Edgar Cayce Readings, 4841-1

Time and Place: Unknown. ..., Tenn.

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LBC: You have before you Mr. [4841] who is in this room with you. Go over him carefully, examine him thoroughly and tell us what is the matter with him, if anything.
EC: Now, we have the body here of [4841]. As from a normal condition, from the normal body, we have about as perfect a body as we can have. It is in a normal condition; its actions of all the parts or properties in the system, or each system of the unit of the body in itself, is as perfect and working as we would find in a normal body. That is, not an excess of any matter from either side to produce any abnormal conditions in the system, or body's over-excess to any one system to the detriment of the other. But we have in this condition, here in this body, that which has asserted itself, or shown itself through that of the digestion in itself, or to the abuse of the body. That is, to the action itself, to this body, until we produce the condition in the system that we have here, through that of the stomach, or the receptacle of that which is taken into the body to rebuild or keep in touch the forces which rebuild these in the body here.
In the normal body we have all the elements that we find anywhere in the world in a living body. We have almost all forms of matter which we find existing anywhere in the world.
By the excess of these matters or these properties into the system, then, we over-stimulate or overtax some function of the system, until we produce an irritation or excess of matter of that kind, or to the reverse of the one that produces these, and a combination of elements of matter, producing other matters.
As we have in this condition, in this system, there is an overstimulation or excess of matter into the stomach, producing into the stomach an inability, in the gastric juices produced by the system, to digest all of the properties [which should be] digested by those juices. Hence, they pass into the duodenum and into the intestines, and are acted on by those of the pancrean juices, and the liver, until we have an extra amount of these properties into the system, until we act to an excess of matter to those. It passes then into the intestines, still undigested, producing then an exciting or irritation to these functions in the body, or the hepatic circulation, through the liver, until we act onto the system, and restrain or retard all these forces, until we produce into the system a state of bacteria or malarial condition, as we term it, from the outside condition of the body.
Then the blood becomes affected, or informed [influent? infused?] with properties not normal to the system. As these begin to show, or exert themselves through the system, by degrees they become taken up by other properties in the system, to the status they put the condition of the system in, through heat and cold forming them into particles through the system, until we form the condition we have in the body now, of [4841]. It has been by degrees that we have had these - an over-excess of these matters.
As we take these conditions into the system, we have functions to be performed by each one of these organs in the system. First we have the receptacle of the stomach coming in touch with the condition produced by the abnormal condition in the body. It is the medicine house, or storehouse, of the food taken into the system. At the entrance of food into the system the walls of the stomach themselves begin to contract with a circular motion, exciting or producing gastric juices. We have the first action of these on that of the saliva into the mouth, entering to the stomach in a peptone state. The gastric juices of the stomach become those of a lactic acid or hydrochloric acid state. An excess of matters taken into the stomach produces an over-amount of these juices in the stomach, until we pass it into the duodenum or into the intestines and colon in an acid state, without being acted on by the lactic, as it should be, through the duodenum and pancreas. The secretion of the pancrean juice is both of a lactic and lacterial [lacteal? lacteous?] state, - not acid, but between the acid and lactic state. The juices acted on to the digestion by those of the liver are those that produce or digest those properties, or sugar and flesh, not acted on by those of the gastric juices of the stomach. An excess of these matters, by degrees, produces then a lack of gastric juice formed in the stomach at the time of taking these into the condition.
Without the condition of a normal or strong physical body, we then would produce into the system a lack of matter to produce these, or those of ulcerations or conditions of the walls of the duodenum and the stomach themselves.
As we have in this body, of [4841], it is a condition of excretions of the liver, through those formed by those of the lack of juices to form digestion in the system - until we call on the rest of the system, or that of the lymphatic circulation, to produce the juices acted on by these. Or we produce an extra amount of the white blood and leave a normal, or little below normal [amount], of the red blood corpuscles in the body; those forms of the red blood corpuscles which flow alternately through the system and carry the rebuilding force into the systems themselves. They are carried more by those of the lymphatic circulation in those of the pulmonary organs and those of the intestinal tract, and those of the stomach themselves, than they are by the circulation in the form proper. The white blood corpuscles do not have to follow those directly, but can form themselves into matter, and extricate themselves through the body where they are needed in the system, if the body be of a form to produce or carry the condition into the system through that of a normal condition, or in the body of correct foundation, or fundamental principles in the system from the first, as we have in this body here.
