This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 10th day of September, 1941, in accordance with request made by those present.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Florence Edmonds, Esther Wynne, Hannah Miller, Helen Ellington, Frances Y. Morrow, Sallie Jones, Mae Verhoeven, Ruth Denney, Helen Godfrey, Louise K. Dill, Louise B. Chisholm, Louise W. Eggleston, Minnie Barrett, Pat Bailey and others.

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1. GC: You will have before you the Glad Helpers Prayer Group, members of which are present in this room, who seek a continuation of information given through this channel on the life of the Master and its history in the material world. You will give a description of certain events in the life of the Master, particularly the healings of the Master. You will answer the questions that may be asked.
2. EC: Yes, we have the group as gathered here, as a group and as individuals; their purposes, their aims.
3. In interpreting the life of the Master, Jesus, - as has been indicated, His birth, His advent into the material world brought satisfaction, and yet consternation to the many.
4. This was indicated a few months afterward, when - with the return of the Mother and Joseph to Nazareth - there was the edict that all children up to two years of age were to be destroyed. Indeed did Rachel weep for her sons.
5. Through the experience, though, as has been indicated, there were those precautions. There was that journey into Egypt, which is recorded in the varied manners in Matthew and in Luke. To many there might be questionings as to whether Mary was informed of the necessity for the flight, or merely Joseph - as Matthew records. However, as we find, they were of one mind, and the flight into Egypt - as is recorded - was the fulfilling of the prophecy. For, it had been said, "and my son shall be called from Egypt."
6. The period of stay in Egypt was something over two and one-half years - until another ruler was in authority or power. Then there was the return.
7. Through that period there were many of the stories that have come down as legends, even of those people in some portions of Egypt and of Arabia, as to the happenings along the way, as to how there were the unusual happenings - indicating not only the divinity of the Child but that purpose later recorded, "And she kept all of these and pondered them in her heart."
8. After the journey to Jerusalem, there were the periods of education in Syria, India, the completing again of the activities in Egypt; and the passing of the tests there by those who were of the Essene group, as they entered into the service - as did the Master and John before Him.
9. As to the healings, the miracles performed by the Master, - of course, the first recorded begins with that in Capernaum, or in Cana and nigh unto Capernaum, when He had so recently returned from the wilderness - or the visit to John - when the water was turned into wine.
10. Then there was the healing of Simon Peter's wife's mother, of a fever. It was one of the few instances where healings were performed among His own people, among His own kindred.
11. Some might easily ask the question: If He were the healer, why was it necessary that Joseph pass away?
12. Did the Master come to be about HIS work or His Father's work?
13. As individuals, as representatives of the Master, as brothers, as heirs with Him, do we go about our Father's work or our work? There is the variation.
14. Respecting the miracles of healing, there were many instances where individual healings were of the nature as to be instantaneous, - as that when He said to him sick of the palsy, "Son, thy sins be forgiven thee." When the questionings came (as He knew they would), He answered "Which is it easier to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee, or Arise, take up thy bed and go unto thine house?" IMMEDIATELY the man arose, took up his bed and WENT unto his house! Here we find that it was not by the command, but by His own personage. For, the question was not as to whether He healed but as to whether He had the power to forgive sin! The recognition was that sin had caused the physical disturbance.
15. Then, these are part of the experiences of each and every soul in their search for, in their relationships with their fellow man.
16. Ye may ask, does this apply in the present? "In Him ye live, ye move, ye have thy being - If ye love me, saith the Master, ye will keep my commandments. My commandments are not grievous; my commandment is that ye love one another, even as I have loved you. If ye love me, I - and the Father - will come and ABIDE with thee."
17. Believe ye His words?
18. Just as experienced by those who stood about the grave of him, the brother of those whom the Lord loved, - when He spoke, death itself gave up that it had claimed, even though the sister had warned that there had not been the embalming as had been the purposes of many. Instantly the activity brought life. For He IS life. He IS health, He IS beauty, He IS - not was, not will be, but IS! For He having overcome death, hell and the grave, He is justified before God in giving to him who believes, who is in accord; that "If ye ask in my name, believing," doing, being that ye ask for, that shall be done unto thee.
19. Yet with the breaking of the bonds of death, the breaking of the material bonds - the binding about the head - must needs be done by others.
20. There is ever, then - in thy material associations, in thy seeking for help, love, health, understanding for thy brother - SOMETHING, some effort on their part as well as THINE. But "Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there will I be in the midst of them."
21. These are the influences that all must realize, if they would understand, if they would comprehend, if they would contemplate, if they would seek - that ye cannot give that which ye do not possess. If ye have that love in the Christ, in the giving ye have the more; even as He demonstrated in the giving of life that ye might have life more abundantly, that there might be a closer walk with Him. And as ye walk, ye talk with Him, He talks with thee.
22. "Be not afraid, it is I." Has this come to thee? Has it not oft been thy experience and ye, in thy doubt, in thy fear of being in His presence, have turned away? "Inasmuch as ye do it unto the least of thy brethren ye do it unto me." This is for each of you. This is thy Lord, as He would approach thee, that ye in thy grace, in thy love, thy mercy as thou showest to thy brother, may find that love in Him.
23. We are through.

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