This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 26th day of September, 1937, 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 visitor Minnie J. Williams.

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1. GC: You will have before you the Norfolk Study Group #1, members of which are present here, and its work in preparing the Study Group lessons, especially in relation to the beginning of their work on the lesson SPIRIT. You will give a discourse on this subject and also give the affirmation for this lesson.
2. EC: Yes, we have the group as gathered here, as a group, as individuals; and their work in the preparation of lessons.
3. In the beginning of the preparation then of the lesson SPIRIT, this is the beginning and the end of all matters that pertain to the individual development in the material experiences.
4. For as the individual entity, or soul, is Spirit, so its end - or at the beginning and the end - is Spirit.
5. Then as ye seek in each experience for that which may be given as a help in thine individual activity, ask. Not as for knowledge alone, but how and what may be given that will aid or strengthen or give a better understanding to each of you as ye seek.
6. For this should be, in the experience of each, a greater awakening to each of you in thine application of thy opportunities in this material experience.
7. For unless ye are Happy in the knowledge of thy Opportunity, ye have lost hold on Love, on the Understanding of Self, and what Cooperation means.
8. For as has been given, God is not mocked; and whatsoever each of you sows, THAT must ye also reap.
9. And as the Door has been opened to you, as ye know the Lord Thy God Is One in thee, hence Body, Mind, Soul must be in the Spirit of truth at all times.
10. Hence the affirmation at this time would be:
11. FATHER, GOD, IN THY MERCY, IN THY LOVE, BE THOU WITH US NOW. FOR WE KNOW AND WE SPEAK OF THY LOVE.
12. AND HELP US THEN TO PUT AWAY, FOR THE HOUR, THE CARES OF THIS LIFE; THAT WE MAY KNOW IN TRUTH THAT THE SPIRIT AND THE LAMB SAY, "COME."
13. LET THEY THAT HEAR ALSO SAY, "COME."
14. LET ALL THAT WILL, COME AND DRINK OF THE WATER OF LIFE.
15. We are through for the present.

BACKGROUND

1. Subject of 262-113 - "Study Group #1."

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