7/29 Booklet on The Association of National Investigators,
Incorporated, Virginia Beach, Virginia:
THAT WE MAY MAKE MANIFEST OUR LOVE FOR GOD AND MAN
THE ASSOCIATION OF NATIONAL INVESTIGATORS,
INCORPORATED
The Association of National Investigators was incorporated
May 6, 1927, in the State of Virginia. Although founded
upon the psychic work of Mr. Edgar Cayce, and although
the immediate basis of its formation was to further foster
and encourage the physical, mental, and spiritual aid that
thousands have and are receiving from Mr. Cayce's endeavors
in the psychic field, the larger and more embracing purpose
of the organization is to engage in general psychic research,
and to provide for the practical application of any knowledge
obtainable through the medium of psychic phenomena. In
the matter of specific application the Association seeks
to render physical aid to the sick and ailing through its
hospital, and also to disseminate and exploit for the good
of humanity the knowledge obtained from its research work,
through the library, lecture hall, and other educational
channels.
Many are already acquainted with the readings given by
Mr. Cayce, and the more or less haphazard manner in which
they have heretofore been applied, also the wonderful
results. Prior to the incorporation of the Association
physical diagnoses and remedies for diseases were sent to
applicants for readings; who upon receipt of them found
great difficulty in securing the treatment prescribed.
At best the remedies suggested in the readings were partly
carried out, yet it is to the credit of the work of the
Association that in spite of these difficulties the results
reported were satisfactory. The testimonials on hand at the
main office at Virginia Beach speak for many, who through
application of the remedies given in their readings found
relief from their existent physical disabilities. Under
the conditions created by the Association difficulties
encountered by the patients in securing treatment have
been overcome. Furthermore, each and every reading is
now followed systematically, watched, and recorded. Prior
to the incorporation of the Association and the erection
of the Cayce Hospital about 10,000 readings were given by
Mr. Cayce, but the lack of facilities for checking each and
every move proved detrimental to the progress of the work
and to a proper scientific classification of the phenomena.
Records of the method and result of treatment are now filed,
as is the information given by the psychic forces on specific
diseases. Lack of organization prevented this from bring
accomplished in the past, although thousands received just
such information in physical readings, and benefitted or
not, according to the application thereof.
The Cayce Hospital, which is the hospital of the Association,
at Virginia Beach, Va., furnishes an opportunity for
those who seek physical readings and treatment exactly as
prescribed in them to get such at the hands of competent
and sympathetic physicians. The hospital is conducted
along the most modern, scientific, and ethical lines.
Every comfort and service possible is provided patients.
The charges for room, board, and treatment are such as is
customary to an institution of its kind.
Lectures are delivered each Sunday by President Blumenthal
and Mr. Cayce in the lecture hall of the hospital, and
President Blumenthal conducts a study class on alternate
Saturday afternoons in the same place. The work is studied
from a philosophical standpoint, with a view to educating
the individual to a complete understanding of himself and
the life he lives. These lectures and study classes are
free to everyone, and all are urged to attend if interested.
Those not acquainted with the physical and life readings
furnished by the Association through the psychic endeavors
of Mr. Cayce may apply for information concerning them at
the main office at Virginia Beach, where details
concerning the past history of Mr. Cayce and his work, and
the Association prior to its incorporation, may be obtained.
The results of the application of treatments suggested in
the physical readings are carefully recorded and
systematically classified, and these records are open for
inspection to members of the Association.
There are many psychic research societies formed for the
study and recording of phenomena, but it is safe to say
that the Association of National Investigators, Inc., is the
only Society that in addition to psychic research work seeks
to apply in its own hospital treatments for the cure of
disease. The Association was incorporated that this hospital
mights be built and put at the disposal of those seeking
relief from this source. There is, of course, the customary
ward in the hospital for those who are unable to pay for
treatments, and one day each week is devoted to giving
readings for the benefit of those unable to pay for them.
Equally, if not more important than the medical purpose
of the Association, is the educational phase of the
organization's work. The library and lecture hall in
the hospital serve as a center in which the results of
the psychic work are carefully recorded. It also serves
as a center from which authoritative documents and literature
are obtained on the subject. Knowledge from the psychic
sources covers a vast field, including not only physical
diagnoses, but information in the fields of philosophy,
theosophy, theology, science, and every phase of human
endeavor and spiritual life. The library and lecture hall
serve as a forum for the exchange of ideas on all these
subjects, and also serves as the central point from which
is disseminated the truths gained from the spiritual or
psychic source.
At the present time Mr. Cayce's psychic ability furnishes
the Association with its channel for research work, but the
Society does not plan to confine itself to his manifestation.
It is training and including in its research work all who
possess sufficient psychic development of mind and are
desirous of co-operating with the Association to achieve
the purpose of scientifically studying, recording, and
applying the phenomena, and exploiting the knowledge
derived therefrom in a philanthropic manner for the good
of mankind. Those directly in the employ of the Association
or its hospital receive financial remuneration commensurate
with the service rendered of course, the amount being fixed
by the Board of Trustees. The latter, as well as the
officers for the corporation and members of its committees,
receive no financial compensation for their services in these
capacities.
To many, psychic phenomena is but a vagary that has to do
with prophesies or superstition, something to be feared or
shunned. Finally then, the Association of National
Investigators, Inc., seeks to demonstrate that psychic
phenomena and the phenomena of life are one and the same
thing. The divine manifests its Being or Life or
consciousness, and the psychic or subconscious forces, though
unconscious to the intellect, manifest their being in
consciousness of another character than intellectual.
Nevertheless, both belong to the same essence and process
that expresses itself in the form of "Mind," or "Soul."
In substance it is spirit, in which a self-contained element
through a process of development becomes consciousness or
soul. This developing element of subconscious consciousness
is demonstrated when the physical forces are subjugated; as,
for example, in the experiencing of certain kinds of dreams
or visions or other intuitive or psychic manifestations;
or in the psychic work of Mr. Cayce, where a complete and
thorough physical diagnosis is given in perfectly rational
manner through the subjected physical faculties - i.e., when
Mr. Cayce becomes intellectually unconscious, or unalive,
and manifests through a subconscious kind of consciousness,
or aliveness.
