This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 12th day of April, 1938, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [1468], Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the records of that entity now known as [1468], and the record as Edith Maxwoll - later Edith Abercrombie in the experience.
2. In giving the biographical sketch, the interpretations of the record are with the intent to make more understandable and practical in application the urges and experiences that arise, which - as has been indicated - find manifestation in the emotions of the body.
3. These the more often give expression through the sensory forces, or may come even at times to the entity as intuitive feelings and emotions.
4. In that experience the entity was among those of the group or sect called Friends; who came from near what is now Oslo, Norway, and settled in that builded as the "city of brotherly love."
5. The entity was young in years - only four - when it came into the new environ and surrounding. There was one other child, a brother, at the time - older than the entity.
6. The mother in the present was the younger sister as born in the new land. Hence the active forces that have made for the companionship of a nature wherein there has been both the dependence and somewhat of an aloofness.
7. The parents' names were Abigail and Joseph - not Joseph as it is called or was called here, but Norwegian; called Joda (?) in the land from which the entity came.
8. The entity was fair, and inclined to be rather of that type, as would be said - fair of hair, long especially, and a crowning glory; as this, of course, was a portion of the experiences of that group in the early periods.
9. We find that the entity was educated very much by the mother, as well as those who were closely associated with some of the leaders of the group; especially the father of the one who became the companion later in the experience.
10. We do not find that companion - Adolph Abercrombie - in the material experience in the present.
11. As to the activities, the background of the entity during that sojourn:
12. The entity was rather active in the early influences of the group as a sect. Hence the entity was well acquainted with all the activities pertaining to a well-regulated household that was self-reliant, self-dependent; and the natural tendency was for the entity in its middle teen years to become a teacher or director of others - as its intent or bent was TOWARDS the greater activity in what would be termed in the present a capacity as a teacher or a psychoanalyst or one that would direct the training of individuals (men and girls) in their vocational activities.
13. Hence those activities of weaving, basket making, homemaking, cooking - all of those things pertaining to same were taught by the entity.
14. The entity was wedded in the nineteenth year of the experience in the land; hence it was twenty-three years old when it became married.
15. Home building, homemaking was still a portion of the entity's activities; for in those early periods many of the group activities were held in common as to the incomes from labors. However, the homes were held very much in the direction of being directed by the head, or the man of the house.
16. As to the influences from that sojourn that bear upon the emotions of the entity in the present:
17. We find the orderliness; not so much finicky in its own surroundings, but neatness, orderliness, and the dislike of breaking a routine that may be set for self.
18. The gaining and the losing influence came more from the activities with the greater groups in the middle or latter portion of the experience during that sojourn.
19. Hence those questionings that arise in the present experiences of the entity when there is the tendency for others, because of position or class or group, to in any manner lord over others; no matter whether it has any direct application to the entity itself or to those with whom the entity may be only associated or acquainted.
20. For as has been indicated, the great seeking of those with whom the entity was associated during that period was religious freedom; which, with the character and the nature of the group, included freedom of ALL characters; yet with that very same impetus that becomes a part of the entity's experience in making for those activities with others in peace and harmony.
21. Because of the disturbing forces, in the present experience of the entity these become rather of the nature where the entity - rather than face the issue - would withdraw from conditions that would become disturbing in the MENTAL forces which the entity sets as its ideal or of an idealistic nature.
22. Hence we find those forces that become rather as those to be builded upon, others where there must be - as has been indicated for the entity - the setting of the standards in spiritual activities.
23. The abilities of the entity in that experience to gather data upon which future conditions might be judged, make for the abilities in the present having to do with secretarial activities in which there may be the guiding by the entity of that which is well on the part of others; whether pertaining to social or material or even a commercial nature.
24. The very activity made for those influences which make for the surety within its own economic environ or surrounding. This is well, if not carried to extremes.
25. But the greater help, the greater aid the entity may have in the mental and spiritual development from that sojourn is in enabling others to gain that equilibrium between the mental and the spiritual for the greater assurance of the answering of the influences upon the individual self, or arousing to the consciousness of the spirit of good within.
26. Ready for questions.
27. (Q) Did I play the piano, if so, how well?
    (A) It was not the piano, more the spinet then - or that which BECAME the piano; and this VERY well. More were there the instruments in the home and in the environs of the entity's activities such as those of the reeds and such natures. The entity played the spinet very well.
28. (Q) Are my parents of that incarnation in this present experience, if so, what are their names?
    (A) Only the one as we find; the mother in the present was in that incarnation the sister - the younger sister.
29. (Q) Are my other brothers and sisters of that incarnation (if any) in this experience, if so, what are their names?
    (A) We do not find such a close association in the present as to indicate names, but apparently there have been associations and activities with those of that incarnation.
30. (Q) Has my husband of that incarnation been in my present experience?
    (A) As indicated, the husband's name then was Adolph Abercrombie; and in the present HAS been associated with the entity as a friend - NOT as a husband.
31. (Q) Are there any records available relating to the entity Edith Maxwoll and her activities, family, etc., at that time, if so, where may they be found?
    (A) These as we find have been private rather than public records. Records of the activities of the early Friends would show same. We do not find them as connected with the entity in the present. There may be periods when these may be found.
32. (Q) Were my human mother and father, [...] and [...], associated with me in that experience, if so, in what way?
    (A) As indicated, the one. The other we do not find other than the association in some capacity, but as to what - it is not given or indicated in the record of the entity here.
33. (Q) Was [294] associated with me in that experience, if so, in what way?
    (A) Known of, but not physically associated.
34. (Q) Was my aunt, [...], associated with me in that experience, if so, in what way?
    (A) One of those to whom the entity reported as the teacher - and not always were these very pleasant encounters; though made pleasant by the determining in self to keep peace.
35. (Q) Was Sherman B. Joost associated with me in that experience, if so, in what way?
    (A) As we find he was the keeper of what would today be called the garrison, or the common storehouse of that particular group or sect.
36. (Q) Was Beresford Shope associated with me in that experience, if so, in what way?
    (A) We do not find this other than a contact, but as to the association it is not indicated.
37. (Q) Was Ernest Otto associated with me in that experience, if so, in what way?
    (A) We do not find it by that name. There are many associations. Remember, the records are of the entity, rather than those as of contacts by entering INTO associations.
    As we find, Otto was a minister, or what we would call rather the leader of part of the group - and a friend of the entity.
38. (Q) Any other information regarding my experience then that would be of help to me now?
    (A) Much INFORMATION might be had, but this - as for information - had best be by questions.
    As has been indicated, to make the experience as a living one, enter into thy silence with that desire to be shown the faults as well as the virtues, that the self may be a continuous development towards being that the Creative Forces would have thee to do in the present.
    For as the promise has been, "If ye abide in me, I will bring to thy remembrance all things."
39. We are through for the present. [See 1468-4, Par. R1.]

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. See 1468-1 and 1468-3.

REPORTS

1. 4/12/38 GD's note: Dream had by Edgar Cayce during the 1468-4 Reading, as to her appearance at that time: "This is a picture I saw of her at that time. Rather inclined to be tall, at least five feet nine and a half or ten inches tall; very fair hair and very long; hazel-blue eyes; long oval face. In this vision she was dressed not in black but ALMOST black crinoline, with white collar and cuffs, and mittens which she had made herself. Very positive, very dainty, and inclined to be a little bit shy."
2. 4/16/38 EC's ltr. to Miss [1468]:
   Dear Miss [1468]
   There is so much to write about, wonder will I get all would like to say in one letter. First the reading, well what do you think of it - know there is not much I can say about that, for the answer to the information in such must come from within, and there we get the answer to most of the problems, as well as the things we wish to do. But when you have read it over and gotten the gist of it would like to know what you think of it. One very funny thing - a thing that makes me wonder a lot about it all. The same day your reading had First life reading [See 1523-4] of a young lady [1523] here, one who lives near here, haven't known her very long, and she was given an appearance, about the time of yours in Palestine. You must have know her or known of her, for apparently it was she whom Paul raised such a kick about, and caused some of the things to be said to you, that made the disturbance between you and I at the time - what do you know about that. And the funny thing now with her is she is separated from the man [2508] she loves - but is married to a very lovable fellow [1650] some how the circumstances click, how it fits all of them is a wonder to me.
   But be sure and let me know what you think of your reading, think want to get a reading now if ever find the time, of you and I at the time of the Master. And am not just curious, but think would be good for me. And might be a help for you in some way also. Or would it?
