8/04/28 Talk made by Morton Blumenthal, President of our
Association [ANI], just before the Board meeting of August,
4, 1928. Talk was taken down in shorthand at 3:00 p.m. by
GD:
Before I open the meeting with the customary prayer, it is
fitting I believe that we review our work and its purpose, as
well as define in a specific manner just what we are trying
to do here. This Board is at the present time responsible
to something less than two hundred members. It is also
responsible for the organization of a hospital now under
construction, and for the formation of a program that will
sustain this hospital.
Our hospital is in charge of our worthy and respected
colleague, Dr. Thos. B. House. God Bless him! May he live
long!
We, the men and women who compose this Board must therefore
give serious consideration to our responsibilities, as a
governing body, to the medical profession, to our members,
and to the public. Rather than dwell upon this very obvious
consideration, I am going directly into a consideration of a
definition and exposition of the larger purport of our whole
institution.
Our larger purpose involves the creation of an institution
that will demonstrate to human kind the fact that within the
realm of human experience there is constantly contact with
the divine, and that through the understanding application of
such experiences, through that phase of mind called
intellect, may greater creative power be gained for and by
the individual. We seek to demonstrate not only that the
individual through introspective experiences is capable of
experiencing the all creative energy of life, but that he may
through our efforts come to understand such experiences.
That he may by this method not only redeem his own soul from
the detrimental development attained through the sin of
falling heir to pure sensuous gratification, but that he may
also find a broader method of intellectual application in his
daily life, that will build in and for his own soul a larger
creative power that may be expressed either in terms of this
material world or any other world that it is the heritage of
mind to function in.
What, then, must be the effect if we - the Board of the
Association of National Investigators - succeed in this
institutional campaign? The result must be at least
fourfold.
First of all: It must bring about an entire changed attitude
of mind by many benefited human beings towards life. It
stands to reason that those who find through their own
internal experiences a more idealistic and universal self,
must needs express this ideal or higher emotional self in
their daily life. Along with the physical comforts of life
men and women will seek in a more understanding manner
gratification for the spiritual self they may, through their
own experiences, come to know themselves to be.
Secondly: There must come about an entire change of
religious thought, based not so much upon doctrines read as
upon personal experiences of the divine properly understood.
We have already stated our purpose to demonstrate through our
psychic work the means by which each individual may better
understand his own self and self's experiences, whether the
latter pertain to the objective kind or the introspective
kind. Through such understanding alone may those of all
religions be brought into a harmonious relationship one with
another. The personal experiences of each shall verify the
doctrines of religion and become applicable in the lives of
each in the light of an entire human brotherhood.
Thirdly: A better ability of application of one's own
experiences right in this material world. With the better
understanding of intuitive or mental experiences to which we
each awaken through objective sensuous observation, must come
the knowledge that will permit of a more efficient and worth
while application for self in daily life. An example of this
may be given in the machinery that is at the present time
under process of construction that is the direct result of an
introspective experience in which such machinery was first
visioned. Now by applying that introspective experience
there are those of us who are seeking to bring into material
realization this machinery. A musician might vision, or
intuitively experience, the creation of a new musical
composition. Seeking our aid he might gain through our
psychic research work an explanation of the reality of the
source and of the meaning of such a vision, and of the
possibility of realizing in actual material application his
dream. For indeed is not all of life first created in our
imagination, being then in origin a dream? Thus must come
through our work better material application of the
development and developing potential abilities of and for
human kind.
Fourthly: Greater will be the peace of the human race and
greater will be its happiness, which is the heritage of each
who gains a broader understanding of life, of its eternal
quality, of its universal nature, and of the infinite
capacity of the human mind.
The waiting world asks that we - who have chosen and created
of our own free will to do this work - succeed in its
accomplishment.
