9/18/28 Mr. [
900]'s letter to EC:
THE HOTEL MARGUERY
270 PARK AVENUE AT 47TH STREET
NEW YORK
Dear Edgar:
After reading your letter once, I was truly dizzy or better
amazed; after reading it the second time, I was sorry -
terribly regretful, for indeed I never meant to hurt you or
yours. Yes, I put it in my pipe & smoked it, & it was bitter
indeed. The third time I read it, I realized my own tactless
choice of words, & your natural inability to know just what I
was driving at, just what my ATTITUDE of mind was, since of
course you could not put yourself inside my body to feel my
thought & know my ideas for yourself, but rather must base
your conclusions of my purport & purpose by the
representation I make of same in terms of words. How else
could anyone judge? Also I agree with you, that anyone else
would most naturally have reacted in like manner to the way
in which I expressed myself in my letters to you. The
words, sentences ETC., undoubtedly sounded very offensive &
inconsiderate. I never meant any such lack of consideration
or offence to be conveyed to you through my words. However
that which I wrote is the past, & sorry as I am if I hurt or
in any way offended, I want to assure you no such intent
ever existed in my mind to prompt me to convey such to you.
The fault is mine & I am very sorry, but I assure it was no
fault of intent, but rather one of method.
I never meant by word or deed to bawl you out, & it is much
as you told me when, after a reading, I told you I was bawled
out in it, you replied "[
900], bawled out is the way you put
it, but it really is to tell you how you CAN do just what you
want to do." True enough my method, recently has been crude,
for which I am truly regretful, & for which there is no
excuse, yet I believe you will come to see that, that very
method, altho temporarily seeming to make you the goat, will
really in the end be the means by which you not only become
able to do what YOU want to do, but also get what you desire,
even in a material way.
To come right to the point, I wanted you to answer that the
extra $100 was an overdrawal of salary by you, (if it was),
simply because your present one was simply inadequate to meet
the PRESENT necessities of your PRESENT kind of living. That
if you were to give your best efforts & best work in behalf
of the purpose we seek to accomplish with, by & through our
organization, your mind must be free of that anxiety & that
pressure that a continuous financially straightened condition
naturally entails. I had planned to put this as a part of
the business to be considered by the board, & some means
devised whereby additional funds might be raised. To meet
just such a need I have created the active financial
committee [[
137] Chm., [
195], EC, [
257], & [
900]] - not to
be a watch dog over you, as your letter seems to infer. Let
the ORGANIZATION function in a business like, systematic
manner as it now is ready to do - not have a condition exist
that is a responsibility the board should meet, yet which it
does not meet simply because it isn't forced to. Don't you
see what I mean, or can't I just get my mind down on paper?
I certainly want to, awfully awfully bad, for I want you to
understand me. Let me try again & see if my clumsy method
of saying a thing may be improved so as to better convey my
actual meaning. It no longer is you Cayce & I, [
900],
trying to do something, but we individually through an
organization are seeking a common purpose. If the latter is
being hindered, by the fact that economic pressure is so
great upon you, who are the very keystone of the work, that
you cannot give your best efforts towards the accomplishment
of our common purpose, then the organization should know it
& DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. No use sticking our head in the
sand, for if conditions are such that they hinder the
progress of our work, then the board, or the respective
committee of the board must act to overcome that barrier.
True there is nothing new in the fact that you can't live on
$200 a month, but the remedy is certainly not in some
haphazard method of drawing here, or there & when, because
the money is there. That is why I have created this
committee - that you might come to the committee & put
before it frankly the fact that you simply can't give your
best to the organization or its work, if you are to be
constantly under high financial pressure; that if the board
cannot find means to increase your salary, then some budget
must be provided to take care of emergencies, even if that
budget has to be voted out of the hospital account.
To prove to you that I am right, I tried an experiment.
After receiving the committee letters from you, (& I surely
appreciate your cooperation in this), I called [
195] long
distance, informing him that the Sept. meeting would be
Saturday afternoon, Sept. 29th, (we have since changed it to
Sunday morning Sept. 30), at my house, ... St. I told him
that one of the considerations would be a resolution to
increase your salary from 200 to 300 per Month. Then I
waited to hear the reply. I got just what I wanted. He
said: "I'm willing to do my share & will be there."
