Edgar Cayce Readings, 1165-1

(Physical Suggestion)

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EC: Yes. We have the body, [1165], and those conditions that surround the body. It is with its mother.
Now, in reference especially to those conditions that are indicated by the mark on the forehead and the cheek or side of head:
This might be expressed or manifested in many a way, or much might be given as respecting same - as to the pathological effects, as to the influences that arise from the psychological effects and the psychopathic effects that had to do with those things which manifest in this way and manner.
Rather would we approach same from that which we have indicated through these sources heretofore, as to how each individual in its manifestations in the earth bears within its physical expression the marks of that which has been or may be termed as an expression of a development in the soul and spiritual forces.
This is being sought, however, more from the material experience or expression; and that is being sought that may remove or may cause or may effect a change in the personal appearances that are to be a portion of the experience of the body - if it is to carry on in this experience.
These then, as we would give:
From the pathological changes, these are pigments that are active in the texture and in the conditions in the physical forces of the body.
To apply injections, or to apply that which would change these in any MATERIAL way and manner would be to effect an effacement of that which would make for a full expression of that to be met by the body and those about same - in that which would make for the real, greater development.
Be rather mindful of those conditions physical that are arising with the body in its ability for assimilation, for those conditions that will make for the regular body-development as to its digestion and assimilation.
As for body activities in making for a helpful experience, we would massage the body - not so much over the area itself but ALONG the sides of same and over those areas from which this portion of the body receives its impulse for circulation to the superficial portions of the body - with Camphorated Oil.
And we would massage the whole portion of the body from the lower lumbar area to the head with Olive Oil AND Wine.
These will make for a change sufficient to assist the effacement that is the most helpful in the experience.
But it is more of an activity upon the part of those that are in the material sense the expression of that manifested in this body, [1165].
For the individual experiences of the body - if it is to carry on - are to be such that these will be lost sight of in that as may be builded from the spiritual forces. And in its expression in meeting those things that to most minds, or to the material-minded, become as an effacement - or as a marring of the influences that bear upon its own personality.
Then, aid in giving the expression more and more of that individuality that is shown here. And we will find this will bring to all a real blessing that may make for a greater and greater understanding of the relationships of individuals to Creative Forces and the manifestations of same in a material world.
In the applications, these we would do each evening as it is prepared for its evening rest.
The equal portions of Wine - Red Wine - and the Olive Oil; stirred together in such a way and manner as to make for the absorption to those portions of the body from the lower lumbar area to the base of the brain.
And the face, the head, those portions of the neck, even to the vagus centers or those about the upper portions of the thorax, or extending even to the breastbone, massaged very gently with the Camphorated Oil.
These, as we find, offer the better opportunities for the expressions in the present.
As conditions change, or when it has reached those periods of its full expression - or at nine months - then we would give those changes; if there remains within the innate desire of those that seek in the present for those periods when there begins then the developing of the INDIVIDUALITY, rather than the personality of THIS soul expressing and manifesting itself as [1165].
Ready for questions.
(Q) Should the Camphorated Oil be massaged just around the edges of the mark?
(A) Just round the edges as indicated, rather than over the place; for with the massage and the proper assimilations and digestions that will make for the building of blood forces and the pigments in portions of the body, this will aid in the effacement of the disturbance; or it becomes less and less perceptible - save at periods.
But most, hold to the spiritual expression and not the physical.
(Q) Any other advice regarding care?
(A) This at the present. Be mindful of those conditions regarding the assimilation and digestions, see? These are under care, but be mindful of same.
We are through for the present.
Copy to Miss [954]
Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

