2/15/45 GD's Letter to those A.R.E. members having
appointments cancelled:
This letter is a sad one. As you probably know, Edgar Cayce
passed from this life on January 3, 1945, after an illness of
several months. His death brought to an end the kind of
wonderful service he was able to give others - these psychic
readings with which he has helped thousands, since the first
one in Hopkinsville, Ky., back in 1901. Your appointment,
which was to have been on a certain date during the coming
months, cannot now be kept, of course.
We of the staff of the Association, who have worked with
Mr. Cayce for so many years, know how deeply this will
disappoint you. We know how much you had looked forward to
your reading. We were also looking forward to helping you.
Now we want to straighten out our account with you. When you
applied for Associate membership you promptly sent us your
contribution which was to be applied to the particular phase
of research involved in obtaining and transcribing your
reading. We want to be just as prompt about sending it back.
If you will just check the enclosed slip and return to us, we
will mail you a check at once. Be sure we have your correct
address.
You might look over the enclosed publication list. If there
are any of our books or pamphlets that you want now, check
them off of the slip you are returning and we will deduct
that amount from the check we are to send you.
There is one more thing about your money. It did not secure
the reading that you wanted. But it might STILL do a lot of
good. You see, Mr. Cayce left behind him about fifteen
thousand detailed readings which are filed in our vault here
along with case histories. Information in these files is
priceless. It covers all kinds of diseases; it deals with
vocational guidance; it offers facts on historical periods -
the range of this information is as wide as human problems
are wide. But because we have all been so eager to get more
and more readings from Mr. Cayce, we have hardly touched this
information. It has not been indexed yet. Now it has
suddenly become our only resource, and everyone seems to want
to turn to it.
That is the basic task of the Association: to extract,
organize and publish the material in these files. We must
begin at once with the data on some of these "incurable"
diseases. And we must continue working with material in all
the areas covered by the readings, until they are carefully
compiled and published. It is a long, slow job to summarize
the work of a lifetime like Mr. Cayce's. You may wish to
help.
People are writing, wiring, calling, and even coming in
person, to tell us here in Virginia Beach that they DO want
to help. One woman in Illinois said it very simply: "Keep
the money I sent. I want it to help carry on this work. God
bless you." It may be that you feel the same way. If you do
- and we have been happily surprised so many times this past
month! - please check that part of the enclosed blank
suggesting you will retain your Associate Membership and you
will be contributing in a real way to the Association's
pioneer study of psychic individuals' phenomena.
It goes without saying that the trustees and the staff of
the Association will be grateful for such a memorial to
Mr. Cayce's work.
And whatever you decide to do, we want you to keep in touch
with us. You may want even to subscribe to the BULLETIN,
as it reports on the progress of research into files of the
readings; presents articles, stories of personal psychic
experiences, book reviews, and keeps you posted on
publications and meetings of the Association.
You may want to subscribe to that unusual little digest
called WEEKLY READINGS EXTRACTS, ONE SET OF THE MOST
INTERESTING EXTRACTS OUT OF EACH WEEK'S RESEARCH. As your
interest in the Association grows, you may some day wish to
become an Active Member with added responsibility and
participation which this kind of sustaining membership
involves.
Send us back the enclosed sheet marked with your
instructions.
Let me say again that we share your disappointment in not
receiving your reading. We know you are sharing our personal
sorrow.
Sincerely, [Signed]
Dorothy Gladys Davis, Secretary
ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH AND ENLIGHTENMENT, INCORPORATED
To the ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH AND ENLIGHTENMENT,
INCORPORATED:
In regard to the amount I have deposited with you, I would
like to do the following, as I have checked:
( ) Return the money to me in full.
( ) Deduct the publications I have checked and send them to
me with the balance.
( ) Accept the amount which I have on deposit with you as a
contribution to the work of the Association, in which I wish
to keep an Associate Membership waiving claim to a reading
but desiring to further the program of the Association as it
presents to others that which has been found helpful.