Now isn't that better than the old way, which would be simply
my sending personally the added $100 or [
137] & I doing it?
See how easy words are to misunderstand, for you could say:
"Of course its better since you don't have to give so much
that way." Have I ever, in the time you've known me acted
this way? Have I ever been mercenary or failed when the
Doctor said either I get mine or I just can't see it through.
Why then should I change now? I haven't at all - I'd give my
life for the ideal we've formed, & as God is my witness that
is true - & God is no idle word to me. But I believe I am
doing more by forcing a collective board to face our
problems, than by my handling them quietly by myself. I am
happy that we have reached the point where this may be done.
Furthermore it takes your own affairs out of a personal
relationship to any individual & puts them on a business like
basis in relationship to an impersonal board, irrespective of
the fact that each member of the board is a personal friend
of yours. I am sure this will suit you - I know it would me
& we are all pretty much alike in these matters. As ever my
own personal feeling is the same as ever & I stand ever ready
to fill any emergency that may arrive, but as much as
possible, it will be best if the whole board assumes its
rightful responsibility & activity with respect thereto. It
is toward this end, I have been working & if my method has
involved an abrupt letter, written in staccato fashion to
you, it was only so written due to the terrific business
pressure I have been under, & the speediness with which I
have sought to dispatch work towards an end I have in mind,
for the accomplishment of a goal I have my eyes fixed
upon. Naturally that kind of a written letter would find no
explanation in that which my mind holds in reserve as an end
in view. You cannot know of certain reserves I have for
emergencies, & that I have been able to create, thanks to
cosmic or divine aid, that includes your most valued
services. How could you then understand an abrupt letter,
unusual to the kind you look for & expect from me.
Regarding [
165], I thoroughly agree with you, & think
possibly [
257] led me off on this. I don't understand just
what took place, or how or why, except the little [
257] told
me, but I think these things are insignificant in the light
of our work. I only want to bring him closer to us, & bring
a greater measure of cooperation from him. I believe the
Readings simply strive to get these men, ([
953] & [
165]), to
know me better, rather than just superficially. You see we
see one, hear one, read what one says on this plane, but on
the cosmic plane we see & know what an individual really is,
& what he or she is capable of. This is shown in Life
Readings. This would seem a bouquet at myself, but what I
mean is [
165] might see a young man [
900] of too little
experience, whereas the Readings tell us many a young man is
but seemingly young, for in UNDERSTANDING & in developed
potential abilities he may be immeasurably older than the
physically aged. If I have only 1/2 the mental abilities
the Readings have said I have, (altho my application is for
some peculiar reason very poor), & a man like [
165] could
find this in me, his cooperation would, no doubt, become the
greater.
You are right of course regarding [
302] & the lists, mailing
& membership. She has gone to great trouble & effort to
compile a book in most complete & classified order on this,
that should be very useful & she couldn't understand the
discrepancy between her detailed classified lists & yours.
Thus my questions, again probably too abruptly put in my
letter.
Nearly $900 is due on lots in Oct. That ought give us
something to think about & plan for at our meeting Sept 30,
for which [
137] will send notices tomorrow. Now we have
[
137] with [
195] working actively with us, with [
257]
slowly being sucked into the organization of the work. We
really are progressing.
Truly as I write now I forget just what was in my mind when I
talked about consenting to [
257]'s approach to others.
Possibly if I had my letter in front of me & could refresh my
memory by what went before & after, I might better explain.
Altho that letter is not before me, it must be clear that I
could not mean by "consent", giving my permission. It is not
for me to permit or forbid & such a thing would obviously be
as foreign to my meaning as the farthermost planet from the
earth. What I undoubtedly meant is what is now in my mind -
ie I can "RECONCILE" [
257]'s method of approach to my own.
My, if I ever had brought home to me the care one must use in
choice of words to express one's true attitude of mind, it is
now. In other words, altho I don't like his methods & don't
& won't use them, nevertheless they do serve a good purpose
in the spreading of the good our work may do & therefore
reconcile his way to & with my own. He works from the
desires of the flesh back to the ideal we form in mind & that
we use the desires to express. Not a bad method, if the
ideal is not altogether neglected in the final aspect, when
dealing with flesh in a material world. I am such an
idealistic sort of a cuss myself, that I probably assume to
too great an extent that others likewise enjoy imagining a
like ideal & striving to reach its materialization.
