Jesus As a Pattern. Edgar Cayce

know that His temple in thee is holy; and thy body-mind is indeed the temple of the living God . . .

      Yet know in the awareness that ye will find more and more that the truth indeed sets one free. Not to convention, of the material policies or activities, but in spirit and in truth!

      For God looks upon the purposes, the ideals of the heart, and not upon that which men call convention . . .

      And in the present those abilities arise from its desire, from its hopes to put into the word of the day, the experience of the day, in all phases of human experience, lessons—yea, symbols, yea tenets—that will drive as it were home, in those periods when the soul takes thought and counsel with itself, as to whence the experiences of the day are leading—as to whether they are leading to those activities that are the fruits of the spirit of truth and life, or to those that make for selfishness, and the aggrandizement of material appetites without thought of those things that are creative and only make the pure growths within the experience of others.

      Hence whether it be in jest, in stories, in song or poem, or whether in skits that may show the home life, the lover—yea, the weary traveler yea the high-minded, and they that think better of themselves then they ought to think—these abilities are there. Use them. For He, even as then, will bless thee with His presence in same. And what greater assurance can there be in the experience of any soul than to know that He—yea, the Son of Mary—yea, the Son of the Father, the Maker of heaven and earth, the Giver of all good gifts—will be thy right hand, yea thy heart, thy mind, thy eye, thy heart itself—if ye will hold fast to Him! . . .

       (Q) Why do I get so little love, consideration and appreciation from those to whom I pour out the most service and devotion?

      (A) Study that which has been given thee relative to such, and ye will see that it is patience ye must learn, that ye must add to those virtues that have made thee ever the burden bearer for the many throughout those periods when the awakenings were coming.

      Faint not because of thy loneliness, for who can be alone with His love, His promises abiding with thee!

      These may make for a blooming into activity in thy experience, and will, if ye will give expression more and more to those promises that are thy very own.

      For He, as He hath promised, may bring to thy remembrance all things—from the foundations of the earth. Know the Lord is nigh; and that those who keep watch, who keep faith with