I would like to make these comments: and suggestions:
PERIODICALS
MONTHLY BULLETIN - carrying news of the Association
activities - $2.50 yr.
WEEKLY READINGS EXTRACTS - consisting solely of extracts from
readings of Edgar Cayce-----------------------------$5.00 yr.
DIARY-LETTER (weekly) to members--------------------$3.00 yr.
PHYSICAL CASE STUDIES
Complete reports on cases of individuals helped by informa-
tion secured in Physical Readings. Each study------$ .25
APPENDICITIS - ARTHRITIS - THE COMMON COLD - EPILEPSY -
INTESTINAL FEVER - SCLERODERMA - STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION
MIMEOGRAPHED BOOKLETS
ONENESS OF ALL FORCE - A compilation of extracts presenting
the basic philosophy of Edgar Cayce's readings-------$ .25
CHILD TRAINING - A compilation of several readings---$ .25
BOOKS
A SEARCH FOR GOD - Discourses based on readings of Edgar
Cayce pertaining to the spiritual laws of the universe and
their practical application, compiled by Department of Study
Groups of the Association (Postage 4 cents)----------$1.50
THERE IS A RIVER - The Story of Edgar Cayce - a biography by
Thomas Sugrue, published by Henry Holt and Company (Postage
10 cents)--------------------------------------------$3.00
PRINTED BOOKLETS
MEDITATION - A compilation of information given through Edgar
Cayce concerning the importance and technique of meditation.
(This booklet is the first chapter in the book A SEARCH FOR
GOD.)------------------------------------------------$ .25
THE ESSENES - An interpretation of the Essene group, drawing
on historical material and some of Mr. Cayce's readings
concerning the preparation for the birth of Jesus. Unusual
information on the most important period in history, compiled
by Enid Severy Smith, Ph.D.--------------------------$ .35
EGYPT IN THE DAY OF THE HIGH PRIEST, by Millicent Horton
-----------------------------------------------------$ .50
AURAS - An Essay On the Meaning of Color, by Edgar Cayce.
This was written last August while Mr. Cayce was visiting
Mr. Thomas Sugrue in Florida. It was the very last thing
he put his hand to doing. The booklet gives his
interpretation of the colors of the spectrum and tells many
of his experiences in reading auras. The editor has written
a preface for the booklet, telling of its inception, how it
was written, and giving a sketch of Mr. Cayce as he appeared
in those last days - a sort of final note to the biography
-----------------------------------------------------$ .35
4/45 VOL. XIII. 7
$2.50 a year
25 cents a copy
B U L L E T I N
ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH AND ENLIGHTENMENT, INCORPORATED
Virginia Beach, Virginia
"Man's search for truth is his search for God."
[Editorial by Thomas Sugrue] [See also
294-212 Reports.]
GERTRUDE EVANS CAYCE
1880 - 1945
On Easter Sunday morning at 7:15 o'clock, in her home on
Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Virginia, Gertrude Evans
Cayce passed away. She was buried at Hopkinsville, Kentucky,
in the family plot which three months before had been opened
to receive her husband.
Thus ended the love story of Gertrude Evans and Edgar Cayce.
It began on a hot summer day in the early eighteen-nineties,
in Hopkinsville, where the Cayce family had come to live from
their farm in south Christian County. Edgar was working in
the local book store. One day a family friend, Miss Ethel
Duke, drove up in a horse and buggy and called him outside.
In the carriage with her was a pretty young girl. "I want
you to meet a cousin of mine," Ethel said to Edgar. "This is
Miss Gertrude Evans. Gertrude this is Edgar Cayce."
That was the beginning. He went to a lawn party at
Gertrude's home the next week. Soon he was visiting at the
Hill regularly. They became engaged, and on Wednesday,
June 17th, 1903, they were married. Through the years they
worked together, and it was Mrs. Cayce who sat beside her
husband, acting as conductor, during most of the 15,000
readings which he gave during his long career as one of the
world's great psychics.