No, of course I didn't mean that YOU were trying to further
your own individual idea. I meant that you let yourself be
used, or be coaxed into being used by some one individual who
seeks his own ends alone in a reading. Not that he may seek
that end to exclusion of everything else, yet in some one
individual case he may seek his own end - not FROM the
reading itself, but from the use to which he contends to put
the information gained. For example, [
257] has faith &
fulfills the requirements for any kind of a reading,
physical, life, business or financial ETC. Therefore to him
it may be given. But now & then [
257] will try to get a
physical, for example, for some man or woman, who has not
fulfilled the requirements in expressing a desire for same, &
for whom the reading should NOT be taken. It is perfectly
alright that [
257] wants to strengthen his own business or
other relationship with that individual whom he seeks to so
serve, & also that he thinks by this method to interest a
wealthy or influential individual, but our ORGANIZATION has
embodied in its RULES, (by virtue of instructions received
from the givers or producers of the readings), the regulation
that no reading shall be given unless it is desired, &
expression of such desire made by the individual obtaining
the reading or by one responsible for the individual obtain-
ing the reading. It is a rule of our ORGANIZATION & if you
allow any one to use you who has not met this requirement,
then your method of doing the good the ORGANIZATION seeks to
do in its psychic research work is inconsistent. You know as
well as I do that [
257] is often guilty here & sooner or
later he must learn that while we each may do a thing as we
see best to do it, yet certain laws governing certain
processes must be adhered to - or the process simply won't
function as we want it to. That is what I meant & mean. It
isn't just taking readings in private. A man may choose to
commune with his God alone - either thru you or in his own
heart. It is that our method must correspond to the process
by which such communion may be made, either through ourselves
or another channel. I know now I seek just such an interview
& while I've had many such, when you come to N.Y. I do hope
you will let me take such a quiet reading & thrash out many
things that are heavy on my heart & weighing me down mentally
at this time. I remember taking a physical for myself in the
hotel room once while you were here. It was so different in
a way. It was personal, conversational - talked to me as
"[
900]" & seemed to smile encouragingly at me all the way
through. No, it's just that H2O makes water & when we try to
make H3O from water we don't get water at all - & sometimes
we get an explosion & utter confusion - as for example the
method by which I explained things that were in my mind in my
last letters. The method brot an explosion in your mind, not
what I MEANT to convey at all.
Talking about visions, my father spoke to me on my letter to
you regarding college & Hugh Lynn. It's really wonderful how
they see, know, understand every detail from the cosmic
plane, even on material affairs, altho heaven knows every
physical, & every Gary - DePew advice bears witness to this.
My Father said:
"I took you from college to check your willful extravagances.
This does not apply to Hugh Lynn."
That was it alright. I was an extravagant youngster - not
meaning to be - but I was & my father saw that college was
but encouraging me in a career of wastefulness. So he took
me out, for my own good. It has proven wise - for as has
been given what I need is knowledge of correct & efficient
application, not book learning so much, for there I may rely
on the word within & my own potential ability to understand a
proposition of any kind. I believe Hugh Lynn has the mental
abilities & I certainly feel it a pleasure to help him as I
do for anyone. There is no misinterpretation here; I simply
was wrong even in my comprehension of my own father's
attitude towards my college education. Personally I believe
in college, particularly for a student type, as Hugh Lynn.
Maybe you recall my encouraging him in this direction even
while he was in high school. Truth to tell the whole thing
was a foolish irritation & if Hugh Lynn had simply quietly
gone back, [
195] & I would have done as before - & in my
secret heart I'd have gotten quite a kick out of being the
one to send him through. Now you see how the admonition to
me: "Listen to the voice within, not to those without,"
applies in other things then the stock market. You might say
I've gotten enough good out of the work to owe it my
services. I've gotten more good than my services may ever
repay, yet it isn't that that I seek. If it was, [
257]'s
methods would appeal to me - ie if keeping you as a sort of
private institution, so obligated as to be willing to give a
few of us & a few others I am chosing readings. It isn't at
all. Fewer & fewer because my own requests; greater &
greater do I want to create facilities for all - for the way
to secure these. Surely the method & organization work do
not belie me here as being insincere.