5/05/36 Aunt [954]'s letter:
This morning's mail brought me some very sad news...but my great confidence in the information you bring may turn it into good news, I hope. My sister-in-law has had a little baby girl, (born April the 30th) and she writes me that she is heart broken for the baby has a bad red mark along one cheek and on the forehead. Tragic as that is (or would be) always, I feel particularly for the mother in this case. For my own mother (her mother-in-law) has very little love for her...and the tendency will be, I am much afraid, to lay some blame on the mother, stupid as that is. The mother is a person of high development and feeling, coming of an Italian-Albanian blood, which of course displaced my mother at the time she married into the family. I am sure you see the cross section of jealousy and love here.
I had been dreaming that first of all I should have a life reading on this little girl...such a new experience in a limited family that knows no babies of its own. But now I come asking for a physical reading. Both mother and child are still in the hospital, and probably the reading would best be taken during a nursing period when the mother might have the child with her normally. Please discuss the matter with Hugh Lynn. If he and you think we should try to take a reading in that atmosphere, I shall go there on SUNDAY, THE TENTH. Otherwise I have wired my sister asking that she allow NO EXPERIMENTATION with the little face whatever, until we get proper information.
My sister writes that she is so sweet looking...as to her little features...and has quantities of black hair. I have a decided drawing to these here black haired people, you see, so I'd love to see her beautiful to look on.
Please let me have your and Hugh Lynn's counsel on this... I know your readings are well filled now, but do hope you can fit this in. Wire me collect here in care of [...], if it appears necessary. The reason I question the advisability of taking the reading in the hospital is the surroundings, for these folks have little money and probably one or more sick people are in the same room as my sister, so that some intrusion is apt to take place. See?
Much love to all of you...and good health...
As ever, [954]
P.S. Again - I understand the problem is very difficult and want to make as much spiritual preparation among friends (and myself) as possible, hoping the Light will open on this dear little face - through you - .

