9/10/32 EC's ltr. to Dr. Foerter:
My dear Dr. Foerter:-
You must feel that I have been very negligent in my
correspondence, especially in replying to yours where you so
kindly sent me the article so wonderfully prepared on The
True Nature of God. [Dr. Foerter's article was mimeographed
and sent to A.R.E. members with the 11/32 Bulletin.] I do
not feel that I am capable of offering any sort of criticism
on this. There seems to me to be such a unison of thought in
the paper with that which has been expressed through our
information received through the years, that I feel to say
anything would be claiming we are giving the same expression,
or that the readings are wholly in sympathy with your own
thought. I will say, Doctor, this is beautifully expressed,
and I would like very much to have the privilege, if I may,
of giving this to some of those who are seeking aid through
these channels, as well as to our study group - and the
healing group, particularly. Those who have studied the
phenomena I am sure will find in this much that has been said
in the readings, explained in such beautiful terms,
especially in association with the attributes of the physical
body and the elements that go to make up the material world
which become so necessary to man's material interests.
No doubt you have received the first notice of the
Association bulletin that we expect to distribute each month.
I'm wondering if you would allow your article to be given as
a serial in that bulletin? It no doubt would be of interest
to everyone that is a member of the Association.
We have had now both the good and the bad reports on [
2155].
I certainly hope these periods of depression will soon be
getting farther and farther apart, and that he will be on the
upgrade for the permanent improvement we are all so anxiously
looking and praying for. I have never had a report where the
battery or appliance produced irritation, but I am very sure
that if it is possible for it to produce harmony and proper
vibrations it is also possible for it to produce the
opposite, if the applications are not just proper. Don't
understand me to be saying that you are not applying the
battery properly, or as suggested, but using your paper as
the basis for our reasoning, Doctor, let's just see if you
cannot experiment a little with the battery and see a
difference in the results; or had you rather have such
information come through the readings themselves? But, for
my first premise:
The readings have always insisted that one of the
manifestations of God materially in the world is what we call
electrical vibration. They have also insisted that where
most scientists have been looking for that creative in
electrical vibration in the very high frequency the place to
seek would be in the low, or the opposite end, and it becomes
progressive as the life exerts itself. Hence that set in the
Radio-Active is of a very low electrical vibration; in fact,
as stated in a former letter, it is not active until it is
attached to the body, and has the opposite cord from the ice
bath in which the appliance is put. This connection to the
body should be to centers in the extremities that complete
the circulation in electrical vibration, or pulsation, or to
centers in the torso of the body where the low vibration
passing through increases or decreases the connection in
centers from the nervous system to the organ, or organs, so
involved by the plexus reaction from the impulse received in
the cerebro-spinal or sympathetic nerve system. So, as you
see, the plates - by some change from one center to another -
may work very effectually in quieting the body, while placed
at another center might work just the opposite. Also
remember this, the first plate attached is the positive - no
matter which is attached first, and the last is the negative.
Just as the right and left hand in the magnetic or
vital-energy treatments are positive and negative. By the
way, did you write to Dr. Prouty? What has been your report
from him? Mr. Salter, who has been making the batteries, has
studied the radio activity of these, as there have been a few
engineers here from the various electrical companies to look
into them. I know what we have needed is a medical
scientific investigation of the therapeutic value of these
appliances. I am sure there is a value, from the results we
have gotten. It isn't altogether imaginative - and, if it is
imaginative, as one physician's mother put it a few years ago
when her son (the physician) told her, "Why, Mother, that's
all imagination", "Please God, then, give me some more
imagination, for it helps me." I hope we can work this out
to the advantage and good of our fellow man.
Yes, I have been quite a bit under the weather. I am human -
very human - too human, in fact, and allow myself to become
angry at times. I thank my Father I haven't had this
experience but a very few times in my life, but I've had one
recently - and it so poisons my system that I certainly do
have a very hard time getting it properly adjusted again. I
know it is only by His grace, and the prayers of those for
whom I am trying to be a channel of service, that I am even
brought back to any stage of usefulness. That's one of the
things that has kept me from writing as I should. Then we
have been very busy. The season here is just closing, which
closes officially about Labor Day. Quite a number of the old
friends of the work have been here during the last few weeks,
and quite a number of new ones. This has kept us very busy,
and under the circumstances just given above the conditions
have been harder rather than softener. I hope I now have
hold of myself. I'm not surprised that you and Mrs. Foerter
have both sensed the conditions. I know that you are both
very sensitive to the mental and spiritual reactions of
individuals wherever they may be whom you have contacted. No
wonder such energies improperly used receive the criticism of
all well-thinking people. It is little wonder that those who
look on material successes as most important often question
any spiritual abilities in individuals who become so weak as
to falter under those things that create such a poison.
