12/09/38 [
1962]'s letter to EC:
Mr. Edgar Cayce
Virginia Beach, Va.
Dear Mr. Cayce:
Your talk at the McAlpin Hotel in New York City was a
revelation to a great many people including myself. Your
gift is of such astonishing quality that, despite many
people's descriptions of your mild affable yet Godly and
understanding character, one has the feeling, until they meet
you and hear you express yourself in the very whole-hearted
manner that you do, that you might be one of the great
characters of the Old Testament who has stepped down from the
pages of that book into every day life. Possibly a man whose
glance contains the quality of extraordinary intelligence and
perception which would make one uneasy. How completely
different was the effect or rather the response that you drew
from all of us. I thought - "There is a friend of mankind".
So seldom does one meet in New York a personality that
carries the atmosphere that you do. It was like a light
breeze blowing off the ocean in the morning of a clear day
when the sunlight dances on the surface of the water. I
would have liked it if you could have spoken much longer.
You were kind indeed to ask me to see you the next day. I am
sorry that I did not convey or express my thoughts to you
better than I did, but that does not surprise me, for so
often I blunder about unless there is sufficient time my
expressions are rather obtuse. To the contrary, when I write
I do manage to express myself with a much greater degree of
clarity.
I like so many others have certain ideas, clear and very
definitely arranged in my mind, but when I try to express
them verbally, especially in a limited time, I manage to
present them in so confused an order that lose the order of
my ideas in my haste and cause the other person to wonder if
I know exactly what I am talking about.
Thus, I am asking your help not for myself alone, but for all
of mankind who will accept your assistance. I am certain
that you, who through goodness of heart, has been given the
liberty of the library of divine intelligence can do this
thing I ask. Give me the means of understanding others
thoughts as they express them to me, not in the translated
audible stage but in their initial stage of idea form.
Regardless of whether your first reaction to this is that you
may think I am asking you to become the divinity itself,
inquire through your gift for what I ask, develop it among
your associates at Virginia Beach and then give it to the
whole world.
Science has long complained that the mechanical devices and
developments have far outstripped the human capacity to keep
up with them mentally. You would have hesitated coming to
New York, if you had to take three days traveling by stage
coach and three more going back again, yet you had great
patience in waiting for your audience to adjust themselves to
the open-hearted manner of expressing yourself. There are so
used to witty after-dinner speeches and a business man's
manner of speaking, that when you spoke it was a certain
degree another language.
While waiting to see you the next day, I sat in the room with
Hugh and Dr. Hardwicke [Henry S. W. Hardwicke, M.D.] and your
son remarked that you had meant to mention several other
things, but for lack of time you did not do so. Dr.
Hardwicke's comment was that you should have dismissed your
audience at that time, when you asked whether you should
continue and the enthusiasm was intense. Now then you had
the ability to throw our ideas mentally and they [had] the
ability to receive your ideas you could have accomplished
three times as much thought transference as is possible to
accomplish verbally in the same amount of time. The Greeks
brought their civilization up to such a height that their
orators could by merely quoting a few words of certain
sections of their literature create in the audience's minds
the idea that they wished to convey.
We nowadays have not generally attained to the heighth of
intelligence or education that was prevalent in Greek
civilization. We have advanced in a different direction but
there is no reason why we cannot do for the mind the same
that we have done for the body in the invention of the
automobile, and other devices.
This is the basis for my belief that every one has the
capacity for receiving and sending thought in its idea form:-
1. To begin with science has measured the impulse of thought
and find it to be series of electrical waves which can be
compared with the broadcast waves from a radio station, but
of a different quality.
2. It has been so frequently demonstrated as to almost prove
that the brain has the capacity of receiving others' thoughts
but one cannot deliberately sit down, concentrate upon
another and know exactly what his thoughts are. In other
words, the faculty is not under the control of the will but -
it is nevertheless there.
