12/17/38 Miss [
1703]'s letter to EC:
Mr. Edgar Cayce
Virginia Beach, Va.
My dear Mr. Cayce:
Enclosed is a carbon copy of a letter just written to Mrs.
Mason in New York City. She and her daughter had a cabin
near mine last summer at the health resort of Dr. Lust,
[at] Yungborn. She was there about three months; I, for
two weeks. One evening I was reading "Health Culture" and
came upon the article mentioning you, which I showed to her
the next morning. I have been corresponding with her; so,
since I seem to be an influence, I am sending you a copy
of this, as I want to keep myself as reliable an avenue
for information as possible, since I made myself a
public experiment when I accepted a Reading.
The Check Reading came today and I have read it only twice;
I need to study it more carefully before commenting upon it.
However, first impression is that I came to earth with poor
blood - probably a karmic result of a reckless life, or
lives, when I did not live according to the laws of health.
Just as some animals need meat and others will not eat it,
we, too, probably develop bodies that may or may not "call"
for meat. However, just because I have "bloody" blood that
calls for meat is no reason I need to continue in this life
time, creating karma for another body that needs meat to
thrive upon. The first chapter of Genesis seems to make this
clear, if it is not all symbology, for it says there we are
given dominion over the beasts and, also, that seeds, fruits,
and herbs shall be our meat. He cannot be in a dominion over
animals, fish, and fowls if we come into their vibration,
killing and eating them, it would seem to me. But, it all
depends on one's philosophy of life and how much his body
means to him. IF I can purify the subtle body without meat,
even if it shortens the flesh-calling body, perhaps, in the
long run, I will gain progress in the process of evolution.
I was at a meeting of college people once that broke up
discussing how long is a "long run," believe it or not, so,
this matter of preserving the physical body for a shorter or
longer time loses its importance - it, after all, is what we
do with it day by day in Service. And, sometimes, one even
wonders what "service" is, if it keeps one from a pain that
is really a necessary growing pain of evolution and one that
just must be experienced sooner or later.
Your letter refers to the studies I have had, which might aid
you. Well, for instance, if my studies about milk are, after
all, misinformation, it were better not to study, eh? I
surely should like to meet and talk with you, and if school
lets out soon enough in June, I hope, now, to drive to your
annual Convention. The way I have taken course after course
of occult teachers in the time I have been in ... shows I
probably have some former teachings within the consciousness
that are been [being] led out. The last three or four years,
however, I have not had the Inner contacts, due, no doubt,
to the bad physical condition of the vital centers that step
down the higher vibrations. I used never, never to need an
alarm clock - I just "set" my mind. But, now, I sleep right
through the period for having the Wet Cell Appliance applied,
so find I had to buy an alarm clock today. This is just one
minor example. I used to get very reliable hunches and at
times, hear the "Voice of the Silence."
Enclosed is the copy of the lesson from the Coptic Priest,
to which I referred. You probably know that it is said
the Coptic Religion is the only one extant that was started
by Jesus, the Christ, himself. Anyway, their work is very
sublime! It lifts one a great deal.
PLEASE do not think I am, in the enclosed letter, trying to
let Mrs. Mason suspect psychic Readings are apt to be messed
up with meddlers, in your case: However, I feel just as
I did last summer when she was about to go to Dr. Kolar in
Kansas, to have her daughter's organs lifted because Dr. Lust
advised her to do so. I said to her, "Dr. Lust told you to
come here for three months, too, didn't he?" She answered,
"Yes." "And," I went on, "how much good has it proven - his
advice?" She admitted Grace was much worse. Then I told her
to consider, carefully, just how much good Dr. Lust's advice
might be about Dr. Kolar! To use her own head! Well, you
see, she did not go to Kansas. For days, friends wanted me,
at Yungborn, to talk with Mrs. Mason. My reply was, "I would
not, for the world, influence Mrs. Mason, for Dr. Kolar may
be just the next experience she needs." So, it was not till
the very last of my stay that she, through these friends,
came to talk with me, of her own initiative.
So, in the case of my not following the Readings about the
present, feel that it is a question what I want most - a
good, husky, physical body, fed on meat but in which the
vibrations are lowered for spiritual development, or a body
body made more fit, if possible, for progress on higher
planes of consciousness. Perhaps this will be brought out
in a Life or Mental Reading. I spoke of having the Life in
December - maybe the Mental should come first. So, I will
think it over before I have you set the time, with my money
on hand, too, which I did not get ready for mailing today.
Thank you, very, very much for the Reading [and] your letter.
