This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home in
      Pinewood on Lake Drive, Va. Beach, Va., this 17th day of
      April, 1932, in accordance with request made by those
      present.

      P R E S E N T

      Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
      Minnie & C. A. Barrett, Esther Wynne, Hannah Miller, Florence
      & Edith Edmonds, M. L. Black, F. M. Freeman, F. Y. Morrow,
      C. W. & M. L. Rosborough, H. L. & L. B. Cayce, Mildred Davis,
      Helen Storey, Sarah Hesson, S. E. McPherson, Eloise Potter,
      Helen Ellington & Mrs. LeNoir.

      R E A D I N G

      Time of Reading
      4:40 P. M.

   1. GC:  You will have before you the group gathered here, and
      their work on the lesson of FAITH.  May we receive at this
      time guidance in understanding faith, that we may make this
      lesson a living lesson.  You will answer the questions as we
      ask them.

   2. EC:  Yes, we have the group as gathered here, as a group, as
      individuals.  In the study of lesson on FAITH, this becomes
      a living truth as each applies in their experience that
      gained in meditation and prayer upon that attribute of
      creative forces, for it in essence IS creative in its active
      principle in experiences of individuals in their lives.
      Then, as one applies that as known, is there given the
      understanding as to that that may increase or enlarge, or
      make same become living in their experience.  Ready for
      questions.

   3. (Q)  [413]:  What is the comparative extent of my faith, and
      how may I extend and use it to achieve the most benefit?
      (A)  Just as given, faith is the essence of creative forces
      within the active force of that of an individual to which
      they apply themselves in the spiritual activity of their
      experience.  So, in the application of that known to self as
      an expression of that faith as is manifest in every child of
      God - that in its active force puts that known into operation
      - does this grow, expand, or BECOME the basis OF the
      activities of self in those directions as necessary.  As
      the ensample, or examples, as were given by those patriarch
      of old, or as has been experienced in self's own experience,
      that once awakened to the abilities within self DARE to do
      for Him that as has been done even for self!

   4. (Q)  [255]:  Staten Island, N.Y.:  Should faith healing be
      included in the teachings of theology?  If so, who is best
      qualified to teach it?

      (A)  There has been given by those in the orthodox manner
      those who SHOULD, THROUGH faith, laying on of hands,
      anointing with oil, praying over same.  There is, in the
      broader sense, that innate in each individual that may be
      awakened to those abilities in their activity, are they
      willing to attune themselves to the laws as pertain to the
      active forces in self's OWN experience, keeping self
      unspotted and clean from the world, and KEEPING that that
      brings according in the body that necessary for its awakening
      to its own spiritual activity.  Who shall do such?  Such as
      are called in their own experience.  Knowing that as has been
      given, to some is given teaching, to others healing, to
      others ministry, to others on the various forces as are
      attributes of His love, His force, in a material world.
      One that is so given, then, let them SANCTIFY THEIR selves,
      THEIR bodies, THEIR minds, to his FELLOW MAN'S service; for
      he that lendeth to the Lord covers a multitude of sins.

   5. (Q)  [115]:  Is my faith manifested in my East Indian
      incarnation sufficient for today?  [See 115-1]
      (A)  Sufficient to the day is the evil or the good thereof.
      Putting rather in practice that as is known in the present
      is sufficient to make the growth attain that as MAY be even
      GREATER MANIFESTED in the present; for that as experience in
      the various spheres of activity is as the background and
      the STAYING forces, that through faith, through the promise,
      all things are brought to remembrance in thy spiritual
      activity!

   6. (Q)  [288]:  Are my attempts at meditation accomplishing
      anything outside myself?
      (A)  These are but questionings of self, and questionings of
      the promises as are given!  Might be termed lack of faith in
      self or the promise, for each thought, each atom, has its own
      weight as is expended in whatever direction it MAY be guided
      by the thought of self!  To be sure, it ACCOMPLISHES, then,
      that in self and that outside of self.  He that doubteth,
      then - doubteth self, doubteth Him!