3. Now then, we know that if physical parts in us remain
unused many generations they become smaller and the will has
less and less control over them. The same is true, I am
sure, of our mental faculties. You know, of course, certain
very sensitive people possess the ability to read others'
minds to an astonishing degree of accuracy. They don't know
how exactly they do it, but nevertheless it is done.
4. I ask you then for the benefit of mankind, will you have a
reading on the manner of stimulating the mental faculty of
transmission and reception of thought either in inaudible
word form or better in idea form.
As you know from my letter to you, I have had inaudible
voices speak to me with great clarity upon several occasions
and I have received impressions of ideas very distinctly
knowing the details of the idea without any words mentally
expressed.
The following are my reasons for the value of awakening the
capacity of thought transmission and reception in mankind:-
Everyone would find that they would eliminate much of their
sloppy thinking (just as if we were all to go around naked we
would do something to take off ugly protruding stomachs and
slouchy postures). We could not be hypocritical, our
statesmen and politicians would not be the type of men that
they are now. They could not so deceive the public with
grand promises, which are merely a means of gaining
popularity. Deceptions of all sorts would be made completely
transparent. Thus, many of our unworthy qualities through
necessity would cease to exist (how often has necessity
roused us from bad habits we have drifted into).
The good qualities are far more numerous and of tremendous
value: - A great gateway of expression will be opened up for
us. How often have you let something pass unexpressed for
the various reasons that the explaining of the idea would
take too long, the persons to whom you might explain the idea
would not have the patience to listen or the time too short
to effectively and convincingly explain the matter? Had you
the ability to clearly give the full impression with all the
clarity that existed in your mind you would have done it and
the other person would have been so stimulated with your own
enthusiasm which you would also transfer to them that
undoubtedly both of you would have set to at once and
crystalized that idea into materialized form. Instead you
sit idly by, bored and feeling that it was not worth the
effort of long explanations and possibly the
misunderstandings which give rise to so much impatience and
unfriendliness that exists between people who do not
deliberately try of to over come them. I know with myself
working in a brokerage office (something I don't much enjoy)
when the boss quickly explains about certain things he wants
done and his words do not register very well, the confusion
I go through trying to sort of feel out what he wants done
is very unpleasant. If I don't get the idea and have to ask
over again his reaction is "how stupid, we ought to get
someone that is more efficient". I am not stupid yet
through my schooling I often seemed to lag behind and try as
I might I could not get the information out of lectures such
as the other boys got.
I have qualities of creative thought and of leadership but
through inadequate expression they do not have their effect
that they might. How many of the hidden talents would be
brought to the surface and utilized had individuals a facile
means of expressing them correctly? How much would mankind
benefit as the result of this acceleration of thought? The
simile between the stage coach and the railway, automobile or
airplane and the mind with the limitations of audible
vocabularies or written ones and the freedom of released
thought forms is identical and is in my mind thoroughly
possible.
I hesitate to express two other ideas that I know are just as
capable of being accomplished as that which I have suggested
but through fear of detracting from this one thing I will now
write of them. One was a device that Thomas Edison was
working upon when he died and many other people have tried.
It is a means of convincing people of the presence of "the
cloud of witnesses that surround us" and which the majority
of the world, I am afraid, is inclined to doubt.
If this request does rouse your interest to the point where
you will venture a reading upon it, I know you will let me
know the result. I will want a personal reading after the
holidays. Unfortunately, my pocketbook has definite
limitations, so I am obliged to wait.
I hope you will take readings on this idea, develop it among
your associates as I have suggested and then give it to all
mankind. I imagine that the means of awakening these
qualities will take the form of a radio or other electrical
device, which will be used for a short time, just long enough
to "shake off the cobwebs". One things of importance - this
faculty must be under the control of the will just as the
other qualities are that we utilize daily. It would not do
to open ourselves up to something over which we have no
control. (As an example there have been a number of people
who, living near radio broadcasting stations, actually get
the programs in their heads and have no control over them).
I suggest that the idea of the will dominating be a part of
the suggestion for the reading.
I am enclosing another paper of my idea on the subject [See
below]. It might be completely incorrect but I know with the
guidance that you so fortunately possess the way will be open
to you.
