Fellowship

      Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
      Minnie & C. A. Barrett, Esther Wynne, Hannah Miller, Florence
      & Edith Edmonds, Mildred Davis, F. Y. Morrow, Annie, L. B. &
      H. L. Cayce, Helen Ellington & Ruth LeNoir.

   1. GC: You will have before you the members of the Norfolk
      Study Group #1, present in this room, and their work on the
      lessons which they are preparing. We present the lesson on
      VIRTUE AND UNDERSTANDING, a copy of which I hold in my hand.
      As I call the number of each paragraph you will suggest any
      changes or additions that would be advisable. You will
      please answer the questions which will be asked.

   2. EC: Yes, we have the group as gathered here, the work, the
      lesson as prepared. In this we find there has been work that
      is well, acceptable, and will give much understanding to many
      of that which has heretofore not been considered in the light
      as presented here.

   4. (Q) Please give us the meditation for our daily prayer on
      FELLOWSHIP.
      (A) HOW EXCELLENT IS THY NAME IN THE EARTH, O LORD!
      [Ps. 8:1,9] WOULD I HAVE FELLOWSHIP WITH THEE, I MUST SHOW
      BROTHERLY LOVE TO MY FELLOW MAN. THOUGH I COME IN HUMBLENESS
      AND HAVE AUGHT AGAINST MY BROTHER, MY PRAYER, MY MEDITATION,
      DOES NOT RISE TO THEE. HELP THOU MY EFFORTS IN MY APPROACH
      TO THEE.

   5. (Q) Please outline the central thoughts and basis upon which
      we should begin our meditations and questions on FELLOWSHIP.
      (A) As each will find in their own searching of their
      hearts, fellowship with the creative forces is making ever a
      balance in the activities of self towards thy fellow man; for
      would we seek grace, mercy, understanding, would we have
      faith, knowledge, there must be the exercising of same in our
      fellow man. As we have dealt with those attributes necessary
      in the preparing of self to deal with, or know the heart of
      self, so must the acts, the judgments as would be builded in
      ourselves, be found in our fellow man, would we seek to be in
      the position of communion with the spirit within; and the

      fellowship is the promise of the Father through the Son, that
      - would ye seek to know His face, be kind and gentle,
      compassionate and loving, to thy fellow man. In this manner,
      then, let each purge their own minds and hearts, and he that
      has aught against any present it to the throne of grace, and
      His mercy is sufficient unto all. "As ye would that men
      should do to you, do ye even so to them." "Forgive me,
      Father, even as I forgive my brother" should be that lesson,
      that exercising of the position each would take, would they
      know the face of Him who seeks fellowship with His creatures;
      for as the Father pitieth His children, so in that manner may
      the Father gather those close that would seek fellowship with
      Him. KNOW that as ye forgive will ye be forgiven; for
      "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my
      little ones, ye have done it unto me."

      In the preparations, then, let each set their minds, their
      hearts, their souls, at peace with Him; and there will come
      that light that will shine in the darkest hour, in those
      periods when needed most. Approach the throne of mercy with
      mercy to all.

   6. (Q) Please give each member of the group, as I call their
      names, an individual message on true fellowship.
      (A) Let each examine themselves first, that they may know
      that within their own hearts and minds that must be purged,
      that there may be true fellowship with Him.

      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. Cayce, Mildred Davis, Ruth
      LeNoir, Annie Cayce, Sarah & Lu Hesson.

   1. GC: You will have before you members of the study group
      present in this room, and their work on the lesson of
      FELLOWSHIP, an outline of which I hold in my hand. You will
      please give us that information which we will need in
      expanding this outline, and suggest any changes or additions
      that would be advisable in the approach to this subject. You
      will answer questions which various members will ask.

   3. In carrying on, it would be well that the spirit of
      fellowship among the members of the group be in accord with
      that which has been and may be given. Well that this be in
      unison of purpose, as well as said outwardly. In all things
      fellowship as the lesson that begins, as has been given, that
      each must clarify themselves that their relationships between
      their fellow man and the Creative Forces be such as to make a
      cementing of the purposes for which the lessons are given to
      others. Then, let their meditation be as this:

   4. IN PREPARATION FOR THE TASK BEFORE US, LET EACH BECOME MORE
      CONSCIOUS OF THE DIVINE SPIRIT IN EACH, THAT WE MAY GO ON.
      MAY WE FACE THE ISSUES AS ONE CALLED FOR A PURPOSE. MAY WE
      RELY ON HIS PROMISES, FOR WHILE WE ARE OFTEN WEAK AND SELFISH
      - AND THE WORK IS GREAT - MAY HE ENCOURAGE OUR SPIRITS, OUR
      HEARTS, WITH THE PRESENCE OF HIS HOLY SPIRIT, THAT THERE MAY
      BE NO IDLENESS OR DELAY IN US.

