1/12/35 Ltr. to EC from [
778]:
My dear Mr. Cayce,
"Please accept my grateful thanks for the Check Life Reading
you sent me and which I found very encouraging and helpful.
It is indeed good of you to find time for me in the midst
of your many duties and services to others, and I deeply
appreciate it.
"My mother has not been feeling very well lately and I have
been asking her to send to you for a Physical Reading.
"Your possible trip to Atlanta early this year was pleasant
news to me and I have given it considerable thought. This
is a large city and it would seem advisable that you visit
it with your message. Then you will be in position to judge
whether it deserves your further attention. It is a very
orthodox city, with little interest in the occult or more
unusual aspects of life and thought. Even international
lecturers on such subjects, who can command large audiences
elsewhere, do not find a good response in Atlanta.
Krishnamurti, W. L. Rogers, ex-president of the Theosophical
Society, Dr. Homer Curtiss and many others of like fame,
have had very small audiences here. I have never received
due consideration of my astrological services here, and
depend mostly on written readings for people in other states.
People simply are not interested, and those that are either
cannot or will not pay reasonable sums for the work required.
"The one person who is best fitted, by experience and
knowledge, to present you here is Mrs. Elizabeth King who has
a Center here and presents lecturers on all sorts of occult
subjects every month. Yet for some reason she is extremely
prejudiced against you and altho she has read your
literature and has listened to my praises, yet she has
refused to offer any help. I suppose you are used by now to
this sort of prejudice due to ignorance and will not feel too
badly about it.
"The only other person I can think of who might be useful to
you is Mrs. W. E. Bates, leader of the Spiritualistic Church
here, 1485 Lakewood Ave, S.E., Atlanta, Ga. Her phone is
Main 5439. I phoned her this morning and she said she would
be glad to present you before her church members if you gave
her an opportunity to study your literature and see your type
of work. Will you please mail her your pamphlet describing
your life, and whatever other literature you deem necessary,
together with a letter outlining your plan in coming here?
I have never met her but she sounded very pleasant and
fair-minded over the phone.
"There may be other people or Centers who would like to have
you address their members here but if so, I do not know of
them. The pressure of work which is always around me, and
not having anyone to leave with the baby, while my husband
is at law school nearly every night, has always made it
impossible for me to make any social contacts or to "run
around" to the different teachers and Centers here even if
I had the wish to do so.
"The possibility of establishing a Study Group here will
depend of course on the interest aroused and whether or not
you can get a suitable person with the time and talent to
organize it. There may be just such a person here, awaiting
you, and no harm to make a trial to see the outcome. There
is no question but that your message would be of intense
interest to thousands here and would help many, but the walls
of prejudice and misunderstanding are so thick even in this
age - so far advanced in other ways - that those very ones
who need your message most will not even listen to it.
Miss King, even, of whom I expected more understanding,
cannot overcome her prejudices enough to give you a fair
trial. You remember, she is the old lady who gave me a
reading on my supposed incarnations which strangely linked
up with a reading given Paul Whiteman's (or was it Vincent
Lopez's?) friend. Anyhow, we must not be discouraged for
we never know from what unexpected source good response
may come. All of us who have departed from the orthodox
paths of life must feel the weight of public indifference
to some extent. There are compensations.
"I was happy to know that the automobile accident had no
serious consequences. Astrologically speaking, your wife
is the one who attracts accidents in transit - oddly enough
- enough, on any business connected with brothers in
particular! Accidents for her will always tend to "go to
her head" (Aries). I think from her chart if she were not
protected by superior forces, thru the nature of the
spiritual work she is in, that she would have met her
end thru accident before this.
"I don't think there will be any difficulty with the
authorities if you come under the sponsorship of some
reputable organization here; I have never read of any of
them here getting into trouble. Gypsies and such frequently
get into trouble but usually they deserve it.
"Will send you back all the stuff [
531] sent, in due time.
We have recently moved to another house in ... and almost
froze to death before we could make the proper heating
arrangements - we had previously been in a furnace-heated
apt. and did not know what we were undertaking to move to
a house equipped only with grates! Today I got our radiant
gas heater installed and hope to get to work on my readings,
am about a month behind in my work and hardly know what to
do first. Truly I wonder what it would seem like to have
one day of leisure and to feel I was caught up, for once!
"All well here, didn't even catch a cold, any of us, thru
some miracle. Trusting all is well with you and yours and
that the new year will bring you many good things,"
Sincerely your friend, [
778]
3/07/35 She referred Miss [
846] for Physical Rdg.
