This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Va. Beach, Va., this 13th day of May, 1933, in accordance with request made by self - Mrs. [757], Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mildred Davis and L. B. Cayce.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the body, Mrs. [757], this we have had before.
2. Now, as we find, while there are a great many changes in the physical forces of the body, and some of these do not indicate that the causes - or that the conditions - are being eradicated from the system, there ARE conditions of improvement in the basic influences in the conditions- physical of the body, Mrs. [757].
3. While, too, in some respects there has been more recently the following of the suggestions as to applications of the mechanical appliances for the correction of disturbances, there has NOT been wholly the carrying out of conditions for the eradication and elimination of the disturbances in the physical functionings.
4. When the information was given as to that which would wholly correct the disturbances, there was taken into consideration those things that were being applied for the correction of disturbing forces as related to functioning portions of the system, and those applications from the external forces were to aid the system in eradication in those portions as related to the nerve forces, and in presenting or producing proper coordination and relations between the varied eliminating systems of the body.
5. Then, to leave off that as would affect the organs within, and systematically apply those that dealt more with the effects than the causes of disturbances in the body - and these in the first portions of the applications not applied correctly, made for temporary improvements and the recurrent conditions, and even at times an aggravation of the disturbing forces in the system.
6. Let's, then, now review the general disturbances in this body, Mrs. [757] we are speaking of:
7. In the intestinal system, in the digestive system of the intestinal system, as well as in the stomach itself proper, there has existed - as we have indicated - disturbances of natures that hindered in the proper assimilation of that taken as the resuscitating influences in the carrying on of proper functioning of the body itself. There was produced, or has been produced - there are still evidences of the disturbance wherein the infections in the duodenum, in the stomach, in the intestinal system itself, the acidities of such a nature as to cause what would be termed - on the epidermis or the skin itself - eruptions, or abrasions, or breaking out. These have indicated, and do indicate by the conditions in the mouth, in the throat, in various portions of the body, that the conditions EXIST!
8. There had been in former times applications for the eradication and allaying of these conditions, in the whole of the functioning or assimilating system of the body.
9. Then, merely to apply the rays - that were to eradicate the poisons from the blood supply, by their activity - and leave off those applications that affect the basic influences of the system, or the first causes of these conditions - only brings at TIMES temporary relief, and not an eradication of the disturbances themselves!
10. Then, we would, under the existent circumstances, change now to these conditions - which may be applied with those being used; for we are only returning now to first principles, you see - and we will give the outline as if there had been NOTHING done for the body; or we will begin all over again, as to the applications for the body - and, with all these adhered to, we find that we will bring the proper corrections for this body:
11. The first day we would take a tablespoonful of Milk of Bismuth.
12. The next day we would take a tablespoonful Milk of Magnesia.
13. The next day we would take at least two tablets of Willow Charcoal.
14. The next day we would take two tablespoonsful of Petrolagar, the alkalin - or red label kind.
15. Then the next day we would take the applications of the ultra violet ray, which should not be taken longer than three minutes, you see.
16. We would then the next day take the Infra Red ray, after being heated with the green glass between the Infra Red and the body; and do not place the glass so close to the heat as to cause fracture or breaking, but closer to the body - that there may be the effect of the color as it is changed from the Infra Red, or the activity of Infra Red.
17. (This aside, now, for explanation - and as to why the change: The Infra Red is that which acts upon the STRUCTURAL portions of the body, and the COVERINGS of the structural portion, see? Then, altered through the effect of the rays passing through plate glass, or heavy glass, that is GREEN in color, acts upon not only the structural or bone portion of the body but upon the muscles and tendons of the body also, in eliminating poisons that have caused - and do cause - those eruptions in the various portions of the body, internally and externally, allowing these poisons to find those manners of being eliminated through the channels of eliminations in the system.)
18. Now, the taking of the properties that have been given as corrective forces for the intestinal, the stomach and the general SYSTEMS of the body, these variations in the characters that are given, will work for the BASIC principles that make for disturbances; while the applications externally will be for the minutia, or the lymph circulation, the nerve circulation, in creating coordination between all of these active forces within the body.
19. These instructions should be repeated, of course, in the order given.
20. But this would be an everyday business - watching the diet of the body! So, we would give this as an outline - though it may be altered occasionally to meet the tastes or the needs of the body:
21. First, beware of too great an amount of sugars for the body. So, when those things are taken as food values - as in the citrous fruit - do not use sugar; rather use salt, or the other activities that make the food palatable.
