Edgar Cayce Readings, 2675-8

Time and Place: 4:10 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. Birmingham, Ala.

TEXT

GC: You will answer the questions which I will ask you regarding this body.
EC: Yes, we have the body. This we have had before. Some changes - physically and mentally - with this body. Ready for questions.
(Q) Are there any adhesions, any obstructions, or any dislocation of INTESTINES OR ANY OTHER ORGANS throughout the body at present that would impede the normal functions, and if so, how may they be overcome or their effects minimized?
(A) At present we find conditions very good in respect to the location, the position, of the whole alimentary canal, and its relations to the organs and the functioning of same in the body.
Keep that as has been outlined in respect to diet, to stimulants, to activities of the body, and in same bring self to the more perfect functioning throughout. No obstruction as yet present. No adhesion as yet seen. No correction as yet to be made, see?
(Q) Do we find any centers of inflammation or infection ANYWHERE sufficient to overload the system with poisons and impair the efficiency of the body?
(A) Not at present. We find no overloading of any portion of the system that would impair, or impede, through the inflammation, or as secreting poisons that are improper for distribution in the system. These are in very good condition throughout at present.
(Q) Now, to gain a better control of the body, and overcome that disturbance described heretofore as "a lack of coordination in nerve vibrations", what would you do AT PRESENT?
(A) Coordinate that of the mental with that of the physical, in this sense and manner:
In recuperation from ills, and ill effects as are created in the system, these conditions are as necessary for the body to build in the system - that is, coordination mentally and physically.
The body has that mental conception of that necessary for united work, or united efforts on the part of material and of physical organization in a body; whether referring to conditions physical or material. In this application then to self, we find THIS condition existent:
Study within self that as necessary for the perfect coordination of the body-physical with the body-mental, to keep same fit and whole. As implied in those conditions sought to be understood by the entity as respecting physical conditions from within, there is seen implied that known to be necessary for physical conditions to be normal. There is that same element in the mental body - as in the physical - to be kept fit. That is, do not expect to have a mental derangement in the image being created for recuperative forces for the body and expect a perfect physical body; for the mind is the builder, and that as is set as a pattern before the mental forces adds to those portions of the system in their respective units of force created in the body, mentally, physically, spiritually.
Then, to coordinate all these, keep mind aright. Keep the physical aright. Let the mental being keep aright, for these - as given - physically - are set. The mental may be warped - the mental may be turned aside. Do not ask "What is right?" Present thine body the living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto Him, which is but a reasonable service - for, as has been seen and understood by this body-mind, those conditions arising in a physical being come from that of a mis-directed energy of a unit of the whole physical body. The physical being, then, subject to the mental. The mental being related to the spiritual, needs that full cooperation that is necessary for a well-rounded life, that may be used to reflect that gained in this mundane sphere. Apply self! Keep body and mind attuned to that oneness of purpose as is set in Him who gave, "Would ye be in accord with Him, be guided by me."
We are through for the present.

BACKGROUND

See 2675-7.

REPORTS

6/03/27 EC's letter to [2675]:
Dear [2675]
I enclose you, herewith, the reading by questions. I certainly am in hopes that this will be worth while to you, and while you are gaining your health and strength back, it possibly will give you a line to study and think along, that will be worth while to you for all time to come.
I am hoping that I will be able to take a much needed rest myself sometime this month, but when you get physically able to travel, I am hoping, too, that you're going to get to Virginia Beach and see us. We have our official organization meeting for the Association to-morrow. I had hoped that you would be able to be present, but knowing your condition physically, I hadn't said anything - but trust that as soon as you are able to get about you will get over to see us, and by the time we have our next semi-annual meeting we can have you with us - and help us outline the policies and plans for ways and means to better help suffering humanity, and to help men and women everywhere to better understand themselves, their relations to their God and to their fellow man.
Be sure and let us hear from you whenever you have the opportunity. Hoping and trusting you are feeling real good, and with kindest personal regards, I am
Sincerely, Edgar Cayce EC:GD
7/15/27 [2675]'s letter to EC:
Birmingham, Alabama
Mr. Edgar Cayce, 115 W. 35th St., Virginia Beach, Va.