Sincerely yours, Mr. [
1962]
[enclosed paper:] The mind may be compared to a great city
in which our conscious being knows through constant use, the
location of the sending station of thought, but through lack
of use, the majority of the population has never discovered
the receiving station.
This receiving station can be thought of as a building
located up some blind alley, and, because of our lack of
knowledge of this location, we very rarely consciously become
aware of it; and it lies disused covered with cobwebs, as one
might say.
In that we have used electrical device for the transmission
of voice over wire and without wire, is it not conceivable
and logical to now set about devising an instrument which
will give amplification to thought which is electrical in its
quality; or devise an instrument which would receive the
electrical impulse of thought and amplify it to such an
extent that it would, when placed in direct contact with a
human being's mind, would send illumination into that
building up of the blind alley, so that we may follow its
light directly there, and through dint of repetition, bring
into our conscious minds the location of this building?
Using this instrument of empowered thought perception, and
using it frequently we awaken an awareness which has long
been dormant.
With persons of more advance perceptions, this awareness will
rapidly become part of their consciousness, and after a
certain length of time, they can put aside this electrical
aid, having found out the location of the receiving station
of thought.
I feel certain that this receiving station is within
everyone's mind, and the reception of electrical force of
thought is within the scope of possibility for everyone, and
merely varies in degree with the mental qualities of the
individual.
12/12/38 EC's letter to [
1962]:
Dear Mr. [
1962]:
Have yours of the 9th - and thank you for same - had I not
had a certain experience, a few weeks before your first
letter don't think would have understood you at all. But did
and fully in my own mind know what a bother you have had in
former experience.
It was wonderful to have the opportunity to meet you - and
thanks to HIM. I am thoroughly convinced you have a great
work to do, here - now - but will have to receive yourself -
possibly as did Moses the direction no one can do that part
for you - they may suggest - but as to directing - never -
that must only come from within. But know this will be glad
to help - work with you - make suggestions with you - at any
and all times the message you suggest be given by me is your
own - no one may do it quite so well as yourself - will you
but prepare your self for same. Let me offer this Mr. [
1962]
as a suggestion - do not listen at others - or even read so
much of their words - take the Old Book - read it - make
those promises there your own - and does HE wish you to use
you He will and if not - then you would not even wish to give
a message - possibly that is where I am one sided for as you
could easily see I never had a material education and do not
possibly appreciate it as should - but I read and understand
how that Moses had all there was of the day - yet must take
the 40 years to unlearn it all to be able to say - "Know O
Israel - the Lord thy God is one" which is the whole truth
for us today - in every sense of the word - and when we
attempt to give - or put the stress some where else - we
become idol worshipers no matter what name we may have for
them - Know that old Book - for the one reason - it is life,
LIFE, and Life is a manifestation of that we call GOD no
matter what its form - and as Mr. Whitney of the Gen. Elec.
said some years ago - "What ever electricity is - God is" so
the emotions are electrical but as the systems - must be
directed - coordinate as the static nature is to be useful in
man's physical experience - uncontrolled is death - used -
harnessed - directed - life giving in its self.
Would be happy to try and get such a message to you - but it
is yours - as said above - and you can give better than I -
I thank you for the kind thing you said about my attempt to
talk, only of the abundance of the heart can I speak. Have
nothing new - that I know of - and most of all of my self can
do nothing - only as the Father may work in me.
And would not if knew it hear the voice that would lead some
other way.
Do hope may very soon have the opportunity to talk with you
again feel very very much drawn to you - and am anxious to
know what the information has to say about you from a LIFE
reading.
Thanking you and hoping you will write again soon.
Sincerely, Edgar Cayce
6/21/39 [
1962]'s letter to EC:
Mr. Edgar Cayce
Virginia Beach, Va.
My dear Mr. Cayce,
I thought you might be interested in a form of vision that a
number of people may attain without any of the ill effects of
the development of mediumship which so often get beyond
control or make the person impractical in the commercial
world. This vision is quite simple and ceases just as
quickly as the contacts are broken - just as an electrical
light bulb will go out when removed from its socket.