Very truly yours, [
1703]
2/01/39 She referred Mrs. [
1808] for a Physical Reading.
2/05/39 Miss [
1703]'s letter to Health Home Remedies Corp.:
Health Home Remedies Corp.,
P.O. Box 273,
Norfolk, Virginia
Gentlemen:
Enclosed is the wrapper from the last parcel sent to me with
the 1 1/2 lbs. Copper Sulfate, 30 grains Zinc, and 1/2 lb.
Willow Charcoal. You will note in the lower right corner
that the package as you sent it did not hold up and had to
be rewrapped enroute [H.H.R.C.'s handwritten comment: "2nd
report like this."]. Thought you should be made aware of
this so that you can put the materials in a stronger box
and heavier paper.
This is time for me to order again for a fourth recharge of
my wet cell appliance. I did not get to doing it for the
third recharge till last Sunday. Just now, I thought it a
good idea to give it a stir, as I find the charcoal settles
so much. I have found lately that the copper sulphate is
coming out through the pores of the jar and this a.m., just
a week after a new supply, the jar is quite covered with it
on the outside and at the bottom. I cannot get the wooden
lid on, either; so I have decided not to reorder supplies
and let the jar and cover dry out a month or more.
Also, according to my Reading October 8 [1708-1], to quote:
"Do these, and as we find...by the time there has been the
third or fourth recharge of the Appliance...we will see a
change as never before, in the feelings and the ability of
activities of the body." - the ending of the present recharge
should be the period for my feeling a change for the better.
Such change will have to be manifesting itself shortly, if
at all, as at present I feel about as I did October 8. I
had a bad spell in school Friday; my eyes are just as bad,
and gradually getting more blurry; the use of such starches
as indicated in the Reading - wheat for breakfast, makes a
burning and I have a bad lot of canker sores in my mouth
from acidity. I have followed the Reading at least 95%,
leaving out the wheat and meats. So, it would appear there
is something, yet, that Readings do not get at, in my case.
The putrefaction is still bad in the colon, hence common
sense says to leave off meats; the check Reading December
12 suggests I have not cooperated, but I believe I have done
a fair job, sticking to the Cod-Iron, twice-weekly steam
baths and oil rubs, and daily use of the Wet Cell, with
considerable walking and foods as near nature as possible.
A copy of this is going to Mr. Cayce for his records.
Very truly yours, [
1703]
2/06/39 Miss [
1703]'s letter to EC:
My dear Mr. Cayce:
The copies of the two enclosed letters will be part of this,
and perhaps be what you want for your records of my case to
date, at the close of about four months. In the letter to
Mrs. Verhoeven is an example of the kind of "spell" I have,
growing more frequent - a horrible experience, while it
lasts.
It is possible that either or both of the other Readings that
you give would through [throw] light on this failure of the
vital and physical bodies to be properly aligned - perhaps
a karmic "hang-over." At this time, I have made so many
expenditures that I have not the money to send. In another
month or two, I shall hope to have it on hand, as part of
budget for health. Also, I expect to get into a Health Club,
for more physical exercises and, perhaps, a more competent
one to rub on the oil, as the lady I have had for that work,
to come in, is not professionally trained. I wanted to know
in the Check Reading if she is good enough; the question,
however, did not fetch that answer, assuming, I suppose I
had a good masseuse. She has been very faithful to come in.
At the present, I find myself about a nervous wreck; the
weather keeps me busy just keeping warm, hence I tried to eat
a little more starch and sugar (honey and raw sugar, with the
result - cankers! I do not drive, snow is so bad, and the
public buses make me terribly jittery. Last Evening I was
the only one in a loaded bus to cry out when it scraped a car
so I could hear the fenders bend. I get these lighted-headed
spells, "stepping out of the body," yet with no warning or
dizziness, in school - ghastly! I do not think diet or lack
of it gets at such a phase of my trouble. I cure up cankers
quickly with raw alkaline juices and lots or raw apples -
the pectin heals the mucous membranes. I have had pains like
it might be in the region of the appendix this week, so this
a.m. resorted to my magnetic blanket, using a towel rung out
of cold water over the abdomen with rubber sheet over and
around my torso, then the powerful U-coil and pad under and
over me, with the whole blanket entirely over me, feet in
huge heated boots. In half an hour I had stimulated activity
and eliminated lots of black, awful-odor stools. I surely am
glad for my equipment and knowledge of foods, to know how to
quickly get out of such "jams."
In my Check Reading is this reply about raw foods:-
"For NATURAL sources should indicate to the body that raw
foods, unless there is a great deal of physical exertion, are
inclined to make gas more than cooked foods - if the cooked
foods are properly balanced."