To accomplish our purpose we have the services of Edgar
Cayce, the quality of whose psychic abilities is known to all
of us. For years he has dreamed of being surrounded by just
such an understanding group as now are about him. He has to
his honor prevented his abilities from being dragged in the
dust of pure self gratification, although many have attempted
to use those abilities to satisfy their own lusts. Rather
than make them the tool of those who are purely material
minded, at a great sacrifice to himself and family, he has
sought to keep them on a higher plane awaiting only the day
when some scientific organization would use his psychic
abilities to ferret out the wonders of the human mind, as yet
but touched upon by science, that there might be revealed to
the human race its own glory. It is just such an
organization, such a scientific institution, that we seek to
found here.
Men and women of the Board, about eleven thousand years ago
we met together to accomplish this same task. Since that
time there has come into the world the Prince of Peace, who
gave to the world, at the sacrifice of His life, an actual
living demonstration of the purpose of material life, that
the material world or its human inhabitants might better
understand the spiritual or real creative side of life. In
His teaching He drew from those precepts and from those
principles that we gave to the world some eleven thousand
years ago. Now again, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight
years after His life, we have been chosen by the cosmic
forces, by the Lord Almighty, as being responsible to Him and
to mankind to use our knowledge to demonstrate to the world
that side of life for which He gave His life. I commend to
you and to your conscience the effort and sacrifice that you
may make to bring about the successful accomplishment of our
purpose. The world may forget us, who do this work here, but
in our consciousness will eternally remain unforgotten the
good we create here.
Finally then, I plead that you give from the bottom of your
heart of your very life blood in sacrifice, that this work -
blessed by the voice of Michael himself - shall not fail!
8/04/28 Talk given just at beginning of ANI Board meeting by
our first Vice-President, Thomas B. Brown:
You know all the reports and the true outline of Mr. Cayce's
readings. You all have had experience and help from them,
and all know the truth contained therein. As Mr. Blumenthal
said, the same entities now are doing the same work that was
done eleven thousand years ago. Those entities at that time
taught man's relation to mankind and to the universal forces.
It was given by the forces, through Mr. Cayce, that they
wrote the Book of the Dead, giving the truth that they found.
Only a few days ago I was reading from a book that made
reference to the Book of the Dead, which you people here all
had something to do with the authorship of. Also through the
same forces we were given that man appeared on earth over ten
million years ago [See 5748 series], and through these ages
we can find references to teachers who came down to give the
truths to the people of their time. We find now a paradox
which is almost baffling, when you give it consideration; for
in considering the question logically, there could be only
one truth, and any other thing or any other subject - or any
other way to describe this subject other than the truth -
would be an untruth. Yet there are hundreds of religions at
the present time - thousands trying to teach the truth - and
each one in a different way. Therefore, they are all
teaching an untruth. (I say this with all respect to every
religious denomination). As Mr. Blumenthal said, the world,
the people, are not satisfied and are seeking for the truth.
Thousands of them are not satisfied with what they are being
taught at the present time. In the readings, (which you are
all familiar with and which you all know contain the truth),
in one relative to the work it contained two elements of
advice. We asked what would be suggested, or what was
suggested, for the furtherance of the work, and it gave very
clearly and distinctly that there should be better coopera-
tion between the trustees - both for the better building of
the divine within each individual trustee, and to the
cooperation for the better perpetuation and building of the
work. It is said, "Ye shall know the truth and the truth
shall make you free." The only interpretation we can get
from that is that we can, this day and age, give what the
truth is - what the relations of elements to the universal
forces are. Now, also in this reading, it gave how to give
this truth to the public - first to the individual, then the
classes, then the masses. We each have a responsibility to
perform, and the entity that aids in the better building of
this work - who makes sacrifices individually to and for the
betterment of this cause - adds much to his personal
upbuilding as well as to the building of the Association.
This is my own opinion of the way I construe the work. Thank
you.
8/04/28 At 7:30 P.M. see reading
254-43 on the work of the
Ass'n, following Board Meeting at 3:00 P.M. Also see Par.
9-A in
254-43.
8/13/28 EC's letter to Mr. Wyrick:
My dear Mr. Wyrick:-
Yours of July 30th came to me a few days ago. I haven't been
feeling good since the 4th. Not that we didn't have a
beautiful meeting. I believe Miss Gladys sent you copies of
the talks made by Mr. Blumenthal and Mr. Brown. [See Par.