22. Mornings - citrous fruit juices, or the pulp with citrous fruit, see? with brown toast, whole wheat.
23. Or, if the citrous fruit is not taken there may be used the dry cereal - and do not use sugar on same, although the milk may be used - but preferably use that which is well balanced in the vitamin forces, or the pasteurized milk, or dry milk that is made for such usages. However, do not use citrous fruit juices and cereals at the same meal!
24. At this meal there may be also taken a cereal drink.
25. Noons - preferably a whole GREEN vegetable diet, consisting of such as lettuce, celery, radishes, or any of those that make for the weight - as well as a balance of the diets that produce the CLEANSING effects throughout the system, see? Raw cabbage, or raw spinach, or raw foods - peas that have been cooked, but not wholly cooked, see? Mustard greens - ANY of these. And there may be used with these a French dressing or mayonnaise, to make them more palatable.
26. Evenings - vegetables WELL-cooked, but be sure that for each vegetable used that grows under the ground there are TWO used that grow ABOVE the ground, either in leafy vegetables or the pod vegetables, see? Meats in moderation may be taken. When taken, preferably mutton, fowl, fish, or the like - see?
27. This must be watched carefully, to be sure - that is, the diet.
28. Then, the enemas would be taken systematically; at least a high enema once each month, oftener if there is experienced the feeling of gas or mucus in the increased amount of eliminations caused by the change in diet and the properties that are to work with the eliminations through the alimentary canal.
29. Following these, as we find, will bring the better conditions for this body.
30. Ready for questions.
31. (Q) Has the green glass used with the Infra Red ray been the proper glass?
    (A) It has been the proper kind. If heavier it will be more beneficial. As indicated, this may be used CLOSER to the body (that is, the green glass); and we have also given the reason why.
32. (Q) What can be done for the sores in the mouth?
    (A) A little alum water will be helpful.
    If these treatments are followed, we find that all these troublesome conditions will disappear.
    For the specific condition in the mouth, as given, a little alum water may be used - or the touching of same with the diluted Atomidine.
    We would not leave off the ash before the use of the ultra violet ray; but only take it on those days when the ultra violet is taken - see?
    So, the outline we would follow now would be as this: The first day the Bismuth, the next day the Magnesia, the next day the Charcoal, the next day the Petrolagar, and then the lights consecutively.
    Then begin all over again, starting with the medicinal properties.
    Take about three courses. Then rest four or five days for the proper reaction through the system. Then take another round or two or three courses.
    We will find that the changes will be for the better.
33. (Q) The ultra violet seems to cause a sensation of congestion in the chest. Is this beneficial or not?
    (A) Not beneficial. Hence the reduction in the time, and the change in the way given, see?
34. (Q) Has there been any improvement in the glands?
    (A) A great deal of improvement, but we are CLOGGING the system with the IMPROPER way of producing coordination between the eliminating systems!
35. (Q) What causes the pains in head and neck, and what can be done to relieve them?
    (A) This is an increase in the activity of the circulation through the lymph and emunctory forces of the body, by the superficial stimulation through the violet ray - or ultra violet ray, without the opening of the association of eliminations in the activities of the whole system. Not helpful, not over HARMFUL - but let's begin at the basis!
36. Follow those as we have given here, and we will find better conditions.
37. We are through with this reading.

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BACKGROUND

1. See 757-1 on 10/14/32 and subsequent correspondence.

REPORTS

1. 5/15/33 EC's letter to Mrs. [757]: "The information received in your reading was mailed to you a few days ago. I believe you will find this self-explanatory, and the reason clearly stated as to why you have not received the results that you should have received from the treatments. I will be most anxious to have your report now, when you have followed these suggestions for a while; for it is evident that what was given in the light treatments was only an addition to what had been prescribed. Now the whole treatment is changed, but there is none of it (inasmuch as you have the lights) that you will not be able to get for yourself. And it will be more than interesting to follow the progress now of the condition. I hope you will favor us with a reply in the near future, and let us know just what you think of the information gotten at this time.
   I certainly appreciate your writing, and we sincerely hope and trust that we have been of a service. It was quite interesting to us that, the same day we had your reading, we also had a reading for an individual [Mr. [257]] on the east coast of the United States - two extremes..."
2. 5/18/33 Mrs. [757]'s letter to EC: "I received your reading of May 13th. Thank you very much for same. But I am a little confused with the instructions as to the diet. I would like it if you would give me your opinion as to its interpretation. As I don't want to diet for several weeks and then find that I have not followed it correctly. Does the breakfast mean that I am not to have any coffee? I understand about the sugar. Does the noon meal mean that I am not to have bread, butter or raw unsugared fruit? In other words, am I not to have coffee, tea, milk, eggs or fruit? And could I transpose the cooked foods to noon instead of evening, as this would be more convenient to me. I notice nothing was said about the atomidine. So I have stopped taking it. Am I right?