   7. (Q)  In what position may I best meditate?
      (A)  As has been given, there are given to each their own
      respective manners, from their varied experiences, as to
      HOW, as to form.  If FORM becomes that that is the guiding
      element, then the hope or the faith is lost in form!  He
      that made long prayer, or he that not even raised his eyes
      but smote his breast and said, "God be merciful to me, a
      sinner!" WHO was justified?  He that in humbleness of self,
      humbleness of mind, humbleness of the whole INDIVIDUALITY
      (LOSING personality in Him) comes; and in WHATSOEVER manner
      that - whether prone, whether standing, whether walking, or
      whether sleeping - we live, we die, in the Lord.

   8. (Q)  How can I make my faith more active and worthwhile in
      the lives of others?

      (A)  By exemplifying it in self; for we individuals are as
      reflections to others of that we worship in OUR own selves.
      Let your light so shine that others, seeing their light, may
      GLORIFY God.

   9. (Q)  [303]:  How can I increase my faith?
      (A)  Continuing to lose self in the thought of Him who is
      able to make the tiny seed bring forth the great tree.  As
      self is lost in doing HIS biddings does the FAITH grow; for
      growth is made through the exercising of, the LOSING of, self
      in Him.  In Him, then, as we see the ATTRIBUTES OF the Father
      in the daily walks of life.  By FAITH a cup of water given
      brings its reward to self, and quenches the thirst of the
      thirsty.  By FAITH a kind word brings that joy to the one
      spoken to, and to self that knowledge of - in HIS name.
      Not that it BRINGS to self as a reward, but the REWARD is
      as of that BROUGHT to self by the act.  Great difference!

  10. (Q)  [404]:  In praying, should a prayer be kept up
      persistently until a definite answer is given, or should
      one only ask and leave the rest with God?
      (A)  Seek and ye shall find.  Know in whom thou hast
      believed, and believe - in faith - He is able to commit that
      THOU hast committed unto Him against ANY condition in thine
      experience.  THY will, O Lord, be done - not mine!  ASK -
      leave the result with Him.  His promises are sure.  "Heaven
      and earth may pass away, but my promise shall NOT pass away."

  11. (Q)  [2125]:  What is the meaning of the name "Abercrombie"
      that so often comes to me?
      (A)  An associate of the entity in its activity through its
      spiritual forces, or those that come WITH its activity in
      itself.

  12. (Q)  Please explain further regarding the name Abercrombie.
      (A)  Just as given.

  13. (Q)  [379]:  How can I strengthen my faith?
      (A)  Put that thou hast to the test in thine self.  Know
      that, as it is used, it grows.

  14. (Q)  [2124]:  Please explain more explicitly the following
      answer to my question (Par. 8-A - Reading of March 6, 1932)
      [262-13, Par. 8-A].
      (A)  As the ideal of an entity is set, and the entity knows
      or gives that activity, or the abilities of its ideal in a
      given direction, then the use of that as IS in hand as
      respecting such an ideal strengthens ALL attributes as
      RESPECTING the ACTIVITIES of same in self.  So, as is given,
      use that thou hast in hand, for the more PERFECT under-
      standing comes with the more knowledge of that as is known
      that may be used in the daily experiences of self.

  15. (Q)  Can this group aid further in the Lindbergh case?
      (A)  Leave it as it is.

  16. (Q)  Is there any message for this group at this time?
      (A)  Prepare ye the way for the next lesson, that should come
      with this - VIRTUE AND UNDERSTANDING; and as ye meditate, as
      this:

      LET VIRTUE AND UNDERSTANDING BE IN ME, FOR MY DEFENSE IS IN
      THEE, O LORD, MY REDEEMER; FOR THOU HEAREST THE PRAYER OF THE
      UPRIGHT IN HEART.

  17. We are through.

T0262-018 * [Pg 1]

      This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home in
      Pinewood on Lake Drive, Virginia Beach, Virginia, this 1st
      day of May, 1932, in accordance with request made by those
      present.

      P R E S E N T

      Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
      Minnie and C. A. Barrett, Esther Wynne, Hannah Miller,
      Florence and Edith Edmonds, M. L. Black, F. Y. Morrow,
      C. W. Rosborough, M. L. Rosborough, Hugh Lynn Cayce,
      L. B. Cayce, Mildred Davis, Helen Storey, Sarah and Lu
      Hesson, Helen Ellington and Ruth LeNoir.

      R E A D I N G

      Time of Reading
      4:30 P. M.