R45--R46.] I'm in hopes that you enjoyed them as we did that
were present. We all just regretted that it wasn't possible
for you to be here in person. But I've been feeling
PHYSICALLY ill. Possibly it's a little bit of a let down
from a strain I have lived under for at least EIGHT years, if
not for thirty. Possibly the fulfillment of this dream is
very much like many of those things we pray very fervently
for. Not just like we THINK we would like to have them, but
possibly as He may see best that we do or should have them.
Or in just that sense that we put ourselves in accord with
His divine will, in just that sense, or to that degree, do we
receive that we ask for. Or possibly it might be turned a
little bit different in this sense: As under the Mosaic law
atonement was required; while under the Messianic
dispensation it becomes an at-onement. The SAME word,
dependent upon where the stress is put. Just so with those
who would work together for the good of man as a whole. Just
as much as we are in accord, or at-onement, or make
atonement, just that much we may accomplish.
I do hope Mr. Wyrick that you are going to have the
opportunity to drop in sometime before the summer is over.
We all want to see you and talk to you. You know how we all
here think of you - love you - reverence you!
Take care of yourself. Hope you are feeling real good. Let
us hear from you whenever it's possible. With kindest
personal regards from all,
Ever the same,
Edgar Cayce [EC:GD]
10/10/28 EC's letter to Mr. Wyrick:
Dear Mr. Wyrick:-
Today I received from Miss [
302] check for sale of coins for
Cayce Hospital.
Now, on the 11th of November - 3:00 P.M., we hope to hold a
little service at the Hospital - set one of the tablets that
will be in the front entrance to "CAYCE HOSPITAL", and won't
you make your plans to be here at that time? It will be so
fine if we can get ourselves together on this occasion and
see what has been accomplished thus far, and see that the
thing is started off with the right ideas and ideals. One of
the leading psychologists of the country - who is well
acquainted with a portion of the work, at least - will make
the address of the day. No doubt there will be several
others that will have something to say, but Professor Brown
of Washington and Lee University will make the main address.
I feel that this is at least an indication of a step forward,
when one of the leading educators, and a recognized authority
on research and psychology, consents to make the address
dedicating our institution to the furtherance of the work.
Don't you think so? And I think, if you could only realize
how each and everyone that is associated with the work feels
that it is necessary for you to be actively associated with
the work, you would make a special effort to be here. We are
counting mighty big on you being here. You no doubt will
have your regular notice, but if it is possible - and if you
are physically able - won't you try to get this far at that
time? Be here at that time?
Be sure and let us hear from you. With love from all,
Every the same,
Edgar Cayce [EC:GD]
10/22/28 EC's letter to ANI members:
Dear Fellow Member:-
Our building, while not complete, has gotten far enough along
for us to feel we would like to have all our members make a
special effort to be with us on the 11th of November - 1:30
P.M., to inspect it, and at this time we will have a
dedicatory service for the setting of one of the tablets in
the entrance to the building.
Now I'm sure you realize it has been quite an effort on the
part of the Building Committee to get the work going and keep
it going, but we feel that you - with all of us - will be
proud of what has been accomplished thus far.
May we not get together at this time? (and the day,
Armistice Day, seems so appropriate for such an occasion)
that we may show our whole hearted cooperation in what is
being undertaken? Please let us know whether or not you are
going to find it possible to be with us, for of course we
want to make arrangements for entertainment, etc.
Sincerely and brotherly yours,
ASS'N OF NAT'L INVESTIGATORS, INC.
Edgar Cayce
Secretary [EC:GD]
P.S. The address of the day will be made by Wm. M. Brown,
A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Professor of Education and Psychology of
Washington and Lee University.
GD's note: See 10/28 Thomas Sugrue's poem on Dedication of
the Cayce Hospital in Reports of Reading
4358-4.
11/11/28 Card sent from ANI Board inviting members to
Dedication of Cayce Hospital, which read:
ONCE A DREAM--NOW A REALITY - Cayce Hospital of Research and
Enlightenment - The Board of Governors extends to you a
cordial invitation to be present at the laying of the Corner
Stone of the Cayce Hospital at Virginia Beach, Virginia,
Sunday, November 11th, at 1:30 o'clock in the afternoon.
