12/29 THE NEW TO-MORROW
Published Quarterly by The Association of National
Investigators, Inc.
For Its Members
Publication Office - Virginia Beach, Va.
Editorial Office - Lexington, Va.
THOMAS J. SUGRUE, Editor HUGH LYNN CAYCE, Managing Editor
Vol. 1 DECEMBER, 1929 No. 1
CONTENTS
Page
EDITORIAL............................................3
PHILOSOPHICAL........................................7
Our Philosophy - Morton H. Blumenthal.............7
What is Truth? - Edgar Cayce......................9
My Concept of God - Morton H. Blumenthal.........13
EDUCATIONAL.........................................19
Education - Franklin Bradley.....................19
MECHANICAL..........................................23
Mechanics of Operative Forces as Applied to a
Physical Body - Thomas B. Brown..................23
HISTORICAL..........................................27
Life Readings - What They Are and How to Use
Them - Hugh Lynn Cayce...........................27
NEWS AND VIEWS......................................31
THE LETTER-BOX......................................35
WHO'S WHO IN THIS ISSUE.............................37
Contents fully copyrighted, 1929, by T. J. Sugrue. All
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896, Lexington, Va.
DECEMBER
Love dies, hope dies, the things of beauty fade;
Alone the ageless soul, aloof and wise,
Leaves to the grave this senseless, fading jade,
Flitting to other lives, and other skies.
T. J. S.
EDITORIAL
"There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them
how we will."
On Sunday afternoon, March 31, 1899, in the living room of a
little house in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, three people watched
a man who could not speak talk in his sleep. The watchers
were Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Cayce and a layman, the sleeper was
Edgar Cayce. The words spoken by the latter as he slept
comprise what is known as the first reading ever given by
Edgar Cayce. Its results were immediate. When he went to
sleep Mr. Cayce could not speak, his vocal chords were
paralyzed. When he awoke they had returned to normal
functioning, his voice was natural and clear.
It is a far cry from that little house on the bleak March
afternoon of a dying century to the Association of National
Investigators, Incorporated, and the Cayce Hospital, at
Virginia Beach, Va. It is a far cry indeed, and the vagaries
and whims of human frailty carried the cry farther still, ere
the inexorableness of Time and the certainty of Fate brought
Truth to the harbor of Faith and Love. Yet nothing
worthwhile is won without struggle, and the pain and
disillusion of Experience bring a greatness to the soul, a
sweetness to the heart, and a clearness to the ideal that
set us firmly on the King's Highway and direct our footstep
toward the Kingdom of God.
It was a long, hard road for Edgar Cayce, from the first
fairy voice of childhood to the first ground broken for the
Cayce Hospital. Man through his opaque mist of materialism
sees little of the world beyond his length, breadth, and
thickness, and because of his own conceit the attempts of
truth boomerang from a solid wall of self. How difficult it
is to make people understand something they cannot contact
with the senses! How discouraging it is to see truth
misinterpreted and misapplied, used as the individual sees
fit, to suit best the desires of his own nature! How long
to the goal it seems when the road is so winding and rough,
so studded with stubble, so littered with deadwood, so
cluttered with debris!
To conquer self was the first task, and perhaps the hardest,
for as Polonius said:
"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
To convince himself that he was not a freak of nature, not
an unconscious fraud, not a spiritual charlatan, was first
of all the work of Edgar Cayce. For years he lived in
self-conscious embarrassment because of his strange
peculiarity, for years he feared to give the aid requested
of him because he did not know nor understand the thing he
did. For years his life was a mental torture, a seething
indecision, a labyrinth of ideas, ideals, misbeliefs and
disillusions.
From the left came a cry of service, from the right a whisper
of gain. Which way Parnassus? No answer came. Time passed,
and the mind that could not know of itself, learned from a
world that clutched at stars and dragged its soul in mud.
Reality stumbling skyward in the illusion of smut taught a
lesson etched in pain and failure. The answer became
obvious.
"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a
tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy,
and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and
though I have all faith, so that I could remove
mountains, and have not love, I am nothing."
To Edgar Cayce had come an ideal, to him was shown the truth.
And so he lived, and so he lives, and so he will live
forever. He survived the cries that branded him charlatan,
quack, spiritualist, clairvoyant, hypnotist, fake and fraud.
He survived the misunderstanding, pain, disillusionment, loss
of friends and attacks of enemies. He survived the purgatory
of ignorance of conquer himself and others, finding peace and
happiness in the knowledge of truth and the possession of an
ideal.
It was at the September meeting of the American Association
of Clinical Research in 1911 that recognition and hope first
was given for the work. This meeting was held in the rooms
of the Society of Natural History in Boston, and a paper
describing the phenomena, written by Dr. W. H. Ketchum, of
Hopkinsville, Kentucky, was read. The opinion of the
Association was voiced in the sentiment that the work
deserved further study and was deserving of commendation and
support.
From this first bit of official recognition, this first gleam
of hope that he was something more than a freak of Natural
law, Edgar Cayce formed the purpose and ideal of his life,
a purpose and ideal which is now that of the Association of
National Investigators, and which is expressed in a single
word - Service.
It was natural that Mr. Cayce should conceive of a hospital
or sanitarium, where the people he diagnosed could be treated
as he prescribed, under physicians in accord with the work;
and it was natural that he should go to his own peculiar
source of information for advice concerning it. The first
reading taken on the establishing of a hospital approved of
the idea and outlined the method of going about such a
venture. On February 11, 1911, it advised Virginia Beach as
a site for this hospital. On June 19, 1928, the first ground
was broken for the Cayce Hospital. What happened during the
seventeen years elapsing between the creation of the idea and
its material culmination?
It is a long time between the idea and the creation, the
dream and the reality. In 1911 Edgar Cayce began working
toward the establishment of a hospital. On February 11,
1929, the first patient was treated in the Cayce Hospital
at Virginia Beach.
There is not much use in reciting the hardships of those
seventeen years. Let us pass over them lightly, as we
passed over those years before the faith and ideal became
visualized. From Hopkinsville, Kentucky, to Selma, Alabama;
from Memphis, Tennessee, to Birmingham, Alabama, and westward
to the oil fields of Texas, the trail of dreams led this man
and the loved ones who followed him. It was a hard road, and
a long one, strewn with bitterness and broken hopes. Yet
always the faith remained, the ideal was firm, and the
readings repeated the admonition, go to Virginia Beach.
Why was such a wonderful work so difficult to begin? Why was
such an ideal so hard to attain? Nothing is worthwhile until
we fight for it, what comes easily is seldom appreciated.
Though the faith and the love were firm, the mind and spirit
and body had not yet been sufficiently tried and attuned.
Those associated did not understand, there was not the
harmony of an organization, in short, the time was not ripe.
Many people and groups of people took up the work and planned
to establish a hospital. Each was unsuited to the task it
seems, and eventually they dropped it. The time was not
ripe, the vibrations and conditions of the Universal forces
and the earthly conditions were not properly adjusted for the
happening of such an event. Time passed. It seemed to Edgar
Cayce that things were going round in circles. The thing he
saw so clearly, the thing he desired so earnestly, was but a
misty haze in the minds of others. Patiently he waited.
At Dayton, Ohio, in January, 1925, the first germ of an idea
was born for The Association of National Investigators. From
that time on, like a babe in the mother's womb, it grew
slowly toward an inevitable culmination. Conditions had
become right, people had come in accord, and Time had slipped
into place. The rest was merely adjustment and readjustment,
smoothing out details and making arrangements. The result
was a certainty, the dream a reality, the desire a
gratification.
In September of 1925 Edgar Cayce and his family moved to
Virginia Beach, establishing a residence at 115 West 35th
St., an address grown familiar to many since then as the
office of the Association and the place where all readings
are given. Here the work was continued in the old way,
obviously. But all the time the Association was planning
the culmination of one dream and the beginning of another.
On May 6, 1927, The Association of National Investigators
was incorporated.
On June 19, 1928, the first ground was broken for the
Cayce Hospital.
On November 11, 1928, the Cayce Hospital was dedicated.
On February 11, 1929, the first patient was treated in the
Cayce Hospital.
The dream is a reality, the ideal is achieved, the WORK
has BEGUN.
The world goes on unheeding. The waves of the ocean have
not ceased their beating, the season its changing, the sun
its rising, the world its evolution. Only something has
happened. Something definite has begun, something tangible
has taken form, and a small group of people look toward a
new horizon. The world whirls on, unknowing. Meanwhile we
work. Someday the world will stop its mad racing to listen,
and heed. Time only knows when it will be. For the present
let us make sure we will be prepared. Let us take up our
happy burdens and start forward, trusting the others to
follow where we show the way.
The time has come for beginning what this publication
purposes to do. We have formed the nucleus, laid the
foundation on a strong rock of suffering and final
understanding, and we are ready to promulgate and project
the truths we have learned to the world at large. That they
will reject with laughter and scorn is natural, that they
will eventually accept and approve is inevitable. The
purpose of this publication is not didactic, explanatory,
or even that of propaganda and exploitation. It is merely
to record in systematic fashion the advances and achievements
of this association. Journalism is the world's contemporary
historian, and as a specific journalist it is the purpose
of this magazine to reflect and record the work of our
organization. Though primarily for our members, it is
inevitable that it will fall into the hands of those outside,
who will wonder and question its meaning and contents. To
those people we extend an invitation to inquire and study
our work, to visit our offices at Virginia Beach, and to join
with us in a brotherhood of searcher for truth, for
ourselves, for the world, and for God.
To the members of the Association who will receive this first
issue we ask the tolerance of innovation and the assistance
of co-workers. It is your magazine, open to your views and
suggestions, and we will gladly welcome and appreciate your
criticism, contributions, and general support.
OUR PHILOSOPHY
By Morton H. Blumenthal
[EDITOR'S NOTE: The following article was written as an
editorial in the Association "Blue Book" by Mr. Blumenthal.
It was reprinted in the British magazine "Two Worlds," which
is "A Weekly Journal Devoted to the Phenomena, Philosophy,
and Progress of Spiritualism." A copy of the magazine was
sent to Mr. Blumenthal by his friend Prof. Hibbens. Also in
the issue was the following tribute to Mr. Blumenthal's book
"Heaven on Earth," which is available to all at the
Association Offices at Virginia Beach, Va.
"Heaven On Earth" is the title of a new book being published
by The Association of National Investigators, Inc., of
Virginia, America, of which the first volume has just been
issued. The book is written by Mr. Morton H. Blumenthal,
President of the Association, and is being printed at
intervals in pamphlet form. The first volume is well written
and tastefully produced, and boasts a valuable foreword by
Prof. W. G. Hibbens, B. Sc., of the Sheffield University. It
is the hope of the publishers that when the different volumes
have been completed they will be gathered together and
published in book form."
Prof. Hibbens says the "Two Worlds" has the largest
circulation of any publication of its field in England.]
"Deep in the heart of each and every right thinking person
there dwells the ideal that acts as the mainspring of our
life, namely, love for the Divine Creator. Regardless of
our concept of God, we love Him for His deeds, which, of
course, embrace creation. He has created us as an image of
Himself and His universe (as a drop containing every element
of the ocean is an image of the whole body of water), and
has given to us the opportunity of enjoying like Him a
consciousness of ourselves being alive. Being a duplication
of Him, in potentiality, we are alive to His work of
creation. By development of our potential abilities we
become self-aware of the process of creation being our own
work as well as His. We love Him, then, for His gift of life
to us, for His promise that the gift shall be eternal, and,
above all, for His long suffering as well as patience with
our sins, which are born of ignorance, during the process of
our achieving through earthly experience necessary potential
development. Indeed, many of us, although bearing no malice,
curse the Creator in one breath, while He furnishes us the
power to draw another.