Dear Cayce:
Your last letter and the reading by questions, forwarded to me up in the country from here where I have been staying for some time was misdirected and I received it only upon my return home.
Thank you very much for this, Cayce. I value these suggestions highly. I have become interested in Christian Science recently, and I believe that some things I have been thinking about along this line are what the reading is driving at. It is both a beautiful and a practical philosophy. It contains some merit that I never thought it had. What difference, if any, do you notice in these readings where specific questions are asked by the patient about his condition? It seems to me that I notice better results in my case, and I am wondering whether this is true in your experience with others. When I visit you sometime in the future I should like the privilege of examining some of the other readings as well as talking to you about it.
Please keep me in mind and send me such information and findings about your work as you think would be of interest to the friends of your work. With very best wishes, I am
Yours truly,
8/17/27 EC's letter to [2675]:
Dear [2675]
As you notice, I'm a long way behind in answering my letters - but so much of my time has been taken up recently in the perfecting of the organization to handle the work in the way and manner that I believe will give better service to people seeking information through these sources, that I have neglected the correspondence. I'd like to have your candid opinion of the organization and its set-up. I believe the data that we will be able to distribute to those interested in the study of such phenomena will prove most worth while, and possibly second to none other - for we do not expect to confine the work to this phase of psychic phenomena at all, but rather to use it as a comparison to judge its value, as well as that of other sources, by results obtained.
Yes, we have often found that direct questions regarding a person's condition gave better results than by the general method. I believe there are real scientific reasons for this, for the actual information regarding any person comes through their own subconscious self. If their mental body desires knowledge, their spiritual or subconscious body may supply that information, and the information is more satisfying to the individual than that which would be supplied through the inspection of another subconscious mind without the desire being expressed.
[2675], some of the most wonderful results we have ever gotten through the suggestions of the readings have been in Christian Science! and I believe, if studied aright, it certainly has it's place in the hearts and minds of all well thinking people.
Well, it seems our institute is to be a fact, and I hope it isn't going to be very long before you'll take the opportunity to come in and see us - look over much of the data we have on hand - and discuss the phases that we are developing and gaining information concerning from time to time.
Appreciating your letter, and hoping you will let us hear from you often, I am
Sincerely, Edgar Cayce EC:GD
9/28/27 EC's letter to [2675]:
Dear [2675]
I haven't heard from you for quite a while now, and as I am considering the advisability of making a personal visit to some of the various places or centers where I have done considerable work, I thought I would drop you a line. I feel possibly now that I will be in Birmingham somewhere about the middle of next month, and I'm wondering if you would feel like cooperating with me a bit in seeing some of the people who have been interested and who may be interested in the work we are trying to do. We are making October the month to make a special drive for memberships to the Association, also the time when we will solicit contributions from those who are interested in the gathering of data and the furtherance of work as may be manifested through the phenomena in which we are interested. Possibly a personal visit will be the best way to do this. What do you think of the idea?
I shall be pleased to hear from you, and I am in hopes your health has improved to the point where you are feeling your normal self again.
Thanking you for past favors and interest, and hoping to hear from you real soon, I am
Sincerely, Edgar Cayce EC:GD
10/01/27 [2675]'s letter to EC:
Dear Cayce:
You will have to excuse my tardiness about correspondence. I have developed a put off habit during the last few months that gives me a great deal of trouble. Several times I have thought that I would write you a word of encouragement concerning your new organization, or reorganization, but I would always let something step between.
Excepting an attack of "grippe" with all the unpleasantness that goes with it, I feel very well. The old trouble that we have been hearing so much about is disappearing slowly but surely. I am confident that in time it will be entirely gone.
I have read the little pamphlet which you sent me two or three times. I have a very favorable impression, Cayce, of the way you have set this up. I have long wondered why you didn't do something of this sort. You have been reluctant of course to do anything that would put you in the light of commercializing these gifts which you have, but you probably know by now that this or something like is an absolute necessity to make your service effective in a big and broad way. There must be some standards of compensation set if the work is to sustain itself, and of course it must sustain itself if it is to function. I think that the standards which you have set here are very liberal indeed. It is unthinkable how one who profits at all by your service could complain about the requirements you have set forth.
