5/22/38 [
979]'s ltr. to EC:
Selma, Ala.
Dear Mr. Cayce,
I left Atlanta just before the high water came. We thought
one time from reports coming in that we would have to move,
but there was more talk than water, for I have seen it higher
many times. Expect Radio reports made you think EAST Selma
was being washed away, when other parts - West & north was
just as bad or worse. They love to slam EAST Selma.
Well I am plodding along about as usual. Fell pretty bad
after I was home a week or two. Mr. Cayce I honestly believe
this malaria climate is most of my trouble for ever time I
have gone to a higher climate I feel better. And as soon as
I return here I begin to get that awful sleepy feeling it
gets worse than plain spring fever. I feel at times as if I
was beyond going if I try read will first have to stop for
will go to sleep no matter how interesting the reading. Its
an awful feeling. I have been taking three sixes the last
week or two. That seemed to help some.
It looks foolish to stay in a place where one knows is
harmful to health, but I asked the questions in a reading you
gave me. If it was the climate should I change. Your answer
was not necessary, as [
286]'s work is here, and she has to
try keep her job. I do not like to leave her alone. She is
alone, now as she & her husband have parted. She should have
left him years ago. So am not asking for a reading along
that line. For as long as I stay here I feel I must fight
the low climate. I may be wrong, but have tried it out
several times with the same result. Now what I am going to
ask, I hardly expect you will do, for you have told me before
you did not do that kind of work any more, but when I tell
you WHY I am asking it, you MAY be willing try for me, for if
you could give this information I believe it would be a great
Christian act, and would benefit us both in many ways.
When I was in Atlanta I met a lady who goes into a trance
(very much like your work) and gives readings. She told me
of my property & said on The Thomas place there was a
treasure buried. Between twenty two & twenty three hundred
dollars. Said there seemed to have been an awful lot of
blood shed at the time it was put there, and she told me to
walk over the place every day for a week, & my first husband
father of Mrs. [
654]] would come to me & tell me just where
it was. What I can't see, is if she could tell me it was
there and how much & etc., WHY she could not tell me FIRST
where it was. There is where I lose faith in those things.
Still I know during the war when Selma fell. There was much
money, jewelry, & silver burried. Down the alley back of the
old Y.M.C.A. several years ago, two men found an iron pot
with money in. An old colored woman that worked for me 12
years was a child of 9 years when Selma fell. She has often
told me of seeing the people from up town bringing things out
here to burry. Some in buggies some in carts & wheel barrows
and every way, & of seeing the soldiers riding through the
streets some with arms, some legs, & heads cut off just
hanging in the saddle & the horses running every way, like
wild. No one could ever forget the awfulness of it. So I
thought it may be possible there is a treasure there burried
at that time. She seemed to be so positive I would be shown
& would be sure to get it. I complied with her directions
but have had no results. Now I believe YOU could locate it
if its there, and it sure would be a Christian act if you
could, for then I could get out of this climate and could do
many things I would love to do for others. Am I asking to
much, if so, please don't hesitate to tell me. I have no
money to spend but if you could locate it & I should find it
I sure WOULD make it worth your time & effort.
Best wishes [
949]
5/27/38 EC's ltr. to Mrs. [
979]:
Dear Mrs. [
979];-
Have yours of 22nd - always glad to hear from you, sorry to
hear that you do not feel that the Selma climate agrees with
you, especially under the circumstances - I feel Mrs. [
979]
from the information given, if you get or have the thought
that the climate is detrimental, why it goes a long ways in
making it disagreeable to you - there are then those things
that will or should make the adjustments in your system, so
that the Malaria will not affect you - once remember the
reading saying "prayer is ineffective in a quinine conscience
[consciousness?]".
Yes, seems there has been a constant inclination to belittle
East Selma and there are a lot of places worse am sure, even
in Selma.
Three sixes [
666] is fine if you keep the eliminations going
well - but will eventually work a hardship unless you - Have
you ever tried Laxative-bromo Quinine. That taken regularly
until the system is thoroughly cleansed is excelent for an
condition that arises from a Malarial tendency. Think you
would find it worth a try. Well there are a lot of things
that might be worse than seperation - but [
286] was to me
always such a lovely person cant see why some one that had
the oportunity wouldnt appreciate her real worth - please
remember me to her very kindly
You know will be glad to try and help any way posible - if
you do not feel as well as you think you should.
Now - about the reading for buried treasure - would like very
much to try and help - but do not feel from experiences that
with me much information is very satisfactory, I believe,
(posibly am fooling my self that I know) such information
must come from sources very close the earth - and is harmful
to one who is trying to use the true spiritual forces - all
too often becomes confusing - and is not helpful at all thus
becoming harmful from every angle - and have all my work now
given to the Physical and spiritual phases of human
experience - and just afraid to undertake such not that there
is any thing wrong in your obtaining the treasure, for it is
your but would be wrong for me to undertake it, if it were to
be presented to me - intuitively - would be glad to pass it
on to you but afraid couldn't try it in a reading - so if you
will send me a plat of the property will see if get any thing
- but will not be from a reading - just the intuitive force
that will at times work - but would not wish any thing for
it.
No dont understand - about the lady in Atlanta - but know
have had just such experiences - could tell people they must
work it out for themselves, and would not give a location at
all - yet say it was in such a vacinity - so posibly should
understand but cant say that I do.
Do hope you will soon be feeling a whole lot better - and if
it is best that you stay in Selma - may it be that you will
have the best of health.
Thanks again for your letter, let me hear from you when ever
you have chance.
With all good wishes
Sincerely [signed] Edgar Cayce
2/15/39 See
979-10, asking if surgery was advisable to remove
cataract.
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