This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the Edmonds' home on Pennsylvania Ave., Norfolk, Va., this 11th day of July, 1937, in accordance with request made by those present.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Hannah & Noah Miller, Florence & Edith Edmonds, Frances Y. Morrow, Hugh Lynn Cayce and Ruth LeNoir.

TEXT

1. GC: You will have before you the Norfolk Study Group #1, members of which are present here and their work in preparing the lesson on Happiness. You will continue the discourse on the material for this lesson.
2. EC: Yes, we have the group as gathered here; as a group, as individuals; and their work on the lesson Happiness.
3. In continuing with the discussion, as has been given, you each shall analyze yourselves and that given you as a helpful measure towards your comprehending or embracing Happiness in your individual experience.
4. You each will find, if it is but applied, that which will enable you to give to others a greater vision of what and how Happiness may be in the experience of others; and - as doers of the Word and not hearers only - become more and more in accord with that which has been designated as true Happiness.
5. To be sure, many find the inclinations for quiet or rest, or laziness, to become oft your metre or standard; but these, too, are - as has been given - far from true Happiness. For Happiness is being busy about the Lord's work; not in other peoples' business, not in that of stirring up strife, but rather as He brought to the world that of peace and Happiness in going about doing good.
6. That is the business, that is the activity, that is being doers of the Word; that is showing forth faith by the works.
7. In this then, let you each arouse yourselves to that which will enable you as individuals to give in your daily dealings with others a greater expression of joy, and not of those things that build for offences of one nature or another.
8. For offence is absent from joy or Happiness. And when there are resentments, when there are petty jealousies, when there are those things that are contradictory to Happiness and joy that are a part of the activity, these build those things that hinder those who would know the peace and the joy and the Happiness of just being kind, just doing that which brings to the experience of others that of joy, peace, Happiness to all.
9. Ready for questions.
10. We are through for the present.

BACKGROUND

1. Subject of Reading 262-110 - "Norfolk Study Group #1."

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