Everyone who knew Mr. Cayce was amazed by his strange power,
but those who were privileged to know the man personally,
and to observe the family life which surrounded him, came
eventually to be as equally impressed by the phenomenon of a
home which seemed to achieve the ideal which every person
cherishes for this sacred institution. There is no doubt
that the Cayce family life was unique and inspiring. Not
only was there complete harmony between the four members of
the family - Gertrude, Edgar and their two sons, Hugh Lynn
and Edgar Evans - but they had a genius for absorbing friends
and visitors into the group in such a way that a stranger
felt at home almost instantly. Many families are closely
knit, but usually in such cases the members present a united
front against outsiders. The opposite was true of the
Cayces. A friend of any one of them was friend of all four.
Their home was always big enough for one more friend, one
more visitor.
Probably this is explained by the fact that individually and
collectively they tried to live Christianity. They never
gave lip service to an ideal; they carried it out in deed.
But the guiding genius of this organized friendliness was
Mrs. Cayce. She loved her home above all things, but she
conceived it to be a place of rest and comfort and refuge for
not only her family, but for anyone who needed these precious
blessings.
Her youngest son, Captain Edgar Evans Cayce, was with her
when she passed. Her oldest son, Sergeant Hugh Lynn Cayce,
was at his post of duty with General Patton's army in
Germany.
9/24/45 See IMG's letter to Rudolph Johnson giving details
re. office activities, Harmon Bro, Gina Cerminara, Matt
Kurtz.
11/45 HLC returned to Virginia Beach after being overseas
two years.
Throughout '45 and '46 GD's and HLC's letters to David and
Lucille Kahn indicate how the planning of the A.R.E. work
is continuing.
4/17/46 See HLC's letter to DEK re. forming the E.C.F.,
asking his opinion, stating plans.
7/01/46 See HLC's letter to DEK re. E.C.F. plans presented at
A.R.E. Congress.
12/10/46 HLC's ltr. to A.R.E. Members - in re E.C.F.:
Virginia Beach, Va.
THE EDGAR CAYCE FOUNDATION
A report from Hugh Lynn Cayce
To: Members of the Association
In January 1946, shortly after my return from overseas, I
began talking with Trustees and other members of the
Association regarding the creation of a department, to be
known as the Edgar Cayce Foundation, which would insure the
systematic preserving, indexing and extracting of the
readings. This, everyone agreed, was the very heart of our
future activities - the key to the services we are capable
of rendering.
In the discussions which ensued, it was agreed that
ultimately a separate benevolent corporation be formed for
this work; for, it was felt, many people not interested in
taking an active part in the Association work would want to
help in preserving and preparing for use the readings which
helped so many people. It was considered wise also to seek
endowment funds for this work on a long-range program, as
the complete indexing, microfilming, copying, extracting,
etc., would require time, skilled technical help and
equipment.
We have proceeded to develop these plans and I believe you
will be gratified with the results to date:
1. Theron Helms, Douglas Johnston and Rudolph Johnson have
worked with me in preparing a set of corporation papers
designed to create the cooperative, benevolent organization
which can integrate its activities with the Association and
the Publishing Company.
I like to think of these three - the Association, the
Publishing Company and the Foundation - as the mind, body,
and soul of our over-all program to make full use of the
records and the inspiration of Edgar Cayce's work which
basically was the bringing to men everywhere a greater
awareness of their real nature and purpose here.
2. From a few members of the Association sufficient funds
have been provided to make it possible for one individual to
begin spending full time on the indexing and extracting. It
is recognized that other technical and clerical help will
later be needed. But it has been thought wise to spend
several months in developing a systematic plan for this work
which can be shown to all who may be interested in preserving
and using these records.
