of that which may come from within.
4. Give as this in the experience, that each may find within self the truth, the love, the life. Life is, in all its manifestations in every animate force, creative force in action; and is the love of expression - or expressing that life; truth becoming a result of life's love expressed. For, these are but names - unless experienced in the consciousness of each soul.
5. Then, commune the more often in the inner shrine, in the holy of holies. Meet the presence of the Father there; KNOW the love of the Christ in action; experience and see truth and the Holy Spirit in the results that come from such consecration of the ideals of self.
6. For, each may have the experience of speaking with Him through such a consecration; for His promises are true, "I will not leave thee comfortless, but will come and abide with thee."
7. In such experiences in self, then, may there be added to the lesson on Love that which will awaken in the hearts, the souls, the minds of others that desire to know HIS ways better.
8. Each has been chosen as a channel, and each in its own way - and not alone of self, but manifesting life through
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love will bring the Spirit's reaction in the daily experiences of every soul. For, they are one - ALL believe, all have heard. Then, let them that have eyes see, and ears hear, what the Spirit saith unto them in such meditation in the INNER self.
9. For, from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh; and the love of the Father through the Son constraineth all, if each will be less selfish, less self-centered, more desirous of showing forth HIS love, His abundant mercy, His peace, His harmony, that comes from being quiet in the Lord, being joyous in service, being happy in whatsoever state ye find self; knowing that he whom the Lord loveth him doth He call into service, if each soul will but seek to know HIS way rather than "my way or thy way." Let thy yeas be yea in the Lord. Let thine understanding take hold on the things of the spirit, for they are alone eternal.
10. For, the children of light are called - even now - into service, that His day may be hastened, lest many faint.
11. Ready for questions.
12. (Q) Please give a definition for, "God so loved the world as to give His only begotten son." (A) A beautiful lesson has just been given, and definition. This may suit those seeking this the better. God, the Father, the first cause, seeking - in the manifestations of self - brought the world, as we (as individuals) observe it about us, into being - THROUGH love; giving to man, His creation, His creatures, that ability to become one with Him. That son WE have called the Son of man, the Christ Spirit, the love made manifest in bringing the creature into material being in a plane we have called earth. That son was shown, then, the way, through the love of the Father, and He made manifest that love in giving His earthly, material life for a cause, an ensample, a mediation, a contact with the Father, a mediator for man. Hence in love, through love, God IS love, in the Christ Consciousness, the Christ Spirit; the Son of man made same manifest in all the experiences through the earth. Hence, as given by the beloved disciple, "God so loved the world as to give His only begotten son, "that we, THROUGH Him, might have life - God - more abundant. He, though He were the Son, learned obedience through the things which He suffered. He that climbs up any other way than accepting those things that are to be met day by day, even as He, seeks through some other channel. The servant may never be greater than the master. He has given that we may be equal and one with Him, yet through Him, His manifestations, in Him, we live in
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the earth, we move and have our being.
13. (Q) What is meant by the children of light, as just given? (A) They that choose to be guided by His will and do not, through themselves, attempt to manifest self rather than the will of the Father. In the beginning was the word, and the word was God. He said, Let there be LIGHT - and there was light. Like begets like. It IS both cause and effect, and they that choose some other way become the children of darkness; and they are these: Envying, strife, hate; and the children of these are sedition, rebellion, and the like. The children of light first love, for "Though I may have the gift of prophecy, though I may speak in unknown tongues, though I give my body to be burned and have not the spirit of the Son of man, the Christ Consciousness, the Christ Spirit, I am nothing." For, the children of light KNOW Him; He calleth each by name.
14. (Q) [404] and [462]: Please give us a message in regard to our experiences. (A) Be ye patient in well doing. Count not the time long, for in so doing ye give the forces of doubt a place in thine own experience; and he that doubteth, or looketh back, is worse than an infidel. For, unto thee has come much, in joy, much in peace; and the little discouragements that make for faltering, if the heart will be kept singing, will make for the brighter joys, the greater appreciations, and the glories of the Son may be made the brighter in thy experience. For, live each day as if ye were to meet Him the next; in that expectancy, in that glory, and let not those things that would hinder have a place in thy consciousness. Thus do HIS children, His brethren, manifest that faith that removes mountains.
15. (Q) [69]: When may I expect the promise given me to be fulfilled? (A) In waiting, in being overanxious, oft does one delay the appearing. Open rather thine self, and know that He will speak with thee. "Be not afraid, it is I." Then, when self is open, there will come - not one, but many - such experiences.
16. (Q) How may I open self more than I am doing? (A) By entering more into the holy of holies, into the inner self.
17. (Q) [295]: May I have a message on the lesson? (A) In self may there be manifested that love, even as He showed in thee, in the experiences in the ministering with and for Him; and the promises that were made thee ARE true,
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if self will be kept in that way in which that spirit of love, of faith, of hope, of charity, may be kept in His way. "If ye love me, keep my commandments" is ever the call of Him.
18. (Q) [993]: Why do records entities are making come constantly to me, and a desire to know more about them? (A) As has been given thee, there were those experiences in which those that consecrated and set themselves as individual souls to accomplish definite conditions in the experiences and the affairs of the sons of men, were the records kept by self. Then, this experience of seeing, feeling - visioning, even, at times - the records made by entities, by groups, is just a portion of self's development towards those marks of higher calling as may be set only in Him. For, through the glorying in Him, and not in self, do we become conscious of that He would accomplish THROUGH us. So keep, even as was said of her of old, "She pondered these and kept them in her heart," knowing that there would be revealed - even as they may be put to service for others - that as each soul may need for the stimulation of ITS soul in a broader, better service in His name. For, there be no other name given under heaven whereby men be saved.
19. (Q) Please explain what was meant in the Life Reading given [329] that he would be offered work on the 15th of May? (A) The way was opened; and ye may assist him in understanding what is to be done in the material and mental self, for the carrying on is to only give the understanding in the relationships to time, space, condition, relations, and individuals.
20. (Q) Any message for the group as a whole at this time? (A) Take that as has been given, that ye - each soul - enter into the quietness of self and seek to know His bidding with thee at this time. For, as it has been given, there is a cause - a purpose - for which the group was called, and enjoined, that each study to show self approved unto Him, avoiding the appearances of evil, RIGHTLY dividing the words of truth, life, light, and love; and by thy conversations, by thy deeds day by day, make manifest that love He has given, He has shown, in the earth.
21. We are through.