"We defile our bodies with ill-formed habits, while His
pulsating, life-giving flow sustains those bodies and
continues in process of creating new and other beautiful
physiques. Sometimes, in a secret moment, while regarding
the majesty and beauty of nature, or while marvelling at the
wonderful phenomena of a new-born baby, or while at prayer
either at home or in church, we turn our hearts to God, and
pour forth our love. Then do we intuitively feel His
forgiveness, His infinite mercy and patience, and the divine
inflow of His love. His is the potentiality that manifests
itself as the phenomena of life, whether of creation or our
subjective selves, and thus we belong to Him and He to us.
Truly, by deeds has the Lord merited and created the love
we bear Him. We, ourselves, are an intellectual result or
manifestation of this spiritual God's process. We are also
in internal substance the very same essence that composes
this spiritual God. We are each of us an integral part of
God in the intellectual form of man, that this spiritual
Godly essence takes in the earthly environment, and know
ourselves to be that. Thus it is that we are free to live
our own concept of life. Thus it also is that whatever
concept we choose to express in and of our own life is
representative of our idea of God. Since we are that which
the life essence of God becomes in materialized form, we
will likewise remain this same essence when we change at
death from the materialized form to become one with the
manifesting spiritual essence itself. From the changed
viewpoint that we will then enjoy as an internal force of
intelligence, we shall come to know ourselves to be that
which God is in essence, just as we know ourselves to be that
which the spiritual godly essence changes itself to become
in the materialized form it takes in this earthly
environment. God then has created, of Himself, a portion
(each of our own selves) that by virtue of His process of
creation becomes able to achieve a companionate
self-awareness and individuality in union with and one with
each and every self-conscious individuality, or portion,
that God in one potential spiritual essence embraces."
The Importance of Research.
Through psychic research may we gain the necessary knowledge
that will fit us to work on earth for creation, as does the
mighty creative energy of life function to sustain creation
throughout the whole of that called space. Then may we and
shall we inscribe our names in the book of life, and in that
chapter that has to do with earthly experiences, and thus
make our deeds create for us merited love in the hearts and
minds of the right-thinking portion of humanity. We shall
strive to throw our influence on the side of the good and the
spiritual, in order that the generations of men may cling to
the link that binds them to the universe, to the noble, the
beautiful, the honourable, and to the whole ideal while in
this earthly process of development, rather than permit the
influences of the purely material life to drag the inner
developing potentiality that manifests itself in the form
of physical personalities in the mire of animalistic
materialism, that turns love into passion and adultery,
nobleness into wrath, hatred and temper, honour into greed
and selfishness, beauty into filth and the imagination into
slavery to physical desires.
This is the ideal of the Association of National
Investigators, Inc., a new organization which has been
established to foster and encourage physical, mental and
spiritual benefit amongst its members. The Society is
founded upon the work of Mr. Edgar Cayce, a well-known
American psychic, and has its headquarters at Virginia Beach,
Virginia. The Society possesses its own hospital, where
special facilities are afforded for the treatment of disease.
Located on the same site is a library and lecture hall, which
also serve as the headquarters for psychic experiments and
investigation. The organization has somewhat similar objects
to the Britten Memorial project in Manchester, and both are
deserving of every success and support.
WHAT IS TRUTH?
BY EDGAR CAYCE
[The following is one of the lectures delivered by Mr. Cayce
at the Cayce Hospital, Virginia Beach, Va.]
We have spoken on various subjects from Sunday to Sunday.
Mr. Blumenthal in his addresses has told you something about
life and its projection into the physical plane. From time
to time I have been speaking of these things that have had to
do principally with material THINGS of life, or those things
that have to DO with the material, or putting them in such a
way and manner that we may be able to use them in our
everyday life.
As I have said, I am going to try to talk to you this
afternoon about Truth - or "What Is Truth?"
I realize that I am assuming a big job. I've read but very
little of the philosophers of the ages, but we know during
all the years there has been the continual cry of, "What Is
Truth?"
We often hear it said that Truth is evasive, Truth is naked,
Truth will not be downed - but what is Truth?
We remember, if we turn to the books of the New Testament,
that possibly the greatest moment in history was when Pilate
asked of the Master, "What is Truth?" Possibly that was the
ONLY time it could have been answered in one or two words
that would have at least satisfied the greater portion of the
thinking world today - but he didn't wait for the answer.
Yet we know that the Master said that He CAME that He might
show the way unto Truth. All right. Then we know Truth is
something that we may be shown.
When we speak of A truth, or THE truth, or TRUTH, we possibly
mean different things. You will remember, those of you who
have read the little story - and I'm sure most of you have -
there were three men of Hindustan who went to see the
elephant, but all of them were blind. Now that's US! We are
all blind, but we are seeking the truth; seeking the truth
because we are very much in the same position as the three
men who went to see the elephant. One of these stumbled
against the side of the elephant, and he said, "I perceive,
without a doubt, the elephant is very like a wall." Was
that the truth to him? Another one, as he stumbled about the
animal, found his trunk, and said, "I perceive with a
certainty, the elephant is very like a tree." Was he correct
in his supposition? The other man, as he stumbled about, got
hold of the tail, and said, "I perceive the elephant is very
much like a rope." Now were they in error? Did they have
the truth? Or did they have only a portion of the truth? Or
did they have any of the truth?
We often say that any movement of any character succeeds in
so far as it has a portion of the truth. We may be sure
THAT'S truth; that any movement succeeds in so far as that
movement has the truth. Then don't worry because you
disagree with any individual as to what your conception of
any movement may be - don't think that they are going to hell
because they don't think as you do! Remember the three men
that went to see the elephant - just remember that! Keep
that in your mind. KNOW that they are right, but they are
wrong as YOU would see it, with your eyes wide open.
As Mr. Blumenthal has been telling us, life in its projection
into this material plane has been a constant growth. Then,
if we are to believe the things that have been presented to
us, and AS they are presented to us, we know that even Truth
ITSELF may be a GROWTH INTO that understanding in which we
will be able to apply it in our everyday life.
I am sure that we believe God is Love. The love for an
individual, then, is an expression of the force, or
manifested force, that we define as Love. There was this
experience that came to a man. He was very much in love
with his wife. He thought more of her than anything in the
world, but God saw fit to take her home, and when he erected
a monument in the cemetery he had inscribed on it: "The
light of my life has gone out." He couldn't find anything
that could satisfy him with this separation, but after a
while he met a young lady whom he fell very much in love
with, and he was altogether mistaken about his first love
being able to satisfy every thing in his life - there was
something else that had been added, he had gained the
knowledge of someone else being able to fill up a portion of
his life. The young lady, knowing about this inscription,
said to him, "I might consent to be your wife, but I don't
think I could ever do that as long as the inscription remains
as it is." So he went about to find a man who could correct
this for him, and as the man who had charge of such things
told him he saw how he could rectify this, he went ahead with
the wedding. When they came back from their honeymoon they
went to see how it read, and this is what they found: "The
light of my life has gone out - but I've struck another
match."
So, you see, those are individual experiences. When we
read, or get the idea of some particular thought, or some
particular rule, gradually we build into OUR own selves the
idea that we have GOTTEN the whole thing. Now IS Truth such
a thing that those who have been followers of Mohammed have
ALL of the truth? Have they who have been the followers of
Moses the law-giver, all the truth? Or has it rather been a
growth in our individual lives, and what may be truth to one
individual possibly may not, in the experience of the other
individual, answer at all? Does that make the other any less
true to the other individual? Did this man love the second
woman any less from his experience of being in love before?
Then, is it possible if this be true, that this is a
changeable thing, is a growth? Will it be possible for us to
find something of which we can say, "THIS is truth," and KNOW
that it will answer in everything or every way that life may
present itself to us? I believe that we can. You may differ
with me. I don't think, however, that you will be able to
REFUTE what will be my definition, or what I will be able to
say IS Truth. But many of you will say, "Well, have you been
given some peculiar power, that you have knowledge of what
Truth is, and can answer the question that has been sought
throughout all the ages, so that we may know what TRUTH is?"
Let's see if this will not answer the whole question in our
lives. First we must know that, if we are to accept any
word, or any follower as a truth, or THE truth, or Truth,
we must be sure of the AUTHORITY that we quote. We must be
very sure of our foundation, or platform, for what we have
assumed. Where would we begin, as we would say, to assume
something as being true, or a place to begin? Or how far
could we go with this formula? Or where would we begin with
this formula, so that we might know, when we hear a thing,
that to US it is Truth? We must recognize these facts in our
lives: there is a physical body, there is a spiritual body.
We know the physical body is dependent upon its physical
attributes for its development. It is also the temple, or
the dwelling place of the spiritual body. The spiritual
body, we know, is of the Creator - whatever we may call the
Creator. It comes from the same thing - even if we go back
to the scientific reasoning and say it begins from the lowest
form of life. WHEREVER we begin, we have to say there is
something beyond that where it has developed, whether you
believe in evolution, creative evolution, or what not, it all
has to come back to the very same thing, AND if I can answer
this I don't believe I'm wrong in saying that you can take it
from any standpoint you want to take it, but this IS Truth:
THAT WHICH KEPT BEFORE YOUR MENTAL MIND, YOUR SPIRITUAL MIND,
WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP YOU UPWARD! That which, held before
you, will continue to develop you upward.
Now, let's see how this fits in with what Mr. Blumenthal
says of evolution. Let's see if this applies to any of the
phases that may present themselves, or to any the questions
you would want to ask: THAT WHICH, HELD BEFORE YOUR MENTAL
VISION, WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP YOU UPWARD. Not that which
satisfies selfish purpose at all, no! Not that which tells
you whether it is wrong to go fishing on Sunday or not, or to
play baseball on Sunday. Not that which answers you in that.
It answers you, yes - but that which will continue to develop
YOU upward?
All right! What do we mean by developing upward? That which
will enable you to hold the vision of that which YOU worship
as YOUR God. Every man, every individual, every OBJECT, has
its conception of its superior position. We would say,
"Well, would it answer the Indian who is looking for his
Happy Hunting Ground? Why would it not answer? That which
will enable him to hold before him that which HE worships as
HIS God is Truth to him.
Now, what have we taken for granted? We have taken for
granted that man has a mind, that man has a body - a physical
body, a spiritual body. He has a SOUL, if you choose! We
have taken for granted that his mental body is controlled
by his mental being. His soul, or his spiritual body is
controlled by his subconscious, or his spiritual mind. That
which will continue to hold before the individual that which
he worships as his God will continue, then, to develop the
individual towards that which he worships. Now, does that
answer your question? Then you will say, "What would have
been the Master's answer to Pilate's question?" "I came into
the world to do no other than conduct you into that which is
Truth."
Truth is not a thing, then, that we can see, that your eyes
or body, or ears, or things of that kind - but it is the
essence with which an individual builds faith, hope, and
trust. That is Truth! That essence that we are enabled to
hold before our mental vision, is truth. Will it build your
body? It will! Will it heal the sick? It will!
A few days ago I was talking to some people - they were
telling me about a book that had been written by some of
the masters from the far East. I had never seen the book
before, but when I opened it to read it I knew what was in it
before I read it. I don't know how, nor why, but I knew the
experiences that I was going to encounter. I don't know why
except THIS: I have been continuing to think of how I might
answer this question. With the first four or five pages I
found that in this book, this ONE thing was continually held
before the individual; that which you hold before yourself,
to create that image you worship, that will develop you
always upward, and will continue to enable you to know truth!
Truth, then, being a growing thing, truth being a thing that
will develop you, is a something that is ENTIRELY IN ACTION!
Not inactive, but IN ACTION! That's what God is! For in
every MOVEMENT that has ever been, it has been a continual
upward development, or upward toward that which IS Truth.
If you hold malice, you can become one of the meanest
persons in the world. You know that if you continue to
send out thought (that may become a miracle or a crime),
you create just those very same cross-currents in your mind.