The action of the nervous system onto the body, as we have in this condition here: the nervous force in the system, or the body, is [to give] those impressions which are carried by the force to the brain, or to the nervous system in the body, inter-lateral with those of the muscular and venous forces in the body. They are formed into plexuses, ganglia and angulars [angles? angulations?] into the system. An excess or strain on these properties [will] produce the same effect to the muscular force. All this [effect] into the system, bears more or less onto the nervous system in the body.
In this body, as we have it in this condition - being of a temperament, strong physically, and normally strong, perfectly balanced - [there is] produced an excess of spasmodic reaction through the nervous system of the body. Hence the condition we find here of pains, producing nausea, as we have at times, and producing a sick, achy feeling over the [entire?] condition of the body. Then we have the condition, for the second, of acute pains here; nervous, you see. An angular force, or mesh of those of the lymphatics acting in unison with the convulsion of the muscular walls, or forces of those carried by those of the white lymph in the body, producing a condition at the time. Else we would have a continual dull, aching pain along the spine or over the extremities of the system.
(Q) Do you find any trouble about the head? What is the roaring in the head caused from?
(A) We have in this system about 3700 miles of tubing - nerves, blood vessels, intestinal tract and force. We produce on any of these any form or condition of grating, or forming a sound, as we have in the action of the forces onto the body, and if we have a body well-balanced, we produce a grating sound, and we are pretty apt to hear it at the other end, if it is balanced as we have the condition in this system. We have the circulation in the body, now. We take this body as a unit, and it is as near perfect, in a normal condition, as we will find. We have it composed of a physical, mental and abnormal, or soul. We have it obtaining [prevailing? succeeding?] in the oldest body, as its soul is transmigrated. [GD's note: Next mention of reincarnation, it seems, was in 5717-1 on 10/11/23.] He got it from its fathers, and fore-parents, [genetics?] or what is [was] given him by the Maker. We have formed its functions here and carried from one particle or body to another. It is expelled from the embryo and formed into the faculties as we have in the system, and become in the body as we have in a normal, living body - strength, power, physical force, mental force, will. A strong man, as we had before this condition. We have the circulation in this body, which is of a physical body wholly. The abnormal self, or soul, can live without this body being in existence. Its circulation into this form is of proper origin until we produce in the system to an organ an excess of matters for this circulation to remove from the body. This is composed, or organs in itself, of the corpuscles, as we know them, of the white and the red. These are to produce into the normal system proper conditions. This is fed by what the body takes into itself, from the physical body, from the function of the stomach and digestive organs in the system. We have then digestion which we have fed by these properties in the system, which is to the stomach, intestines, liver and pancreas, and duodenum, which are of its forces in themselves. The body takes into the system that which is to produce a living, human being, - (normal - outside of the abnormal or soul of the man) or the body. (That [the soul] lives on just the same, whether you feed it or don't feed it.) It [the food] is taken into the stomach, acted on by the juices of the stomach, those of the pancreas and liver and those of the intestines themselves; carried by the circulation to the parts which are being used and there form[ed] into matter to be used as the properties where they are to be used - muscular, nerve, brain, blood, and bone, and matter, all forces [going?] into the organs in the body, - carried there by the circulation as we have the forces. This [the circulation] becomes of a choked nature or condition; hence part of these bodies [within the body] suffer from the lack of sufficient nourishment carried by these forces to the system. That first begins to show by the lack of the corpuscles themselves to distribute these forces. When we lack the force to distribute the corpuscles, it [the corpuscle?] stays there, and carries on. Why? The forces of the nature of the man are protection. Self first. The thought afterwards. The thought, or the brain force, is the nerve into the system of the body.
