This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the Edmonds' home on Pennsylvania Avenue in Norfolk, Va., this 19th day of February, 1933, in accordance with request made by those present.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Minnie & C. A. Barrett, Esther Wynne, Florence & Edith Edmonds, H. L. Cayce, Frances Y. Morrow, Mildred Davis, Helen Storey, and Ruth LeNoir.

TEXT

1. GC: You will have before you the group gathered here and their work on the lesson, "The Cross and the Crown," a copy of which I hold in my hand. As I call each paragraph you will comment on it and make such suggestions for corrections or additions that will make this lesson a more complete expression of the truth we are trying to convey. You will answer the questions which will be asked by the group or by individuals in the group.
2. EC: Yes, we have the group as gathered here, as a group, as individuals, and their work on the lesson.
3. (Q) GC: Par. 1.
   (A) This is very good. There may be the addition showing, in the introduction, just why the group as a group chooses the Way of the Cross as THEIR way; for, as is set forth, IF ye know the truth the truth shall set you free. In the Cross then, there must be more freedom than is ordinarily termed or considered in a way of the cross.
   (Answer "Very good" to each paragraph from 2 through 39.)
   In considering additions to the reasons, as suggested in the preamble or introduction, it will be found that some minor changes will be necessary in the presentation of that given in Par. 12.
   As we begin with the next lesson, then, presented in KNOW HE, THE LORD THY GOD, IS ONE, the affirmation should be:
   AS MY BODY, MIND AND SOUL ARE ONE, THOU, O LORD, IN THE MANIFESTATIONS IN THE EARTH, IN POWER, IN MIGHT, IN GLORY, ART ONE. MAY I SEE IN THAT I DO, DAY BY DAY, MORE OF THAT REALIZATION, AND MANIFEST THE MORE.
   Then, the culmination of this series of lessons will be LOVE; for He so loved the world as to give His son, His self, that man should come to the realization of the Oneness of the Father in the earth.
   As this group, as a group, as individuals, have been chosen that they may manifest the power, the might, the glory of the love of the Father, so may each come step by step to the realization of that wonderful experience in themselves of being a channel through which many may come to know the mercifulness of God, the loving-kindness of His love, the power in His name.
   And all may be on fire with the powers that may manifest through them; becoming less and less self-centered, less and less selfish; and more and more at peace and in harmony with those experiences that are theirs in the going about to show forth His love, through the application of that each are gaining through their walks with Him in prayer, in meditation.
   So, their coming together may mean more and more the shedding abroad those truths that make THEM free in their abilities to become lights, helpers for, through and by, His power.
   As ye seek then, my children, to know His way, so does He glorify in thee that whereunto thou hast been appointed.
   Keep thine heart open, that the Voice of Him who has called may quicken each thought, each act, in thy daily walks.
   For, little by little, line by line, do ye grow in grace, in knowledge, in understanding of His ways. They are not hidden, nor afar off; for ALL is made manifest to those that will hear, will see, the glory of the Oneness of the Father.
4. We are through.

BACKGROUND

1. Subject of Reading 262-38 - "Study Group #1."

REPORTS

1. GD's note: On waking from reading 262-38, Edgar Cayce told the group that he had a vision of the Master speaking to him during the reading, but no memory of the words of the reading itself.
2. 2/21/33 See 262-39, Par. 9-A, 13-A, expanding on EC's vision and meaning of it.

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