Gladys Davis, who knows more about the history and content
of the readings than anyone living today, has been freed from
all other routine duties so that she can begin working
exclusively with the reading files. This necessitated many
changes which I will explain later.
3. Plans have been set in motion to hold in New York City,
early in 1947, a Foundation meeting at which this work will
be fully discussed. Among those with whom the plans for this
meeting have been discussed, who will take part in it and in
the activity stemming from it, are: Thomas Sugrue, Margaret
Hall, Harold J. Reilly, William F. Mitchell, Douglas T.
Johnston, David E. Kahn, Dr. Frank P. Dobbins, Dr. Morton
Singer and Mrs. Julia Chandler.
In relieving Gladys Davis of her many duties with the
Association and the Publishing Company, it has been necessary
to divide the work. In close cooperation with the Executive
Committee the following steps have been taken:
Theron Helms has accepted the position of treasurer of the
Association. He will continue to handle the books of the
Association and the Publishing Company. Mr. Helms has been
interested in the Association for many years. He has already
rendered magnificent service (and I use this term advisedly)
in keeping the records. He is practically giving his
services gratis to aid in furthering the work. We are
fortunate, I feel, in having his cooperation. The
Executive Committee and Trustees, who have worked with him
through the past three critical years, are fully in accord
with his thorough, clearcut, sound, business-like approach
to our financial requirements.
This letter also allows me to introduce Miss Dorothy V.
Morrisette, the new membership secretary of the Association,
who is now handling the clerical work in the office and the
details of both the Publishing Company accounts and the
Association membership activities. Dorothy (as a matter of
interest to you) had her first reading in 1938. In all she
had five physical readings and three life readings. From
time to time she has given her services gratis in assisting
us to get reports and in handling special clerical jobs for
the Association. Dorothy has had years of stenographic and
general business experience. She has undertaken her work
with us at a salary far below that which can command in the
business world. Here, too, we are fortunate in securing such
skilled assistance. She will work directly with Theron Helms
in handling all of the financial records.
Just what will this mean to you as a member of the
Association:
1. The work of indexing and extracting (which has been going
on bit by bit for years) will go forward systematically and
more rapidly. This will mean more material for articles,
research papers, lectures, etc., and thus more information
for you from the records left by Edgar Cayce.
2. Gradually better individual extracting service can be
rendered on the basis of the member's requests.
3. There will be more thorough, efficient handling of the
membership records - more prompt answers to your questions
and better membership services.
4. The handling of the whole financial structure of our
organization will be more efficient. Clear, accurate records
and reports are essential to orderly development of this
phase of our work.
5. An extension of our publications, health service, lectures
and group study will be possible, as I am able to devote more
time and effort to the much needed organization work in these
fields.
Early in 1947, we will present the Foundation program to you
in a complete form.
As you know from recent reports, the Association growth
depends on its membership expansion. If you have not renewed
your membership you will soon be getting a reminder from the
office. (These notices will go out regularly beginning the
first of the year.)
Consider changing from an Associate status to an Active
member. Remember that our work is not only what we give
you, but what you help us give others who are seeking.
Christmas greetings and best wishes!
Sincerely yours, [signed]
Hugh Lynn Cayce
12/10/46 DIARY LETTER by GD:
ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH and ENLIGHTENMENT, Incorporated
Virginia Beach, Virginia
320 Arctic Circle (at 14th St.)
Phone 954
We are expecting Dr. and Mrs. Harold J. Reilly tomorrow
night; they are stopping on their way from N. Y. to Florida
just as they did last year. (See DL
8/16/46)
CAYCE HOUSE inmates will turn out en masse on Thursday
morning to eat breakfast with our distinguished guests before
they start on their journey.
