6/15/36 Thomas Sugrue's booklet THERE IS A RIVER preface to
book then being planned on Edgar Cayce's life and work.
THERE IS A RIVER By Thomas Sugrue
(Copy was autographed with the inscription, "For Gertrude
Cayce from her third son, Tom.")
Being the Preface to a Volume, Now in Preparation, on the
Life and Work of Edgar Cayce...
Published by THE ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH AND ENLIGHTENMENT,
INCORPORATED, Virginia Beach, Virginia
"There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the
city of God..." Psalms 46
It is not here my purpose to strike on the bandor of time
more notes than were awarded, in the beginning of my plan,
these minutia of preface. I had intended to announce in
brief the purpose of my efforts, the effect toward which
sentence and paragraph and chapter were aimed. But it seems,
as with all things in which man and his mind properly have
no business, that I am entangled. Such simplicities as were
clear to me in their birth have clouded on the pages where
they were to mature. Their dress in words cannot be a
Grecian gown, simple and caught at the middle with a golden
clasp. They demand designs with which I am not now, nor ever
will be, familiar. Yet in the face of challenge I can but
cross their desires with language, and hope they will come
forth fulfilled.
The story of Edgar Cayce is not the chronicle of a man born,
appointed to a destiny, and fulfilling it. It is not a
biography built upon facts, garnished with anecdote, and
served with similitude and interpretation. It has more to
itself than that. It demands, in its telling, the scope and
poetry of legend, the depth and preciseness of history, the
clarity of science, the exactness of mathematics, and the
vision of religion. Such abilities do not come in the same
human package. The mind with which I had hoped to mate the
matter of this tale has no solution for its meanings, its
ramifications, its subtleties and myriad implications.
Only by the inflation of a vast insolence, and loud singing
to drown the voice of fear, can this venture hope to pass
through the dark valley of verb and come out walking.
There is contained in the life of every man, whatever his
caste in the system of human intelligence, a mystery as
great as the universe: a formula so intricately woven,
so cunningly patterned, that even his soul, groping through
ages of thought, can but feebly guess at the solution. The
architecture of his skeleton, the chemistry of his flesh,
are phenomena which he has never more than vaguely under-
stood. Of his mind he has no knowledge at all, except that
it operates - objectively upon the life which besets him from
without subjectively upon the death which gathers within. He
has no certain knowledge of how to deal with either of these
exigencies, and in puzzlement he blends them, to his further
bewilderment. He labors in the life without him; in order to
preserve the life within him; yet the execution of this labor
is the matter upon which the death that grows within him
feeds. His existence is a paradox: he moves inexorably
toward extinction, laboring that he may preserve himself
for it. He works that he may live that he may die.
To the beast and the flower this is not an irrational
procedure. There are other beasts and other flowers,
descendants of those which return to earth. Nor does it
seem unreasonable to the average man that people in China
occasionally die. It is when this fact of cessation presents
itself to the individual that mind fails to follow the
pathways of matter. It is something with which reason,
however fortified by evidence, will have nothing to do.
It will sanction all things but its end. To this it presents
argument; of this it is afraid. The first man with a soul,
trapped in his cave by fever, or age, balked at it. To him
had come a revelation: that he was lord of the earth. He
would not relinquish his scepter.
So made for himself, this man in the cave, a comforter. He
told himself of another life, beyond the winds and the seas
and the rivers and the forests: a life wherein there was
always harvest, and where age could not enter in. He told
it, before he died, to his sons and daughters and wife, and
said he would meet them there. They believed him, and they
were happy.
We, too, have believed that story, and we have been happy
because of it. We have examined the architecture of our
skeletons and the chemistry of our flesh, and have found no
answer to them. We have divided our minds into squares and
circles and put names upon them, but nothing has come of it.
We have questioned each other closely about the thoughts that
have been engendered within us, and have found no cause for
joy. In the end we have accepted the word of the witnesses
of death, who have told us that peace comes to the faces of
those who are about to travel into nothingness. With this
as our guide we have carried our ancestors and our lovers and
our friends to their graves, and have prayed for them. We
have built churches, and taken to ourselves religion. We
have made our hope into a belief, and our belief into a
social structure. We have taught others to believe as we
believe, for in numbers there is strength. We do not wish
to go into this nothingness alone.
Yet when the city lights have receded and the doors of
our churches are closed we stand alone with doubt. We can
gaze through telescopes at stars greater than our sun, and
speculate on other worlds in the space toward which some
day we will be propelled. We can see upon the blackboard
of a schoolroom scrawling numbers which prove that space
and matter and life and death are one. We can pass swiftly
through the air, or over our lands, or through the seas,
or even underground. We can receive from the hands of the
chemist substances which restore our health. We can hear in
our homes the voices of men a thousand miles away. But from
none of these can we receive surcease from our end, from none
of these can we gain knowledge to illumine our doubt. With
this we must grapple alone.
The facts are few. At some unspecified time we emerge into
a world with which we are not familiar, and with which we are
not equipped to cope. At another unspecified time we leave
it. We are, when we die, somewhat larger in body than when
we are born, but this has no bearing on our contemplation
of the two events. Before birth we had nothing to do with
our bodies, and after death we have nothing to do with them.