The purpose of the Association of National Investigators,
Inc., then, as will be stated more fully later, is to
scientifically carry on the research work in the field
of psychic phenomena, to record the results thereof, and
to apply them for the benefit of health, knowledge, and
spiritual welfare of those seeking aid from the psychic
force. It is evident that this organization is engaged
in a great work, its scope of activity reaching out to
every class, creed, and race, and its purpose embracing
the mental, moral, physical and spiritual good of all
humanity.
Three hard and fast provisions govern the operation of the
Association work:
First: As already stated, the membership and purpose and
work of the Organization is limited to no class or creed.
The only provision here made is that every applicant for
membership and for aid have a faith in the Divine.
Second: That this organization shall in no way be used or
represented to stand for any particular doctrine, religion,
or nationality. The purpose of this Society is scientific
study and application of psychic phenomena as related to man
in his relationship to the world and to earthly life, as well
as his relation to the universe and the universal forces.
It is not to establish any new religion, although new thought
and new interpretations of old truth may emanate.
Third: It is definitely stated in the charter of this
Association, granted by the State of Virginia, that any
profits or monies collected by the Association shall go
towards the purely philanthropic work of the Corporation.
Membership dues, donations, hospital fees and profits from
all transactions shall go towards the upkeep and maintenance
of the institution and purely philanthropic work of the
Association.
The Board of Trustees (limited to fifteen), being vested
with the vote, form the governing body of the Association,
and are limited in their operations by the charter and
by-laws, the latter of which are hereinafter set forth.
"...THE WORKS THAT I DO SHALL YE DO ALSO; AND GREATER
WORKS THAN THESE SHALL YE DO; BECAUSE I GO UNTO MY
FATHER." - JOHN, CH. 14:12.
OUR IDEAL AND PHILOSOPHY
Deep in the hearts of each and every right thinking person
there dwells the ideal that acts as the mainspring of our
life, namely, love for the Divine Creator. Regardless of
our concept of God, we love Him for His deeds, which, of
course, embraces creation. He has created us as an image of
Himself and His universe, (as a drop containing every element
of the ocean is an image of the whole body of water), and
has given to us the opportunity of enjoying like Him a
consciousness of ourselves being alive. Being a duplication
of Him, in potentiality, we are alive to His work of
creation. By development of our potential abilities we
become self aware of the process of creation being our
own work as well as His. We love Him, then, for His gift
of life to us, for His promise that the gift shall be
eternal, and, above all, for His long suffering as well
as patience with our sins which are born of ignorance
during the process of our achieving through earthly
experience necessary potential development. Indeed, many
of us, although bearing no malice, curse the Creator in
one breath while He furnishes us the power to draw another.
We defile our bodies with ill-formed habits, while His
pulsating, life-giving flow sustains those bodies and
continues in process of creating new and other beautiful
physiques. Sometimes, in a secret moment, while regarding
the majesty and beauty of nature, or, while marveling at the
wonderful phenomena of a new born baby, or while at prayer
either at home or in church, we turn our hearts to God, and
pour forth our love. Then do we intuitively feel His
forgiveness, His infinite mercy and patience, and the divine
inflow of His love. He is the potentiality that manifests
itself as the phenomena of life, whether of creation or our
subjective selves, and thus we belong to Him and He to us.
We, are, each of us, an integral part of God in the
intellectual effect form of man, that this spiritual
Godly essence takes in the earthly environment, and know
ourselves to be that. Thus it is that we are free to live
our own concept of life. Thus it also is that whatever
concept we choose to express in and of our own life, is
representative of our idea of God. Since we are that which
the life, essence or God becomes in materialized form, we
will likewise remain this same essence when we change at
death from the materialized manifested form, to become one
with the manifesting spiritual essence itself. From the
changed viewpoint that we will then enjoy as an internal
force of intelligence, we shall come to know ourselves to be
that which God is in essence, just as we now know ourselves
to be that which the spiritual Godly essence changes itself
to become in the materialized form it takes in this earthly
environment. God then has created, of Himself, a portion
(each of our own selves) that by virtue of His process of
creation, becomes able to achieve a companionate self
awareness and individuality in Union with and one with each
and every self-conscious and individuality, or portion, that
God in one potential spiritual essence embraces.
Are our prayers and our good intentions the best we may do
in gratitude for such good and perfect gifts? May we not
help keep the breath in the body by aiding physically the
sick and suffering? May we not counteract sin by fighting
the ignorance and lack of understanding that breeds it? Of
course we may, and shall! - all of us who are members of the
Association of National Investigators, Inc., for all of us
banded together to manifest in deed our love for the Creator,
will through the Association engage actively in educating
those who are as yet unawakened to the glory of the creative
work of the spirit father.
Through psychic research may we, the members of the
Association, gain the necessary knowledge that will fit us
to work on earth for creation, as does the mighty creative
energy of life function to sustain creation throughout
the whole of that called space. Then may we and shall we,
inscribe our names in the book of life, and in that chapter
that has to do with early experiences, and thus make our
deeds create for us merited love in the hearts and minds
of the right-thinking portion of humanity. We, the members
of this Association, and all who choose to join with us,
shall strive to throw our influence on the side of the good
and the spiritual, in order that the generations of men may
cling to the link that binds them to the universe, to the
noble, the beautiful, the honorable, and to the whole ideal
while in this earthly process of development, rather than
permit the influences of the purely material life to drag
the inner developing potentiality that manifests itself in
the form of physical personalities in the mire of animalistic
materialism, that turns love into passion and adultery,
nobleness into wrath, hatred, and temper, honor into greed
and selfishness, beauty into filth, and the imagination into
slavery to physical desires.
This is the ideal of the Association of National
Investigators, Inc., to the accomplishment of which
it is giving and shall continue to give its untiring energy
and efforts, and in the heart and soul of the Association
there lives the conviction that behind it are the mighty,
eternal and unyielding creative forces of the universe.
MORTON H. BLUMENTHAL, PRESIDENT.
"IN HIM IS THE LIGHT, AND THE LIGHT IS THE LIGHT OF THE
WORLD."
