10/30/28 EC's ltrs. to his sisters Ola & Mary:
Dear Ola [Crume]: I had been thinking of how we could in
some way have something at the institution [the Cayce
Hospital] in memory of Mother. I had planned that I would
have a fountain in front, so I'd gone ahead to have the basin
prepared for this. That same night (after they had begun
work on it in the afternoon) Mother came to me [in a dream]
and we went over the place together. Possibly it was a
little bit of a selfish idea. I ought to have known that you
would all want to have some part in it, for Mother was so
anxious that I would be able to do something with it and to
one day have the place. I was anxious for her to see the
place and know it. Yesterday afternoon, unexpectedly, when
we went to get a reading for someone else, this - the
enclosed - came through. I wasn't conscious of it, of
course, and didn't know until I was told; but if there had
ever been any doubt about a presence being made known, I
think this would clear it all away. Let me know what you
think about it.
Certainly hope you and the baby both are feeling good. Pa
hasn't come back yet - guess he will be back next week.
Kiss the baby for me, and love to Jerry and yourself and all,
from all.
Brother
EC's ltr. to his sister Mary [McPherson]:
Dear Mary:
Sister [Annie] no doubt will tell you about my experience,
but I want you to know it too. You know how anxious I was
to have a place where "the work" might be studied, not just
in a haphazard way but seriously, and you know too how
anxious Mother was that we should have it. I had often felt
that I didn't know whether I cared to succeed unless Mother
knew it, but I know she knows! I had tried to plan something
that would be in memory of Mother - the fountain, which is as
the fountain of living water, which seemed to me the most
appropriate thing for such a place, and I had thought I
would put that. When I had gone about to have the basin
prepared for this, for the first time [since she passed on]
Mother came to me and talked, while I was asleep of course,
and we went through the building. Possibly it was a little
bit of a selfish motive, and I know Mother wouldn't like that
- yet I didn't want to burden any of you - but after the
experiences yesterday - a copy of what was said I'm sending
you, for I am sure you will know it was our Mother talking.
I wasn't conscious of it until after it was all over and
the others told me about it. I want to go ahead and have
this done. If you all want to send any little thing towards
it, it's alright - whether it's little or much, or what -
because I had planned, of course, to take care of it all
myself, but I know now that you all want to be known in it
anyway. Let me hear from you about it. Sister [Annie] will
no doubt talk with you about what we would put on the little
plate. Any suggestion you have to offer will be mighty nice.
Give my love to Will and the children. I know you are all
glad to have Pa with you. Wish you all could come back with
him.
With best love from all,
Brother.
4/07/30 See EC's dream of doll coming to life recorded at end
of rdg.
294-50,
11/24/25, interpreting a similar dream.
10/18/30 See EC's dream had during Physical rdg.
209-1,
recorded below in re meeting Death.
10/18/30 During a Physical Rdg.
209-1 EC had an unusual
dream experience. Upon awakening, he described this
experience as follows:
I was preparing to give a reading. As I went out, I realized
that I had contacted Death, as a personality, as an
individual, or as a being. Realizing this, I remarked to
Death: "You are not as ordinarily pictured - with a black
mask or hood, or as a skeleton, or like Father Time with a
sickle. Instead, you are fair, rose-cheeked, robust - and
you have a pair of shears or scissors." In fact, I had to
look twice at the feet or limbs, or even at the body, to see
it take shape.
He replied: "Yes, Death is not what many seem to think. It
is not the horrible thing which is often pictured. Just a
change - just a visit. The shears or scissors are indeed the
implements most representative of life and death to man.
These indeed, unite by dividing - and divide by uniting.
The cord does not, as usually thought, extend from the center
- but is broken, from the head, the forehead - that soft
portion we see pulsate in the infant. Hence we see old
people, unbeknowing to themselves, gain strength from youth
by kissing there; and youth gains wisdom by such kisses.
Indeed the vibrations may be raised to such an extent as to
rekindle or re-connect the cord, even as the Master did with
the son of the widow of Nain. For He did not take him by the
hand (which was bound to the body as was the custom of the
day), but rather stroked him on the head - and the body took
life of Life itself! So, you see, the silver cord may be
broken - but vibration..." Here the dream ended.
9/15/31 EC obtained his next dream interpretation rdg.,
294-127.
8/46 Dream in Par. R9 above was used in A.R.E. Bulletin
article by HLC entitled THE DOOR THAT SWINGS OUTWARD.
10/03/50 GD's note: EC wrote them later about the above
experience and his plan; they all helped build the memorial:
Sister - Annie Cayce; Sarah - Sarah Cayce Hesson; Ola - Ola
Cayce Crume; Mary - Mary Cayce McPherson; Papa - Leslie B.
Cayce - who died
4/11/37, although he no doubt would have
died, in April of 1930, of bronchial pneumonia, had it not
been for helpful advice followed from his readings.
