This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the Edmonds'' home on Pennsylvania Ave., Norfolk, Va., this 28th day of April, 1935, in accordance with request made by those present.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Esther Wynne, Florence & Edith Edmonds, Frances Y. Morrow, Hugh Lynn Cayce, Helen Storey, Helen Ellington & Ruth LeNoir.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 4:00 to 4:15 P. M.
1. GC: You will have before you Norfolk Study Group #1, members of which are present here, and their work on the lesson "Destiny". You will continue the discourse on this lesson, and answer the questions that may be asked.
2. EC: Yes, we have the group as gathered here; as a group, as individuals - and their work upon the lesson DESTINY.
3. As has been presented for the consideration and the study of the group, in presenting this subject and its divisions, and those tenets or understandings that have been given, this group should present that which shows the variations in that presented as of old and that yet older than they - yet by Him that is to this group the only way.
4. In the portion of this study as pertains to Destiny as related to the Mind, then, does there come the real import - or where there are the divisions of same by some as respecting that presented by Him, the Master, the Christ.
5. Mind is, as has been given, both spiritual and physical. In the material world, where we find expressions of the physical and of the spiritual, we find Mind. Yet what is known as the Group Mind - or that of the plant kingdom, the mineral kingdom and the animal kingdom or group - returns (as its Destiny) to the Creative Force which is its author, its maker. MAN - the free will agent; man made to become a companion to the Creator through the purification, by manifestation of the love of God as may be manifested in the earth - makes his Destiny as to whether his Mind (that accompanies his soul) is one with or in opposition to the Creative Forces. For he, for weal or woe, gives expression of same in his activity. And his Destiny - his Mind's Destiny - is in Him if he, man, will but make the Mind one with that which is creative in its essence, in its activity, in its flow. For Mind is the dividing line between that which is human, that which is man, and that which is animal - or of that division of a group soul or consciousness.
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Hence the variation in that He taught as He gave to Nicodemus, "Know ye not ye must be born again?" Born of water and of blood; that is, of the spirit - yet the spirit making manifest in the flesh the last command, the whole command as He gave, "A new commandment I give, that ye love one another" - that ye be of one mind, of one purpose, of one aim, of one desire. That each must approach from his or her own vision, his or her own status of development, does not alter that as has been spoken, "As the man thinketh in his heart, so is he." So does the Mind bring health, wealth, happiness; in that it is made ONE WITH Constructive Force, one with the Creator; and thus fulfill its Destiny - to become One in Him, One with the Father. Not by other than that "abiding in me, as I in the Father, ye in me." And what ye ask, what ye seek, what ye live, what ye ARE will be one with that force. Thus is the Destiny of Mind. Thus is the variation that lies between East and West; that of the old tenet yet ever new, presented in MIND IS THE BUILDER. Yea, Mind is that which makes for the Destiny in the experience of all; not by denial alone but rather by an active, positive assurance of the Mind's activity being One in Him. As He abides in the Father, ye may abide in the Father also. For as He is the Way, He is the Light, He is the bread of Life, He is the water of Life, He is the Vine, we abide in that Mind, that Flow of Life as of Him, and we then are One with Him.
6. Ready for questions.
7. (Q) Please explain that given in reading of March 10, 1935, "If there is the concept gained here, ye may through these lessons set many aright as respecting same." [262-79, Par. 3] (A) As has just been given; that those thoughts, those expressions of creation, those expressions of manifestivity in materiality - in flesh, in matter, in activity - are the variations. Not that which entereth into the man defileth, but that which cometh out of the man - IN thought, in act, in word. As He gave, then, set others aright.
8. We are through for the present.