   Thanks many many times for the Book am finding it most interesting, appreciate it very much. Wish could have good long chat with you this afternoon instead of trying to say it with this hunt and punch system of mine, then too cold type does not express just what would like to say anyway. For might look at you and then would not say it. Would know better possibly, but do hope you get just what I meant to say in my last letter to you - Yes am feeling fine physically, and have been having some very marvelous experiences, for me, they do answer those questions one asks themselves oh so often. Has been lovely here last few days, between readings I do a little piddling with a garden and my flowers, all look might pretty, what few have then have lake in backyard almost or comes up to backyard, so have fishing pier all that keeps me busy, when find time from my correspondence. I undertake to keep up the letters about readings and appointments, and have a bit of personal, as have four sisters, and a few cousins that let me hear from them occasionally.
   Sunday has a vibration all its own for me, or I have a mood for Sunday wonder which - but I had a habit as a boy and young man, went to one church for eight years without missing but two services during that whole period, then was injured and couldn't move, so that made something of a sacredness about Sunday for me, have never gotten over, then had a Sunday school class that taught for four years without missing a meeting and during that time we had at least one other meeting during the week with the class - must have done fair job there, for there were 28 in class and 19 are missionaries now in foreign field. Now that correspondence is most interesting, for have kept that up with most of them and they have been in the foreign field now for twenty years. So Sunday has a special meaning to me. Oh no wonder have sent others to foreign field - went my self once - and have not been permitted to go this time. Please pardon me for getting off on that vein -
   Haven't heard [1470]'s programme don't always get ... in very plain here on our Radio, at times very good - but would like to hear one of his programme's yes, knew he was Married - in fact he asked about it in a reading. Hope it works out well.
   Ah am looking forward to [318] coming this summer, but feel his parents are really worried as to whether he will want to come home or not - but think he will - have really been anxious about him, but will be a real experience for me.
   No my sign is Pisces, 18th of Mar., on a Sunday afternoon - tho no Ast [Astrologer?] agrees with my Mother as to the time of day.
   THE LADY - well as have said when I have the opportunity to tell you all about her, for can never write it, and how close it all was with my Mother, you will possibly understand - here is a dream have had possibly fifty times during my life began when I was a young man, or boy in fact had it first on my 14th birthday and had it last on the day met you.
   Mother used to tell me I would one day meet the lady of my dream, have I? but the dream [See interpretation in 294-62, Par. 7-A on 2/02/26] - "I am walking down a glade with a lady hold of my arm, the lady has on a veil, so have never seen her face, there is vines or a carpet of them on the ground, all have star-shaped white flowers on them, we find all the trees are trimmed to represent a pyramid, and are evergreens. We come to a brook, very clear water beautiful white sand and pebbles. We step over the brook and start up a little rise or hill, and are met by a messenger, of figure dressed as Mercury, wings on feet and shoulders. He addresses us, asks us to join hands, which we do, then he lays across our united hands a cloth of Gold, the piece is about six inches wide and a little more than a yard long. We walk then on up the hill, the messenger having vanished, come to a road that is all muddy, as we stand looking at same the Messenger suddenly appears, tells us to hold hands together with cloth on same over the road. We do and it dries up. We walk over and come to a very high cliff. Seems to be of chalk. We are to climb this. I have a heavy knife with which I cut niches in rock and begin to climb, pulling the lady up as I cut niches and climb: This has rarely varied with the years, some times a little higher on the cliff than others, but have never seen over the top - and usually fall - did not fall when last dreamed this. Crazy perhaps, but do you wonder, I have wondered and wondered. What do you make of it - tell me honestly.
   Your experiences have been wonderful in your search, and have I been any small part in bringing you anything that has given you greater assurance or hope - well all Praise to HIM, the Giver of all good and perfect gifts.
   Possibly you are right about my not having to go to sleep - or lose physical consciousness, - maybe this is madness - for the information says, it because in my last incarnation [referred to in 1468-4, Par. 33-A], I abused the privileges, and thus lost so much of what had been gained - but have a feeling when The Lady - is with me possibly will not have to lose consciousness - then your experience, to me verifies that. Yes, No, or what.
   May you always keep that - "the answer must come from within" there He has promised to meet us IN THE TABERNACLE of our own Holy of Holies. No where else, for Jesus said, "I and the Father will come and abide with you" and I believe it. "The Kingdom of Heaven is within" our bodies are the temples of the Living God. And there He will meet us. So may you keep that ever is certainly my prayer for you - and all. Now, I realize when I lose my self, lay aside my physical consciousness, am only turning within (or seeking a disincarnate spirit) and to me God forbid, that I ever listen to that - will tell you some experiences some time. OH there is so much want talk with you about - and can't write it - too much for even this is growing far too long. But why do I want to tell you all these things? That I may be assured - by you - and within, that is all I can see. But what should this be - yes there is much to be done - but know it is "Wait ye on the Lord." Must stop I know, haven't said half wanted to say and what have afraid have said badly, but do hope you gather what I really mean. How you have changed my expectations. May the Lord keep you and bless you, do hope you found something worthwhile in the last reading, tell me about it please. Don't want to fool myself and most of all no one else - Can it be am counted worthy to help a bit here and there those I meet. Are you not The Lady who will help me up that cliff.
   All here send love and best wishes.
   Sincerely, [signed] Edgar Cayce
3. 5/08/38 [1468]'s letter to EC:
   Dear Mr. Cayce:
   I am sure you must have gotten my thoughts about you though NO LETTER. I have been trying to write you for a long time but again it is my clients! In the spring and fall of the year they prepare to depart from these shores which means more activity and more of my time - then a new one arrived on the scene wanting something very special done - so all in all, there was a sense of hurry and confusion. When I did have solitude I seemed to need it for meditation, etc., to get hold of the physical disturbances. However, things are now more quiet and I feel much better, but I do apologize for not writing sooner.
   I just loved your nice long letter which I found EXTREMELY INTERESTING and which I have pondered much. I also loved my READING and think it CLICKS even more than the others, if that is possible, with present events. However, as there is so much to say in regard to that, I am going to write about that separately, and if I don't get it off today, will do so DEFINITELY in a day or so.
   First, I do think it strange about the young lady [1523] whom "Paul kicked about"! I hope she decides to have a Reading some day on the Palestine experience for I am sure a good deal would come forth that would probably dove-tail in with ours.
   I think you painted a very lovely picture of your garden of flowers and the lake in the back yard. I, too, have a great love for flowers and when I was a very little girl I used to work in my mother's garden and "slip geraniums", etc. Even now, no matter how tiny my room is, I MUST have some growing plants around, if only ivy plants, they are as important as light and food to me. But I'm no good at fishing for I feel TOO SORRY for the "caught fish"!!
   I have been to the two meetings at which Hugh Lynn presided and at the second one, especially, I was very much impressed with what he brought out in regard to Incarnation, etc., that had come forth from your Readings, and also by his understanding and breadth of vision. I think it is amazing in one so young. It seems as though it would take a lifetime to see that BIG. He brought out much and presented it in a way that was very helpful to me. I meant to tell him this but so far haven't had the chance. At the meetings I met some people who spoke of having had letters from you, and it seems to me you must be corresponding with every other person around about Readings, etc., I'm beginning to think now you have a GIGANTIC job before you, and I appreciate your letters even more if that is possible.
   I think your record at church attendance is beyond anything I have ever heard, and I think 19 missionaries out of a class of 28 is remarkable. You have certainly done a fine piece of work in that field alone. I suppose your remark about "having gone to foreign fields yourself once" refers to a former incarnation.
   Yesterday afternoon, we put [1472] on the train for California, to be gone a month. I am so glad for her sake because she does need a vacation and she has never been that far West. One of my clients gave me that trip last summer, I was gone six weeks, and it was all good for me in many ways. Being alone, at first, I rather unconsciously drew up in my shell of reserve, but soon that all melted away, and before long I was visiting with almost everyone along the way. The scenery was magnificent which meant an expanding of consciousness for me in a way, and then I visited some relatives and again established NEW AND FRIENDLY relationships where before things had been strained, so altogether, guess it belonged in my present pattern.
   It was interesting to find you are under the Pisces sign. A number of people born under that sign seem to have been in my life, and my mother was one, and I have been heard to say I know SOMETHING about them! You look so calm and peaceful now but I am inclined to think you must have "worked for it" for I don't think I have ever met a Pisces person who hasn't had to struggle for it. Maybe I am all wrong in your case! Usually they seem to have much of the same Merchurial [Mercurial] qualities as the Gemini people (Gemini - that's me!).
