1/04/45 - Thursday P.M. - THE NORFOLK LEDGER - DISPATCH:
EDGAR CAYCE, "PSYCHIC HEALER," DIES AT BEACH; FUNERAL FRIDAY
Edgar Cayce, "psychic healer," who attracted national
attention by his diagnosis of human ailments while in a
hypnotic trance, died at his home at Arctic Circle, Virginia
Beach, last night at 7:15 o'clock.
Mr. Cayce had lived at Virginia Beach during the last 20
years, the most dramatic period of his life. Thousands of
believers in psychic powers flocked to his home for
"readings." He employed a staff of secretaries, and his
engagement book was often filled for months in advance.
In the late twenties and early thirties, Cayce attracted the
attention of Morton and Edgar [Edwin] Blumenthal, wealthy New
York brokers who supporting the founding of the Cayce
Hospital, Virginia Beach, and obtained Blumenthal money for
the founding of transitory Atlantic University.
National attention again was focused on his healing powers
and career early in 1943 when Henry Holt & Co. published
"There Is A River: The Story of Edgar Cayce," by Thomas
Sugrue, New York newspaperman who attributed his relief
from invalidism to Cayce's unusual abilities.
Born on a farm in Christian County, Kentucky, near
Hopkinsville, the son of the late Leslie B. and Carrie Major
Cayce, Cayce was considered a dull boy, says his biographer.
He read the Bible prodigiously and one day while so engaged
was approached by a woman "with wings on her back" who asked
him what he wanted most in life. He replied: "Most of all,
I would like to be helpful to other people, especially
children."
The very next day, Sugrue relates, Cayce had been having
trouble with his spelling. He placed the book under his
head and went to sleep; when he woke up he knew all that was
in it. In much the same manner he discovered his diagnostic
powers somewhat later when he lost his voice and in a
hypnotic trance was able to determine the trouble and tell
what to do for it.
Soon he was giving "readings," in which he placed himself
in the hypnotic state and described events, medicines,
diseases and scientific terms with which he was completely
unfamiliar during his waking hours. In later years, his
wife or one of his secretaries transcribed his remarks
during these trances to make them the basis of his advice
to "patients."
In 1912 he was investigated by the Harvard psychologist,
Hugo Muensterburg, who told him, "If it is a trick, you are
not aware of it."
With the Blumenthals, he founded on May 6, 1927, the
Association of National Investigators and moved to Virginia
Beach. The purpose of this corporation, the charter stated,
was "to engage in general psychic research and to provide for
the practical application of any knowledge obtained through
the media of psychic phenomena." To house the clinical work
of this organization Cayce hospital was founded. With the
diminution of Blumenthal funds in the stock market crash,
together with a waning of their interest, this building later
became the Princess Pat Hotel and still later the Terrace
Beach Club. The corporation was dissolved on February 26,
1931, at a meeting which Cayce attended, in the Blumenthal
offices in New York.
UNIVERSITY IS BORN
In the meantime, however, Dr. William Moseley Brown, a
professor at Washington and Lee University decided to run
for Governor on the Republican ticket in 1929 to capitalize
on the Hoover landslide. Losing the election, he was
approached by Cayce and asked if he would undertake to
establish a university at Virginia Beach. Cayce's son had
been a student under Dr. Brown at Washington and Lee.
Cayce enlisted the aid of the Blumenthals, who agreed to
make $100,000 available for the first year's operations;
and Brown set about to establish an institution to rank
with the greatest in the world. He recruited a faculty
of prominent educators, at top salaries; and a site near
the ocean in the vicinity of the hospital was purchased
for the buildings. (The foundations of two structures,
never completed, still stand.)
In organizing the seat of learning, Dr. Brown used Cayce
hospital as his headquarters; and in the autumn of 1930
Atlantic University opened its doors. These doors opened
into beach hotels and cottages, which had been leased for
university quarters pending completion of the institutions
own buildings.
DIFFERENCES ARRIVE
Sugrue sets out that differences arose between Brown and his
backers over the purpose of the university - the Blumenthals
and Cayce wishing to direct its emphasis toward psychic
research and Dr. Brown holding out for a more traditional
academic institution, with psychic research, if any, to come
after its reputation was established. It was the stock
market crash, however, which really wrote finis to Atlantic
University in 1931.