The crystal vision as I call it came to me as the result of
several things Dr. Hardwicke spoke of during his lectures and
at other times. One remark in particular was that life as we
know it is the result of a shaft of energy coming in contact
with substance and vitalizing it.
I have always been going to ask you to give me a life reading
ever since your last talk at the Hotel McAlpin this past
winter. The financial factor has made it difficult, and
instead of getting better it has become worse as I guess it
has with a great many other people. I am that person who
wrote you about the experience with the etherical forms of
the dogs in a Vermont farmhouse should you happen to
remember.
Many different instructions have come to me by the higher
forces which have given me an assurance and serenity in the
knowledge that I will one day attain to a place in the higher
spheres.
Unfortunately, I am not able to accomplish this crystal
vision myself, so instead I have given it to others who do
have the power and who I find are totally unaware of that
power. These people are for the most part artists or writers
who have creative instincts. You can readily see the value
and the influence upon the public if their words are directly
and consciously influenced from the higher spheres provided
they contact forces of light.
One vision which might particularly interest you was as
follows:- A pianist, a friend of mine, saw water with
spheres of light above its surface. I told him to go up to
the water and stir it with him hand. As he did so the water
responded saying, "don't do that!" I am capable of both good
and evil influences." I then told him to ask what was the
significance of the spheres of light above the water, and the
response was, "that is not for mankind to know yet". The
water warned him not to go near a large body of water this
summer and informed me through him that if I were to stay
near a large body of fresh water this summer I would find out
the significance of water. I asked for further details but
it merely persisted with the same answer.
Try this form of vision yourself and give it freely to others
if you will. I believe that every one should be equipped
with the means of spiritual attainment just as scientists
make use of improvements in their instruments which come out
frequently to further the success of their endeavors.
I have been working on an idea of a novelty such as the Ouija
board but which will operate with the electrical force of the
body and not the physical contact in which lies the skeptic's
doubts as to the truth of the device. It does not work yet,
but I may be able to find a way. It is by such simple things
that the lesser mind may become consciously aware of the
presence of the higher forces. I am not much inclined to the
idea that the lesser mind should remain in ignorance and be
directed by a strict faith which gives no evidence of the
reason underlying it. The tendency is now toward
intelligence and fact. Faith follows afterwards. It is a
characteristic of the East to neglect the intellect and
stress the faith. The West is inclined to loose itself in
the material creations of the intellect. Do you not agree
that the greatest value is to consciously know and understand
all that the world has to offer, that is, as much as it is
possible to comprehend to be used as a step or elevation from
which one may step higher. A means and not an end.
Some one to whom I had given the crystal vision just called
me up and told me something of what he saw. The scene was a
grey waste land which was terraced and in the distance a
figure appeared and continued to walk directly toward the
boy who was taking the vision until he was about fifty feet
away when he stopped. The boy asked, "what is your name?" -
There was no answer. He then asked what do you want and the
figure answered, "your destiny lies with me". The scene then
faded away. The man was dressed in a costume of about the
time of Kubla Khan. Tight fitting around the throat chest
and arms but with a full skirt. A gold chain with a key hung
around the neck and the feet were bare with sandals on. The
face was hidden by a cloud.
I would be interested in knowing how you react to this
crystal vision and what you think of giving it to others.
Sincerely yours, [
1962]
THE CRYSTAL VISION
The following is a technique of an extraordinary form of
vision as completely as I have been able to conceive it:-
Lie on your back your head pointing to the magnetic north or
your body parallel to a stream of flowing water. Be careful
not to ground yourself by touching metal. The best insulator
is a woolen blanket.
Place small pillows or other supports beneath your elbows so
that they will be supported and will require no thought or
muscular tension holding them in place.
Hold a sphere of glass, crystal or celluloid of about one and
one quarter inches in diameter with the tips of the third and
fourth fingers in each hand. (These two fingers of each hand
should be together and not separated so that when they hold
the sphere the subtle charge of electricity will penetrate
from opposite sides.)