What is prayer but simply attuning yourself to that which you
are seeking assistance through? That's all prayer is -
attuning yourself to that very same thing. That becomes
Truth when it becomes in action. When it goes into action,
to YOU it becomes Truth. It's your own conception of what
your God is. If it makes you better to the very thing you
worship, or more in accord with the thing you worship, THAT
you become, whether it's downward or upward, you go whichever
way your standard is set.
Q. Yet if we are going backward, how can we know?
A. You can't make it anything else, because to you it's
truth, because that's what you are following. That becomes
truth to you. That which you continue to follow becomes
truth whether it's negative or positive. As we learn it from
that viewpoint, it becomes true; that is, whatever we hold
that continues to build upward is Truth. Now, as to who is
to say whether you are building up, or as to how near it
brings you to that thing you worship AS your God, because God
IS Truth, if you continue to hold that, you may develop to
that, but to someone else whose God might be something else,
that wouldn't be Truth.
Q. That applies right here in your hospital, etc.
A. If it answers one, it answers all. That's what it
stands for; that which may develop in the individual that
understanding of its relation to its Maker and to its fellow
man. Or, as we come back to the very same thing I said in
Sunday School this morning, I've been studying a long while,
trying to understand what is meant by the second commandment,
and I never did know what it meant - that is, satisfactorily
to my own mind - until the other night. The first
commandment, as we know, is, "Thou shall love the Lord thy
God with all thy heart and thy mind, etc." The second is,
"Thou shall not make unto thee any graven image." Why?
Because if you make an image it becomes your God. But if you
have for your God that which is within your own individual
self, you yourself being a portion of the Creator, you will
continue to build upward, to it!
MY CONCEPT OF GOD
BY MORTON H. BLUMENTHAL
Revised from a lecture delivered at the Cayce Hospital,
Virginia Beach, Va., Sunday, September 22nd, 1929.
Mind of the Creator as Distinguished from the Mind of the
Created.
My lecture today is entitled "My Concept of God." I will
lecture on the same subject two weeks from today.
Thereafter, or four weeks from today, my lecture will be
"Heaven and Hell." We will discuss "Heaven and Hell" in the
light of the conception we have formed of evolution. Some
of the questions that I will endeavor, in my own humble way,
to take up, will be "What is Heaven and Hell? Is
de-evolution down to a Hell, possible as a condition of
consciousness as well as evolution to that condition of
consciousness call Heaven? How do we attain through a
process of de-evolution the condition called Hell, and by
contrast how do we attain by a process of evolution the
condition called Heaven?" After this lecture I will
conclude the season with a series of talks on reincarnation.
During the past summer months I have endeavored, in my own
way, to present my concept of evolution and my experiences
upon which that concept is founded. Today, I will try to
initiate a series of two lectures that in reality will do
nothing more than sum up all our past discussions regarding
the subject of evolution. I would not dare be so bold or
officious as to insist upon the acceptance of my concept of
God by the member of this intelligent audience. My concept
of God is the result of my own personal experience, just as
is the case with every individual, and, (as James points out
in his "Varieties of Religious Experiences"), as one's
experience grows, the scope of consciousness becomes broader,
and as a result one's concepts change accordingly.
Truth enters our consciousness through the route of
experience. Experience itself is a process of mind, physical
or otherwise, that awakens in each of us an ever broadening
realization of the truth. Whether your own individual
experiences have led you to the conclusion that mine have, is
a matter only you yourself may determine. My true aim in
delivering these lectures is to help each individual, or each
individual mind, or better, each individuality of mind, to
become so broadened in experience as to be able to reach and
enjoy a higher state of consciousness, and thus achieve a
deeper and more useful conception of truth, or God. As you
hear me speak my heart, then, I am sure your own good sense
will inform you of the fact that I am not seeking to
establish or propound any new religion, or detract from,
or add to, any existing order of religion.
Mr. Cayce's lecture last week on "What is Truth" dovetails
beautifully into the pragmatic ideas of truth that I have
just spoken of. In considering then, the result of my humble
efforts today, to give "My Concept of God," I would
appreciate your considering in collaboration therewith,
Mr. Cayce's lecture on "Truth." The lecture was, and is,
probably the best dissertation on the subject of pragmatic
truth, as propounded by a former psychologist of Harvard
University, namely, William James, that the layman has had
the opportunity to hear since Mr. James wrote his work on
Pragmatism. Now, I know Mr. Cayce has never read Pragmatism,
yet thinking his subject out in relationship to truth, he
stood before you, and in very simple and understandable terms
delivered a most enlightening lecture on the deep subject of
Truth from a pragmatic viewpoint. You, who heard this very
excellent lecture last Sunday, will easily understand what I
mean when I say I am giving a concept of truth or God, as it
exists from my personal viewpoint.
Now, how do we know anything in this world? Our Saturday
afternoon class, studying Ouspensky's "Tertium Organum," is
learning that the outside world and life is what our own
inner sensations, as well as ideas founded upon sensation,
tell us it is. In other words, it is the operation of the
mind that enables us to know anything, whether that knowledge
is in terms of abstract realities such as good, evil, God,
truth, values, etc., or whether it is physical realities in
the form of houses, trees, sidewalks, oceans, lakes,
mountains, fields, tables, chairs, etc. The animal kind of
operation of mind does not enable him to form concepts, and
therefore, he cannot know of such realities as Good, Evil,
Value, Truth, God, etc. The operation of that mind enables
the animal to know about the world in two dimensions only -
i.e., the world outside of himself would consist of surface
realities, each separated from the other. The sides of what
to us is a three dimensional house, would to the dog, for
example, separate two dimensional realities - i.e., each side
would be a separate thing existing in space by itself and
would have no connection with any other wall or surface, just
as two houses are two separate individual things existing in
space, apart from each other to us. On the other hand, our
kind of operation of mind enables us to form not two
dimensional perceptions (animal kind of mind), but also
three dimensional conceptions or ideas, and thus obtain
knowledge of such abstract realities as Good, Evil, etc. It
so operates as to make the outside world, to us, different
three dimensional realities - i.e., houses, trees, oceans,
sidewalks, chairs, tables, space, etc.
Science, however, has reduced these things that occupy space
to a oneness, (in cause), with space. Whatever space is in
substance, that also our world and everything in our world
and any other world as in substance, says Dr. Whitney. It
must be evident, then, that mind, being part of the animal
and ourselves, must likewise be in substance this same one
element, yet that part of the element that enables the latter
to be conscious or capable of experience of some kind.
In our world it would be a consciousness or experience of the
sensuous kind, made manifest in animal and man. That this
part of the original element, (call it life, creative energy,
ELAN VITAL, Spirit, God, or what you will), called
Consciousness is capable of different degrees of development
is made manifest in the low form of consciousness exhibited
in the vegetable and mineral kingdom, (flowers, plants,
trees, etc.), and again in the low form demonstrated in the
lower animal kingdom, and higher form made evident in the
higher animal kingdom and still higher developed kind
manifested in consciousness - not only of man. In the latter
form there is shown the ability of self consciousness, but
the ability of the original element, creative energy, life,
(or whatever name we may choose to give it), to know itself
to be that which it is in the physical form called man, and
therefore in any other than physical form, or in its
elemental state.
As shown by science, this world, including ourselves, is
but a manifested FORM of the original elemental substance.
Therefore, that part of this elemental life essence
(unknowable to our kind of mind) that nevertheless
constitutes the substance of space and all that is in space,
that part of this elemental essence then, called mind or
consciousness, would manifest the kind of consciousness that
corresponds to the kind of form the life element takes or
becomes in any field of operation. In our field of operation
or in this section it operates to become a physical FORM
both as regards that part of it that becomes the form of
matter and that part of it that becomes physical
consciousness, and this whether the latter is in the lower
developed state of the mineral, vegetable and lower animal
kingdom, or in higher developed state of mind in the higher
animal kingdom, or still higher evolved state in man. It
demonstrates its material kind of consciousness to be that
called physical or sensuous - the kind, for example,
possessed by animal and man.
The substance of life, (of matter, mind and motion) with the
portion called consciousness, does evolve to a point, that,
changing into physical form, becomes intellectual man, and
from this changed physical viewpoint, (a change called
birth), would know itself to be that which it becomes in
manifested materialized FORM - i.e., our own selves, or that
which we mentally and physically know ourselves to be.
It is from this physical viewpoint that we know about life,
whether it is about realities imagined such as ideas of good,
evil, God, etc., or about lower evolved physical forms such
as trees, flowers, houses, chairs, etc. The latter kind of
realities are formations of this life essence of a physical
kind, whereas abstract realities such as good, evil, value,
etc., are a higher evolved formation of life in physical form
- i.e., a formation of life in its manifested physical form
of man's mind. Our mind represents life in physical form,
and so does the world outside of ourselves represent a lower,
and in the case of vegetable and mineral, a still lower
developed physical formation of this one life essence the
substance (whatever it may be), that manifests in
materialized form the dual conditions of form plus
consciousness. In the form of rocks, trees, oceans, lakes,
etc., it includes so low a degree of consciousness as to not
be apparent to our observation. In the form of the animal
it includes a higher developed degree of consciousness. In
the man form it includes a still higher developed degree of
consciousness - even self consciousness. Thought forms such
as Good, Evil, God, Virtue, Bad, etc., do not possess the
physical limitations of life in lower materialized from
[from?] - i.e. are not measurable either in terms of one
dimension of length, or two in terms of length and height,
or in three dimension of length, or two in terms of length
and height, or in three dimensions in terms of length,
height and breadth.
Man in mind must not only be self conscious of being that
which life is in physical form, but being in potentiality
that which life is in its elemental essence, man must be
potentially self conscious of being that which be - life is
in internal substance, as well as externally self conscious
of being that which be - life is in physical form.
Intellectually he knows himself to be the latter;
intuitively, subconsciously he knows himself to be the
latter. With his whole mind he imagines outside three
dimensional formations such as forms of tables, chairs,
houses, etc., or represents in his imagination internal 4th
dimensional formations, such as ideas of good, evil, etc.
Likewise through the use of the imagination in externalized
physical form he self-consciously makes externalized physical
contracts and relationships with other men and the outside
world. With this same imagination he, from within his own
mind, self, being, makes internal elemental contracts and
relationships with higher states of mind than the physical
form state of other men, i.e., with 4th and higher
dimensional beings or individualities that are life in its
elemental state rather than in its physical form, and who
imagine themselves to be this.
But what must this substance of space and of things of
consciousness be to another kind of operation of mind - i.e.,
what does mind not changed into a physical form (prior to
birth or after death) becomes aware, for self, of this life
essence being? It is logical that if our sensuous mind tells
us it is a physical kind of three dimensional space, and that
the world and we ourselves are three dimensional things in
space, then another kind of operation of mind other than the
physical kind would enable the observer to know about the
one substance of space, of the essence of things in space,
of that creative energy that is doing the manifesting to be
changed into the atom and of the same spirit, or to us
unknowable quality, that in other fields of operation changes
into other forms, possessing other MINDS of consciousness
than the sensuous kind. Such a being would cognize his own
self and the outside world as being this one element, (i.e.,
as being the ONE, his fourth dimensional viewpoint tells him
life is), rather than being different three dimensional
things, (including ourselves), occupying a three dimensional
space, which is what the three dimensional viewpoint of our
physical mind tells us life in physical form is. The latter
viewpoint would then represent that of life in physical form,
i.e., of our own sensuous or physical mind. The former
fourth dimensional viewpoint would not be limited to finite
observation, as already shown, (and in spite of our finite
minds, we admit life or the universe to be infinite), but
would be infinite or of a higher dimensional character, and
represent the kind of viewpoint possessed by this one element
or essence of life, or God, when not in physical form. It
would represent the mind that governs the life element that
operates on it to create or change it into the different
universal forms, one of which is the physical of this world.