I was most anxious to have a report from you and Mrs. [
2110]
on the life reading. Our experiences, though they have not
been so extensive with this type of reading, have led us to
believe that the information obtained in these is possibly
more far-reaching, mentally and spiritually, than we would
ever imagine at the first reading of such an article. As we
often express here in the family, we find they are too true.
I wish I could have the opportunity to talk with you about
many phases of the phenomena. I am sure I am not answering
all the questions nor things you have thought about any of
these since I last wrote. Let's hope I will be more prompt
in my replies, for I do not know how to tell you how much I
appreciate the friendship of you and Mrs. Foerter, nor how
very much you have meant to me, nor how often the words you
have sent have helped me to ride over some very rough places.
If I have been of help in any way, I am sure I have gotten
much more myself - for, as the readings have often put it, if
we ever get to heaven it will be leaning on the arm of
someone we have helped.
If I have failed to answer any of the questions, don't
hesitate to ask them again, knowing that I have not
intentionally passed over them but that it is just my
inability to grasp all of it in my little mind at one time.
You will get a great deal I am sure, though, from the life
readings. We often have the question asked, "Well, what good
will it do me to know that I lived as John Smith during the
Revolution, or was a first settler, or what good will it do
me to know that I was among those in the French Revolution,
or a wine seller in such and such a period?" Apparently, as
your article signifies, God is our everything. Our soul, or
our entity, is what it is today from what it has builded in
its various experiences, or from how it reacted to the
situations under various experiences in the earth's sphere.
From the information, and from the good Book itself, I am
more and more persuaded that our Master was the Son of man in
that He was Adam. He was the son of God in the He - through
His incarnations in the earth - developed to the ability to
use that in the material plane through which to manifest, as
He did in the immaculate conception. As Adam, as
Melchizedek, as Joseph, then in many of the other countries
and lands - and as the Son of Mary. Having completed His
cycle, He will no longer or no more enter as the man, but "As
ye have seen me go, so will I return." According to the life
readings it is more necessary for the desire on the part of
the individual having the reading, and for them to be in
accord - or at least honestly seeking, than possibly in any
other sort of information that may be given. The records
that are read, as we have been told, are of the activities of
the entity's own self. Therefore, a desire within a physical
body creates an impulse that may be a crime or a miracle,
dependent upon the reaction - going in opposition to, or
making that desire one with, the will of the Father. As He
said, "I do nothing of myself." "Not as I will, but Thine.
For this cause came I into the world."
I was very much pleased with the report from you both. I am
hoping that circumstances will be such that we may have the
opportunity to talk together in the near future.
Thank you again and again for your letters, for your prayers.
I hope you will write whenever you have the opportunity, if
it is only a line.
With love to you and yours, I am
Ever the same, EC:GD
9/16/32 Dr. Foerter's letter: "Just a word about Mr. [
4389]
and his environment. Things are lovely. Some progress in
the use of the paralyzed hand and foot. He has a very good
appetite. By the way, I asked you about his eyes. He had
both of them operated on for glaucoma and is almost bereft of
vision."
9/17/32 EC's letter: In regard to Mr. [
4389]'s eyes, I would
suggest that you make a poultice of scraped old Irish potato
each evening and apply over the eyes. The next morning, or
whenever it becomes necessary to remove the poultice, bathe
the eyes with a solution of boracic acid. This we have found
to be the very best application for any inflammation in or
about the eyes. I am sure the stimulation with the bi-odyne
would be quite helpful to the body in every respect, because
this will cause a more uniform reaction from the radio-active
appliance. I don't think I could make a better suggestion
regarding the mental help than the thought carried in your
article on knowing God. I do not think I have ever known any
better affirmation than that given for my own self, "LET ME
BE WILLING, O GOD, TO BE USED AS THOU SEEST FIT, NOW!"
10/07/32 Dr. Foerter's letter: "Mr. [
4389] is doing fine.
Mrs. [
4388] is coming right along with her husband. Her
first name is [...]. I would like to get a reading for her
with advice for her physical welfare; also get some
additional data for her husband, [
4389]."