The little or fifth finger is placed on the closed eyes
directly over the pupils. The index finger is placed high on
the forehead or into the hair.
The thumb closes off the hearing by pressing in the little
tabs of the front part of the ear which lie directly over the
channel of the ear. If this is difficult just put the thumbs
into the ears.
Assume the position with as much ease as possible. Tension
or strain will detract from the success of the experiment.
The reason or explanation of this vision is as follows:-
Hearing, vision and thought have been proven to be electrical
by various experiments of professors at Yale, Southern
California and N.Y. University. These senses or abilities
are like the roots of a tree stretching out and covering a
considerable area. If all the loose ends are gathered up
into one point naturally their combined or concentrated
forces are powerful.
The third eye, an etherical and not material organ, lies in
the center of the forehead or just a bit out from the center.
(It is frequently represented in the statues of the oriental
gods.)
The sphere of glass held in front of the forehead is two
things in one. It is a material representation of an
etherical organ, and as we are largely dominated by the
material there must exist some form of matter that will
bridge the gap for our material senses.
The sphere of glass is also a resistor similar to the bit of
tungsten wire in the electric light bulb which resists the
flow of electricity slowing it down to the numerical
vibration of light. (The subtle charge of body electricity
seems to be capable of penetrating anything so that the glass
acts as a resistor instead of an insulator as it does with
voltage) It merely slows down the body charge and the "eye"
becomes vitalized or lit and is capable of the extraordinary
vision.
When you attain the vision and find yourself in another
world, you will find that you can explore at will. When you
see something or some person you can approach it or him and
mentally ask the reason for their being. You will receive
the answer or if it is something you should not know you will
be told so directly. Many times an answer will require much
thought. It is best to have [someone] sit by you who will
listen quietly to your description of the vision. During the
vision the memory does not seem to function as accurately as
at other times. The other person can help by directing the
questions so that you act merely as the means of perceiving
and will not be divided by having to think up the questions
and of perception at the same time. If you want to do so
write your questions down first and then contact your source
of intelligence.
Usually one finds they can accomplish this perception at once
or can't do it at all. It seems to require the type of
individual through whom there flows some form of creative
force. It is generally the artist type or writer. If you
find that you cannot attain the vision then approach some
other individual who has a flow of creative energies, and if
they are willing to experiment, ask your questions through
them.
Do not keep this information a secret but be very careful of
giving it to persons of destructive tendencies who by force
of evil influences urging them might use it destructively.
Remember there is what is called the law of Karma or cause
and effect. If you set a force in action by releasing it to
others you are responsible and share int he good or evil
created by the action. You are the channel through which the
waters will flow and it depends upon the choice of the
individual using the force what kind of water will be drawn
through that channel.
Be careful. Wait for the quiet or silent urges inside of you
before venture. You will find they lead you to the right
path.
[
1962]
6/23/39 EC's letter to [
1962]:
Dear Mr. [
1962]:
Have thought of you a great many times since meeting you in
N.Y. and had wondered what you have been doing - then yours
of the 21st.
Your formula for self-hypnosis or partial to me is most
interesting will try it out for myself before giving it to
any one else, and then if works will pass it on and let you
know the results. Personally - while this may be just the
state in which I am supposed to be working - I lose
consciousness. Whether it would be preferable to remain
conscious or not do not know. From what have been able to
see consciously - personally am too easily tempted to misuse
the what I see. I have deemed that the powers that be - have
seen fit for me to work in the unconscious state, but will
try out some experiments with your suggestion and let you
know my own experience with this.
Wish you might have been with us at the recent Congress - it
closed last Sunday evening, had quite a nice attendance at
each meeting - fine interest shown - and some very nice
addresses - one especially by a scientist.
Hope you can arrange soon to have your reading if you wish it
- be glad to help in any way can. Will let you know the
results with application of the suggestion "Crystal Vision."