   I would certainly like to hear about the wonderful experiences you are having - I know they can't be written, and I do hope there will be a way for me to go to Virginia Beach one day. Hugh Lynn is to talk one night on "Dreams" I understand from a notice received and I most certainly want to hear that. And that brings me to the DREAM you wrote me about - all I can say is that it is AMAZING - and I have read and re-read it. The strange part is that you should have the same dream over and over. It seems to me to be TEEMING WITH SYMBOLOGY. The thought has just this second come to me - when have the READING on the Palestine experience - or rather the questions - could you ask to have the DREAM interpreted? It seems to me it is very significant and links up with other things told about (in one of your letters to me) "...there will be definite signs given, experiences that will make each of you know you have been very close in a definite work here before. When you meet them, hold fast one to the other, don't let anything keep you from carrying on that you once began." That dove-tails with information with given in the Readings of both. I notice the Dictionary gives the following in regard to MERCURY: (One of the definitions) - "A carrier of tidings; a messenger." Then in my Bible Dictionary it says: "MERCURY - After healing the cripple at Lystra, Paul and Barnabas were viewed by the populace as celestial visitants, and acclaimed, Barnabas as Jupiter and Paul as MERCURY (Gr. Hermes Ac. 14, 11, F). According to the popular mythology, "Mercury was the attendant of Jupiter 'Father of Gods and Men' and the spokesman and messenger of the gods, the same place as was assigned in Semitic religion to Nebo". Don't know whether this means anything to you or not - you probably have already looked that up. I love the the carpet of vines with white star shaped flowers. I saw twinkling stars for a long time but that stopped, it seems to me, after my first Reading. The Reading spoke of them as omens - do you think fulfillment is near and therefore no more need for Omens??? I don't know. The trees trimmed to represent a pyramid seems to me to mean much. I grow more and more interested in the Pyramids - the time must be drawing near for its great secrets to be revealed. Wonder what you will have to do with that now - from the information compiled through Readings in regard to that, weren't you you one of the builders of the Pyramids? I love the cloth of gold - that is a beautiful symbol - all of which you, of course, know, but I'm THINKING out loud again. There is one thing that is different - you are pulling the lady up - and that part I can understand better than that the lady will help you!!! Well I think it is a wonderful dream (more than a dream) - and FEEL more about it than I can put into words. I shall keep studying it. It would be marvellous if there would be something I could do to help up the cliff.
   It seems that the one thing driving me is to work, work, (with myself) to perfect myself so that I will be ready - ready for what - I don't know. I know I am making a little headway - I have to continue along that way until the next thing comes. The physical condition is definitely better (I have stopped going to the doctor and taken myself in hand as it were) but I don't seem to be in the right rhythm for anything to come through of the Palestine experience. I feel certain it will when the physical is exactly right - or that is what seems to be hammering at my consciousness. For the first time I dreamed of you - I think it was last Wednesday or Thursday night - I woke up at around six in the morning and seemed to remember having been talking or visiting with you - then turned over (without writing it down) and went to sleep, waking again around eight but remembering none of the details. (Maybe I just took my astral body for a trip to Virginia Beach!!!) I have had very strange dreams all my life and it has been predicted over and over that I am to bring them forth into the conscious mind (with some kind of meaning). I have had certain dreams during my life when on waking I KNEW I was to hear very bad news and DID, but the dream wouldn't be anything like the news. One astrologer told me that my physical set-up wasn't good enough for it to come through - that I had to build it up - and needed calsium [calcium] in my system and so on and so on - how did I get on this track???
   I will have to write about my last Reading later I see now as it is getting very late. One thing I seemed to feel about it and that was that there seemed to be a certain impatience about the questions I asked - they did seem shallow and I can well understand it. Did you get that sense at all? It wasn't the same as the other two...they sort of flowed on... but some of this seemed to be given almost under protest. It was shallow but it was for a reason and it answered what I wanted to know. But I'll tell you all the details later.
   Until then, much love to you all,
   Very sincerely yours, [1468]
4. 5/10/38 [1468]'s letter to EC:
   Dear Mr. Cayce:
   There seems to be so much to say in regard to my Reading that I hardly know where to begin.
   In the first place I was very much surprised to find that I had come from Norway, for although I felt certain I had at some time had a Norwegian incarnation, I had come to the conclusion I was in the Swedish colony that settled in that vicinity, for I somehow had never heard of Norwegians arriving at that time. However, I think I came to this conclusion after having read so much in the newspapers about the Swedes' recent celebrations in connection with the event of their first settlements in this country. If I had given heed to my IMPRESSION I would have know that this could not be so for I have often been heard to say that I did not care for the Swedes, they were not a bit like the Norwegians who were a much finer people. This of course, sounds silly, but is probably a hang-over from the past, and shows that I couldn't have been a part of them for I do not feel at all close, even though the languages are so much alike. I have also been heard to say very often that I felt more Norwegian than American. When I was twelve years old my mother took me to Norway for a visit and I immediately LOVED it and cried when it was time to go home. When anyone passes on the street speaking Norwegian, I sometimes stay close to them for a little time just so I can hear more and I usually feel a glow of something at the time. My parents passed on when I was about sixteen and I can safely say I haven't contacted any one from Norway since I was about twenty, and as the years go by this love for Norway and Norwegians seems to grow stronger. I have been saying lately that I did not under- stand it but this Reading certainly does clear up this point.
   In regard to my name "Edith Maxwoll". As there is no such name in Norwegian as "Edith" (that I know of), I was no doubt named "[...]" the same as I am today, but it was probably Americanized to "Edith". In this present life I didn't like "[...]" because it sounded foreign, so proceeded to call myself "Ida" which was supposed to be the Americanized version as I saw it, though at one stage of the game I seriously considered calling myself "Edith". It is only within recent years that I have (shortly before my first Reading) decided to stop all nonsense and use the name as it was given me. Don't you think this is all strange?
   Then, I had a feeling that there must be some mistake about my mother's name (at that time) of "Abigail". In my life, I had never heard of A Norwegian name of Abigail. I looked up a Danish girl and asked her about it, who said that she had known of people by that name who were Norwegians (Scandinavians) but that it was a name that had been used in the distant past but not used anymore. What do you think of that?
   Then the question as to my having long hair. From the time that I can remember as a child, I was always hanging a scarf, a shawl, handkerchief, or even any kind of a rag, on my head which was to represent HAIR to me. (My mother kept my hair cut short.) The longer the whatever was supposed to be on head, the longer the supposed hair, and I would walk in front of the mirror and imagine I had a mass of glorious locks! To have it long enough to sit on was the best of all! It was such an old story that no member of the family bothered with it one way or the other (guess I was very proud of that hair - and vain).
   Another thing, from the time I can remember, when I sat down at the table to eat (or any table) my fingers were always running back and forth as though I were playing the piano. My mother used to scold me at times but seemed finally to pay no more attention to it because I seemed to be unaware of the fact that I was doing it most of the time. My father said he would get me an organ so I could learn to play it, but I wanted a piano or nothing which he didn't think he could afford at the time. I was visiting once where they had a piano so I took the hymn book and figured out where "C" must be on the piano and VERY SLOWLY, of course, began to play the hymn WITHOUT EVER HAVING HAD A LESSON. Later I did have lessons, but I played the piece "by ear" so much quicker than I could learn it by note that it interfered with my progress along that line. I have always felt that "playing by ear" was a memory of having playing in a former life.
   Now I know these things sound awfully silly in the telling but I know you will understand why I talk about it. It gives me great hope for if we can REMEMBER some of the things, why can't we remember all, just as we recall easily what we did the day before, or the year or years before.
   In regard to the paragraph as follows: "The mother in the present was the younger sister as born in the new land. Hence the active forces that have made for the companionship of a nature wherein there has been both the dependence and somewhat of an aloofness." I don't know exactly what this means, but I do know that young as I was, I often held myself aloof from her. I loved her dearly and was very affectionate with her, but was more and more inwardly questioning her judgement. (She once told a friend in my presence that I had more sense than she did. I was just a little girl.) In some ways, I seemed to be the OLDER one, and I have often said that I felt had she lived, I would probably be the one who would look after her. What I am trying to bring out is the point that I somehow FELT like an older sister even here in this life! Incidentally, she and I looked very much alike.
   Then in regard to the "Home-maker". That is something I would rather do than anything else. It is rather a joke among some of my friends, who, on moving into a place, if they ask my advice about placing furniture, before I know it, I, myself, am shoving it around, including a piano. At the thoughts of arranging a room, super-human strength seems to come forth, no matter how tired I am. My clients often ask my advice (and take it) in this connection and also in arranging colors - have been told I have good sense of color and should be an interior decorator. ALL THIS SOUNDS LIKE BOASTING AND I AM BLUSHING WITH SHAME, but I can't bring out the wonderful points of the READING unless I do. Even in my TINY hotel room, I had to go out and buy some cheap pictures, sofa pillows, colorful shawl, etc., (I have all my furniture in storage and would leave nothing out.) and rearrange the furniture, so that the former occupant said she never dreamed the room had such possibilities! So I know I am definitely gaited that way. Within the past years, I have been yearning to learn and take up WEAVING and have made inquiries along this line but have been discouraged for have been told the looms take up too much room in an apartment. When in Norway a relative did weaving and showed us the lovely colorful things she had done and I was fascinated by it all. Now I understand why. Then the paragraph: "We find the orderliness; not so much finicky in its own surroundings, but neatness, orderliness, and the dislike of breaking a routine that may be set for self." This is a wonderful description. I have often found it hard to understand myself in this respect for while I must have orderliness, beauty and a sense of harmony in the home, yet I didn't mind if people put their feet on the sofa, or if I saw some "top dust" around on the furniture, etc., for above all home was to be a place to rest and enjoy, a haven, and those small things didn't matter, but there would have to be a sense of general orderliness!