Now Cayce, just a word about your reference to a drive for new members. I don't want to be misunderstood here. Your association can be enlarged and it ought to be enlarged, and one way to do it is by personal contact of those who have found it a good thing and benefited by it, made with the rest of the world - with those who might be interested in it and might be helped by it. But I suppose you realize what a delicate and difficult task you have here. For example: I approached a friend of mine on this subject some time ago, a fellow that I thought you might be able to help. During the past he has agreed with me on most things, seems to have some confidence in my judgement. He let me down so hard that I didn't feel like saying anything more to him about it - "A lot of bologny", was the way he put it. Now, this fellow is very intelligent, and ordinarily, he is open-minded and liberal; that is, on most subjects he is; on this, few people are. The very nature of the work itself makes it doubly difficult to advance in this way. Two or three severe "let-downs" of this kind have made me exceedingly slow to mention my interest in this work or my experience with it to anybody but the most trusted friend, and a friend that I know to have pretty much the same kind of mental processes that I have. I HAVE gotten benefits through it, but I doubt whether EVERYBODY WOULD. I don't know whether you agree with me about that or not - you are in a better position to know than I am. Anyway, I am certain that not everybody could be made to believe in it. I think that a man ought to be drawn toward a thing of this kind, if at all, of an interest from within himself. I have little faith in a man's chance to profit by something that has to be preached into him FROM THE OUTSIDE.
If you do decide to come down this way, of course I will be mighty glad to see you. I guess that I will be here. I have under consideration taking a place up at Detroit, but have made no decision about it, so as far as I know, will be here at least through next month. In case I am not, look up my Father, in the ... department, ... bldg. - ... He will be glad to meet you and will gladly give you any assistance that he can. I will request that he do so.
I am very much unsettled, Cayce, about my plans just at present. That is, I am unsettled as to ways and means. I am not at all unsettled about the end in view. It is my purpose to square up some indebtedness, incurred partly in connection with my past schooling and partly as a result of my last illness and period of unemployment, and then, to spend a little time - probably about a year - in final preparation, and get into the work for which I KNOW that I am fitted. This intimate revealization [revelation?] is made to you because I know that you are interested in my plans as a result of your past advice to me along this line. I am a little slow getting around to this due to circumstances over which I had no control, but eventually, I am gong to take that advice. You can stamp that with finality.
I think you are headed the right way, and I wish I had pep enough to give you a worth while shove at this time. Let me know how you are getting along as you go along, and in case you do decide to come down, don't fail to look me up. My telephone number is ...
Sincerely yours, [2675]
P.S. Your association mailed me a membership blank, but as usual, it got lost. If it is not too much trouble, send me another and I will fill out & return.