Thanking you, and with all good wishes
Sincerely, Edgar Cayce
6/29/39 [
1962]'s letter to EC:
Mr. Edgar Cayce
Virginia Beach, Va.
Dear Mr. Cayce,
Things have come to a point where I must know how and in what
direction to throw my efforts. The uncertainty that has
existed for a year or more and my distaste for my present
occupation backed up by very definite demonstrations of my
consciousness which seems to "evaporate" every once in a
while during my work and a voice that tried to attract my
attention during these hours and when I did not respond in
disgust remarked very distinctly "you damn fool" - has all
pretty well indicated to me that there is something else I
should be doing. As I cannot solve this problem myself at
the present time with the little horizon and perception I may
possess I am asking you to please do this for me. Please
give me as direct a guidance as you will. I am most
certainly in need of it.
I am enclosing a money order for fifteen dollars. If you
would be so kind to allow me, I will send the other five
within the next two weeks. The circumstances are such that I
could not at present take any more from my pay than I have.
Will you please set the date by return mail for sometime
after 7:00 P.M. on a week day evening of next week from the
3rd to the 7th of next week - July.
Not knowing what your schedule may be it is better for you to
tell me than I - you.
Very sincerely, [
1962]
6/30/39 [
1962]'s letter to EC:
Mr. Edgar Cayce
Virginia Beach, Va.
Dear Mr. Cayce,
I was reading Manly Hall's "Lectures on Ancient Philosophy"
and came across the following bit which expresses the idea I
was striving for in my letter to you yesterday.
"We should never concentrate upon any desired end until
discrimination has revealed it to be the supreme ideal; for
the universe avenges itself for the misuse of its agencies by
forcing us to abide by our own decisions."
I do not possess that discrimination to a degree wherein it
is sufficient to solve my present problem.
I must have a material return for what I do which will take
care of my brother, sister and myself yet I do not want to
spend my life being a negative. I am certain that things
have arrived at a turning point where a sheltered or
protected past is coming to an end and what I do now is
almost entirely up to myself; naturally I don't want to make
a wrong move so please direct me specifically.
I meant to say in my letter yesterday that I would be in my
bedroom on those evenings of next week but let me know first.
I feel certain that you can speak to me if you desire.
I have heard so many other people's voices even the boy's
voice who sits next to me in the office.
Sincerely yours, [
1962]
HLC's note: Money with application in 10 days or two weeks.
Coming later by mail - have helped with questions.
Note: This young man has had varying psychic experiences in
which disincarnate animals and human beings have drawn force
from his body for expression. Evidently his glands are
unbalanced and need synchronizing. His imagination is also
stimulated to cause him to hear things said to other people
that he thinks apply to him, such as words that he is
thinking. Try to clear these up for him and get meditation
and explanation that will prevent mental inroads. He might
easily be on the way to an asylum. (He says he will mail
application within a week or so. Money with it.)
REPORTS
8/10/39 [
1962]'s letter to EC:
Dear Mr. Cayce,
Thank you for the reading which you sent me and your letter
following advising me to read it over every once in a while.
I have been so busy following out the advice given in the
reading that I had not done many of the things which I
should one particularly to thank you for the interest you
seem to have taken with me.
I have written as you said in your reading. That idea I
called "Crystal Vision" has been most prominent in my mind
and I have experimented at quite a length with others (I
don't possess the power myself) so it provided the most
logical thing about which I could write. I sent it to the
true Mystic Science magazine in Minneapolis - one which
would be most likely to accept the idea.
In one of your letters you spoke of the "Crystal Vision" and
did not seem to be much inclined toward it and possibly
regarded it as being in your case a misuse of your power. I
doubt very much that the two are at all similar. As far as I
have been able to discover my technique will connect you with
the entity called the guardian spirit who knows you
intimately but I doubt very much if he has any access to the
tremendous amount of information that is available through
your gift. Two of my friends came in contact with that being
who responded to the mental inquiry "who are you" - "I am one
who is always with you," the other "I am the one with whom
your destiny lies." These beings will seldom speak of their
own initiative but await the questions. They will not answer
all questions and show a decided inclination to advise how to
be of assistance to others. I would not call this
self-hypnosis because at all times the person attempting
the vision has full control of themselves and can cease
instantly. The whole principle is electrical and scientific.