I can understand your reference to David & the shew bread.
It may be that I deserve the rebuke. If so I have no false
pride about admitting it. Yet good will come of it for all
that, in that we will get greater activity, cooperation from
our members, & a more awakened realization by them of
problems that should NOT be ignored, & of conditions that
must be remedied. So I say all is well that ends well & for
our own good & for that of our work let's forget it.
Two years ago one individual [Mrs. [
4255], his sister-in-law
[
140]'s mother?] made life so terrible for me as to threaten
to cause my financial destruction, & to smash the happiness
of those dear to me if I didn't give up this work. This
individual had the power to do this. My mother cried, begged
pleaded. I went to my room & kneeling said of this person:
"Father forgive this individual, this person knows not that
being done."
Then came that unforgettable tap on the shoulder & from that
time, altho I wanted to be angry at the person, I could only
find it in my heart to forgive. What I mean to convey here
is that by getting in at-onement with the Spirit Father
Force, I was able to like Him, forgive in spite of a physical
prejudice, for the latter of which there certainly was ample
cause, & what I further want to convey is that to this day,
no matter what anyone does, or says it is but minutes until I
forgive - or in other words the experience left its mark so
indelibly upon me, that I am free of hate & bear grudge
against none. That is an enviable condition isn't it?
Naturally I feel ever so strongly that we should not bear a
grudge towards each other even when there is cause. There
must be no gap created between us, or we do all over again
what we did before - split for whatever reason. Let's forget
it.
In regard to Gertrude, again you're right. I can see that
she sees others get so much from the readings - she so little
from a source that she herself is so close to. What I meant
to convey is that she can rejoice in being such an instrument
of & for good. I do wish Gertrude could have seen how some
of the things worked - or maybe it's better she didn't, for
unless we understand well their conclusion is liable to be:
"Well those readings are wonderful in physicals, Life ETC -
but too often misleading in financial," or it might be that
if the reading could be at all inaccurate on finances it also
could be regarding physicals, both of which conclusions are
ALL WRONG. In all financial readings, the ever changing
phenomena of conditions must be [?] & with in a greater
degree than in the changing phenomena of one's physical body.
Men are liable to lose their heads when sick & kill
themselves or die of nervousness or heart trouble. But
this doesn't often happen & if remedies given are applied
soon enough after reading is taken as not to allow too great
a change to take place in the body before the remedies are
administered, good results may be expected. In finance it
is different. Changes come violently & suddenly as men
change their minds, as is seen in sudden punchy throwing
over of stocks regardless of values. Sometimes these are
foreseen in readings - sometimes that, that should cause
this is foreseen & and a slump predicted - yet in the
changes that are in process it may not come about at all.
This violent degree of change, & the speed with which it may
come (psychological, see), makes financial readings
dangerous to follow UNLESS the element of change is well
considered from every angle. Human beings may get a fit of
fear & haul in everything, or that which should cause them
ordinarily to be so emotionally affected, may just go by &
human beings get a fit of emotional bravado. All of which
proves the "WILL is Free," because we can't say positively
that emotional reactions will be one way or the other.
Financial Readings are very very worth while for the cosmic
entity sees the process of emotional change going on & is
better able to predict HOW such change is going to proceed
than are we from the outside. Therefore the advice that I
listen myself for advice from within in order that these
constant changes may be given as they are in process of
being made. Gary of course, knowing who are able
to financially keep stocks UP, is best fitted to advise on
which stocks & when to buy or sell, yet he must be heard
often. So the information, while wonderfully, valuable,
boomerangs & becomes detrimental if the one obtaining it
doesn't know how to use or apply it after getting it. To
return to Gertrude, do not think for one minute that I have
belittled her position. To the contrary I respect it & am
willing to do everything to help make those who use her,
realize that were it not that she takes the readings in an
orderly, consistent manner, they could not be taken with any
degree of scientific certainty, so necessary if research is
to be of any value. It is only that I want her to know that
I am with her heart & soul, but beg that she be patient until
this organization is so rounded & its finances so in order as
to be able to make things on a more equal basis for all.