What, then, are we? We are apparently our thoughts. When we
do not have them we do not exist. When we have them we are
alive. We do not remember having had any before our birth,
nor for some time thereafter. As we die they flee from us.
Yet they are we. How then can they flee from us? We must,
perforce, go with them. But where?
They may be, these thoughts, only another of our senses.
These, we know die. They pass away slowly, painlessly,
leaving us without feeling, without sight, without hearing,
without taste, without smell. When we are young they are
strong and alert. They pick up the world for us, and bring
it to our minds. When their work is done they begin to
sleep, and then to die. Our eyes grow dim, our touch
is muddy, our ears and our taste buds and our noses are
untrustworthy. We can no longer smell spring in the air,
nor feel it against our feet, nor sight it through the bark
of trees. We grow old, and only remembrance of things makes
them real.
As my fingers strike the keys of the typewriter which is
translating these thought impulses into words, tiny cells are
brushed off my finger ends. These cells, which were a part
of me, are destroyed. So soon as they leave me, however,
trophic nerves, which carry impulses throughout the body,
send an SOS to headquarters. Immediately the blood supply
is marshalled for service, cells are put into swift-flowing
streams, and dropped into the empty spaces. The tissue is
repaired, and I have no knowledge that damage was done.
If I suffered from anesthetic leprosy this repair would not
take place. My trophic nerves would not send any message,
and my body would be unaware that help was needed. No cells
would replace those worn off by the keys, and when I had
completed the life of Edgar Cayce my fingers would be stubs.
That is what happens to our senses. As life proceeds
from the simplicities of childhood to the complexities of
adolescence, maturity, and senility, we become confused. An
odor that was once the perfume of the roses becomes a snarl
of memories, a heap of circumstances and happenings in which
the perfume of roses was in some way concerned. Our senses,
besides being duller, are no longer straightforward in their
accounting to us. Our eyes no longer see a house in which we
live. They see a kaleidoscope of happenings and events and
people that have had to do with us in that house. Our taste
buds no longer tell us that we are drinking Rhine wine.
They tell us instead that we are sitting on a sidewalk in
Budapest, watching the Danube and the people who are passing
by. The senses have given over to their own death. They
are immersed in a pile of memories, recognizing things only
because of the remembrances these things incur.
Likewise the mind, struggling to extricate itself from this
mass of wreckage, becomes confused. Desperate to escape,
it denies itself: it says it has no part in the wreckage,
it calls what is past the subconscious. It divides and
re-divides itself, making excuses for its incompetencies,
tracing its mistakes to prenatal influence and heredity,
blaming its dullness on environment, seeking to escape
through a process of mental suasion that depends for its
rationality upon irrationality. In the end it comes face
to face with itself again, having rounded the block in its
flight and arrived, panting and exhausted, precisely at the
point where it began. It is inevitably itself, existing
without effort, but unsure of its future. The doubt remains.
All of these things are known to each of us, and each of us,
now and again, ponders them. In our youth we talk of them to
other persons, until we perceive that these other persons are
precisely as muddled as we are, and as fearful. Then we take
the task within us, and thereafter turn it over and exercise
it, frequently at first, then with less and less regularity,
and finally at only those times when the hand of the potter
seems about the crush us in the mold.
It was my fortune when, in my now quite faraway youth I was
putting these things to myself and others, that a listener
happened in who was not of the common herd. He seemed,
though as young as I, to be unworried. He smiled tolerantly
at my voiced heresies - wild cries of fear that I tried to
make into shouts of courage. To my inchoate philosophies he
made quiet answer, puncturing their tender shells with barbs
of what I forthwith considered genius. I took him to my
bosom. Through long nights of the 1926 winter in Lexington,
Virginia, in our tiny rooms in Lees Dormitory, when we
should have been preparing lessons for the stern masters
of Washington and Lee University, we talked of the doubt.
He said he knew, this bespecaled young man who so willingly
gave up sleep to instruct me. I asked him how he knew. Then
for days he would not talk to me, and I saw him brooding
over his books, staring at me occasionally with opaque eyes,
staring at me occasionally with eyes that shot into me and
stabbed at my nerves. Then one night he told me how he knew.
"My father," he said, "is a psychic medium."
It is now a long time since that happened, and I do not
remember much except that we stayed up all night, and that
at breakfast we were still talking. I wanted to know, but
I did not believe. I was a Roman Catholic Irishman from
Connecticut. He, Hugh Lynn Cayce, was a Christian Church
member from Virginia. There was no valid reason why we
should like each other, why we should be together. It
was, I thought afterward, almost indecent.
But he said he knew, and he talked of a God Who was merciful,
Who was understanding, Who saw eye to eye with my blundering
desires in life. So we forsook sleep on other nights, and
talked again, and again.