Usually these days we each go our own way so far as food and
drink are concerned. After the hectic summer boarding house
arrangement we decided enough was enough and that we each
would wait on ourselves completely by merely sharing the
kitchen privileges. This plan has worked out very well
except that now and then one of us leaves our stuff lying
around and somebody else uses it. We each have a shelf in
the refrigerator and in the pantry with our name on it! If
we don't put our things back where they belong it usually
becomes public property, after a half-hearted attempt has
been made, of course, to find the owner. For instance, the
other day somebody asked, "Whose jar of honey is that?" I
rushed to the rescue by answering, "Why, that's Mrs. B's
honey."
The nickname has stuck; nobody says Mrs. Brandenburger.
LYDIA left Saturday morning for Middle Haddam, Conn., where
she expects to spend the winter with her friend Mrs. Wiard.
She says she will see us in January at the N.Y. meeting. I
miss her terribly.
VISITORS Mr. and Mrs. Simon Kasdin and younger daughter
Nancy, from Morristown, N.J., spent several days with us
recently. (See DL
9/20/46) Simon writes:
"I chafe under the necessity of the ordinary obligations of
life and count the days until I can return to Va. Beach...I
have been made District Commissioner by the Rosicrucians, and
have again taken up my old obsession - building houses -
which, together with my law practice, Sunday School class,
mystic studies and lodge memberships, keeps me quite busy.
I still get most pleasure out of building houses - I wish
EC were here, he might tell me why."
On one of the visits Simon expects to build a cabinet under
our kitchen sink. This is another little job that Mrs. Cayce
had planned to get done some day.
ATTENTION NEW YORK! Thomas Sugrue's next lecture, sponsored
by the New York Study Group of the Ass'n, will be held on
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19th, 8:15 P.M., at Willkie Memorial Hall,
20 West 40th St. His subject: THE MEANING OF CHRISTMAS.
Bring your friends.
ADVISORY BOARD OF PHYSICIANS A letter just came from a
member of the N.Y. Group saying: "Was very interested
personally in your last WRE [Weekly Readings Extracts], as
I am nearsighted. Do you have the name and address of a
N.Y. osteopath who is familiar with Mr. Cayce's work? I
would deeply appreciate having it."
Our August 1946 Bulletin carried a list of physicians who
had expressed their willingness to cooperate in making use of
the information in the physical readings. At that time Dr.
Dobbins was still in the U.S. Army. The above question
reminds us that we have not made the announcement of his
return to his practice in the NEW YORK AREA: Dr. Frank P.
Dobbins, 196 Richmond Ave., Port Richmond 2, Staten Island,
N.Y. Dr. Dobbins has handled over 100 cases of people who
went to him with physical readings. Two of those were
serious eye disturbances which completely cleared with
following the treatment advised in the readings.
(DL's 8/19-30/46)
Dr. Dobbins was the first to get us started on the plan of
seeking reports from individual doctors as to their findings
in following the readings. It is great to have him back to
help in our research program. Members in the N.Y. area who
wish to have contact with a doctor familiar with the
terminology of the readings are indeed fortunate in being
able to have access to Dr. Dobbins.
TIR [THERE IS A RIVER] Simon Kasdin continues: "My friend
just sold, with my assistance, his 1st dozen copies of TIR.
He is Scotch by heredity...Among the purchasers was a
Catholic priest, Episcopalian minister, Jewish rabbi, and a
Negro doctor."
MEMBERSHIPS All of the Association literature and the books
for sale by the Publishing Company will be available at the
open meeting of the N. Y. Study Group. Much interest has
been aroused in the Ass'n activities by the open meetings in
N.Y. and other places.
We were pleasantly surprised to have a fat letter from the
DAYTON GROUP enclosing SIX new membership applications.
Bob Zindorf wrote, "For some reason or other I've run out of
applications. Can you send more?"
That's the kind of cooperation that makes for real expansion
of the entire Ass'n program.
"Are we going to have reminders when our dues are due?" asks
Margueritte Bro. "YES, MA'AM!" answers GD. Dorothy is the
good little gremlin. (See Hugh Lynn's letter re: the E.C.F.
in 254-116, Par. R16.) She is our new Membership Secretary.
