2/07/41 HLC's letter to Miss [
1612]:
Dear Miss [
1612]-
We were glad to hear from you again and to have your address.
Some of our Bulletins are mailed second class and have been
returned to us.
The enclosed booklet [2941 - By Thomas Sugrue - see below]
was written by my friend Tom Sugrue who is now writing the
book on my father's life and work. This young man has been
ill with arthritis for over two years. For the past year he
has been here in our home and I have taken care of him. This
little booklet was written to be used in a college annual and
later was put in this form by Mr. Sugrue as a Christmas
booklet. Watch the names (spelling is backwards) as you read
it and the beauty of the symbology will become apparent.
It may be necessary for me to go into the army in June and we
are working hard to get Association matters straightened out
before that time. With the publication of my father's book
there will be a focusing of interest on the work and I would
like to be prepared to show just what we are doing.
I hope that you will find it possible to create a memorial
for Mr. [
1767] in connection with some phase of our work.
His Life Reading showed a definite connection and interest
and I am confident that we are in a position to make a real
contribution to this field of research.
The work ahead of completely cross indexing the thousands of
readings in our files, and of extracting information under
various subject headings, is the most important first step
and one that must be taken before we can present our findings
in a scientific manner. The expense of this work lies mainly
in clerical help and the necessary supplies, yet would
represent a vital and necessary phase of our activity. As a
result our information could flow to publication outlets, to
research groups and individuals interested in particular
aspects of this field. A comparatively small amount is
needed for this work.
I am sure you must be enjoying California. I have only
visited that state once but enjoyed it very much then.
With kindest regards from both my father and myself,
Sincerely,
HLC
[Booklet 2941 by Thomas Sugrue]:
Copyright, 1940, by the Benson Printing Co., Nashville, Tenn.
Permission to reprint granted the author.
2941
by
Thomas Sugrue
The Princess Anne Press, Inc.
Virginia Beach, Va.
1940
[Handwritten message to [
1612] from Thomas Sugrue]:
Merry Christmas -
hope you and I will be here when this all comes true.
[signed] Tom
Of two hundred copies printed for the author by the Princess
Anne Press, this is number 3.
[signed] Thomas Sugrue
A Christmas message sent in the hope that its glimpse of a
a new and better tomorrow for humanity will lighten this
holiday season when the world is heavy with grief and sick
with hurt.
And in that time, so the prophets have written: when the
Twentieth Century shall have passed away, and the sign of the
God-man is in the sky: peace shall reign upon earth, and no
man shall hate his brother.
Neither shall there be war, nor pestilence, nor poverty, nor
any other of the shameful things which man has done unto
himself since first he knew shame.
And a great land shall have risen out of the ocean of the
Atlantic, and many islands also, to care for those who were
forced from their homes in the land that destroyed itself,
that was called Europe.
Nations that are great shall have perished, and all men,
seeking to be brothers, shall have put their hands to a
common pledge, and raised up a single force to rule them:
the force of wisdom.
Then wisdom shall sit in the palaces of the cities, and on
the mountain tops, and breathe in the hearts of men.
Wise men shall sit in judgement, and order the ways of their
brethren, and listen for the voice of God.
For wisdom is the knowledge of God, and of His whereabouts,
and of His laws and His mercy, and the beauty of His
creations.
So wisdom brings peace, and teaches love, and sets the face
of man toward his spirit.
And in that time these things shall be, and the earth and the
sky and the sea shall open to man their secrets.
Atoms shall put their shoulders to the wheels of commerce,
so that trees may grow unharried, and rest in their graves
of coal and oil without hindrance.
Sound from heaven shall bend itself to the ears of man, that
he may hear the music of the spheres, and understand the
rhythms of his soul.
Colors and perfumes shall rise up from the sea to fashion
beautiful images, and nourish the dreams of the young.
And through all the land, love, like a famished child, shall
sit down to a feast, and rise up filled with joy.
No soldiers shall march; no guns shall sound; no bitterness
or lies shall do disservice to the lips of anyone.
No debts shall be made; yet all promises shall be fulfilled.
Death shall come to meet no man; all men shall go to meet
death.
In the spring forget-me-nots shall blanket the fields, and
the hearts of maidens shall turn to the hearts of men, and
the sun shall follow its course in the heavens.
And God shall be pleased a little, looking at man, and tint
the roses with a deeper red, and raise the skylark in the
sky.
Now in those days there grew to beauty and fullness in the
high hills far from the cities a girl child, whose name was
Evol, the daughter of Thiaf and Epoh.
And her beauty surpassed that of any of the women who had
gone before her, for her thoughts were of God and she dwelt
in the halls of her spirit.
She ran through the woods with the deer, and knelt to drink
from brooks with gazelles, and climbed into the trees to sing
with the birds.
But when the time was come her mother spoke, and she laid
aside these things, and girded herself to go to the cities.
For she knew that she had to seek wisdom, and find it, or
death would seek her out.
So she put on the silver boots of her grandmother, Threa,
and tied around her the golden belt of her grandfather, Nus,
and prepared to go.
Then they made for her food for the journey; for there were
then foods made for the pleasure of eating, and foods made
for the necessity of eating, and foods made for the spirit,
which were given in sleep.