He told me of a man, his father, who lay down to sleep and
spoke with the voice of authority: who cured the halt and
the lame and the sick and the blind; who told the story
of the world before history began; who traced in the minds
of those who came to ask him, other lives on earth and the
promise of more lives to be; who spoke of the Old Testament
and the New Testament as truth; who made heaven and salvation
a reward for the strong, not a dull fortress in an
inconceivable land manned by the wimpering and the cowardly
who had prayed and given alms and fled from battle.
So in that spring I went with the boy to Virginia Beach,
Virginia, to see his father. I expected a dark-haired,
sharp-eyed, stalwart man who walked with gods and spoke in
the language of metaphysics. I met a mild, amiable, soft
spoken man who on the first day changed his cigarette brand
to suit mine, who allowed me to teach him the intricacies of
rummy, and who asked me to go fishing with him. He took me
down town and bought me a soda, introduced me to the village
barber, and played three sets of tennis with me. I went to
bed in his house that night with complete peace. Such a
nice man, I knew, would not let the devil get me.
All that, too, seems a long time ago. He has been my friend
now for nearly ten years. I am so conversant with his life
and with his work that I begin where I began myself, and
explain it step by step, seems a confusing and arduous task.
Perhaps I should have done it long ago, before I was so lost
in the trees that I could not see the forest. Perhaps I
should not ever have attempted it.
Yet there is, in my files, an envelope labeled, "Readings;"
and there is, in my mind and in my heart, a certain peace.
These things are due to Edgar Cayce. Since that day when
we played rummy and discussed cigarettes and drank soda and
played tennis, no one of the questions which arise in the
dark hours to plague the minds and hearts of men has troubled
me. The soundness of my body, the temper of my mind, the
quiet of my soul, are due to him. He has slept for me many
times, with the sun across his face, and he has told me who
I am and what I ought to be, and who I was in the years that
are history and legend.
He has informed me of the reasons for my ills and my
frettings; and given me ointments for their heal. He has
calmed me when I was unruly, and praised me when I was
meek. He has set my feet again and again on the highway
of humility, and held over and over again that mirror before
my face in which is reflected the charge of my existence.
These things he did when asleep. Waking, he has given me
roof and sustenence, friendship and company. We have walked
together through the canyons of Manhattan and over the sands
of Virginia Beach. We have whiled away the hours on golf
courses, and on the shaded porches of his home. He has
listened to my troubles, and unburdened himself to me.
Thereis not any man for whom I hold greater love. He is,
in brief, my friend. I believe in him; I believe in his
labors; I believe in his gifts.
Therefore this task has come to me. I had hoped that someone
more worthy would be appointed. I know that I am inadequate,
that never in my life will a more difficult problem be set
before me. It deserves better hands. Yet the time has come
for its fulfillment, and no other workman is at hand. I have
taken it gladly; it is my honor.
To those who know Edgar Cayce and his work I have this to
say: the breadth of the assignment has not escaped me. I
know that on any one of the innumerable subjects which have
coursed through his 25,000 readings a book could be written.
These books, in time, will be written. My job is to break
the ground, to lay down with as much completeness and
exactitude as is possible the fundamentals of Edgar Cayce,
his life, and his work. Much must be excluded. Things
that were momentus in their days of happening seem, in
perspective, shadowy details that stray into dull byways.
The outline, massive in years and importance, remains. It
is this which I hope to get solidly planted between covers.
The rest, in due course, will follow.
To those who come upon Edgar Cayce for the first time let
this be warning: it is no tale to take in stride. Whatever
else it gives you, it will give you pause. There is not
in the chapters which will follow any program of ballyhoo,
any attempt to sell a product. This is a document for the
purpose of record. Those who would quibble, who would point
the finger of their intelligence in scorn, who would call
questions and cry for proof, had best leave off and take
again to their school books. Here is a river for those who
wish to bathe; but those who enter it had best know how to
swim.
Thomas Sugrue
June 15, 1936
New York City.
6/16/36 Mr. Johnston's letter to HLC:
DOUGLAS T. JOHNSTON
GRAYBAR BUILDING
NEW YORK
MOhawk 4-0350
Mr. Hugh Lynn Cayce
c/o Association for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Dear Hugh Lynn:
This is a brief acknowledgment of your letter of June 12th.
I am sorry the Dr. Rhine cannot be at the dinner on June 30th
but believe that Dr. Warner will be a very good substitute.
With regard to our bringing down Dr. Hardwick with us I think
I told you in my last letter that we are hoping to leave New
York a few days ahead of time, possibly stopping off for two
or three days fishing en route to the Beach. If this plan
materializes it would not be very convenient for us to take
Dr. Hardwick along. I believe, therefore, that you had
better make some other arrangement for him.
In order to help carry through the H.H.R. Corporation for
this month, I am sending my check for $200 to Mr. Dale Parker
for two shares of preferred stock. I assume that he will
promptly transmit these funds to you. I have heard nothing
as yet from Mr. Ashley. Will try and get in touch with him
before I leave here.
With best regards,
Very truly yours, [signed] Douglas T. Johnston
6/17/36 Mr. Parker's letter to HLC:
DALE PARKER
120 BROADWAY
NEW YORK
Hugh Lynn Cayce, Esq.,
% Association for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
Virginia Beach, Va.