Although I still remain the Secretary of the Association,
gradually my duties are being switched to Dorothy. It will
be possible for me to continue the DL's and to attend all
Ass'n Board Meetings in order to keep a record of the
minutes; otherwise my entire time will very shortly now be
devoted entirely to the EDGAR CAYCE FOUNDATION'S job of
INDEXING. So you'll be hearing much about this from now on.
Of course I'll still read all of the letters before they are
filed and in that way gather material for the DL's, but the
many detailed duties will now be concerned with the indexing
and extracting. Of course I don't have to tell you that I
love this job above all others. I consider it an honor and
a privilege to spend the rest of my life, as Eric Olsen
expresses it, "a termite in the files of the readings."
WRE'S "are really swell" writes M. Bro. "Harmon and June
arrived last night and will be here for 7 wks. while Harmon
gets ready to take his comprehensive exams at Harvard."
Love and bye now. GD
1/16/47 See DEK's letter to HLC.
7/13/47 See HLC's letter to DEK re. open meeting at Freedom
House in N.Y.C. to discuss the E.C.F. plans.
3/21/49 See HLC's letter to Mr. & Mrs. Milton W. Harrison
re. professional fund-raising effort to get the readings
microfilmed.
10/15/50 See 11/50 SL, "Chronology of Life & Work of EC and
A.R.E." In 1950 Gina Cerminara's book MANY MANSIONS was
published. In 1952 A SEARCH FOR GOD, Book II was published
(Book I in 1942)
3/56 A.R.E. Headquarters moved from Arctic Crescent
(14th St.) to original Cayce Hospital site, now 215-67th
Street.
In 1957 Gina Cerminara's book THE WORLD WITHIN was published.
See Date Sequence file of Publications and publicity in
vault.
2/78 See GD's History/Perspectives/Suggestions on E.C.F. and
A.R.E., for years 1931-1946, under
254-57 Reports.
3/20/78 GDT's note:
What is a work reading?
The term "Work Readings" refers to a special series of 116
readings concerned primarily with the work of Edgar Cayce.
Most of these were requested by Edgar Cayce himself or, in
later years, by Hugh Lynn Cayce as Manager of A.R.E. The
series begins with
254-1 on
2/13/11 and ends with 254-116
on
8/28/44.
See booklet HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE EDGAR CAYCE WORK READINGS
compiled by Robert A. Adriance, c Edgar Cayce Foundation
1968, 4th printing A.R.E. Press 1976.
Actually, the information in this special series [
254] is
only a small part, though an important part, of that given
on Edgar Cayce's work. To make a thorough study of it would
require researching in chronological order all the cases
listed in OVER FIVE FEET of index cards entitled WORK:E.C.:
etc., etc., etc., [with subheadings A.N.I. to World Affairs].
4/25/78 GDT's note: [See also
294-212 Reports.]
(Q) How did Edgar Cayce die?
(A) From
2/23/44 through
3/13/44 Edgar Cayce was ill,
bordering on pneumonia. He asked his family doctor,
Dr. Robert Woodhouse, to try the new sulfa drug on him.
It was a mistake. His heart became enlarged, with fluid
on the lungs.
8/25/44 He wrote Mrs. [
1770] "such a pain
through heart and chest". On
8/30/44 he and Mrs. Cayce left
Va. Beach for Roanoke for a rest. His right hand was
affected so that he couldn't any longer use his little
typewriter to peck out personal letters; no strength in his
fingers. On
9/17/44 in Roanoke he gave the last reading,
for himself. GD came up for it and Dr. Henry George III.
It described general debilitation, the using up of all his
energies without replenishing them. A week later he had a
stroke and became partially paralyzed.
On
11/21/44 Edgar Evans Cayce (just home on leave from long
duty overseas) got his father back home via new Va. Beach
ambulance (Rescue Squad) with Dr. C. W. Irvin going up to
come back with him in the ambulance.
