This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 8th day of November, 1939, in accordance with request made by the Glad Helpers Prayer Group of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Florence Edmonds, Esther Wynne, Hannah Miller, Helen Ellington, Thomas Sugrue and Hugh Lynn Cayce.

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1. GC: You will have before you the psychic work of Edgar Cayce and members of the Prayer Group present in this room; especially in relationship to the activities of this group in the Egyptian period. You will continue with the information concerning that period, as related to instructions in the present for the best carrying on of this work. You will answer any questions that may be asked:
2. EC: Yes, we have the psychic work of that one called Edgar Cayce; with the desires and purposes of the Prayer Group, in relations to same; and the information that has been given respecting that period in material activity.
3. When the Atlanteans in that experience began to influence the spiritual and moral life of the Egyptians, under those turmoils which had arisen through the Rebellions as indicated, there came that desire, that purpose - especially on the part of the Natives, as well as those who had been adherents partly to the tenets of the Priest - that the Priest be returned, that there might be a better understanding. For the Native leaders, especially, realized that their own activities or representation in the spiritual, moral and religious life would be destroyed if there was the adhering to the tenets being presented by the Atlanteans.
4. And, as might be termed in the present, some indicated that the Priest alone would be a match for those activities of some of the stronger or more forward Atlanteans. For they had brought with them (as had the Priest) many THINGS, or individuals, or entities, that were without purpose, - or merely automatons, to labor or act for the leaders in the various spheres of activity.
5. And, as the Natives found, such beings were being classified or judged to be such as many of the Natives of the land.
6. Hence there were overtures made to the ruler, and to those in authority with same, that the Priest be recalled. And thus we had the entering in of those activities as were begun as related to many of those who are associated in the Prayer Group work in the present; many here, as well as many others in varied experiences or places of activity in the material world in the present.
7. With the return of the Priest there began the choosing as to who was to be considered in authority, in the spiritual precepts. And there was the activity of the Priest in choosing entities, individuals from all walks of life, all stations, - whether in authority in the political or the economic, or the general affairs of the land.
8. Thus, as has been indicated, there arose the needs for the Temple of Sacrifice, where entities, individuals, might offer themselves for the purification of their bodies, that they first might be channels through which there might come entities, souls, manifesting in the earth with the entire activity of body, mind, soul. It was the same intent as had been the purpose of the Priest, in the choice of that individual through whom the pure race, the pure activities of a better purpose might be made manifest.
9. This, to be sure, caused a great deal of discussion, dissension, among the leaders in those groups of the Atlanteans. Thus, as has been indicated, there were the needs for the Priest to enter into that period of meditation, of setting himself aside, purifying through continuous prayer, continuous seeking, continuous opening of those forces. And, as we have indicated, there was then much less of that interference that arises from carnal forces as manifested in material associations.
10. Just as may be illustrated in the appearances of individuals in varied spheres of activity within the material plane. In one experience it may appear that they have filled, have exercised spiritual aptitude, while in another the spirit of dissension or disputations. And, judged from standards as might be of an individual interpretation, individuals lost. Just as might be interpreted from the teaching of the Teacher of teachers in those periods of His activity in the material plane.
11. Thus we had the Priest's rejuvenation, or the turning back of age as it were, or those conditions which would hinder the activities. And this began that period in which even members of the present Prayer Group prayed and meditated with the entity; not in companionship, to be sure, but in their OWN desire that there might be a unifying of the purposes, the desires. And with these expressions there were those who chose the activities that were set in motion for the purifying of their bodies, that there might be the purifying of physical conditions which had been and were being affected by the emotional forces, or the carnal influences about them in the experience. Such activities might be best expressed or explained by comparing same to the present hospitalizations where there might be operative measures used for the removal of such as tumors, breaks, growths or the like.
12. After the purification (which took some six and a half years, as time would be measured in the present), there began the classifying of services of individuals in their activity through the various offices that were undertaken during that period of the greater prosperity through the Egyptian experience. For there was not only the adding to the monuments, but the Atlanteans aided in their activities with the creating of that called the Pyramid, with its records of events of the earth through its activity in all of the ages to that in which the new dispensation is to come.
13. Then, with such activities, the various groups began their preparations through not only the Temple of Sacrifice but the Temple Beautiful also. The Temple of Sacrifice was a physical experience, while the Temple Beautiful was rather of the mental, - in which there was the spiritualization - not idolizing, but crystallizing of activities or services to a special purpose, - or specializing in preparation for given offices of activity.
14. Hence from same has arisen a great many of the signs, the symbols, the various influences that have had and may have a part in influencing peoples and individuals, - dependent, to be sure, upon how much of the will is exercised in regard to same, - toward activities for greater expansions, greater developments.
15. So we had the foundation of the Prayer Group.
16. Then, if there will be held that which is in keeping with what the Teacher of teachers taught, and that applied in the daily life, - not because it was once a part of an Egyptian custom, nor an Egyptian service, - it will bring the greater contentment and peace within the consciousness of those who do apply same in their daily life.
17. DO NOT, then, meditate for form! DO NOT enter in for LONG prayer. Rather he that would be justified is much as were those who purified their bodies from appendages, - such as tails, feathers, wings, and portions of the natural sources. For, remember, LAW is law! And law is love. And love is God.
18. Then, let those that would offer themselves as a channel, as a means of being an aid to the activities of the Priest, or Cayce, do so not AS unto Cayce, but as to that FOR which the service to others stands! knowing, even as then, that unless the service of Cayce is offered in the manner in which he as the Priest offered it, it can be of no avail.
19. Let all hold, then, to that first of love, then patience, then kindness, then being no respecter of persons, - but respecting the desire of the Spirit as made manifest by the activity of the individual.
20. We are through for the present.

BACKGROUND

1. Subject of 281-43 - "Glad Helpers."
2. 281-43 continued from 281-42 on 11/01/39.

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