This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the Edmonds'' home, 611 Pennsylvania Ave., Norfolk, Va., this 21st day of January, 1936, requested by those present.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Florence and Edith Edmonds, Hugh Lynn Cayce, Ethel Parry, Myrtle Demaio, Ruth LeNoir, Estella Smith and Jack Tobin, Jr.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 3:45 to 4:05 P. M.
1. GC: You will have before you the Glad Helpers Group, members of which are present in this room. You will answer the questions we will submit regarding our work, as I ask them.
2. EC: Yes, we have the Glad Helpers Group, as a group and as individuals - and their work. Ready for questions.
3. (Q) Please give affirmations to be sent to those on our prayer list. (A) 1st: LORD, THOU ART MY DWELLING PLACE. LET THY WILL, THY PURPOSE, SO FILL MY BODY, MY MIND, THAT MY WILL MAY BE ONE WITH THEE.
2nd: LORD OF LIGHT, OF MERCY, OF PEACE, CREATE IN ME A PURE HEART: AND RENEW A RIGHTEOUS SPIRIT WITHIN ME - NOW.
3rd: OUR GOD, OUR FATHER, LET MY DESIRES AND THE MEDITATIONS OF MY HEART, OF MY BODY, OF MY MIND, BE ONE WITH THEE: THAT I MAY BE RENEWED AND MADE EVERY WHIT WHOLE.
4th: LORD, THOU ART THE MAKER OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. THOU ART THE GIVER OF PEACE AND MERCY AND TRUTH. LET THE LOVE THAT THOU HAST SHOWN IN THE GIFT OF THY SON BRING THAT CONSCIOUSNESS WITHIN ME OF MY ONENESS WITH THEE.
5th: OUR FATHER AND OUR GOD, SHOW MERCY AND TRUTH, LIGHT AND JUSTICE, IN MY MIND, IN MY BODY: THAT IT MAY BE RENEWED TO A LIFE OF SERVICE FOR THEE IN THE CHRIST.
6th: LET MERCY AND JUDGEMENT, O LORD, BE IN MY WAYS: THAT THERE MAY BE A RENEWING OF PURPOSE, OF DESIRE, WITHIN ME: IN MY BODY, IN MY MIND: THAT I MAY BE ONE WITH THEE, THROUGH THE LOVE THOU HAST SHOWN IN THY SON.
4. (Q) In the reading on the Temple Beautiful, July 17, 1935 [281-25], in Par. 23, where it says, "Seek, then, in tone, all of you, A-r-r-r-r-r-r-ar," please give what key it
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is sung in.
(A) It is the COMBINATION, or a treble from C to C.
5. (Q) In referring to the affirmations, in same reading, was it meant that just the nine affirmations given in that reading were to be prepared and preserved by those to whom they were sent, or all of our affirmations? (A) All. For each affirmation should, and does, fill a place, a purpose, in the minds, in the hearts, of those that - through concerted and consecrated effort - seek to be a channel and to be one with Him.
For if ye would in thy daily or material life be a musician, may ye think of thy music once a week or a month or a year? or art thou making it a portion OF thy LIFE?
If ye would be an athlete, would ye disregard thy hours, thy body, thy meals? or would ye work AT that which ye would make as a portion of thy real inner self?
Are thy relationships, thy friendships, such that ye need only to mention or to speak of or to act AT or like there is never any communication with same? or are they renewed, with the memory of those periods when thou wert enjoined one with another, in a common purpose, in a oneness of desire?
The same do those find in their periods of meditation, their periods of seeking to become one with those promises made by Him that gave, "I go, but will come again and receive you unto myself." Did He say "as many as have forgotten to keep my ways, as many as neglected to show forth my love"? Rather, "he that abides in me; he that showeth forth the love I have shown thee." For, "As ye do it unto the least of my brethren ye do it unto me."
So, in thy undertakings BE - as has been given oft that ye ARE - the sons and daughters of a merciful, heavenly Father. Do ye quit yourselves like men; do ye act in that way and manner? that one not knowing that thou hast CLAIMED, would know that thou hast chosen to be a channel for the manifestation of that love in the earth?
Then, in every manner show forth that love; in decency, in order, in love, in cherishing that which has brought, does bring in thine experience the great, the happy, the joyous moments of thy manner and ways of expression.
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These, my children, will show thy growth. For He hath given, "Ye GROW in grace, in knowledge, in UNDERSTANDING." Ye do not put on thy claims as a coat, as a cloak to be laid aside. No. Rather ye gird on same as ye become one with Him. Thy speech, thy manner of activity will show forth WHAT thou art!
6. (Q) Were the group of dancers in N.Y., who call their place, the Temple Beautiful, associated with us in Egypt? If so, how? If not, how did they get that name? (A) The one through whom a message came WAS associated in the activities there. And the BEAUTIES of that vision prompted those that in secular things, in material activity, "caught ON," as it were, to a reflected beauty that might be theirs; that they might even, as it has been said, catch but a glimpse or the crumbs or the portions of the music which might, would, could, make for that attunement within those individuals in whom such might be aroused to those glories OF those that did minister there!
7. (Q) In the seven stages of man's development, why is the beetle the symbol of the world, the cockerel as birth, the serpent as the mind, the hawk as wisdom? [281-25, Par. 34-A] (A) We are going far afield. Keep rather to the spiritual healing.
8. We are through for the present.