This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 11th day of September, 1942, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [2812], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by a New York acquaintance.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Hugh Lynn Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.

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1. HLC: You will go over this body carefully, examine it thoroughly, and tell me the conditions you find at the present time; giving the cause of the existing conditions, also suggestions for help and relief of this body. You will answer the questions, as I ask them:
2. EC: Yes - [in undertone] - unusual decorations of the house -
3. Yes, we have the body here, [2812].
4. In giving the interpretations of the disturbance as we find with this body, and the applications as may be made for the correcting of same, - it is well that this body understand the premise from which such interpretation is made.
5. The ideals of the entity are beyond reproach, in any form. This, however, the entity should interpret in its own experience:
6. There are gifts to the body. These are not merely the result of material study or physical practise, but that the voice, the personality, may be used to the glory of God.
7. Remember, then, in meeting the difficulties, (that disturb the body) that His first injunction to man was to SUBDUE THE EARTH.
8. This, then, interpreted in the practical experience of individuals in a material world, - through neglect, indifference or non-care by many an individual entity or soul, those influences have been loosed that are to be subdued - yet - in man's experience.
9. Oft we find in the experience of an individual entity, as this entity, there may be those experiences that may be called a race influence, heredity, environment, that cause disturbing forces in the material or physical body.
10. Yet He, the Father-God, has seen these from the beginning, and has given that He hath not willed that any soul should perish; nor that any individual entity should not in peace, in harmony, build those purposes whereunto it hath been called, or whereunto the spirit of truth has purposed in an entity's consciousness. But He has prepared the way that this may be accomplished - by subduing the earth.
11. Thus things mechanical, things prepared from nature, things that are a part of the consciousness of individuals as well as the spiritual must be taken into consideration. For, there is the physical body, the mental body, and the soul or spiritual body. They each have their environs. They each have their attributes. But they are ONE.
12. Each influence, then, has to bear upon that particular phase of the consciousness not wholly in accord. Thus, though there may be mechanical or medicinal applications for the welfare of the physical body, these are to attune the body to that consciousness which makes or brings it aware of its relationship to the spiritual or God-force. Just as the clay, the spittle upon the eyes of the blind had that effect to bring the awareness of the presence of the Creative Force or God to those granulated lids, in the experience of that individual.
13. Just as they were told to wash themselves with pure water and present themselves to the priest. The fulfilling of that in their experience brought the awareness, the attunement of body, mind and soul to the oneness of purpose.
14. In this body, then, there are those hindrances to the supplying of the normal flow of the superficial circulation through the irritations to the mucous membranes, that are a part of the physical disturbances or conditions in the body; brought about by a deflection in the cerebrospinal system that also increases the deflection to the lower portion of the body, and supplies that which to the body-consciousness becomes an uncomeliness - in limb, in body, through this deflection. It also deflects the superficial circulation when the membranes are acted upon by pollen at certain seasons. Thus odors of certain things bring nausea to the body.
15. This will require, then, that mechanical adjustments be made osteopathically in the coccyx, the lumbar, the 9th dorsal, and from the 3rd and 4th dorsal to the 1st cervical; alleviating then those disturbances and allowing for a normal flow.
16. We would have such adjustments in series. In the first series, have two each week until at least ten adjustments have been made; gently relaxing those centers from the 3rd and 4th dorsal to the 1st cervical.
17. Then after a rest period from those for a week, begin with the corrections; THESE adjustments to be made in the coccyx and the lumbar and lower portion of the 9th dorsal. These would be made only once a week, and there would be required about six. And when these adjustments are made, coordinate the upper dorsal and cervical with same.
18. When the first series of treatments has been completed, the conditions should be much improved; but continue until the full corrections have been made as indicated.
19. And every few months afterwards we would have again a few more adjustments in the coccyx, lumbar, and lower portion of the 9th dorsal, to keep these in alignment.
20. Doing these, and with this consciousness as indicated of God's purpose, through the saving grace in the experience of the Master, there will be brought not only the greater physical abilities but the greater symmetrical figure, the greater abilities to fill those mental and spiritual activities that bring hope and grace into the consciousness.
21. And he that brings hope in the awareness of the God- consciousness indeed makes miracles in the lives the hearers.
22. As an antiseptic for throat and nasal passages we would use an inhalant, - not a spray, but the fumes alone from properties prepared in this manner:
23. Put these in a large-mouth eight ounce bottle, prepared with two vents just protruding through the cork, and so that the vents may also be corked to prevent too great an evaporation.
24. To 4 ounces of Pure Grain Alcohol, add - in the order named:

    Compound Tincture of Benzoin......20 minims,
Tolu in Solution..................20 minims,
Rectified Oil of Turp..............5 minims,
Oil of Eucalyptol.................30 minims.

