Edgar Cayce Readings, 3405-1

Time and Place: 10:40 to 10:55 A. M. Eastern War Time. of ..., ..., Michigan. church, at the corner.

TEXT

GC: 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; answering the questions, as I ask them.
EC: Yes. Here we have conditions where there is an extreme case of Parkinson's Disease. These having caused so much deterioration in the nerve forces as to prevent the use of some of the limbs, there is now indicated more deterioration in the centers of locomotion.
These may be aided. As to how much help will be obtained will depend upon just how persistently and consistently the applications are made. These should add to the vitality of the body, staying off the disturbance, and gradually building into the system resistances.
Do not become too easily discouraged, if help would be gained for this body.
There will be required massages that must be consistently given, using Cocoa Butter; along those areas of the spine from the base of the brain to the middle of the back, after the body is sponged off with very hot water. Massage thoroughly all the Cocoa Butter the body will absorb. Also massage from the 9th dorsal to the end of the spine, which areas also should be sponged thoroughly with very hot water first. While the pores are still open from the warm sponge bath, apply the Cocoa Butter. This should be done daily.
Each day following the massage, use the Wet Cell Appliance for thirty minutes, one day carrying Chloride of Gold Sodium (in the proportions of one grain to each ounce of distilled water - and use three ounces), the next day use Spirits of Camphor (commercial strength - three ounces).
The larger plate each time would be put over the umbilical and lacteal duct center which - on this body - would be three fingers to the right from the navel center and three fingers up.
Do not use the same connections for both Solutions.
When using the Gold Solution, attach the small plate at the 9th dorsal, the lower portion of the 9th dorsal.
The next day when using the Camphor Solution, attach the small plate to the 3rd dorsal, between the 2nd and 3rd dorsal - always between the shoulders, you see.
Attach the Appliance for thirty minutes each day, alternating the attachments, one day using the Gold Solution, the next day, the Camphor Solution, and so on.
The massage with Cocoa Butter should be given each time before the Appliance is attached, but with the body being relaxed first by the bath in tepid or hot water.
In the diet include often those foods prepared with gelatin. Give gelatin by itself also at least three times each week, at regular periods, about half a teaspoonful dissolved in water and taken.
Have a great deal of raw foods, fish, seafoods; not fresh water fish, but seafood. In the raw vegetables include watercress, celery, lettuce, carrots - these especially; beets also, preferably not those that have been pickled but fresh beets. Include the tops with these when at all practical. Beets should be in the diet at least two or three times a week.
Not too much meats, nor sweets, nor things that cause gas for the body. Fowl is very good - this would be well.
Do these and we may bring help, though it will require long and patient applications.
Ready for questions.
(Q) Was I born with this condition, or did it come later in life?
(A) It is an unbalancing of the chemical conditions. It is partially a karmic condition.
(Q) Should I try to keep the job I now have or get something different, and what would you advise to change to?
(A) As we find, the job may be kept if there is not too much stress or strain on the body.
Use these applications, though, each day as indicated.
(Q) Can I regain the use of my right hand?
(A) This depends - as has been indicated.
We are through with this reading.
Copy to Self
Copy to Ass'n file
Copy to Miss Goodall for indexing
(12/15/43 GD's note: See extra sheet [which was enclosed] of directions to be sent to Mr. A. M. Godfrey, 2709 Lafayette Blvd., Norfolk, Va., for preparing the Wet Cell Appliance to be used in your particular case. Also article explaining theory of this Appliance.)

