This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office in Pinewood, on Lake Drive, Va. Beach, Va., this 10th day of March, 1932, in accordance with request made by those present.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Minnie Barrett, Esther Wynne, Florence and Edith Edmonds, F. M. Freeman, F. Y. Morrow, Mildred Davis, H. L. and L. B. Cayce.

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1. GC: You will have before you the healing group gathered here, who seek guidance in carrying on Thy work. You will please answer the questions which they will ask.
2. EC: Yes, we have the group, healing group, as a group, as individuals, as gathered here. In seeking, let each know much has been accomplished in the minds, the hearts, and the lives of others through their concerted effort, as well as that contentment as must come from doing His biddings. Ready for questions.
3. (Q) [69]: Are my meditations bringing results? If not, please help me to accomplish this desire.
   (A) As given, the meditations are bringing results to others, to self. Keep that consciousness that in Him all things are done well. That that is not understood - trust; knowing that there will come the understanding as the awakening to the various laws of love that constitute life in its essence and development through the physical, material, mental and spiritual planes.
4. (Q) When one is working out a karma, is it right to try to help that one?
   (A) This may be answered, even as was that "Who sinned, this man or his parents? That the works of God might be manifest before you!" When there are karmic conditions in the experience of an individual, that as designates those that have the Christ-like spirit is not only in praying for them, holding meditation for them, but aiding, helping, in every manner that the works of God may be manifest in their lives, and EVERY meditation or prayer: THY WILL, O GOD, BE DONE IN THAT BODY AS THOU SEEST BEST. WOULD THAT THIS CUP MIGHT PASS FROM ME, NOT MY WILL BUT THINE BE DONE!
5. (Q) How do we know when to help an individual?
   (A) Do with thy might what thine hands, hearts, minds, souls, find to do, leaving the increase, the benefits, in HIS hands, who is the Giver of all good and perfect gifts. Be not faint hearted because, as thou seest, that is not accomplished in the moment. What is eternity to a single experience? "No good thought shall return to me empty handed." Believest thou? Then thou knowest, then, that that as is given out MUST return full measure.
6. (Q) Have I any physical error that would hinder my helping others?
   (A) None; for he that hath the will to do, he that purposes in his heart to do, may accomplish even to that as He seeth fit.
7. (Q) In a vision I saw a loaf of whole wheat bread. One end was cut off so that the cells in the bread were very prominent. A great light shone from within the bread, illuminating every cell and reflecting a very large aura, which entirely surrounded the bread. Please interpret.
   (A) This emblematical, as understood; stands for the essence of life itself in its cell force, showing forth in its activity that of the radiant life of Him who gave, "I AM the bread of life; he that eateth me shall NOT hunger," and, as is visioned, that each makes for its own radiation that combined in one gives that full illumined life that BRINGS understanding, and retains and builds, and gives - TRULY - the life everlasting. See?
8. (Q) [560]: Am I doing my part that was assigned me to do, that I may become a healer?
   (A) Keep that inviolate as thou doest; in thy weakness, so is strength being added, that will give more and more power through word, association, giving understanding, life and light to others; for he that approaches must lean upon one thou hast helped.
9. (Q) Will the Forces please advise us if the healing group is making progress, and if we have made any material demonstrations?
   (A) As has been given, much has been accomplished in the minds and hearts and the souls of many, for in unison of purpose comes that strength that enables those to whom such thought is directed to become more and more aware of that consciousness. This may be illustrated in this manner: As is understood, Life - God - in its essence is Vibration, and - as the physical beings are of that atomic force, a portion of the same - the AWARENESS of same is as to how conscious that vibration may be made, even as we find in the physical body that sight, hearing, taste, speech, are but an alteration of vibration attuned to those portions in the consciousness of the physical body, becoming aware OF things, OF vibration, reaching same from within or from without. Hence one may not hear the prayer or the thought sent by an individual whose attunement is not sufficient to raise that vibration in an individual, but the COMBINED - as we have in numbers - raise to such an extent that the AWAKENING comes by this CONTINUING of this direction of the spiritual forces to an individual; even as the small drop may wear away the HARDEST stone.
10. (Q) Will the forces please give us information regarding [5546] [m. child mentally retarded] passing on? Did we aid him? If so, how? [5546-1 given 10/14/31.]
    (A) Here we find a physical condition of a nature that was of prenatal conditions, where a physical being was in existence with only half an awareness of the conditions about same. The RELEASING of that force into the ability to become aware, or a birth into the spiritual sources. Not only aiding the individual but those so responsible for same, as to bring a consciousness of the universal or creative spiritual forces in the lives - LIVES - of all. Aid, then, not only to the body but to those so vitally interested in the same. [GD's note: Above Par. 10-Q & 10-A used in 5576-1 Reports.]