Edgar Cayce was a pitiful sight coming in on the stretcher,
so weak he couldn't speak above a whisper - and weeping - so
glad to be home but heartbroken to be in such a fix.
On
12/19/44 Dr. Henry George III came and consulted with
Drs. Robt. Woodhouse and Waller Taylor. They advised that
if EC would not go to the hospital they would have to bring
the hospital to him; 24 hr. nursing service; oxygen;
digitalis; sufficient atropine or belladonna to dry him up;
blood count; blood urea; blood phosphorus; cardiograph;
chest x-ray; etc., etc., etc. "Don't give him anything that
is apt to strangle him. I think the real danger is in him
strangling to death." Hospital bed; etc., etc.
At 12:01 A.M. on
1/01/45 GD, who had the night shift, said
- as they heard the horns blowing - "Happy New Year - we're
going places and do things in 1945." He said "Same to you
- maybe - maybe - if the Lord is willing."
On
1/02/45 in late P.M. a beautiful deathbed scene and
conversation between Edgar and Gertrude was witnessed by GD
as GC was getting ready to leave her duty and GD was coming
on duty for the night. [See under
294-8, Par. R25, and also
Par. R7 above.]
At 5:50 P.M. on
1/03/45 Dr. Woodhouse said all had been done
that could be done. His sister Annie brought him up some
oyster stew, which he had known beforehand that she was
making for him. He took
2-3 sips of it. 7:15 P.M. he
stopped breathing.
[See also under MY YEARS WITH EDGAR CAYCE, Chapter 10.]
[Above was briefed further in
5/01/78 A.R.E. Staff Bulletin.]
2/22/79 [GD's note: Today,
2/22/79, is Gertrude's 99th
birthday!] GD's list of old published articles to consider
in possible anthology on EDGAR AND GERTRUDE CAYCE AS WE KNEW
THEM: [See also
294-212 Reports.]
1/45 EDGAR CAYCE, 1877 - 1945 - Editorial by Thomas Sugrue
- 1/45 A.R.E. Bulletin
4/45 GERTRUDE EVANS CAYCE - 1880 - 1945 - Editorial by
Thomas Sugrue - 4/45 A.R.E. Bulletin
9/64 EDGAR & GERTRUDE CAYCE AS I KNEW THEM - by Gladys Davis
Turner - 9/64 Searchlight
1929-1941 Edgar Cayce's approximately 45 lectures given
consciously (not in a "reading"), some published bimonthly
in Virginia Beach News in 1931, some later re-published in
the little book WHAT I BELIEVE (c1946-1974 E.C.F.) and some
that have not been published at all, though a few have been
printed or reprinted in back issues of THE SEARCHLIGHT now
out of print. (Vault Archives)
1923-1944 Edgar Cayce's correspondence - umpteen loose-leaf
volumes of GD's so-far selected letters from which nuggets
on EDGAR CAYCE THE MAN can be drawn, aside from his psychic
work. - (GD's office) (His letters are full of references
to Gertrude and each of the boys, as well as to his close
friends and associates.)
1912-1944 EDGAR CAYCE AS WE KNEW HIM - by Hugh Lynn Cayce,
2nd chapter of THE OUTER LIMITS OF EDGAR CAYCE'S POWER -
'71 Paperback
1923-1945 MY YEARS WITH EDGAR CAYCE - MEC & GDT - '72
Paperback
2/46 EDGAR CAYCE'S STUDY OF THE BIBLE by Hugh Lynn Cayce
- 2/46 Searchlight
5/57 THE BIBLE AND YOU by GDT - 5/57 Searchlight
1915-1944 EDGAR CAYCE'S DREAMS - Library Series - DREAMS &
DREAMING 8/76
1939-1944 EC'S TUESDAY NIGHT BIBLE CLASS MINUTES -
(Krajenke's bks) - Archives
12/77 HLC's still unpublished article - A PSYCHIC'S WIFE -
(Ask him!)