   1. GC:  You will have before you the group gathered here and
      their work on the lessons which they are preparing.  You will
      first tell us if any changes or additions should be made in
      the lesson of FAITH, a copy of which I hold in my hand.
      You will then answer the questions on the continuance of
      our work.

   2. EC:  Yes, we have the group as gathered here, as a group, as
      individuals; also that as prepared on FAITH, and the work.

   3. Ready for questions.

   4. (Q)  Regarding lesson on FAITH.  Par. I.
      (A)  This is very good, and the proper presentation of the
      subject.

   5. (Q)  Par. II.
      (A)  Very good.

   6. (Q)  Par. III.
      (A)  Very good.

   7. (Q)  Par. IV.
      (A)  Very good.

   8. (Q)  Par. V.
      (A)  Very good.

   9. (Q)  Par. VI.
      (A)  That's better.

  10. (Q)  Par. VII.
      (A)  Very good.

  11. (Q)  Par. VIII.
      (A)  Very good.

  12. (Q)  Par. IX.
      (A)  Very good.

  13. (Q)  Par. X.
      (A)  Very good.

  14. (Q)  Par. XI.
      (A)  Very good.  There will be necessary for some little
      changes in the punctuations, rather than the matter itself,
      as is written here.  Very good.

  15. (Q)  Par. XII.
      (A)  Very good.

  16. (Q)  Par. XIII.
      (A)  Very good.

  17. (Q)  Par. XIV.
      (A)  Very good.

  18. (Q)  Par. XV.
      (A)  Very good.

  19. (Q)  Par. XVI.
      (A)  Very good.

  20. (Q)  Par XVII.
      (A)  Very good.

  21. (Q)  Par. XVIII.
      (A)  Very good.

  22. (Q)  Par. XIX.
      (A)  Very good.

  23. (Q)  Par. XX.
      (A)  No change.

  24. (Q)  Par. XXI.
      (A)  Very good.

  25. (Q)  Par. XXII.
      (A)  Very good.

  26. (Q)  Par. XXIII.
      (A)  Very good.

  27. (Q)  Any advice regarding this lesson?
      (A)  This is very good, with the minor changes.  No
      transpositions, nor would we add any, save that as may be the
      questions that may arise in the study of same.

  28. (Q)  Are the divisions correct which Florence Edmonds has
      made [as per 281-5, Par. 20-A] of those seeking aid from our
      healing group [281], a copy of which I hold in my hand?
      (A)  These are very good.  Only will there be necessary for
      changes as conditions develop with individuals and
      circumstances necessary for the carrying out of the
      variations as will appear from time to time.  The commencing
      is the best thing.

  29. (Q)  Will you give us the position of the hands for [146]?
      (A)  In the right hand, on the 3rd and 4th cervical.  The
      left on the auditory plexus, or that as about the lower
      portion of the ear - thumb and finger on either side, see?
      [See 146-7 Reports.]

  30. (Q)  Please give us that which we need in understanding
      and beginning work on our next lesson, on VIRTUE AND
      UNDERSTANDING.
      (A)  In the beginning of the study of this lesson, would be
      well that each individual of the group, or students of same,
      review that as has been the preparation for the study of the
      attributes that are now to be set before such students.  In
      the beginning was that as would apply to the individual's
      cooperation with a group, or concerted effort on the part
      of individuals with one mind, or aim, or purpose.  The
      understanding, or looking into self, and the preparation
      of self in the light of that of the cooperation.  Then as to
      become active with that as had been gained.  Then the basis
      with which an entity approaches the forces within each
      individual, that there may come forth those works, that are
      through the activity OF that force of faith in the material
      activities of an individual.  Then there begins as in this:
      Adding to thy faith virtue and understanding.  Virtue, in
      this study, then, is to be as the criterion with which thine
      faith is to be put into active service; for without that
      pureness of the virtue of self's own mental, material and
      spiritual self, there can come little understanding.  Know,
      then, these are to be that as is the beginning of the opening
      of self to the activity of those forces as emanate from that
      which has been applicable from the studies that have gone
      before; for with faith comes then the working forces that
      make for an activity upon the part of each towards that being
      manifested in the lives of each who have set their face
      towards an activity.  So these, then, are the BEGINNINGS.
      Study to show that within self which is an exemplification
      of that which has been gained by each, and as a group, and
      then comes understanding.  With that same pureness in self
      that is demanded by self of thy brother.