   Also after taking the three courses, I am to leave off for a few days. Does this mean I should discontinue the diet then also? Some instructions from you would be greatly appreciated. I am enclosing check for $15.00.
   Ten dollars for the reading and five dollars for active membership. Application enclosed..."
3. 5/24/33 EC's letter to Mrs. [757]: "We have yours of the 18th. I appreciate your sending the Active membership application, and certainly trust you will gain much from the information that may be sent from time to time in the Bulletin. Should you find any reference made to specific conditions that you would like to have detailed information concerning, know that we will be very glad to furnish any data that we may have on hand regarding such. Now, I hope I can give the proper interpretation as to your diet, with as little confusion as possible.
   In the first place, I believe this diet suggested is only an outline for you to follow, and you may alter it to meet your own needs and tastes.
   As to the breakfast, I do not think the list given precludes the taking of coffee, provided it is fresh; for our information tells us that fresh coffee is a food. However, do not use milk or cream in coffee, as it is hard on the digestion. It was suggested that you use a cereal drink, and the Sanka or George Washington coffee comes under that head.
   I think it would be very well, if more convenient, for you to transpose the cooked vegetables to the noon meal and have your salad in the evenings. With the salad, of course, milk, egg or fruit may be taken - stewed fruits, or something of that nature. Tomato juice, of course, prepared without a preservative, is one of the very best things that anyone can take, for it has more of the proper combination of vitamins than most anything that may be used. With this meal there might also be taken any of the milk preparations.
   I assure you that we will be more than glad to hear from you every few weeks, to know just how you progress. It is our sincere desire to be of help.
   On the 18th I was in New York for a meeting. There were over a hundred guests present at a dinner given in my honor. It was quite gratifying to me to see such a goodly number of people, in such a large city, people in all walks of life - scarcely any walk that wasn't represented in some manner, directly or indirectly; doctors, lawyers, bankers, ministers - everything! And all were very loud in praise of not only the health benefits received through these sources, but aid mentally and spiritually as well. No doubt there will be some report of this meeting in our next Bulletin which, of course, you receive..."
4. 7/13/33 Mrs. [757]'s letter to EC: "I took the treatments, and observed the diet carefully as directed in the reading of May 13th. All during the treatments I was quite ill and for about a week after. But since then there has been some improvement. Only a little to be sure. But I do feel encouraged and very thankful. I don't seem to be quite so nervous, I sleep a little better, and the pains in the head are less severe. The whole of the condition eases up. Then returns again. But I feel that some progress is being made.
   I was going to take the courses over again, but decided I had better ask for another reading to see if that would be the proper thing to do. And if the diet was correct. I trust I will not be imposing on your good nature to ask for another reading.
   Your letters have been so kindly and encouraging. The bulletin so interesting, that I feel I have made contact with laws too tremendous for words to express. Surely there must be a world of information in the many readings you have given. I am wondering if it would be impertinent to ask what the carbon ASH is and what it is made from and how. As Mr. [...] [my husband] is a Pharmacist and is naturally interested to know, providing of course that it is not a secret formula. I would also like to have a report of the Congress as per the notice in the bulletin and am enclosing $2.00, one for the report and one as a contribution to the work. Now as to the reading. I would like to ask a few questions.
   1. I followed the suggestions of the last reading carefully, and think there is some improvement; was the diet correct? 2. What are the conditions in the body now; what improvement? 3. Should I take the courses over again or is a change suggested? 4. Should I refrain from sugar only during treatment or at all times?
   I will be at my home, ..., Ave., as usual until 9 a.m. Pacific Time."
5. 7/16/33 She referred Mrs. [387] for Physical Reading.
6. 7/17/33 See 757-4.
7. 7/19/33 EC's letter to Mrs. [757]: " We were indeed very glad to have yours of the 13th. I certainly hope the information we forwarded to you proves to be most satisfactory in every way. I'm glad to know that you are feeling somewhat improved. From the reading, and also from your letter, I am of the opinion that the next round of treatments should find you a great deal better. So, I hope this will be your experience.
   Thank you very much for the kindly report on the Bulletin, and the impressions you gain from your contact with the Work. To be sure, these are the most gratifying experiences for all here who are engaged in trying to be of a service to our fellow man. We realize that we, even yet, know very little about the information we are receiving through these channels. We are not spiritualists, as I'm sure you have gathered, in the ordinary sense of the term - at least; yet we know that the information must come from some source outside of ourselves, or that something within ourselves which may contact a force without ourselves. What these forces or sources are is what the research workers are attempting to discover, in gathering data and making reports through our little Bulletin and all channels that may be of the greatest help or interest to our friends and members.
