This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Va. Beach, Va., this 5th day of June, 1932, in accordance with request by those present.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Minnie & C. A. Barrett, Hannah Miller, Florence & Edith Edmonds, M. L. Black, F. M. Freeman, F. Y. Morrow, Annie, H. L. & L. B. Cayce, Mildred Davis, Helen Storey, Sarah & Lu Hesson, Eloise Potter, Helen Ellington and Ruth LeNoir.

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1. GC: You will have before you the group gathered here and their work on the lessons which they are preparing with the aid of the forces through this channel. You will give us at this time any further counsel which we need in completing the lesson on VIRTUE AND UNDERSTANDING, a copy of our work so far I hold in my hand.
2. EC: Yes, we have the group, as a group and as individuals, as gathered here. Also the work in preparing lessons.
3. In the preparation of the lesson VIRTUE AND UNDERSTANDING, well has it been thus far. In the preparations, as has been given, the group as a group, in the preparation, depends one upon another, as does the lesson depend upon the activity of each individual contributing to same. As has been given, each should feel, should know, they - as individuals - are a portion of the whole, and must contribute their part that the whole may be the more applicable in the lives of individuals who will be interested in that lesson from such preparation; for, as given, no one finite mind may contribute that even of interest to the many who may be reached through such lessons, yet individual contribution makes for the whole that which will find a responsive chord in the lives and hearts of those who contact same; for these are as experiences, LIVING truths, known and read of many, and will thus make for that which will become the more worthwhile in the lives of others. Then let each give that which will aid in making the whole complete, for each should recognize their individual responsibility to themselves, to the group, to their Maker whom they reflect their conception of in the minds of those who would apply the lesson in THEIR daily experience.
4. As given, virtue and understanding are the attributes that make for the relationships with the creative forces, as making for preparation of contacts with the fellow man as individuals, personalities that must be dealt with, that the relationships may become such as to make the understandings of individuals compatible with daily life, daily experience, that the lesson may be the more worthwhile.
5. Ready for questions.
6. (Q) [2112]: What is the difference between psychic forces and occult forces?
   (A) These have oft been explained. Well that these be studied in the light of that which has been given. One is the study of the other. One is the essence of the sources, and the other the channels through which, of which, the study.
7. (Q) [69]: Please explain what was meant by the spiritual eye, or third eye, in relation to psychic development. Should we today seek to develop this particular facility? If so, how?
   (A) As has been given, there is ever a channel or manner in which the expressions of a force may manifest in a material world. Hence the term, "Angels took form", that there might be the expression of, or vehicle for, the activity of an individual force manifestation in the MATERIAL plane. In the psychic forces, or spiritual forces (which are psychic forces), there has ever then been a vehicle, or portion of the anatomical forces of the body, through which the expressions come to individual activity, and these may find various forms of manifestations, or MOVEMENTS of - as has been given, that finds its seat in the creative energies and forces of the body. In the eye, "Let thine eye be SINGLE" may be the interpretation of same, or vehicles, or channels, or glands through which man has lost his vision, or the ability of seeing the self-expression in same in the pituitary forces, as in the lyden and the others - we find expressions in various forms of the body. These become, as has been seen or given, in the feminine body more manifested than ordinarily in the male, in man forces, in that called intuition, or that which is active in that portion of the system. These are but one expression of that portion of the body, for these may be added to by the feeding of same, that partake of other forces of the body in such quantities, or such character of development, as to produce other conditions in the body, as the growing of portions of the body that have become lax, or lacking in their activity in the system, but development in the spiritual sense - by meditation, prayer - dependent upon the external forces, or the creative energies, for its food, rather than upon that which is wholly of the material, develops that as may be termed the psychic development of individuals. Well that psychic forces and occult influences be developed in the individuals that so find within their individual selves that which makes for a closer relationship with that they individually worship as their ideal! That does not indicate that every individual should make of themselves a psychic channel that may be used to their own destruction; for, as has been given, there be many things hard to be understood that many wrest with to their own destruction, but that which gives more understanding of the relationships of self with the creative forces of a universal experience, rather than individual, makes for a closer walk with God, that from which the essence of life itself has its emanation. In the body we find that which connects the pineal, the pituitary, the lyden, may be truly called the silver cord, or the golden cup that may be filled with a closer walk with that which is the creative essence in physical, mental and spiritual life; for the destruction wholly of either will make for the disintegration of the soul from its house of clay. To be purely material minded, were an anatomical or pathological study made for a period of seven years (which is a cycle of change in all the body-elements) of one that is acted upon through the third eye alone, we will find one fed upon spiritual things becomes a light that may shine from and in the darkest corner. One fed upon the purely material will become a Frankenstein that is without a concept of any influence other than material or mental.
8. (Q) Regarding the lessons at this time,we seek individual guidance and advice in enabling us to better cooperate in carrying forward this work of our group.
   (A) Study, then, that which has been given on cooperation! For that applied in the individual life will make for that necessary for carrying on. Do not become weary in well-doing, for soon we must come to that lesson of PATIENCE as following FELLOWSHIP.
9. (Q) Any special message for the group at this time?
   (A) As has been given, let each - each - know themselves a link in the chain, a spoke in the wheel. Do not be the whole, but fulfill that THOU may do, that there may be the perfect accord; for he that giveth a cup of water in His name is greater than he that conquereth a city for his own aggrandizement.
10. We are through.

BACKGROUND

1. GD's note: All regular members present except Miss Wynne. First reading for group in living room of new home. EC had neuritis when he laid down, but woke up without it, due presumably to meditation of group, etc.

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