It would represent in man the potential or subconscious
ability to be conscious and self conscious of life in its
elemental rather than physical form and state, or of man's
potential, and submerged higher kind of operation of mind,
and therefore innate, if submerged, higher dimensional
viewpoint. Not changed into the physical form of man,
(prior to birth and after death) it would represent this
higher kind of operation of mind itself - this higher
dimensional viewpoint not limited to any three dimensional
terms, and therefore, would be the creative mind, or that
of the Creator, with all the greater powers and enlarged
fields of application that must accompany such a higher
dimensional viewpoint. It would be the mind of the Creator,
and would be self-conscious of being life in elemental
essence, and according to the point evolved, would be
self-aware of being the quality that is in many split
operations, to make manifest in many states of consciousness
and many different formations, only one of which is the
physical and sensuous state life achieves in form and
consciousness in this material world. We are that split
off-spring of life that this higher kind of mind has formed -
created, and are that in substance which this higher kind of
being is in substance, but we are now this in a manifested
physical form. From our physically formed three dimensional
viewpoint we know ourselves to be that - i.e., that which
this elemental essence operates to become after changing into
physical form. I am that, but being that in its physically
formed state, know myself to be a physically formed
manifestation of that. We then are the created, and know
God from the viewpoint of our limited three dimensional
physical kind of mind. But to know what God really is, and
that we split into different created formations, even into
different equal parts (we each of us), to know this we must
reach into our own consciousness to obtain knowledge that
only the higher dimensional viewpoint of our inner soul or
subjective being may bring into our imagination or
consciousness. We must, in spite of our three dimensional,
finite, physical viewpoint, understand the inner infinite,
higher dimensional experiences that the inner subconscious
mind may be induced to bring through imagination into our
consciousness, but which visioning, hunches, premonitive or
intuitive thoughts, experiences, or spontaneous ideas we will
fail to understand, unless we know something of the logic, of
the higher dimensional viewpoint.
Such experiences would be as illogical to our three
dimensional viewpoint and three dimensional logic, as a dream
of a three dimensional house would be to the two dimensional
dimensional mind and two dimensional logic of the animal.
The animal. The latter could understand his dream if he
could reason that four independent two dimensional surface
realities could be so connected by angles as to form one
whole, connected three dimensional reality. Likewise we MAY
learn that our subconscious or introspective experiences
demonstrate the existence of the fact that what to us are
spacially separated three dimensional realities, are really
connected together, (the space and things that occupy space),
to the fourth dimensional viewpoint, to form one-fourth
dimensional whole or reality. We may reason what the higher
dimensional viewpoint must be, (see Ouspensky's "Tertium
Organum"), and then experience it to be that, by heeding,
recording and studying our introspective experiences, in the
light of what we reason the higher than three dimensional
physical viewpoint and logic to be.
To return then, to our consideration of God. In the light of
knowledge that mind in one form or another makes it possible
for us to obtain, we have shown that if our mind is limited,
then our knowledge of the world, and also life in the
abstract, is limited. If our mind is unlimited, then our
knowledge is unlimited. If our mind is finite, then our
knowledge of the world and of life is limited to finite
terms. If our mind is infinite, then our knowledge of the
world and of life becomes infinite. It is the operation of
our physical KIND of mind in terms of sensations and three
dimensional ideas that tells us, or gives us knowledge of the
world being hard or soft, or wet or dry, or tall or small, or
of being three dimensional space and three dimensional things
or objects that occupy space. We admit that this world is
the effect of the work of the Creator, or is that side of
life which pertains to things that have been created, and
thus is the result of some higher kind of controlling
intelligence of kind of mind in a process, which does the
creating.
We also know that things that occupy space, as well as space
itself, are but forms of motions, as science has indicated.
But motion or vibration is what our sensations and ideas tell
us it is, just as are the crystalized forms of motions,
namely, space and things that occupy space are what our
sensations and ideas tell us they are. Therefore, the
limitation of our mind limits our knowledge of what motion or
vibration is, just as it limits our knowledge of that which
vibration acts to become in crystalized form of material
things, (chairs, tables, houses, trees, animals, etc.), and
the space these things occupy. Motion or vibration is a
phenomenon, or result of some, to our limited finite minds;
an unknowable infinite quality that composes the substance of
space, and all things that occupy space, including our own
selves.
This substance that is doing the moving or vibrating is
unknowable to our sensations and to our three dimensional
physical mind, because this infinite substance of infinite
space is not measurable in terms of finite three dimensions.
We know one house, is different from another house because
both houses are separated from each other by space, or in
other words, one house and the other house, and the space
that divides the two houses are different independent three
dimensional realities, because our physical minds so operate
as to make the world, (whatever it may be in reality), become
for us divided into different three dimensional realities.
Yet science, (and I refer you to Dr. Whitney's experiments),
has reduced the two houses and space to one and the same
primal element, namely, to the essence of motion or
vibration, whatever that primal element may be. We do
not know what this primal element is, because it is not
measurable in terms of three dimensions, and our physical
mind so operates as to only be able to measure in limited,
finite terms of three dimensions, namely, length, heighth
and breadth. Our mind separates things into those
classifications, bounded by the three dimensions of heighth,
breadth and depth. Thus one three dimensional object called
house, is made by the operation of our physical or objective
mind to be separated from another limited three dimensional,
physical reality, called house, by a third three dimensional
physical property called space. But science has reduced
space and things that occupy space to one source, namely,
motion or vibration. It says houses and space are but FORMS
of vibration. The substance that is doing the vibrating in
materialized form is the same as that which is vibrating to
become celestial forms, or bodies (stars, planets, etc.) says
Dr. Whitney. Thus, in substance, this essence is not to be
divided off into different three dimensional sections, but is
one in essence whether in that FORM called space, or that
form called things, and which latter we say, occupy or exist
in space.
The mind that is capable of cognizing life in its elemental
original state must not be of a kind that so operates as to
only be able to divide it up into different three dimensional
forms, but must be that kind of operation of mind that is
not bound to cognize life broken up in different three
dimensional and thus individualized things, (things divided
by space), but must be a kind of mind unlimited by any such
three dimensional kind of operations - i.e., must be a mind
operating from a fourth or higher dimensional kind of
operation of mind.
In the physical form of man, the physical body and three
dimensional physical form-mind divides the self man knows
himself to be from the rest of life in all its outside
physical formations. This experience allows mind to develop
and obtain power of dividing self from the rest of life, and
of becoming sufficiently individualized as to make life take
outside formations representative of this internal developing
individuality. At the change back into elemental form, (at
death), a physical form, (the physical body), no longer
automatically divides self from the rest of life, but rather
an acquired mental power (will), and development of potential
mental abilities, enables self to make life a oneness, (that
self cognizes life to be from the higher dimensional
viewpoint of mind in elemental state) to be rather that self,
as the individual is, and that which life mentally projects
outside of self as a form. I become that which life in
oneness is, and change it to become what I choose to project
it away from myself to form. To do this I must have
developed mental power of will, and mental abilities of self
application while in the physical form, in which state a
physically formed body and mind automatically divide outside
life and my individual self into two different things, and
thus enable me to build in my mind knowledge of myself being
it, and power of myself being THAT, in or of it, that may use
it to form of it whatever I choose. Should I abandon my will
completely to domination by life in its materialized
formation, then mental power to realize my individuality in
it, and to use it for my developed individual self, is not
obtained; and thus upon change into elemental state, my
mental power is not sufficiently great to draw, (from this
higher dimensional viewpoint) a line between that which I am
in individuality and that which I am in one life essence.
In such a case death brings a mental state of chaos and one
that achieves the sense of a lost or foggy state of self
consciousness in and as part of life in its elemental
oneness.
This one element is the substance of all space, and holds
all of its own formations, or things, or worlds, in place
inside of itself, as a trunk of a tree holds all branches
in place as different formations or parts of its own self.
The higher dimensional kind of mind would recognize life
in this one elemental state, in its entirety. This would
be the viewpoint of the Creator's mind. Such a being would
use life in its elemental state to change it into different
forms or states of being, represented in the different worlds
or sections. One of these CREATED FORMS in this material
world, in which the state of being is the lower physical
kind possessed by ourselves, animals, plants and minerals.
The highest development of that part of the elemental life
force called mind is made manifest in created physical form
in man, or in other words, the kind, or form of mind
possessed by the CREATED (as regards man) is a three
dimensional physical kind.
We must first distinguish between the limited powers and
viewpoint of the three dimensional physical side of mind
possessed by the created (our physical selves) and the
higher powers, (the broader, deeper viewpoint in our
subconscious mind or subjective being), possessed by the
Creator. We see and use life from a limited three
dimensional viewpoint, - and therefore, to us the world
of physical realities is of a limited three dimensional
kind of reality. Changed from the physically formed state,
mind no longer operates in terms limited to material form,
but operates in terms of the one essence, (of which mind is
a part), that is the substance of material forms, i.e., of
all creation. This essence is called spirit. The mind or
controlling part of this essence is called soul. In other
words, the mind or soul in the physical form that the
essence of life takes in this material world becomes a three
dimensional physical kind of mind, and when not in physical
form - i.e., when in its elemental state, minds' operation
is of a fourth and higher dimensional kind - i.e., the kind
possessed by life in its state or elemental oneness - i.e.,
the controlling element or mind of the one spent force, or
of Creator, or God.
EDITOR'S NOTE - In the second installment of this lecture
Mr. Blumenthal will take up a detailed explanation of the
mind of the Creator and just how and why it differs from
the human mind before birth and after death. Later he will
delve into the history of the One Concept, and its
pluralistic aspects in the earth-world.
EDUCATION
BY FRANKLIN BRADLEY
A. What is consists of (herewith).
B. How to obtain it (later).
Theodore Roosevelt said that "the only thing out of which we
can make a man - is a boy." It is your task and mine to see
that our boys, if possible, become educated men, and our
girls educated women. This we will do both because of our
interest in them, and because the future integrity of our
nation requires it.
Education is a method of living - strengthened by experience
- broadened by learning - governed by independent and
judicial thinking.
An educated man has learned what to prefer, because at least
mentally he has lived in the presence of preferable things
and has an intense appreciation for them.
Educated men and women have always quietly smiled in the
face of bigotry and superstition. They have done more for
freedom and truth than armies of crusaders.
Erasmus was a nearly perfect example of the educated man,
and good examples are unfortunately rare.
There is no such thing as mass conscience, judgement,
thinking, or education - it is all individual. And only
you as an individual can educate yourself. That is why
most schools have much teaching, some learning, and little
education; because they deal in mass production only.
Students are of three kinds:
(1) Those in whom has been established a love for real
education.
(2) Those who want specific knowledge to help them in a
future vocation.
(3) Those who want to go through school.
We must not run our three classes of students all through
in the same grist.
If it is worthwhile just to "go through school" - and in
many cases I think it is - let us have schools that permit
that - with just as much of better things thrown in as
possible.
If it is worthwhile - and I think it is - just to give
training to certain pupils in specialized lines, to help
them through definite knowledge to a more efficient place
as specialists, let us give them that and add all we can
of work that will make them more truly educated.
But I make an especial plea for fostering schools that will
permit genuine and deep-seated education - that method of
living that is governed by independent and judicial thinking;
a knowledge of the worth while and an ability to secure it;
with a poise that comes only from self-mastery.
Some people are quite well educated who have never had much
schooling. Some people with many degrees from institutions
of learning are poorly educated.
If all the world understood what it means to be educated, and
how impossible is real progress without education; if every
school understood it so that its pupils could be assisted to
the full in acquiring what they need and are capable of
assimilating, most of our problems would vanish.
I could have been educated but for the teachers I have had.
In spite of that I hope and expect to become educated if I
live long enough, as I fully believe that one who loves
education cannot be kept from it.