   In the paragraph as follows:
   "Hence those questions that arise in the present experiences of the entity when there is the tendency for others, because of position or class or group, to in any manner lord over others; no matter whether it has any direct application to the entity itself or to those with whom the entity may be only associated or acquainted."
   This is uncanny! As you know my work brings me in contact with very wealthy people, and while my clients in most cases always treat me as being on a - what shall I say - sort of a friendship basis, still I am very close to the servants as I engage them, discharged them, - and often direct them, etc. So I am close to both sides, and while it is my duty to work in the interest of the clients, I often ask myself if the servants aren't more "my friends". I seem to be always taking their side, where possible, working in their interest, and doing all I can to help them and don't know why. I have genuine affection for several of them and they know it. I RESENT TERRIBLY anything unkind being said to them, or anything unjust being done to them. I have had unpleasant experiences where it hasn't been appreciated, but that doesn't make any difference, I go on just the same. Of course, I sense instantly when I am "being lorded over" but somehow just let it pass. Now I understand this phase better than I ever have before. I meet much of the "Class" business and "Social Position" in my work, which, inwardly, I have no use for AT ALL. I hope the time will come when I can be free from this rhythm - I somehow have an IMPRESSION it won't be so long - I think I can be more useful elsewhere. So much for that!
   What do you think the following means: "The very activity made for those influences which make for the surety within its own economic environ or surrounding. This is well, if not carried to extremes." So far in my life "the economic surety" hasn't been anything to "write home about"!! Do you think it might refer to the future? I hope so for I know so many good uses it (money) could be put to.
   In regard to the following paragraph:
   "Because of the disturbing forces in the present experiences of the entity, these become rather of the nature where the entity...rather than face the issue...would withdraw from conditions that would become disturbing in the MENTAL forces which the entity sets as its ideal, or of an idealistic nature."
   I don't quite understand this. Would you take it that this is a rebuke to my "withdrawing, rather than face the issue"? I had come to the conclusion that nothing was gained by trying to "fight it out" with wrangling human opinions on the outer - that most of the time it did disturb my "mental home" and threw me far away from my own CENTER, tending to continue the confusion of thought. So my policy has been to "put the outer in as good order as I possibly could" and then withdraw - going within - until I found peace and could renew my strength. These experiences also tend to make me VERY CAREFUL on the outer so the upheavals seem fewer and those definite "withdrawings" farther apart...except as one needs solitude, etc.
   Please tell me what you think of this - and how you interpret the above mentioned paragraph.
   In the paragraph: "Hence we find those forces that become rather as those to be builded upon, others where there must be...as has been indicated for the entity...the setting of the standards in spiritual activities." Would you take it that this "as has been indicated" refers to something I am to do in the future along the lines we have spoken of?
   I love the last paragraphs after the questions. I can honestly say that my desire is to know the FAULTS as well as the virtues, and to over-come them - but it is slow work!
   I was fascinated by the dream you had of me. I, of course, don't know about the appearance, except that my hair was very light (has been getting darker in recent years) eyes are blue, am tall, and have an oval face! I like dainty things and have suffered from shyness all my life though don't seem to show it on the outside. Don't know whether I am POSITIVE or not - seems to me I am very "wishy-washy" at times!!
   There seems to be much more I could say but MUST bring this to a close. Can only say that my READING has cleared up much and in many ways. So I knew you by name, though not personally! Have forgotten what you told me about that incarnation - were you well known? (Famous or infamous???) I forgot to ask whether I had children or not - would probably have given the information if I had had. But checking on my IMPRESSIONS has been intensely interesting. Many, many thanks.
   My love to you all,
   Very sincerely yours, [1468]
   P.S. Forgot to say I was just about 23 years old when married in this life, too!
5. 5/14/38 EC's letter to [1468]:
   Dear Miss [1468]:
   Thanks for yours of 8th and 10th. Don't think can answer both in one - for would take more than am able to do at once - and they are different. Am happy to know tho that you were pleased with the reading.
   Well - I wonder, some times feel that as very sensitive, others it seems to have left me entirely, did receive impression however several times, and felt you must be reading my feeble attempt to tell something that has for years been almost a part of me. Well your Clients are fussy just like every one else has to deal with - but am sure we never have contacts that there is not to be a mutual understanding where each have been the gainer there by. For that is the evolution of the physical contacts we make here and there, don't you think.
   Glad you like long letters, for seems am proned to write them. Often wonder why can't put what I wish to say in fewer words, but appears I am just a long winded fellow, that has to use a lot of words to say little.
   Yes sir - it is very strange about the young lady [1523]. How she first contacted the work - the first time ever saw her, the way she reacted when she first came to ask for a reading, the final circumstance of her coming for a reading, the results, well it all would make a real story, and she is the Secy. of the study group here that meets once a week, and is making a very good one. The reaction of her parents, who are very stern Orthodox members of a local church, members of choir and all, but guess there real interest in every contact we have - do we look for it.
   Glad you like gardens, and flowers, once had Mr. Moody tell me a story of a geranium - that was nursed by a little cripple girl - one of the sweetest stories ever heard - and am sure has made a great deal of change in my experience here at this time - so one that loves geranium's will have a real place in my conscious.
   Possibly should not be so heartless as to catch the poor fish - but it is one of the real interest in my life, to fish - suppose justify myself, in that HE loved many of those that were engaged in fishing as a livelihood, and I have used many occasions as periods of meditation with wonderful results - and too one of the real experience of my life, when I talked face to face with The Master, He spoke of sending me fishing. Will tell you about that some time if haven't already done so. [See 5/28/37 dream under 294-186 Reports.]
   Hugh Lynn undertook to disprove the life readings, and its theory of reincarnation - it was something like this: when he was in High School he was associated with some very highbrow's mentally, and it was about the same time that the Life readings developed. They were new to all of us, new ideas of most every nature. One from actual experience was very well versed in the Physical reading - but this new idea, like myself, was seemingly in reverse to much we had gotten from the orthodox Sunday School. He refused to accept it, and for a year studied the data given in each such reading and when he started to College, I asked him to study what ever would give him the better opportunity to prove to his own mind whether the Life reading data was worth any thing or not. So he majored in Psychology - under a very able teacher - the result - he and the Teacher [Dr. William Moseley Brown] became convinced the Life readings were the most valuable data given - to think he is unusual for one so young - but he has studied on the subject now constantly for more than ten years.
   Do have quite a number of letters to write - and at times it is not easy, using the hunt and punch system as I do - but try and write each person that has a reading of any nature, and at times it requires several letters but I really enjoy it, just so long as there is a possibility of my saying something that will help.
   At times am afraid am inclined to boast of my Sunday school record - yes "having gone to foreign fields" refers of course to the experience as Lucius and that you possibly really know more about than any one.
   Am glad [1472] has gone for a vacation - am sure it is what she needed, hope she comes back all invigorated and feeling her real self again. Have never been farther west than Colorado, but certainly enjoyed my two trips there, Denver and like.
   Guess all Pisces people have to struggle, am afraid the calm and peace is bit of veneer, or I hope - really there is a Peace in HIM that is very real. Am hoping you will be able to come to the Congress this year - begins about June 25th, think you would enjoy it - then might tell you of many of the experiences have had. Well the dream of the - lady - had meant much to me - have attempted an answer in the reading - but the answer at times feel is more confusing than the dream, but you work it out for me - believe you can get it.
   Would not want to get started on what it has meant to me, for it is to me a marvelous dream - just how much so am sure have never realized. But am still hoping will know full some time - it meant great deal to my Mother also - and almost her last words to me were about that dream - and what must do when I really knew the - LADY.
   Yes, there is so much of symbology - so much of beauty - so much of warnings. The vines, with star flowers, the trees, the brook of pure water, the pebbles in same, the rise of ground, - then the Messenger - the cloth of gold - united hands - muddy road then the cliff - and at times the niches cut have seemed to mean much. Oh well you will work it out for me - won't you???