Sugrue, stricken with a form of paralysis in 1938 while a
reporter for the New York Herald-Tribune, lived at Cayce's
home at Virginia Beach - as both "patient" and Boswell -
from June, 1939, to October, 1941. He entered Cayce's home
an invalid and, at last reports, was walking.
Cayce is survived by his wife, Mrs. Gertrude Evans Cayce,
of Virginia Beach; two sons, Hugh Lynn Cayce, USA, and
Capt. Edgar Evans Cayce, USA; two grandsons; and four
sisters, Miss Annie Cayce, Mrs. W. A. McPherson and Mrs.
J. L. Hesson, of Nashville Tenn., and Mrs. J. J. Crume,
of DeLand, Fla.
The body was taken to the H. D. Oliver Funeral Apartments.
Funeral services will conducted at the residence at Virginia
Beach Friday at 10:00 a.m. by the Rev. Joseph B. Clower,
pastor of First Presbyterian church, Morganton, N.C., and
formerly of the Virginia Beach Presbyterian church. The
body will be shipped Friday at 1:30 p.m. via Norfolk &
Western Railroad to Hopkinsville, Ky., for services there
Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Burial will be in Hopewell cemetary, Ky.
1/05/45 P.M. NORFOLK LEDGER-DISPATCH Obituary Column
Edgar Cayce - Funeral services for Mr. Cayce, who died
Wednesday, were held at the residence, Arctic Circle,
Virginia Beach, this morning at 10:00 o'clock by the
Rev. Joseph B. Clower, pastor of First Presbyterian Church,
Morganton, N.C., officiating. The body was taken via
Norfolk & Western Railway at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon
to Hopkinsville, Ky., for burial.
1/4-5/45 Excerpts from Mrs. Ben (Evelyn) Gimbert's diary,
submitted by her daughter, May Gimbert St. Clair, years
later:
MEMORANDA - JANUARY 1943 - Cold 22 degrees.
4th - THURSDAY
That it would clear - so washed. May called and told me
sad news of Mr. Cayce's death last nite at 7:15.
Began raining late in afternoon so brought clothes in and
finished drying over radiator.
1/05/45 Mrs. Ben (Evelyn) Gimbert's diary:
5th - FRIDAY
Cold, clear and windy
Ben and Evelyn to Mr. Cayce's funeral at the house 10:00 a.m.
3 rooms filled. Edgar Evans arrived from Fla. just after
services were over. Hugh Lynn across some where in France.
Body was taken to Norfolk & Western which took funeral party
to Hopkinsville, Ky. for burial.
1/05/45 - Friday - NORFOLK VIRGINIAN-PILOT:
CAYCE FUNERAL THIS MORNING
Funeral services for Edgar Cayce, Virginia Beach psychic
healer, who died Wednesday night, will be conducted at his
residence on Arctic Circle this morning at 10:00 o'clock
by the Rev. Joseph B. Clower, pastor of the Morganton
(N.C.) First Presbyterian Church.
The body will leave this afternoon for Hopkinsville, Ky.,
near which Cayce was born in 1877, for interment.
Cayce is survived by his wife, Mrs. Gertrude Evans Cayce,
of Virginia Beach; two sons, Hugh Lynn Cayce, USA, and
Capt. Edgar Evans Cayce, USA; two grandsons; and four
sisters, Miss Annie Cayce, Mrs. W. A. McPherson and Mrs.
J. L. Hesson, of Nashville Tenn., and Mrs. J. J. Crume,
of DeLand, Fla.
The body was taken to the H. D. Oliver Funeral Apartments
pending the completion of funeral arrangements.
GD's note:
ACTIVE PALL BEARERS HONORARY PALL BEARERS
Mardsden Godfrey Benjamin Gimbert Edward Hardy
Herbert Denney Henley G. Moore Burt Davis
H. E. Poole Russell Hatchett
Riley Simmons A. C. Peele
Noah Miller R. B. Stith
Theron Helms Malcolm H. Allen
1/05/45 - Friday A.M. - NORFOLK VIRGINIAN-PILOT:
Editorial: EDGAR CAYCE AND HIS FABULOUS COTERIE
At his Virginia Beach home Wednesday night died Edgar Cayce,
at the age of 68. Who was Edgar Cayce? The best answer to
that question is to be found in Thomas Sugrue's THERE IS A
RIVER published by Henry Holt & Company in 1942 with the
subtitle THE STORY OF EDGAR CAYCE. The life of this man,
it is asserted by the writer of the advertisement on the
book's dust cover, is "the story of one of the great psychics
of all time."
