This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the Edmonds' home on Pennsylvania Ave., Norfolk, Va., this 7th day of March, 1937, in accordance with request made by those present.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Hugh Lynn Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Gertrude Cayce, Esther Wynne, Hannah & Noah Miller, Florence & Edith Edmonds, Frances Y. Morrow, Helen Storey and Helen Ellington.

TEXT

1. HLC: You will have before you Group #1, members of which are present here. At this time the Group as a whole and as individuals seek guidance and understanding in making practical application of Wisdom and putting it into expression for the lesson for others.
2. EC: We have the Group as gathered here, as a group, as individuals; and their work on the lesson Wisdom - also their choice to give to others that which has been helpful in their experience.
3. Then, this should not be lost sight of; that what has been helpful in thine own experience will bring to others a light, a hope.
4. For remember, it is a part of His promises to thee, that God giveth the increase, God giveth the help.
5. It is thy purpose then, in the comprehending of thy experience, in the study of that which has been given thee as to how it is Wisdom, to put away strife; it is Wisdom to manifest love and patience and longsuffering.
6. For ye have been and are called to put into practice that ye have experienced in thy material life.
7. Then in the simplicity of thy faith in the Promise, give expression to same; that those who read, those who meditate upon same may take hope.
8. Have ye forgotten as to when that ye are preparing may become even the textbooks to many, the way for many to know, to have a greater understanding?
9. Be not then overcome by those very experiences that have shown thee the Wisdom of thy choice in God, in Christ, in Jesus as thy Pattern.
10. Remember thy first lesson, Cooperation - how that you each contributing of yourselves will add to the strength of those who are in darkness, who are disturbed by the worldly Wisdom of many.
11. For it is as has been given, oft the foolishness of man is the Wisdom of God.
12. Then is it true that the Lord thy God is One?
13. Be in singleness of purpose, then. Not that thy own self is to be glorified. What has been thy concept of Glory? Glory signifies that ye are able to suffer. Only those who have suffered much may ever be glorified.
14. Do ye seek Glory? Then ye must be willing to suffer; and if ye count thy suffering, thy disappointments, thy heartaches, thy misunderstandings, as judgments upon thee, ye are unwise. For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth and purgeth every one, that ye may bring forth fruit in DUE SEASON!
15. Would ye have thy Glory without thy purification? Would ye have thy Wisdom without thy preparation? Would ye have thy Happiness, or seek thy Happiness, without being able to comprehend, to understand? If this be so, ye have not gained thy lesson of Wisdom.
16. Then how may each of you here make a practical application of Wisdom? Ye all, EVERY ONE, in your own experience have been called upon to manifest that ye have chosen, even as He hath chosen thee.
17. Then go the whole way with thy Master. Give expression, each of you, to that which has helped thee in those periods of not only disturbance but distress, in periods of disappointment, in periods of lack of that self-exaltation, even of that of self-expression, until ye have lost - some of you - even a hope in thine ability to do this or that.
18. When thy friends, when thy family, when thy brother would cast thee out, yea and condemn thee - THEN the Lord will bear thee up.
19. Was the Master, Jesus, come to the self-righteous of Israel or to the lost sheep?
20. Ye are His sheep, yea every one of you. For ye have named the Name of the Christ, and He calleth each of YOU by name!
21. Will ye then, at this time, fail those who may in the days, the years to come be given hope and cheer by that ye have experienced in thy walks with Jesus, in the garden of Wisdom?
22. In the periods of purifying, of testing, know ye WILL take thy part. For it IS a practical application of Wisdom in thine own experience.
23. Then INDEED ye may be lifted up to that new vision in the Happiness of the presence of thy Lord, thy Christ.
24. We are through.

BACKGROUND

1. Subject of 262-107 - "Study Group #1."

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