10/18/28 EC's wrote to Mr. Geo. LaBryn inviting him to the
dedication ceremony of Cayce Hospital.
10/26/28 Mr. Wyrick's letter to EC:
My dear Cayce:-
I have your letter of October 15th and another of a previous
date. I was very glad to hear from you and to learn that
your work is progressing in a satisfactory manner.
I am very sorry that I will be unable to attend your meeting
of November 11th. Cayce, it is not because I am not
interested in you and your work, but my physical condition
and obligations here will not permit a trip of so many miles
at this time. I assure you that you have my best wishes at
all times and I appreciate more than I can tell you the
expressions of good-will and concern which you have given me
so many times.
As you know I have been unsuccessful in my efforts to make
money which I could appropriate to your cause and with my
health failing as it has been, I have often found it a rather
uphill business to meet my obligations and naturally this
condition has kept my mental thoughts, such as I have been
able to muster, in the material channels in which I am
obligated to carry on. I hope, however, that in the near
future I will be more physically fit and financially able to
be of some assistance to you.
I wish you and your associates a successful meeting on
November 11th and to you, your family and Miss Davis I wish
good health and much happiness in your new home and
surroundings.
Very truly yours,
M. B. Wyrick [MBW.MP]
See Source File Key #294 for the Dedication Program of Cayce
Hospital.
12/15/28 See
254-47, Par. 46-A--47-A.
12/31/28 Mr. Wyrick's letter to EC:
My dear Cayce,
I am enclosing Proxy for your next meeting and I am very
sorry I cannot attend. As I wrote you some time since, I am
in poor condition to travel. While I feel some better than I
have past two years, I am calling on all my energy to do the
travelling necessary to the Company Service. My father is
very low in Missouri, I must go there tomorrow. I wish you
would write to Mr. Ralph Ary - Care Western Union Tex. Co.,
1029 West Adams St., Chicago. He is interested in having a
reading.
Please extend New Year greetings to Mrs. Cayce, the boys, and
Miss Davis. Very best wishes for health and prosperity to
you.
M. B. Wyrick
1/04/29 EC's letter to Mr. Wyrick:
Dear Mr. Wyrick:-
We have yours of December 31st. Many thanks for enclosing
the proxy, but to be very sure we would have enjoyed above
most everything else your PRESENCE.
I'm sorry to know that your health is giving you trouble. I
appreciate the circumstances and conditions. We are hoping
to very soon have the Hospital open. Why can't you arrange
to spend a few weeks with us in the Hospital and let us carry
out the suggestions that may be made in the readings from
day to day as respecting your condition? I can't help but
believe, Mr. Wyrick, from past experiences - relative to
yourself as well as hundreds of others - that it would be
worth while. In fact, as you very well know, there has been
such a belief in this - that is why I have insisted and
worked so hard towards having such a building where the
information might be carried out under the direction and
supervision of a competent medical man, yet one in sympathy
with what we are trying to do. Can't you - and won't you let
me insist on your arranging to do this very thing? There's
nothing I know of that would be more pleasing to me than to
see you gain assistance through these sources. Not for any
glory to myself, or even for the institution - but for the
good that it might bring to yourself. I would like for you
to see and know more of the work first hand. Can't you
arrange to be among the very first that will be at this
place? It will only be necessary for you to have the TIME,
because it won't be expensive to you AT ALL.
I think I have had a regular case of the "flu" in the last
three weeks. This is the first day I have really been able
to be at my desk, but I'm feeling pretty good, and I'm
certainly going to try to take care of myself.
We all here send you kindest and best wishes, and wish for
you Health, Happiness and Prosperity through the coming year.
Let us hear from you, won't you? and try to arrange to be
here.