Dear Hugh Lynn:
I am enclosing herewith check in amount $200. in payment
of the purchase of two (2) shares of the Preferred Stock
of HEALTH HOME REMEDIES CORPORATION issued this day to Mr.
Douglas T. Johnston.
With kindest regards to all, I am
Yours sincerely, [signed] Dale Parker
[FIB.] Encl.
6/19/36 HLC's letter to Mr. Johnston:
Mr. Douglas T. Johnston
Graybar Building
New York, N.Y.
Dear Mr. Johnston:
I received your letter under date of June 16th.
As yet we have received no further communication from Mr.
Parker but expect this will be taken care of within a few
days. I am hoping that Mr. and Mrs. Parker will be able to
attend the Congress and I have asked him to sit in at the
meeting of the Board of Trustees if he is here.
We appreciate your assistance in the matter of the H.H.R.
stock. The last of my letters will go out today and I hope
they bring some results.
We have received the copy for the preface to Sugrue's
book and it is now in the hands of the printers. It is an
excellent introduction to the work. I feel confident that
it will create a favorable impression in the minds of both
members and those who contact the work for the first time.
We are having a thousand copies prepared and he is meeting
this expense as part of our publication program. Copies will
be ready to be used as souvenirs at the dinner on June 30.
I am making arrangements for Dr. Hardwicke to come down with
Mr. Kahn. Other plans are progressing nicely and I believe
we will have an interesting series of meetings. Will you
please ask Mrs. Johnston to phone Mrs. Fox [Mrs. Fontaine
Fox (Edith)] and Mrs. Macsherry [Mrs. S. H. Macsherry
(Josephine L. B.)] regarding their plans? Sometime ago we
heard from Mrs. Fox that she planned to be here but have not
heard anything definite from Mrs. Macsherry. I am writing
them today.
Best wishes for a pleasant trip down and some successful
fishing. Dad said to save a day to go with him either
lake or ocean near the Beach.
Sincerely, HLC
7/29/36 Mr. Parker's letter to HLC:
DALE PARKER
120 BROADWAY
NEW YORK
Hugh Lynn Cayce, Esq.,
% Association for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
Virginia Beach, Va.
My dear Hugh Lynn:
On my return to New York yesterday I immediately got in touch
with Mr. Johnston as I have been very worried - and still
am - about the financial position - both present and future
- of our Health Home Remedies Corporation. As I told Mr.
Johnston, we must be realistic and face the facts honestly
and fearlessly, even though they may be unpleasant.
As matters stand now, it is quite apparent that the
Corporation cannot expect to continue in business unless
further capital is forthcoming, and unfortunately neither
Mr. Johnston nor I have thus far been able to get any further
subscriptions. Furthermore, the response of the other
members of the Association has been practically nil, and
while I understand that there have been certain promises,
even if they were fulfilled, it would still leave the
treasury very short.
Therefore, looking at things as they stand now, absolutely
cold bloodedly, the Corporation is living entirely on hopes.
Of course, those of us inside feel that these hopes are well
grounded, but from an absolute business standpoint, it is
foolishness to attempt to carry on just on hopes, no matter
how well grounded they may be. Therefore, looking facts
straight in the face, we must frankly admit that the
Corporation is in a jam, and quite frankly I do not see
how it can be expected to continue unless additional capital
is raised forthwith.
It is particularly unpleasant for me to have to write in this
vein, as I had such great hopes for the Corporation, and I
also had great hopes that I, myself, would be in a financial
position to carry over any intermediate period prior to
getting the expected response from the other members of the
Association. However, my business experience tells me that
sentiment must not enter into such matters, and, therefore,
I must write you in this way and ask you and Mr. Johnston
(to whom I am sending a copy of this letter) to give your
immediate attention to this problem and together with me
come to some conclusion as to what is to be done.
[initialed] DP
[page 2 of letter:]
With kindest personal regards to you all, in which my wife
joins me, I am
Yours most sincerely, [signed] Dale Parker [DP.FIB]
P.S. What would you think of having your father give a
special reading on this matter - particularly as to whether
we should go on, and if so, where we should direct our
activity to find the necessary capital.
[initialed] DP
7/30/36 Mr. Johnston's letter to HLC:
DOUGLAS T. JOHNSTON
GRAYBAR BUILDING
NEW YORK
MOhawk 4-0350
Mr. Hugh Lynn Cayce
c/o Association for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Dear Hugh Lynn:
As you know after my return from Virginia Beach I went to
bed for several days and was quite miserable. Gradually,
however, I am getting back on my feet again and now I am
approaching normal.
Because of my being laid up I have been unable to see any
possible prospects for the sale of HHRC stock. I talked
with Mr. Parker on Tuesday and have just received a copy of
the letter which he wrote you yesterday. I am, of course,
disappointed that he has been unable to supply the funds
which he originally indicated he would be able to do.
I assume that the situation of the company must at the moment
be rather bad. While I do not feel able at this time to
subscribe to more shares of stock I am enclosing my check
for $200. as a loan to the corporation with the understanding
that it will be repaid when through the sale of stock to
others that becomes possible. I hope that this will be ample
to take care of at least the current needs of the company.