They gave her also a helmet, with which to signal the
heavens, and draw from it heat to surround her body, light
to show her the way in darkness, and music and speech to
delight her while she travelled.
To her golden belt they fastened the keys to the helmet, that
she might touch them with the steel tips of her fingernails,
and bring to her service all things that were outside
herself.
Then she entered the great soaring plane that silently each
day passed over the mountains, and she rode in it over other
mountains, and over seas, until she came to the place of the
cities.
And she saw how they rode below her in great ships that
skimmed over the houses, and how at each horizon the towers
stood up to catch the short, quick rays of power and feed
them to the ships.
She saw how they rode on the ground, on sticks that lifted
them off the ground and carried them like the witches of
prehistoric times.
She saw how they rode on the seas as of old, in ships
graceful as girls, with white sails; and this they did,
she knew, for pleasure, and to know beauty.
The commerce of the world passed below and above her,
untended by man, rocketing to its destinations on lanes of
vibration; but this, she knew, would soon be over, for all
things could now be made by all men, from anything.
Then night came, and she touched the key that clothed her
with the blue light of Venus, and the plane dipped down to
the shining city, and she stepped forth to meet her destiny
in the Temple of Wisdom and Beauty.
They met her at the door of the Temple, and stripped her
of the garments she wore, and of her helmet, and of all
which she had but her golden belt and her silver boots.
Then they covered her with a cloak of lambs' wool that was
dyed in many colors, and took her to the teacher Ega; and he
gave her the key to her bedchamber, that she might dwell
amongst them, and be instructed.
And Evol was filled with happiness, and a great quiet: and
women came to minister unto her.
They bathed her in the waters of purification, until her skin
gave up no more evil; then they gave her to eat of food that
brings thought.
They spoke of her of wisdom, and pressed with their fingers
upon the seven mountains of her being: that these might
also hear.
They sang to her, and taught her the harmonies of the stars,
and let her listen to them with her heart.
They wrote numbers, and showed her the truth in them, and
marked her with them, that she might know herself.
They took her to look at the heavens at night, and read them
to her as one reads a book, that she might know that
everything is of God, and is ordered by God's law, and can
in no way escape from it.
They placed her before mirrors at noon, and showed her to
herself, that she might know that she was of God, and was
ordered by God's law, and might in no way escape it.
They bathed her in the waters of beauty, and rubbed her skin
with oils, and removed from her all blemishes and all that
was not symmetrical and true, so that now she was more
beautiful: now she was perfect.
All day she spoke with her teachers, studying man, and God,
and earth, and herself: making music, and shaping in clay
and words and paint the images that lived in her spirit.
All night she slept with her head toward the Pole Star, and
her couch was flooded in blue light, and the planets sang to
her as they rose in the sky.
Thus did she grow in grace and in knowledge, and Ega told her
the story of Man, and how he went from God:
And how God sought him, that he might return, and gave him
grace, and wisdom, and even more:
His Only Begotten Son, Who came into the world and died for
it, that a way might be made for salvation.
And how man had been blind, and God had been patient, and
the Spirit of Truth had been denied: until God moved the
mountains, and parted the seas, and banished those who did
not seek His face: for this was the law.
And Evol listened, and pondered what she heard, and prayed
that she might not do evil.
Now in the dusk, when the Evening Star was risen, Evol lay on
her couch and turned her mind upon itself, and spoke with her
mother, Thiaf, and her father, Epoh, whom she had left in the
mountains.
And they spoke to her in their minds, and told her that they
had been with her in all that she did, and had joyed in her
learning.
Then she answered them, and told them of the things that now
were hers: for to know is to possess, once and for all, and
she had come to know these things:
That the illusion of diversity is a pleasure of the flesh,
and the source of wisdom is the singleness of truth.
That all things are of the same essence, and out of this is
made everything, from the hardest stone to the butterfly's
wing, by the law, and by those who know the law.
That to know the law is to live the law, and this is the
purpose of life, and the patience of heaven, and the joy of
struggle: and the law is the law of love.
So it is not well that a man hate another man, for all men
are of God, and he who hates another hates God and himself.
Nor is it well to sleep in the mind, for there is no way to
live the law and know the law except in the mind, and if the
mind does not know the law then it dwells in the dust, and
works evil, and goes away from the face of God.
But a man must feed his body, and this is well, so long as
he remembers that his body is not like that of an animal, but
is a chalice for the water of eternal life.
So should the body be made beautiful, and kept purified, and
not shut away from the mind and the spirit: so that it, too,
may hear the music of the stars, and lift itself up toward
God with tears and laughter.
For the body is also of God, and was given to man as a temple
and in it the spirit dwells: and through it enter those
others who would fulfill the law, and who therefore must live
in the earth.
And body, and mind and soul shall be made one, and wisdom
shall lift them up, and they shall be with their Father in
heaven: and beauty and truth shall be their footstools.
These were the things that Evol knew, and when she had
said them to Thiaf, her mother, and Epoh, her father, they
answered and said to her:
Ours is a great happiness: for we believed these things,
yet we knew them not; you believe them, yet you also know
them. We are fulfilled in you.