With kindest personal regards,
Ever the same,
Edgar Cayce [EC:GD]
3/07/29 Mr. Wyrick's letter to EC:
My dear Cayce,
While I have a little time today will drop you a line and to
begin I want to thank you for your invitation to visit you
and spend some time in your institution. I can think of
nothing I would enjoy more than a visit with you and the
folks; and very sorry I cannot take the time just now, but
hope for an opportunity some time this year. I am now
starting another Wild Cat well, near Knox in North Indiana.
Moving rig to location now. Will be drilling by first of
next week. Very cold today - yesterday we [were] stuck in
the mud but today roads frozen - will hold up the trucks.
When I get production here I am going to see you. Tell Miss
Gladys I will remember her invitation also. Hope you are
getting on nicely and that your plans are being carried to
completion as expected. Some time ago I wrote you that Mr.
Ralph Ary of Chicago wanted a reading. He has been expecting
to hear from you. Address - 1029 West Adams St. How is Mrs.
Cayce and the boys? Give them all my very best wishes. Same
to yourself and Miss Gladys.
Yours very truly,
M. B. Wyrick
3/13/29 EC's letter to Mr. Wyrick:
My dear Mr. Wyrick:-
We were all very glad to have yours of the 7th, and we want
to add - if it is possible - a little more insistency on your
taking the time to come down and spend a while with us. I
can't help but believe, Mr. Wyrick, it would be to your own
good. I believe that your stay here of ten days or two weeks
would be worth while in your health, which would make it
worth a great deal more in some other directions - for we
would be in a position here to see the suggestions applied
in just the way and manner directed, and I want you tp see
the place, for it is YOUR place just as it is any of the
rest of us, and I don't know of anyone in the WORLD that
I had rather see get some good out of it than yourself.
I note what you have to say about the new well. I certainly
am very much in hopes that this pans out different from your
past experience. This no doubt being closer, you will be
able to at least in a small measure give it more personal
attention from time to time - and this, I am sure, will
insure the proper handling of the conditions.
The hospital is now open, and we are ready for people who
care to take advantage of it. We have quite a number already
taking treatment. Our first man came down from Philadelphia
[
470] and was only here ten days. He went home feeling
entirely a different man. I wish we could do as much good
for everyone as we seemingly did for him.
We sent Mr. Ary some literature, but have never heard any-
thing from him. For fear that it miscarried or something, we
are sending him some more.
Mrs. Cayce and the boys are getting along very nicely. We
have all been very busy, of course, with the getting of
everything together for the building. It has required a
great deal of time and thought, and some worry - yet it is
SOME satisfaction to see the thing taking definite shape, and
to see people coming in and really getting results, where so
many have almost lost hope.
I do hope that you will in the very near future take the time
to get down and see us. Let us hear from you whenever you
have the opportunity. I know you are mighty busy, but we are
always, all, mighty glad and anxious to hear from Mr. Wyrick.
With kindest personal regards and love from all,
Ever the same,
Edgar Cayce
7/22/29 Mr. Wyrick's letter to EC:
My Dear Cayce:-
I have a communication from Miss Davis dated July 15th, 1929.
I am enclosing the proxy signed in your favor - sorry indeed
that I cannot attend the meeting on the 27th, but as usual I
have more travel ahead of me than I can keep up with. I hope
to make a trip east and be able to see you sometime this
year.
I received your letter recently with a prospectus and picture
of your hospital building. It evidently is a beautiful place
and I am sure glad to see that your dream has been realized;
after all the years of labor and disappointment that you have
experienced you at last are located in a wonderful place with
a wonderful building and I hope surrounded by congenial
cooperative people.
I am sorry indeed that I have not been able to contribute
more to your institution, but I have been playing in rather
hard luck financially for several months. We lost our oil
prospects in Indiana as well as those in Texas. Now we are
broke and adrift looking for an anchor where we may
recuperate and when we do, I suppose it is into the oil game
again, but at present we must be very quiet.