Unfortunately most of the important subjects, as well as the
best methods of teaching them or bringing them home, are not
found as frequently as we desire; although this world does
not hold real teachers and schools and curricula.
Possibly outside of the study of history many of the
following subjects are as valuable as or more valuable than,
most of the subjects taught as such:
1. How to live in our bodies.
We can never have but one body. We must understand its
functioning and how to make it a useful habitation for our
minds and spirits. Very few people coordinate their bodies
with their minds and spirits, and as a result lose most of
the joy and success possible.
This is not alone a study in physiology, although that has a
bearing. It is a study in doing those things, forming those
physical habits that enable us to absorb helpful vibratory
energy whether it be from fresh air, food, drink, or from
visible or invisible radiations from the host of sources that
fill our universe. It is the arrival at a state of physical
strength and elasticity always under control and resulting in
ability to receive or give. Together with a wholesome
trained brain and spirit it completes the trinity essential
to an educated individual.
2. Human relations.
As my friend Dr. Hurt says, "When there are two of us talking
together there are really six people present - you as you
are, you as you think you are, you as I think you are; myself
as I am, as you think I am, and as I think I am." The
confusion, the misunderstandings that can arise from this
mixture of six personalities, is at the basis of most
imperfect human relationships. The study that goes to the
heart of things in our relations with each other is that
study that will give us happiness in our association with our
fellowmen. It will make them helpful to us and us to them.
3. Imaginative faculty based on laws of cause and effect.
The thing which causes us to rise through successive stages
from one plane of life to another is the ability to look
ahead, see the possibilities, and make them become actual
facts. It is the development of the imagination, not day
dreaming, but a practical vision developed from within and
contracting the things that are without. It is the essence
of growth. The man who has it rides in the swiftest
airplane. The man who has none of it is chained to a stake.
4. Logical thought and action.
It is a rare and noteworthy individual that is capable of
discussing at length any subject and sticking to the main
issue throughout his discussion, beginning at the foundation,
carrying out the argument with only illustrative side-lights,
and pushing clear through to the final conclusion. When we
listen to such a one we are profoundly impressed, first with
the efficiency of the discourse, second with the feeling that
if this hewing to a line could be put into our daily lives
they would become vastly more successful. Most thought and
performance are to a degree illogical, waste of time and
constant error resulting. Logical thought and action are
fundamental in an educated individual.
5. Play.
Unfortunately when the word play is mentioned it is usually
accompanied by the thought of children and their activities.
It is every bit as important that the spirit of play function
through the entire life of any individual. Play is primarily
a relaxation. It is a rest that comes from a change in type
of activity. More than that it is a removal from the serious
side of everyday activity. Its results are spontaneity;
physical, spiritual and mental refreshment; longer life; a
common cheerful ground on which we can approach our
fellowmen; and a storehouse of energy to carry back to our
work again. It is rest in motion.
6. Love of beauty and the spiritual in life.
Love of beauty does not alone mean a liking for a beautiful
face, a graceful tree, or flowers, or skies, or birds. It
means primarily an appreciation of the richness of all that
the Creator has given us in our physical surroundings and
secondly, in the things of our heart realms and of the
spiritual world.
The attributes of veneration and respect and love are a
result of appreciating beauties that may not be visible on
the surface. The student of beauty finds beauty wherever he
goes. The one who does not seek for beauty finds sordidness.
A training in this field causes one to look for the finer
things and enables him to find them, and the Creator himself
is brought near and made very personal.
7. Sincerity.
Our standing in the world depends upon how our neighbors look
at us, which is a result of how we look at ourselves. We are
the only ones who know whether we are always honest and
honorable. If, knowing ourselves, we can gaze out of eyes
squarely at every other man, knowing that we are doing what
we can in the right direction, the thing our fellowmen will
see will be absolute sincerity, and we will learn that
through it is produced the confidence, the esteem, and the
honor of our fellowmen.
8. Self-reliance.
If most of the people who complained of being downtrodden and
unfortunate in the affairs of the world would wear across
their breasts a sign which read "I am a Leaner," they would
stating to the world the definite reason why they have not
made more progress. A leaner has to be carried, a
self-reliant man not only bears himself to great heights,
but carries others with him.
9. Travel.
Travel as a study is that great subject which gives us a
knowledge of our fellowmen and the environments which help
make them what they are. It is the comparative subject, and
frequently we rise best by making comparisons. Comparing
homes, comparing habits and customs, comparing individual
characteristics, comparing the effects of geographic and
geologic conditions, gives us a picture of the advantages or
the handicaps of others, gives us an appreciation for what
they have accomplished and the methods through which
accomplishments have been made, and gives us ideas to use
as stepping-stones for ourselves.
10. Sense of humor.
Frequently the possession or lack of sense of humor is the
difference between a happy and an unhappy life. It is the
difference between a happy approach to others and an unhappy
one. Its possession gives us a standing as companionable
and social human beings. While it may be claimed that many
of the above subjects, such as sense of humor, possession of
imaginative faculty, etc., are rather born in a person than
that they may learn and acquire these attributes, yet a vast
amount of progress can be made through serious and
comprehensive training.
11. Values.
The study of values will result in our leaving out the
insignificant and the trivial, and devoting our time to the
important things. This study requires the analysis of every
act of our waking existence and affects not only the things
we think but the things we do. As a result of the study of
values the accomplishment in life of any given individual can
be multiplied many times.
12. Citizenship-service.
No man has the right to live unto himself alone. We have a
duty to our fellowmen and to our country. Only a small
percentage of our men and women are actually good citizens,
rendering adequate service. There can be no greater subject
for concentrated study than this.
13. Diligence.
The study of diligence may seem to be minor but it is not.
A recent and a true statement has been made to the effect
that given a man of good brain and diligence almost anything
conceivable is possible in the way of accomplishment. It is
the "wool-gatherer" who loses out in the race of
accomplishment.
14. Mother Nature.
The truly educated men of the world have without exception
gone to Mother Nature for rest and refreshment and
inspiration, and they have gone there because they have
studied Mother Nature. Every one of the five senses can be
attuned to the vibrations there recorded during a proper
course of instruction in this out-of-doors subject, and the
vision we see, the symphonies we hear, the odors of the
forest that assail our nostrils, the taste of the herbs and
the bark and the roots and the berries, and the feel of the
fresh air and the water and earth itself, all work together
for a background of living that is free from artificiality,
that is sincere, that is happy and that knows the fountain
of eternal youth.
With the mental development arrived at through thorough
training as indicated the individual becomes dominated by
his appreciations. He has become capable of differentiating
between the helpful and harmful, between good and bad,
between right and wrong, between worth while and not worth
while. His appreciations make him live a contented life,
whether he is alone or in company with others. He lives a
life of completeness.
There is now established the Virginia Beach School for Boys.
The director and the Advisory Board of that school believe
in education as outlined above. The three R's, etc., have
their necessary and perfect place in the curriculum, but the
thing sought for is a thorough grounding in appreciations - a
complete education, that education (to make a re-statement)
which results in a method of living governed by independent
and judicial thinking, with knowledge of the worth while and
ability to secure it, and a poise that comes only from
self-mastery.
MECHANICS OF OPERATIVE FORCES AS APPLIED TO A PHYSICAL BODY
By THOMAS B. BROWN
In experimenting with mechanics - whether with the mechanics
of the operative forces of a machine or the mechanics of the
operative forces of a physical body - to insure the
accomplishment of the best results it is necessary that we
familiarize ourselves with the nature of all forces we are to
use - how and why used - as well as to understand the machine
on which operative forces are to be used.
In the event of experimenting with operative forces in a
physical body three essentials should be understood - they
are:
First: - We must understand that everything is a vibratory
force and that a relationship exists between each and every
force.
Second: - We must understand what the elements are that
go to make up the so-called operative forces.
Third: - We must be familiar with all the different channels
through which operative forces come into the physical body.
Through the expansion of knowledge, desired results may be
achieved by the combination of selected forces. Knowing the
resultant force desired as an effect the experimenter may
obtain same by balancing the forces in combination put
together as a cause. This is so whether forces used are
in a physical body, a machine, a chemical combination, or a
combination of any forces including universal forces.
At this time we will not take up any special form of
experimentation that has been completed or is being
undertaken, but rather generalize on the reasoning followed,
by which results are being sought.
We will discuss the subjects in the order as above given.
Considering that stated in number one, let us by deduction
formulate a better understanding of vibratory forces.
We know that the universe was created by the First Creative
Energy - a mental Creation of His Idea or Plan - and further
that since the beginning there has been a balancing of the
created forces. (If this were not so all would be chaos and
there would be no Plan.)
No matter what processes ensued since creation, each and
everything is but a differentiation of The First Creative
Energy; therefore, everything is vibratory, and as the
process may be considered the working of the Plan, it is
mental. Consequently everything on this plane can be
considered as the objectification of a subjective idea. All
objects then are the fusion of different degrees of the
several aspects of The First Creative Energy, and are
vibratory forces.
By resolving things into forces one may more readily
comprehend that with which we are dealing.
Keeping in mind then that all is vibratory, and that in the
universe a relationship continuously exists between the
forces by virtue of which the balance is ever maintained,
and further considering all natural phenomena as an interplay
of forces, there is seen that some law constantly keeps the
forces or things in relativity of position and condition.
Therefore it must follow that all natural phenomena is the
manifestation of one element of this law. Let us call this
law the Law of Relativity of Force.
We are able from the above deductions to postulate as
follows:
In the beginning one sees The First Creative Energy, out of
which Relativity of Force and Space is begun, and since
continues to vibrate. Then, the one law remains. When it
is in the same vibration it shows the same thing.
The combination of forces in any object is in a relativity
to all other forces, and if due to any phenomena the forces
in the object are changed, the resultant forces are in a
relativity to all other forces.
On the objective plane that element of The Law of
Relativity of Force that has undergone the most research
and consequently is the best understood is that of Chemical
Phenomena.
We know by experimentation that two parts of Hydrogen to
one part of Oxygen in combination result in water. Under the
same conditions, the same proportions of Hydrogen and Oxygen
invariably given the same result.
Visualizing both Hydrogen and Oxygen as vibrations, in
combination the resultant vibration is ever the same - Water.
This is the manifestation of one element of the Law of
Relativity of Force. When it is in the same vibration it
shows the same thing.
Since the combination of like chemical forces always give
the same result, the combination of any vibratory forces will
always give the the same vibratory result. The result will
be the manifestation of another element of the Law of
Relativity of Force.
The second subject that we were to consider concerns the
make-up of an operative force.
The elements in combination that go to make up any generated
force may be an unknown vibration or not. We may have in any
operative force that as is seen in varied elements that are
as octaves of vibrations in music. There are forces or
pitches above and below the scale as are applied in the human
voice. There are colors - (vibrations), above and below the
spectrum as applied by man in a nominal manner.
These are the same octaves of force seen or applied in the
various elements as go to make up the forces as applicable to
elements in any generated force. Therefore, in any generated
force there may be elements that so far have not been
separated and classified by man.
By referring to the table of vibrations issued by the
Polytechnic School of Paris, one will note that between the
lower sound vibrations and the higher mineral-ray vibrations,
are many unclassified octaves of vibrations.
Let us turn now to the third subject that we were to
consider - the Physical body, and through what channels
the operative forces function.
The physical body to live needs constantly to be supplied by
vibrations. We find that these vibrations are supplied to it
through three channels.
1st. Vibrations from food received through the digestive
tract.
2nd. Vibrations from the atmosphere received through the
lungs.
3rd. Vibrations of vital force received into the body by
absorption through the etheric part of the body.
The forces resultant from vibrations entering the three
channels - by eating, breathing, and absorbing, manifest
themselves in the physical body as harmony or discord;
i.e., we are well or sick.
If resultant forces are discordant or unbalanced we attempt
to balance the same and restore harmonious being. We do this
by the addition, or rather the changing, of the vibrations as
enter any or all the channels.
