4/04/33 EC's letter:
Just a line to let you hear from us. I'm certainly glad to
know that you are feeling somewhat better. You will find, I
think, that with a little more persistence, faith, and
adherence to the things necessary for creating the better
normal balance in your system, there will be brought about
much more satisfactory conditions. For, I am sure you
realize you have reached that period when your body does not
adjust itself as rapidly, even as it did when it was
resigning itself to the disorders that existed in your system
which produced the condition. And it requires a great deal
of effort on your part to produce a building up, rather than
the standing still or gradually going down.
House cleaning is one of those things I can't say that I am
so much in love with. I do like to see things straight, and
I do like to make changes once in a while; but I suppose I am
one of those individuals where it comes most too spasmodic
and not hardly systematic enough.
The country around here is very, very beautiful just at this
time. Our oldest boy, who is Assistant Scoutmaster for the
Boy Scouts here, has been and is very busy trying to get a
cabin built out in the woods for his troop, on the lake about
five or six miles from here. I've been with him in the woods
a few times recently. All the wild flowers, the green things
coming up, and red buds and all the beautiful shrubs that
bloom in the spring here, all are awakening to the sunshine
and showers that we have been having recently in this part of
the country. And, as you know, I love the woods anyway.
The financial stress and strain has been unusually hard on us
through these periods, when so many of the banks over the
country are necessarily making adjustments. And, of course,
many of our friends and helpers have been left in possibly
about the same position as ourselves. But all of these
things will gradually adjust themselves, I am sure, and I
hope we will be able to hold out until better times come.
Or, as the colored man says in the South, I hope we can stand
it until berry time comes; and then we can get along some
way, with berries and roastin' ears.
I have enjoyed very much the magazines you sent me, and I
hope that in the near future I may become a subscriber. I
enjoy the articles as well as the illustrations and
suggestions for the development of various characters of
gardens. Many thanks for enclosing the slips. As soon as I
can use one myself, I'll pass some of them out to some of the
rest of my friends and I am sure will be interested in having
this publication.
Yes, I come under the sign Pisces. That's why, according to
astrology, I suffer at times with my feet; just as, according
to astrology, why you, under the sign of Sagittarius, have
the inclination for the weak back. These are only
inclinations, and are no doubt builded by our own entities,
rather than those things influencing us because we happen to
be born in a certain time of the year. But we were born in a
certain time of the year because we have let such things
influence us.
Yes, our name, of course, is Irish. I believe I told you
just how we came by this particular manner of spelling it.
Our forefathers who first came here, of course, spelled the
name C-a-s-e-y; one of them was the architect for the Library
of Congress, and his father was the construction mason on the
Washington monument. Of course, it would take a Pat Casey to
do such! Though, from that period, the Continental Congress
changed the name, that they might be designated from the rest
of them.
So you are Canadian born. We have a very dear friend living
here who is a Canadian by birth. And we have had some very
close friends who live in this country rather by adoption,
but who were of Canadian birth. My wife has always been
rather anxious to visit Canada. So far we have never been
able to make it.
My mother's people were very ENGLISH; in fact, the Major
Castle and estate, I believe is still intact. Her name was
Major. So, we are Irish and English.
My wife's people also are English and Scotch. Very recently
my father (who is living with us, and who will soon be eighty
years old) had a letter from one of the Cayce families who
has the family tree, and there's quite a bunch of them in
this country. They are all over. In fact, I have a cousin -
I believe - who is at the present time living in Cleveland -
C-a-y-c-e. He is in some automobile factory, or something of
the kind there.
Very recently we had some correspondence with, and a reading
for, one of the officials in the Truscon Steel Company -
whose office is in Cleveland, or one of them.
Well, there may be a great deal in a name. I remember your
speaking sometime ago of being burdened with such a wonderful
name; though you didn't call it wonderful. I don't know but
what oftentimes individuals would be justified in changing
their names. Of course, we recognize the fact, as we read
the Holy Writ, that a name meant a very great deal during
those days. It implied the characteristic of the individual.
And we find many, when they where called for some special
service or work, whose names were changed to HARMONIZE -
possibly, we would say - more with the undertaking, or
conditions with which they had to deal.
Well, a friend brought a few more trees today. So, I've been
out putting them around the little lake - a few willows and
poplars. While the grounds are not such as to lend them-
selves for so much of this improvement on our own lot, we
went over on the other fellow's and beautified his, which
will no doubt aid ours also.
Let us hear from you when you have the opportunity. You know
we are always glad and anxious to hear.
Sincerely,
EC:GD
5/04/33 She wrote that she had improved considerably.
5/09/33 Mrs. [
464]'s letter: "I have a friend who comes to
see me once in two weeks or so and she says she can see
improvement in me every time she comes.
"My left sciatic nerve pains me so. I cried with it
yesterday. Maybe the weather has something to do with it."