With kindest regards to yourself and family and very best
wishes to Miss Gladys, I remain,
Yours very truly,
M. B. Wyrick [MBW:VBS]
8/05/29 EC's letter to Mr. Wyrick:
My dear Mr. Wyrick:-
I was glad to have yours of the 22nd, but sorry indeed that
you didn't find it plausible or feasible to be with us at the
meeting. As I have said before, I don't want to be too
insistent, but I am more than anxious to have you meet with
these people at some time in the near future, or when we have
one of our meetings. Of course, I don't want you to wait
until a meeting to come down and see us, when you find the
opportunity. I know you are busy, and I appreciate that
circumstances have been such that you haven't been able to
carry out some of the ideas you have had in mind, but you
know there are some of us that are able to give that in
counsel and advice that far outweighs any amount of money
that may be contributed. I have always felt this the case
with you. That's why I have been so anxious to have you with
us. You no doubt have had a copy of the hospital booklet,
but that you may better acquaint yourself with the outlook I
am sending you data I want you to have. I want you to know
how things are being worked out. I'm sending you the minutes
of the last meeting, the report of the various committees,
etc., that you may look this over at your leisure. Of
course, these are rather confidential, but should be the
property of each and every trustee. I would like very much
to have your comment on these, Mr. Wyrick. I know that you
will be able to judge the situation from your past interest
in the work and will be able to judge unbiased, as one
viewing the whole operations from a distance. I'm sure you
will be able to offer all of us some good advice, and I hope
you will find the opportunity to do this. Occupying the
position that I do with the Association, irrespective of the
fact that it is through me that most or all of the
information comes, I may be able to put into operation some
of your suggestions - and this we need! We realize it has to
be conducted on a business basis. You no doubt know that we
have a datastician - Mr. Shroyer - whom you possibly
remember - that is, he is going through the information,
getting it in shape so that we may be able to present to
those who may be interested in the findings of the
Association - statistics and data such as has possibly never
been attempted by a psychic research society before; for, if
it is worth what we think it is, it is certainly worth being
studied properly. We know that all characters of treatments
relating to human ills have gained prominence or their
usefulness has been made worth while by the gathering of data
by someone who took the time and the patience to do so. If
this is worth what we think it is, we ought to find it out,
and we can only do it by such work - not in just a haphazard
way and manner.
Thanking you for your interest, and hoping that you will make
an opportunity to get down to see us in the very near future,
I am, with kindest personal regards from all,
Sincerely,
Edgar Cayce [EC:GD]
3/13/30 EC's letter to Mr. Wyrick:
Dear Mr. Wyrick:-
Just a little line to let you know that we are still thinking
about you, and hoping that some of these days in the very
near future you will have the opportunity to come down this
way and see us. I have often wondered if you ever realized
just how much you are a part of this undertaking. I would
like for you to look it over and talk with us about it.
Can't you arrange to come down and see us real soon, and just
spend a few days here? It's about the time of the year that
you get away for a little while. Hope and trust that you are
feeling real good. Drop us a line. With kindest personal
regards and love from all here,
Sincerely,
Edgar Cayce [EC:GD]
4/23/30 Mr. Wyrick's letter to EC:
My dear friend Cayce:
I am enclosing proxy to you to serve in my stead at your
meeting of April 27; sorry indeed but I cannot be with you.
I sure would like to see you and have a good visit, but it
seems that as time goes on I am more of a slave to the work
here and have very little opportunity to travel outside of my
division.
My health I believe is improving some and still have hope
that I will see the day when I am again 100% physically fit.
I saw Mr. Claude Martin of Morgan recently, and he has gotten
in touch with a remedy that has cured him of the severe skin
eruption with which he suffered so many years.
Hope that you and family are well. With best wishes to all
and kind remembrance to Miss Gladys, I remain
Your very truly,
M. B. Wyrick [MBW:VBS]
5/13/30 EC's letter to Mr. Wyrick:
My dear Mr. Wyrick:-
I was very glad to have yours of the 23rd. We are really
doing some work here. Of course, as you can very well
imagine that we can't even begin to take care of the number
of requests that are coming in at this time, limited as we
are to the two - or a few more when they are check-up's -
each day, but the hospital is near about full.