   5. In this manner may these truly become the living lessons.
      Not one dependent upon another, but all conscious that they
      have been called, and unless they answer in person they may
      NOT have that whole fellowship with Him that is promised to
      those who have vowed and bowed unto Him.

   8. (Q) [993]: In what way am I best adapted to express
      fellowship?
      (A) As has been given, the talents are in the expressions of
      bringing to others that consciousness which leaves in the
      spiritual and mental body those things that bring for the
      reliefs in that reflected in the physical being. Then,
      through these channels may there be the greater fellowship
      with Him, brotherhood with thy fellow creatures. [See
      experience which [993] had during this reading 262-22,
      interpreted in reading 262-23, Par. 9-A.]

10. (Q) [404]: Ofttimes when one gives of his service, either
      materially, morally or spiritually, unselfishly to others,
      those served seem to use it for purely selfish purposes.
      Please advise.
      (A) Who has judged? Judge ye not that ye be not judged!
      for with what judgment ye judge it shall be meted to you
      again! The ABILITIES oft of individuals to express or
      manifest appreciation, and their trust, is not capable of
      being manifested in such a manner as to be interpreted in the
      material sense by those in a different vibration or environs
      from those ministering or ministered to. Hence understand-
      ings often produce those conditions in the hearts, the minds
      of individuals, and thus warped conditions arise. Rather let
      that mind be in you as was in Him. "Were there not ten
      healed? Where are the other nine?" But the healing was just
      as true for the nine as the one. They that are whole need
      not the physician, but who having a herd of sheep and loses
      one does not leave the ninety and nine and seek for that one
      lost? So, in thy ministering be rather in that of DARING to
      do even for those that would not understand, but doing rather
      for Him, in that "As ye have done it unto the least of these
      my little ones, ye have done it unto me." RESERVE then, that
      the thanks will come from Him who knows!

11. (Q) Is there any message to me [404] as secretary?
      (A) Be thou faithful unto those that thou ministereth to in
      every manner, for he that serveth with the might receives the
      reward from and through the giver of all good and perfect
      gifts.

13. (Q) Compilers: Is there any message to the compilers in
      regard to the lesson on FELLOWSHIP?
      (A) Let there be unison of purpose from those ministered
      unto and those ministering, to those that the group as a
      group and as individuals minister to the needs of, those who
      are and who will be seeking through these channels. That the
      way is being opened is evidenced by all of the group. Be not
      afraid, for He will guide, direct. Trust in His
      graciousness, in His support, in His understanding.

14. (Q) What should be our next step in regard to our paper on
      "Present World Conditions" that was sent to Alberta, Canada?
      [3976-11 Reports.]
      (A) This, as we find, should keep on its round until there
      is given the opportunity for all to have accepted or
      rejected.

16. (Q) Please explain to the group what made possible the
      attunement when the information was given on the Lord's
      Supper, June 14, 1932, and why was this given at that time?
      [5749-1]
      (A) The attunement of those present, and the conditions that
      surrounded same as respecting the test through which many
      were passing at the period, as compared to those in the room
      at that supper.

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

   1. GC: You will have before you the group gathered here and the
      work which they are doing. You will please give us further
      data and information on FELLOWSHIP upon which we are
      preparing our present lesson. You will answer the questions
      which various individuals present will ask.

   2. EC: Yes, we have the group as gathered here, as a group, as
      individuals. These, as we find, in their preparation for the
      study necessary in preparing such lessons, are well. These
      show some improvement in their activity. Some are still
      rather backward - yea, indolent - in the accepting of that as
      is necessary for their part in the undertaking; for as these
      are to give a definite outline for individuals, there must be
      the concerted effort on the part of each to act in the manner
      toward the preparations as they would desire were the
      conditions reversed.

   3. In consideration of fellowship, this should mean a great deal
      to each and every member of this or such a group; for with
      the application in their own experience there may be
      expected, and there may be received, that true fellowship in
      the experience of the individual; and when such is NOT one's
      experience, then such ones may know they are lacking in THEIR
      efforts in being what they should in their relationships to
      themselves, their Maker, the group.

   4. Then, make for that which is sincere in purpose, pure in
      mind, reasonable even to self, walking in the way that brings
      a more close union with Him, that "Will ye be my people, I
      will be your God." He seeks to find that expression even in
      all who are called in the I AM THAT I AM, and is an ever
      active force that through all ages, all peoples, may be a
      memorial that one has fellowship with Him, that brought the
      Pleiades into being, that set the bands of Orion, or the
      waters in the deep that are cast upon the land, or brings

   6. (Q) [307]: Can brotherhood exist among men without true
      fellowship?
      (A) Fellowship is first brotherhood, a pattern of - or a
      shadow of - what fellowship is; for, as has been given, all
      one sees manifest in a material world is but a reflection or
      a shadow of the real or the spiritual life. Brotherhood,
      then, is an expression of the fellowship that exists in the
      SPIRITUAL life.