As far back in the ages as is recorded, man has attempted to
restore harmony by the changing of vibrations in his physical
body through the addition of medicinal vibrations, as taken
into the digestive tract in the form of medicine. The other
channels were to a great part overlooked as a medium through
which corrective vibrations could be taken into the physical
body.
Through experimentations made, and based on the understanding
of vibratory laws, there has been developed several kinds of
mechanical devices to supply selected curative vibrations
direct to the physical body.
One device merely equalizes the forces generated in the body
without adding thereto additional vibrations. Those others
that have been developed add additional vibrations direct to
the vibrating system in any physical body.
The latter named devices, in which the medicinal vibrations
are added to those of the physical body, give in many cases
more positive results than when vibrations from some medicine
taken internally are secured for the body, and at the same
time do not subject the physical body to the inconvenience,
and, at times harm of assimilating the medicine in the
digestive tract.
These several methods are at present being used at the Cayce
Hospital, and the record of results obtained from the use
thereof is very gratifying.
We will not at this time discuss the structure and details of
these various mechanical and chemical developments, but I
have outlined the functioning of the above apparatus so that
it may be understood that in many cases vibrations may be
added to the system direct, in lieu of receiving the same
vibrations through the action in the digestive tract.
In addition to these corrective methods, medicinal vibrations
or operative forces may be added to the system through either
or both of the two other channels; namely, that of the
breathing and that of the absorptive channel.
At this time experiments are being made where curative
vibrations are sent into the body through these two channels.
These experiments are being conducted under the direction of
capable engineers who will in due course of time outline the
experimentation, the development of apparatus, and the
results accomplished through these columns.
Through the extension of thought to a higher dimensional
understanding many curative devices will be developed and
brought into usages for the benefit of mankind.
The perfecting of mechanical devices for equalizing and
harmonizing the forces in the physical body is by no means
the end.
Let us be ever mindful that mind is the builder and creator
and that being so the mind can create any vibratory force
that can be created mechanically; hence, man may mentally
equalize forces or add outside vibrations to his body.
The accomplishment of this is merely a matter of mental
development - another forward step in man's evolutionary
process.
IN MEMORIAM
THOMAS BURR HOUSE, M.D., D.O.
APRIL 3, 1867 - OCTOBER 12, 1929
Because there was no beginning there is no end, each birth
and death is but a journey on the way to God. For some of
us the way is devious and long, for many the road goes
backward and forward. For each there is a time of
blindness and one of understanding, an age of selfishness
and an era of service. As the end is neared the goals of
Beauty and Truth shine down on the weary traveller, and are
reflected in the fineness of his life. He is old, and wise,
and content. Of such in the Kingdom of God.
Service is the highest ideal of mankind, and Service is the
characteristic by which we remember Dr. House. When he
passed to a higher plane he completed a service which called
for the sacrifice of a splendid life on the altar of Christ's
ideal. With untiring devotion he gave of himself that others
might live and smile, and the courage of faith and love
guided his willing hands to glorious success.
At the dawn of a dream he was called away, for although his
greatest desire was about to be realized he had completed his
work, and the life he gave that others might live was come to
a fitting close.
He gave of himself in the ideal of Service, he has made a
long journey on the way to God.
LIFE READINGS
WHAT THEY ARE AND HOW TO USE THEM
by Hugh Lynn Cayce
In Dayton Ohio, in 1924 Mr. Edgar Cayce gave the first
psychic reading later called a "Life Reading." Since that
time several hundred of this type have been given, and as
more and more individuals find them interesting and
beneficial the demand increases.
Your first question is naturally, "What is a Life Reading?"
The answer is not as easy to express as it would at first
appear to you who have had such a reading. It is a
discussion of you, of your abilities and faults, of your
likes and dislikes, of your peculiar characteristics that
made you an individual. It is a picture of you from an
angle that an Olympian God might use should he have reason
to summarize the progress of your development and the point
to which you had attained. It is a history of your
existence, an explanation of why you are playing the part
you now portray in this great little comedy we call "Modern
Civilization." But perhaps by letting you read the essence
of a Life Reading you will be better able to grasp this
explanation. The following is a condensed reading, selected
at random. The notes in the margin will, I hope, aid you in
understanding the contents.
You will have before you (full name), who was born (full
date) in (number, street, city and country). You will give
the relation of this entity and the Universe, and the
Universal Forces, giving the conditions that are as
personalities, latent and exhibited, in the present life;
also the former appearances in the earth's plane, giving
time, place, and the name, and that in that life which built
or retarded the development for the entity, giving the
abilities of the present entity and that to which it may
attain, and how. (This is the suggestion given to Mr. Cayce
as he goes to sleep. This suggestion was given in a reading
as being the best to obtain a life reading. Note that full
name, place and date of birth are essential.)
Yes, we have the entity and those relations with the
Universal Forces, as are latent and exhibited in the present
earth's plane. In the development of the entity we find
many of the urges being exhibited in the present experience,
and many of the abilities of the entity are shaping and
taking on those elements that need direction, and with
same there will be seen that much will come to this entity
toward the ability of development in the present earth's
plane. Even though there may be presented obstacles, yet
with that developed, and the abilities as have been attained,
the entity may apply self in the way and manner as to bring
to self much in the present experience. (Here Mr. Cayce
begins. Notice that he follows the line of the suggestion.
His reference to the period as critical in the present
development of the individual is important and indicates the
special value of the reading at this time. Encouragement.)
In entering the earth's plane we find the entity comes under
the influence of Jupiter, Venus, and of Uranus, with that of
the mystic rather than of the Uranian dominating. Hence we
find an exceptional individual in its individuality, though
one oftentimes that is in the way of causing much
misunderstanding in others, for the entity, with its inner
urge, feels that others should understand the entity's
purpose when same is not even outwardly indicated. (The
planets here mentioned might be briefly interpreted as
follows: Jupiter - strength, ennobling ideals; Venus - love,
beauty; Uranus - occult, extremes.)
In the urges, then, irrespective of the will's force, we
find: (These urges are resultant influences of the planets
and have to do with the material and outward nature. Note
the reference to will as supreme over these influences.)
One that is attractive to many.
One attracted in self to few. The entity, having many
associates that are clever, and that think a great deal of
the entity, yet the tendency is to make only a few close
friends and many passing ones.
The inability of many to reach that inner shrine of the
entity's intent and purpose to make this entity above others,
and as a leader, for many seek the entity in many ways and
channels. (Tendencies like these can be easily checked
and studied.)
One, that is quick of speech and action and slow in making
changes or determining the real purport of self's endeavors.
One inclined toward both music and art, and in either capable
of making more than the average success...
(It was necessary to cut considerably in several places.)
...Let those in charge of the entity at this period then
direct the entity toward the correct incentive for the
development of the better forces in the entity. Let this not
be turned toward lasciviousness or self-aggrandizement for
selfish motives or purposes. (WARNING)
Appearances in the earth plane:
In the Ukrainian country. One of the peasant class. A
leader who gave much to the peoples through the setting of
the folklore to music. Name, Thiasoki. The entity gained
through service to many, no thought was taken of self. The
urge from this experience is the love for the simple things
of life and the ability of the entity to make the most of
any circumstances or conditions which presents itself.
(The first appearance was in Russia. Consider the position
at this time but note the development through service. These
appearances are taken up in backward order as one would back
down a ladder. This appearance was just previous to the
present. Musical ability was here developed. It is an
outstanding accomplishment in the present.)
In the one before this. During the rebuilding of the walls
of the holy city. One who assisted in setting up the temple
worship. The entity gained through service to many but lost
through turning to over-lovings the flesh. Name, Abidiha.
The urge from this is the ability to keep those who make love
at a distance unless the entity desires to use such an
individual. This may be used to excess. Beware of it.
(Rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem on the return from
captivity. Service is again the building force. Retarded
some through domination of the fleshly desires. Danger as
warned of in the present.)
In the one before this we find in the Egyptian country
(11,000 B.C.) A brilliant musician to the king and in favor
with many. The entity brought the first production of plays
to this land. Name, Itica. The urge: the ability to act
and sing and the ability to wind an individual about her
finger. Gained through service in the first of these but
lost through misuse of the latter ability. (This period in
Egyptian history is unrecorded as yet. Another talent shown
in the present and hard to explain in any other manner.)
In the correct application of self to those rules of that law
as governs the application of the infinite with the finite,
the entity will find that the principles apply in life as in
death, and that with the making of self as but naught is to
gain the highest esteem of those whom the entity would serve.
(Consider this well for herein lies a universal truth.)
Then, in music or in acting, or in the combination of the
two, may the entity attain to that as is best in this present
experience, and in giving self in same keep ever before self
those first principles as of duty to that Creative Energy, to
whom the entity must account for those abilities given in the
flesh; for to use same for self is to lend self to the
weakness of the flesh. To use same in bringing the better
understanding in the lives of others is as but applying the
gifts in the service to the Creative Forces. Be guided, be
directed, be kept, in that way that leadeth to more perfect
understanding, and the more perfect conception of the right
for Right's sake, rather than as gaining in earthly
conditions from same. (Definite suggestions for a career.
Wisdom for us all. Notice deep religious note combined with
modern scientific language.)
Perhaps from the above you will be able to get some idea of
the composition of a Life Reading. Now the next question
that arises is just wherein lies the value of this type. Do
they have any practical value, any mental or spiritual value,
or both?
The first idea that one should get in making this decision
is that these readings are personal. They are studies of you
as an individual. When you have finished reading your own
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The Historical Committee of the Association wishes to
announce the opening of a department in this magazine.
This committee was created to delve into the historical
data which we have on hand and furnish for the members
a source of information concerning Life Readings. The
members of this committee have for several years been
making a study of this type of reading and have tried
to prepare themselves to be of service to you. They
do not claim to be able to answer all of your questions
but they can assure you that they will put forward an
honest effort to help you with any problem concerning
your reading.
In opening this department it is the idea of the
committee that there will arise from time to time
questions that will be of general interest. They propose
to answer such questions here. Moreover they believe
that much of the data of a historical nature will be
of general interest. This will be especially true of
archaeological findings which will be used to establish
the theory of reincarnation and push back the boundaries
of man's knowledge of history. From time to time ancient
writings of members of the Association will be used as
they are located. It is the hope of the committee that
they will be able to publish in the next issue the
writings of one Jane Dundee, a witch during the early
settlement of Virginia, at present the wife of a well
known Norfolk doctor.
We wish to serve you. Please use us. We are your
committee. Signed: The Historical Committee
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there can be no doubt in your mind that it is you they speak
of. This gives you a certain realization that from somewhere
has come information concerning you that even you could not
have given on yourself. Think for a moment of the depth and
breadth of this information and you will know that here is
something that will help you understand yourself a little
better. "Know thyself" was a maxim of the old Greek
philosopher, Socrates. Today the man is wise who strives to
follow his advice, for in so doing will come the only real
contentment. Through these readings you can understand
peculiarities of your nature that have previously puzzled
you. In that you will find explanations for your present
position in life, reasons for your likes and dislikes, and
descriptions of urges, their origin and influence, that
control the factors of heredity and environment which
heretofore you have placed so much stress upon as the main
springs of all your action and thought. Each time you go
over one of these readings you will find a new suggestion
that opens up for you a line of thought on some idea or
action which you have wondered about. You have in a Life
Reading the history of your existence unfolded before you.
Who is the man who can say that such a history of himself
would not be interesting? We are what we have made
ourselves, and we will be that which we will.
Now let us turn to the practical side of these readings.