  31. (Q)  [307]:  I greatly desire to be filled with virtue and
      understanding.  Is there any message for me?
      (A)  Keep in line with that as has been set before self, and
      SURE is the way - for this is as HIS way.

  32. (Q)  [303]:  Please lead me more into the way by which I may
      get true virtue and understanding.
      (A)  In the application of that as has been gained comes the
      understanding.  Be true to that that is pure in thy purpose,
      for THIS IS virtue.  In virtue comes understanding; for they
      are as the tenon and the mortise, they fit one with, one to,
      another.

  33. (Q)  [404]:  Does understanding come only with experience?
      (A)  Understanding comes with application.  Application may
      be experience mental or physical, or spiritual.  With the
      ideal that is set before self there comes the awakening.  As
      to whether this is shaken by doubts or fears, or there is
      the inroads of a doubt that makes for muddying of thine
      experience, this then makes for a less understanding.

  34. (Q)  Please define spiritual faith.
      (A)  The application of that that is awakened by the spirit
      within self.

  35. (Q)  [341]:  Please tell us how we should define virtue?
      (A)  As that is applied in the daily life of individuals as
      respecting the cooperation, self, the ideal, and the faith,
      to each it is given; for each individual is an entity in
      itself, and all work together for the proper understanding
      and definition - but to EACH is their OWN approach.  Not that
      God is many, but the attributes OF the creative forces
      RESPOND according to the development OF that entity.

  36. (Q)  [585]:  Would the interpretation of my dream of several
      weeks ago, in which I was permitted to see the world from a
      distance as being lifted in space, be helpful in any way to
      this group?  If so, please give it.
      (A)  Each individual experience is helpful to another,
      provided the experience is of such a nature that it gives
      an impetus for activity upon the part of another.  In this
      experience to the entity, as a real experience - and may be
      set as for others in THEIR seeking.  Some seek an experience
      of like nature, some seek and experience that is within line
      with their individual thought.  Then ALL, when they have put
      themselves in that position, attitude, or attunement, to
      RECEIVE the lesson through an experience, receive same in
      their OWN language or tongue; for so is the activity of the
      Spirit in the material world, that each hear, or feel, or
      know, or understand, in their OWN language, their OWN
      experience, their OWN interpretation, of the One; yet all
      are one, as was learned from the beginning, as the ideal must
      be one in Him, as the relationships of self must be as of one
      purpose and one aim, as in faith there comes the awakening to
      the virtue in that thou hast believed and hast set before
      self, so does each experience find in the life or activity
      of individuals that which enables them to come to a greater
      understanding "What is it all about?"  [GD's note:

      Mrs. [585] told me, 2/23/66, that she and Mrs. [413] came
      late into the group.  Mrs. [2125] said to them, "Why don't
      you start your own group?"  Mrs. [585] said to Mrs. [413],
      "I don't think I'll go any more - they don't seem to want
      us."  At another meeting she told Mrs. [413] afterwards, "I
      don't think I'll go any more - I don't know what it's all
      about!"  She then submitted Q-36 at the next rdg. for the
      group and was convinced beyond question of the divine
      source.]

  37. (Q)  [288]:  Just what should I understand and gain from my
      experience Wed. afternoon, April 20, 1932 [during reading
      1800-18] of seeing a prophet, Christ on the cross, and the
      all-seeing eye?
      (A)  This as the vision to self, as was given to the prophets
      of old, that thy prayer and supplication have been heard
      ["If I could only understand!"  See 288-30, Par. 10-A], and
      that there is the way as of the cross being opened for the
      greater activity through the all-seeing eye; for, as each
      figure seen represents a portion in the experience of self,
      so make thine self more and more the channel for blessings
      to others.

  38. (Q)  Any message at this time for the group?
      (A)  Keep the way open.  Do not become a stumbling block to
      any.  KNOW in what thou has believed, and WHERE thy faith has
      been placed.  By the works ye shall know them, as by their
      fruits; for as virtue is a fruit of faith, so does the
      UNDERSTANDING come - as the full grown seed ready for
      planting.

T0262-019 * [Pg 1]

      This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home in
      Pinewood on Lake Drive, Virginia Beach, Virginia, this 15th
      day of May, 1932, in accordance with request made by those
      present.