First, we have the brain here in the head. Its impressions to the brain force are to those of the sensory system of the man. Those organs being known to the outside as the five senses. The impressions of all matter, to a living human being, are received through one of these senses, and impressed on the brain by the force, or the matter, which is digested and carried into the nerve force, and thereby properly digested and thrown on, or impressed to, the brain, to be used at times that this body has need for it. Hence, any expression or any impression or any thought or any expression to a body, at any time received, when we have use for preservation of the body, we act on it, whether we stop to think or know it or not; because the abnormal self [the subconscious or soul?], whether you know it or not, never forgets any impression ever made upon it.
The condition we have in the system of a sensory organ or one of the senses becoming affected is through the lack of nourishment from the same condition as we have through the muscular force, nerve force, or any organ in the system, when we have a lack of blood supply or proper condition to rebuild these as they are used. Hence the condition we have in this system.
To remove these conditions from these forces of the body, that produce in the body an abnormal condition, is to use a force whereby we bring it to a normal condition through the senses whereby it has lost its force, or bring it to a normal condition through the body in itself, without mechanical means, as far as possible. Nature, - that is, the body in itself, - takes care of the whole body. Let nature, or the body in itself, care for it as far as possible. If we have a body in a weak, dilapidated condition, then we produce an effect to overcome these conditions.
For this condition of this body, we would take that into the system which produces blood of a character that would act onto these forces where they are needed; or those of fruits, especially apples and pears, which contain - or an iron condition which is in that - which we need into the blood, or what produces blood, or what we have not most of in it, in itself.
Into the stomach we would have that which will produce, to act as carrying more of, the lactic or peptone condition into the system; or that in a form of peptonized iron, or peptonized beef and iron.
Then we would produce along the spine, over the whole condition of the spine, through that of suggestion, through the movement of the hand, or a force of the same sort, an expression of perfect unison through the sympathetic and cerebrospinal nerve systems, that removes the condition of the roaring in the head.
The body will become in a normal condition.

REPORTS

12/28/11 Mr. [4841] obtained Check Physical reading, 4841-2.
9/27/76 GD's note: In checking 4841-1 for retyping and additional indexing it was a great surprise to find that the mention of reincarnation occurred in 4841-1 on 4/22/11, a Physical Reading. We had heretofore thought that the first mention of the subject occurred in Edgar Cayce's first horoscope (later called Life) reading for Mr. [5717], in Dayton, Ohio, on 10/11/23 - 5717-1.
I notice that Mr. [4841] was present for both of his Physical Readings, 4841-1 and 4841-2. It would be interesting to know if he had a special interest in such subjects which paved the way for Edgar Cayce's comments. In 1940 when we were trying to contact people who had early readings in order to get their reports, Edgar Cayce told me that Mr. [4841] had died several years previously. Evidently Edgar Cayce knew him personally, though I doubt very much if Edgar Cayce read the readings which were given to Mr. [4841], as he did not usually read any of them.
The following paste-ups are from Webster's New International Dictionary (G. & C. Merriam 1918) and Webster's New International Dictionary (Collegiate Abridgement G. & C. Merrian 1938), showing how little was listed about reincarnation in those early years. Perhaps in 1911 the word did not even appear in the 1910 Webster's New International Dictionary!
page 1799 reincarnate: to incarnate again.
reincarnation: A reincarnating, or state of being reincarnated
page 838 reincarnate: To subject to reincarnation
reincarnation: The belief that the souls of the dead successively return to earth in new forms or bodies; hence a rebirth of a soul in a new, esp. a human, body.
page 2186 transmigrate: 1. To migrate from one country or jurisdiction to another. 2. To undergo transmigration
transmigration: 1. Migration from one country to another. 2. The passing of the soul at death into another body or successive bodily forms, either human or animal; reincarnation; metempsychosis. See Buddhism.
transmigrationism: The doctrine of transmigration, or metempsychosis.
page 1061 transmigration: Act or instance of transmigrating; specif., the passing of the soul at death into another body or successive bodily forms, either human or animal; also (often TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS), the doctrine that souls so pass.
1/02/77 HLC to GD: Thanks for the copy of 4841-1. I suspect this reading might be the basis for a story in our News, but I will take a look at this again when I get back [from the Carmel - Israel trip]. That is quite a find.
Sally and I send our love and best wishes for this New Year to you and Les.