If you were in the place of this young woman would there
not be stirred in you some spark of desire to know more of
the history of the period in which you lived? Would there
not arise the desire to know more of each of the appearances
which seem to have so influenced your present life? Could
you carelessly cast aside the idea that creeps into the minds
of us all that the stars shine with a peculiar significance
for us at times. Many have been the theories concerning
astrology in every age. Who can say that there is not SOME
truth in a belief that has stood the test of centuries? In
every Life Reading there are many threads that lead off into
borderlands of man's knowledge. Let him who is not afraid
follow them.
Each individual must make use of his reading according to his
own needs. The following are only some general suggestions
that I have found helpful in studying Life Readings:
Go over a reading at intervals, thinking about it between
times, until you are sure that you get the full significance
of every sentence. You will find that the reading seems to
grow with your understanding. You can turn to it for an
explanation of each new question about yourself. These
questions will arise as you commence to study.
Make a point of learning all you can about each period in
which you lived. This will enable you to recognize the urges
from each of these.
Learn through the Life Readings of your family and close
friends, just what their connections has been with you
previously. Study the present relationship as related to the
past. This can become a fascinating and worth-while study.
(Through letters make use of the Historical Committee of the
Association. They will be glad to help you with any
questions arising from your readings).
A Life Reading offers one mental, physical and spiritual
food. Let us eat of it, for it is the fruit of the Tree of
Knowledge. With diligent application of the truths we find
there will come understanding. With understanding there will
come contentment in our hearts and peace with our fellow man.
NEWS and VIEWS of
The Cayce Hospital and the Association of National
Investigators, Inc.
The Cayce Hospital was dedicated on November 11, 1928. It
was officially opened on February 11, 1929. Thus far sixty
patients have been treated, with invariably pleasing results.
There has been an average of ten patients for the last two
months, and at the present time that number is being treated
in the hospital.
Improvements have been steadily made, and more are under
construction. A tennis court, Shuffle Board and Croquet
ground were finished during the summer for the visitors'
recreation, Bath houses, a Diet kitchen and Maintenance
Office were erected, and a service car for patients was
purchased. A club house for visitors and trustees is soon
to be erected, as is a home for nurses and Association
employees. The City water line has just been completed, and
the re-surfacing of the grounds is under way. A touch of
human interest occurred recently when a convalesced patient
left the hospital, feeling quite well and carrying a bouquet
of violets gathered from the flower bed at the side of the
yard. The office of the M.D. has recently been refinished
with new furniture and fixtures and additional equipment.
The front porch has been glassed in, adding a great deal to
the comfort and pleasure of the patients. A new Burdick
Light Bath Cabinet has been installed, proving a benefit to
all who require such treatments, and the application of the
battery vibrator being developed in the research laboratory
is showing remarkable results, being quite satisfactory to
the physicians in charge.
Approximately three thousand visitors have been to the
hospital since its opening. Every one of these has been
tremendously impressed, and a large number have later
applied for more data and also for membership. Among
the visitors during the summer months was Mr. Chester A.
Robinson, Professor of Expert Accounting in the Bentley
School of Accounting and Finance in Boston. Mr. Robinson
was greatly interested in the work and had a life reading for
himself before returning to Boston to resume his duties. The
Reverend Robert B. H. Bell, M.A., author and lecturer of
Denver, Colorado, visited the hospital on November 15. He
presented Mr. Cayce with an autographed copy of his latest
book, "The Challenge," which is an interpretation of the mind
of the Master, and a translation of the Sermon on the Mount
from the original Greek.
Crowds have been gathering at the lecture room each Sunday
afternoon to enjoy the addresses given by Mr. Cayce and
President Blumenthal. Enthusiasm is rife, and on most
occasions there are outbursts after the lectures from
individuals who feel they must get up and "express"
themselves. These lectures began with the opening of
the hospital, and are held each Sunday afternoon in the
hospital's lecture room. On alternate Sundays Mr. Cayce
and President Blumenthal talk, the former on his experiences
and interpretations of the Bible, the latter on philosophy.
Creative Evolution, The Value of Introspection, My Idea of
God, and The Fourth Dimensional Viewpoint are some of the
absorbing things discussed by President Blumenthal, who also
conducts a philosophy class on alternate Saturday afternoons.
This class has attracted considerable interest and is being
well attended. The first meeting was held on August 24, and
the large attendance showed the interest previously aroused
in philosophy by President Blumenthal in his Sunday lectures.
The textbook being used is Ouspensky's "Tertium Organum."
Later Hudson's "Law of Psychic Phenomena," and Bergson's
"Creative Evolution" will be taken up, with outside readings
in James' "Varieties of Religious Experiences" and
"Pluralistic Universe," and Bergson's "Mind Energy."
Considerable interest is being shown in the educational end
of the work, and a quantity of new books received by the
library is being much used. A meeting of the Educational
Committee has been called by the department heads for early
in December, and reports will then be made by associates
and members both here and abroad. A gift of a set of
stereoscopic views of Egypt and Palestine has been made
to the Research Department, and the Archaeological Committee
is preparing minute data on all historical questions relating
to that portion of the world.
The education work in general is progressing at a great
rate, and although few concrete evidences of these are now
visible a strong foundation is being laid for future work.
A very interesting phase of the work was begun during the
past summer by the Historical Committee, composed of Miss
Gladys Davis, Hugh Lynn Cayce, and Thomas J. Sugrue.
From the life readings of the members of the Association
the committee worked out the relations of various members
to the other members, interpreted the individual's own life
reading, and connected his urges and abilities with those of
the people with whom he contacts. The work was done for the
members of the Board of Trustees and the officers of the
Association, and was given a vote of thanks at the meeting
of the Trustees.
When interviewed on the subject the members of the committee
said they hoped in the future to be able to do this for each
member having a life reading. A great deal of study and
research is necessary in the preparation of such a document,
and at the present facilities are not situated for rapid
execution. However, the committee stated, they will be glad
to give any member his connections if he will send a written
request, including in this the names of the individuals with
whom his is acquainted and concerned.
An insight into the far-reaching plans of the Association
can be gleaned from the work of Datastician Linden Shroyer.
Mr. Shroyer handles the files of the readings, and separates
the information in each reading into its various phases.
From all the physical readings he obtains the diagnoses and
remedies prescribed, arranging these so they may be studied
by a committee of medical research. The object of this
research will be to apply what is given to an individual to
people having the same conditions. Many new cures will be
discovered, and more efficient methods of treatment will be
a natural outcome of this work.
From other readings the information is segregated into
various departments; philosophical, historical, scientific
and material. Files for Relativity of Force, Astrology,
Creative, Evolution, Introspective Experience, etc., are
included in this group.
Mr. Shroyer states that his work will be finished when future
generations have the information of the readings complete,
in a manner most efficient for study and reference.
The regular quarterly meeting of the trustees of the
Association was held November 9. Mr. Franklin Bradley of
Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Morton H. Blumenthal and Mr. David E.
Kahn of New York, Mr. Thomas B. Brown of Dayton and Mr. Hugh
Lynn Cayce of Lexington, Va., were the out of town trustees
present.
The regular annual meeting of the Association of National
Investigators, Inc., was held in the office of the
corporation on the 27th day of July, 1929, at three
o'clock p.m. Eastern Standard time.
Present at the meeting were, President Morton H. Blumenthal,
Vice-Presidents Thomas B. Brown, David E. Kahn, Edwin D.
Blumenthal, Hugh Lynn Cayce and F. A. Van Patten, Secretary
and Treasurer Edgar Cayce, Assistant Secretary Gladys Davis,
Trustees Franklin F. Bailey, Gertrude Evans Cayce, Adeline
Levy Blumenthal, and Lucille Kahn. The only trustee absent
was Vice-President M. B. Wyrick, who returned his proxy.
President Morton H. Blumenthal opened the meeting by reading
two papers, prepared by himself and Vice-Presidents Edwin D.
Blumenthal and Thomas B. Brown, outlining two concepts of the
purpose and ideal of the Association. Vice-President David
E. Kahn suggested these be referred to the Educational
Committee for consideration for editing and publishing.
President Blumenthal offered a prayer, after which the
meeting was turned over to the Chairman of the Board of
Trustees. The chairmans requested a report from the Board
of Governors.
Chairman David E. Kahn read this report, which was accepted
with a single correction.
Among the interesting events of this report was the
appointment of Mrs. Edgar Cayce to the position of Director
of Readings. Details of the system of filing readings,
obtaining information from such, etc., were taken up also.
Conditions in the hospital were discussed and many
improvements were voted on, including considerable expansion
and additions to the force.
Regarding publicity it was decided to have the Educational
Committee take this work as one if its functions, appointing
Thomas J. Sugrue as editor of such publicity for the period
of one year.
Vice-President Hugh Lynn Cayce, chairman of the Historical
Committee, delivered an excellent report on the work done in
this field. A vote of thanks, suggested by Vice-President
David E. Kahn and seconded by President Blumenthal, was given
to the Historical committee for their excellent work.
The meeting lasted until after five p.m., many interesting
developments coming up for discussion. Plans for the future
were made in detail, and in view of the success of the past
year the members felt greatly encouraged.
On the night of July 27th President Morton H. Blumenthal was
host to the officers and trustees of the Association at a
banquet in the Cavalier Hotel.
The affair marked the close of another successful year for
the Association, and the beginning of another twelve months
of even brighter prospects.
Those present included Mr. and Mrs. Morton H. Blumenthal,
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Cayce and Hugh Lynn Cayce, Mr. and Mrs.
David E. Kahn, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Van Patten, Mrs. Thomas
B. House, Miss Gladys Davis, Edwin D. Blumenthal, Walker E.
Land, Thomas B. Brown, and Thomas J. Sugrue.
The appointments made for physical readings by Mr. Cayce run
up to the latter part of March, and there is an increasing
number of requests coming in every day from far and near.
The total number of readings to date exceeds eleven thousand,
of which about two hundred are life readings and the rest
physical.
Secretary Edgar Cayce spent a week in New York during
November, where he conferred with officers and committees
of the Association regarding their work.
Secretary and Mrs. Cayce gave a birthday party of the
Secretary's sister, Miss Annie Cayce, at their home on 35th
Street, Wednesday Evening, November 20.
Dr. Berger spent a week in Washington during November, and
Dr. Hansen, one of the assistant physicians, spent a few days
in Pittsburgh during that month.
The officers and trustees are frequent visitors to the
hospital, and a large number of them spent Thanksgiving
there.
There is the possibility that the War Department will grant
the use of their land along the coast in front of the
hospital. This will make it possible for the Association
to improve and beautify the spot and greatly enhance the
patient's opportunities for recreation.
The files of the Association of National Investigators, Inc.,
offer some interesting reactions to the readings given by
Mr. Edgar Cayce. Below are a few of the more recent letters,
demonstrating the accuracy of the diagnoses.
"As far as I know the reading fits my case and is right in
line with my trouble. I expect to carry out the suggestions
made in the reading."
"You have described my case exactly, and I will carry out
your suggestions."
"We feel that your reading is correct, and intend to carry
it out to the limit, especially as we have no other course
to follow. The doctor claims this will be a new discovery
in medical science if our baby can be cured, as it is a rare
case. Was told not to have another baby, as it might be the
same. What would you advise?"
"Reading received this day. It is very WONDERFUL as
describing conditions which exist. Am ready and anxious
to follow the suggested treatment as soon as I can find a
convenient practitioner of osteopathy, there being none in
our city to my knowledge. Am very sure of good results when
I get the treatments under way."
"Just exactly as we see it, and are following directions
precisely, with visible results already."
"The reading seems to fit my case and also coincide with the
diagnoses of different doctors, but especially an osteopath.
I will carry out your suggestions to the best of my ability."
"For the above, who is my mother, I will say that I believe
the reading fits her condition very well. She is following
instructions given and is showing marked improvement."
"Think the reading fits my condition. Expect to follow
treatment as soon as I can get the medicine."
And here is one bringing memories of the long ago.
