This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the home of the Misses Edmonds on Pennsylvania Ave., Norfolk, Va., this 23rd day of June, 1935, in accordance with request made by those present.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Esther Wynne, Florence & Edith Edmonds, Frances Y. Morrow, Hugh Lynn Cayce, Helen Ellington, Ruth LeNoir, and Edna B. Harrell.

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1. GC: You will have before you the Norfolk Study Group #1, members of which are present here, and their work on the lesson "Destiny". I hold a compilation of the first section on "Destiny of the Mind" in my hand. Please comment on this and continue with the discourse on "Destiny of the Body." You will answer the questions that may be asked.
2. EC: Yes, we have the group as gathered here, as a group and as individuals; and their work on the lesson Destiny.
3. In commenting upon that as compiled here, well that in the prelude or a prelude - there be presented rather more of that as was the BEGINNING of the lesson, or more of that as was presented in the first discourse on same.
4. Then compile rather in the order as was then indicated; as to how that the Mind in its different or the various phases - which at times make for confusion to many - is ever the Builder, and that the key should be making, compelling, inducing, having the Mind one with that which is the Ideal.
5. So few there be who have a singleness of purpose, having a Mind with an eye single to service that the Destiny of the Mind, of the Body, of the Soul, may be in keeping with that which was purposed from the beginning.
6. What saith He? "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away."
7. Again what hath He said respecting the individuals who would come to abuse, to make a show of that they would do with their lot? "Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you; depart from me, ye that work iniquity."
8. What meaneth then these as respecting or in application respecting the Destiny in the Mind?
9. Lest those err that would make for a show, lest those come into disrepute, KNOW what thou hast believed and be ye consistent in that ye say, that ye do. For that ye think, that the mind dwells upon, that ye do become.
10. In gathering the data which have been given, know that much is here.
11. To those that have failed to contribute their portion, what think ye - that ye would amiss be in thy service to thy fellow man? For as has been given here and there, the need has been and is that you each present your own experiences. For the experiences of all are worth while. Compile these, then.
12. In giving further that as respecting the Destiny of the Body, begin - in thy compilations - with questionings respecting same. For ALL have not understood that as He gave; as to how ye should consider what manner of man ye are; for many are likened unto whitened sepulchres, BEAUTIFUL to behold from their walks before men, but within the mind harboreth those things that are vile, unkindly, and will make for that as must be met in themselves. For He hath not willed that any soul should perish, but hath prepared a way of escape.
13. Who, then, will separate you from the knowledge, the application, the understanding of thy relationship to thy God? None save thyself.
14. For, as has been given oft, nothing in heaven or in hell may separate man from the knowledge of the Father save himself.
15. What, then, may separate thy body? What then is the Destiny of thy Body?
16. Ye read, ye have heard it said, "I believe in the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. I believe in the resurrection of the body; the communion of saints." What meanest thou?
17. Hast thou set aught in thine own experience against these words that He hath given? "Who IS my mother, or my brethren? Whosoever shall do the will of the Father, the same is my mother, my brother, my sister."
18. These bespeak the activities of the Body before thy fellow man. Hast thou in thine meditation, in thine prayers and thy supplication kept the faith that thou art His? that in Him ye live and move and have your being? THIS ye say; THIS ye may do. How, ye ask?
19. Love one another.
20. Ready for questions.
21. (Q) Any special message for the group at this time?
    (A) Ye have work of love, of joy, of peace before thee. Keep the faith, by LIVING same. They that set themselves as knowing become stumbling blocks; for he that would be the greatest among you, let him be the servant of all. Serve ye one another, in love - as becomes the children of faith. Let thy words and thy meditation be, as ye present thy bodies, thy lives, thy activities before others:
    LORD, USE ME IN WHATEVER WAY OR MANNER THAT MY BODY MAY BE AS A LIVING EXAMPLE OF THY LOVE TO THE BRETHREN OF OUR LORD.
22. We are through.

BACKGROUND

1. Subject of Reading 262-84 - "Norfolk Study Group #1."

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