4/23/30 Mr. [
137] wrote EC: "I was, indeed, sorry not to
have at least had the opportunity of seeing you over the
week-end. Of course, you know the conditions were such that
it was impossible.
I surely hope that by now things are well regulated with you,
and that you are again feeling yourself.
It seems there is always some problem facing us, and now it
is the Health Room. As you know, there has been considerable
outlay of funds for the Health Room. Apparently it has been
started in the wrong direction, and there are two choices
left to pursue. One is to close up altogether and throw up
the sponge, the other is to carry out more nearly the
original purpose, and like all these things, it seems to
revolve around you, for to carry out the purpose of
scientific development of various machines, it was originally
intended to carry out the instructions of the readings.
Of course, [
3952] has been handicapped by lack of any
readings. In my opinion, if this form of scientific research
is to continue or progress, the engineer in charge will have
to be certain of two readings a month. Since this is in line
with scientific research and a stride toward developments
which will make the readings more worthwhile, it means
undoubtedly that you will have to curtail that much more from
the readings given outside of the hospital. You realize
that, if through the readings the engineers are successful in
creating one lamp that is non-existent today, more good can
come of it than can be imagined. My personal feeling, (and I
am sure yours, as a director of the Health Room), is that
this work should preceed, as a limitless field, and can do
untold good, but naturally, the information must be
forthcoming. I should think that it would be well if you
would arrange to have these two readings a month devoted to
the Health Room.
I am enclosing a list of questions sent to me by [
3952]:
1. If we continue Health Room developments, as suggested
by readings last year, to what curative device or substance
shall our efforts be directed?
2. Shall we continue such developments with the idea of
marketing the results for a profit?
3. How can Harris function best in the near future?
4. Shall experimental work be done in New York?
5. An affiliation with Dr. Sternes of N. Y. C. [Guy Beckley
Stearns, M.D.] was suggested but his services are not
available. Can another doctor be suggested?
6. Will violet or ultra-violet rays, reflected from a
surface coated with aluminum paint or other compounds, be
changed in therapeutic value?
7. Should impinging rays be in the ultra-violet or in the
X-ray field for changing therapeutic characteristics?
8. General outline and advice for procedure.
Mr. [
137], April 21, 1930
Please add to and change these questions as you see fit?
[
3952].
Please don't feel that I am pressing you for readings, but
it is absolutely necessary, either for the existence or
non-existence, of this corporation?
Will you please have Dr. Lydic find out exactly what discount
he can get on the Walpan X-Ray. I am informed that 10% can
be gotten, and if he can do that well, it might just as well
be ordered from Norfolk.
Things here are just about as hectic as usual, but I believe
we are all making progress in our efforts."
4/25/30 EC gave
165-19 on Health Room Equipment, Inc.
4/28/30 EC's ltr. to Mr. [
137]: "I have yours of the 23rd.
Certainly was sorry that I didn't get to see you over the
week end that you were here. I've been so very busy, until
it looks like I haven't had the opportunity to do scarcely
anything during this last week. I finally got myself kind of
in shape and worked through the better part of last week; in
fact I believe every day until Saturday. Got started again
today and we were able to get up the checks on the hospital,
which included ten. The Health Room reading, as you know, we
attended to just as soon as we could slip it in. We have
found it necessary to TELL everyone, as they are making
application for membership, that it does not insure them of
getting an immediate reading. Where the application for
membership is made wholly or solely to get the reading
immediately, we have had to tell them that it couldn't be
done - for we know that we have to give more time to the
hospital and to the various branches of the work of the
Association, WHEN these various departments are at work. So,
it is necessary that we get just as MANY of the ones who have
been WAITING for months and months FOR their information out
of the way, or - if not out of the way - those who have been
patient, we want to try to serve first - and we are trying to
make just as FEW appointments as possible, until we DO get
all of these - and it's a long list, to say NOTHING of the
Life Readings - and IF we are going to CONSIDER EDUCATIONAL
needs, the Life Readings are POSSIBLY the most educational of
all.
I hope the information regarding the Health Room has been
helpful, and will enable those so vitally interested to get
it straightened out. If I UNDERSTAND the information, it was
gone at POSSIBLY in the wrong way.