I fail to understand what sources are "NATURAL sources"; as
far as the latest science has worked it out, the vitamins are
in the raw foods and are KILLED with freezing or cooking of
preservatives. So, with a very small amount of VITAL foods,
[even at-first] requiring more energy to digest than a lot
of unsatisfying foods, one gets life itself, which, in turn,
gives vitality for digesting the raw foods. I heard a
teacher remark just what is the experience of nearly every
one, at lunch last week at school: "I had a large lunch
(cooked foods), yet I am not satisfied." The reason would
appear to be she has eaten a lot of DEAD (cooked) foods, and
the body is still craving them [things]. Also, minerals are
often thrown out in public places that cook vegetables. So,
adults especially eat lots more food than the body requires
in the effort to get satisfied; the result is a lot of waste
which rots in the intestines and blood stream and causes many
various diseases. It stands to reason (anyway it makes sense
to me) that a few spoons of LIVE, uncooked, foods feeds the
body more than a lot of DEAD, cooked foods. This also seems
to be the actual experience of some I know; for instance, a
friend in Florida was given up to die in October, 1937. Her
husband searched his book shelves and took out a book* on
raw foods by Dr. Richter (25 years a Doctor and Teacher of
Live Food Philosophy), who has had a raw and uncooked food
cafeteria in Los Angeles for some 18 years. He gave her raw
juices and, in many letters since, I have her case record - a
marvelous one. Just last week she took me to task, urging me
to use an only-raw diet. She has had no cooked foods in this
year and a half; has gained from 75 to 112 pounds and has
moved, taken care of an eight-room home, and [is] going out
at least once or twice a week to lectures. She scores me for
going into expensive experiments when health is in raw diet,
exercise and hope. She, also, in this time, has had some
spinal adjustments and has sloughed off, down to the last,
almost, a good-sized tumor, mucous discharges till she writes
one wonders how so small a body could have contained it all.
In my case, I am NOT discharging poisons! under the present
health program, so something radically different must be
done.
Believe me, Mr. Cayce, I am trying to state my case as
honestly as I see it at present, and with the best of
feelings toward you and your work, believe me to be
Sincerely yours,
3/08/39 See
1703-3, a Life Reading.
* ["Nature - The Healer" by John T. Richter (edited by
Henry W. Splitter, M.A., (Univ. of Wis.), 325 West 3rd St.,
Los Angeles, Calif.]
3/29/39 Report of specimens for Miss [
1703]:
The fecal specimen shows a total absence of the natural
protective flora in the lower bowel. The natural
acidophillus has been replaced by countless billions of
putrefactive bacteria. These poisonous germs are
generating toxins from food residues in the lower bowel, and
there is a great deal of absorption of these poisons into
the blood stream. This is proved by the fact that the
urinalysis shows a great deal of indican. This indican
is being filtered from the blood by the kidneys and these
organs are being damaged in consequence. This is also
proved by the fact that the urine shows a trace of albumin.
Albumin is another name for protein. It is the building
material of the blood stream and would not pass away in the
urine if the kidneys were in a healthy condition, but they
are suffering damage from these poisons in the system. There
is 90% of Gram negative bacteria, toxic germs in the feces,
which should not exceed 20%. There is a five plus colon
bacilli toxins and three plus Welchii. Also a one plus
streptococci, which is very toxic feces. Some starch
granules are undigested and excess mucus, also, in feces.
The reaction is Alkaline pH 9.4, whereas it should be an
acid reaction of the feces, as it would be were B.
acidophillus present.
The urine analysis shows a one plus calcium oxalate crystals
caused by spinach, rhubarb and other food containing much
oxalic acid. There is a two plus uric acid, which, in
excess, forms stones. There is a five plus bacteria present,
abnormal in fresh urine. A four plus indican; never normal
to have any indican in the urine; it results from poisons
generated in putrefactive bacteria in the intestines. The
acid reaction of urine is 6.0 pH; normal is near pH. 6.6.
Urea present is 0.35%.