    Use this at least three times each day. When ready to be used, shake the solution, remove the small corks, and inhale through the nostril and deep into the bronchi, larynx and lungs. This is an antiseptic, and is to remove the strain already caused upon the mucous membranes of the throat, nasal passages. It will also clarify those disturbances that come to the eyes, the face at times, from the deflected circulation.
25. Each evening when ready to retire, massage the body thoroughly with a combination of oils prepared in this manner.
26. To 8 ounces of Nujol as the base, warm, put 5 tablespoonsful of melted Cocoa Butter. Then add, in the order named:

    Peanut Oil.........................4 ounces,
Lanolin, dissolved.................1 tablespoonful.

    Shake these ingredients together, and each evening when ready to retire begin around the ankle and massage around and into the body this solution, into the limbs especially; just shaking together and pouring into an open container sufficient to do the massaging of the limbs - toward the body, see?
27. Keep this up regularly for at least six months at a time. Then leave off for a period of some two to three months. At that time it would be well to have some more adjustments in the coccyx, lumbar and lower portion of the 9th dorsal, see?
28. Do these, and we will have bettered conditions; relieving these tendencies for the veins to engorge along the inside of the limbs, along the ankle and the calf of the leg; for these will be beneficial.
29. Do that.
30. Ready for questions.
31. (Q) Will the suggested treatment permanently overcome the hay fever and asthma that appears every August?
    (A) Read what we have just given.
    Do these, and with every application, and in thy meditation, let these be as thy purposes:
    FATHER-GOD! IN THY PROMISES TO THY SERVANTS THOU HAST PROMISED TO HEAR, THROUGH THY SON IN THE EARTH. I, THY HANDMAID, COME SEEKING, THAT THOU WOULD CREATE IN MY BODY, IN MY MIND, IN MY HOPES AND PURPOSES, THAT THOU WOULDST HAVE ME BE, - IN BODY, IN MIND, IN SOUL. USE ME, LORD, WHOLLY IN THY SERVICE.
32. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. 9/03/42 [2812]'s letter to EC:
   Mr. Edgar Cayce Assn for Research & Enlightenment, Inc. Virginia Beach, Va.
   Dear Mr. Cayce:-
   It was indeed kind of you to send your little book to me by special delivery last night. I guess, somehow, you must have known how urgent my need is at this particular time for your assistance. I read the book entirely through and I am more convinced than ever that the work you are and have been doing is indeed a beautiful one and that there is no reason that you should not be able to assist me.
   For some years now I have been completely and wholly interested in the guidance and work of the spirit. I have studied the Bible and all the reputable literature that has been available to me on this subject and on many occasions have had demonstrations that were altogether wonderful. So it is with complete faith and openness to receive that I come to you at this time.
   First of all the problem of immediate importance is this condition that medicine calls hay fever and asthma that has appeared each and every August since I was around eight or nine years old. I have gone to other climates several years and at those times always the condition has been lighter. I have been given the scratch test to determine exactly what causes the trouble and have been given so much serum - seventy some shots in all - that now the doctor refuses to give me any more - the last shot almost having taken my life. I have tried just about everything possible - however, let me explain that these treatments were all given me several years ago. Since developing the mental and spiritual side of my life I have almost entirely done away with medicine. I have been able to demonstrate over so many things that have come to me and been successful that this year I made up my mind that this condition was no longer going to hold any power over me and so I started to work. I have studied, fasted and made my Bible my constant companion. The time for my trouble to begin came and went and I was fine - then a few days ago it started much different than ever before, but enough to make it impossible for me to continue with my work as a singer. That has been first of all importance with me and it is because of this physical difficulty that each fall of the year when everyone has been starting on their winter's work I have been sitting around waiting for my voice to clear. With God's help I know that this no longer has to be. So this is the first thing I want you to tell me about.
   Then there are several other things I would like to have you assist me with. One being that I am five foot three and one half inches tall - rather small boned and though I'm not considered a large woman at all I am much too large from my waist down. Especially for my work my hips and legs are too large. Everything I have ever done to lose weight has failed to have any effect on them, but has succeeded in making me look sick in the face and upset me otherwise. So, if you can advise me with this, it will be a tremendous help.
   Then another condition that isn't bad as yet, but is a condition that seems to exist in our family is a tendency toward a breaking of the surface veins of my body. I would like to know what I can do to stop this permanently.
   Also I have in the last few years noticed that I am getting a few white hairs in one place in the top of my head - though they are not noticeable as yet I feel sure it is because of some deficiency in my system and I know that it can be overcome.
   I have several moles on my body that should be taken off - three that I was born with and so I would like to be advised about this.
   Then though every examination of my eyes in the past have proven my eyes to be perfect I have, for no apparent reason at all, every once in a while a red eye - sometimes it is one and sometimes the other. They are not painful, but quite annoying and it always happens when I have something in particular to do. The doctor says it is nothing that amounts to anything, but I want to know what you can find out about this.
   If there is any other condition that you find in going over me that I should know about I will appreciate your assistance on it.
   I am enclosing the money order for twenty dollars for my membership to the Association and my reading. As I am confined to the house, any hour you choose will be agreeable for my reading.
   Thanking you in advance and wishing you continued success in this great work, I am
   Sincerely yours, [2812]

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