This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 19th day of July, 1941, in accordance with request made by the Board of Trustees.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.

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1. GC: You will have before you the Assoc. for Research and Enlightenment, Inc., which is studying and presenting the work of Edgar Cayce. You will particularly consider at this time the selection of new members for the Board of Trustees. Comment on each of the names as called and then answer the questions regarding the work which will be asked.
2. EC: Yes, we have the work of the Association for Research and Enlightenment, Incorporated; its policies, its purposes, its activities, and those phases of same as presented by the activities of the Trustees.
3. This particular phase of the activity must be stressed in the weeks and months to come, if the Association will fulfil that purpose for which it proclaims itself.
4. To be sure, there may not be a great deal of interference with the activities of Edgar Cayce in the appointments, or the manners in which the work is carried on; but there should be a closer cooperation with the Trustees as to the adherence to the policies and the purposes and the aims of the Association.
5. Not that these are to be altered as to present a foundation for a cult, a schism or ism, but the more the universality of the information may be indicated to the public the greater may be the good that may be accomplished.
6. And this then is a reason why, in the selection of Trustees at this time, consideration should be given as to how active such an individual might be in following the policies and the purposes of the Association.
7. Ready for names.
8. (Q) Beulah H. Emmet.
   (A) If this entity will accept such an association, it would be well. For, a great deal of help and consideration may be expected from this source. The ability to coordinate information that is of a universal appeal is well in the realm of the qualifications of this entity; to assist in pointing these out and in directing the ideas of those who may be - and must soon be - chosen as qualified to segregate information from and in those reports that have been made.
   Be well, then, to offer such to this body.
9. (Q) Marion L. Wolfe.
   (A) Here, too, we find special qualifications, not only because of former associations but of ideals and purposes that are a part of the entity's experience. Indeed fortunate would be the Association to have the advice, the counsel, the assistance and aid of such an individual. By all means insist that the entity join in a service to its fellow man through such offices, if the Association adheres to those suggestions and counsels that are indicated here.
10. (Q) Are there others who should be asked to become Board Members at this time?
    (A) Others might. But let these remain until there is more being accomplished by those already chosen. DO have another Board meeting of the Trustees soon after the book is published. Much will need consideration when this is under way; not only as to manners and means to handle those requests for the data. Thus it is well that as much of those periods of special influence be available as possible; not as prognostications, not as those things of a sensational nature. For, remember the law. It is the little leaven that leaveneth the whole lump. Again would it be repeated, - it is here a little, there a little, line upon line, precept upon precept. Not that man does not know, has not heard of those activities necessary in each individual life to bring the joyous day of the Lord, but he needs to be reminded again and again.
    For, all are children and are seeking their way; oft groping blindly, following those that would lead here or there, when there needs to be the reminding that we must love one another - even as God has loved man and has made manifest that love. And day by day He manifests that love, if those that seek will but open their hearts, their eyes, their minds to the wondrous love which God, the Father, has bestowed upon the children of men.
    This should be the theme, ever, of all that are associated or affiliated with this work of the Association.
    Let the idea grow that individuals are each to work WHERE they are! in that environment WHERE they are! For THERE the first step is to be taken.
11. We are through for the present.

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