      P R E S E N T

      Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
      Minnie and C. A. Barrett, Hannah Miller, Florence and Edith
      Edmonds, M. L. Black, F. M. Freeman, F. Y. Morrow, C. W.
      Rosborough, M. L. Rosborough, Hugh Lynn Cayce, L. B. Cayce,
      Mildred Davis, Helen Storey, Helen Ellington and Ruth LeNoir.

      R E A D I  N G

      Time of Reading
      4:00 P. M.

   1. GC:  You will have before you the group gathered here and
      their work on the lesson of VIRTUE AND UNDERSTANDING.  You
      will continue the information on this subject which will aid
      us in continuing our work, and will answer the questions
      which various individuals will ask.

   2. EC:  Yes, we have the group as gathered here, as a group, as
      individuals.  In the study of this particular phase of that
      necessary preparation within individuals that they may know
      and understand themselves, their relationships to the
      creative forces, these as lessons are then the preparations
      for the relationships that are to be studied as respecting
      their fellow man.  Hence the next lesson must be FELLOWSHIP.
      In the preparations of self virtue and understanding are
      necessary requisites for the relationships that are to be
      further studied.

   3. Ready for questions.

   4. (Q)  Is the following outline of VIRTUE AND UNDERSTANDING
      complete and inclusive enough to cover the lesson which we
      should present on this subject?  Please suggest any advisable
      additions or changes, as I read this to you:

      VIRTUE AND UNDERSTANDING

      1. Introduction
      2. Both virtue and understanding essential to right living.
      3. Virtue and understanding are spiritual and can be found
      only in the spiritual way.
      4. The way to virtue and understanding open to all who will:
         A. Become a channel of blessings to others.
         B. Thoroughly acquaint self with self.
         C. Have their ideal set in Him.  The one way - the
         straight and narrow way.

      5. Faith, the chief cornerstone in acquiring virtue and
      understanding.
      6. Virtue, a defense; Understanding, a weapon.
      7. The effect of virtue and understanding upon self and
      others.

      (A)  This is well.  Well that his be understood, that virtue
      and understanding deals primarily with self and self's
      relationship to the Creative Forces, or God, and that virtue
      and understanding in self is REFLECTED in self, rather than a
      JUDGEMENT upon another.  Judge self by thine understanding
      and thine own virtue, NOT another - for these are of the
      spirit and must be judged by the spirit.  "Judge not that ye
      be not judged."

   5. (Q)  [993]:  Would appreciate a message from the Master that
      may guide me now in virtue and understanding.
      (A)  As there is set before thee that thou has builded and
      chosen in thine service, thine work, so WILL the harvest be,
      if there will be kept that faith in Him who gives that
      necessary understanding for the comprehension of the varied
      conditions as present themselves as problems in thine daily
      experience.  There will not be those things that are not
      understood, if there will be the opening of the heart to that
      consciousness that comes from the closer walk with Him.  Keep
      the way thou knowest; keep the path thou hast trod in, for He
      is able to DELIVER thee in every trial, in every way, for
      unto him that is faithful comes the crown of life.

   6. (Q)  [69]:  Through what source may I gain a greater
      understanding?
      (A)  Through prayer and meditation in Him, for He IS the way,
      He IS the understanding, and the approach to all understand-
      ing must come from the proper concept of the relationships of
      conditions in the physical, the mental and the spiritual
      phases of an individual's existence.  In HIM, then, is
      understanding.  The approach to the Father through Him.

   7. (Q)  What is the meaning of the words I got in meditation,
      "18 carat gold", that was repeated over and over?
      (A)  That as had been the criterion with which the judgement
      had been passed on those concepts that were in the mental
      being of self, RATED as such from material standard.

   8. (Q)  [379]:  Is there a message for me regarding virtue and
      understanding?
      (A)  In making those parallels, or those analyses of what are
      the requisites for the closer relationships to faith, to
      knowledge, to self, to cooperation, to the knowing of self,
      to that of thine ideal, MEASURE these by the spiritual
      aspects; NOT as man-made, or man's concept from the material
      viewpoint, and there will come the more perfect understand-
      ing.  KNOWLEDGE is not ALWAYS understanding; for these are as
      knowledge in the daily experiences that are as miracles, yet

      they become so often as everyday facts that there is no
      understanding in the mercies or the glories that are showered
      upon the sons of men from an All-Wise Creator.  Few get
      understanding that have mere knowledge.  Then the fault
      lying in that which is as the standard of measurements, in
      judgements; but get the understanding through the closer
      approach to the throne, for he that has understanding may
      move mountains.