The pineal gland in the center of the brain has all the
qualities of the retina on the back of the eye and when the
right condition is brought about by proper focussing this
ability perceives that which is not possible with our eyes.
It is a function of the brain and the sooner we are able to
make use of it CONSTRUCTIVELY the sooner we will be able to
turn our efforts toward the accomplishment of that which we
are to do. You may resent this idea just a bit but you
could not answer all the questions of the population of
Norfolk were they all to believe and ask constantly about
their daily lives. If people found out, to their own
satisfaction, that they could ask questions and the answer
come with the reality (that it has come to several with whom
I have experimented.) they would be willing to follow the
advice that they by themselves received. Their very ego
would not permit them to regard themselves as crazy, but,
when it comes to holding thoughts of others and even making
very blunt statements, they are very careless. In your
work, if it is possible for a great many people to contact
their guardian spirit, you would find yourself with bookings
six months or more in advance. As I said before you can
avail yourself and others of information way beyond the
range of the guardian spirit. I should like to know of your
reaction to it.
Last week I received notice from the brokerage firm where I
have been working for several years that due to the business
conditions they were obliged to let me go. In a way I was
glad to be released for that was as I regarded the
situation. I may now devote myself to a new phase of life.
The thing that bothers me is the fact that I have several
debts to pay one being $5 of the fee for the reading. I am
in hopes that I may receive something for that article on the
"Crystal Vision". I tried hard enough to make it
interesting. I open you will be kind enough to permit me
to defer the payment of my debt until I am able to do so.
At present the pocketbook is quite flat.
There are answers to so many questions in your reading. I am
constantly reading it over and discovering something else. I
cannot thank you enough. Had I lost my job before I received
your advice I am sure the sensation would have been similar
to a fish out of water. I will follow what you have
indicated to the best of my ability.
Sincerely, Mr. [
1962]
8/16/39 EC's letter to [
1962]:
Dear Mr. [
1962]:
Have been away for a much needed rest - hence the delay in
replying to yours of the 10th, am happy to know you feel
there is something to be gained by a careful study of the
information, that has been the consensus of opinion of at
least nine tenths of the people for whom such readings have
been given.
As to your "crystal vision" do not know about same - and
having been able to help here and there for years with a very
natural means - why should I jepodize [jeopardize] the
purpose with an attempt to undertake it through other
channels could not with justice to myself and those who seek
at present - could I with out at least asking the information
- that has said it is best for me - so there you are - do not
condemn it at all in those who care to use that method - may
give them a power not yet dreamed of - but if open - will
their Guardian Angel always be the director, and if not in
deep enough conditions for self to left out - then will self
always remain impersonal? those are my personal feelings -
and is not a condemning of the method at all.
Am in hopes you succeed in selling your article to the
magazine sorry in a way - yet am sure the need of the
Brokerage to conserve may soon prove to be that as will help
you show your real worth - write - write - write - that is
what you will have to do - and am sure you will soon be
getting some where.
To be sure it is OK about that due here - know we are always
glad to try and help - let us hear from you and can we be of
help call us. With all good wishes
Sincerely, [signed] Edgar Cayce
7/11/40 [
1962]'s letter to EC:
Mr. Hugh Lynn Cayce,
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Dear Mr. Cayce,
Thank you for your interesting letter. Mrs. Belcher has
written me since returning from Virginia Beach. I should
very much have liked to have attended the Congress but,
unfortunately, my financial circumstances are terribly
limited at present.
I am glad that you have given the technic to some one who is
interested in experimental work, but I still insist that if
you are able to accomplish it you could travel with your
father to the realm from which he is able to gather
information, however, satisfy yourself first through the
experiments of another as to what happens.
If you feel so inclined, would you let me have the address of
the one who is experimenting with the technic? There are a
number of details concerning the path of travel which if not
known very definitely limit the scope of the perception.
