6/06/70 Virginia Lee Grimes' ltr. to A.R.E.:
3023 14th Street, N.W., Apt. 815
Washington, D.C. 20009
Association for Research and Enlightenment
Virginia Beach, Virginia 23451
Dear Friends:
Having been a French history buff since my grade school days,
for nearly half a century that is, I am of course profoundly
interested in the material given under the heading "The Royal
Family" in Chapter 12 of the book "Edgar Cayce and ESP" [by
Doris Agee, pp
176-181, Paperback Library]; and regret very
much not being privileged to have known the "Morrison"
family.
Doubtless those long familiar with the readings on this group
have long since gone over the speculations possible in regard
to the previous identity of "Barbara".
Madame Simon, who reportedly was harsh in her early treatment
of the Dauphin [
1005], but grew to love him later, and is
rumored to have smuggled him out in a laundry basket when the
Simons left the Temple? Some historians insist that, as an
inmate of a charity home later, she had interviews after the
Restoration with the Dauphin's sister, the Duchesse
d'Angouleme, insisting to that lady that the young King did
not die in prison. However, there is no reason to believe
that Madame Simon had any contact with the Royal Family on
the flight to Varennes.
Madame de Tourzel, who had been the Dauphin's governess, and
indeed accompanied the family on the attempted flight to
Belgium. Her residence with them in the Tuileries would no
doubt deepen her understanding "between those of high estate
and those of the keeper."
Would "stripes laid on the body" by the entity be physical;
or could this mean other chastisement? The young Dauphin was
described by the Queen as being "high-spirited and often
needing correction for willfulness and quickness to anger".
The Kings' sister, Princess Elisabeth, was with the rest of
the family on the flight, and in the Temple near the young
Prince until her own execution in 1794. It was to her that
the condemned Queen on her last night committed the royal
children in the letter which was never delivered. Perhaps it
is stretching points to wonder - was Elisabeth, as bitter as
the young Madame Royale over the child Dauphin's horrendous
"testimony" at the Queen's trial, mentally inflicting
"stripes" upon him, then mellowing as time went on, and she
realized that he had been brainwashed by the Jacobins?
Elisabeth's religious turn of mind could very well have
inspired much reflection on the relations between classes, as
the Revolution raged on.
Was there definite indication given that "Charles Morrison"
was the King's second son, Louis Charles, who supposedly
perished in the Temple?
Is there any indication that the young man could have been
the first Dauphin, Louis Joseph, who died in 1789 at the age
of 8? This of course conflicts with Cayce's "half a score
and 5 years". Since the child's death occurred during the
meeting of the States General when the King and Queen
certainly experienced being "turned back" in the sense of
political rejection there might be a spiritual meaning. This
theory could also bring in Madame de Polignac as a possible
former personality who had hurt the Dauphin.
The bones of the boy buried in the Cemetery of Ste. -
Marguerite, supposedly the night of the child's death in
June, 1795, were declared by those who examined them after
the Revolution as "belonging to a boy about 15 years of age,"
though the young Louis XVII was only a little past ten years
of age, at the time of the death of the boy in the Temple,
whoever he was. His sister, still in the Temple room just
above his quarters there, was never called in to clinch the
identification, though her word would certainly have been
conclusive. Why?
Of all of the speculations I have encountered through the
years, about the Dauphin's fate, Meade Minnigerode's "son of
Marie Antoinette" seems most probable, though of course not
conclusive. But the boy this book describes as growing up in
the Swiss Alps died when considerably older than 15. (This
is documented, and not just one of the many fictional volumes
on the subject.)
There are so many things to wonder about the Revolutionary
era in France - was there occult significance to the fact
that Marie Antoinette was born on the day of the Lisbon
earthquake?
Was the terrible envy of the Duc d'Orleans a hangover from
some past incarnation? That of Provence could be explained
from events in his own 18th century lifetime; but Orleans was
never close enough to the crown to have been legitimately
unsettled by any sudden loss of hope.
On of the most interesting, and chilling, books of our own
time on that period, is Stanley Loomis' "Paris in the
Terror", somehow so authentic that one is led to wonder - was
he there?
Many of its observations seem so pertinent to our own time
that it isn't hard to believe that many of the dissidents of
our own era were in France in the late 18th century. One
quotation that I find particularly memorable is this:
"It is ironic that of all countries in Europe, France was the
only one that could have had a revolution - not because she
groaned under the lash of tyranny, but, on the contrary,
because she tolerated and even invited every conceivable
dissension and heresy. Restlessness, a passion for novelty,
the pursuit of excitement, were everywhere in the air. They
were the fruits of idleness and leisure, not of poverty."
Yours sincerely, [signed] Virginia Lee Grimes
