This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 5th day of April, 1939, in accordance with request made by the Glad Helpers Prayer Group of the Association for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Florence Edmonds, Esther Wynne, Frances Y. Morrow, Hannah Miller, Helen Ellington, Ruth LeNoir, Myrtle Demaio and Mae Verhoeven.

TEXT

1. GC: You will have before you members of the Glad Helpers, and others, present in this room, desirous of a discourse to be given by the Master Jesus the Christ, Himself, on His Last Week, from the Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem and including the Resurrection Morn; giving that which will be helpful to the group and to others through its use in the Association Bulletin. You will then answer any questions which may be asked:
2. EC: Yes, we have the members present here, and their desire. This may be given by an observer of that period, in the present.
3. In considering that which materially passed through the minds of the followers of the Master, Jesus, and those experiences leading to the way of the Cross: The decisive point in Peraea [?] [Berea?] was the more trying even than the trial; and then those periods of taking leave after the establishing of the emblems as His body and blood, as a ritual for those who would honor and bring to remembrance those experiences through which each soul passes in putting on the whole armor of the Christ. [See 5749-10, Par. R2 verifying Berea.]
4. In those days preceding the entry into Jerusalem, we find those periods of much disturbance among the disciples who were of Galilee and those who were of the Judean ministry. These were in disputations as to what was to take place when He, Jesus, was to go to Jerusalem.
5. Yet He chose to go, entering through the period of rest at Bethany with Mary, Martha, Lazarus; and THERE the triumphal entry and the message that was given to those throngs gathered there.
6. The next period we find in the upper chamber with the disciples, and the humbleness that was manifested.
7. Though He was their leader, their prophet, their Lord, their Master, He signified - through the humbleness of the act - the attitude to which each would come if he would know that true relationship with his God, his fellow man.
8. Those periods in the garden, - these become that in which the great trial is shown, and the seeming indifference and the feeling of the loss of one in whom trust and hope had been given; and the fulfilling of all that had been in the purpose and the desire in the entrance into the world.
9. The trial, - this was not with the pangs of pain as so oft indicated, but rather glorying in the opportunity of taking upon self that which would RIGHT man's relationship to the Father, - in that man, through his free will, had brought sin into the activities of the children of God. Here HIS SON was bringing redemption through the shedding of blood that they might be free.
10. Here the law of love, of causation, of mercy, of justice, of all that makes for self becoming in the at-onement relationship, of filling the purposes for which one is called in materiality, becomes the activity of Him that is free indeed.
11. Thus in the hour of sacrifice, material, mental and spiritual relationships are attained and considered in His every word.
12. In those periods of transition from "It is finished," comes that which is to each heart the determination that it, too, may know the blessed hope that comes in seeing, knowing, experiencing the Cross in the heart, the body, the mind.
13. The period of resurrection, - here we find that in which ye ALL may glory. For without the fact of His overcoming death, the whole of the experience would have been as naught.
14. Then may ye as seekers of the way, may ye that have come seeking to know, to experience, to FEEL that presence of the Christ-Consciousness within thine own breast, within thine own experience, OPEN the door of thy heart!
15. For He stands ready to enter, to those who will bid Him enter.
16. He comes not unbidden, but as ye seek ye find; as ye knock it is opened. As ye live the life is the awareness of His closeness, of His presence, thine.
17. Then, again as He gave, "Love ye one another," thus fulfilling ALL that is in the purpose of His entrance into materiality; to replace hate and jealousy and those things that make one afraid, with love and hope and joy.
18. So be ye then as His children, - those that show joy and gladness in the lives, the experiences, the hearts, the minds of those ye meet day by day; thus becoming indeed brethren with Him, in that He gave Himself as a ransom for all, that whosoever will may take THEIR cross and THROUGH Him know the joy of entering into that realm of replacing jealousy and hate and selfishness with love and with joy and with gladness.
19. Be ye glad. Be ye joyous when those things come to be thy lot that should or would disturb the material-minded. Like Him, look up, lift up thy heart, thy mind unto the Giver of all good and perfect gifts; and cry aloud even as He, "My God, my God! Be Thou near unto me!"
20. In this, as ye raise then thy voice to Him, ye may be sure He will answer, "Here am I - be not afraid. For as the Father hath sent me, so come I into thy heart and life to bring gladness, that there may be life more abundant in thy experience."
21. Then, be ye GLAD in Him.
22. Ready for questions.
23. (Q) Please explain John 19:34, " - forthwith came out blood and water."
    (A) The fulfilling of "Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins." Hence His blood was shed as the sacrifice of the just for the unjust, that ye all may stand in the same light with the Father.
24. (Q) What changes had to take place in the physical body of Jesus to become a glorified spiritual body?
    (A) The passing of the material life into the spiritual life brought the GLORIFIED body; thus enabling the PERFECT body to be materialized in material life - a GLORIFIED body made perfect!
25. (Q) What was the form that seemed to be made up of light, that appeared [to me, Florence Edmonds] in the room at the close of the meditation preceding this Reading, and the meaning of same?
    (A) The attuning of self to the high vibrations of love and life and joy, - and is but that which heals and keeps peace among men.
26. (Q) Please explain: "He breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost."
    (A) That change of doubt and fear which arose in the minds and hearts of those gathered in that room. For the fear of the interpreting of the phenomenon being experienced, He breathed. As the breath of life was breathed into the body of the man, see, so breathed He that of love and hope into the experience of those who were to become witnesses of Him in the material world.
27. (Q) John 21:25. Does this verse have reference to the beginning as Adam?
    (A) In the same manner of beginning, yes.
28. (Q) Who were the women at the Cross?
    (A) Many were there. Those of his own household, Mary Magdalene, the mother of John and James, and those who were of that whole group were among the women at the Cross.
29. (Q) Are any of the women here (in this room) who were at the Cross?
    (A) Two.
30. (Q) Who is giving this discourse?
    (A) Are ye curious? Are ye serious? Look within self.
31. We are through.

REPORTS

1. See subsequent readings in [5749] series in re Jesus.
2. 11/07/72 Letter from Betty Wanton, 843 Plain St., Stoughton, Mass. 02072: "Confirmation of the word [Berea?] (in 5749-1, Par. 3), printed thusly in Jeffrey Furst's STORY OF JESUS (Coward-McCann, Inc., 1968), in just such spelling in an old (1873) Catholic Dictionary of Bible. This corresponds to the Journey Stop of BOEREA in St. James' version.
   "Beloved Cayce, right again! What a thrill when I found it!! Incidentally, my PSI factors located it. Had never opened 1873 Bible. Dug it out for ??? reason and turned right to it."

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