Usually one comes immediately in contact with the realm of
the earthbound individual. I try to persuade this particular
person to realize the state of his condition and the elapse
of time of which he is quite unaware, and then go on to
higher realms to intelligences of greater stature who have
knowledge of things past and things to be.
The real difficulty is to keep mentally active and explore.
If the person trying the perception is inclined to go
passive, he won't get anywhere and will very likely fall
asleep within a few minutes.
Mrs. Belcher has very likely told you of her attempts to
recover a deposit of Tory gold buried near her home during
the Revolutionary War. We have also discovered three
deposits here on Staten Island, but there are certain
conditions which make it difficult to dig immediately.
There are three things which I would like to ask your father
just as soon as I afford to do so. They are to add to the
description of this perception of the third eye, the details
for making a radio through which the etheric voice could
speak and the secret of etherizing matter, transporting it
and rematerializing it without change in its original form.
Undoubtedly information may be given concerning the first
two, but the time for the third may not yet have arrived,
however, I can ask.
I hate to see many of the beautiful things in New York
destroyed just because those persons in whose hands they lie
are so disinclined to accept any warning of the earthquake in
'42. Perhaps these things could be saved if a certain group
of responsible character could be entrusted the secret of
etherizing substance. Undoubtedly there is a very definite
reason for the destruction of the coastal cities but that is
certainly no reason why works of art should go smash just
because their owners are temporarily stupid.
The proper solution may come forth before May 3rd 1942 but I
don't think that those who know of the event should sit idly
by and wait for things to go as they will. To me that
attitude is terribly fatalistic and that of a defeatist. My
idea is that the constructive individual should do all in his
power to save that which is good and beautiful and allow the
evil to destroy itself which it eventually, usually does.
I would be very glad to know further of the outcome of the
experiments with the perception and of the experimenter's
address, that is, if you feel inclined to send it to me.
Sincerely yours, [
1962]
8/03/56 [
1962]'s letter to HLC:
Dear Hugh Lynn,
I have been turning the house upside down trying to locate a
reading that your father had made for me in 1938. I am not
even sure of the year. Victor Harrington tells me that
members may request a transcript of readings that have been
made and catalogued. If mine should be one of those
available, may I have another copy of it?
Relative to the "Projection of the Mind" technique to enable
members to consciously contact Edgar Cayce's higher self, I
am enclosing a photostat of the original drawing I have made
for the pamphlets. If you should desire to use the
illustration in conjunction with an article indicating the
use of the technique make your plate for the printer from it
instead of the poorer proofs in the pamphlets themselves.
Some people find that the illustration itself is a potent
symbol to reach other levels of the mind other than the level
we call "conscious". If the illustration is placed on a desk
with a good light upon it and the percipient stares for two
or three minutes directly at the sphere of glass on the
forehead of the picture, a definite strong reaction is evoked
in some people. I am sending you several spheres of blue
glass for the experiments that you may make.
I hope that you will make use of the projection technique
along the lines I indicated in my first letter. Projection
is the essential key and means of operation to all your
father's work. I believe that it should be most thoroughly
explored and utilized. My hope is that it will ultimately
lead to the initiation lead to the initiation of several
competent individuals to carry on in active production
the stream of endeavor that your father started. No one is
more fully qualified (that we know of) than your father to
give instruction in the actual extra dimensional nature of
the work which he did. This projection technique enables
some people who are still physical to approach Edgar Cayce
and to ask him to train them in the operation of the readings
which made him a valuable "citizen of the world."
If you would like me to write an article on the specific use
of the projection technique to Edgar Cayce's work, I would be
most happy to do so. In the mean time I trust that your
endeavors along these lines will reveal to you the start of a
program that can have tremendous influence and effect upon
the lives of countless individuals in the future.
Very sincerely yours, Mr. [
1962]
P.S. You will find the reading under the name [
1962].
Shortly after my marriage a few years ago I had it legally
changed to [...].
If you want additional copies of the pamphlets, please let me
know.
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