(Q) The letter which will be sent to fellow members: Dear
Fellow Member, we take this means of informing you of your
election to membership in the Association of National
Investigators, Inc. The Board of trustees congratulates you
and assures you of its appreciation of your cooperation in
the educational and institute work of the organization, full
access to which is accorded you. We trust that you will use
your membership when you need or desire any help the
Institute can render you, and we assure you our service to
you will be limited only by the facilities of the hospital
and our capacity to meet your requirements.
Enclosed you will find a membership card which will identify
you as being associated with us.
You understand, of course, that your membership entitles you
to apply for readings for yourself and unmarried members of
your immediate family, and that readings will be furnished at
the regular rate of ten dollars each. The readings will be
taken as near as possible in the order of receipt of
application, but we reserve the privilege of tendering
emergency readings at any given time.
Your membership gives you the further privilege of entering
the Institute for treatment at the stipulated rates, and
provided, of course, that accommodations are available.
Thus, you may receive individual care and treatment, as
prescribed in your physical reading under the supervision of
sympathetic and competent physicians and close at hand to Mr.
Cayce. This privilege of entrance into the Institute
Hospital does not extend to adult members of your family
unless they are members of the Association. Children under
sixteen years of age, when accompanied by parents who are
members of the Association will be admitted.
Along with these privileges we cordially invite you to pay
our Institute and General Office at Virginia Beach, Va., a
personal visit, benefiting thereby in the use of the
Association Library and Lecture Hall.
Copy of the by-laws of the organization are hereby submitted
to you, and all further literature including our magazine
will be forwarded to you, so that you can follow intimately
the research and educational work that we are carrying on in
the field of Psychic Phenomena.
We will at all times welcome your suggestions, criticisms and
advices. We will make every effort to enable you to serve on
one of the committees that is carrying on a phase of the work
interesting to you, provided, of course, that you express
your desire to so serve.
Your membership affords you the opportunity of joining us in
our work of rendering aid to the sick and discouraged, and to
seek to so enlighten the minds of men as to give the race a
better understanding of itself and its relationship to the
Creator. We are all human soldiers marching through an
earthly career en route to eternal life, and in seeking to
aid the lame, the crippled and the weary to carry on, we
recognize no creed, no doctrinal limitations, and invite all
to join us who have faith in the living and divine God. In
short, our aim is to march behind the banner of the Master,
uniting all creeds under the one emblem upon which is
everlastingly stamped the ideal of love for God and man, and
to so broaden the consciousness of humanity as to awaken in
individuals the realization of our common brotherhood,
despite the fact that we each possess individually developed
viewpoints and abilities.
Trusting you will find it in your heart to further help us in
our worthy cause of disseminating the good our work is
constantly achieving for all who seek from its source aid and
succor, and that you will become active in the purely
philanthropic work of our organization, we remain
Brotherly yours,
(A) This very appropriate, with the contemplated work. This
should bear the name of the trustees, and of any that are
known as national or international investigators of
phenom ena, but should not be printed, but be written as
personal, see? No change, other than those suggestions with
same. Now, in that as is to be sent to those who seek for
readings, and to those who are to be asked to become
associated as members to the Association - as has been
suggested and planned - there should be data prepared.
First: Why the Association is setting forth much of the
work and good that has been accomplished in past years in
what might be rightfully called a haphazard manner. Hence
in the purpose, that of the closer cooperation of those
that, having seen the good, feel that in the brotherly love
and touch that should come from all that know of such good,
this may be better disseminated through channels where
cooperation is shown. Hence the Association. The purpose,
then, of the Association: The institution [is to be]
builded around that of a place where the records of that
accomplished through these sources are kept, and others of
similar nature, or of the various philosophies that may be
found that will coordinate - and combined in that oneness of
purpose to bring the better understanding of the purpose IN
life, and thus enable man to realize the closer association
with the divine. In the lecture room and the library -
members, then, having access to such, gain better in the
understanding of such, and the library may be made
circulating, or a repository - as it will become - to all
those who seek to see their THEORY disseminated. Hence this
would become as the clearing house of such. Again the
invitation to become associated with those attempting to do
such work in a PHILANTHROPIC way and manner. Then setting
forth the rules, the regulations, the by-laws, the trustees,
those in charge, etc., see?
As to trip contemplated, conditions, surroundings - as is
seen, there is much to be done. As has been given, there
should be the first consideration of WELL building in every
way and manner. Set forth, then, that as is to be used in
the change as is to be made for the approach, as it were, to
the phenomena. Hence the much needed rest [of Edgar Cayce]
should be taken, for many conditions are to be considered -
ALL are to be considered - each individual associated with
the phenomena to be considered. There are others to be seen
- others to be known; for, as given, first to individuals,
THEN to groups, then to the masses. PREPARE - BUILD - in
that manner. Not overtaxing that carrier of the SOURCE of
information in the body [Edgar Cayce], but rather
DISSEMINATING same; for rememberest thou not, there has been
given that as the work was begun was first from Columbus,
Dayton, Cincinnati, Louisville, Nashville, Alabama, Texas?
Then the return, as it were, in triumph, to build the
circular hall [Temple Beautiful - was compared to our
present great universities. GD.] with many followings!
[GD's note: I think this is paralleling Ra-Ta's return to
Egypt & bldg. of Temples, etc.]
Carry on! Do that as given.
Ready for questions.
(Q) To obtain financial assistance for the institution, who
should we see on the trip in Cincinnati, Dayton, Nashville -
(A) Those as will be SENT, as it were, to meet the needs of
the conditions as may arise - for, as is seen, there is the
CONTINUAL setting in motion of conditions, and the greater,
bigger, better, contacts are being made. Not as to go to
John Smith or Joe Jones, but to the individual forces as are
directed in the needs of the individual's association with
that which may be attained.
(Q) Should the trustees' names be printed on the stationery
on which the letter is written to fellow members?
(A) THAT stationery alone should bear the imprint or names
of the trustees. Not the general, no - but this one letter,
see?
(Q) Give any general advice to the body Edgar Cayce, and
those associated with him, regarding this work, that will
help them?
(A) Let not thine good be evil-spoken of. Conduct thy going
in and coming out in the manner and way in keeping with that
as is being contemplated. Keep thine face toward the light.
Trust in thine God, and in the promises of Him who gave: "If
thou believest me, keep my commandments, and I will pray the
Father, and He will send that Spirit that shall abide with
thee, and keep thee when thou goest in and comest out."
We are through.
REPORTS
7/29/27 See
257-20 and Mr. [
257]'s letter
7/26/27 re
"work."
8/11/27 See EC's letter to Mrs. [
760] [see under
760-4] re
planning size of hospital rooms, how to 'cut down' on cost by
leaving off closets in the rooms, etc.