6/01/36 Ltr. to EC from [
778]:
... Ave.,
..., Calif.
My dear Mr. Cayce,
"I have been meaning for a long time to write you but you
know how it is. The idea just came forcibly to my mind this
afternoon to get in touch with you and so I am following that
inspiration.
"First, for some news about me. I came out here to my
mother's home last November and divorced my husband soon
after. So now my daughter [
398] and I are living here, and
have no further connection with [...]. My ex-husband [
1932]
and myself are on the best of friendly terms.
"A few months ago I became engaged to marry a very fine,
extraordinary man, Scottish like myself. He is a famous
artist, painter of the royal families of Europe and the
world.
"In this connection, I would like to say something about the
Life Reading you gave me some years ago. In it, you said
that about my 34th year I would become associated with
royalty. I may say that my own birth-chart tells the same
story, and many times I have wondered why the "royal" or
kingly stars should have been so powerfully accented at my
birth, clearly indicating a life associated is some way
with royalty. I have never felt any particular interest
in royalty, nor could I imagine in what way I would become
associated with them. However, time explains these
mysteries, and since meeting [...] - my fiance - I understood
that it would be thru my second marriage that my life would
be expanded onto a far different field than my previously
restricted life. You also indicated these changes in your
Life Reading for me, and said that great changes would enter
my life, "more unusual than is found in the average life,
particularly from the 34 to 43 years". I am now 35.
"I would also like to tell you that from an astrological
viewpoint, the charts of [...] and myself are more harmonious
than any two charts I have ever looked at, really
extraordinary harmony and deep karmic ties are there
indicated.
"I have become much interested in Christian Science this
last year. Of course its message is not any different from
that of the Hindu Scriptures and in fact all great religions
- "to know God is to know all" - but it seems to me that
Mrs. Eddy prepared her version of the truth with such care
and simplicity that it is easier to grasp and follow than
most religions.
"Please remember me to all your family, and Miss Davis, and
with much love to yourself, I am"
Yours affectionately, [
778]
8/10/36 Ltr. To EC from [
778]:
..., Calif.
My dear friend Mr. Cayce,
"Many thanks for your last letter and for all the kind thots
of my friends back there. I have never had any further word
from [...] since he first wired me that he would have to go
abroad, and so I have dismissed the whole matter from my mind
and feel that I have been protected from what might have been
a very unwise step on my part. It occurs to me that the
birth date he give me is probably not his true birth date
at all, and for that reason, you were not able to contact
any information about him.
"Well we all make mistakes and if I were mistaken in my
estimate of him, I cheerfully admit it and believe I have
learned much from this experience. So that is that and
I have now dropped the whole matter from my mind.
"For quite a long time I have been dissatisfied with using
Astrology for a livelihood and have now discontinued it as
professional work.
"I have an 8-to-5 job here now, and next week I leave for
Los Angeles to undertake some very arduous work, and so very
reluctantly I have to say that I cannot take on the editing
of your study group manual, at this time. Your mention of
Miss [
813] in your last letter reminds me of her as a
possible person to undertake the editing.
"If not, I can recommend Mrs. Marion Crawford, 1448 Park
Road, Washington, D.C. as a friend of mine (student of
Astrology in my ... classes) who has an excellent command
of English and is familiar with philosophic terms, etc.
I am sure she would be glad to do the work if she has the
time. She does not work but has a family. (Now that last
sentence is really very funny).
"I had a letter from India recently from my Teacher, Swami
Yogananda, whose magazine Inner Culture I used to send you.
He has had a wonderful triumphant return to India after 14
years' work in this country, and is returning here soon.
"My sister and her husband returned here yesterday from 14
months tour around the world and of course we were all
delighted to see them.
"We are both well ([
398] and myself) and hope the same is
true of all the Cayces. Wishing you all good things and
with love," [
778]
GD's note: 11/36 See
4948-1 Reports to GD in re Dr. [
4948]
and Miss [
778] discussing their rdgs. at a N.Y. meeting one
time and Miss [
778] told him she'd been married to him in a
previous life.
5/42 Miss [
778] ordered the little book, A SEARCH FOR GOD.
10/28/42 "I am very happy in my (editorial) work here and
keep constantly busy. My little girl [
398] is twelve years
old now and a great joy to me. These are difficult days,
but no doubt each generation has its own problems. One
tries to see the divine plan through it all."