10/14/27 EC's letter to [2675]:
Dear [2675]
I was very glad to have yours of the 1st, and I certainly am in hopes that if I do get down to Birmingham you will still be there, for I would like to see you again, talk over many of the conditions and circumstances that led to the perfecting of the organization to handle the requests for information through these sources. Also I'd like to talk to you at length concerning the ideas and ideals of the Association, for of course - as you no doubt have gathered from the little literature that was sent you - the hospital is only ONE of the features of the Association, or, in fact, it might be termed the physical clearing house in which an application could be made of information obtained. I realize that it's very much as you said about the way your friends felt about the matter when you spoke to them of it - a great many people consider it a lot of blarney and nothing to it, but we believe that we have sufficient evidence to prove that it is more than worth while being considered. One of our trustees, a real big business man of Chicago [Franklin F. Bradley], also a man who for a number of years has been responsible for the Boy Scout movement in the northwest - spent a few days with us looking over the situation at first hand. Of course he had contacted the work directly, though by mail rather than in person, six or eight months ago. He accepted the place as a trustee, tentatively, until he could have more opportunity to study the situation and to verify many of the findings of the data gathered. Last Monday he assured us that he desired to wholeheartedly cooperate with the movement, for he felt it was one of the biggest undertakings that had ever been attempted along benevolent and educational lines - one that deserved the support and consideration of those who desire to see their brother benefited by broader educational lines than have heretofore been undertaken. You know - while I was in Birmingham I was under a strain a great deal of the time. The surroundings were not always in keeping with the intent and purport of the work, yet I had felt that possibly of the hundreds whom I tried to help there were possibly a sufficient number who would still be interested in seeing the actual development of the ideal as they must have gained a vision of through their contact with the work at that time. Possibly there would be a great deal of individuals to see, but my desire was to be able to possibly present the matter through some of the various clubs of your city that I addressed when I was there years ago. Of course you say why not address a communication, then, to secretary of these clubs? But the old order has changed. I haven't kept in touch with these. Do you suppose it would be possible for you to see or meet with some of these clubs and suggest my seeing them again? Such as The Writers Club - I don't know who is an officer in this club - possibly if you would see A. B. Bealle at The Birmingham News (an editorial writer) he could give you an idea. The Unity Club, the Psychology Club, the Practical Psychology Club, or any of the rest of the groups of peoples who are studying various phases of the phenomena of life, and might be interested in these things. Dr. J. H. Tinder, the Optometrist in the Woodward Building would be another individual to see. Attorney R. B. Evins, also in the Woodward Building would be another one for you to see. Mrs. Miriam Woodward Bethea - you will find her in the telephone book - I am sure she would be glad to help if you would see her, or speak with her over the phone about it. Her address is 2811 Highland Avenue. Mrs. W. D. Tynes, 1705 Avenue L, I think is a member of The Writers Club, and one who was very much interested in the work at the time I was there. And if you would, I can give you the names of quite a number of people whom I am sure - some one - would cooperate with you in this matter. I believe - once on the ground - I can show them that I have made progress, and that this is not just a fly-by-night scheme, nor anything else other than a sincere desire on the part of an individual wanting to serve his fellow man better through these sources that have been invaluable to thousands of people all over the country.
Let me hear what you think about working along these lines - and let me know right away, for I will have other appointments to make and I DO want to give the people there who are really interested an opportunity to join in on a real work toward gaining a better understanding of man's relation to man and man's relation to his Maker.
Thanking you for your letter, and for the favors you have shown, and asking your cooperation if it's possible for you to give it at this time, I am
Sincerely, Edgar Cayce EC:GD
11/07/27 He wrote EC from Tennessee where apparently he was working as a "salesman." He requested a Physical Reading for his mother, also asked EC to write to his father in regard to it. He also mentioned a nice young lady who was having quite an influence on his life, having started calling him by his other given name, saying that the one he had been using was "sissy", etc.
5/28/28 [2675]'s letter to EC:
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Mr. Edgar Cayce, Virginia Beach, Va.
Dear Cayce:
I haven't heard from you in so long, and haven't written to ANYBODY in so long - save an occasional letter home - that I think we had better connect up a bit and see just what is coming of each other.
I left Birmingham Oct 15, came to Memphis, loafed for awhile, visited some friends; caught the worse cold I have had in ten years; was admitted as an emergency case to the Veterans Hospital there, and as soon as they got me up, they went to work on me to see if they could find what was wrong. The enclosed letter [to be returned] describes briefly and in the main what they found. They found some sinus infection and a rotten pair of tonsils which they took out after their report was forwarded to the Breneman[?] headquarters. I stayed there sixty days on continuous treatment; felt much better; came to Tusla with the idea of going to work; got sick again, went to the Breneman's[?] Southwest Regional Hospital at Muskosee, Okla., where the same diagnosis was made. Two of their best institutions on stomach trouble, each working independently of the other and each ignorant of the finding of the other, coming to the same conclusion: I guess I really have some ulcers, both gastric and duodenal.
