10/04/27 Ernestine Ruprecht's letter to EC:
Elm Cot,
Sharon, Mass.
My dear Mr. Cayce:-
I have indeed failed in not expressing sooner my gratitude
for your very good and prompt response to my telegram in
regard to Billy [
4803].
It helped considerably for it made the grandmother (Billy's
guardian) consent to osteopathic treatment as you advised.
Her (Dr. Marjorie Johnson's) diagnosis agreed with yours
and also established the fact that Billy had several lesions
in his neck, and a very strong toxic breath. Dr. Johnson
is also treating the 1st and 2nd cervical and gradually
working to the 3rd and 4th cervicals.
Also Billy was put on a six day fast to overcome the toxic
poisoning, with only orange juice, tomato juice and plenty of
water to drink, and daily enemas. This, to-gether with two
treatments, seemed to help him considerably and showed a
better state of MIND and body on the 5th day of fasting. We
are having osteopathic treatments twice a week (having had
three so far).
We are inclined to think that there was some poisoning, as of
poison mushrooms, as the convulsions he had were not entirely
of an epileptic nature and his recovery was so slow.
He had been in the habit of eating anything he can get
outdoors, bark, bits of twig, leaves, and even ate the husks
of sunflower seeds, also chewed up bits of a wooden boat,
wooden blocks and a harmonica. What is it that induces
this growing hunger?
It may also interest you to know about the following. He had
been very apathetic and indifferent to his surroundings, no
toys or anything ever holding his attention for more than
five minutes. We were quite worried about it and yesterday
morning we received the following writings thru Miss Chany
and the results obtained were so instantaneous - his mind
responded immediately and we held his attention for 1-1/4
hours with his "Meccano" - a very beloved construction
mechanism. Also he made several constructive statements
during the remainder of the day.
The writings I will give only in part as there is quite a bit
- an explanation too of his karmic ties and need to overcome
through these very difficulties which he has incurred thru
past unintegrity. I would give them all to you if you would
wish them. The following is quoted: "He can be cured for
time in relative can overcome many an evilness. Demand that
his soul come and inhabit his body, imagine it there, demand
it there. The human soul seeks to evade the responsibility
of the body upon this earth placed. Never, never shake him
as that in the past has weakened near to severance the chord
that holds the soul within the body. If that chord that
holds the soul within the body be broken the body will live
on but soullessly. The integrity with him is that the soul
be made to inhabit, to dwell within the body. He seeks at
times to bring about this severance thru harming the body
with auto-intoxication. The struggle you witnessed was but
the body seeking to throw off the soul. Make him do things
- set tasks definite. This drifting aimlessly is wrong as
it allows the soul to drift off into sensuous space. He
will either be a soulless one - not idiotic, but vague to the
extreme or else if the soul be coordinated with the body he
has every opportunity to be a rather flashing personality and
to achieve along one line. First get him coordinated thru
the line of least resistance. Take the thing that most
interests him and gradually from fifteen minutes up to
four hours a day make him concentrate and coordinate."
We have been told that the mother (now passed on) was
continually shaking the child in irritation at his
stubbornnesses - his eating of the twigs, etc., would
corroborate the matter of auto-intoxication - also - we find
it VERY difficult to make him have proper eliminations and
have had to give him enemas for two weeks now - in spite of
careful choice of laxative foods in the past few days since
his fast we have not been able to get a natural elimination.
You can see how well these things bear out the writings.
Thanking you again for your quick and helpful response, and
trusting that my explanations will not bore you - I am
Sincerely yours, Ernestine Ruprecht
P.S. Dr. Johnson is working out a diet for Billy.
10/12/27 EC's letter to Miss Ruprecht:-
Dear Miss Ruprecht:
Many thanks for yours of the 4th. I certainly am in hopes
that Billy is responding wonderfully to the treatments by
Dr. Johnson. I feel sure from what you say that if the
suggestions are carried out very sincerely, the results will
be most satisfying. I thank you very much for writing me
respecting Miss Chany's prognosis of the condition. This
would seem to verify considerable that was given in the
reading both for Billy and for Miss Chany - or am I trying to
take honor where honor is not due? I certainly am in hopes
that Billy responds to the treatment, for this is my great
desire - to use whatever forces that may be manifested
through me toward the help of others and especially towards
the young - for on the young depends the hope of the world.
Again thanking you, and hoping you will let us hear from you
whenever you have the opportunity, with all good wishes to
you both, I am
Sincerely, Edgar Cayce EC:GD
4/15/30 Miss Ruprecht's letter in answer to
Questionnaire: "Billy [
4803] was with us only seven months
and during that time we followed out the directions as given.
I can give no further account of him as he was taken to Maine
in charge of someone we do not know."
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