OUR PURPOSE
Any endeavor, whether that of an individual, or of a
group of individuals, is motivated by an ideal, or an
idea, or by both. In the case of the Association of
National Investigators, Inc., an ideal inspired the desire to
serve humanity in the minds of a few individuals interested
in the study of the phenomena of life, and in particular,
the study of psychic phenomena as made manifest in the work
of Mr. Edgar Cayce. These individuals co-operated to form
the present Association of National investigators, Inc.,
with the idea in mind to investigate the psychic work of
Mr. Cayce, and obtain, if possible, the relationship of
this remarkable phenomena to that of life, and in particular,
to the life of man and to human welfare.
To accomplish this end, the Cayce Hospital for Research
and Enlightenment was created for the purpose of receiving
patients who desired medical treatment, according to
suggestions made in the so-called physical readings,
the latter being made for patients who request same.
Previous to the creation of this institution, thousands
had benefitted in health from their own haphazard
application of information contained in physical readings,
secured by themselves from Mr. Cayce. The latter's
remarkable psychic mental development enabled him to
furnish these physical diagnoses to applicants, together
with suggestions for remedy of their ills. The creation of
the hospital for scientific application of these treatments,
and for the maintenance of records of the results thereof,
in a systematic fashion, seemed a logical and justifiable
step to the interested group surrounding Mr. Cayce's work.
Although this institution has been completed and has been
functioning only a few months, a history of the cases
treated in the hospital, and the excellent results to the
patients achieved, and systematically recorded, have to
date, proven the step a wise and progressive one.
The hospital, however, does not in itself represent the
complete realization of the ideal in the hearts and minds
of the individuals who first inaugurated the Association
for the purpose of investigation of psychic phenomena.
True, in the formative years of this Association, the
present members of the Board of Trustees had but a vague
idealistic urge to perform a service for Good, for God, for
Man, and this ideal then represented itself in the minds of
these individuals in the form of a crude idea, a hospital
where patients might be scientifically treated by proper and
authorized physicians, according to their physical readings,
(the latter psychically made by Mr. Edgar Cayce), and results
of these treatments carefully and systematically recorded.
Since the successful realization of this latter idea,
the Board of Trustees, together with many members of the
Association, have found other and additional channels of
service opened to them. There have been presented new
fields to pioneer in, and new scientific worlds to conquer.
A wider, broader, and more extensive channel of idealistic
self-expression in connection with psychic investigation
has sprung up. The latter, and more important field of
activity, has to do with education.
Those of us who composed, and now make up the Board of
Trustees, of the Association of National Investigators,
Inc., found a greater service in connection with psychic
investigations than ministering to human ills in teaching
people of their individual psychic abilities of mind, and
of the value to their lives of proper and intelligent
application of knowledge obtained through the use of
these potential or hidden mental (intuitive) faculties.
The first step in this new and more important direction
consisted in first thoroughly grounding ourselves in that
which we seek to teach others. That is to say, we had to
first bring into our consciousness realization of a higher
fourth dimensional viewpoint, of which the properly educated
human mind is capable, and thus obtain knowledge of life as
it exists in self, and the world, or Universe, to this higher
fourth dimensional viewpoint. By this method, many of us
became possessed of knowledge of the internal world of
causes, and of application, that may be made of same in
the external or material world of effect. Such knowledge,
we found, is internal and fourth dimensional in character,
and obtainable by the human mind from the internal fourth
dimensional viewpoint alone, and is not obtainable by the
mind seeking knowledge of life from the externalized three
dimensional, physical viewpoint of the mind. We came to
the conclusion, then, that the psychic readings given by
Mr. Cayce, whether physical or philosophical, or anything
else in character, demonstrate the fourth dimensional
operation of the indwelling subjective (often called
subconscious) mind, and its ability to give to our observing
physical selves, information not only of the inner subjective
spiritual and permanent side of life, but also to give
information applicable for the good of our external
physical selves while we live in the temporary material
form that life assumes in this world.
Today, certain members of this organization have, through
concentrated effort and specific application of the study
of the psychic forces made manifest in and through man,
and thus in and through their individual selves, achieved
for themselves a development of the introspective and
intuitional faculties of mind. These latter faculties
are often described as belonging to the subconscious,
or subjective, and inner department of the mind. These
individuals have; through application of, and experience
in the introspective method, obtained greater knowledge
and greater understanding of the primary purport and purpose
of such a work as the Association of National Investigators,
Inc., has undertaken.
These individuals, some members of our Board of Trustees,
some members of the Association of National Investigators,
Inc., have come to a realization of the great responsibility
resting upon them, and entailed in the accomplishment of
the educational end that must be achieved if the Association
is to accomplish its whole purpose. By virtue of knowledge
obtained through their own intuitional faculties, these few
individuals have come to understand better the importance
of the obligation they have assumed to man and to God in
grouping themselves together as a Board of Trustees and
as an organization to carry on the work of the Association
of National Investigators, Inc., that its ideal in totality
may be realized. They, today, recognize that this obligation
makes it necessary that our Association formulate a plan,
by which there may be introduced into the world a scientific
method of obtaining knowledge introspectively, a higher
method, if you please, of obtaining a deeper knowledge
of life, and of self, self's relationship to life, than
it is possible to obtain through use of the physical
faculties or sensory organism alone. This higher method
of obtaining a deeper self-awakening of the truth of that
which self and life is, embraces a method of obtaining
understanding of self, and of life, from the higher, inner
subjective or subconscious viewpoint, the latter of which
is often called the fourth-dimensional viewpoint.
Knowledge so obtained brings to the individual self
realization of being that very introspective source himself,
from which hidden or subconscious recesses, such information
comes. He awakens to self realization of being not only
that which he is physically, but also to that which he is
subconsciously, i.e., to that complete and total being he
is in mind or soul. By this means, he may obtain an
awakening of the purpose of life, and of being alive, and
may fashion his daily activities accordingly. Thus he may,
to a greater extent, speed and facilitate the development
of his own internal soul being, and generally accelerate
the evolutionary process of life.