   9. (Q)  [404]:  Please expand on the statement, "Truth is not
      learned, it is earned."
      (A)  TRUTH is as experience.  Hence IS an earning, through
      the manners in which a finite mind becomes conscious of what
      truth is.  Hence truth is a growth, and hence an EARNING, a
      yearning, a growing and is EARNED by he or she that applies
      that known in the manner that IS in keeping with His will,
      rather than that there may be the satisfying of self's own
      desires.  Not that man should deny that this or that force
      exists, to make self believe, but rather that the truth is as
      that which may be earned through the EXPERIENCING of the
      knowledge and understanding concerning the laws of truth; for
      HE is TRUTH!

  10. (Q)  Please expand on the statement:  "Open our hearts to
      those unseen forces that surround the throne of grace, and
      beauty and might, throwing about us the protection found in
      the thought of the Christ."  [262-3, Par. 16-A.]
      (A)  These expand by doing it!  That's the best expansion!

  11. (Q)  [2125]:  Am I pursuing the right course for my
      development?
      (A)  As ye sow, so SHALL ye reap.  As ye remain in that
      attitude of seeking, so will there be opened unto thee THAT
      as is sought.  In Him is the light, and no darkness at all.
      Seek the way, and it will be opened unto thee.

  12. (Q)  [2124]:  Am I still on the straight and narrow path?
      (A)  That must be answered from within, to Him in whom thou
      hast put thy faith, thy trust, thy hope, thy hereafter.  WHO
      am I to judge thee?  "WHO is good?" as He gave, "NONE save
      the Father", not even the Son of man.  Rather in HIM is the
      way, and "My Spirit", saith He, "beareth witness with thy
      spirit whether ye be the sons of God or not."

  13. (Q)  Compilers:  We have sent the paper on, "Present World
      Conditions" [3976-9] to "The Westerner", the Westerner
      Limited, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, some weeks ago for
      publication.  We have received no reply from our letter in
      regard to the paper.  Should we write to publishers again?
      (A)  It has gone abroad.  Wait at least a week.

  14. (Q)  Any message for the group at this time?
      (A)  Keep in the way as is set before thee, for much may be

      accomplished in that THOU hast undertaken.

  15. We are through.

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      This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on
      Arctic Crescent, Va. Beach, Va., this 5th day of June, 1932,
      in accordance with request by those present.

      P R E S E N T

      Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
      Minnie & C. A. Barrett, Hannah Miller, Florence & Edith
      Edmonds, M. L. Black, F. M. Freeman, F. Y. Morrow, Annie,
      H. L. & L. B. Cayce, Mildred Davis, Helen Storey, Sarah & Lu
      Hesson, Eloise Potter, Helen Ellington & Ruth LeNoir.

      R E A D I N G

      Time of Reading
      4:00 P. M.

   1. GC:  You will have before you the group gathered here and
      their work on the lessons which they are preparing with the
      aid of the forces through this channel.  You will give us at
      this time any further counsel which we need in completing the
      lesson on VIRTUE AND UNDERSTANDING, a copy of our work so far
      I hold in my hand.

   2. EC:  Yes, we have the group, as a group and as individuals,
      as gathered here.  Also the work in preparing lessons.

   3. In the preparation of the lesson VIRTUE AND UNDERSTANDING,
      well has it been thus far.  In the preparations, as has been
      given, the group as a group, in the preparation, depends one
      upon another, as does the lesson depend upon the activity of
      each individual contributing to same.  As has been given,
      each should feel, should know, they - as individuals - are a
      portion of the whole, and must contribute their part that the
      whole may be the more applicable in the lives of individuals
      who will be interested in that lesson from such preparation;
      for, as given, no one finite mind may contribute that even of
      interest to the many who may be reached through such lessons,
      yet individual contribution makes for the whole that which
      will find a responsive chord in the lives and hearts of those
      who contact same; for these are as experiences, LIVING
      truths, known and read of many, and will thus make for that
      which will become the more worthwhile in the lives of others.
      Then let each give that which will aid in making the whole
      complete, for each should recognize their individual
      responsibility to themselves, to the group, to their Maker
      whom they reflect their conception of in the minds of those
      who would apply the lesson in THEIR daily experience.