REPORTS

5/15/36 Miss [954]'s letter to EC:
My dear Teacher:
I suppose that wonder piles on wonder with you...and that such a reading as you took last Sunday for little [1165] does not seem as remarkable to you as it does to me. Frankly I was rather prepared for the psychic interpretation. During the reading I had the most unique experience I have ever had with my brother. He sat, together with the mother of the child and with me, in perfect quiet. What was going on in his mind I do not know. But I do know that he allowed me to dominate the room...and that I even explained to two noisy friends who came in at a time when they were not supposed to be there...exactly what was going on...and my Brother did not protest.
He is a much disturbed spirit...even more than I have been. His disturbance has lead him into devious ways...and physical suffering that has included many operations and some three or four years of continuous hospital treatment. He and I have no point of common interest at all... I try to be patient and quiet with him, but often after we have been in the room together for an hour or so (we meet only a couple of times a year)...I feel distracted beyond words...as if I must tear the room apart and get out of it. Yet I have tried to be intelligent about him...and perhaps I understand better what he has gone through than anyone else.
So you can well imagine what it meant to have a full hour (we kept almost the whole time)...of quiet, and then of words of good cheer, and then see him so delighted to look on the baby. Of course we must give my own development of the past year a little credit for this...but certainly I give him lots of credit, too. He speaks of the marks on her face very softly, with a little kind of awe, even a sob in his voice. But he is not at all ashamed of the marks. I am so grateful for that. If our family can be said to have a tradition, certainly that of "handsome" people is a main one. So I know it is a shock to him to look on the child like this.
As to the reading itself: I do wish I might talk to you about it. I recognize the importance of it...and the tremendous responsibility of its warning. I have found it hard to take and keep wondering how I may best pass it on to the two most closely interested...the mother and my brother. It is a tremendous responsibility. I think the only thing to do is to go to Philadelphia and talk it out.
Then as I visualize the next step, I hope to get them to ask for a life reading. I could ask for it, and had intended to do so. But it becomes more evident that the only one who can do much about the "conditions around [1165]" are her father and mother. They can ask for it, and I can pay for it as that becomes possible.
I wonder about this statement..."It is with its mother." [1165] was not actually in the room with its mother during the reading period. But of course it was in the hospital. Also this might be interpreted as being spiritually with its mother, for the mother is a very religious Catholic and had closed her eyes and was praying at that time...particularly intensely during the fifteen minute you give as the time of the reading. However, ask Gladys to check her notes in case it should read "it is not with its mother." You see it was in the baby's ward...while the mother was in her room.
Do I need to tell you how deeply grateful I am for the reading? I am sure you know well how I feel about it. And if her father and mother can cooperate to given ends...(or if indeed I can help myself at this distance in New York)...then it looks as though we may expect lovely things indeed of little [1165].
Give the enclosed poem to Mrs. Cayce...no one has seen it as yet. Perhaps she would like it. When I meditate in my small way during the readings, poetry drips easily off my pencil.
This is a selfish, personal letter. Forgive it... I know you understand.
Much love to all of you...and gratitude... [954]
P.S. I find the question of the personality versus individuality at nine months an interesting thing, don't you? If we can take the life reading, perhaps we shall ask more about that... [...]
5/21/36 EC's letter to Miss [954]:
Dear Miss [954]-
Thanks for yours of the 15th, am so glad the reading was a help to you, and am sure you can be able to make it helpful to the Mother and Father tho realize it will be no easy JOB, but were you to look at it as being a job at all then you have already most defeated your whole purpose, God is the natural thing and it is the others that are unnatural. Am sure the experience you had with your brother will make it all the more reasonable thing to approach him and may God direct you in your undertaking.
Wish we might talk about the information, but that will come in time and as we study it over we possibly will be able to pass something that is helpful on here and there, to each other as well as to others. After all not what we know but what we do about what we know. Yes, can they but come to the seeking for the information that may come in a life reading then there may be the help for all. One can't help but draw parallels. Was quite interested to me, letter I received the same mail as yours of 15th - don't mean to be telling you another tale, but on this wise - Some 15teen years ago had a very dear friend [953] in Chicago, an Official in the Western Union. He had a chief Clerk [2265] whose Religion forbids his interest in a work of this nature, finally tho he was induced by his superior to ask for a reading, tho they had no children and was assured they never would have any, and asked the reading should the adopt one they were told they might have their own. So when the first one [1939] was born, they were very happy, yet their convictions kept them from making much ado about it all. But the day your letter came had a letter from a man in Peoria, Ill., who had seen this Father, and he had plead with him to have a reading for his son [1168] who has an affliction, not unlike this baby, tho this is mental rather than physical, but the real source arises from something of the same nature. So, can you see how to me there was a remainder, perhaps this may to some appear far fetched, but to me it appeared as the circle almost completing itself at least lending some encouragement. The statement "It is with its Mother", I do not think it meant in person but rather in personality. We often mistake, in names things for conditions. Please understand I am not trying to hedge, but am reminded what a very well known Physician once said many years ago. "If you want to say there is nothing in the readings, well you can take the words themselves and prove there is not, but if you are looking for reality, and the deeper things, and will study the information you will find the most enlightening things imaginable, and most of all help" then the circumstance of the letters may be what convinces me that is what was meant in the words, that have no connection what ever unless taken in that manner, and had she been with her Mother in person would have been taken to have meant just that and not considered from the spiritual stand point at all.
I pray God the information may be just as helpful to every one as it should be, if it is His way and His will it will be am sure, if not of HIM then it has little or no place in the affairs of any.
Thanks for the verse, Gertrude appreciated that more than you can imagine, she is very sentimental, in some ways, the condition of the baby appealed to her, her heart just went out to it when she heard the information and to the Mother and Father, and when she had that verse she has read it am sure numbers and numbers of time shown it to several until she felt they did not get what she felt then have seen her read it in silence and alone and really weep over it all. A great heart not always understood, but is making a brave effort to do her part. Thanks, Miss [954], for every thing you do not realize how much help you have been and are to this household. A great strength to all of us. Yes you may want to say different, but remember oft, the weakness of men is the strength of GOD.
Love to you and yours from all here.
Ever the same [signed] Edgar Cayce
1/10/39 Aunt, Miss [954]'s letter: My little niece, [1165], came to visit me on Sunday...and I feel you will be interested in a story about her. As you will recall the physical reading which we took soon after her birth indicated that she would be a means of showing the mercy of Creative Force in the world. She appears to me to have the make-up of a psychic already...highly sensitive...most gracious in her attitudes...with great eyes which she rolls at you on the slightest provocation.
Her mother took this adorable little piece to see a lady who had been hurt in an auto accident. That night as she knelt to say her prayers she added a new one..."Please God make Kitty all well..." Her mother was so touched and delighted she told me about it. That little mite is two and a half years old.