So then, we have here, the medical men's names for "that condition existent" that we heard so much about during 1926-27. This diagnosis is further verified by the fact that I have grown gradually better on the treatment recommended by them. They had me on milk exclusively while in both hospitals, and they recommended a soft-food diet for at least two years.
That was my greatest trouble while at home - diet. I got many helpful hints from the reading about this, but not knowing just what the trouble was that I driving at, had to find out mainly by "hit and miss" methods just what I could eat and what I couldn't. This was a tremendous handicap and was very confusing, because I found that things that agreed with me perfectly today, next week, or next month would knock in completely out - symptoms, complexes and reactions changing all the time.
I am on my feet again now and will I think be ready for duty in another month. However, I will have to take it easy for sometime because this condition got such a run on me that I barely missed another operation.
I wrote to you from Memphis about mother. She had made up her mind then that she wanted you to give her a reading. She is much better now. She has bad spells now and then and threatens in her mood of despondency to call on you, but she always gets better just as she makes up her mind to do so. Mother never has been and probably never will be strong since a Caesarian[?] operation she had twenty years ago. However her trouble is of the chronic kind and not so vicious, acute and treacherous as is the trouble my younger brother has: now, about this brother of mine:
During the months immediately before I left home he was having fainting spells with a whole mess of symptoms that were very confusing to the doctors. I confided to him the highly satisfactory results I had gotten from some of the readings and urged him to try them himself. He was not at all receptive to my suggestions, but was even a bit hypercritical about my "tinkering" with it. In fact, the emphatic blunt way in which he put his criticism, frankly hurt my feelings. He is, or was, skeptical along such lines because he hasn't had the experience that I have had. He is a fine boy though, a much better boy in many ways than his brother. I am anxious of course for him to get rid of this trouble because it is such a tremendous handicap to him in his work.
I resolved then and there that I would say nothing to anybody again about my connections and experiences with these readings. I concluded that if I could not talk to my own brother on the subject - intimate, confidential and mutually sympathetic as we are on most things, I could not talk to anybody. I do not say that it CANNOT be done, or OUGHT not to be done in this way; I only say that I cannot do it.
The association is of course at liberty to use any of my testimonials in any way that they see fit, publicly or otherwise. I have no apologies to make for my enthusiasm for this. That is MY business. I only wish I were in the position to get behind you in a really worthwhile way. Any service that I can be to you I expect you to let me know.
From the tone of brother's letter tone, and his remarks to mother, quoted in her letters tome I judge he is entirely ripe for a reading. He is getting no better and has lost confidence in the medical service he is receiving. However, I will say nothing more to him about it. Personally I feel that you would probably be able to help him; certainly it would do no harm to try. If he writes to you HIMSELF asking for a reading, please arrange one for him and consider it a favor to me.
Kindly return the enclosed. I might need it in case I decide to bear down on this a little and try to collect a meal ticket. "Gen. Del." will get me for another month. I am staying in the county north of here most of the time, but make trips to town three or four times each week.
Best regards to you and yours.
6/13/28 EC's letter to [2675]:
Dear [2675]
We have often thought and spoken of you, and wondered why we hadn't heard from you. I met your father and mother, and brother, when I was in Birmingham in January. Your father spoke of having a reading for your mother, and also for your brother, but I haven't heard anything from them since I left there. There was some discussion with the City Health Authorities about my giving readings, and of course I didn't want to go to the bat with them - as we had too much at stake with the undertaking of the building here, to get in any lengthy discussion at this time - and it isn't worth it! If they don't want to believe I don't want to try to make them believe. In fact, I haven't time. I'm too busy trying to help these who do believe, and who ARE getting results.
I'd like very much to be of help to your mother and brother, but I haven't heard from them as yet. I suppose from the report you sent (which I'm returning) you will be going home sometime in the very near future. When you do, if you do, if you desire that we try and give you information concerning yourself, you know we will be mighty glad to undertake it. We have been hoping you would find the chance to get to Virginia Beach.
We trust we will get started with the building in the next few days. Should be ready for patients by the middle, anyway, of September.
Certainly appreciate your writing me, [2675] and will be glad to hear from you whenever you have the opportunity.