Very soon you will receive a notification of the annual
meeting of the Trustees. This being the triennial meeting,
makes it necessary for the re-election of officers,
committees, etc., as well as a review of all that has been
attempted and accomplished during the three year period of
the organized work under the Association of National
Investigators, Inc. This meeting is to be held on June 14th.
I am wondering if, by hook or crook, or some way or another,
you couldn't arrange and manage to be with us at that time?
I don't know of anything that could be more gratifying to me
than to have a good long talk with you, to review the work as
it has gone on and to have your counsel and advice as to the
future plans. No doubt you have noticed something in the
papers about the establishing of a university, or a school of
learning here at Virginia Beach. This, as you may possibly
surmise, is an outgrowth of the work attempted by the
Association. While it is not wholly the Association work,
the present Trustees of the university (the name of it is the
Atlantic University) are the same almost as the Board of
Trustees of the Association. I am enclosing a booklet that
will tell you something about it. Of course, there will be
others added later on. But won't you make a special effort
to be here at the meeting of the Trustees of the Association?
I would like for you to meet all of these people, and most of
all every one in THIS household would love to have you here
at this time. Too, Hugh Lynn will be possibly casting his
lot definitely with the work of the Association. I would
like for him to talk with you, and to know you better. While
I don't mean that wholly as a selfish reason, I merely try to
show you how MUCH we really all appreciate you, and the
personal feeling there is in the matter. Hugh Lynn will
finish at Washington and Lee this year.
Drop us a line whenever you have the time. I certainly am
glad to know that you are feeling better, and that Mr. Martin
is on the improve.
With kindest personal regards from all here, I am
Ever the same,
Edgar Cayce [EC:GD]
6/05/30 Mr. Wyrick's letter to EC:
My dear Cayce:
Once again I am signing a proxy. I sure do wish I could
attend this meeting and have a visit with you and the folks
there, but at the present time it would be impossible for me
to leave the home base. As I wrote you once before it seems
that the job here requires more of my time each year. I wish
you a very successful meeting.
When you have the time I would appreciate it if you would
give me a health reading. I have never been able to throw
off entirely the affliction that came on me several years ago
and would like to know if there is anything I can do to bring
about a more nearly normal condition of the blood and liquids
of the body.
I am bothered a great deal with excess excretion from my
throat and mouth and other parts of the body. My legs and
feet, especially at the ankles and toes, are the source of
considerable annoyance, which many times develops into rather
acute painful condition.
I hope that you and family are well and that your affairs may
develop into a satisfactory and prosperous condition. With
kindest personal regards, I remain,
Yours very truly,
M. B. Wyrick [MBW:VBS]
6/18/30 EC's letter to Mr. Wyrick:
My dear Mr. Wyrick:-
We are enclosing, herewith, the information as gotten on the
16th. I wish that it were possible, Mr. Wyrick, for you to
come here for a while and take these treatments. I believe
it would do you a whole world of good. The next best thing
that I can say is, that any of these things suggested that
you would like us to have prepared for you, we would be glad
to have them prepared in the laboratory here, under the
supervision of the hospital - or doctor in charge there - and
I'm sure they would be in keeping with the suggestions given,
and then you could have the other treatments carried out
there; but, best of all, if it were possible, you should come
here for a couple of weeks. I believe you would see all the
difference in the world in your feelings.
At the regular annual meeting, all of the trustees and
officers were retained for another three years. Considerable
change was made in the committees' work. There will be a
report, possibly, gotten out within the next sixty or ninety
days. [See 7/29 ANI booklet listing trustees, officers,
committees, etc.] This was to have been off the press this
month, but owing to some changes to be made in the copy it
will be delayed for some time.
I am glad to say that we are all fairly well here. My wife
and I were up at the school to see Hugh Lynn graduate. He
plans, I think, to do a little work in the library of the new
university that is being organized here. He hopes to go on
with his work in getting an education, in another year or so.
Let us hear from you, and see if it won't be possible for you
to arrange to have a leave of absence for a couple of weeks
of treatment here at the hospital.
All send our kindest personal regards and love.