   The amount of information contained in the thousands of readings we have on hand is possibly incalculable. There is something about almost any subject one might mention. The very fact that a group of eighteen to twenty individuals, from all walks of life, meet every week and have done so for nearly two years, having readings on some particular phase of the philosophy (or the manner of the conduct of life), and find the work more and more interesting at each meeting, bespeaks either a great deal for the information or very little for the individuals. And, to be sure this is only one phase of the type of information that may be gotten. [[262] series]
   The carbon ash, Mrs. [757], is made according to directions given in a reading for certain types of disorder in the physical body. It is merely the ash of carbon, but prepared in a specific or definite manner. [See 165 series of extracts in 2/57 Selections.] More than a year of research was required to perfect the manner in which this has to be burned in order to maintain a pathological reaction that has been found by those for whom it was given internally. Of course, not large when we consider many of the things that have been distributed through the drug stores throughout the country, but there are quite a number of people who feel that the ash has been instrumental in bringing relief, staying off and actually curing some conditions that have been pronounced incurable by the profession.
   We certainly appreciate your contribution to the Bulletin, and also your request for a copy of the compiled Congress data. It may be a few weeks yet before we can have this stenciled and mimeographed, as we are waiting on a sufficient number of requests to justify the expense; but we hope those who have already ordered will bear with us while we are waiting on some of the other members who are a little slower in responding.
   Hoping and trusting that we may be of a service to you, that you will let us hear from you from time to time, I am, with all good wishes..."
8. 7/28/33 Letter from Mrs. [757] to EC: "Your letter of July 19th received. Thank you very much for the information it contained. I am sure all of the information obtained is of incalculable value and I wish I were in closer touch with its many phases. For years I have been interested in Psychological, Philosophical and sub-conscious law and have read many books on these subjects. I noticed in the last membership blank that was sent me, that this work is separated in groups, and while not able to be directly active, I would like to be in touch with the Scientific study group. Psychic, Philosophic and Psychologic. I would also like some information on a Life Reading. [10/29/34 She requested Life Reading for herself & husband - See 757-8 & 909-1.] Is it necessary to prepare some questions. If so just what should they pertain to?
   I am enclosing a check for $10 for July 17th Reading [757-4]. I was more than pleased with its contents. Thank you very much for same. I seem to be improving a little right along. Words can not tell you how it feels to have hope of relief from constant pain.
   Again I thank you and may many good things come to you and yours and your associates."
9. 8/08/33 She submitted questions for a Ck. Physical, but EC did not receive it until after his letter of 8/09/33 had been sent.
10. 8/09/33 EC's letter to Mrs. [757]: "We have yours of the 28th, with enclosure, for which we thank you.
    I'm glad indeed to know that you have hopes of relief and are feeling some better from day to day.
    I hope you will find our data more and more worth while. The little Bulletin is very well spoken of, from almost every quarter.
    Of course, the groups are just gradually being formed. It is not our desire, nor is it our purpose, to make any big show or an enormous drive to interest great numbers. For, we feel that it should be a gradual growth - and should be more often spoken of by the individuals who have gotten aid, physical, mental or spiritual, from the information that has been presented to them, rather than our trying to broadcast. For, after all, it is an individual thing. We will be glad to put you in touch with some of the groups, as they get to work. The groups are together, but they are only preparing themselves for the psychological and philosophical studies. The enormous amount of data we have on hand requires, of course, the work of individuals all the time to classify it, being presented as it is in just a little here and there in different readings. And it takes money and time to do this. It has only been in the last year or so that this has even been attempted in any scientific or systematic manner, but we hope to send out to our membership that which we have found helpful.
    Regarding the Life Readings, we are sending some data on the subject under separate cover. This type of reading, we are finding,is proving more and more interesting to individuals - and truly worth while. Sometimes we find that there is room at the end of a Life Reading for several questions, and then again it may end without a single question being asked. Some have found it worth while to get check Life Readings, covering certain appearances presented that bear directly in the present; and answering questions that were not asked in the first reading. For, of course, the Life Readings present reincarnation - and astrological influences, from quite a different angle from that ordinarily presented. I hope you will find this data of interest. That necessary for obtaining a Life Reading is: Your full name given at birth; the month, day and year of birth, with the exact hour if possible; and the PLACE of birth - as detailed as possible.
    Appreciating your letter, and hoping to hear from you again soon."
11. 9/13/33 See 757-5.

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