I spoke to Dr. Lydic about the Wappler X-ray. He told me he
thought he could get that same price here. However, that he
would let me know in a few days, as the man was to see him in
a few days. I will let you know what he has said, or he may
write you direct - that is, Dr. Lydic.
Yes, I think we are making progress. Things are hectic in
many ways, but only so if we allow them to be in our own
minds - for I believe one of the things that is being taught
by [
900], and possibly by the readings, that THINGS ARE
externally what we allow them to reflect within our own
selves - so it becomes only hectic when we ourselves become
same.
The work is progressing very fine on the building - that is,
the nurses' home, and I think they are doing some work on the
university buildings. I haven't seen Dr. [
204] to talk with
him since [
900] was here. I only saw him then for a minute.
He's busy and so am I, and there's another payment about due
- in fact, by the time you get it, I'm thinking there will
be TWO due - which will be $2500 on the nurses' home. This,
of course, is ALL that we would have to put out in cash at
present, until the settlement is made for the loan. That is,
another $1500 was due when the roof was on, and it's been on
for several days - and another $1000 was due when these were
to be plastered. That they will begin by tomorrow or next
day. The contractors haven't asked for it, but I would like
to be able to have it for them when they do ask for it - if
it's convenient to send it at this time.
Everything is going along very nicely here, as far as I know.
We have a good many at the hospital. Dr. Lydic told me
Saturday that he was treating from twenty-two to twenty-four
patients there now - eighteen or twenty in the hospital.
Well, let us hear from you. Certainly hope that all the
folks are getting along alright.
We will call you in the morning about [
140]'s reading.
Please remember me very kindly to all."
Ever the same,
EC:GD
2/01/31 Mr. [
165] wrote EC: "I am pleased beyond words that
you and yours, as well as [
257] and [
903] are keeping a
collected and well poised attitude in our present time of
stress. [Closing of Cayce Hospital, etc.?] I use the word
poised in a double sense. Well balanced - but also ready
to collect forces and quickly and quietly make such moves as
experiences and inner forces indicate. I think we are
finally facing success. Personally, I have progressed in
learning to command myself. The situation cannot be forced.
Much of mutual benefit could be reached by correspondence.
But I am hoping for a long personal interview with you, with
[
257]."
2/10/31 EC's letter: "We all enjoyed very much your letter
of the 1st. I am glad to know that you have been able to
view the situation under which we have all passed in an
unbiased way, that at least you haven't been so close to it
that you have lost yourself in the shadow of impending
dangers. For you to feel that we are even in part keeping
cool is certainly very gratifying. I suppose, as someone has
said, patience overcomes wrong even as clothes overcome cold.
As it gets cold we put on more clothes and the cold doesn't
hurt. When we feel we are treated wrong, apply more patience
until it doesn't hurt - even as was given, give until it
hurts and then give until it doesn't hurt. It means the same
thing.
I hope the day is not far distant when we can talk things
over, and see if that out of the wreck there is anything
worth salvaging - whether it be people, things, conditions,
ideas, or ideals."
5/08/31 Hugh Lynn Cayce's letter to Mr. [
165]: [In re
Work:EC.]
"Letters to you are always a pleasure and this one especially
gives me just a little thrill that none of the others will.
We all speak of you very often and wonder how you are getting
along. We have missed that occasional visit. Perhaps
conditions in the future will bring us closer together. Time
will do many things.
As you know we have been trying to follow the readings in
taking preliminary steps to forming the new organization
which will carry on the work which has only in part been
temporarily interrupted. Many who are interested have
expressed their ideas and meetings have been held here and in
New York to discuss various plans. You may already know
through [
257] of the organization meeting which will be held
here on June 6, about three in the afternoon at our home. At
this meeting we hope to select a business manager and a board
of advisors or trustees. Lawyers are now working on the
corporation papers. They will be present to lend assistance
in taking the legal steps necessary. No doubt this board
will then appoint a committee to work with the lawyers in
drawing up the by-laws and regulations.
There will no doubt arise in many individuals minds the
question of the financial responsibility of this board. Now
the readings have indicated that this work can be set up on a
basis that will make it self supporting. It is our aim and
purpose to move slowly and carefully, beginning in a small
way and building this on a solid foundation avoid the natural
conflict that arose over having the purse in the hands of a
few. The work can and will pay for itself as it goes. It
will be the function of this board to guide and direct the
policies and the functioning of this new organization in such
a way and manner that it may give the most to humanity.