   4. As given, virtue and understanding are the attributes that
      make for the relationships with the creative forces, as
      making for preparation of contacts with the fellow man as
      individuals, personalities that must be dealt with, that the

      relationships may become such as to make the understandings
      of individuals compatible with daily life, daily experience,
      that the lesson may be the more worthwhile.

   5. Ready for questions.

   6. (Q)  [2112]:  What is the difference between psychic forces
      and occult forces?
      (A)  These have oft been explained.  Well that these be
      studied in the light of that which has been given.  One is
      the study of the other.  One is the essence of the sources,
      and the other the channels through which, of which, the
      study.

   7. (Q)  [69]:  Please explain what was meant by the spiritual
      eye, or third eye, in relation to psychic development.
      Should we today seek to develop this particular facility?  If
      so, how?
      (A)  As has been given, there is ever a channel or manner in
      which the expressions of a force may manifest in a material
      world.  Hence the term, "Angels took form", that there might
      be the expression of, or vehicle for, the activity of an
      individual force manifestation in the MATERIAL plane.  In the
      psychic forces, or spiritual forces (which are psychic
      forces), there has ever then been a vehicle, or portion of
      the anatomical forces of the body, through which the
      expressions come to individual activity, and these may find
      various forms of manifestations, or MOVEMENTS of - as has
      been given, that finds its seat in the creative energies and
      forces of the body.  In the eye, "Let thine eye be SINGLE"
      may be the interpretation of same, or vehicles, or channels,
      or glands through which man has lost his vision, or the
      ability of seeing the self-expression in same in the
      pituitary forces, as in the lyden and the others - we find
      expressions in various forms of the body.  These become, as
      has been seen or given, in the feminine body more manifested
      than ordinarily in the male, in man forces, in that called
      intuition, or that which is active in that portion of the
      system.  These are but one expression of that portion of the
      body, for these may be added to by the feeding of same, that
      partake of other forces of the body in such quantities, or
      such character of development, as to produce other conditions
      in the body, as the growing of portions of the body that have
      become lax, or lacking in their activity in the system, but
      development in the spiritual sense - by meditation, prayer -
      dependent upon the external forces, or the creative energies,
      for its food, rather than upon that which is wholly of the
      material, develops that as may be termed the psychic
      development of individuals.  Well that psychic forces and
      occult influences be developed in the individuals that so
      find within their individual selves that which makes for a
      closer relationship with that they individually worship as
      their ideal!  That does not indicate that every individual

      should make of themselves a psychic channel that may be used
      to their own destruction; for, as has been given, there be
      many things hard to be understood that many wrest with to
      their own destruction, but that which gives more understand-
      ing of the relationships of self with the creative forces of
      a universal experience, rather than individual, makes for a
      closer walk with God, that from which the essence of life
      itself has its emanation.  In the body we find that which
      connects the pineal, the pituitary, the lyden, may be truly
      called the silver cord, or the golden cup that may be filled
      with a closer walk with that which is the creative essence in
      physical, mental and spiritual life; for the destruction
      wholly of either will make for the disintegration of the soul
      from its house of clay.  To be purely material minded, were
      an anatomical or pathological study made for a period of
      seven years (which is a cycle of change in all the body-
      elements) of one that is acted upon through the third eye
      alone, we will find one fed upon spiritual things becomes a
      light that may shine from and in the darkest corner.  One fed
      upon the purely material will become a Frankenstein that is
      without a concept of any influence other than material or
      mental.

   8. (Q)  Regarding the lessons at this time,we seek individual
      guidance and advice in enabling us to better cooperate in
      carrying forward this work of our group.
      (A)  Study, then, that which has been given on cooperation!
      For that applied in the individual life will make for that
      necessary for carrying on.  Do not become weary in well-
      doing, for soon we must come to that lesson of PATIENCE as
      following FELLOWSHIP.

   9. (Q)  Any special message for the group at this time?
      (A)  As has been given, let each - each - know themselves a
      link in the chain, a spoke in the wheel.  Do not be the
      whole, but fulfill that THOU may do, that there may be the
      perfect accord; for he that giveth a cup of water in His name
      is greater than he that conquereth a city for his own
      aggrandizement.