When I was at Virginia Beach I meant to talk to you about the
money which I advanced to the Association during the winter.
Will it be satisfactory to you to leave the amount due me
outstanding as a credit on the books of the Association
against which we will charge such readings as I may have from
time to time. I would like my contribution to be $100 this
year, the same as last year, of which $40 (I think that is
the amount) is available to the Association for readings for
others. Of course, if the Association becomes "very flush"
before my credit is used up in this way, I assume that
it would then pay any balance to me. Will this method of
handling the matter be entirely satisfactory to you and
your father?
With best regards to all,
Very truly yours, [signed] Douglas T. Johnston
7/31/36 Mr. Parker's letter to HLC:
DALE PARKER
120 BROADWAY
NEW YORK
Hugh Lynn Cayce, Esq.,
% Association for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
Virginia Beach, Va.
My dear Hugh Lynn:
I do hope that my yesterday's letter about Health Home
Remedies Corporation financial position has not upset
you unduly.
After I had finished talking again with our friend Douglas
Johnston yesterday afternoon, I really wished that I had not
written you as I did, and after further contemplation over
night, I now am extremely sorry that I ran the risk of
upsetting you.
I know full well that you and House have done everything
in your power and are making the fullest possible progress
under the circumstances, and I should not have added to your
worries by so baldly pointing out the financing problems,
which, as Mr. Johnston pointed out to me, is primarily the
problem for us up here. No doubt it was my own personal
problem that was coloring my analysis of the Corporation's
position. However, I should not have allowed this to
project itself to you.
Again our friend Johnston is coming to the rescue. He
tells me that he will load the Corporation $200. to get
over the hump this month, and I am praying that I will be
in a position to carry the ball next month in case sufficient
subscriptions do not come in from other members and friends
to carry the load.
With my very kindest regards to you and everyone else down
there, I am
Yours most sincerely, [signed] Dale Parker [DP.FIB]
P.S. I telegraphed you this morning as follows:
PLEASE DISREGARD MY YESTERDAYS LETTER WRITING FURTHER TODAY.
[initialed] DP
8/04/36 HLC's letter to Mr. Parker:
Mr. Dale Parker
120 Broadway,
New York City
Dear Mr. Parker:
Thank you very much for both of your letters. I well
understand the situation relative to the Health Home
Remedies Corporation.
I am going over the details of the operations here with House
in line with conversations we had with Mr. Johnston while
he was here. We will have certain suggestions to offer and
an immediate plan of campaign that will I believe help in
meeting actual running expenses. With regard to my own
activity along this line I plan to follow up my letters to
members who have shown some interest in the proposition with
a statement of progress to date on the research activities.
For example I feel that a report of six cases of pyorrhea
treated by a local dentist would be interesting. Out of the
six he has gotten six cures. We also have some excellent
reports on appliances that should provide good material for
such a letter. These are facts and should - if anything will
- move these individuals to take action on purchase of stock.
We are making progress. It is slow, of course, for our
plans for even small amounts of advertising have had
to be abandoned. It takes time to get reports on these
products and a constant attack on the doctors to get their
cooperation. I will write you in more detail within a few
days.
I recently mailed you a study group manual [See
262-100
Reports]. When you have had time to go over it I would like
your comments and suggestions. It is our intention to use
a revised edition of this manual as the basis for our group
work in connection with the lessons in the future. Our group
work must be expanded in order to create a more direct market
for our publications. (You understand, of course, that this
is not the first objective for that is spiritual awakening.)
With kindest regards to both you and Mrs. Parker, I am
Sincerely, HLC
8/04/36 HLC's letter to Mr. Johnston:
Mr. Douglas T. Johnston
Graybar Building
New York, N.Y.
Dear Mr. Johnston:
This will acknowledge receipt of your letter enclosing
your check for $200 as a loan to the Health Home
Remedies Corporation. Thank you very much.
I am going over the situation in detail with House and we
will write you within the next few days. Personally I plan
to write again to members of the Association who have shown
interest in the company and report programs on the research
activities. I hope this will have some effect in moving them
to purchase stock. We are making progress but it is slow.
We certainly appreciate your suggestions regarding the funds
advanced on the Detroit situation. We are making the credit
of $100 for your current yearly contribution and will of
course keep the other credited to your account. I sincerely
hope that we will be able to return the balance to you though
it may only be small amounts at a time.
We were all sorry to learn that you were ill after returning
to New York and hope that you have by now entirely recovered.
With kindest regards from all,
Sincerely, [signed] Hugh Lynn Cayce
8/10/36 Mr. Parker's letter to HLC:
DALE PARKER
120 BROADWAY
NEW YORK
Dear Hugh Lynn:
The Higher Power has unexpectedly been kind to me financially
and the first thing I am doing is to take up a further
fifteen preferred in the Health Home Remedies Corporation.
The stock is being issued to me here and I have sent it to
Johnston for signature as President.
I am sending you the enclosed check for $1500.00 in payment
for these shares.
