6/17/26 EC's letter:
Mrs. [
4286]
..., Alabama
My dear Mrs. [
4286]:-
I have yours of the 13th. I just wish that I could sit down
and talk to you for a while. I could tell you so much better
than I can write it, for then you could ask questions and
state your experiences, and I believe we could arrive at some
point where it would be quite beneficial to you. I know such
has been the case for others, so I think I have every reason
to believe it would be in your case. It is just such as this
that makes me so anxious to have a place where people can
come, where we can consult together, arrive at that point
where we would know that we were having the very best thing
for each individual case. The great trouble in so many
institutions - people are treated as herds, when its their
INDIVIDUAL selves that need attention, and not humanity as a
whole! Yes, I am sure, from what you say, that it would be
an impossibility for you to go to another institution, such
as you have been, and that is not the thing, nor is it the
kind that is necessary for your well-being, for you want no
more of the sex problems. What you really should have, Mrs.
[
4286] is that great love feeling, knowing no sex, which
casteth out fear, and you need the treatments of adjustments
with the subjugation of the mental by a very strong powerful
mind, but one that absolutely is above any little or lowly
condition. In other words, one that will only give your mind
the highest, the best, the purest, thoughts possible. One
that will be able to take away all that thought of fear,
only seeing the beautiful side of life.
There comes to my mind with this, just at this time, just an
experience we had a few months ago - in fact, there are two
of them. I've never met either of these ladies, yet their
conditions at the time we were asked to help were certainly
very sad. It was like two broken sticks trying to comfort
each other - one [
3934] had spent many years trying to get
along with a husband who mistreated her in many ways, yet for
the children's sake she had held on. Finally it came to the
point where it was unbearable, so the break had come, several
years ago, but it had just left her such a nervous wreck that
it was pitiful. The other [[
4329]?] a very close friend of
hers had a loving husband, and everything most that would go
to make up a beautiful life, as she thought, then one night,
just how, why or what - anyhow, her husband was with another
woman - there was a wreck, the car was burned, both bodies
with it. These two good women are trying to console each
other. They had tried Christian Science, Unity, Psychology,
and the faith healers. Through some manner or means they
heard of this work. They had the physical and the Life
Readings. Through the combination of information as was
gotten in these two, each began in her own individual way to
work out, as they have since termed it, their own salvation.
To be sure, it was not the same for each one, yet both were
suffering from nerves, from fear, from a dread, very much as
you have been. One of them had undergone many shocks through
operations, just as you have, but little by little, and with
the continual checking up once in a while, they have been
able in the last nine months to get themselves well set, and
as one of them said in her letter just a day or two ago, "I
have much now to be thankful for, and I owe it all to you."
Or as the other said, "Life was as a blank - I had ceased to
want to go on - now I can see my error and my desire is to
help others, and I owe it to your efforts."
Now, I'm not a physician, I'm not a hypnotist, nor a faith
healer, for as you know, through the readings there are many,
many, various conditions and appliances offered as ways and
means to awaken the consciousness of the individual to that
that is necessary for the individual awakening. As you very
well know, no healing of ANY character, to ANY individual,
is accomplished except through the individual application to
self! Others may assist, others may direct, so that certain
conditions arise in the individuals minds, but beyond
that anyone and everyone is at a loss, and the individuals
themselves must awake to the possibilities within their own
selves to apply that same power that gives us breath from
moment to moment to individual action in their own lives.
Prayer is merely a state of being in which one's mind becomes
attuned through such communion with an unseen force. If your
inner self does not believe in that higher power's ability
of transmitting that force to yourself, your prayer doesn't
rise above your head. Anyone's belief in any condition is a
matter of putting that belief in action, and its impossible
to see results or obtain results unless that element of faith
and belief is first awakened. Now, the way and means of
accomplishing this with you will never be through the drugs,
through the knife, or through confinement in any way, manner
or form, but through Love, and that same love that induced
your mother to pass through the valley of the shadow of
death, that you might have being. Now, this isn't a sex
problem, but merely an illustration of a condition. Or,
as this: The thing that will make YOU well and strong is
being able to suffer for the moment that you may be better
tomorrow, by making life more pleasant for someone at the
present moment. Now, don't you think I'm right about it?
Now, I believe we can work out some way, manner or means,
whereby that you can get all of this. I don't mean to infer
by this that you are dense, but, my dear lady, you have been
so SCARED of life that you are almost afraid to live! You
must realize - WHY are you living? What is it all about?
What's it for?
Let me hear from you again, and maybe if we take the Life
Reading, and we study that end of it, combined with the
physical, we can arrive at what is the right thing. You see
in the little book the information that is given in one of
these. Also the information necessary for us to have to get
one, and let me know if you don't want this gotten also, for
I assure you I want to be of help if possible. You are worth
all the time and effort that I can possibly give, to get you
set aright about this. Let me hear form you again real soon.
Sincerely, Edgar Cayce
7/06/26 [
4286]'s letter:
My Dear Mr. Cayce -
I know you think me stranger & peculiar & I am for I suffer
so all the time but two weeks ago I had a letter from my
husband (as you know is in Fla & has been a year) in which
he has lost (apparently) all he had made which was a
great deal by re-investing, so in my condition I GAVE UP
COMPLETELY. I had intended asking for my Life reading but
I cannot pay you now, so hesitate to ask since I cannot pay
NOW. Tho if you are willing to trust me I will send my name
ETC - [
4286], born Aug 15th 8 P.M., 1879. Sat in Talladaga.
I am not any better, taking bromide all the time & that has
lost affect on me. Oh, God have mercy on me is all I can
say. I don't know when I will get to my husband as money is
so scarce.
Your life must be a happy one doing so much good. I want to
do good & has been the desire of my life to help others but
in my condition I am not able to walk but I do the best I
can.
With much appreciation for your interest Mrs. [
4286]
7/09/26 EC's letter:
Mrs. [
4286]
..., Alabama
Dear Mrs. [
4286]:-
Replying to yours of the 6th, I am sorry indeed to know of
the misfortune. I am sure that this trouble at this time is
a veritable ordeal to yourself, just when you had begun to
make some plans; yet you surely realize this is very much
as the temptation was to the Master, and it is up to us, as
individuals, to make the most of existent conditions, and
this I am sure you are going to do. These re-investments
will eventually work out. Mr. [...] will be alright yet.
You know we shall be glad to make the reading for you, for we
sincerely desire to be of some help and assistance, whether
you are ever able to contribute anything to the work that we
are trying to do or not. We feel that your heart and mind
is right towards it, and that if you are able why you will be
more than glad to do it, if we can be of the least help, and
if we are not, after you sincerely following the suggestions
as are given by us, certainly you do not owe us anything. So
we want to be honest on our part, and we know that you will
be on your part. Just at the present time we are dated far
ahead, but we will make this appointment and just as soon
as we can get to it we will take it. As you know, it is not
necessary for us to know where you are at the hour or the
day it is taken, but we have the information here that is
necessary, and we certainly hope and trust that you are
going to find this, not only interesting, but helpful
and beneficial to you, as hundreds of others have and
are finding every day.
Hoping that we may have the pleasure of hearing from you
again, and hearing too that you are feeling better, more
determined than ever to put yourself in the position to be of
help and assistance to a whole lot of people, for it is for
others we must spend our lives and efforts if we would indeed
make life worth while, or the hereafter a heaven for our
souls.
With kindest personal regards,
Sincerely, Edgar Cayce EC:GD
7/30/26 See
4286-3.
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