With kindest personal regards and best wishes,
Sincerely, Edgar Cayce EC:GD [Dictated but not read]
3/20/29 Morton H. Blumenthal's letter to [2675]:
Birmingham, Ala.
Dear Mr. [2675]
The Trustees of the Association of National Investigators, Inc., take this occasion to announce the opening of the Association hospital - namely, the Cayce Hospital of Research and Enlightenment, at Virginia Beach, Virginia - on February 11, 1929. This institution is now completed, equipped and ready to receive patients.
The Board congratulates the members of the Association and desire to express its appreciation for the efforts they have made towards the erection of this institution. The board further assures you that without your assistance this project could never have been completed. You, who have been a member of our Association, already are aware of the fact that the work of our Association carried on in the Cayce Hospital must go far, not only to relieve the sick and aid the suffering, but also must it so enlighten the minds of many people as to bring a revealing light into the world, the holy rays of which will brighten the path of many a weary traveler on earth.
The Board of Trustees invites you to visit and, if you have need, to USE your hospital - the offices of which are now at your service. The members of the Board of Trustees have faith in their organization, in it and in its members, that together we may be steadfast in our effort to reveal a breadth of vision, a scope of experience, and a continuity of life to which the race at this time is barely awakening. We have, as an organization, but to individually and collectively fulfil the ideals of the Association to become a powerful factor in the good we may accomplish for humanity, and to enjoy the creation of our handiwork. Won't you re-join us in our work of service to humanity?
Yours very sincerely, [Morton H. Blumenthal] Chairman of the Board of Trustees
4/22/30 [2675]'s letter to EC:
Birmingham, Alabama
Dear Cayce:
This news item which I happened to come across in our local paper [see below] sets me to thinking about you again, and wondering about your work. Not that I had forgotten you. I have just been jumping around so much that I have neglected to keep in touch with you. I was out in Texas and Oklahoma for three years ending about a year ago. I think that I wrote to you once from Tulsa and received a letter from you while I was there. Does the institution to which this refers have something to do with your Association? I should like to hear more about it from time to time if it does. Several pieces of printed matter concerning the work of the A.O.N. I have been received by me, all forwarded, most of them, I think, received. I especially enjoyed the little booklet by Mr. [900] [See 900-340 Reports], received several months ago, and the quarterly publication, received a few days ago [4/30 issue of THE NEW TOMORROW].
In view of our past contact and relations, as well as our friendship, you will want to know how I am getting along. I feel fairly well at the present time, though the examinations reveal that my condition is not entirely corrected. I still have some trouble now and then; but I am told - and my experience verifies it - that the only remedy is rest and attention in particular to diet whenever I do have trouble. I guess the trouble will quit altogether eventually, though it has certainly been a knotty problem! I was in pretty bad shape when I came home about a year ago, and I intended to ask you to see what help you could give me, but I soon got much better; went to New Orleans and stayed for a time; am now back at Birmingham, for, I think an indefinite period.
The economic depression here is worse than I have ever seen, but there are signs that the situation is improving slowly, and it is expected to be much better within a few months. The condition is general, all over the country, as you of course well know; but Birmingham has been especially hard hit. I hope that it has not affected you people there in a very vital way.
Thanks for the printed matter concerning the work and progress of the Association. I am behind some with my dues, but I have made a note of it and will send it in just as soon as I have a little cash ahead. You know, of course, that I still have a sincere and enthusiastic interest in all you are doing and hope to do. If I can help you in any way, please let me know.
Very sincerely yours, [2675]
[Enclosed newspaper article:]
NEW COLLEGE TO BE OPENED
Psychic Research Included In Curriculum
NEW YORK, April 17 - A new college, to be known as Atlantic University will be opened in September at Virginia Beach, Va., according to an announcement by Morton H. Blumenthal, member of the New York stock exchange.
Opportunities for psychic research and study of the fourth dimension will be offered advanced and graduate students, in addition to the usual curriculum, said Blumenthal, who is chairman of the board of the new institution.