No greater program ever confronted any group of men or
women, and no group of men or women ever assumed greater
responsibility in seeking to carry out its ideal. By
virtue of the past development of each of us, or at least
of those of us who compose the Board of Trustees, we may
feel, with all confidence, that we are prepared to
successfully carry out the burden of this large and
important program. Furthermore, in a reading it has been
given that in the process of carrying out this program, we
shall individually and collectively have the full
co-operation of the forces from the cosmic plane, even from
the highest plane, the throne itself. It has been given
that such co-operation and aid may be expected, and it has
been promised that it shall be given.
It is obvious that we cannot hope to heal every living
creature in our hospital. It is also obvious that the
process by which individuals are benefitted physically
in our hospital is but a representation of the application
of knowledge introspectively obtained, and a demonstration
of the fact that a system for the obtaining of such knowledge
may be formulated and used by the individual for his own
benefit. This must be the true and whole purpose of this
hospital of ours, for otherwise the thing for which it stands
would appear merely as a freak of nature, a contradiction of
natural law. If this were true, our time would be wasted on
a mere will o' the wisp, a meaningless outlaw to the basic
laws of life, God, and Man.
This, however, is not true! On the contrary, the work
propagated by this Association in or outside of the hospital,
demonstrates the operation of the real and vital forces
of life, not merely the portion that is physical, but the
elements of the whole mind. It demonstrates the rational
oneness of life, the universality of the operation of the
forces of life, or laws governing life in any form, whether
physical or otherwise, and in particular, as they govern the
mind and life in the physical form of man.
Our hospital, and the psychic work attached thereto, can only
be a demonstration of the introspective method of obtaining
knowledge, by which means the internal operating forces of
life may become applicable to and by each individual, for
his better development and happier existence, even while
in the physical form of man, living in and as a part of
this material world.
THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF OUR ASSOCIATION, THEN, IS EDUCATION.
The education of the individual, that he may attain a closer
relationship to the higher powers of his own mind, that he
may for and by himself achieve greater development of mind,
as well as greater material benefit, for his physical being
in the material environment. The achievement of our purpose
will enable the human race to use for its own good, in every
department of its life, physical and spiritual, an
introspective method of obtaining knowledge, that
individuals may so develop their intuitional forces as to
become able to be guided by a higher dimensional viewpoint,
the viewpoint that such intuitional development brings self
realization of possessing. This is the all embracing aim
and deeper purpose, the whole ideal, of this Association.
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The method for exploiting this system of obtaining knowledge
introspectively will some day embrace a great Association
of learning. It will take the form of a University where
science, history, philosophy, engineering, etc., will
be taught in a manner embracing both the objective and
introspective methods of obtaining knowledge. In this
university knowledge thus obtained will enable us to form
a curriculum in which science, history, philosophy, and
the arts may be taught as in no other seat of learning.
Such an institution of learning is the dream of the
future, and as such it may now be only presented as
a future prospect, not an applicable plan for present
action. For the present, it behooves each and every
one of us who has taken, as a member of the Association,
and in particular, members of our Board of Trustees,
the responsibility of exploiting our primary purpose
of benefit to mankind, to subscribe in faith to that
very introspective method that we represent, and that
our psychic experiments objectify. Let us gain for
ourselves a greater understanding of the meaning of
this method in our own lives. Let us understand its
application for our own good, for our own spiritual
development and spiritual awakening, as well as our own
material comforts. Let us live as an example to man, that
we may demonstrate to individuals, to classes and masses, in
terms of mental freedom, mental power, and material welfare
and happiness, the benefits to be derived by and from the
application for ourselves of knowledge introspectively
obtained. Let us do this not for ourselves, but that all
may see demonstrated in our lives, in our work, in our
institutions, the benefits that may come to the individual
by virtue of the application of just such an introspective
method. We may then, individually and collectively, exploit
in harmonious co-operation our program for the benefit of
Mankind, for the benefit of civilization, and for the
benefit of posterity. First to individuals as they approach
us, second to the classes, or groups, or organizations, as
they come to us, and finally, to all peoples, as a worldwide
educational movement. By the initiation of such a movement
we may give an impulse to the evolving of a higher stage of
civilization, and a greater race of man. Thus shall the
consciousness of man be raised a degree in enlightenment,
in breadth of vision, and in power. Thus may civilization
be raised from its present materialistic vying to a spiritual
power applicable in the material world, for the benefit
of one's own soul development, as well as for the greater
comfort and material happiness of the soul in the physical
form of man.
The accomplishment of this purpose means a process of
education of the race and the individuals composing it to
a greater power of mental insight and physical application.
It is for us to supply the individuals with a systematized
plan whereby such means may be scientifically used to achieve
realization of the existence of the internal life forces,
their functions, their purpose, and their application for
the benefit of each individual and the whole of mankind.
What a blessing it is to understand that our daily toil
with its material return is not the chief and only aim of
our earthly experience! What a blessing to realize the
development we are achieving of potential abilities of mind
or soul by virtue of mental and physical application made
in our every day field of daily material endeavors! This
we obtain for the benefit of our real self, for our whole
mind, that manifests itself in our own physical form as a
personality or individuality, whether pertaining to
ourselves as Doctors, Lawyers, Artists, Business men or
women, husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, etc.
No material accomplishment can in itself bring complete
peace in mind and happiness, though it is possible that
mental accomplishment and mental achievement may bring
such peace of mind without the corresponding material
success. It is also true, however, that the application
of knowledge intuitively or introspectively obtained from
the internal forces of life, through use of the subjective
faculties of mind, may, and does bring such physical success,
aid, and material return. By virtue of this mankind may
become relieved of the daily grindstone and obtain leisure
for the higher moral and cultural development, and in this
is the blessing of such material success.
The most effective method in general of obtaining this higher
development is through service to mankind. In our own case,
it may mean only service to our primary purpose, and its
accomplishment for our institution, that incorporates
the good along these EDUCATIONAL LINES, that may thus
be accomplished for humanity. But our every movement
with respect to the work, if it is to achieve success,
must represent a co-operative willingness on our part,
and in particular on the part of those of us who compose
the Board of Trustees, to join hands and protect, propagate,
and exploit the service to man that our work will initiate.