11. (Q) [993]: As a member of the healing group, am I cooperating in the way that I should?
    (A) Well that there be kept that attitude, that purpose, that intent; for there is the awakening that there is not only the conscious EFFORT, but the awakening TO that of GREATER abilities to be not only humble, contrite, and of the forces that bring Life itself, but ATTUNING with others in aiding to bring that consciousness to many.
12. (Q) Have we as a group been able to aid [5576] [deformed, retarded m. child] [son of recently deceased Dr. [...] who had been metaphysical teacher of Miss [993] and others in the [281] prayer group.] If not, please explain how we may best aid him? [5576-1 given 12/22/31.]
    (A) In that there is much of a debt of gratitude, as well as of duty, as well as bringing that awakening of the spiritual consciousness; though this may not yet be SEEN in a VISIBLE way, there is good being accomplished not only in self but in meeting those obligations to others, as WELL as BRINGING to the consciousness of the body an awakening. [See 281-7 Par. 12-A on 6/17/32 in re. [5576]. Both it and above Par. 12-A used in 5576-1 Reports.]
13. (Q) Please explain how to heal an epileptic, and are they possessed by an unclean spirit? If so, should we command it to leave in the name of Jesus Christ, and to no more enter? ["Unclean spirit" Par. 13-Q, 15-Q prompted by EC's correspondence with Dr. N. H. Prouty, M.D., who had given a lifetime of study to magnetic healing.]
    (A) There are various characterizations in those that are termed epileptics. Some arise from one condition, some from another. Some are indeed possessed with an uncleanness from those of the moral life in that that has been projected, or that brings life in its essence itself, and then become epileptics, MEETING in self those very conditions that have been as omissions in its experiences in the earth; bringing then that necessity that others in aiding COMMAND, demand, in the Name, that these be cast out. Too, there are those that need the body vibrations each day, that these may be made whole by the laying on of hands, which will require some two, three to four weeks, that will bring an understanding and a change in the body, or bodies, that will make for wholeness of purpose. One, then, that with the aid of others - or by self - brings such, SAVES one from much that hinders.
14. (Q) As a group, are we reaching that consciousness of His presence in healing, which should come to the group to make their selves one in purpose? If not, how?
    (A) This, as we find, as a group has been rather of the spasmodic nature. Individuals have been raised high; others have been lacking, or lax, in cooperative measures - yet much has been, may be, accomplished. Faint not, nor find fault not, one with another. PRAY, rather, one with another.
15. (Q) How may epileptics possessed by an unclean spirit be designated or be known?
    (A) As to whether there be consciousness or not THROUGH the falling, or spell. Those that are unconscious are possessed, or are possessed during that unconsciousness - see? Such need, then, the raising of daily vibration. This may be accomplished by placing the left hand over the abdominal region and the right hand over the 9th and 10th dorsal or solar plexus ganglia, and so held for half to three-quarters of an hour each day. It will leave!
16. (Q) This should be done by someone else?
    (A) To be sure!
17. (Q) Any certain one?
    (A) One who may be designated of the group, but all the group holding with the individual at that special time. That of the mental strength to aid such an one. Must be applied direct, to be sure.
18. (Q) Should [543] be helped in this way?
    (A) Yes.
19. (Q) By which one?
    (A) Anyone that may be designated of the group.
20. (Q) [295]: Am I beginning to see auras?
    (A) Beginning to see auras. As life, light, and love - with understanding - is reflected in self, so may there be seen those of the SAME reflection from others.
21. (Q) What is the significance of the flashes and forms which I frequently see?
    (A) Those of the higher vibrations of inter-between, as well as spiritual forces taking forms in or before the mental self.
22. (Q) Should I develop automatic handwriting?
    (A) We would not advise it! Too easily is it misleading, especially when there are so many flashes about. Rather that of intuitive force, that may be guided by higher sources.
23. (Q) [288]: In what way can I be of the most help to the healing group?
    (A) By cooperating in the meditation, in the prayer, in the direction of individual thought, purpose, intent, aims, desires, to others.
24. (Q) How can I be of more direct help in bringing healing to the body of [294], thereby enabling many others to be healed, physically, mentally, spiritually, who seek through these channels?
    (A) In keeping in accord with that as brings for the better understanding and awakening to that as surrounds the body in its various aspects, fears, and understanding.
25. (Q) General: Is there anything more we can do in being of help to [543]?
    (A) Plenty to do that hasn't been done! Try that once!
26. We are through.

BACKGROUND

1. Subject of Reading 281-4 - "Glad Helpers."

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