   Well hope you do get something about the Palestine experience - for unless you do - feel that possibly you have worked out of all that - while would not even suggest a turning back - still feel there is something we have to work out - what or how do not know - but hope between us we will find it. The dream is at least encouraging - and if important will come again - next time corner it - and lets see what it looks like.
   Well must run now - is time for the reading, could and would possibly go on until became tiresome, so possibly is well have to cut off here. Will try and write again soon - possibly not so extensive, but am glad you liked the last reading.
   All here send love and best wishes,
   Sincerely [signed] Edgar Cayce
6. 5/20/38 EC's letter to [1468]:
   Dear Miss [1468]:
   Am about to let ten days slip up on me before answering yours regarding your last reading - but have been extra busy letter writing this last week. Think have averaged more than ten letters a day every day this last week - that with two readings a day - well keeps me just a bit busy. Must have done very well tho as took time out to write one lovely little old lady [1567] a letter, one who is about to lose self in spiritualism - and she sent me personal present - said was the loveliest letter she had ever received - have never seen her - she is a Jewess - lives in Cincinnati.
   There isn't so much I can say about your reading - now was I talking with you might be different - just that there were many ways and places that it clicked - well that is about all can write about. Fine to find names and like check up even when we are persuaded they do not fit in - like letter received from a very worldly wise young man yesterday [?] - he had his life reading about ten years ago - at the time we thought little of it - as it told him several things that would happen if ways were not mended - and other - of a nature that can't get around as they are - or are not. He writes tho - practically every thing told him has come to pass - and now he considers it the most valuable paper he possesses.
   'Tis lovely that so many of the things said check with the feelings and activities in the present - would lead one to feel at first glance the previous experience has the greatest bearing - but guess it is like - learning french - unless you are among those who speak it - you do not use it much.
   "The very activity made for those influences which make for the surety within its own economic environ or surroundings & etc." My impression is that some one will leave or give you a lot of money - some time - and that your activity - in present is bringing this about. May be farfetched - to your mind just now - but believe that is what it means - or how it impresses me.
   The next - your withdrawing - I gather that rather than wrangle with any one - you will draw even tho you know you are right. Possibly a sort of rebuke in that - we are always to sow the seed of RIGHT and leave the harvest to the Father not in a wrangling manner - but rather as sowing the seed of righteous indignation. "Hence we find those forces that become rather as those to be builded upon" etc. Yes - I would say - there is something that you are to accomplish through the very experiences you are building upon just now - something that will be very definite.
   Thanks for all the rest - still connect you with the lady of my dream. Dream - it has almost become an obsession with me feel at times - had this same dream of the Lady - the walk - the vines with flowers - the brook - clear water - pebbles - the messenger - the wall - all except this time almost saw over that wall.
   No - apparently in my previous period to this was rather INFAMOUS. Oh nothing so awfully bad perhaps - just a wanderer - and seems did love the ladies many many of them. Think it would have mentioned that you had children if there were any - or that they influenced your life at the time - and they usually do.
   Thanks ever so much - but please work on that dream of mine again some how - think you will find the key -
   Love from all here
   Sincerely [signed] Edgar Cayce
7. 6/17/38 [1458]'s letter to EC:
   Dear Mr. Cayce:
   Thank you so much for your two long letters and for the last letter together with the literature. We have a man in our hotel who is in very bad physical shape and I have been trying for a long time to get around him to broach the subject of your Readings. Sunday morning at breakfast I got the chance and he seemed very much interested so I thought it best to get the literature just as soon as possible while it was fresh in his mind, and especially so, as he leaves for Maine on Tuesday. Now the whole thing is in his hands. Thank you again for the quick response to my wire.
   As usual I have so slow in answering your letters but I seem to have been going through quite a struggle, both mentally and physically, so that I couldn't seem to sit long enough to concentrate on a letter. Ever since H. L. started his lectures here, I seem to have been going to two or three a week. Besides H. L.'s, have been going to the Psychic Research Society and to Dr. Strath-Gordon's lectures on the Lost Continent of Atlantis. I don't know whether some of this is due to a sort of chemicalization or not - perhaps mental indigestion - certainly there was a pouring in of light, or enlightenment - but I have been through a period of extreme nervousness and confusion from which I am just now emerging. Strange, isn't it? Think I am reading too many books on the one subject and have decided to give myself a rest for a while. The lectures are all over now, too.
   I really wanted to go to the Congress in June and was preparing to do so but a client of mine has spoiled the whole thing. She went to Hot Springs for a cure and returned last Wednesday and is staying in New York until June 29th when she leaves New York for the summer. As she is away so much it would be POOR POLICY for me to leave New York just at the time she is here and needs me - I am afraid she wouldn't understand it, especially as she is so very nice to me. Perhaps a little later, after she has gone, I might be able to arrange it. It would have been pleasant to go to the Congress. I had dinner with [1472] one evening and she said you had told her you were not well. I am awfully sorry to hear that and hope you feel better now.
   Your interpretation of the portion of my Reading that had to do with the "economic freedom" was certainly music to my ears!!! I know I can do much good with it. Then the part about my "withdrawing", etc. - after thinking it over I can see where the rebuke was warranted - the easy way is to let things pass - it takes moral courage to "speak up". Now I have to watch myself to see that I am not "too fresh"!!!
   I got the little book-let [The Last Supper] where your description (that had come through) of the Lord's supper was given [5749-1] and I think it is wonderfully interesting. It certainly did stir something within.
   I would love to hear the story about the geraniums and also about your talking face to face with the Master. I don't think I would ever be the same after an experience like that. Don't forget to tell me about that.
   A friend took me in her car to her camp on Lake George over Decoration Day week-end. The trip up was delightful and the country around the lake was beautiful. We were right on the water. Had to leave the car in one place and come over a trail or in a boat to the camp. It was all so quiet and peaceful - I went off by myself - birds singing all around - and I thought of what H. L. and others have said - the way of the mystics, the experience is to love every growing thing - to almost SEE them growing. EVERYTHING seemed to speak and I couldn't help thinking over and over again about your DREAM and wonder what the message in it could be. [See 294-62, Par. 7-A, 2/02/26.] You, no doubt, know much more about the meaning of symbols than I do. I dipped into several books on that subject but could get nothing specific out of them. However, this is an IMPRESSION that I seem to get about it but perhaps it won't seem like anything to you at all:
   The man in the dream would seem to be your Spiritual self (your Superconscious or your I AM self). The woman is your human or conscious self. The veil over the lady's face would seem to be you in trance. Could the white flowers (star shaped) mean the individual man and the vines humanity, or the intertwining of the individuals man and the individual patterns? You are above earth's humanity. The pyramid or triangle is symbol of the God-head (I think) tree - "Tree of Life" and Evergreen trees - "evergreen - ever alive trees" which would seem that you had transcended the earth and where touching the plane of true spiritual being - something like that. The water in the brook would signify pure clear thoughts. Mercury - a messenger of God - HELP along the way - either a BEING further along the path or your own pure inspiration. Through the GOLD of your human character seeking ever to UNITE with your Spiritual self - also with your HANDS you handle or MANIFEST (help others) with this gold of human kindness - the symbol of CLOTH of GOLD (wholeness) is laid across the united hands of your Spiritual and human self. This looks to me like the MYSTICAL MARRIAGE whereby you are to have THE REVELATION. After this you continue to climb (eternal progress) the muddy road might be of course mistiness of vision or temptation, but there you get help and it dries up. There is the pure chalk white cliff ahead (path) to climb. You cut the niches which would seem to me to be "foot prints in the sands of time" which you are going to leave for the world to see and profit by - a path as it were. Then, when you get to the top and you do NOT fall, that will be the time when the VEIL will fall from the lady's face!!! (your conscious being) and I get the feeling that you will bring back the MEMORY after that!!! Where the LADY in the Reading comes in here, I cannot see. I get a strong feeling that this is your own EARNED experience that is to come to you first, and that the Lady might fit in somewhere in the picture later on. What do you think? There are, of course, so many different angles to it. Going over the wall or top might mean the vision you lost once and are climbing up to get it back - the cloth of gold being your reward and encouragement - then united you are to see over.
   I still think the wording toward the end of your own Reading "Then meeting that companion in the present experience brings about that as may be given...that is the humbleness as was gained, still held" points to something that is to be given you aside from the "humbleness" referred to. I seem to have a definite impression about this paragraph. Perhaps NOW you are to see over the cliff!!!
   It is hard for me to grasp the idea that I will have anything to give - but time will tell - the sincere wish to help is there.
   You are no doubt all very busy with the Congress coming on and I do hope that it is all a great success in every way. I do wish I could be there.
   There seems to be so much I want to say but guess I must stop now as it is getting very late and the neighbors might raise their voices in protest over the racket of my typing.