The prophets of old ceased their wailing in troublous times,
substituting service for admonition, that the remnants of
a benighted race might be saved. The Master, the Prince
of Peace Himself, served as no man before or since has
served, just such a cause as our Association holds as
its main purpose. That He at the right hand of Power
should stoop to our lowly dwelling place on earth, that
we should even hear His voice through a reading, proves
that the ideals and truths of yesterday are still those
of today, that our work is still His work, even as it was,
while He, in the form of man, walked, lived and taught among
men, and this despite our present day scientific methods,
and religious differences. It proves that He serves Man
and God today as of old, and His example of service for
evolution, and for creation, stands today as an example
of service, for us.
Let His example inspire us to join hands in harmony and
covenant that so long as we, who form this human chain,
shall live in the flesh, none inside or outside our ranks
shall disturb or break through its protecting strength,
and the harmony by which we again uphold the banner, upon
which is stamped the ideal for which He lived and died,
and for which He pleaded, and still pleads, for us to
uphold His ideal of service is our ideal, and therefore,
let us covenant to the extent of our human strength to
carry out in co-operation, one with another, each in his
own place and field of endeavor, the one primary purpose
of our organization, that as has been promised, He in
return may establish His covenant in us, and through us
glorify our work and ourselves.
We have in this Association the individual development and
ability that collectively make up perfection, power, mind,
God, and man. It is true that weakness of the flesh creep
in and manifest in our nature, yet even these may be
overcome through a united devotion to the cause for which
our Association stands, a cause whose devotion demands
service through individual willingness to sacrifice personal
aggrandizement.
By application of all the faculties of mind that may be used
to obtain experience and a true concept of life, fear, worry,
and failure may be wiped from the slate of life, and power
and glory and achievement become the ordinary possessions
of each and every individual. It is our duty to serve man
and God, that the human race may be so elevated and so
educated and so specifically instructed in the method of
application of their own intuitive faculties of mind, as
to bring into the life of each individual that experience
which will reveal to and for him the living and existing
truth of his own soul being and its creative forces, in
their relation to physical, spiritual, and universal
existence.
To the accomplishment of this end, we may extend such
devotion and such service as to call forth the co-operation
and protection and aid, yea the blessings and glorification,
of the throne of Jehovah itself.
MORTON H. AND EDWIN D. BLUMENTHAL
THOMAS B. BROWN
"AND THE WHOLE WORLD WAS OF ONE LANGUAGE, AND OF ONE SPEECH."
- GENESIS, CH. 11:1.
"BY THEIR FRUITS YE SHALL KNOW THEM."
RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE ASSOCIATION
1. QUALIFICATIONS: Every individual is qualified for
membership, the only provision being that applicants must
have faith in the Divine, around the psychic manifestations
of which the activities of the Association hinge.
2. NUMBERS OF MEMBERS: At the present time no limitation
has been placed upon the number of memberships.
3. PRIVILEGES:
(a) Each member may apply for readings for himself or
immediate unmarried members of the family. Readings will
not be furnished unless applicant is a member of the
Association, or a relation to a member, (mother, father,
husband, wife, or unmarried son, daughter, sister or
brother).
(b) Each member, and only a member, may be admitted to
the hospital for treatment. The family rule does not apply
with regard to entrance to the Institute.
(c) Members together with their immediate family have
access to library and lecture hall.
(d) Members alone may take part in the research work of
the Institute, or in any of the Association activities
interesting to them, medical, educational, or in the
field of social service.
(e) Members only may serve on one or more of the various
committees of the corporation.
4. DUES AND CLASSES OF MEMBERSHIPS:
(a) Associate Membership: This membership is a privilege
to those who have had readings prior to the Association's
incorporation, merely upon application thereof, and entitles
members to all privileges for one year, and is renewable.
Dues for Associate members are $15 for the year. It is
expected that this class of membership will not remain
open very long.
(b) Subscription Membership: The yearly dues for this
membership are $20.00, and is open to all who have not
previously had any experience in obtaining readings from
the Association or from Mr. Cayce. It carries with it
the privilege of an initial reading without any extra
charge. The duration of this membership is for one
year, and includes all the benefits and privileges
of the Association for that time.
(c) Life Membership: A payment of $250.00 is required,
and is payable at one time when membership is granted.
This entitles applicant to one reading, free of charge,
and to the privileges of the Association for life without
any further dues.
(d) Endowment Membership: This embraces those who choose to
endow any particular phase of the Association's work, or the
Association in general. It provides the means for
organization to serve those who desire help from this
source, and cannot afford any monetary contributions. This
class of membership carries the same privileges as the Life
Membership and includes those who choose to donate $1,000 or
more to the Association.
5. HOW TO BECOME A MEMBER: Membership application blanks may
be secured by writing to the Secretary of the Association
(Mr. Edgar Cayce) at Virginia Beach, Va. The blank should
be completely filled out and check for first year's dues,
for Life Membership or for donation, attached thereto, and
both forwarded to the Secretary of the Corporation at the
above address, who will acknowledge receipt of same. A
membership card will be forwarded applicant upon his
election to the Association. Should applicant, for any
reason, not be elected, dues will be returned promptly.
All inquiries by mail or in person should be made at the
main office at Virginia Beach, Va., in care of Mr. Cayce.
READINGS
1. WHAT THEY ARE: Information from the psychic source on
any subject presented.
2. KIND OF READINGS: Unless for special research work or for
exceptional conditions, only two kinds of readings are given
and they are as follows:
(a) PHYSICAL DIAGNOSES: This includes a thorough diagnosis
of the body and brain forces, and also suggestions for
treatment of existent disease or sickness.
(b) LIFE READING: These include information on the
evolutionary development of the individuality giving the
history of the past development of the soul entity,
including the potential ability evolved in past earth
incarnation, which it, at the present time, makes manifest
in the form of the personality peculiar to each of us. A
most interesting treatise from the philosophical,
theological, theosophical or metaphysical viewpoint, yet
given in simple form for the layman.
3. QUALIFICATIONS:
(a) Applicant for a reading must be a member of the
Association or an immediate unmarried member of the family.