Possibly it hurts her that her own motives are often so
grossly misunderstood. I know what it is to be
misunderstood. She wants to be appreciated for her true
motive that is whole hearted cooperation to do this work,
yet she wants it remembered that she is a mother & wife
while at the same time a co-worker. Heaven knows [
136] is
not sensitive - & altho you can roast her as much as you
like & she'll laugh with you, but say something about that
baby boy [
142] that isn't just so, & the whole darned army
won't be protection enough. Doubtless Gertrude feels the
same of her loved ones & wants for them, what we all want
for our own. I don't blame her at all - in fact would feel
her strangely unnatural if it were otherwise. I only ask
that she look back to the Dayton days & see how step by step
we are making progress & just as life stores potential
energy in the seed or soul, to explode seemingly all at once
into flower or man in this world, so we have stored & sowed,
& the explosion soon will come. The Hospital that bears her
name will soon be finished. The work for which she gave &
gives so much will soon blossom forth. Soon now all past
troubles will be small, the shaded hills are in sight. Soon
she will need to worry in that direction no longer & can
devote herself wholly to the good of the work in the Glory
of which she shall live, & in the name of which her children
shall rejoice. For behold that life is One. Never before
have we been so prosperous. Our business now flourishes, &
now at least things begin to look as tho my aim for economic
independence may soon come & I will have means to back my
ideals, where money is necessary - unless reverses come. At
the center of this financial growth is [
137], & then [
195]
sent me $10000 on which I made him about $8000 - & now I
create the finance board - [
137] chairman - no longer little
[
900] but a strong, substantial financial board to back,
support & promote aggressively our enterprise! Don't you
see the hand of Gary expressing itself through me? All of
you in quiet Virginia Beach - know that the wheels are
turning, turning, turning & the Hand of God is at the Helm.
If we children of the flesh do not make darn fools of
ourselves & get to squabbling amongst ourselves, our ship,
laden with good fruits, shall reach her destination.
So I end this volume with a fond good night to all of you &
remember when I go off erratically once in a while it is a
combination of terrific financial pressure, & other
considerations, & a physical body that seems constantly on
the verge of breaking down together with a measure of
temperament that seems usually to attend a peculiar mind such
as I seem to have. Yet also remember my sincere regard, my
sincere feeling, my ideal & determination as regards the work
& those of us exploiting it, never for a minute wavers.
Sincerest regards, [
900]
P.S. Will you please reserve 2 double rooms with baths for
Friday Oct 12th to Sunday Oct 14th at Cavalier & have them
write me same is reserved. This for the 4 of us [[
900],
[
136], [
137], [
140]] over this week end.
9/19/28 HLC's letter to EC:
Wed. Nite
Dear Dad,
I received yours and Muddie's letter this afternoon. It
would be useless to try and express in words the emotions I
felt while reading [
900]'s and your letters. I do not know
where to begin in telling you what I think of them. There
are many phases dwelled upon at length by you both that need
to be straighten out in my own mind. There is much to study
in them, much to think about, much to remember, much to
forget.
I don't think you said too much and I think, truly, that you
said what you did say beautifully. In beautiful I mean the
fitting of the condition exactly. It must be said of us all
that we grasp only a bit of understanding of it all. I did
not realize until reading [
900]'s letter how much he doesn't
understand. Truly, it might be said what profit gaineth a
man to know and understand the theories of the universe if he
fails to understand his fellow men. From the theories may
come knowledge of what drives the physical man but never from
them alone can one learn of that which wakes the inner man,
feel, love, hate and reach out for something better. Dad you
have always had a great problem to work out in getting those
interested in the work to work together. You have heard me
say this a thousand times but it remains as it will always
remain your problem and not one elses. Let this one and that
come in and try to run off with the end of the work he is
interested in but always it is to you to whom they return
when they find themselves lost within themselves or down with
the world on top of them. Let who will or may claim that it
is only through you that the readings come but the fact
remains that it is your soul and spirit that is giving the
world this work, your real self that has worked and suffered
for ages to build an inner man capable of holding the work in
the hollow of his hand as well as in the center of his heart.