   Thank you again for your letters - and I won't be so slow the next time. My love to you all,
   Very sincerely yours, [1468]
8. 6/23/38 EC's letter to [1468]: Dear Miss [1468]:-
   Thanks for yours of 17th - suppose should not try and write when am being disturbed so much by people coming in - for they are dropping in here and there - just getting to town for the meeting. Am really disappointed that you are able [unable?] to get to the meeting. [1472] is coming - was surprised that she could make it but of course am pleased - but am sorry that you can't make it.
   Haven't as yet heard from the man literature was sent to - but as you say it best that it be left in his hands for if there is not something that prompts him to apply - well would be best that he didn't - never does any good to persuade some one to just try it - in a half hearted sort of way.
   Well is fine that you have a client that wishes work done - but she might have given you a few days at least. But do hope when she has gone you will have the opportunity to spend a few days at the beach. Think you might like it here. Can find most any type of environ you might wish.
   Well guess have to fly up and have little spell now and then - possibly am sensitive to things - a bit out of the ordinary - and react very peculiarly to some conditions. But am feeling pretty good, and hope can make it through the congress. Several are coming just to the dinner - as that is the meeting when the Life readings will be stressed the most. That is to be Saturday evening - wish you could take it for that meeting - but guess it is too much effort for such a short time. Think [1472] is doing just about that.
   Well hope every thing works out about the "Economic Freedom" and feel sure it will.
   Have had some very lovely comments about the "Last Supper" and some very scathering ones - just about as the information said there would be - but guess every thing comes that way.
   There are so many things have planned to talk over with you - well, guess when see you will sit dumb - with out a word to say - so much want to say won't know where to try and begin - the geranium story is very good however - and was an most amazing thing to meet a man some weeks ago [1598] - a man who has and is doing a great work - that he too in a manner was influenced by the author of that story. And the other - well is quite simple - yet, so far reaching - that wonder at time is it really me or have I just imagined things. But would like to talk with you about it - you know we find there are people we would like to talk about things that are to us the most sacred - yet feel that, that person will better under- stand than any one else - do you ever feel that way about people? My that trip over Decoration Day, must have been lovely. Such trips when one gets close to nature - well seem to mean the most to many - am sure do mean most to me - possibly because am a little farmer boy at heart - but spent many happy hours in my own little retreat in the woods.
   The Dream - well I accept your interpretation - but there always seems something more personal to me - possibly that is why have always fall from the cliff - because am not impersonal enough about same. Possibly there are other phases about same that have woven themselves into same - that prevent my seeing the vision - just as should have had the dream or vision again just recently - just the day before your letter came - that is why believe your letter will possibly help me now to see just what should in same. Thank many many times for the help.
   Would like to talk this over with you - possibly you can give me the key to myself - poorly expressed - but think is just what I mean -
   Well here comes a crowd - wish were looking for you among them. Write me when get chance - come if possible if not now soon as you can - have lot wish to talk with you about.
   With love from all
   Sincerely [signed] Edgar Cayce
9. 8/05/38 She was present for her first Physical Reading - 1468-5.
10. 11/28/38 [1468]'s letter to EC:
    Dear Mr. Cayce:
    Again it is a long time since I received your letter [10/21/38 See under 1468-5 Reports]. I think I shall have to make a definite New Year's resolution to correct this glaring fault in my set-up so be prepared for a startling improvement in the next year. My intentions are wonderful but then you know the saying about what the streets of hell are paved with!!!
    I enjoyed your letter so much and was very sorry to hear you were troubled with a cold. I suppose that condition has cleared up having read the announcement that you are coming to New York. I am glad you are coming if only for a short time and I shall be on hand to hear your "speech" at the meeting!! I think the news of Hugh Lynn talking on the Radio is also good news.
    It was nice that you were able to go to Kentucky but can well understand that to see a dozen families or so in two days would be about like the POPE in session. However, I am SEETHING with the desire to know about your experiences while there - they must have been truly wonderful if they can change the rest of your life. Did you talk with the Master again?
    I think the experience you had at the little church gives one food for thought, and was very beautiful. It makes me wonder if your mother was in the Palestine experience and perhaps close to the Master. Do you know whether she was?
    At times there really does seem to be something trying to break through my consciousness in regard to the experience with the Master in Palestine. Just sort of quick flashes that I can't put into words as though I were more conscious of a scene or place than with people. I don't seem to have psychic experiences in my waking hours but I seem to wake up with clear remembrances of having had them (in my dreams). In one, suddenly, while I was in an old stone building, not a castle, but more of a monastery, loomed forth in a frame a head of an Arab or an Indian, and I was conscious of its being a Master. This faded out and I was told to go down a long corridor where I would have audience with him. On the way down a long winding hall I felt a wind blowing completely and closely around me and I looked out of the windows to see that it was a beautiful day with the sun shining and no wind. I seemed to be the center of a small hurricane and I felt the cold wind up and down my spine. Then I said - "Oh, this is one of those psychic experiences I have heard so much about." When I woke up I KNEW I had had the audience with the man in the frame but I could not remember further than the experience with the wind blowing around me. Then the other night I woke up remembering distinctly that I had been able to levitate my body right to the ceiling and did it several times exclaiming each time how wonderful it was. These experiences seem entirely different from ordinary dreams and I feel they are more memories of experiences while my physical body is asleep. It is all very strange. I do feel, however, that I am definitely being guided - sometimes it is almost uncanny..." [Rest of letter used in 1825-1 Reports.]
11. 11/30/38 EC's letter to [1468]:
    Dear Miss [1468]:
    Thanks for yours of 26th with enclosures to the "safety fund" was a bit fearful that the experience would be misunderstood by some - but felt had to at least give the experience [See 1469-1 Par. R4] the opportunity to find response in the heart of others - and think it is doing just that, tho do not know could ever explain to another just what I mean by that - for one might think I meant only those that sent money understood - but do not mean that at all. But will try and tell you about it when see you next week, and hope [to] see you and have chance to talk with you a while.
    Finally managed to get the best of that cold, but was a real tough one can tell you.
    Some of the experiences were so unusual to me - even fear to mention them to some others - yet know they were very real. But listen - is this desire to want to talk them over with you - imagination, real or something carried over - would I have the same feel about it all if hadn't been told of the relation in days passed - or can you answer such questions, or do you wish to be interrogated on the subject???
    Your experiences I think are marvelous, and know just what you mean - you are not physically conscious - yet more conscious than were you wide awake. Have had just such an one for last two evenings - have seen what would happen was either of two choices made. Regards an invitation that will be extended me - possibly while am in N. Y. this time at least an outgrowth of this trip, and neither look pretty from the material point of view. So am in a quandary. Think you will yet have an experience that will give you a perfect insight in to the Palestine experience but don't confuse Jerusalem with Laodicea, they may have been quite different for you. For am sure you must have had to draw comparisons quite often. Feel sure the experience in the monastery must have been about the church with which you were connected - and is it any wonder that [you] see and feel places rather than people. You must have had so little confidence in peoples promises of that day - and no wonder you hold the feel of the Master in preference to any of them. Lets hope it will be some different this time.
    Have hear of Dr. Gordon [Dr. A. E. Strath-Gordon]. His courses must be very marvelous, and is fine that he approaches from so many angles - for in such in some will strike a responsive cord, and unless it does doesn't matter much - does it??
    Be glad to hear from any members of the Class might ask some of them to be present next Tuesday evening if possible, but don't say to hear me lecture - for can't only to think out loud as am urged by those present. Think find myself becoming more sensitive to people.
    Looking forward to seeing you then, and with love from all
    Sincerely [signed] Edgar Cayce
12. 12/16/38 [1468]'s letter to EC: [First part of letter used in 1825-1 Reports.] "...Strange things are happening in my work these days and sometimes I feel as though I were sitting on top of a volcano and have to do all in my power to keep myself steady. I feel as though things were going to change and as every change in my life so far has always been for the better I am sure this would have to be so too. Strange stirrings and things going on. I am always quick to say I am imagining things because the imagination can work overtime, but something came right to the surface the other day so guess I can really pay more heed to this thing called imagination in the future. I may tell you about it later after it has been worked out.
    "I am sorry there was no time to hear about the experiences you had had. I still am wondering if your mother was in the Palestine experience and whether I might have known her. I still am amazed at the seven letters you received with the same message prior to your healing. Would like to hear more about that and the last message from your mother in regard to this.
    "I certainly get a 'lot off my chest' about my own actions and reactions and do feel a great deal better for it - for having told you the worst about myself. I am making a mighty effort to get 'a continuous balance' - stabilized and strong for I have seen for a long time that the weak spot in my makeup was that emotionalism eternally swinging out too far in first one direction and then another. I am glad to say there is an improvement and I have hopes! I am trying to keep in mind the 'loving detachment', etc.