"Following your reading of some twenty years ago for a
relation of mine, Mr. [...] of ..., I am thoroughly convinced
of the correctness of the diagnosis. So far as I can know
by observing a post mortem examination, Mr. [...]'s condition
at the time of your reading was past relief. I have told
of your wonderful reading in that case many times."
Each day brings new letters of enthusiasm, thanks, hope, and
conviction. The argument is unanswerable, the evidence is
too great for disbelief.
The Association suffered an irretrievable loss in the death
of Dr. Thomas B. House, Chief of Staff of the Cayce Hospital,
who passed away in Dayton, Ohio, October 12, 1929. Not only
was Dr. House a great physician, he was a master of the art
of human nature, capable of understanding and curing those
ills not listed in the medical books. He had been associated
for many years with the work of Mr. Cayce, and thoroughly
understood the administering of the physical readings. He
was taken away when his greatest and most loved work was just
begun; yet in the little time he was permitted to administer
his duties in the Cayce Hospital he performed his work in
such a way as to register a lasting memory of efficiency and
understanding which endeared him to the hearts of all he
encountered. The memory of Dr. House will ever be an
inspiration and guide to the servants of God and Mankind who
follow in his self-sacrificing footsteps.
Dr. House was born in Orlanda, Tennessee, on April 3, 1867.
He received his M.D. from the state university and later
received a degree of Doctor of Osteopathy. He spent the
greater part of his professional life in Kentucky, and for
many years was Medical Head of the Western State Hospital
there. He was noted as a conscientious and talented
practitioner, as well as a doctor remarkable for his sympathy
and understanding of human nature. He assumed control of the
Cayce Hospital at its opening last February, and served in
the capacity of Chief of Staff until forced to leave by
illness in September. He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Carrie Salter House, his son, Thomas Burr House, Jr., and
two sisters.
THE LETTER-BOX
In opening this department we wish to extend a hearty
invitation to every member of the Association, and those
outside its ranks, to here meet and discuss anything you
may desire. This is to be the open forum of thought, and
we wish everyone to freely express his doubts, desires,
fears, objections, questions, etc. For those who ask
questions of interest to everyone an answer will be printed.
To start the department off in this first issue I have two
friendly letters from two Vice-Presidents of the Association,
Mr. David E. Kahn, and Mr. Edwin Blumenthal, both of New York
City. We wish to publicly thank both these gentlemen for
their kind wishes and offers of co-operation.
New York City
Mr. Thomas J. Sugrue,
c/o Washington & Lee University,
Lexington, Va.
Dear Tom:
Surely it is in proper order to congratulate you on your
appointment as editor of "The New To-morrow," and I trust
you will accept my good wishes even thogh they come at this
late date. It is inevitable that this publication will be a
revelation of education desired by many, condemned by a few,
but appreciated and sought for by millions, even beyond your
fondest hope.
From his inception, man has ever endeavored to understand
life from the inside out, rather than merely the exterior
material. Man's true and finer relationship with each other
have been sought for, with greater or less success, since
earth's beginning. Life has been paraphrased with the
beautiful motto of the Golden Rule. In the final analysis
does not this rule demonstrate the application of the oneness
of everything? We originate from one, remain a part of the
one always, and continue as one forever, thus the reason for
treatment to each other as one; and if through this
publication we can gather some understanding of the finer
purports of life on earth, the efforts of its contributors
will reach a mile-stone in education.
This, however, is wandering from the reason of this letter,
which straying I hope will not be amiss. I have been
informed the paper is to have a "letter-box" department,
and it is about this I wish to write.
Experience has demonstrated that letter writing is frequently
a means of revealing one's deeper, finer, and truer self.
Where other means fail, a letter may give expression of one's
thoughts, and enable one to bare the most sacred feeling in a
manner otherwise inadequate. Is it not possible this is the
meaning of, "The Pen is Mightier than the Sword?" If the
"letter-box" is used as a constructive means of giving to all
those thoughts of sincere expression from one person to
another, so often lost because of inability of presenting
them in manuscript form, it will, without fail, serve a noble
purpose.
May the efforts of this publication in education and
development of the human race be met with its much deserved
success.
As ever, Edwin D. Blumenthal
New York City,
To the Management of "The New To-morrow":
Congratulations upon your first issue and best wishes for the
success of the work which I believe will bring enlightenment
and culture, mental and physical aid to many people in the
world.
In the seventeen years I have known Mr. Cayce and his work,
it has been of untiring and unselfish efforts spent for the
aid of this fellow men. There are thousands of cases which
I can relate where people have been helped and shown a new
light for the benefit of themselves and family.
Hundred of cases which I have personally been interested in
have been diagnosed by Mr. Cayce without his having known
them or having ever seen them, and their complete cure and
restoration to health and happiness has been the answer.
I hope in the near future to quote to you and your readers,
specific cases. In your next issue, I hope to be able to
report one of the most interesting and fascinating
experiences I have ever had in my life and one that will
bring new courage to thousands of other people. I am sure
that everyone who becomes interested in this marvelous work
for humanity will be repaid personally a thousand fold
within their own lives and homes.
Sincerely, David E. Kahn
THE REINCARNATIONIST
I care not for the Lord of mind and heart,
My God is built of things within my soul;
A thing of all, yet of myself a part,
And taking form as I march to my goal.
From life to lifeless life and back again,
I climb and build to God by birth and death;
My wisdom growing with each hour of pain,
My God with Love and Time's external breath.
There is no way except to build and be,
To look within to find the building stone:
I am of all, and all is part of me,
And I in God the All that shall atone.
T. J. S.
WHO'S WHO in THIS ISSUE
Mr. Morton H. Blumenthal - President of The Association of
National Investigators, Inc., Author of "Heaven on Earth,"
address care of Blumenthal Bros., 71 Broadway, New York City.
Mr. Franklin Bradley - Trustee of The Association of National
Investigators, Inc., address care of Bradley-Hurtz Co.,
2624-30 North Dearbon St., Chicago, Illinois.
Mr. Thomas B. Brown - Vice-President of The Association of
National Investigators, Inc., address 139 West 2nd Street,
Dayton, Ohio.
Mr. Edwin D. Blumenthal - Vice-President of The Association
of National Investigators, Inc., address care of Blumenthal
Bros., 71 Broadway, New York City.
Mr. David E. Kahn - Vice-President and Chairman of the Board
of Governors of The Association of National Investigators,
Inc., address care of The Federal Furniture Co., 206
Lexington Ave., New York City.
Mr. Edgar Cayce - Secretary-Treasurer and Chairman of
the Board of Trustees of The Association of National
Investigators, Inc., address 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va.
Mr. Hugh Lynn Cayce - Vice-President of The Association of
National Investigators, Inc., address Box 1045, Lexington,
Va.
Mr. Thomas J. Sugrue - Editor of Publications of The
Association of National Investigators, Inc., address Drawer
896, Lexington, Va.
THE ASSOCIATION OF NATIONAL INVESTIGATORS
INCORPORATED
Invites You
To visit its offices at Virginia Beach, inspect the Cayce
Hospital located there, become acquainted with its work,
partake of its advantages, become a member if you choose,
and witness with your own mind and eyes the results already
accomplished.
For information explaining the origin, history, purpose,
philosophy, organization and work of the Association, fill
out the blank below and mail it to the Association Offices
at Virginia Beach, Va.
To:
The Secretary,
The Association of National Investigators, Inc.,
Virginia Beach, Va.
Please send me literature concerning your organization,
( ) also a copy of Mr. Blumenthal's "Heaven on Earth."
Name: .................................................
Street Address: .......................................
City and State: .......................................
Note: Place an X in the parentheses if a copy of "Heaven
on Earth" is desired.
"That We May Make Manifest Our Love for God and Man"
1/25/30 He wrote: "[
4666] and I have built a new kind
of battery, and have worked out a new method of reducing
electrical current, as well as attaching to different force
centers of body at same time. When this is perfected it
might be well to have suggestions made in a reading, for
we had a miraculous cure in one night with a woman who
couldn't move and was all swollen up with rheumatic pains,
and had to take morphine. She was cured in one night by
using our present attachment."
1/29/30 EC's letter: "Certainly glad to know about the
battery you and [
4666] have built. Am anxious to see one,
and certainly hope it is going to prove the very wonderful
thing that it seems it will. You know, we had sometime ago
in a rdg. that somebody should have a battery such as was
prepared by you and [
4666]. Did you see a copy of it? I
think Miss Gladys sent you a copy, didn't she? We didn't
know just what it was, but we told them that of course they
could get it from you." [
5/13/30 See ltr. under
195-70
Reports.]
5/27/30 See
1800-16, at which time Mr. Brown had turned
over the making of all the appliances to Gray Salter, at
the Cayce Hospital.
3/06/61 Thomas B. Brown's letter to HLC:
SIDNEY EISENBERGER REALTY CO.
729 Grand Ave.
DAYTON 6, OHIO
Mr. Hugh Lynn Cayce,
Cayce Institute,
Virginia Beach, Va.
Dear Hugh Lynn:
Years ago Edgar occasionally recommended a sort of vibratory
equalizer and I made them up when ordered.
This device consisted of two one-half inch pieces of steel
about 6 inches in length separated by a strip of Carbon and
with strips of carbon insulation on the outside. A wire
was attached to one end of each piece of steel with a fitting
to other end of wires which in turn could be clamped to an
ankle and the opposite wrist.
Edgar was here about twenty two [six] years ago. He
telephoned me and we had a nice visit at the Biltmore Hotel.
Edgar stated that there was a company making all the various
things recommended in the readings.
Have an idea and would like to try out one of these
equalizers. If they are being made would like to get one.
At the time Edgar was here a mother brought her daughter into
see Edgar who introduced me to them. The daughter was an
attractive young lady of about twenty years. She had
recently been cured of a very bad case of arthritis. I
recently met the same girl and her mother. Their name
[...] - [See [
951]].
Let me know about the device and with my kindest regards
to you and Miss Gladys,
Very truly yours, [signed] Thomas B. Brown [TB/g]
3/10/61 HLC's letter to Mr. Thomas B. Brown:
Mr. Thomas B. Brown
Sidney Eisenberger Realty Co.
729 Grand Avenue
Dayton 6, Ohio
Dear Tim:
It was a pleasant surprise to have your letter of March 6,
and learn that you remember the radio-active appliance.
You will be interested to know that just recently we have
had some excellent reports on the use of the appliance from
M.D.'s who have been trying them in the Pittsburgh area for
nervous problems of various kinds. The appliances were
originally recommended in a great many readings for insomnia,
nervousness, glandular condition, etc.
You have a very good memory about the devise. At the present
time it is not being made up for sale. We do have a man
locally [A. M. Godfrey] who has put a few together for
the use of doctors and other people who were experimenting
with them. I am sure I can get him to make up one for you.
It's a hand-manufactured item and he has had considerable
difficulty from time to time getting the kinds of steel with
the right percentage of carbon and so forth which is used.
He's been charging $18.50, I think, for the appliance, which
includes his labor on them. I'll ask him to make one up for
you as soon as possible. [GD's note: Sent
3/16/61.]
Tim, I do wish that you could pay us a visit here. We are
back in the old hospital building, as you know I'm sure. We
are using it now as headquarters for the work of preserving,
cross-indexing, and extracting from the readings, as well as
for our Association activities connected with lectures,
conferences, publications, etc. In a small way we have begun
to accomplish some of the things we dreamed about many years
ago, and I would certainly like to talk with you about many
of them.
Gladys is happily married. Just recently her husband, Albert
Turner, had a slight stroke but he is now improving. She
will, I know, be glad to see your letter. She sends her
regards.
I leave on March 13 for a lecture trip to the West Coast.
Further correspondence about the plans should be addressed
to Gladys.
Sincerely, [signed] Hugh Lynn Cayce [HLC:dp-d]
3/21/61 Mr. Brown sent check and "Thank You" note.