Let those who sense the truth and refused to express it try
and tell the world that you are but a channel, useless but
for the force back of you; then the world will cry out that
they understand but one thing. There is a man who is working
WITH a force of which we know nothing but through him will
come understanding. God cannot work through men who do not
cooperate with him. Can you not see then, Dad, this man
[
900] drifting in his line of the work judging from his
angle, but from an angle which as yet with all his progress
fails to understand the very basic factors with which he
deals - you and those about you. Perhaps it is best to claim
for him also, as for us all, he who does not understand is
not to blame. Dad, you and you alone can grasp the real
meaning of the work, for your real self has met many times
the forces with which you work - you know within yourself -
be patient with us who stumble blindly and in stumbling hurt
you, there are many looking to you - to you who works with
the forces we would understand.
[
900] will think a long time over your letter and I believe
it will help him to see things in a clearer light.
One thing amuses me especially in his letters. For one who
denies the influence of the past and who depends so on the
present he is peculiar in his statements. Out of his past
comes that jealousy of [
257], comes that fear of [
953] and
[
165] which he attempts to cast easily aside with, "I fear
them not." comes "I have won [
195], etc" Peculiar statements
all and many more that can be traced. Perhaps I am wrong,
perhaps this is but my own influences breaking forth. But I
speak not in a light of criticism but in one of explanation.
It is natural to expect these. Consider them as urges. I
begin to see what was really meant when He said "Forgive
them they know not what they do."
With regard to both his and your references to my self, I was
extremely interested. Truly I consider my blunder in
preparation for college this year one of the greatest
mistakes I've made in dealing with people. It was, the
attempt or manner in which I tried to obtain funds, the
culmination of several years of mistakes. The practical side
of life has meant very little to me and the trouble is that I
do not care for it to ever hold a place worthy of mention in
my life. The mistake in continually making this mistake of
judging the practical entirely worthless led to a point when
I was forced to realize its value in presenting my self to
other people. I thought I understood its value. I do not
and I shall tend to try to find that value in the coming few
years. Once I understand it then I shall pass on the more
important matters in the process of living. I shall have
trouble in getting a correct sense of values, I'll need help
and I'll never, never make the mistake of not consulting you
and Muddie on so important matters which influence my life.
In part I feel responsible for much of the turmoil which has
been going on lately, I am sorry. I did not understand
myself nor others as I should have before moving as I did.
My past influences I know but their strength I do not know.
I think I have done much to temper them with understanding
and reason; at times and in certain points I have not yet
succeeded in mastering. At least I know their danger when
loosed and I know that which will shape them into worth while
urges. I shall continue to try.
I shall write [
900] tomorrow, I would like to see his answer
to your letter.
The breaks here and there have been troublesome but if the
great breach comes between N.Y. and Chicago [[
900] - [
953] -
[
165]] we will learn to be the actors in a real trying
situation, again.
After the peace comes though will come happiness and a period
of real accomplishment - for the world we must go on, for
ourselves we must try again and again. With understanding
will come the content of a soul at ease.
Outside the raid has stopped, all is quiet - all is well
here, life is varied and interested, the fellows are real and
fine - all is well.
Yours, Hugh Lynn
9/20/28 See
4666-3 dream rdg. in re Sears-Roebuck stock, Mr.
[
900], etc.
9/24/28 EC's ltr. to [
900]:
Dear [
900]-
I have yours of the 18th, also of the 22nd [About N.Y. Board
Meeting - wanting to get personal rdg. and conduct it
himself, etc.]. I appreciate your taking the time to write
me as you did. I don't feel I am able at this time to go
into the detail and attempt to answer you. I don't
under stand it all. I'm sure its just a different
viewpoint, that we may have, and doesn't necessarily mean
that either of us is wrong. I'm hoping I may have the
opportunity to sit down and talk this over with you - just
you and I. I appreciate, too, your check for the trip up.
I had been wondering just how I would manage it. I didn't
want to draw on the funds of the Association, and yet I knew
I was not in any position to pay my own expenses out of what
we have.
