TEXT OF READING 281-17

This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 24th day of May, 1933, in accordance with request made by the Glad Helpers.

P R E S E N T

Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Florence and Edith Edmonds, Mildred Davis and L. B. Cayce.

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 Glad Helpers, members of which are present in this room. You will give at this time advice and counsel regarding their work and answer the questions which will be asked concerning any phase of it.

2. EC: We have the group and the individuals that are gathered here, designating themselves as the Glad Helpers.

3. In the manifestations that are the experiences of those that labor, or who give themselves in service through the activities of such a group, this then would come as the massage at this particular time:

4. Find in self that desire, that love for service that He gave in the ministrations and manifestations of His power in the earth, concerning those things and conditions that prevented individuals from being whole indeed. And as He sought to comfort them in their various phases of experience, in their varied forms of development, so would ye do well to manifest without thought of self, rather that His name may be glorified in the earth; remembering ever that He gave, is "Blessed he whose errors are covered by kindness done to a faltering brother," and "Inasmuch as ye do it unto one of these, my little ones, ye do it unto me."

5. Be ye then faithful, every one, keeping that counsel, keeping that period of prayer, meeting them that seek in thought and with them present before Him to whom all power is given, that ye may all indeed be whole every whit.

6. Ready for questions.

7. (Q) Please give five affirmations for patients to be used by them for meditations. (A) CREATE IN ME, O FATHER, THAT PEACE, THAT HARMONY, THAT LOVE, THAT WILL BRING THE COMPREHENSION OF THY LOVE, THY MERCY, THY GRACE, IN ME, IN MY BEING, JUST NOW. The second, AS I SEEK, WILT THOU HARKEN, O FATHER OF MERCY, AND IN THE PROMISES THAT WERE GIVEN BY AND THROUGH THE CHRIST IN THE EARTH, MAKE ME WHOLE EVERY WHIT - NOW. The third, AS I COME TO THEE, O FATHER, SEEKING TO KNOW THY

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LOVE, THY GRACE, THY POWER, MAY I SEE THIS LOVE, THIS POWER, THIS MERCY THOU HAST PROMISED THROUGH THY SON, IN ME - JUST NOW. The fourth, OUR FATHER, IN THY MERCY HELP ME TO SO LIVE, TO SO KEEP MY INNER SELF IN ACCORD WITH THY LAW, THY LOVE, AS TO MERIT THESE BEING MANIFESTED IN MY LIFE, MY BODY - JUST NOW. The fifth, OUR FATHER, OUR GOD, IN THY MANIFESTATIONS OF LOVE, REMEMBER ME - JUST NOW.

8. (Q) As I call the name of each individual on our prayer list, you will please give an individual message. First, [294]: (A) Keep thy face to the light, my son, that those who behold thy going in, thine coming out, may be strengthened by the brightness even of thy countenance; may it show, through the thoughts that are kept there, that thy presence is seeking His presence day by day. Keep the body, keep the mind, in accord with those promises, that in and through thee, in thy love manifested in the earth, may come those glories, that those peoples may talk, may speak, may hear, as face to face with him that may bring peace, harmony, glory, and be the forerunner of His return.

9. (Q) [539] and family: (A) Be patient, be kind. Be gentle in thy ministerings day by day; for though there may come those periods when the burden seems heavy, and the light fades in the life, yet he that is faithful unto the end shall wear the crown. Keep the fires of love burning in thy hearts day by day, for the love of God is manifested in the earth through those that are just kind one to another.

10. (Q) James [[295]'s brother]: (A) Listen more often to the voice within, Kick not against those things that seem to hinder, for whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth and purgeth every one. Be thou, then, faithful in the little things of life and He will crown thine efforts with contentment, with joy, with life, with love.

11. (Q) [585]: (A) Keep thy paths straight. Be not unmindful that the many seek with thee that thou shouldst have an understanding heart, that the glory of the Father may be manifest in thee. Be ye patient, be ye gentle, be ye kind. Speak gently one to another. Know thy redeemer liveth, and calls that "If ye love me, keep my commandments." They are not grievous nor

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hard to bear when thou understandest that the love of God is sufficient to those that wholly trust in Him.

12. (Q) [2155]: (A) This would be well to give as the meditation, as there is the administering of the magnetic influences that we have given should be administered to the body: LET THY INNER SELF BECOME MORE AND MORE AWARE OF THE PEACE, THE HARMONY, THE COORDINATION, THE COOPERATION OF GOD'S LOVE, GOD'S PEACE, GOD'S HARMONY, IN THY PHYSICAL AND THY MENTAL BEING - NOW!

13. (Q) SARAH [[993]'s sister]: (A) Let the peace that comes from knowing, by meditating on His love, be thy portion - just now.

14. (Q) [146]: (A) This should be given with those periods of meditation and the magnetic powers that go from body to body, as the superconscious and subconscious forces possess or direct the material or physical forces through the activity of the spiritual reactions in body: [See 146-8.] THE PEACE AND THE HARMONY THAT COMES FROM THE FATHER OF LIGHT, AND LOVE, THAT IS OURS THROUGH THE PROMISES OF THE CHRIST IN MAN, IS POSSESSING THY BEING - NOW - AND MAKING THEE WHOLE, AS HE WOULD HAVE THEE - NOW! IN HIS NAME, IN HIS POWER, BE THOU WHOLE!

15. (Q) ROSEHILL SCHOOL: (A) Let the peace that comes from the knowledge and the power of the Father, through the Son, manifested in the spirit of mercy, justice and love, be shed abroad on all that aid in making the experience of all more worth while in the undertaking here - just now.

16. (Q) MRS. A. M. POPE: (A) Keep the mind and body singing the glories of the Father, through the Son in the earth, just now. [See 146-8.] Keep the ways open for His voice, His presence, to be manifested more in the love that ye show through the ministerings day by day to the needs of His children that have erred and - through thee - may see the light now.

17. (Q) [300]: (A) It would be well that this be given with those periods of suggestion, in administering the power or emanations from body to body in periods of meditation or prayer: LET THE POWERS THAT MAY MANIFEST FROM THE HOLDING OF THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE CHRIST LOVE IN THE EARTH NOW, QUICKEN

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THE SPIRIT WITHIN THEE AND MAKE THEE WHOLE - NOW.

18. (Q) [326]: (A) In Thy mercy, in Thy power, make manifest Thy blessings on me now. As Thy glory, as Thy peace comes to me, may I be conscious of its action upon and within me - now.

19. (Q) [409]: (A) Let the glory of the love, that has been and is being manifested in thee now, become the guiding influence in thy conversation, in thoughts, in deeds, day by day, that ye may grow in the grace of Him that has brought to thee - NOW - that understanding in His name!

20. (Q) [422]: (A) Let the spirit of the Christ be near thee now. Let His HAND guide thee day by day. Feel HIS presence about thee at all times. Be not afraid in His love, that thy body, thy mind, may be a channel of blessings to someone - now!

21. (Q) ASS'N. FOR RESEARCH AND ENLIGHTENMENT: (A) May we, as members of an organization that has its ideals in being of a service to its fellow man - through the grace of God that is given to all that would seek through such a way to be a channel of blessing, cast not this opportunity aside as it comes day by day; but may I, as one of His children, so live that OTHERS may glorify Him - now! [See copied also under Work Rdg. 254-65, and used in 6/33 A.R.E. Bulletin.]

22. We are through.