6/48 A.R.E. Bulletin - Edgar Cayce as a Religious Figure -
Bro. - O/P
10/51 Searchlight - Edgar Cayce - The Man & His Work -
L.J.S. Gray - O/P
P.S. There are also many tapes to be transcribed, made of
interviews with those people who knew Edgar Cayce.
2/22/79:
Copy to Hugh Lynn Cayce
" " Charles Thomas Cayce
" " Jim & Phyllis Embelton
" " Ken Skidmore
" " Kitty Brittell
" " Gail Cayce
GD's note: Today,
2/05/85, Dr. Robert J. Jeffries told me
that he has found the tapes he made of interviews with Hugh
Lynn and me, during the last two years of Hugh Lynn's life,
in which he asked us to tell everything we could remember
about Edgar and Gertrude, as far back as we could remember.
[Hugh Lynn wanted me to be present because he thought I
could remind him of things which he might not remember.]
12/10/80 HLC's ltr. to A.R.E. Members:
ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH AND ENLIGHTENMENT INCORPORATED
Atlantic Avenue at 67th Street
P.O. Box 595
Virginia Beach, Virginia 23451
Office of the Cable:CAYCE
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD Telephone:(804) 428-3588
Dear Members,
This is just a report on my present status. Perhaps I pushed
a little too hard - perhaps it was Egyptian karma - perhaps
my body was just saying "slow down." Here's what happened.
Sally and I enjoyed two beautiful weeks with the A.R.E.
Hawaiian conference/tour. We then flew to San Francisco,
rested overnight, and on to New York where we rested that
night and the next day. That evening we flew to Cairo with
almost 100 A.R.E. members. We had personally looked forward
to this trip; it had been planned very carefully.
On the plane I began to have severe pains in my left side in
the kidney area. Dr. Rudolph Wilhelm, one of the Egypt tour
participants, gave me medicine that relieved the pain. The
group went to the hotel near the Cairo airport to prepare for
their week's trip on the Nile. After a very disturbing
night, the doctor insisted that Sally and I return to the
U.S. immediately. He put us on the first flight out of
Cairo, and we were back in Virginia Beach that night.
I went immediately into Bayside Hospital, and after scans,
X-rays, etc., they removed my left kidney on Friday, November
21. Everything has gone wonderfully. I was well enough to
briefly attend the December 6 Open House arranged for my
book, FACES OF FEAR, and to thank the people who had
participated in and attended the program.
One of the most beautiful notes I received in the hospital
was from a 12-year-old boy who wrote, "I'm so sorry to hear
you have lost your kidney. You won't be able to play
football. That's all they told me I couldn't do when I
found out I had only one." He and I may just start an
A.R.E. one-kidney club. I've discovered many people who
are doing very well with just one.
I wish especially to thank all of you for your calls, cards,
flowers, food, and especially your prayers. I expect to be
in the office next week for a few hours a day.
With love to every single one of you and best wishes for a
Happy New Year,
[signed] Hugh Lynn Cayce
11/17/81 Questions to GDT:
TO: GLADYS DAVIS TURNER
DATE: November 16, 1981
Gladys dear, could you tell me the number of people who were
members in the following years: 1931, 1943, 1945.
I would appreciate getting this information very much for
PRESS.
[...] - Membership Dept.
11/17/81 GDT note to [...] - Membership Dept.
Approximately 115 members signed up by July 1931.
Approximately 1000 in 9/43 after THERE IS A RIVER came out
in 11/42.
2000 mbrs. in 1/45 as result of book & Coronet [CORONET
ARTICLE "MIRACLE MAN"]. When returning membership fees for
rdgs. not gotten, after EC's death on
1/03/45, there remained
around 300 hard core members who remained with us.
[signed] Gladys Davis Turner
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