(b) A book of application blanks for readings will be
furnished each and every member. This may be secured by
writing the Secretary at Virginia Beach, Va. No reading
will be given unless an application blank is properly filled
out and returned to the Secretary, together with the regular
fixed fee of ten dollars. No other letter, information
or explanation is required, other than called for on
application blank. Location of applicant and time are
no factors, as reading will be given in Virginia Beach
for any member who applies, and who may be in any location,
and at any appointed time. The subconscious knows no time
or space.
(c) In reply to the application for reading, the individual
will receive from the Secretary or Assistant Secretary an
appointment for a reading. The applicant for a physical
reading must be at the address given on application blank
at the time appointed for the taking of the reading.
Applicants finding the time of appointment inconvenient,
should so advise the Secretary immediately upon receipt
of same, and ask for another appointment at another time. In
the case of Life Readings, no appointment is necessary, but
date and place of birth must be furnished. Applicant will
be notified when this reading is to be taken.
4. FEES: A regular fee of $10 is charged members for each
reading, which must accompany application blank. Simply
fill out the blank, attach check of $10, and send both
to Secretary. The Association will then make the
appointment, and Mr. Cayce will give the reading. Each
member should keep a supply of application blanks on hand.
5. RESEARCH: Readings of this character will be taken for
and by properly authorized individuals, and are open for
inspection to all members. Any choosing to visit the
institute and view the work are welcome, provided the
number visiting at any one time is not so great as to
be detrimental to the comfort of patients, and the carrying
on of the work itself. There will be positively no readings
taken as tests, for only those who have faith in the living,
active, divine or psychic forces, existent within, are
eligible to membership or to apply for help from the
psychic source.
LIBRARY AND LECTURE HALL
All members have free access to the Library and Lecture Hall
to the extent of accommodations.
GOVERNING BODY
1. The vote and governing body consists of a Board of ten
to fifteen Trustees herein named.
2. The Board is limited by the charter granted by the state
of Virginia and by the by-laws hereinafter set forth.
3. No class of membership possesses the privilege of vote.
All members in so far as relationship to the Association is
concerned are bound by rules, regulations, and laws passed
by the Board of Trustees.
4. Members may join in this work by serving on committees
and by donating financially for the benefit of the poor,
the sick and the crippled. No organization offers greater
opportunity for individual and collective service for the
benefit of suffering humanity.
DONATIONS
1. Aside from membership dues, any donations from $1.00 up
are welcome. Every dollar donated will be spent to help
the poor and the sick who are unable to pay for aid, or will
go towards the upkeep of the hospital and educational work
of the Association. Each donation will be acknowledged.
2. Donors who choose to become benefactors of humanity may
endow a number of memberships for the benefit of the poor,
or further this beautiful work by endowing some phase of its
activity - the hospital, library, etc.
3. The money, as provided by the State charter and by-laws,
goes towards fighting disease, helping the sick and poor,
or for educational purposes as well as research work in
the field of psychic phenomena, but nothing for individual
profit.
PUBLICATIONS
All publications and publicity of the Association is
under the supervision of the Educational Committee and the
Publication Editor. The membership dues include a yearly
subscription to THE NEW TO-MORROW, which is published in
October, January, April, and July of each year. The ANNUAL
REPORT is published in May of each year and distributed to
such members as care to subscribe to it.
BY-LAWS OF THE CORPORATION
ARTICLE 1 - NAME AND SEAL
This corporation shall be known by the name of Association
of National Investigators, Incorporated, and shall have a
common seal, which shall be kept in custody of the
Secretary-Treasurer.
ARTICLE 2 - OFFICERS
The officers of the Corporation shall be a President, six
vice-presidents, a secretary-treasurer, and an assistant
secretary, who shall be elected by the Trustees for a period
of three years and shall hold office until their successors
are elected and qualify. Position of Secretary and Treasurer
may be united in one person.
The President shall preside at all meetings and shall
have general supervision of the affairs of the Corporation;
shall sign all deeds, and necessary papers, and perform
such other duties as generally belong to the office.
In the absence or disability of the President, the
Vice-President shall exercise all of his functions. It shall
be the duty of the Secretary-Treasurer to keep a record of
the minutes of the Trustees in a book to be provided for that
purpose. He shall keep such book of accounts, as may be
necessary and he shall keep all moneys, deeds, bonds,
valuable papers, and securities of the corporation. He
shall keep the accounts of the corporation and render a
statement at each annual meeting of the Trustees, and
perform such other duties as generally belong to his office.
He shall be custodian of all funds, and sign all checks.
All expenditures shall be made upon proper authorization.
ARTICLE 3 - ANNUAL MEETING
The regular annual meeting of the Trustees shall be held at
twelve o'clock noon on the first Saturday of June each year
in the principal office of the corporation and if such day
be a holiday then the said meeting shall be held on the
Monday following the first Saturday of June. A majority
shall constitute a quorum.
ARTICLE 4 - PRINCIPAL OFFICE
The principal office of the corporation shall be at Virginia
Beach, Virginia.
ARTICLE 5 - SPECIAL MEETINGS
Special meetings of the Trustees may be held at such place
as they may deem proper, whenever called in writing or by
vote of a majority of the Trustees and shall be held at
least four times a year, but at least two of these meetings
shall be held at Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Notices of each special meeting indicating briefly the object
thereof shall be mailed by the Secretary to the Trustees not
less than five days prior to such meetings.
If all the trustees shall waive notice of said special
meeting, no notice of such meeting will be required and
when all the trustees meet in person or by proxy, such
meetings shall be valid, for all purposes without call or
notice, and at such meetings any corporate action may be
taken.
ARTICLE 6 - TRUSTEES
The maximum number of Trustees shall be fifteen with a
minimum number of ten. Vacancies occurring in the Trustees
shall be filled by election of said trustees upon a majority
vote. The Trustees shall serve for a period of three years.
The Trustees shall have full control of the affairs of the
corporation, control of all funds, gifts, and endowments,
and the voting power shall be vested in and limited to the
said Trustees. They shall have full power to appoint and
relieve the necessary committees for the carrying on of the
affairs and purposes of the corporation and have full power
to delegate to said committees such powers as they deem wise.
