Jesus As a Pattern. Edgar Cayce

this material plane.

      Those consciousnesses or awarenesses between the manifestations materially, by law only—and that as has been manifested by an individual entity, are put into practice in that interim. Thus does the individual entity grow. Thus does it manifest. Thus the reason, the purpose for varied experiences in materiality as is known in the present consciousness.

      He hath not willed that any soul should perish, but hath with every trial, every temptation, prepared a way, a means of escape—or for correction; which was and is manifested in Him . . .

      For, as indicated, the ability for the application of love as related to tolerance is the greater virtue in the entity’s present experience.

      Thus in thy dealings with others, magnify their virtues, minimize their faults. For, even as thy Lord condemned no one, even as He forgave, so would you forgive. Even as thou counseled with those in that period, acting as the teacher, the instructor, in the abilities for practical application of life and to meet same in others . . .

      And know today there is no other than that found in the admonition given by Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus the Christ—“If ye believe in God, believe also in me.” Hence He is that to which the mind of the individual entity responds. He is the way, the Mind is the way. And as the mind dwells upon the fruit of the spirit—faith, hope, gentleness, kindness, patience—it may blossom into that which brings the hope of man, the confidence in his brethren, the faith in his God . . .

       (Q) What has been my relationship in past incarnations with [2174]?

      (A) Acquainted in the Palestine experience, as from afar. Here, the entity [2174] knew of and blessed the entity for its life and purpose. In the Egyptian, closely related. For, there were . . . the collaboration of the efforts in the teaching principles, as would be called in the present; that is, the selection, the counsel with individuals as to special service or activities, through that particular period of man’s unfoldment.

       (Q) Please give that which will help to elucidate that relationship for our future working together?

      (A) As the purposes have been, good. As the advice and counsel of each have been, good; though they differ in some manners of application. Let each study to be one in purpose, even as He is one; they each in their own sphere making their contribution in a united effort to the glory of Him who is the Giver of all good and perfect gifts. Not as an abstract experience, but as a living experience. For, know, the Father God is God of the living, not of the dead.

      Let the dead past bury its dead. Let the living past bloom into that activity in which it may bear fruit in Him.

      Let thy light so shine in each life ye meet, that they—as they do—take thought that thou hast oft walked and talked with Him, who has promised, “If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments, and I and the Father will come and abide with thee.”

      These are not idle words in the experience of any soul that seeks His face. For He hath promised ever, “Though ye be afar, if ye call I will hear—and answer speedily. If ye will be my children, I will be your God.”

      This is not of old, but a living thing in the hearts and souls of those today. For the fact of thy consciousness in a material world. Though troubled and a blood-stained world, thy prayer, thy blessing may bring a new hope, and may blossom into joy on earth, peace among men.

      We are through for the present.

       [Background: Retired laboratory researcher, widower. This was a mental and spiritual reading in which he sought to clarify those things in his life that were hard to understand from a rational point of view.]

       Reading 2879-1

      Man finds himself a body, a mind, a soul. The body is self-evident. The mind also is at times understood. The soul or the spiritual portion is hoped for, and one may only discern same from a spiritual consciousness.

      The body, the mind and the soul are as the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit—just as infinity in its expression to the finite mind is expressed in time, space and patience. These are exercised in the consciousness, and yet only the spiritually discerning may interpret. Spiritually there becomes no time or space, for they—like the Father—are one. But in man’s application they become as one, in the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

      Thus in man’s interpretation of God’s revelation to man through the written word, there becomes confusion at times, and it does not always seem to fit or coordinate from a rational point of reasoning.

      Yet man discerns, as within himself, that his body has its attributes, its functionings, its phases of expression. It grows in physical, in the mental, and in its ability of spiritual discernment, through the application of the truths, the tenets, the laws of the spirit, of the mind, and of the body.

      There may be, then, definite interpretation. These are not all the laws, to be sure. For, as the body, there are many organs, many functionings. Yet if there is a coordination of these, there is the physical, mental and spiritual discernment of that the body-entity experiences.

      In the discerning, then, of the laws—these become one in Him. The first is then as He gave—“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy body, thy mind, thy soul; thy neighbor as thyself.” This, then, is all-inclusive, yet may be better discerned in the study and the application of the tenets set in the thirtieth (30th) of Deuteronomy by the lawgiver in his admonition, in his summing up of the laws, the ordinances that had been indicated for a peculiar people, set aside for a purpose—as a channel through which there might be the discerning of the spirit made manifest in flesh.

      Hence it is reminding man that today, now, every day, there is set before him good and evil, life and death. Man does not find other than that answer outside himself as expressed in that spiritual discernment, “My spirit beareth witness with thy spirit.”

      Thus, as the lawgiver interpreted, “Lo, He is within thee.” Man’s discerning of that he would worship, then, is within self; how that he, the individual entity, makes manifest in his dealings daily with his fellow men that God is, and that the individual entity is—in body, in mind, in soul—a witness of such; and thus he loveth, he treateth his brother as himself.

      Such an admonition has in man’s interpretation oft put God, the mighty, the Lord, as far away. And yet he recognizes, if he accepts this admonition of the lawgiver, that He is within self.

      This is more clearly demonstrated and interpreted in the words of the Master himself—“In my Father’s house are many mansions“—many consciousnesses, many stages of enfoldment, of unfoldment, of blessings, of sources. And yet God has not willed that any soul should perish, but has with every temptation, every trial, prepared a way of escape—or a way to meet same; which is indicated here by the Creator, the Maker of heaven and earth and all that in them be.

      Thus as He declares, “Behold I stand continuously before the door of thy consciousness, of thine own mansion. For thy body is indeed the temple of the living God.” And there He has promised to meet thee. There ye make ready. There ye entertain. There ye meditate upon those influences, those choices ye make day by day.

      He, that Christ Consciousness, is that first spoken of in the beginning when God said, “Let there be light, and there was light.” And that is the light manifested in the Christ. First it became physically conscious in Adam. And as in Adam we all die, so in the last Adam—Jesus, becoming the Christ—we are all made alive. Not unto that as of one, then. For we each meet our own selves, even as He; though this did not become possible, practical in a world experience, until He, Jesus, became the Christ and made the way.

      Thus He became the first of those that within self arose to righteousness. Thus may we, as individuals—as we apply ourselves—become aware of that abiding presence as He promised—yea, as He maintained—“If I go away I will send the spirit of truth, the spirit of righteousness, and he shall abide with you. And I and the Father will come.”

      Seek