3/17/43 G. Stearns' ltr. to EC:
FOUNDATION FOR HOMEOPATHIC RESEARCH, INC.
NEW YORK
853 Seventh Avenue
New York City
Mr. Edgar Cayce,
Atlantic City,
New Jersey
Dear Mr. Cayce,
I am sorry that I could not get to see you when you were in
New York recently but I have not been well enough for quite
a long time, to go out evenings and rarely in the daytime.
I have often had you in mind since the time, several years
ago, when you were in my office and made a reading for one
of my patients [
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it was too late to help the patient. My interest in your
work has remained fresh and Mr. Sugrue's book has stirred
up my interest again and stirred a thought that has been
in the background of my mind for a long time. In your
reading, you frequently recommend a "homeopathic remedy".
To the average individual who does not know Homeopathy,
a homeopathic remedy is one that is given in small amounts.
As a matter of fact, it is homeopathic only when it is so
closely related to the patient that, if the patient were
healthy and this remedy were given, it would cause the same
type of symptoms that he is at present suffering from. In
other words, the homeopathicity depends upon sensitiveness
of the patient to that particular drug. The cures that come
from a drug having a true homeopathic relationship are quite
miraculous.
Hahnemann wrote an "Organon" which contained the basic
principles of Homeopathy. This was translated a few years
ago by C. E. Wheeler, M.D., of London, England, for
publication by "Everyman's Library". I am sending you a
copy of this to you and, if it is not presumptuous, I
suggest that you put this under your pillow some night and
allow it to tell you whatever it has to tell. I believe
that your homeopathic prescriptions would be much more
accurate because your subconscious would have come nearer to
the spirit of Hahnemann.
If you would allow me, I would be glad to send you a Materia
Medica of Hahnemann and also a photograph of a bust of
Hahnemann that was made from a life mask. This bust was
given by Hahnemann to Dr. J. A. Biegler who came to this
country and practised in New Orleans. He gave it to his
son. When Dr. Biegler died he left it to his Dr. Edmund
Carleton and when Dr. Carleton died he left it to his son
Spencer Carleton and when he died it came to me. A
photograph of this bust might continue the impression which
was imparted to the life mask and also to the bust he handed
to Dr. Biegler. With this photograph you could come closer
in contact with the spirit of what he taught.
There are comparatively few among the physicians who graduate
from homeopathic colleges who are truly homeopathic. The
International Hahnemannian Assn. is made up of the simon pure
users of the homeopathic method, the [that] through them, the
spirit of Homeopathy has survived but as perhaps you know,
there legally cannot be any special school of medicine any
longer. At present, nearly all homeopathic hospitals have
been closed as such and only one homeopathic college remains
and that one is so overwhelmed by requirements other than
homeopathic that it is altogether losing its identity.
Please accept from me in Organon, translated by
C. E. Wheeler, who is a follower of Hahnemann in England.
I will try to find an old Materia Medica which has been
used by the good homeopathists, if possible.
Sincerely yours, [signed] Guy Beckley Stearns
President
Foundation for Homeopathic Research
March 17, 1943
3/19/43 EC's ltr. to G. Stearns:
My Dear Dr. Stearns;-
Thank you so very much for yours of the 17th. Feel very much
complimented, Dr., that you remember me. Have wished often
when was in New York that might run in and have a chat with
you - recall with great pleasure the few times have had the
opportunity to talk with you, and always with help to myself
am sure.
Do appreciate your thought of me and your wish that I have
a copy of the "Organon" - will be most happy to have it and
trust may be able to use as you suggest. If by same, may
be able to serve better those who seek help through this
channel, I realize of myself can do nothing, only the spirit
of Truth may work in and through me.
And the Materia Medica - that will be wonderful and the
photograph. THANK you, Dr., is all that I can say. Shall
strive to use what ever you may send in a service to my
fellow man - for others. Lord, that I Pray to be of a
help to others. Can't tell you just how much I appreciate
your thinking of me and wishing me to have these things.
Do hope you will be feeling better soon and not too distant
a time you will come down and see us here and have the chance
to have a good long talk with you.
Didn't know about the change in schools and etc. You see, I
have never known just why the information has given what is
called Homeopathic remedies, unless it was the first real
scientific interest was shown by one of that school and
the Research Society in Boston in 1910.
Thanking you again, do hope you may see you when am again
in N.Y. and thanking you for every thing you have been and
are doing for me
And with every good wish
Sincerely [signed] Edgar Cayce
3/22/43 G. Stearns' ltr. to EC:
GUY BECKLEY STEARNS, M.D.
APT. 10-D, 854 SEVENTH AVENUE
NEW YORK CITY TELEPHONE: CIRCLE 7-5980
Dear Mr. Cayce,
Thank you for your good letter of March 19th, wherein you
expressed your willingness and desire to get in touch with
the homeopathic method of practice. After I sent you the
Organon, I also had sent to you "A New Synthesis", which
is out last summing-up of the homeopathic principles and
their relation to known aspects of physics. I will have
a photograph made of the bust and mail to you shortly.
In the meantime, I extend you my best wishes and gratitude
that you appear to be as eager as I am to enter into this
research.
Sincerely yours, [signed] Guy Beckley Stearns
P.S. Under separate cover I am sending you a homeopathic
book published in 1953 by one of the good early homeopathists
and another one, published in 1877, by another of our best
homeopathists. The bindings of these books, as you will
note, are broken but they are tied together so that they
will not fall apart. They represent the spirit of the
best men who were responsible for the growth of the
homeopathic movement. Hempel's and particularly Dunham's
represents the real spirit of Hahnemann, and the meaning
of Homeopathy. Unless you wish to, you need not untie them.
They are dusty, just as they have been stored away because
of lack of space in my office working-library They are,
however, choice books, rare and hard to obtain, and I should
like to have them back after you have had them a sufficient
time to absorb what they can give you, as I must return them
to my library-shelves. I am enclosing the amount necessary
to return them, prepaid and insured, when you send them back.
I believe something of great value may come from this
experiment. At any rate, it lands you in the early part
and middle of the best period of homeopathic school. Slowly,
oh, so very slowly, medicine is swinging around toward this
approach. The research which I have been carrying on for
forty odd years is for the purpose of bringing the
homeopathic method into the field of science and I believe
that there will come through you some message that will open
up the field in which we are blindly searching for a certain
missing factor. We almost have it but it is still elusive.
Know that I deeply appreciate your willingness to enter into
this experiment. G.B.S.
3/25/43 EC's ltr. to G. Stearns:
Dear Dr. Stearns:-
Thank you very much for yours of the 22nd will be very glad
to have the books. Think can appreciate your care for such
old and rare books and appreciate your desire in my having
the use and advantage of seeing them for a while, will take
good care and return in as good shape as I received them,
I trust.
Haven't as yet had the opportunity to use or read - Organon
- or to look over "The New Synthesis", but will - first
opportunity. Am being kept so busy answering requests
for appointments, have little time for much else, but
will certainly take the time to try and get something
from the books being sent.
Thanking you and appreciating any thing you may do or
interest. You may show in my feeble effort to use what
I deem God has given me as a gift to help those seeking
to know His Face.
Thanking you
Sincerely [signed] Edgar Cayce
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