   7. (Q) [585]: Please explain to me what is meant by the
      awakening. Have I fully realized it?
      (A) The awakening is the consciousness of a relationship
      that exists in animate or inanimate, finite or infinite.
      Becoming conscious of, aware of, the existence of conditions,
      relations, and such, is an awakening. As to self's being
      awakened, or aware of, that depends upon what is referred to.
      As to the ABILITIES of self to become conscious of, or aware
      of, all are endowed with that, will they but be awakened or
      aroused to the necessity of becoming aware of.

   8. (Q) Interpret the meaning of the drops of blood which I saw
      in meditation last week.
      (A) As there has been builded in self that consciousness
      that WITHOUT the shedding of blood there is no remission, or
      without the shedding of blood there is no purification, then
      this is rather the using of symbols within self's own
      consciousness to bring about that awareness of self's
      position. This rather confuses the body!

      In making self aware of that that is a portion of self's own
      development, as in the drops of blood brought with same the
      idea of the purifying of the mental and spiritual self that
      there might be the more awareness of, in the conscious or
      material self, of that awareness received in the mental and
      spiritual self; so, as we would speak of omens, know that
      self is aroused! Then don't let yourself go back to sleep!

   9. (Q) [993]: Please interpret the meaning of the lights which
      I saw about Mr. Cayce's head during the last reading on
      FELLOWSHIP. [262-22]
      (A) This, too, may be as a symbol of the awareness of, the
      closeness of, relationships of the entity and the subject
      through which these were being brought to the consciousness
      of individuals during such a period; for, as there has oft
      been seen by the entity, those manifestations in the material
      plane of the spiritual essences as manifested through the
      activities of the entity seen, then those expressions as seen

      at the period are a reflection of the spiritual. Remember
      those laws as just given! That made manifest in a third
      dimensional plane, or materialization, is a shadow or
      reflection of that from which it has its emanation! Then,
      there is seen in this that it is a harkening to those
      experiences of the entity in the various periods of its
      existence in association with those conditions being
      considered in that particular moment or period as is called
      time. An attunement of self to the presence of that being
      manifest. All are wading in rather deep water! But learn
      what you are doing! [See also 281-8, Par. 26-A.]

10. (Q) [2124]: Is the present method of healing I am using the
      best for the fullest development of my abilities in this
      field of work?
      (A) Provided they are kept wholly upon the spiritual plane,
      and because they CAN become mechanical are not allowed to
      partake of the carnal influences that oft are aroused at the
      same time or periods. This is a development. This is an
      ability of self, that is harkened from the experiences of
      self through the sojourn in the earth's experience, and may
      be made to become a manner and way of manifesting that love
      that is and was shed upon self. Be true to that as is given
      thee!

11. (Q) [560]: Please interpret the following which I received
      during meditation: "That I may touch the hearts, the souls,
      the minds of others."
      (A) A message of the Infinite to the infinite of self,
      seeking to use self as a channel of expression to others. A
      call. Then, be true TO that, even as the opportunity and the
      abilities are increased by the power of the might that would
      touch the hearts, the souls, the minds of those that self may
      contact in the various experiences in the preparation of
      truths, that may go in lessons or in thought that may be
      carried in unison for the awakening of the Christ
      Consciousness in the lives and hearts of others.

12. (Q) [341]: How should we explain to others how to interpret
      their experiences as signs of development towards a true
      realization of fellowship?
      (A) This has been given in how ones may answer their
      experiences, have an answer to their experiences, in the way
      of TRAINING the child (for we all are children) in its
      development. Or, as this: When an experience of self is in
      question, then ask self in the mental being so that the
      answer may be yes or no, and with sincerity. Then, whether
      the answer is yes or no, as to any question with spiritual
      forces, then ACCEPT that. Then in meditation and prayer ASK
      the Spirit whether THAT answer RECEIVED in the mental is yes
      or no, and KNOW the Spirit answers! Doubt not! For he that
      looks back, or doubts, is worse than the infidel. Remember
      Lot's wife!

15. (Q) Is there any message of encouragement or advice to the
      group as a whole at this time?
      (A) Keep that which has been committed into the care and
      keeping of each, as individuals, as related to one another,
      as a group, in a service to that ideal which has been set
      before the group, as a group, as the individuals; for he that
      has been promised, he that has vowed and vowed, must keep the
      same - or else it becomes sin!