The story, notes Mr. Sugrue - a true believer in Mr. Cayce's
psychic powers, and a confessed beneficiary of his
ministrations - "belongs in the history of hypnosis, as a
chapter in evidence for the theories of Armand Marc Jacques
de Castenet, Marquis de Puysequr" who, and not Mesmer
(Mr. Sugrue contends) "in 1784 discovered hypnosis." The
biographer relates by the spring of his thirteenth year Cayce
had been through the Bible from Adam to John a dozen times.
Then, one afternoon in May, he became aware of a presence.
A young woman was standing before him; "there was something
on her back; something that made shadows behind her that were
shaped like wings."
"Your prayers have been heard," she said. "Tell me what you
would like most of all, so that I may give it to you."
Young Cayce was frightened. Then he heard himself saying:
"Most of all I would like to be helpful to others, and
especially children when they are sick." In the middle ages
this kind of experience sometimes led to sainthood. In the
Twentieth Century it made of Edgar Cayce a psychic healer.
When Sugrue came upon him in 1942, Cayce had been practicing
"medical diagnosis by clairvoyance for 41 years," his files
at Virginia Beach containing "stenographic reports of more
than 12,000 of these diagnoses."
There is nothing in the Cayce record that suggests the
exploitation or charlatanry that is TOO often encountered
in this disputed branch of healing. People were impressed
by his simplicity and personal integrity. He did not
advertise. He made no platform appearances. He sought no
patients. Patients sought him. Thousands of therapeutic
trances seem to have yielded him not riches but an
extraordinary position in that dim twilight zone of human
mind the growing literature on which falls under the head of
parapsychology.
This part of the story of Edgar Cayce can be turned over to
students of psychic - or perhaps psychotic - phenomena.
Another and briefer chapter of the story concerns the
coterie of his disciples who organized the "Association
for Research and Enlightenment" out of which, through steps
that need not here be traced, grew the short-lived Cayce
Hospital at Virginia Beach and the even shorter-lived
Atlantic University.
How the "University" came to brief flower when a couple of
psychic Wall Street brokers decided to use some of their
boom profits in providing a formal educational vehicle for
psychic research and for Cayce's hypnotic therapies, and how
the university withered and died when the stock market crash
gave its Wall Street angels something else to think about,
is a baroque tale that ranks with the most fascinating in
local history.
2/07/45 Gertrude's note paper on which Thank You notes were
written to those who had sent gifts during her husband's
illness.
Now ailing herself, and trying to continue writing daily to
her two sons still in the service, she allowed Mrs. Gray to
help her with other correspondence.
Mrs. Edgar Cayce
Dear Mr. & Mrs. Gimbert: -
Mrs. Cayce wishes to thank you for your loving thought,
expressed by your generous gift at Christmas. [GD's note:
Mrs. Gray, a friend of the family, came to help, shortly
after Edgar Cayce died on
1/03/45, and helped Gertrude with
all the "Thank You" notes in appreciation of gifts rec'd
during Edgar Cayce's illness. She, Mrs. Gray, remained
after Gertrude's death and helped to continue the A.R.E.
She became one of the first official lecturers of A.R.E.,
helping at home and out in the field, along with Hugh Lynn.]
Sincerely,
Lydia J. Schrader Gray
for MRS. CAYCE
1/11/45 - Thursday - VIRGINIA BEACH NEWS:
Editorial: EDGAR CAYCE
Edgar Cayce, who has died in Virginia Beach at the age of
67, arrived there in September of 1926, after a career as
a photographer and "psychic diagnostician" (the term he used)
which had carried him into many parts of the country but had
still left him with much of native Kentucky and later Alabama
atmosphere about him. He was induced to come largely by the
Blumenthal brothers, Morton and Edwin (originally of
Pittsburgh, later New York brokers), who had grown interested
in his diagnoses and were chiefly instrumental in organizing
the Association of National Investigators and the Cayce
hospital and later the fumbling beginnings of the tragic
Atlantic University.
