This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 21st day of February, 1944, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [3671], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by the article in Coronet.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gladys Davis, Conductor and Steno. (Notes read to and transcribed by Jeanette Fitch.) [3671] and Mary Wirsing.

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1. GD: 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:
2. EC: Yes, we have the body here, [3671].
3. As we find, there are disturbing conditions that prevent the better physical functioning of this body. While in a general manner, or in material expression, all of this arises from the lack of judgment or lack of consideration - as accidents - we find that, if the body will accept and act upon it, it is meeting its own self in a measure from karmic conditions.
4. Thus there may be material aid, there may be mental and spiritual aid in such ways as to bring better conditions, as well as soul and spiritual development.
5. To be sure, there are physical or pathological conditions existent - yet the beginning should be in self.
6. Do not blame others, do not condemn anyone for the disturbances that exist. Know that there are healings for the body, else the opportunities would not have been given the body in the resuscitation. Know deep within self that God hath need of thee at this time. Know that He came into the world that each individual, each entity, might have life more abundantly; that is, more of life, more expectancy from life, and more worthwhile experiences.
7. There have been those hindrances in locomotion produced by the conditions existing from misplacement of the lower limbs themselves. And from the administrations made, the entire body was starved, as it were, for light, for the proper distribution of circulation. Now that these have in part been corrected as to position, there needs to be such applications - combined with the spiritual and mental attitude of the body - to assist the body in its consistent development of growth and of health-giving flows to the body.
8. We would begin then by first changing the mental attitude as to purposes, hopes, desires of the body. Do put the trust in prayer, in the Christ-consciousness. Do begin there. Know that He is mindful of thee. Know that He cares. Know that through supplication, through prayer, many changes may come to the body and to the mind.
9. But each evening when ready to retire have first the Sitz Bath; that is, the body sitting in hot, then cold water, then hot water, then cold and so on. Then massage the hips, the lower portion of spine, the limbs, with this combination of oils:

   Olive Oil, (heated).........4 ounces,
Tincture of Myrrh...........4 ounces,
Lanolin (liquefied).......1/4 ounce.

   Massage this into the body, not all of it at once, of course. Shake the solution, pour a small quantity in an open saucer and massage. The body may give this massage to itself or have it administered - just as the body prefers.
10. Do this consistently, persistently.
11. Add to the body those foods that are rich in vitamins A, D and B-1.
12. If there is the ability to be in the sunshine, do so. If there is not the ability to do this very often, supplement the diet with A, D and the One-A-Day B complex tablets. These will aid the vital forces to the body.
13. But do all of these, not just part. Don't begin with the massages and the vitamins first. Do begin with the general mental attitude.
14. Ye have much work to do. Ye can be a messenger, yea a manifestation of the work of the spirit of truth through thy body.
15. When ye feel that ye have the right attitude, begin with the applications suggested.
16. Ready for questions.
17. (Q) Would an operation be of help?
    (A) Not in the present. As we find, with the treatments, there may not be the necessity of an operation at all.
18. We are through with this reading.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file
    Copy to Loose-leaf book in Library under case number for study on cases of TB of the bone
    (We would suggest that you get in touch with Mrs. M. J. Williams, 416 Pembroke Ave., Norfolk, Va., who is a Member of our Association and who will be very much interested in your case. You can find her phone number in the telephone book. She is the a bookkeeper at Goodman Electric Company but is at home in the evening.
    See directions [which were enclosed] for taking Sitz baths.)

BACKGROUND

1. Background report given orally just prior to the reading:
   Dislocated hip. Happened when two years old. In trying to crawl out of his crib caught his leg and pulled the hip out of place. Spent much time during the early years in plaster casts. Doctors finally gave him up as a bad job, expecting him to die, but he came back to life. Spent some time at the Children's Seashore Hospital, Atlantic City, tied down on a board and strapped across the chest, with casts on both legs. Hip bone being out of place caused a new socket to form, which in time has caused rubbing against the pelvis and now the disease is known as TB of the bone.

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