5/01/30 EC's letter to [2675]:
[2675] Birmingham, Alabama
Dear [2675]
Very glad to have yours of the 22nd of April, and to hear from you again. I hope you have been receiving the various pieces of data we have been sending out from time to time, as we would like for those who ARE interested in our undertaking to be acquainted with what is going on.
The hospital has been really a greater success than we had ever anticipated. We are having to add new buildings already, though we have been through a good many hardships - if they be looked at in that way and manner - but the institution is kept full practically all the time, and I feel that we are getting some real results. I trust that as soon as you find time you may be able to come and visit us. When sufficient time has elapsed for us to have gathered scientific data, we hope to make some announcements that will be worth while to a great many people who are interested in the application of that which may be obtained for the benefit of man in ALL of his development. Of course, the university is not an outgrowth of the HOSPITAL, but it's an outgrowth of the work of the Association, who has been studying - or who is studying - the phenomena of life IN its various phases, instigated probably THROUGH the phenomena as has been manifested through me. I have thought of you a good many times, and have wondered just how things were going with you, and how you were getting along. I have been in hopes that I would have an opportunity to get to Birmingham this Spring. It looks like I've been kept so busy, with so much going on here, that it's almost an impossibility to get away. Trust you will have the chance to get in and see us sometime. We can't explain to anyone just what IS going on, unless they can see it themselves.
Sincerely, EC:GD
10/11/40 HLC wrote requesting a report on his readings, telling him of the 1940 Expansion Program of the A.R.E., and sending him a report of the Dedication Ceremonies of the vault and offices at Arctic Circle for housing the readings.
10/18/40 [2675]'s letter to HLC:
Birmingham, Alabama.
Mr. Hugh Lynn Cayce, Manager, Association of Research and Enlightenment, Virginia Beach, Virginia
Dear Mr. Cayce:
Acknowledging your letter of October 11, 1940, I do remember the Physical readings and also the life Reading given for me several years ago.
You ask that I tell you specifically what I thought of the Readings.
With reference to the Physical Readings, all that I can tell you is just what happened. The first of these Readings was given by your father here, at the Tutwiler Hotel, as I recall, during the year 1919. I did the things that I was told to do, and for a time felt much better. I do not recall much about the subsequent Readings except in a general way.
The Life Reading was the most interesting to me. I did the best that I could to follow the suggestions contained therein, I hope with some results.
Please remember me to your father, whom I met on two or more occasions and regard as one of the finest men I have ever known. The literature about his work is interesting. As soon as I have something to give I am going to send you a contribution for the vault and other things you need. This contribution will probably be a modest one, but will be a token of my appreciation and desire to cooperate.
Very sincerely, [2675]
11/07/40 HLC's letter to [2675]:
Mr. [2675] Birmingham, Ala.
Dear Mr. [2675]
Thank you for your letter of October 18th. We appreciate your interest in my father's work and are glad to know that you benefited through your Readings.
Under separate cover, we are sending you some data on the Life Readings. Any questions you may have regarding your own reading will gladly be answered.
I am glad to know that you are interested in sending a contribution for our Expansion Program. We believe that this is an opportunity to cooperate in a research program that will mean a great deal to many people.
We will look forward to hearing from you again.
Sincerely yours, [signed] Hugh Lynn Cayce, Manager.
1/48 Card was sent to all A.R.E. members and those on mailing list of THERE IS A RIVER in Tom Breneman's Magazine, part I and II, 2/48 and 3/48 issues.
3/02/48 [2675]'s letter to HLC:
Mr. Hugh Lynn Cayce, Ass. for Research and Enlightenment, Virginia Beach, Va.
Dear Mr. Cayce:
I received your card and got and have read Mr. Thomas Sugrue's There Is a River, the story of your father's Life. It is an entertaining informative and inspiring story about one of the most lovable individuals I have ever met.
Let me pick up with you where we left off in our correspondence of October and November 1940. A lot of water has gone under the bridge and over the dam during those years you asked me to give you my reactions to and the results of the several Readings for myself. What I wrote you was from a rather dim memory, accurate as to essential substance as far as it went, but incomplete as to record.