The full story of this latter episode is still to be
recorded. It would have to come from the Blumenthal
brothers, who provided most of the money; from Dr. William
Moseley Brown, earlier of Washington and Lee University, who
turned from his political adventures in 1929 with the
Republicans and the remnants of the anti-Smith Democrats to
become its first and only president; and from various persons
in Virginia Beach and Norfolk and perhaps elsewhere, who were
familiar with details - as well as from Edgar Cayce. Thomas
Sugrue, who wrote the Cayce biography (THERE IS A RIVER),
tells part of the story, but it still awaits the historian
who can bring together the infinite possibilities in a
strange educational effort.
The end of the effort was inevitable collapse. The earlier
established hospital had to close when money for its support
ran out. But, as to how much Edgar Cayce was responsible for
the collapse of either institution, or even for the
initiation of the "university" is only one of the puzzles of
a life that was full of puzzles for most persons.
The idea that a person with psychic powers may also have
diagnostic powers is not new. To others before Edgar Cayce
such capacities have been attributed. He does not appear to
have claimed any special knowledge of medicine or of
physiology. He said that what happened to him in hypnotic
trances was beyond his explanation and even beyond his
remembrance. He had no gift for advertising himself, never
attained any great public fame, despite much that was written
and more that was talked about him, and he obviously
preferred a simple and quiet life.
Virginia Beach can testify that he lived such a life
there during the last 17 years of a career of "psychic
diagnostician" which covered some 43 years all told, most
of it in small towns. If he reaped any large material
rewards, they did not appear on the surface. He seemed
modest and unpretentious and religious. The rest belongs to
the psychologists, to the students of psychic phenomena and
to those who can pierce the strange ways of the human
personality. They might have had - may yet have - a fruitful
subject in this unusual resident of Virginia Beach.
2/15/45 See GD's ltr. to those having appointments cancelled,
under
254-116 Reports.
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
254-116 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.
4/02/45 - Monday A.M. - NORFOLK VIRGINIAN-PILOT
OBITUARY COLUMN:
DEATHS
MRS. GERTRUDE EVANS CAYCE, 65, widow of Edgar Cayce and
daughter of the late Samuel T. and Elizabeth Salter Evans,
died at her home, 320 Arctic Circle, Virginia Beach,
yesterday at 7:15 a.m. Her husband died on January 3.
Mrs. Cayce was a native of Hopkinsville, Ky., and had been
a resident of this section for the past 20 years. Surviving
are two sons, Sergt. Hugh Lynn Cayce, USA, and Capt. Edgar
Evans Cayce, USA; two grandsons, Charles Thomas Taylor Cayce
and Edgar Evans Cayce, Jr., both of Virginia Beach, and two
aunts, Mrs. T. B. House, Sr. and Mrs. Kate B. Smith both of
Hopkinsville.
The body will be taken from the H. D. Oliver Funeral
Apartments via Norfolk & Western Railway train No. 3 this
afternoon to Hopkinsville for funeral services and burial.
3/15/72 GD's note: Card from Gertrude Cayce [see R7 above]
was given to me tonight by Mamie Gray's daughter, Mrs. Anne
E. Gray, Holbein, Mobile, Ala.
4/25/78 GDT note for A.R.E. Staff Bulletin:
(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 Par. R15 above and under
294-8,
Par. R25.]
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.
[GD's note: Above was briefed from 294-212 Reports.]
[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:
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 - editorial 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 Embleton
" " 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.]
3/13/96 JT's note: William T. Turner, Christian County
Historian of Hopkinsville, Kentucky [no readings] brought me
Mr. Cayce's funeral records from Hughart & Beard Funeral
Homes of Hopkinsville for the record.
After the 10:00 A.M. funeral at the Cayce home on Arctic
Crescent on Friday, January the 5th the casket was taken (by
H. D. Oliver Funeral Apartments) via Norfolk & Western
Railway to Christian County. The casket was transported
from Guthrie to Hopkinsville by Hughart & Beard. Mrs. Cayce,
who was quite ill by this time, did not leave with the
funeral train on Friday the 5th but arrived in Hopkinsville
on Saturday afternoon, January 6th, also by train.
Services at Riverside Cemetery in Hopkinsville were held on
Monday, January 8, 1945, conducted by Reverend Schuster.
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