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

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Minnie and C. A. Barrett; Florence and Edith Mildred Edmonds; Frances Y. Morrow; Hugh Lynn Cayce; Mildred Mary Davis; Helen Storey; Helen Ellington; Ruth LeNoir.

TEXT

1. GC: You will have before you the Norfolk Study Group #1, members of which are present in this room. You will give at this time such counsel as will aid them as individuals and as a group to make the present lesson, The Lord Thy God Is One, a complete expression of truth. You will answer the questions which will be asked by the group and individuals in same.
2. EC: Yes, we have the group as gathered here, as a group, as individuals.
3. As has been given, to make the lesson complete it must be lived, experienced by each individual, and interpreted in their lives. And such activities that enable them to be nearer in accord with those truths, those lessons that are gained by such experiences, are those that must make the lesson complete for the lives, the experiences of others.
4. Well, then, that each - in their own way and manner - correlate that which has been gained from time to time, that there may be the better understanding. For, the tenets, the truths, the lessons are before thee day by day. Only self shuts out the glories that may be thine own experience, in the application of the lessons that are before thee.
5. Ready for questions.
6. (Q) I hold in my hand a copy of an outline on this lesson.
   (A) (Interrupting) Which is very good, but there's some of it that needs changing very badly! And we would change it! For, there are some portions that have been set as the outline which would be impossible to be filled in by individuals' experience; but would only be tentative experience!
7. (Q) Which part?
   (A) The second part!
8. (Q) [69]: Please explain what was meant by "It is I" and the "Time is near at hand" as given in answer to my question in the last reading. [262-40, Par. 10-A]
   (A) It has been given for some time past as to what is to happen and who is to speak. Has the body reached the state that such has been forgotten, or not looked for nor expected, nor understood? and as to what the message is to be, or who it is to be from? If so, then it is falling away!
9. (Q) [379]: How may I become more conscious of the oneness of the Father, and apply same in my daily activities?
   (A) The consciousness becomes the portion of self as the application of that known is made in the experience of self; as pertaining to the fact that all force, all power, all glory, comes from the One source. In the activities, then, in the application to self respecting same, does this become more and more the experience of self as it is applied in thine own experience.
10. (Q) [303]: How may I better apply personally the affirmation on this lesson?
    (A) Just do it!
11. (Q) [560]: Seeing an arm, was told to touch it. And after touching it, it seemed to become an arm of flesh. Is my interpretation correct? If not, please give the interpretation.
    (A) As we have given respecting visions or experiences of individuals, they in themselves may be the better interpreters of their experiences; provided, to be sure, there is the attempt, the desire in each to know, and the willingness to be guided or directed by those influences.
    As interpreted by self, in the greater portion do we find this correct; that variation being as to the relationships to particular individuals, for this is rather more universal.
12. (Q) May I receive a message on The Lord Thy God Is One?
    (A) Study to show self approved unto that that would make for little vain-glorying in any. Know whereunto thou hast been called; for His glory is sufficient, His mercy is far-reaching; His understanding maketh known those things that would prevent individuals from becoming afraid, in the knowledge of the glory of the Lord.
    Keep thy paths straight. Avoid the appearance of evil. Find fault in no man.
13. (Q) Should any changes or additions be made in the paper, "Present World Conditions," before sending it to any other magazine? [3976-11 Reports]
    (A) If it seems well to those who are preparing such, change it!
14. (Q) It has been sent to those that were suggested. To whom should we now send this paper?
    (A) Sunset Magazine in Dallas.
15. (Q) What should the group as a whole do regarding this paper?
    (A) What they choose!
16. (Q) Please give the address of the magazine in Dallas.
    (A) Just to Dallas.
17. (Q) Dallas, Texas?
    (A) Dallas, Texas. Not many Dallases worth while for the Sunset Magazine to be published in; there's only three in the United States!
18. (Q) Any message for the group as a whole at this time?
    (A) It's time for all to get started doing some work!
19. We are through.

BACKGROUND

1. Subject of Reading 262-41 is - "Study Group #1".

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