BACKGROUND

9/15/43 [3405]'s letter: "After reading about you in the CORONET magazine, it gave me a new hope, hope that was smashed more than once in my life. But now I feel that there will be some help to me. There must be!
"Sir, I am a cripple and have been all my twenty-three years. The doctors gave up my case many years ago, but somehow I always prayed and prayed that God would hear my prayers, because this suffering which I am going through is not for my sins, I know! There must be someone in this wide world that can be of some help to me. And I feel that that help is not so far off. With God's help, I know that you will be of some help to me. I was born a cripple, and at first there wasn't much that the doctors could do to help me, but after I lived to be ten years old, they operated on my legs (you see, sir, I couldn't walk). After the operation I could walk by myself.
"But as I grew older, I was getting very nervous each year. I would get worse and yet the doctors couldn't do a thing for me. The nervousness is so bad now that I am unable to write with my own handwriting. That is the reason that you find this letter typed. The nervousness is so bad that it shakes my whole body. Even my head shakes. Oh, it is terrible to live the way I have to suffer when there is so much to live for!
"Mr. Cayce, if I come out to where you are, could you help me for this nervousness? I haven't any use in my right hand either, but that I call a small matter. If only there was some cure to stop this nervousness, I would be, oh, so thankful to God and to you.
"God has been so good to gift you the way He did! Please write to me as soon as it's possible for you. I will even send you my self addressed envelope, so as to help you speed an answer to this letter. I will also pay you as much as I can or whatever price you set if you can help me. Oh, there must be some help for me! I can feel it. I will bring this letter to its close, so that I can rush it off yet tonight. With a prayer in my heart, I will say God bless you and help you with the wonderful work you are doing..."
"P.S. You can see by my handwriting how nervous I really am."
12/06/43 [3405]'s letter to EC: "That wonderful letter dated December 1st was greatly received.
"I am so happy that you will be able to give my reading (physical) on December 15, at (9:30 to 10:30 our time (10:30 to 11:30 your time)). At that given time I will spend my time in church praying. The church is located at corner of ... Streets. The name of this church is St. Joseph's Church. "The questions about my condition which I would most of all like to know are: Is there any cure for this nervousness? If so, what should I do to help speed up to that date? Was I born with this condition, or did it come on later in life? If so, how long after birth? Should I keep the job I have now, or should I try something better? With my condition, what would you best advise me to be doing for my future living? I had but few years of schooling, so there isn't much that I can do. However, though I just have been offered an education just a few weeks ago, but I told them that I would have to think it over first. Do you think that I should quit my job and see if I could take up something that might be of some help in the future? What do you think? I also have no use in my right hand, which makes things very hard. I do all my typing and writing one-handed and that is my left hand. This is all that I can think of that I would like to know, so I will close this letter with high hopes that you will be of some help to me. May God help you with the work He has started you with and may He bless you. I remain in prayer until the next time I hear from you again..."
[In [3405]'s own handwriting and not typed, she wrote the following:]
"P.S. You can tell by my handwriting how nervous I am. Please do all you can to help me. Thank you."

REPORTS

3/08/44 [3405]'s nurse's letter to EC: "Your 'reading' of December 17th [reading was given December 15th], 1943 and your letter of Bulletin February 1944 has been received by Miss [3405].
"If you are such a believer in 'Search for God,' I believe you will know what I'm writing to you about.
"You have never had a personal call from Miss [3405]. Neither do you even know how serious her case really is. She, like a lot of unfortunates, is ready to accept most any kind of attractive offers.
"In other words, a 'target' for most anything. She has to earn her own living and does not make much money. She needs every penny she earns.
"I do not care to go into detail with you. You now have $25.00 of her cash and I am going to ask you to return this same amount back to her.
"I will expect this matter taken care of immediately to avoid anymore trouble..."
3/14/44 EC's letter to [3405]: "We are in receipt of a letter from your nurse saying that you wish your membership fee returned. I am sorry that you are not able to carry out the applications suggested in your reading, for I believe from past experience that you would be greatly benefited if these applications were persistently and prayerfully followed. It is too bad that you did not read all of our literature and make up your mind fully beforehand to 'carry through' with the suggestions made, before sending in your application for a reading. It would have saved all of us a great deal of trouble and expense. We are returning herewith the membership fee paid in the amount of twenty dollars.
"If you ordered the Wet Cell Appliance from Mr. Godfrey in Norfolk, I am sure that he will be glad to buy it back from you.
"Assuring you that our only desire has been to be of service, and trusting that you will be able to find the help you are seeking..."