This will keep things going - even tho only modestly - until
the end of the year and also fulfills my subscription for
$2500 - $1,000 paid in at the beginning and the balance now.
Perhaps this will also help you get some others to come
along. I have no objection to your telling them of my
purchases.
My very best to you all.
Yours ever, [signed] Dale Parker
8/12/36 Mr. Parker's letter to HLC:
DALE PARKER
120 BROADWAY
NEW YORK
Dear Hugh Lynn:
I know House is probably terribly annoyed about not getting
Dawson's OK on his label situation.
I talked to Dawson again this morning and begged him to rush
this, and I trust he will. If, however, House doesn't hear
very soon, I suggest you or he write Dawson and personally
ask him to get busy.
Cheerio and best to all,
Yours ever, [signed] Dale Parker
8/12/36 Mr. Johnston's letter to HLC:
DOUGLAS T. JOHNSTON
GRAYBAR BUILDING
NEW YORK
MOhawk 4-0350
Mr. Hugh Lynn Cayce
Association for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Dear Hugh Lynn:
You have probably heard before now of Mr. Dale Parker's good
fortune as a result of which he has been able to subscribe
to 15 additional shares of the preferred stock of H.H.R.C.
This will relieve our present worries and make it possible
to carry on for a few more months. The amount is still too
small, however, to permit of any program of expansion. This
means awaiting our securing of additional subscriptions of
a fairly substantial aggregate amount.
I am planning to leave for vacation at the end of this week.
Upon my return I will do what I can to assist in securing
subscriptions from some of the New York members of the
Association who I feel should be willing to help this
enterprise.
In the meantime since the immediate financial worries
have been eliminated I know that you and Mr. House will
do everything possible to complete the preliminary work
necessary for introducing the specific remedies.
With best regards,
Very truly yours, [signed] Douglas T. Johnston
8/19/36 Mr. Parker's letter to HLC:
DALE PARKER
120 BROADWAY
NEW YORK
Dear Hugh Lynn,-
Herewith 25.00 check from H E Poole - his second payment on
his purchase of 1 share of Preferred Stock in H.H.R. Corp.
I endorsed this over to Corpin[?] so you can deal with it.
Kindly acknowledge receipt of this check - also the check
for $1500.00 I sent you last week. Need these
acknowledgements for my files.
Hope all going well with you and your family. My wife &
Miss Murray join me in very best to you all.
Yours ever, [signed] Dale Parker
P.S. Talked to Dawson yesterday - he says he wrote to House
re label last week as promised.
[initialed] D. P.
8/21/36 HLC's letter to Mr. Parker:
Mr. Dale Parker
120 Broadway,
New York City
Dear Mr. Parker:
Thank you very much for your letter enclosing Mr. H. E.
Poole's check for twenty-five dollars ($25) as second payment
on one share of Health Home Remedies Corporation preferred
stock. This has been deposited to the account here and will
appear on the regular report.
I am sure you have my letter acknowledging your previous
letter and check. The delay was due to my not being here
when your letter arrived.
General conditions are moving along nicely. The whole Beach
has had an excellent summer. My father has been working
pretty hard but is feeling very well. He and mother are
planning to take a few days for a short automobile trip about
the first week in September. I am sure the rest will do him
good.
Will you kindly tell Mrs. Parker that I am ashamed to say
that I mislaid the memo Miss Davis gave me regarding the hair
preparation and let the matter slip my mind until recently.
In checking over the reading I do not find specific
proportions given. Perhaps I can slip a question on
this in on check readings sometime soon.
With kindest personal regards and best wishes from all,
Sincerely, HLC
9/09/36 Mr. Samuel M. Gordon, Secretary
Council on Dental Therapeutics
212 E. Superior Street
Chicago, Ill.
Dear Sir:
In accordance with the rules set forth in the Official Rules
of the Council on Dental Therapeutics of the American Dental
Association [June, 1934], we desire to submit for your
consideration a preparation which is to be known as IPSAB.
We ask that you make any tests that you may deem necessary to
prove the value of this preparation and if these tests prove
satisfactory to you, include IPSAB in your list of Accepted
Dental Remedies.
Ipsab is not on the market at present. It is our earnest
desire to cooperate with the Dental Profession in every way
and it is to this end that we have been working. The tests
that have been made with Ipsab have been made in the mouths
of individuals who were suffering with tender gums and these
tests were made by recognized members of the American Dental
Association who stand high in their profession. Every
effort has been made to conform to the requirements of your
organization in shaping our label and introductory sheet.
This sheet is to be given only to Dentists with a bottle of
Ipsab to be used as a sample and to introduce the preparation
to the profession. Under no circumstances will these
introductory sheets be given to the general public. We only
ask that Ipsab be given a trial. The results will speak for
themselves.
The following is the information requested in your book of
Official rules for the presentation of an article to the
Council of Dental Therapeutics. The information is in the
same numerical order that it appears in the book of Official
Rules.
1. Name - Ipsab
2. Synonyms - none. Title to be used in prescribing or
purchasing - is Ipsab.
