This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 30th day of July, 1942, in accordance with request by those present.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Esther Wynne, Hannah Miller, Frances Y. Morrow, Florence Edmonds, Helen Ellington and Hugh Lynn Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 11:25 to 11:45 A. M. Eastern War Time.
1. GC: You will have before you members of Group #1, present here, and their work on the lesson GOD - LOVE - MAN. You will give a further discourse on this lesson and suggestions in completing it.
2. EC: Yes, we have the group as gathered here; as a group, as individuals, and their work on the lesson GOD - LOVE - MAN.
3. In giving further discourse on the subject, much might be given. In the declaration that is made in the subject there should be the defining of what this group interprets as God, in their own experience.
4. It is true that God is love. Is it true that He is to each as a father? Is it true that He is to each as law? Is it true that we each know that influence, that law, that love, as a personal thing in our own experience; and thus a personal God - not a personality but as a God that is known of self, that may be demonstrated in the life of the individual?
5. As may be interpreted by the individual from that which is the ACCEPTED word of God, given through those that were raised or edified by their close walk with Him, as individuals qualified by Him to give their interpretation of Him in man's experience - love is qualified as an attribute of that force, power or influence known as God.
6. Thus, as man makes application of love in his daily experience, he finds God a personal God - whether indicated in relationship to that force He calls God, or worships as God, or whether in relationship with his fellow man.
7. These should be the questions, these should be the answers in the experience of the individuals as comprise this group, if they would give this as a complete study or lesson to others.
8. This has been begun well. Then complete same, in the outline as indicated.
9. And let the next lesson be: MAN'S RELATIONSHIP TO MAN.
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10. And the affirmation:
11. FATHER, GOD! LET ME, AS THY CHILD, SEE IN MY FELLOW MAN THE DIVINITY I WOULD WORSHIP IN THEE.
12. LET ME IN MY DAILY LIFE BE A WITNESS TO HIM, WHO EXEMPLIFIED FOR MAN, TO MAN, MAN'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD, AND THE MANNER OF RELATIONSHIP THAT SHOULD BE AS MAN TO MAN.
13. FOR WE ASK IT IN HIS NAME, JESUS THE CHRIST.
14. Ready for questions.
15. (Q) Any message to the group? (A) As ye have given unto others, so do thyself. Study to show THYSELF approved unto God, workmen not ashamed; rightly emphasizing the virtue, the faith, the love, the patience, in thy daily life and in thy dealings one with another; keeping self unspotted from condemnation; keeping self from condemning self or others. [See lesson MS under Reports of Reading 262-130.]
16. We are through for the present. [GD's note: With the publishing of the book THERE IS A RIVER, Edgar Cayce's time was so filled with appointments that he was unable to give further readings for the Group. See Reports for work done by the Group subsequent to his death, etc.] .]