5/15/1933 EC's letter:
My dear Mrs. [
464]:-
I was indeed very glad to have yours of the 4th, and to know
that you are on the improve. You realize, I am sure, that it
is necessarily slow, and at times quite laborious to keep up
the suggestions that may enable you to recover entirely from
that which has been disturbing you for so long. However, I
hope you are convinced that you are indeed on the right road,
and that there is only required a little patience and
persistence on your part to be able to throw this off. Quite
often we realize, as scenes, things, conditions and people
change about us, that we are being left rather in a rut, or
at a standstill; that our physical bodies don't respond as
they once did; we too easily and too often become discouraged
and begin to blame it on the influences about us, not
realizing that an effort on our part is required in order to
adjust ourselves and grow with the conditions about us; and
that all things indeed work together for good, if we will
meet the situations fairly and squarely.
No, it is not easy to overcome our habits, and often our
habits include having our own way. And when others grow up
about us and have their own lives, their own troubles and own
problems to meet, they do not recognize those habits of ours
as we do, often accusing us of being the cause of much that
disturbs within their own selves. Yes, the illustration you
give respecting your teeth is a good one respecting just this
very thing.
Well, my garden hasn't been doing as well as I would like to
see it. I don't know whether it's because of my seed being
planted too early, or what. Anyway, I've gotten a very poor
stand; and very recently, since it has been warm (and its a
real summer here, everybody ready to go in the ocean), I
started in to dig and make a vegetable - as well as flower -
garden. Now I have a few beans, radishes, some corn,
tomatoes, okra, squash, and a few things like that, which to
me - at least - appears to be a great deal better when fresh.
They are looking very good, though the ground is very dry for
them. Of course, I threw in a few hills of cantaloupe and
watermelon for good luck. As I told you, the Catholic Church
is across the street. I met the Father [Father Philip P.
Brennan] on the grounds the other day and told him I had been
digging over here, and had dedicated one hill of watermelons
to him. He seemed to appreciate it; said there were only a
few things he could eat, but watermelon was one of them that
he really enjoyed.
Our plants and shrubs are doing fairly well. I went into the
market in Norfolk a few days ago and got some plants to put
right close to the house; a nice little pansy bed and quite
a few other things that will be coming along from time to
time. We have quite a few ragged robins; I don't know
whether that's the name for them or bachelor buttons; anyway,
you will possibly know what I mean. All of these are looking
very good, considering the weather and general conditions.
But many of seed didn't come up.
Our violets have practically all gone. A few roses (that
have been transplanted several times) are beginning to have
some buds; in fact, we have gathered quite a few in the last
week or so. I haven't enough of them, though, to make much
fuss over.
Politics? Well, I believe we have the worst in this county
of any place in the world! But that's one thing I swore off
on a good many years ago. I'm sure everyone should exercise
the privilege as a voter, but I certainly don't make - for
myself - a great fuss over it. I try to choose the one I
think will be the best man, as far as I understand the
situation. Then if he doesn't get elected I try to feel that
possibly he wasn't the right man, and do the best I can with
what we've got.
We are planning to have quite a meeting of the Association
members in New York on the 18th. There will be a dinner
given, at which most of the New York members will be present.
Over a hundred, I understand, are expected. Possibly I will
go up tomorrow or Wednesday, to be there for the meeting -
and may have to spend a few days there afterwards, I don't
know.
I certainly trust this finds you feeling on the improve, and
that you are going to plan to at least spend a few days at
the Beach this summer.
Let us hear from you. All send our kindest regard and best
wishes.
Sincerely,
EC:GD
P.S. Miss Davis, the secretary, will send the outline for a
diet. [from the rdgs., as mentioned in the 5/33 Bulletin]
5/29/33 "I am none too pleased to tell you that I am not so
good. My heart bothers me a lot, and when that is not right
I am miserable all over. I get so discouraged. I haven't
stopped the treatments, though. I rec'd the diet letter this
a.m. One has to use their own judgement according to what
ails them. I think Mr. Keith's diet was a good as any, if a
person would only stick to it. Not tea or coffee or cocoa,
dried fruits - as dates, figs and raisins, 1/2 orange or 1/2
grapefruit, sweet potato twice a wk., boiled beets, carrots,
green beans, salads of fruit, apples. No white potatoes or
any kind of bread. And let me tell you we had to be hungry
to get that, naturally hungry, and we surely were. It is a
grand feeling to be really hungry, then the food does the
most good. This eating one meal on top of another without
feeling hungry is all wrong...
"I am full of aches and pains and so crabby."
6/12/33 EC's letter:
My dear Mrs. [
464]:-
For some little time I haven't written to you. I don't
believe I've written since I was in New York to a dinner
given by the Association members in my honor. I was quite an
enjoyable experience, quite a number were present, and of
course some very nice things were said about the Work. We
have been very busy since then, and now our Congress comes on
this week - beginning Thursday evening, lasting through
Monday. I certainly wish that you might be here. There will
be several noted speakers, and quite a number get-together
meetings of various individuals in various parts of the
country, who have had some experience with presenting the
work of the Association; which means, of course, in a great
part, the applying of the truths in the lives of individuals
that have come through the readings. I'm sure you would
enjoy it all.