3. We prefer not to make public the proportionate ingredients
or the method of manufacture as both are of vital
importance to the value of the preparation and are
strictly confidential.
4. Ipsab has a base of Extract of Prickly Ash Bark and
sterilized sea water. To this are added small quantities of
Calcium Chloride, Sodium Chloride and Atomic Iodine. (The
Calcium Chloride is U.S.P. grade).
5. Ipsab is dark colored liquid with slightly peppermint odor
and salty, bitter taste.
6. No practicable method of identifying and estimating chief
constituents.
7. Stimulates action of salivary glands, stimulates
circulation of blood to the gums, strengthens tissue about
the teeth.
8. Ipsab is recommended in conditions where the gums are
tender, easily irritated, bleed easily or where they have
become soft or flabby from lack of exercise.
9. Saturate a small tuft of cotton and massage the gums
thoroughly for from three to five minutes once each day.
10. Ipsab is manufactured by the Health Home Remedies
Corporation, of Norfolk, Virginia.
We invite the Council on Dental Therapeutics to make clinical
tests with Ipsab because it is in this type of test that the
real value of the preparation will be shown.
We sincerely trust that you will find Ipsab to measure up
to all of your requirements and assuring you of our earnest
desire to cooperate with you in every respect, we are
Very truly yours,
HEALTH HOME REMEDIES CORPORATION
T. B. House
Samples of Ipsab and introductory sheets are being mailed to
you under separate cover.
9/15/36 Mr. Johnston's letter to HLC:
DOUGLAS T. JOHNSTON
GRAYBAR BUILDING
NEW YORK
MOhawk 4-0350
Mr. Hugh Lynn Cayce
c/o Association for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Dear Hugh Lynn:
Last week I had a letter from Mr. Dale Parker enclosing with
it his resignation as an officer and director of the Health
Home Remedies Corporation. He stated in the letter and the
telephone conversation which I have since had with him that
the reason for his resignation had nothing whatever to do
with the company but was caused by other conditions which
made it imperative. He has pledged his fullest cooperation
in the future just as he has given it in the past.
He stated that since he will no longer be active as a
director and officer of the company he feels that he is no
longer entitled to the common stock which he holds and would
like very much to transfer it to your father. I also felt
that I would like to similarly transfer my stock so that
after the transfer is made the holdings will be: the
Association 85%, your father 10%, and yourself 5%.
It will be necessary to choose a successor to Mr. Parker
as director and also one as treasurer of the company. Mr.
Parker feels that it would probably be better also for
Miss Bennett [Florence I. Benner] to resign as assistant
treasurer. What suggestions have you as to who could fill
these offices to the best advantage of the company and the
Association. One possibility might be for you to act as
treasurer and for my secretary, Miss Doebler [Helen M.
Doebler], to act as assistant treasurer. This would still
require someone to act as director. The time will, of
course, come when we will want to have a larger Board of
Directors. You may think that it would be advisable to
increase the Board at this time. Do you think it would be
well to have a reading on these and the other problems facing
the company including the securing of additional capital.
Several days ago I had a letter from Mr. House enclosing
statement for the month of August. Apparently continued
progress is being made although we are still a long way
from the break-even point.
With best regards to you all.
Very truly yours, [signed] Douglas T. Johnston
9/16/36 Mr. Johnston's letter to EC:
DOUGLAS T. JOHNSTON
GRAYBAR BUILDING
NEW YORK
MOhawk 4-0350
Mr. Edgar Cayce
Association for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Dear Mr. Cayce:
Enclosed are Certificates C 4 and C 5 each for 50 shares
of the Common Stock of the Health Home Remedies Corporation
registered in your name. One of these is a transfer of the
stock formerly in the name of Mr. Dale Parker and the other
is a transfer of the shares formerly in my name.
I have already written Hugh Lynn of the necessity for the
resignation of Mr. Parker as a director and treasurer of the
corporation. He feels that since he will no longer so act he
would like to have you have his stock. I have felt for some
time that I would not personally wish to be in the position
to make any profit from the corporation and so I am glad of
this opportunity to turn the stock over to you.
With these transfers the ownership of the Common Stock is:
Association for Research and Enlightenment, Inc. 85%, Edgar
Cayce 10%, Hugh Lynn Cayce 5%. It seems to me that this
is an admirable distribution and one which will be most
favorably received by all members of the Association.
I only hope that the time is not to distant when income
may begin to be received on it.
With best regards,
Very truly yours, [signed] Douglas T. Johnston
9/21/36 EC's letter to Mr. Johnston:
Dear Mr. Johnston;-
Well, we are still here, the storm didn't take us off or make
us run away. Took a bit of the roof off, and kept us busy
trying to keep the things dry in the Office, but did pretty
well. Thomas [Thomas B. House] had to have a stormy day for
his wedding but the Sun came out just as they started out so
the sun shown on the bride, and guess married life is stormy
any way.
Hope the readings for your Aunt and for the young man will be
helpful for only when they are does it count at all. Trust
you are feeling fine yourself as well as the rest of the
family.
Thanks for the papers and stock in Health Home remedies Corp.