4/10/39 Diagnosis of Miss [
1703] by Radioclast:
Advised by Dr. F. Homer Curtiss [F. Homer Curtiss, M.D.] and
conducted by Dr. Floyd S. Carter, Washington, D.C., friends
of Miss [
1703]'s hostess, Mrs. [...]:
RADIOCLAST NORM MINE
Vitality (I tire easily)
37-40 32.5
Waste (die over 100) 20 43.0
Congestions = growth on
left ovary of long standing
Colon acidity 1.2 16.2
" mucus 1/2 8.5
Uric acid 2 0
Sugar in kidney 0 0
Albumen 0 low
Bad Kidney involves eyes
Sluggish liver
Lacking Vit. G
Allergies (not to eat):- Bananas, Navy beans, Brazil nuts,
Cantaloup, Amer. Cheese, Cocoa & Chocolate, Codfish, Corn,
Oats, Peas, Potatoes, Spinach, Rhubarb, Cranberries.
Starches in Veg. seem to be bad.
4/12/39 Letter see under
1703-3 Reports.
4/16/39 Letter: "Report from Dr. James Empringham, Calif.,
author of those two articles on meat in the HEALTH NEWS
I sent you, shows I should not eat spinach, cranberries,
and rhubarb, just as the allergy test with the radioclast
indicated - that test recently taken in Washington, D.C."
[See R7 above.]
7/29/39 She referred Mrs. [
1972] for a Physical Reading.
12/03/39 She reported on Dr. [
1885]'s condition.
6/09/40 Reply to Questionnaire:
ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH AND ENLIGHTENMENT, INC.,
Virginia Beach, Virginia
INDIVIDUAL CASE REPORT - [
1703]
Date of Readings: Oct. 8, & Dec. 12, 1938 Case No.: [
1703]
(PLEASE ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS CAREFULLY)
(1) In your opinion did the analysis of the Reading cover
the condition?
Yes.
(2) Give symptoms of condition described correctly?
Congestions in different parts of the body. Thinness.
Vital forces low, as of a battery run down. Food not
properly assimilated. Much putrefaction and fermentation
in intestines.
(3) What was the physician's analysis of this condition?
See reports at the time, more in detail there.
(4) Have the suggestions given in the Reading been followed
exactly as outlined?
No.
(5) For how long?
Partly, for three months.
(6) Describe the extent to which improvements have resulted?
Probably not very much improvement, but a delaying of inroads
of the congestions; left eye now blurred.
(7) Comment.
There is no fault with the Readings; just my nature to not
stay by any one system long, as I get bored.
Date: 6-9-1940 Signed: [
1703]
(Use reverse side if necessary)
6/09/40 [
1703]'s letter to HLC:
Mr. Hugh Lynn Cayce
Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
Virginia Beach, Virginia
My dear Sir:
Your request of May 29th is hereby having some attention. I
am sorry that many phases of activity here have kept me from
getting it to you sooner.
As you will note in the check physical reading, there was
indication that I did not follow the first reading, hence did
not obtain full results or complete recovery. Correspondence
will show that is true in that I did not accept the
directions to eat meat. I have had no flesh, fowl, or fish
for three years, now, and feel my energy and endurance are
becoming better and the uric acid from them being
decreased, the pains are about all gone in my back, except
upon long, hard work, which I am not required to do, anyway.
The directions in the Reading for October 8 [
1703-1] were
followed in most respects for three months. I have not used
the Wet Cell Appliance since, and probably shall not use it
any more. In case you have a patient who can use it and who
cannot pay for one ($25.00 is what I paid), I shall be glad
to donate my outfit for the good of the cause. The earthen
jar, however, became soaked, cracked and leaked, so is
discarded. I will send it by Express for charges to be paid
by receiver in case you furnish me an address of a worthy and
poor-financially party who may benefit with the use of this
appliance. During the summer, I shall be gone, leaving ...
June 21, so such a request will have to be at once or after
September 3, 1940.
You ask me to report on the correctness of analyzing my
condition in the throat and head. It has been years since
I had any trouble and my voice is very clear and strong,
with no indications of a catarrhal condition. There was
a tendency in years 1915 - 1922 that, had I continued to
fill the body with irritating, mucus-forming foods, it
would have clogged my body in that region, as well as in
abdominal organs. I am still far underweight; no doubt
it will take years of correcting feeding to get the kidneys
normal so that the weight-building foods will not be drained
off, but will form muscle. I am so active I have no
inclination to bother with myself as long as I am not in
pain, taking steam baths, treatments, etc. So, all in all,
the Physical Readings were very accurate as to indicating
my bad condition with respect to catarrh in different parts
of my body - and I am not free, yet of it! I had, in the
spring of 1939, an examination with a Radioclast that
confirmed the Readings and even went further in that the
machine-reading "saw" a growth of abnormal nature, now
dormant.
7/12/40 She referred Mrs. [
2305] for a Physical Rdg.
1/07/43 She obtained emergency Physical Rdg. for Mrs. [
2878].
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