Then Evol was glad, and she rose up from her couch, and went
forth to the high balcony of the Temple, and sang to the
Evening Star.
Then the day came when Evol was to go forth into the world
and do those things which now she knew were her purpose in
life: for unless these things were done, death would come
to meet her.
So she went to the hospitals that were high on the hills,
and ministered to the sick; she cleansed them of illusion,
and healed them of hate, and put ointments upon their
melancholy.
She called to their spirit in song, and shaped their bodies
to symmetry, and killed desire in the night with prayer and
the light of truth.
And she went from the hills, and into the countryside, and
called the people about her, and said: I will build you a
temple to the one God, and you will seek Him there, and find
Him.
Then she taught them, and they listened and did as she bade,
and the temple was raised up.
It seemed from without a pyramid, but the vault within was
curved as an egg, and the floor was made in a cross:
There were seven stairways to seven altars, and twelve
windows that looked to the heavens, and five doors that
swung open to the world.
And the seventh altar was white, and the sixth altar was
blue, and the fifth altar was red, and the fourth altar was
green, and the third altar was gold, and the second altar
was silver, and the first altar again was white.
And she taught them to sing in the temple, and make songs
out of their thoughts, and raise them up to God:
And she taught them to shape images of their dreams in story
and marble and oil, and hang them upon the walls of the
altars.
She went with them into their homes, and counselled them in
ways of living.
She spoke to the women of ornament, and decoration, and
showed them how each was herself a temple:
A temple to be anointed and purified, and hung with the
most beautiful of creations, to the glory of God Who dwells
within.
She spoke to the children of God, and the grace He had
placed on their heads.
And they listened to her and learned, and did as she bade,
and the temple was filled with their voices.
They played at being themselves, and told tales of
themselves, and sang of their journey up the seven
stairways of salvation.
They lived happily in their homes, and the sun shone on them
through roofs of glass, and flowers were always with them.
Then Evol was glad in her heart, for she knew that this work
was done, and her last fulfillment was riding toward her in
the night.
He came down out of the high hills, and his name was Etaf,
and his beauty was a harp in Evol's heart. Likewise he
looked on her, and knelt before her.
But she raised him up and put her arms about his neck, and
kissed him as any maid kisses her man: and he held her to
him as any man holds his maid.
Then they went up to the temple and pledged their troth at
each of the seven altars, and looked at the heavens from each
of the twelve windows, and prayed.
And they went out of the place of the cities, and came to a
place where the meadows meet the hills, and the streams of
the mountains come together to water the plains:
There they dwelt, and built their home, with cedars that
gave perfume, and glass that gave light, and flowers and
trees and herbs to fill their living with joy.
And children came to them, and they taught them, and took
them to see the world, and to learn all things.
And the children grew in grace and wisdom, and went forth
into the world, and knew it, and labored in it.
Nor did Evol and Etaf try to retain them: but let them go,
and walked in the hills together, and studied the twilight
on the peaks.
And they contemplated beauty, and rejoiced in it, and touched
with their hands the earth and the fleece of lambs; and
looked on fields of wheat; and felt the snowdrops nestle
at their feet.
They lay on their couches and turned their minds inward,
and spoke with the wise men and women of the earth, and
questioned them:
For they were at peace, but they knew in their wisdom that
the things they knew were but shadows of the things that are,
and that true knowledge was hidden from them yet:
It lies behind seven times seven veils: the breath of time
will shake them, but only patience will lift them.
So they spoke of shadows; but they sought truth: and
sometimes they heard it, and sometimes they saw it, and
sometimes, for a little while, they knew it.
Thus were they content, and the earth was content with them:
and many came to sit with them, to partake of their wisdom:
And God was pleased with what they had done.
So when the earth turned once again, in that time: so
the prophets have written: and forget-me-nots were in the
fields, and brooks were shrill, and blossoms burst their
buds, these two took hands and walked against the sun,
across the meadows:
And no man saw them anymore, or knew where they had gone:
but the wind saw them pass, and the stars were witness to
their flight: and all the dreams of children heard their
song.
8/07/52 Reply to Questionnaire:
Name of Patient [
1767] Case No.
1767-1, 1767-2
Address NYC
Age at date of reading Sex Male Date of reading
Chief Complaint [no response]
Physician's Provisional Diagnosis diabetis & heart weakness
Physician's Final Diagnosis and Treatment insulin etc. -
physician now deceased also.
Reading's Recommendations: (Briefly)
1. [no response]
2. [no response]
3. [no response]
4. [no response]
Duration of Treatment [no response]
Results of Treatment Cured Relief Failure
[no response given]
At end of 1 year Cured Relief Failure
2 year Cured Relief Failure
3 year Cured Relief Failure
Date Aug. 7, 1952
Signed [Miss [
1612]]
What was the cause of the condition? Worry & strain began
in 1928 crash. What did the doctors call it? [no response]
Did he follow the suggestions outlined in his physical
Readings? no
[Hand written by Miss [
1612] at end of Questionnaire]:
Death Sept. 18 - 1939 - coronary thrombosis - kidney & liver.
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