Don't know as know what to do with it, but thank you both.
Let us hear from you when ever you can
Sincerely [signed] Edgar Cayce
9/22/36 HLC's letter to Mr. Parker:
Mr. Dale Parker
120 Broadway,
New York, N.Y.
Dear Mr. Parker:
I was sorry to learn from Mr. Johnston of your necessity
for resignation as Treasurer and Director of the Health
Home Remedies Corporation. We are having a reading on next
Tuesday or Wednesday for the corporation and will write you
again when I mail you a copy of it.
The pamphlet and labels on IPSAB have been copyrighted and
the trade mark registered in the name of the corporation.
The American Dental Association has advised House that is
is making proper tests on the product to prove its claims.
We are trying to get an accepted Dental Remedy seal on the
basis of its value for bleeding gums and as a preventive
for pyorrhea. Local tests are continuing to prove entirely
satisfactory. On the six cases being treated by a local
specialist reports are highly favorable. T-I-M reports are
excellent. We continue to get reorders from people who have
used the product for years (Members of the Association) and
who recommend it to friends.
I am pushing the work on several printed pamphlets for the
Association and am also stimulating the group work in order
to create a channel of distribution for the literature.
I would be happy to have your comments on the Study Group
Manual by sections or articles as you have time. I hope to
make this, after a careful editing, the basis of group work.
We are undertaking a series of readings for Dr. Rhine of Duke
as soon as he gets located with fall classes. Dr. Warner is
arranging for a series of readings for a group of professors
at Columbia. Between the two our research phase of the work
should move along, provided we can get decent cooperation.
I am writing this letter under difficulties as the plasterers
are about to drive me out of the office. The storm here a
few days ago took a good many of our shingles and the rain
brought down parts of two ceilings. The house is in a slight
mess and I am trying to get this off before turning the
office over to them.
With kindest personal regards and best wishes, I am
Sincerely, [signed] Hugh Lynn Cayce
9/23/36 HLC's letter to Mr. Johnston:
Mr. Douglas T. Johnston
Graybar Building,
New York, N.Y.
Dear Mr. Johnston:
Your letter of September 15, is before me. I was sorry to
learn of the necessity for Mr. Parker's resignation.
I feel that this may be a good time to make another effort
to interest other members there in New York in subscribing to
stock and at the same time include them as directors with the
available voting stock. However, this can best be decided
after we have secured a reading.
Your suggestions regarding a reading are very good. This
reading will be given on Tuesday or Wednesday of next week.
Please let me have any questions you would like to have
asked. Besides the questions on securing additional funds
and the new officers and director we will ask some questions
regarding a proper presentation of IPSAB on the best moderate
scale.
After the reading I will write you in detail regarding my
father's and my own ideas and suggestions on the situation.
Mr. Johnston do you wish me to send you a check covering the
loan of the $200 to the Health Home Remedies Corporation or
do you prefer waiting until additional funds are secured?
I am going forward with the work on the publication of the
small booklets planned at the Trustees meeting and also a
stimulation of the Study Group work in order to provide an
outlet for the sale of the literature. We are planning to do
a series of readings for Dr. Rhine early this fall as soon as
he gets his classes and schedule organized after the opening
of school. Dr. Warner is also arranging for a series of
readings for Columbia professors. I am confident that both
of these series will be beneficial, if we can secure the
proper cooperation.
The labels and pamphlet on IPSAB have been copyrighted and
the trade mark registered in the name of the Corporation.
The American Dental Association has advised House that they
are undertaking tests with the product to check our claims
for it. Reports from local dentists continue 100% favorable.
We are getting reorders from members on T-I-M who have
used the product over a period of several years. This is a
very good indication of its value. Recently a local doctor
relieved a very severe case of Hemorrhoids with T-I-M. It
is difficult to secure complete reports but progress is
being made slowly.
With kindest personal regards to both you and Mrs. Johnston,
I am
Sincerely, [signed] Hugh Lynn Cayce
9/24/36 Mr. Parker's letter to HLC:
DALE PARKER
120 BROADWAY
NEW YORK
Hugh Lynn Cayce, Esq.,
% Association for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.,
Virginia Beach, Va.
Dear Hugh Lynn:
Many thanks for your letter of the 22nd September. I am
delighted to hear that the Health Home Remedies Corporation
is making such excellent progress, and I am confident that
it will be a great success. You may count on me to cooperate
with you in every way I possibly can. The fact that I am
only a preferred shareholder and no longer a director or
officer will make no difference whatsoever in my great
interest in the success of this enterprise.
I am glad to hear that you are making such good progress on
the literary side - I am sure that you will put this over.
It is grand news to hear that you are about to get the
cooperation of Dr. Rhine and Dr. Warner.
I am terribly sorry to hear that you have been so upset
as the result of the hurricane. Such things come to us as
tests, and I know that you all have stood firm and always
will when things of this kind come along.
I am looking forward to the reading for the H.H.R. Corp. so
please do not forget to mail me a copy.
With kindest regards to all, I am
Yours ever, [signed] Dale Parker [DP.FIB]
9/30/36 See
1800-27.
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