Voting may be done by proxy. The Trustees shall make all
appropriation of funds of the corporation, and all property
of the corporation shall be under their control. No activity
of the Corporation shall be for private profit. The Trustees
shall have full power to buy, sell, exchange, or encumber the
real estate of the Corporation.
ARTICLE 7 - COMMITTEES
Committees appointed by the Trustees shall elect their own
chairman and the said chairman shall report direct to the
said Trustees. Committees shall have full power to act for
the purposes for which they are appointed and have full
authority over funds appropriated for their use by the
Trustees. All funds received by committees shall be
reported to the Treasurer. Each committee shall establish
its own by-laws, schedules of fees and rules, but shall make
no rules in violation of these by-laws, the laws of any State
or Governmental body. Members of the committees shall be
confined to members of the Corporation, but not necessarily
members of the Trustees. All committees shall report at
least once each year to the Trustees.
ARTICLE 8 - MEMBERSHIP
The membership shall consist of those who desire to become
members and who are willing to contribute to the work of the
Corporation, the amount to be determined by the Trustees as
the minimum membership fee. Members shall have no vote, but
the voting power shall be vested in the Trustees. The number
of members shall be limited as may be determined by the
Trustees. The Trustees may designate a class of members as
charter members and provide for other classes of members as
they deem wise.
Members shall have entree [entry?] into the sanitarium or
hospital. Except upon conditions laid down by State laws,
only members will be received, or those entering must become
members of the Association. Emergency cases that cannot
await approval of membership committee may be admitted to
hospital and their membership enacted upon by committees
thereafter. With these exceptions no non-member shall be
admitted to hospital. The hospital shall be granted a
certain number of emergency memberships by the central
board, when and if the memberships quota of the Association
is filled, such that emergency applications for entrance to
the hospital may be cared for, provided that institution is
not full.
Members of the Association alone may have access to the
institutions of the Associations - may participate in the
work and benefits to be derived from same.
Members alone shall have access to library, research work,
records, hospital within, of course the laws provided for
this by the committees in charge of these institutions.
Members alone shall be entitled to readings, subject to
the regulation of gaining such.
Members may signify their desire to join any phase of the
hospital, social service, research, library, publication,
educational, etc., work of the Association and shall be
granted the privilege of engaging in same in accordance
with the laws of same and needs of same.
Readings shall be furnished by appointment and no guarantee
of same is made, the time and granting of the request
depending upon previous engagements. Each and every
request shall be subject to approval of Mr. Cayce.
On motion duly made and seconded, it was resolved that
the officers and Trustees as named, in the Certificate
of Incorporation, be, and they are hereby elected as
officers and members of the Board of Trustees for the
ensuing year, or until their successors are elected and
qualify.
On motion duly made and adopted a seal was presented
at the meeting with the words, "Association of National
Investigators, Incorporated, Virginia Beach, Virginia, 1927."
THE INSTITUTE HOSPITAL
The Cayce Hospital of Research and Enlightenment was founded
by the Association of National Investigators, Inc., and the
members of this organization, on November 11, 1928. It is
an imposing structure, erected on a hillside overlooking the
Atlantic Ocean, at Virginia Beach, Va. The front of the
hospital looks out upon a flower-studded terrace of green,
beyond which the broad expanse of water may be seen.
The equipment of the hospital is modern and complete in every
detail, including therapeutic and X-ray machines and
facilities for baths. Every possible effort is made by
those in charge to give the utmost comfort and convenience
to each patient. Broad, roomy porches surround two floors
of the building, and the south side of the upper porch is
enclosed in the vitaglass, so that patients are not only
given the utmost in comfort but the utmost in healthful
surroundings.
The lower floor includes Therapeutic and bath rooms, as
well as an X-Ray, laboratory and dispensary. The main floor
includes a large living room, spacious dining hall, diet and
cooking kitchens, together with offices, treatment rooms, and
living quarters for the physician in charge. There is also
on this floor a library and lecture hall.
The hospital floor is one flight up. It includes rooms
overlooking beautifully terraced grounds and the broad
expanse of the ocean. Others face the healthful pine
forests for which Virginia Beach is noted.
There are also two wards, each furnished with a bath. Each
of the pay rooms has a connecting bath, so that every patient
will be given those comforts necessary to home life and
beneficial to convalescence.
The top floor is laid out for patients more active than
others. A 12-car garage in the rear is finished off with
living quarters for the servants. A nurses' home is under
construction. This has been made necessary as the hospital
has been entirely filled and more space for patients was
needed. The construction of this home will release ten
additional beds for the use of patients.
The surrounding country is ideally located for such an
institution and such an important scientific investigation
as our investigators seek to make in this hospital.
Bounded by the Atantic Ocean on one side, Chesapeake Bay on
the other, with a beautifully wooded mainland, the
environment of Virginia Beach is conducive to health. Its
beautiful hotels, golf courses and beach activities, as well
as the interesting drives through historic country are
assurance against monotony. The hum of industry, the rush
of the city, and the usual playground are all absent from
Virginia Beach, and the air about the place is full of quiet
charm and comfort. It is little wonder that the readings
themselves gave this place as the ideal location for the
hospital, and for the radiation of truths pertaining to
psychic phenomenon and the mystic. In this place, and in
this manner, does the Association carry on its humanitarian
activities.
Each individual must enroll as a member of the Association
before obtaining entrance to the hospital. It is planned
to make the institution an educational as well as a medical
center, and in order that this correlated purpose may be
achieved the hospital includes a lecture hall and library.
The building itself is constructed of concrete and shingles,
so built as to allow additions whenever sufficient funds
enable the Association to expand in their work of healing the
sick and relieving the suffering, whether from physical or
mental causes. Thousands of dollars have been spent on the
grounds and the hospital building, and thousands more will be
spent that this glorious task may reach a successful
pinnacle.