You see my copies of the Readings got lost or destroyed along about 1930, and I could only remember the results in a very general way. This much I do distinctly recall: that I met your Father at a local hotel early 1923, and he gave me a physical Reading which said something about "poor hepatic circulation", prescribed some capsules containing several elements, one of which I had some difficulty in finding, but ultimately located and took. There were recommended also some special cold baths along the spine and rubdowns which I followed accurately and persistently for some time with excellent results. I felt so much better for awhile that I learned to look upon this routine as a cure-all in my case; but was disappointed to try it two years later with not nearly so good results.
I switched around from one treatment to another in the years that followed and no matter what I tried it seemed to lose its good effects, if any, as time went on.
Early in 1927 I got completely down, passed going, and asked your Father to give me another Reading.
In this an operation was one of the things recommended and there were certain things suggested in preparation for that. Dr. Cunningham Wilson here had already told me that I needed an operation. I asked for this, and performed it together with Dr. Frank Wilson in April 1927. (I never said a word to them about knowing your Father). The operation was not a success. I could not eat the things I was expected to eat and did not gain strength. In October 1927 the Veterans Hospital at Memphis told me that I had stomach ulcers put me to bed and treated me for that. Meanwhile I had asked your Father for another Reading and in this, osteopathic adjustments were one of the phases of treatment recommended. Dr. Percy Woodall gave me these. I felt much better for a time, but soon thereafter left Birmingham, and did not find it convenient or possible to get the adjustments and other service where I was. I would get better, then worse, better then worse, and that has been my case history throughout. I remember being told in the Life Reading that some difficult years were ahead for me; and I have thought of that warning often during two decades of practically nothing but frustration and disillusionment. One can not live a lifetime in an environment that creates nothing but DOUBTS and not accumulate some doubts. I realize that I have got to re-educate MY OWN SELF to remove these doubts. But I MUST have an OPPORTUNITY for such re-education. I can not lift myself by the bootstraps. Nobody can.
I said in writing to you that the Life Readings were the most interesting to me because they present a POSSIBLE explanation for some theories that have always bothered deeply my religious thought. For instance a new born or even an unborn baby is burned in a fire. Sin, you say? Certainly not the baby's sin, which could not know right from wrong. We could go on with a thousand examples of tragedies in which apparently innocent people suffer and die through no visible fault of their own. No theology that I have ever come across explains this to my satisfaction. If God has kept these phenomena in His control, and if He is ALL POWERFUL and ALL GOOD, why does He let these things happen. The Readings explain this in a reasonable way. BUT "to know and not to do is sin" (p. 315)
If I ever get started away from here I am going to pay you and your Father a visit. I want him to give me another check Reading, but first, I want a confidential talk with him about the others, and a comparison as to results in other like cases. I also want to look at your place and see what you are doing.
I am sorry that I have as of now no money to contribute to your needs for fireproof vault and other things. Soon as I can recover from "The more abundant Life" and "The Ear of wonderful non-sense" will send you a few dollars.
I'm reading Mr. Sugrue's book. I wept over the attitude of suspicion and practice of persecution of most of the medical Fraternity toward you Father's work. One would think that THEIR astonishing error, most of them known only to themselves and to God, would make of them ALL, humble men.
I do not know what this is all about, nor do I know what electricity is. But when I turn on my light switch I can see, when I turn it off, I am in the dark again, so I know it is there, whether I understand it or not.
Again to tell you how much I have enjoyed the book, and remember me to your dear Father.
Faithfully [2675]
Birmingham Ala.
4/05/48 HLC's letter to [2675]:
Mr. [2675] Birmingham, Ala.
Dear Mr [2675]
Thank you for your letter of March 2nd.
I am sorry to have to tell you that my father died in January of 1945. We are carrying on the study and publicizing of his remarkable records under our Association. I am sending you some literature on our activities and will welcome you as a member of our group.
If you have an opportunity, do visit us here at the Headquarters and see just what is being done at the present time.
Let us hear from you again.
Sincerely yours, Hugh Lynn Cayce HLC/dm