I received the notice of the meeting, too, from [
137]. I
believe, as you say, this is a step in the right direction,
and if we can get all of the Committee together, we should
get this portion of our work on a basis that should be
satisfactory in every way. While this is just a part of the
work, of course just at this time it is a very important
part, and one that needs sincere thought and study. If we
can devise some means whereby the individuals may be made
more conscious of the privilege they have through the
cooperation of the Association, I'm sure this part of the
work will not suffer. Of course there is a great tendency of
most people to judge any work by that accomplished in a
financial way and manner. While that is very necessary, yet
in a work of this character, if I have any understanding, the
finance should be a result, rather than a first principle.
But I had the idea that if it would be agreeable, and you
would be in N.Y., I would come up Thursday night - see you
Friday afternoon and evening, if possible - and Saturday
afternoon - so that we might have the opportunity to talk
over many things, and especially get a more perfect
understanding of each other's motives. Not that I'm
questioning ANYONE'S motive, but you know usually everyone
questions everyone's motive concerning work of this nature.
I'll want to talk to you, too, concerning [
165]. I don't
know whether I have the right ideas concerning this or not.
But I can only see (judging by what must have happened when
the work was first begun, and what is happening when it is
beginning to be finished) that no one else can ever
rightfully be the leader than yourself. But these I will
talk over with you, so if you will - as you suggest - make
the reservation at the Hotel across the street (I forget the
name), I will be up then Friday morning.
There will be some other questions, too. Some other
associations and connections that I want to discuss with you
at length, as it so happens that we will possibly make these
contacts at this time, and when we haven't had them
heretofore to deal with or consider in a serious way and
manner. I hope [
195] will be there at that time too, but,
as I said, I hope we will have the opportunity - just you
and I - to talk over many of these things.
We had [
195]'s drawing and thesis and will get this today.
I'm hoping we will get this straightened out and set in such
a way that he will be able to work it out just the way he
wants from this. He is practically now ready for work on the
model, if I understand it. This will be sent him today
[See [
4665] Motor series.]
Hoping, then, to see you Friday - and be sure and let me know
about the reservation and if you will be in town - I am,
with kindest personal regards,
Sincerely, Edgar Cayce [EC:GD]
GD's note: Evidently Mr. [
900] had a personal, private
reading of which we have no copy, while EC was in N.Y.
10/01/28 See EC's own dream rdg.
294-114 conducted by Mr.
[
900], in re EC hearing minor prophet Habakkuk talking to him
about [
900].
10/06/28 See Mr. [
900]'s next dream rdg.
900-409, and
10/13/28
reading
900-410 with advice for [
900] and [
137].
10/10/28 EC's letter to HLC:
Wednesday afternoon,
Dear Hugh Lynn:-
Sugar, I haven't written you for some time. I didn't know
how to answer your letter - I felt so torn up about it, and I
don't know as I know yet just what to think of it all. Of
course there have been some things maybe that have been used,
or may be used, as a bait - but possibly such things are
necessary for some peoples' better understanding. I don't
like the attitude [
900] assumed, especially about you.
Neither did [
195] like his not having sent you what he told
him to. I believe I would write [
195], rather than [
900],
about that. When I went to New York I had a good long
heart-to-heart talk with [
900] - just he and I. I also had
about an hour's talk with [
195] and about the same with
[
137]. I don't know as I understood, or understand, [
900]
any better than I did before I had a talk with him. I think
I did get something from [
137] - and HIS main thought and
idea is this: "One may use the information to obtain
financial help and assistance, but God pity the man who
doesn't use it correctly!" [
195], seemingly, has got this
over to [
137] quite clearly. [
900], of course, claims he
feels the same way. Possibly by saying "he claims" would
indicate I didn't think he acted that way. He was kind
enough while I was there - he and [
137] - they had a tip on
a certain stock - not from the readings - but they invested
a little for me and gave it to me personally before I left,
which enables me to (for the first time since I can remember
of having been in business) pay all that I owe in October.