    "I hope you continue to be well with no set-backs. For anyone as sensitive as you are it must really have been quite an ordeal to have to meet so many people. I must say that you did not show it and looked better and younger than I have ever seen you look before. I wish you would cast some of the "young looking formulae" my way! I am truly in earnest though when I say I would appreciate it if you would, during your meditation or in prayer, ask "The Master" to bestow some of the great Christ love upon me so that I can indeed LIVE it every hour. I have great faith in your prayers. I know that that is the IMPORTANT thing (Christ love), to have it regardless of what confronts one.
    "I seem to want to say so much but am afraid I have gone on and on, far too long.
    "With love to you all, I am,"
    Sincerely yours, [1468]
13. 12/21/38 EC's letter to [1468]:
    Dear Miss [1468]: No - our discussion was not bad at all until so rudely interrupted. Was good to see you again - and all too short - but thanks a lot for you do have a healing influence for me, as few or if any one else has there is a quietness and peace within - Oh well why shouldn't you - it's the natural thing for you to be so.
    Have been just about as busy since coming back trying to answer letters wires and telephone calls as was there the day you came in - only now can some what put some of it off on Miss Gladys and Gertrude.
    Was good to meet so many lovely people - trying in a manner yes - but if one is made to feel they are being of a little bit of use to their fellow man - why it is in deed meat - such as He spoke of.
    Will be interesting to see just where each of your friends fit in - believe Mrs. [1770] is coming down for her reading - wish you might come along.
    Certainly is peculiar, that you have recently met or become closer to so many that are of the strain you have innately a ken for. Would certainly like to meet Dr. [1851] - have heard so much about him. Am sure he is a most wonderful man - and has a real message. Do hope he makes it this way - or our paths will cross that we may become personally acquainted.
    Ah, a change is coming, and am sure it must all be a very fine all for the best - yes - when we leave our life in His hands it is always advance - and it is never just imagination. Sure you must tell me about it all.
    Never had a Life reading for my Mother - but am sure she was in that experience - she felt that she was very closely associated with John and James, and am sure she must have been.
    The experiences - are really hard to write about - wish could tell you about them - was unusual to say the least that so many should have written me "you must contact that one who accompanies you to the mount" and when your letter came - well - there you are. But to know some things or think you do - and then feel you can do so little about them, you feel wonder if should have known that.
    The last message from my Mother "You will soon be aware of who is the lady in the veil" of course a lot more in a way that one just can't write much about. Oh some day we will talk this all out and have a better understanding possibly.
    Thank you for telling me about your reactions and etc. - guess we can all better understand when we just lay it all on the table and take a look. Am sure you will handle the whole thing - but these two that started to tell you about - my, what a change in their lives - and verily believe that each find life more worthwhile. Am sure they are making it a better place for others. And that I believe is what counts.
    Thanks for them kind words "Looked better and younger". Have had a sneaking idea that might like some have tried to do find the fountain of youth - well at least am keeping my heart young - and if have any formula it is that - keep young with youth -
    You may be very sure you are always in My Prayers - with - and for you, and May He keep you as am sure HE did and Will.
    With Love and best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy and prosperous New Year.
    Sincerely [signed] Edgar Cayce
14. 12/28/38 She referred Mrs. [1770] for readings.
15. 2/19/39 [1468]'s letter to EC:
    Wish I could hear of some of your experiences with your Mother. It would be most natural for her to be often near you to help you.
    I must tell you of a strange dream I had last night - I say a dream because while it is a dream, it doesn't seem to be one - I have had four or five of these experiences. Here it is:
    I was sitting in the front seat of an automobile with a chauffeur beside me (he seemed to be a strange detached person - remember nothing about him - looks or anything - except that he seemed to be a silent creature just driving the car). Suddenly the car stopped short and I said "Oh my Goodness, there I go" for I went right straight out of the window a block or two, but the "I" really was sitting in the car too. I said "We will have to go and get my body, go right ahead." When we got to the place I couldn't quite find it so I asked some boys if they had seen a body that had been in an accident. They said yes it was over there, pointing to it where a doctor was leaning over it, but they said it was no accident it was a "drunk" which made me very mad. However I reached the body and was quite unconcerned as I watched the doctor washing the blood off the face but I decided I wouldn't look too close - it was not serious but not pleasant to look at. (Of course, I just took for granted it was me all the time.) Then when the doctor had finished I GOT BACK IN MY BODY and then curiosity was too great so I took a quick look at myself in the mirror and saw my face was swollen in a few places - not bad - still not disturbed - and that one eye went out in one direction too far. Then I heard myself telling someone "You think I'm cross-eyed of course, but it's silly, I'm not at all, because I can't feel it, and I see perfectly well and you know if I were the least bit cross-eyed I would be the one to know it and so it is going to pass off." All through it There wasn't one bit of fear - I knew it was all right. NOW WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT. When I come out of DREAMS of this sort I come out with a peculiar feeling that I carry with me for quite a while. Can you give me any light on what this is? I am being most careful in case something should be trying to warn me about an accident.
16. 2/22/39 EC's reply: "Your dream is most interesting. Evidently, to me, a change is before you of some nature, a personal one, not altogether pleasing to some of your friends, but not bad at all. Then, too, would be very careful that there is not an accident of any kind. Am not so good at fathoming dreams. The readings say each one is the best interpreter of his own dreams. What have you made of it?
    "Funny, I had something of the same kind of a dream this morning - except that someone gave me, Oh, just lots of money, and I couldn't give it away fast enough.
    "Thanks again for your letter. Write again soon. All send love."
17. 3/05/39 [1468]'s letter to EC:
    [First page of letter used in 1825-1 Reports.] "...Yes, that was my argument with Mrs. [1770] - that the numbers of my room added up to 7 - but there is something about that NASTY little 6 that comes first, etc. - but I FEEL very good in it indeed so am sure it is all right. I can well under- stand that you enjoyed her - she is so gay and pleasant. We went to her house for dinner last Sunday and she came for us in the car and drove us home which we call the 'height of hospitality'.
    "In speaking of your studying 'LIFE and death' I feel the way you do. It seems to me so much fear has come through not mentioning or admitting death (I mean admitting in the sense of passing on) as we did in Christian Science - merely saying 'there is not death' like a parrot. I have found that by facing it, talking about it, hearing what has come to others from the Fourth Dimensional plane in regard to it, has gradually broken down much of the fear and the mystery. Do you feel as Dr. Hardwick [Henry S. W. Hardwick, M.D.] does, that 'we should receive the letters of sympathy when ye are born and the letters of congratulation when we pass over'? I suppose it depends upon what state of consciousness we are in when we leave as to what particular plane we go to. For instance, the lower astral is something to avoid, isn't it? I find with myself, it isn't too good to let myself dwell on the glorious plane I am going to when I pass over, for fear I will neglect the present life and not do what I came to do - to try to bring Heaven down to earth or something like that. If we can overcome sickness, limitation and rise above the law of gravity (as Jesus did) it seems to me it isn't such a bad place. And who is going to redeem the world or earth, if we don't? How do you feel about this and what has come through in the way of information about this? I long so to REMEMBER. It seems that so many walls would go down if I could. But I suppose HE knows whether I am or not ready for this. If we are not ready I can see where it would cause terrible confusion.
    "To tell the truth about my dream. Just before I went off to sleep, I went back to the C. S. method of declaring man was Spiritual and I seemed to get a very clear sense of rising above the material and being purely Spirit. I do believe that in some way had something to do with my dream of being TWO, the material going through the window and the Spiritual sitting back refusing to take the other seriously no matter how bad it seemed to be, even after I got back in it. The C. S. always say, 'Spirit is the real and matter is the unreal, etc.' I do feel, however, that changes are due - I get the definite feeling that I am entering a new cycle - certainly the foundations of the old have been shaken. I like your dream that someone gave you lots of money, etc. and of course you would give it away - and I believe that HE is about to do just something like that - I think the old cycle for you of worry, etc. is over. Why shouldn't it be? We all do far better work under normal conditions and having enough for our needs, and even luxuries, is NORMAL - nothing is too good for the 'children of God.' (I mean, of course, for anyone as highly evolved as you are. I know the danger that could follow for those who are not so and are easily thrown of balance.)
    "I seem to have more to say but if I continue, you will have to read this in installments and that would never do!!! I hope you continue to be well and I shall await word as to when you are coming to N.Y."
    With love to you all, I am,
    Sincerely, [1468]
18. 3/11/39 EC's letter to [1468]:
    Do not know about coming to New York - something has been said about my coming in April but H. L. has not come back as yet - seems can't get him out of N.Y. Guess he has Newyorkitis - or that is what some one said he had - and won't know what is the plan until know what was done at the last Trustees meeting of the Ass'n that was held there in N.Y. on the 28th of Feb. - but if do come there is nothing would enjoy more than having an evening with you. So accept for when ever I do come and you care to be bothered with me, and have much to talk with you about.
