11/08/27 EC's ltr. to HLC:
Dear Hugh Lynn:-
We took the opportunity this morning to get a reading [See
341-26] on the dreams you sent. I don't know as I understand
just what is meant here or not. Possibly you will be able to
correlate this with circumstances and conditions in your own
mind better than I can, for apparently it seems to relate
more to mental attitude and changes that come about in same,
than anything else. Possibly you will be able - if you don't
understand it entirely - to formulate a list of questions
that may tend to clarify it. Of course we'll be glad to do
this if we can.
Just had a little note from [
849], and I think if you all
losing Saturday's game bemuddled everyone else's minds as
it did [
849]'s for the moment, you must have a soreheaded
lot - but in Life's race some must lose and some must gain.
I'm enclosing you a little slip for you to sign. As you will
see, it relates to the policy that Mr. Van Patten has gotten.
Just whether I'm going to be able to take this up or not at
present time I don't know. In fact I don't see how I can
with so many things coming on right at this time.
Well, [
900] was down Sunday. We thought possibly we had
everything in shape for the letting of the contract for the
institution, and getting started to work on it right away,
but today it doesn't seem that we are any nearer than we
were two or three months ago, though they have a plan worked
out whereby it might be financed - IF they will carry it
along in that way, but it's a pretty big responsibility for
one or two people to assume just at the present status of
conditions. In brief, it is this: We are to clear the land
on which the building is to be put. The building complete to
cost approximately $30,000 - it might be $32,000 or $30,000.
When the roof is on, $5000 in cash to be paid. When it's
completed another $5000 to be paid. Then we are to get a
loan on the building and we can get about $20,000, or when
the commission and all is off $18,000 or $19,000. Pay
$15,000 of it to the contractors and they take a second
mortgage for the difference in the cost price and the
amount then that would have been paid us. But, the hitch
is: It is necessary, in getting this loan, to have personal
security to the first mortgage. Banks or trust companies do
not care to make loans to corporations that have no paid in
capital stock. I know [
900] is an enthusiastic as ever, and
says we are going through, but whether he will be able to
get [
137] or [
195] to sign this mortgage with him, I don't
know. But that's the situation at present as respecting
that. I'm just hoping for the best.
I suppose one thing that makes me feel so pessimistic is the
situation as respecting what I have been able to do toward
getting others whom I THOUGHT were interested up to the point
of showing a little WORKABLE interest. You know I have been
waiting two months, trying to get Mr. [
953] and [
165]
together. [
165] seemed very enthusiastic when he was here,
but has not been able to get a word even in edgeways with
Mr. [
953]. The cause I don't know. That's about floored me.
Then I haven't been able to get any word from any of the
people in Birmingham that would seem to indicate that they
would take enough personal interest to take hold and try and
do something. In talking this over with [
900], he suggested
that he felt it would be necessary for me to make a trip to
try and work these things out. But feeling as I do already,
I don't know whether I am half beaten before I commence or
not. If I can get word from Mr. [
953] that I can see him
the end of this week, I am going to see him, and see if I
can find out what's the trouble. [
165] just wrote that he
didn't feel that he could tackle the whole thing alone unless
he could get some cooperation from that source, and the next
move was mine. What do you get on this anyway? I sure need
a good boost. If you see it, why let me have it. If you
don't, let me have it just the same, 'cause there's no use
my spending some valuable time and a considerable amount of
money to try and do something that I will not be able to do.
We are all pretty well here. We had a Life Reading the other
day on [
369]. They all say it is most interesting. I
haven't read it - have been just waiting for the opportunity
to read it over with [
369] and see what we make out of it,
but it appears that in her six appearances four of them she
and I have been very closely associated. In fact, she is the
one I must have left [in Egypt] to run off with the dancer
in the temple [
538]. From what they all say, it seems she
has wonderful possibilities of helping us in the work. I
would like to hear you discuss it.
Well, let us hear from you whenever you have the chance.
With best love, [Dad]
11/10/27 HLC's ltr. to EC:
Dear Dad,
Your last letter coupled with everything else indicates
clearly a lag in events, a period of seeming gloom,
inactivity and general hesitation. Think back for just
a moment and everything becomes understandable.
All the people were quiet. The revolt and the personal
affairs of the king had been put into order again.
Messengers were going back and forth between the king and
the exiled priest. The greatest statesmen of the country
had been bending every effort to find some point of
reconciliation and had found it in a joining in of both the
king and the priest in one of the greatest institutions ever
known to man. The king was in favor of the enterprise and
had settled himself to the straightening of the disordered
details about him. Still the high councilor had not given
any words of favor. To him the people turned to see his
reaction to this new enterprise which had grown under the
hand of the statesmen without his aid. It seemed that he
still fought to uphold against the priest whom he had fought
so long and so hard. Another outbreak of the old
disturbance seemed certain. So far he had been left out;
considered yet in a distant manner. Now he was needed for
the work to go forward. Stillness settled over the land
like a giant cloud, darkness, doubt, then light. The high
councilor threw himself into the work and progress began
again.
Fanciful, doubtless wrong yet this, I think, is a background
for the reasons of the present conditions. Dad, this thing
is too big to expect it to run off in marked time; it is too
mixed and tied up with men's lives and souls to not meet here
and there a contest of mind, spirit and matter; it is too
deep for those who do not understand to grasp it and carry
on; it means too much for those who have not had a direct
part in the establishment not to say proudly "you started
without us - continue." Yet once the spirit, the urge, the
understanding, the light comes to those who are needed there
will, there must come a response. The purpose is His
purpose, and He stands behind His purposes and drives as well
as calls, for He used the whip as well as the calm word.
Against such physical sins have no power - jealousy will fall
with the rest. Upon yourself you have taken the task of
bringing together all that you tore asunder. It is not easy.
There is a lot to fight but O what a lot you have to fight it
with! Surge on - on always; this is but a pause, a bit of
dark cloud and there is lots of bright sky back of it all.
Nothing would be a waste of money that would even seem to
get closer to the man [
953] who you know must have a part in
this work.
Now to you and Muddie both.
My dreams fitted very well, too well in fact. [Briefed in
341-26 Reports] Sure I understood them. I am running loose
in a sea of thought, not forgetting the foundation on which
I was standing but neglecting it. Nothing serious, just a
relax of the wrong kind. I have somewhat neglected my work,
as my grades will show soon. Again nothing serious, I hope.
I have neglected to continue to think in a straight line and,
as the dreams indicated, since out from under the thoughts
and ideas that held me so close, so straight, I have found
it easy to give away to the physical. The trouble was that
I knew and did not care to think about it - a sad state,
very. I have told you this not to worry you but to let you
understand the dreams that must have caused some thought -
with you both. Again I insist that it is nothing serious. A
mental state from which I need arousing. [
1005] can explain
some of the definite forms that this state of inactivity took
which will in turn explain to you both what a contrast it
caused in my thinking and general atmosphere. It is quite
funny and quite interesting. I will be able to explain in
detail better when I see you Thanksgiving. Will be home.
Will drive down in same car I went to Washington in. Hope
you understand all this and get a clear idea, for really
it is interesting.
I am sorry to announce that my board lady is crying for her
shekels and I have them not. Have been spending money very
foolishly. Hope I can explain that too later; haven't the
time here now.
Nothing new except myself and that I don't understand, so
must close this very careless letter with the hopes that I
have said the right things and have not said too much that
letters cannot explain. I will have lots to tell you and am
really looking forward to it. It has never been my policy
to keep things from you all and I shall not begin now. Don't
quiz [
1005] too closely for he doesn't know but part of it.
Love to all, Hugh Lynn
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