This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the Edmonds'' home, Pennsylvania Ave., Norfolk, Va., this 3rd day of September, 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 and Edith Mildred Edmonds, Frances Y. Morrow, Hugh Lynn Cayce, Mildred Mary Davis, and Helen Storey.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 4:30 to 4:50 P. M.
1. GC: You will have before you the Norfolk Study Group #1, members of which are present in this room, and their work on the lesson, Opportunity, a copy of which material I hold in my hand. You will give such suggestions as will aid them in filling out and completing this lesson. You will answer the questions that may be asked.
2. EC: Yes, we have the group as a group; and the members of same as individuals.
3. That prepared is very good, in the greater portion. There needs be all compilations in order, each contributing its portion to same.
4. As to that presented itself, this is very good so far as the completed portions have gone, save in the third portion where there needs be some more enlightenment as to the references to experiences of individuals as they apply the thought in their experience.
5. Ready for questions.
6. (Q) Are we as individuals submitting the type of material which will be the most helpful for those studying the lessons? Please tell us how we can improve our work on these lessons in any way. (A) As given respecting the manner in which each individual presents that received through its periods of meditation, and the experiences that have been applied in its own experience; not as theory, not as feeling or understanding only, but as the experience of the body itself as related to that obtained through the meditation on the lessons in the various periods. THIS should be presented, and - as we have given - each has been called to present that of self for the enabling of others to find, in their study, meditation and experience, that which will be helpful to those seeking. This is the manner in which the lessons should be prepared. The responses that have come regarding the experiences of
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others, in their study of that presented, should make for evidence that that being presented IS worthwhile in the experience of those to whom the lessons may be presented as a line - or an outline - for thought and study. Let each, then, keep first and foremost its application to the various experiences; for presenting that obtained is not presenting self, but rather that self is made a channel through which there may be received that which will be helpful to those that seek through these channels for a better understanding. In this manner, in this way, will there ever be presented that which WILL be helpful, so long as each individual presents that it has received of those experiences through the meditation on that presented. If self is presented, this becomes weakening; but rather - as given - make self a channel. How? As ye would be a channel, as there is the willingness and the desire to be used by those forces or influences sought, there will be given that which will be of aid to others. For, has it not been given, "Ye that would speak in my name take no thought of what ye shall say, for in the selfsame hour it will be given thee"? This is often referred to in regard to those periods when the disciples were to speak or defend themselves before those in authority. WHO is in authority in the earth as related to self? There is the continual war between "There is set before thee good and evil." That whom ye serve is the master, according to thine OWN activity. Then, speak and act in HIS name; He that is the Savior in the earth.
7. (Q) Please give a message of help to [462]. (A) In those periods when there are the doubts and the fears that arise, these are as the testing times in each soul's experience. He that endureth, he that looketh to the promises - and believes and acts in that manner, to him it is counted as righteousness. Then, KNOW in whom, in what, thou hast believed - and keep the faith.
8. (Q) Please give a message of help to [404]. (A) Trust and obey, for there's no other way to be happy in Him in whom thou claimest to be in accord with that He would have thee do. Know that His ways are not past finding out. Be not in the shadow of doubt or fear, but keep the heart singing; knowing that in His own good time and way He will
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bring the desires of thine heart to pass - that are in accord with His will - in thine experience.
9. (Q) [993]: Please explain my recent experiences of waking and being conscious of praying that "God have mercy on us all." (A) As the consciousness of the position of the world and those about the body is made more and more in accord with His will, the experiences even as He had - as He wept over Jerusalem - become the experiences of His children. Read there, then, that which caused this feeling of the Master to give forth those expressions even as He did in the presence of His disciples. And there will come to self, through this meditation, through this concentrating in self, and consecration of self to His service, that understanding. Then, to all, we would give this: Consecrate yourselves, your bodies, your minds, your abilities in EVERY direction, to the opportunities to be of service to those ye meet and contact day by day. For, as well as in meditating and prayer, make - through the promises that self may make in consecration of self - that position in the attunement of self that thy promises and His promises may be one; and fulfill all thou dost promise. Know that He will keep those that keep His ways, and - "Seek and ye shall find". For, those periods for the studies of that presented in Day and Night draw near!
10. We are through for the present.