    Ah, ha! Mrs. [1770] and her numbers - she is so lovely and handles her discussion about numbers like a professional. Really like it but to me they are symbols and we give them the power for weal or woe.
    The study of man is MAN - and his reactions to the various phenomena that is a part of his experience is most interesting to me. Fear - Joy - Hate - Love - Kindness - Hardness - Life - Death all have such a place in his experience, some he accepts as being his lot - never appearing to feel as if he can do any thing about it. The effects of each of these is very definite - yet his reaction may be changed to any of them by the mood he is in, or any happening that may come about and all a matter of some phase of his mind - and mind a stream with its fast and slow portions like a river yet all moves on and on. Some parts becoming swift at times, others slowing up by the very nature of its surroundings - settling and being stirred up to be come murky and over the very hindrances becoming clear and peaceful in some places of its course - but ever like the river tho its form changes. It is ever that as will quench the thirst - put out fire or burn even deeper than fire its self - and we can control or lose just according as to what is the ideal.
    Then the Fear of Death lessens as we apply the Ideal in our own lives, for the fruit of the Spirit is eternal. Yes Dr. Hardwick is nearer right than present idea of same it seems to me. Am reminded of an experience had some years ago - when a dear friend of mine had passed away. I was ill unable to talk at the time and so happened that at the hour of the funeral [12/19/19] [See 294-15 on 1/13/25, Par. B1],
    I was in a sleep to regain my voice. She had supplied flowers for my young peoples class. They made a rule to send flowers each week to some one ill or shut in. She came to me and said "Keep the lesson you are giving the children - flowers for the living, none for the dead for they hinder rather than help" so Dr. Hardwicke may not be so far wrong if at all.
    You no doubt are entering a new cycle - and may it bring you all the harmony and peace even as HE promised - not as the world gives peace but as HE ONLY can. It is the love of money, that is evil not its use. The best should come to those that know in Him how to use same in the common safe guarding of man, for am persuaded there is nothing that can separate us from the love of God but our selves.
    Haven't said what was in my heart to say - have had to stay closer to the universal laws as I see them to keep from being personal, for presume I am just a sentimental old something any way. But do feel very strongly about some things, and wonder and wonder about many another.
    Am getting this too long, so must ring off. Write soon. Love and good wishes from all
    Sincerely Edgar Cayce
19. 3/21/39 [1468]'s letter to EC:
    Have been going through a strange period - have never felt so absolutely alone before and feel alone in so far as "unseen helpers" are concerned too - really don't know what it is all about. Everything from the outside seems merely to push me back in. Have stopped struggling and decided it must all be for some reason.
    I do wish you would tell me what the dream was that you had about me - would like to know AWFULLY MUCH. Haven't had any of my "Peculiar" dreams since the "Accident one" with the exception of a little one just as I was waking up. Several women were very busy telling me that in some former incarnation I was VERY VERY UGLY AND HOMELY and that was the reason I was struggling now with an inferiority complex. What think you of that??? Silly, isn't it? The "struggling with the inferiority complex" is absolutely true. Well it isn't important but I thought amusing. I have had dreams in between but the ones I mention are entirely different - I seem to actually hear the voices. For instance, sometime back, on waking, or I might say I was wakened by a whispering voice at my left ear (on the side of the wall) saying HUSH, HUSH, HUSH, etc. - and that time I seemed almost to feel the breath on the left ear. I'm convinced that we are very busy indeed during the night.
    Am hoping to get the letter you didn't send. And also hoping you are well. How goes the fishing and won't it soon be time for the spring planting? I went to the Flower Show last week and feasted my eyes on the blooms but still long for some simple place with some grounds around it where I can get out with the pick and shovel and just "root in the earth". With a simple little house with white starched tie-back curtains and a little "Pinkie" sitting on the hearth rug. "Pinkie" being a beautiful white Angora kitten I had that "passed on" and which I one day want back!!! (I am told the animals come back quickly, etc.) Guess I get my love for kittens from my Egyptian incarnation. Well I certainly do write long rambling letters to you and think nothing of what I say. So expect the same from you.
    Love to you all,
    Sincerely, [1468]
    The more I read this the worse it gets - one would think I was trying to convey that I was some raving beauty now!!! I'm merely telling the dream.
20. 3/31/39 EC's letter to [1468]:
    Dear Miss [1468]:
    At last am getting round to trying to answer your most welcome letter of the 21st. Suppose you have seen the [1851]s' since they were here and have possible discussed and cussed us properly. Don't blame Mr. [...] for falling in love with his lady love, she is very lovely, and do you or do you not wish my severest criticism of Dr. [1851]. Well here it is - I think he has the real stuff, what he does with same I know not. Needs a manager badly as I always have or a wife that COULD boss him.
    Suppose that H. L. will possibly come to N.Y. this next week - he will if it is deemed advisable make the arrangements for me to be in N.Y. in April some time. Will let you know and would like to have one or two appointments with you if possible to arrange the time to suit you.
    Would not worry about the "True Unknown Gospel". Really do not feel it is very helpful - tho may be very biased - the "Unknown Disciple" think very lovely and that every one should read same - don't you???
    Yes often wonder about things - for instance used to be able to recite the entire New Testament from any line in it - but began to read various versions and with a couple of people from the Greek and another from the Hebrew - until now know it ever so little that confused myself. YES - the kingdom is with in - of that am sure - and that there must be the answering from within - and until there is - we may apply so very little.
    Have been having some very unusual experiences myself - not that feel I am better balanced than any one else - yet, feel very positive had the same experiences come to some have met. They would be shining lights - and here I feel I am most going the other way - but find myself slipping out of the body ever so easily - and am aware am out - consciously - and those whom have met - well be it imagination if one chooses to call it such. At least several say they like the S. S. lessons better by the experiences - so possibly am not so far wrong but - but - but do wonder where it is leading me. Had some very interesting information for a family few weeks ago. Was a very Old lady [1824?] they had no hope - but the son wished to know what the information would say. The entire message was to the family, a very beautiful message. The funny thing - as the nurse read it - the body regained consciousness - all organs began to function seemingly normal - and for three weeks she was much better - attended to all her business - then fell asleep very quietly and easily. They have had the data published or are having same for each member of the family. Unusual wasn't it?
    Yes - the information says we are to have a new medium of exchange in 1998 - after many other changes have taken place, but that is too far for me - hope to be back by or before then.
    Possibly can summon up enough courage to tell you of the dream when see you. Hope can - when looked at it written - looked too much like what did not want it to look like. No - No - no - who ever said or implied that you were very ugly in at least one other experience is very far wrong - that I am sure - for that is part of the dream had about you - and it isn't so. So if you feel that you have a complex about something it can't be that.
    Well - not the letter didn't send for it long since been destroyed but will possibly tell you the dream when see you if there is the opportunity. Yes feel that could - yes would come to you with any of my troubles - but just do not want to appear as being rude. Fishing - well have stocked the Lake recently and there will be no fishing there until after June the 15th - that is then until after Cong. An hardship for me - but can take it if makes the fishing better.
    Ah - back to nature. Aren't we all just like that at some time that is why I like the place round here - like to get my bare feet on the ground occasionally.
    That little house you make mighty real oft see that - in my day dreams cat and all - tho have never been able to have cat since was a child - they are not liked round here. So see them from a far - tried to raise me some Canaries - no good eggs. Didn't hatch some way.
    Don't think your letters are long enough. Wonder what you would think were I to just turn lose and say all the things I feel at times. Well begin with Bro Paul next Sunday in the lessons - think will some where long the line run in to Lucius and Maria. Remember her?
    Well better stop here before get started on what shouldn't possibly but here is my lates dream about you - this happened only last evening.
    Was trying to escape from some building - know now where, and was being shot at by a soldier. Was wounded and you came and carried me to a boat you rowed it out to an island where you took me off and carried me into an cave under the Sea. There you met my Mother and together you put me on a ledge of rock that was the loveliness bed ever rested on. She (Mother) told you to watch me while she got something for me - she went out and soon returned with a spoon of very small pearls. These she gave me to swallow - as I did the pains in my side left where was injured and we prepared to make our home there under the sea.
    What would you make of that?
    By now some people who have been waiting for a week for a reading have come in - can't get it until tomorrow. Was sick in bed last evening all day yesterday also - but the pearls cured me while I slept so have worked today.
    All send love and regards
    Sincerely [signed] Edgar Cayce
21. 4/13/40 She was present for another Ck. Life Reading on her early America incarnation - See 1468-6.

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