[
900] also informed me that he and [
137] felt it was nothing
more than right that whenever there was information that
was worth while (such as regarding certain stocks to be
bought and put away) some of us - first one and then the
other of the family - should be taken care of in the same
way and manner; that is, various stocks had been bought and
you, one for Edgar Evans, one for your mother, and one for
myself. What their idea is in just putting it away and not
saying anything, I don't know. Possibly, if it became
necessary, they could go ahead and use them as collateral,
while if they changed them over to our own names, maybe we
would have too much, or would want to sell them right away.
By the way, I just understand, that's why Bransford [Johnson
S. Bransford] was somewhat perturbed at me - that the stock
he gave me some years ago was sold to someone else without
notifying him of the sale.
But, all in all, we had a very good meeting. [
257] was not
present, yet they voted him an increase in his monthly
contribution and of course they wanted me to break the news
to him, so I had to remain a day or two longer to do this.
But he agreed. I think [
257] thinks a lot of your letter.
He asked me to read it. Said he hadn't answered you, as he
had been so busy, and he really hadn't felt equal to
answering in the way and manner he desired to answer, but
said he was going to right away. Possibly you have heard
before now. Poor [
257]! He's got his hands full - not only
in his business, but in his family - his own home, and with
his brothers. He likes to handle everybody's business, and
he sure has it to do!
I had quite an interesting experience in New York - though I
wasn't feeling good - such a cold - am not feeling good yet.
First I got [
900] and [
195] to meet Mr. [
943]. That was
rather an experience. Then I went with [
903] one evening to
see a show - MACHINAL - machinal means pertaining to
machinery, or machines. The play is supposed to be founded
on the Snyder-Gray affair, though it doesn't follow the story
at all. It was quite a wonderful play to me, inasmuch as one
in my position could see that the work we are undertaking is
the answer to the questions that are continually being asked
throughout the play. It would be hard to describe the story.
It's sordid in a manner, as it deals with a girl marrying for
money to satisfy her mother, who doesn't see that just
everyday drudge isn't the proper thing. Also the life of a
man that continues to make money his god. Then the other
side, where those that make the satisfying of bodily desires
their god, whether it means drink or sex. Then the outcome
of ostracism socially - the application of penal law, as
respecting moral and spiritual law, and the electric chair.
Not a beautiful outlook, yet the constant question "Won't
SOMEBODY - Won't SOMEBODY tell me WHY?" is asked. As [
903]
said, it made her understand the actual work we are trying to
do in a way that she has never seen before.
And then I met Count [
4341] and Countess de [...] - and, to
cap it all, not only talked with them a few hours, but
instead of returning to my hotel went to their apartment and
spent the night. Going some, isn't it?
While we were discussing the meeting on the 11th, I told
[
900] and [
137] and [
257] that if we could it would be
wonderful to get Professor Brown [William Moseley Brown,
Ph.D.] to deliver the address of the day. Of course they
didn't think it was possible, but I finally got [
900] to
write him. I don't know whether he has spoken to you about
it or not. He has accepted, though, and is to make the
address of the day. Don't tell him (Professor Brown) that I
told you though, until he says something to you. Don't
forget that now. I'm in hopes this makes you as enthusiastic
as it does me, for if it isn't following just the information
that has been given, I don't know what it is. Be sure and
let me know what you make out of it anyway, and don't say
anything to him until he says something to you, if he hasn't
already done so.
But tell Tom [Tom Sugrue] I want him to be sure and be here,
if it is possible for him to get away. I'll pay the railroad
fare if he can't handle it. Thomas [Thomas House, Jr.] I
suppose will come, if he wants to.
I know this is sort of a harem-scarem scattering sort of
letter, but maybe when I'm feeling better I can write better.
Write me when you have time. I'm sure you are finding your
hands full with your job and your work. Take real good care
of yourself. Hold on rather tight. Be sure and let me know
what you will need from time to time. I finally persuaded
Mother to have her dress made. Hope it looks pretty and
suits her.
Grandpa left Monday - I guess will be back for the 11th. He
isn't well at all.
I don't feel good. Such a cold! Let me hear from you. With
best love,
P.S. [
900] just forwarded a check for $17 that had been sent
to Miss [
302] for the sale of coins, by Mr. [
953].
12/18/28 See Mr. [
900]'s letter to HLC under
900-417 Reports.
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