10/13/32 Dr. Foerter's letter: "If you'll consult file
4389-1, it may be that there will be some further suggestions
for good in this case.
"The records show a steady continued improvement not of a
large degree. The patient is unable to use his lower limbs
for locomotion. His left arm and hand are paralyzed. His
left eye has no vision at all having been operated on about 2
years ago for glaucoma. Vision in the right eye is almost
nil. This makes it possible that confusion may enter his
conscious orientation, but this has been pretty well
controlled. At any rate the progress has been more
satisfactory than these cases usually are. Thank you."
10/18/32 See
4389-2 and
4388-1 for his wife.
12/16/32 EC's ltr. to Dr. Foerter:
My dear Dr. Foerter:-
Regarding the hospital or institution work, we have
individuals from time to time who would like to go where they
could have the suggestions followed closely as given in the
readings. This seems to be the greatest problem we have.
Often a combination of treatments is suggested, such as
manipulations with corrections and medicinal properties of
some nature to work with the treatments given mechanically.
There have been very few institutions, other than the one we
had here, who have been willing to follow all these along
together.
If we could have some place where these might be followed, it
seems to me that we could do much good, as well as
demonstrate very thoroughly that which might be obtained
through following the readings.
Time and again I have hoped to talk with you regarding this,
rather than trying to write. As you can very well imagine,
my thirty years of experience has brought many periods very
near to the developing of an institution. Why this hasn't
been done is one of the things I'd like to talk with you
about, for it is hard to put it down in black and white.
As an illustration: Only yesterday we had treatments
suggested for two ladies that I feel would both go to an
institution to have the reading followed, if possible. Many
would only require a few weeks, while others would take
longer. I would like to know what you think about it.
Many thanks for accepting the position as Regional
Representative. I feel sure this will work for the good of
many.
Hoping this finds you feeling fine, and with kindest regards
and love from all, I am
Sincerely, EC:GD
1/04/33 Dr. Foerter's letter:
ADOLPHE J. FOERTER, M. D. (Letterhead)
126 North Monroe Street
Peoria, Illinois
Dear friend:
I wonder what you thot of my little treatise which was to
serve as an opening wedge into the subject of vibrations.
[See 1/33 A.R.E. Bulletin article entitled VIBRATIONS by
A. J. Foerter.] It probably was quite different from the way
in which you would have handled that subject, and I am sure
that I have a great deal to learn in that field.
I also want to assure you that it pleased me to function as
your representative, or field worker here.
Your words regarding a hospital or institution where
individuals could receive treatment in line with suggestions
given in the readings makes me think that such a place should
be close to your home grounds. At least it would seem so if
the greater number of inquiries and readings were given to
people who call on you in person. Others who are living at a
greater distance from you, would probably find it necessary
to leave their home towns to go to the place where such an
institution would be located, and naturally it would please
them more where they could see you occasionally, in place of
going to some other city. It would be very unsatisfactory to
endeavor to give treatments as we have in mind in one of our
modernly organized hospitals. As you no doubt know all
hospitals exercise a sort of internal snoopiness to assure
themselves that nothing would be done except what is
according to hoyle. These standards were established and
encouraged with an advertised altruistic motive of protecting
the public against any things that hasn't passed the sanction
of the medical profession. I need hardly go any further into
that. There is, however, an avenue open to establishing a
place for this sort of service, provided that one could
procure a state license for same. A place of that sort would
have to be a one man concern and be managed in such a manner
that no conflict could arise between the authorities that
maybe, and the management and practices in that institution.
Right now I am feeling that I would have to have time to
undertake anything of that sort. There are a few conditions
to be straightened out here, so as to give me the opportunity
to close my office, and give myself a little recreative
activities.
Maybe that your experience with the institution that you did
have, would be of value to me in laying plans that would safe
guard against errors and assure the success of a new one. I
feel very much attracted to you. I feel that I could say
very many nice things in connection with my reactions with
your work, service and methods of teaching. I also think
that you would not give a rap if my reactions were different,
because you yourself would feel yourself impelled to do that
which you know you should do in HIS SERVICE. So let's give
this the opportunity to sprout and grow under the guidance of
a superior wisdom. With best wishes to you and yours, I am
Sincerely yours, [signed] Adolph J. Forerter.
4/15/35 See Dr. Foerter's letter under
4389-2 indicating that
Mr. [
4389]'s condition was Hemiplegia due to cerebral
Endartritis.
See subsequent correspondence in re Mr. [
4389] under
4389-2
Reports.
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