OFFICERS, BOARD OF GOVERNORS AND TRUSTEES
OFFICERS
Morton H. Blumenthal, PRESIDENT
Thomas B. Brown, FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT
Edwin D. Blumenthal, VICE-PRESIDENT
Hugh Lynn Cayce, VICE-PRESIDENT
David E. Kahn, VICE-PRESIDENT
F. A. Van Patten, VICE-PRESIDENT
M. B. Wyrick, VICE-PRESIDENT
Edgar Cayce, SECRETARY AND TREASURER
Gladys Davis, ASSISTANT SECRETARY
BOARD OF GOVERNORS
F. F. Bradley David E. Kahn Edwin D. Blumenthal
TRUSTEES
Edgar Cayce, CHAIRMAN OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Morton H. Blumenthal, New York, N.Y.
M. B. Wyrick, Chicago, Ill.
Thomas B. Brown, Dayton, Ohio
Edwin D. Blumenthal, New York, N.Y.
Hugh Lynn Cayce, Virginia Beach, Va.
David E. Kahn, New York, N.Y.
F. A. Van Patten, Virginia Beach, Va.
Edgar Cayce, Virginia Beach, Va.
Gladys Davis, Virginia Beach, Va.
Gertrude Evans Cayce, Virginia Beach, Va.
Franklin F. Bradley, Chicago, Ill.
Lucille Kahn, New York, N.Y.
Adeline Levy Blumenthal, New York, N.Y.
THAT WE MAY MAKE MANIFEST OUR LOVE FOR GOD AND MAN
COMMITTEES
MEMBERSHIP AND READING COMMITTEE
Edgar Cayce Thos. B. Brown Walker E. Land
EDUCATIONAL COMMITTEE
Dr. Wm. M. Brown Franklin F. Bradley Morton H. Blumenthal
FINANCE COMMITTEE
Edwin D. Blumenthal Edgar Cayce David E. Kahn
Thos. B. Brown Morton Blumenthal
HISTORICAL COMMITTEE
Hugh Lynn Cayce Gladys Davis Thomas Sugrue
PUBLIC CONTACT COMMITTEE
David E. Kahn Edwin D. Blumenthal F. F. Bradley
MEDICAL CONTACT COMMITTEE
Dr. Lyman A. Lydic Dr. James R. Parker
CAYCE HOSPITAL COMMITTEE
F. F. Bradley Edgar Cayce Edwin D. Blumenthal
LIBRARY COMMITTEE
Morton H. Blumenthal Sara C. Atkinson Thomas J. Sugrue
MECHANICAL APPLIANCE COMMITTEE
Thos. B. Brown Gray Salter F. F. Bradley
ARCHAEOLOGICAL COMMITTEE
F. F. Bradley, assisted by Hugh Lynn Cayce
NOMINATING COMMITTEE
To be appointed by President
REAL ESTATE COMMITTEE
David E. Kahn, CHAIRMAN F. A. Van Patten Thomas B. Brown
RESEARCH DEPARTMENT
Linden Shroyer, DATASTICIAN Mildred Davis, ASSISTANT
PUBLICATION EDITOR
Thomas J. Sugrue
11/27/28 E. Clair [
4833]'s ltr. to EC explaining why she did
not come to the Cayce Hospital dedication ceremonies on
11/11/28 [written by her sister, [
4835]]:
ETHLYNE CLAIR
BOX 73
HOLLYWOOD, CALIF.
My dear Mr. Cayce;
Owing to the fact that I have been away making a new picture,
your letter of Oct. 18th. has just been brought to my
attention. How sorry I am that a telegram wasn't sent
you on the 11th. the day of the laying of the Corner
Stone.
Although a little late, please accept my heartiest
congratulations on having reached your goal, and the
splendid work I know you are doing.
Knowing your power, and having seen it tried and tested I
know you will now be able to make rapid strides toward
helping your fellow-man. How could I ever forget the
wonderful things you did in Selma! I have always had the
utmost faith in you, and I am certainly very happy that you
have this wonderful hospital and splendid backing.
Speaking of Selma: it was my pleasure to return there last
summer on a personal appearance tour, and the people were
perfectly marvelous to me. It was if Mary Pickford had
suddenly dropped in on them. I was presented with the key
to the city by Mayor Rowan, and all that sort of thing.
It made me feel very good to return to the home-town having
made good.
With a heart full of good wishes and hopes that I will have
the pleasure of dropping in on my next trip east and south,
and loads of love to Mrs. Cayce and Hugh Lynn. I am,
Your sincere friend, [signed] Ethlyne Clair [E.C./A.W.]
1/11/29 EC's ltr. to Ethlyne Clair - answering her ltr. of
11/27/28:
Dear Ethlyne:
Your letter of Nov. 27th and your beautiful Christmas Card
has been on my desk for some time.
Feeling that you would possibly like to read the address made
at the dedication of our Hospital, I am sending you a copy of
it. Don't know how to tell you how much we appreciated your
letting us hear from you. We often think and speak of you.
Hugh Lynn was home from college for Christmas, and although
I was not very well myself, we enjoyed having him with us.
We think the building is going to be beautiful when we can
get the furniture and equipment proper for handling the
members who will wish admittance there for help. I just
came back from New York, where I finished purchasing the
furniture, rugs, and such like.
I am in hopes that some of these days, on your trip East,
that you will include our part of the country in your
program. I noticed from the Selma papers (which we get)
that you took the city by storm. I'm sure it was very
gratifying to you to go back there, after being away so
many years and having made a success out of your career.
While we are waiting on the shipments, I'm going to steal
away for a little while and I trust I'll be able to drop
in on your father in Atlanta, as I'm going through that
way. I had a note from him - he promised to let me hear
from him, but I haven't as yet.
Again thanking you, and hoping that you will let us hear
from you - with love from all, I am
Sincerely, Edgar Cayce [EC:GD]
8/03/37 Card from Malcolm Williamson [Ethlyne Clair's
brother], Chicago:
Dear Radio Friend:
Many thanks! I was very happy to hear from you and hope you
will write again. I am sorry to say, my plans for publishing
a book did not materialize. However, I am still hoping.
Thank you for your loyal support.
Sincerely, [signed] Malcolm Claire ["Uncle Malcolm",
Children's Program]
8/29/37,
12/02/37 GD's note: He obtained Life Rdgs. for his
daughters, [
1434] and [
1489].
7/29/42 Verbal report from Edgar Cayce: ...Ethlyne [
4833]
is married and living in Birmingham, Ala.
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