We feel that we need you, that your understanding fits you to
be a valuable member of this board if you so desire. The
readings were very definite on the point that each individual
should feel a real intensity of interest and have a sincere
desire to actively assist in forming this new organization.
You are needed. If you will glance back into the past for
just a second and then forward into the future you will
realize just what this all means. It is minds, not hands, we
need at this time. If possible please be here for that
meeting, or if that is impossible will you not write a - yes
- direct.
Many of the professors here at the university have become
interested in the work. I am especially anxious that you
meet and know Dr. Kaufman who is still in New York with Dad
assisting in the meetings there. [Paul Kaufman, Ph.D.]
The tennis courts are getting in fine shape here and I am
practicing regularly. A word to the wise is sufficient."
[GD's note: Mr. [
165] was a champion tennis player.]
Sincerely yours,
Hugh Lynn Cayce
GD's note: Because of the stress of his own personal
affairs, Mr. [
165] did not choose to be a member of the new
A.R.E. Board.
7/21/31 Mr. [
165]'s letter to EC: "Have just learned from
[
257] the present status of affairs with you. You are
doubtless getting organized in your new residence and I am of
the opinion that the location is better than the old place.
That does not of course offset the moving and the broken
agreements and all of the other things, but it may work out
as it should.
[
257]'s statement that a movement is on foot to get back the
hospital is most pleasing to me. I hope it can be done. You
need the hospital and it is only justice that you have it.
Glad the new organization is under way. I believe it can be
made to work out if only the selfish ones can be eliminated.
And it looks as if the results of selfishness were not
success whatever else they may be.
My heart is with you in your difficulties as well as in your
successes. I am possibly not in complete accord with some of
the ideas as expressed by some of the individuals, but that
cannot lesson my interest in you and your welfare and in the
outworking of your plans for doing good in this world that
needs such things so much. Sorry that my own affairs are so
tangled, but they will get straight again so I can be helpful
in one way or another.
Kindly give my very best regards to your entire family,"
Yours sincerely,
[
165]
7/31/31 EC's letter to Mr. [
165] in re "folding" of ANI and
beginning of new A.R.E.:
"Your letter of the 21st was certainly appreciated, and the
spirit in which it was written. Yes, I feel very sure that
all in all it is best that things have turned even as they
have; for we know, as of old, when things go wrong sin lieth
at the door. Such conditions often make us all stop and take
account of ourselves, to see just where we are. I hope that
those who have the interest of those who contributed to the
work of the old Association will use that right and justice
is done. No doubt I was in error in the move I made at one
time, [At the ANI Board meeting in Sept. 1930, making the
motion and swaying other members of Board to turn back
property to the two who had made greater contributions for
five years.] but as the records show my PURPOSE was - as
their promise was - that those who were IN the hospital, and
those who were seeking aid through its offices, would NOT be
denied that privilege, as they were later on.
The new organization is gradually getting under way. I know
the great trouble with myself, as well as every individual
associated with me, is selfishness - and we must not let this
creep in. The Board, I think, is a very representative one,
and I hope that as soon as your affairs will permit we may
have the benefit of your experience and abilities on that
Board. My whole heart's desire is to do good, and if this
may be done I wish to carry on. If it isn't that way, then
it has no place in the affairs of men. Of course there are
varied opinions as to just what IS the best method of
presenting the good that may be gained, but I hope that we
will all lay our OWN selfish interests aside and consider
rather that we are the channels through which a higher, a
more glorious power may manifest, if we will keep the channel
pure and clean. With that idea in view, I feel we can all
work together; for if we will do our part, I'm sure He will
do His. It is either HIS work, or it's something trumped up
of man's own making and can't succeed if it is; but if it is
HIS work, it will give the increase where it is necessary,
and I know He will not make the temptations for any of us
greater than we can bear.
Let us hear from you whenever you have an opportunity. You
know how all of us here appreciate you, and feel towards you.
With sincerest regards to you and yours, I am"
Ever the same, EC:GD
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