The matter of diet has always been, and always will be I
think, quite a problem to many people; especially those who
have gotten a great deal of disturbance in their nervous
systems, either through poison accumulations or through
impingements in structural portions of their bodies. For, it
is true that our bodies are gradually being changed. They
can only live upon that which we present to them as material
with which to build. If we do not have systems that are good
providers, as well as good prepares from that we present as
the material, something suffers - as it would be from a poor
carpenter trying to build a structure. Different
individuals, from time to time - as Mr. Keith - have
presented diets that may be excellent to six people out of
ten that have suffered from some particular disorder, but for
the other four such diets might be poisonous. We have a
wonderful illustration of it right here in my own home. My
father [Leslie B. Cayce], who is eighty years old, was told -
when he was thirty - that he only had a few years to live.
In his younger days her certainly took very little care of
his body, for he was inclined toward dissipation - and I mean
in its fullest sense, for there's scarcely a bone in his body
that hasn't been broken at some time or another; yet the
readings have given diets for him that have been most
wonderful. When he was about sixty he had the misfortune to
break his kneecap. Of course, the profession told him he
would never be able to heal it; that he would either be
unable to walk without a crutch, or it would be very stiff
and rigid and he would always limp. The reading offered a
diet to supply proper structural material for that particular
portion of the anatomy. He still doesn't use a cane, and
walks as good as most anyone you ever saw. Ever since I can
remember he has suffered with asthma, from a spell of
bronchial pneumonia he had - I think before I was born.
About two years ago a reading forbade him to eat anything
(vegetables) grown under the ground. Recently, as the
conditions have changed, he was told to eat practically
everything - grown under the ground and above the ground, in
the way of vegetables. For a wonder, none of the things that
used to disturb his bronchitis or asthma now disturb him at
all in this direction. I'm merely using this as an
illustration, to show the difference in conditions for
individuals.
It has been very dry here. Our flowers and little gardens,
that my father and I have been digging, don't look so good.
There's not been enough rain, though I understand that in
many portions there's too much - so that the farmers don't
have a chance to handle their crops, because the ground is so
wet.
We have a few flowers that are beginning to lend some color
to the place; a few hollyhocks (which I can see from the
window), nasturtiums, zinnias are just beginning to bloom,
also the gladioli are very pretty, a few pinks and other
things are coming along nicely. A few of our roses are doing
very well, though they've been moved so often that they
hardly know whether to get ready to bloom or to be move
again.
Well, let us hear from you. I certainly hope you are feeling
a whole lot better, and that you will let us hear from you
whenever you have the opportunity.
Sincerely,
EC:GD
6/19/33 "The rdgs. you give are wonderful. I had a friend
here a day or two ago and she said to me, 'Mrs. [
464], it is
remarkable how you have come back.' Another friend called
and she said, 'Why, Mrs. [
464], you don't look like the same
woman, you are so improved!' Another one said about the same
thing. I have improved very much but I still have a long
way to go to be normal. I have only skipped two treatments,
one was owing to the torrid heat and the other to a lack of
the Salts."
8/10/33 EC's letter:
My garden has been quite disappointing. We are so close to
the ocean that when we have the hard spells and very strong
winds, the vegetation is burned, I suppose from the salt
spray - almost as if a real frost had swept over it. It
shows so on the little trees, too, that we have been trying
to grow around the place; it makes them all one-sided and
blasts them on the north and east side. The flowers are
looking fairly good at present; that is, what we have; plenty
of nasturtiums and zinnias, these are very pretty. We have
had plenty of gladioli, and I think the prospects are that we
will have some very pretty cosmos. We have had a few
snapdragons, but these haven't done so well. The zinnias and
nasturtiums are about the prettiest things for this climate,
for the time of year. The little vegetable garden, though,
is blasted entirely; the salt is not so good, and then this
weather has been awful. The rabbits, too, ate up my beans;
and it seems now they are cultivating a taste for tomatoes.
The roses haven't been so wonderful, but for very young
shrubs I think they have done very nicely - considering
everything.
9/27/33 "You will be wondering how I am making out. Well, I
had to let the tr. go for a long time when my daughter's baby
came. I had no time for anything. I was worked out
completely every day and was glad to get into bed by 7:30
every night. My legs gave out from under me and I was glad
when bedtime came, too tired and weary to care. I am better
than I was, a whole lot, than before I started on the
treatment, I should say so. Much better. But my legs are
like rubber. It is a funny thing about them, they never seem
to get strong, no matter what I do. I know my heart action
is not so good."
11/27/33 "I am writing for a ck. rdg."
12/12/33 See
464-14.
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