This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the home of Mrs. Helen Storey, 2709 Lafayette Blvd., Norfolk, Va., this 27th day of February, 1938, in accordance with request by those present.

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

TEXT

1. GC: You will have before you Group #1, members of which are present here, and their study of the lesson SPIRIT. You will answer the questions that have been prepared on this.
2. EC: Yes, we have the group as gathered here; and their work on the lesson Spirit.
3. There has not been the completion of that which has been outlined for the group study, nor for their work on same.
4. This then should be very much more complete, for you have only gotten the effects and are questioning these rather than the cause or the conception of that which moves the individuals in the activity of the study and presentation of that as may be helpful in the preparation to others.
5. Rather would we question those here, than be questioned:
6. What is SPIRIT? God of heaven, of the universe, of the state, of the nation, of the home, of thyself?
7. Are these one in thy conception? Then WHY do ye not act like that?
8. What is thy relation to thy home, thy community, thy county, thy state; thy church, thy nation; thy God? Are these one? Then WHY is there not better cooperation in thy home, in thy relations to thy home, thy church, thy country, thy state?
9. What is that spirit that moves thee to find fault with thy brother, thy neighbor? Is that in keeping with what ye believe? Is that how ye will spend eternity? Is that what ye would have thy Savior, thy God, be? Then WHY is not thy life more in accord with that ye profess that ye believe? GOD IS! Thy spirit is in the Maker. Then what are ye doing about that in thy daily conversation, in thy daily proclaiming of this or that as comes into thy experience?
10. Ye believe that good and right and justice live ON, and are continuous in thy experience. Yet ye find fault with what this or that person may have said, may have done, may have looked; or may have failed to say or do.
11. What manner of spirit, then, hast thou directing thy life? Look within. See thyself, that which has motivated thee in thy dealings with thy fellow man; or as to what ye have proclaimed is thy concept, thy thought of thy Creator.
12. Have ye opened thy heart, thy desires to Him? Are they in keeping with that thou would have meted to thee, to thy fellow man, to thy Maker, to thy Savior?
13. Does the Spirit of the Master and the Father abide with thee? This is His promise. "If ye love me, I will come and abide with thee." Have ye driven Him from thy home, thy church, thy state? yea, from thine own consciousness?
14. Have ye not rather entertained the anti-Christ?
15. Have ye considered as to WHO is the author of thy activities day by day? yea, in thy dealings with those in thy home, in thy neighborhood, in thy city, in thy state? Have ye not preferred one above another?
16. Is that the spirit of truth? Is that the consciousness with which He that is the author of thy faith ministered to those He met day by day?
17. Has He changed? Have the circumstances, the environs, the times changed? Are not Time, Space and Patience in thy consciousness a manifestation rather of His love, His patience, His longsuffering, His activities with the children of men?
18. Art thou wiser in thy own conceit than He?
19. Do ye day by day, in EVERY way, say "THY WILL, NOT MINE, BE DONE"? Rather do ye not say, "Bless me and my house, my son, my children, my kinfolks; for we are a little better and we do a little better"? Do ye not excuse thyself?
20. Be these in keeping with Spirit as ye now conceive, as ye now understand?
21. Then gather together, even as He gave; "Let not your hearts be troubled; ye believe in God, believe also in me. And I go to the Father, and if ye love me ye will keep my commandments. For my commandments are not grievous, but are LIVING and DOING day by day those things that ye KNOW to do!"
22. Patience, love, gentleness! Not gainsaying, not finding fault!
23. These be the little things, yet bespeak that fact that ye have known, ye do know, and ye entertain the Spirit of the Christ!
24. If ye do these, then, there is no question as to whether "I shall do this or that," for the Spirit of the Christ will and does direct thee! if ye live the Christ-life!
25. We are through for the present.

BACKGROUND

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

REPORTS

1. 4/05/38 GD submitted extracts from many individual readings pertaining to Spirit, to be studied with 262-117. This was the case with all SFG lessons, but perhaps more extracts from other readings were submitted pertaining to Spirit.

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