Ever the same,
Edgar Cayce [EC:GD]
6/23/30 Mr. Wyrick's letter to EC:
My dear Cayce:
I am in receipt of your letter of the 18th instant, with the
reading of the 16th enclosed. I am certainly glad to hear
from you and would love mighty well to accept your cordial
invitation to visit with you for a while, but I do not see
much prospect of getting away from here soon.
I appreciate very much the reading and think I will commence
osteopathic treatments soon. I would appreciate it you would
prepare the medicine as prescribed in the reading and send it
to me with a bill for the expense.
Business is rather slow with us at present, but it is in such
times as this that the burden falls more heavily on the
supervisors for we are taxed with carrying on operations at a
much reduced expenditure.
I am always glad to hear from you, so write me at your
convenience.
With kindest regards to your family, Miss Gladys and
yourself, I remain
Yours very truly,
M. B. Wyrick [MBW:VBS]
2/02/31 Mr. Wyrick's letter to EC:
My dear Cayce:
I have just received a letter from Hugh Lynn and was very
much pleased to hear from him.
In accordance with his request I am enclosing $2.00 to cover
subscription for the Virginia Beach News. I have received
the sample copy and enjoyed very much reading your article.
With best wishes for health and happiness to you and family,
I remain,
Yours very truly,
M. B. Wyrick [MBW:VBS]
2/09/31 EC's letter to Mr. Wyrick:
Dear Mr. Wyrick:-
We all felt pleased and expectant to see a letter from your
office. I'm certainly glad to know that you found the
article interesting, and I hope the others that will appear
from time to time will also prove interesting. We have had
some very favorable comments, and it seems to us noteworthy
that just at this time the local press should ask to publish
these talks, [EC's Sunday afternoon talks at Cayce Hospital
reprinted in Virginia Beach News.] and that so many of our
friends are sending subscriptions to the paper is most
gratifying. Not that it means anything, except that through
these channels we might be able to help someone.
I certainly hope that your health continues to be good. We
are still looking forward with a great deal of pleasure to
the time when you can come to see us.
Let us hear from you when you have the opportunity.
With kindest personal regards from all, I am
Ever the same,
Edgar Cayce [EC:GD]
2/17/31 EC's letter to Mr. Wyrick [Used also under Work Rdg.
254-51 Reports of Reading.]:
My dear Mr. Wyrick:-
I hope you won't think it too presumptuous on my part,
addressing you at this time and in this manner.
Very soon - in fact, on the 26th of this month - there is to
be a change, some way, in the manner of the conducting of
this work.
I know you have been very much "under the weather" for some
time, and that you have been holding on to your work there -
and this may sound very foolish to you; but with this change
we will have to have a business manager. Some years ago when
it was asked in the information who would be the best, your
name was mentioned first. I just believe, if you could see
your way clear - either to get a leave of absence, or take up
this work with us - we might be able through the work to be
of aid to you, and you be everything to us. Would you
consider it from ANY angle, ANY standpoint? It isn't money
we want - it's YOU!
You will let us hear from you, won't you?
Kindest regards and love from all.
Ever the same,
Edgar Cayce [EC:GD]
2/28/31 Mr. Wyrick's letter to EC [Used also under Work Rdg.
254-51 Reports of Reading]
My dear Cayce:
In returning to the office I find your letter of February 17.
Am sorry to learn that your business affairs are not running
smoothly and that you are contemplating a change. I wish
that I were located closer to you so that we might visit and
talk over the situation.
I would enjoy being associated with you in your work, but at
the present time have so many obligations that I cannot
afford to jeopardize my earnings in taking up a new adventure
- we are so far apart that it does not seem practical to try
to be of assistance to you through part time application.
Personally, I do not feel that I would be the right party to
take over the management of your affairs. My deficiencies in
physical activity cause a temperament that would not at all
times be in accord with the best interest of your
institution, and I am afraid that many times our belief might
not coincide, not that I would fear any clash with you, but
without perfect harmony in our belief we could not hope for
the best of success.
Frankly, I still think, as I have expressed to you several
times, that you should commercialize to a greater extent than
you ever have done your powers of delving into the storehouse
of a superconsciousness for facts pertaining to the everyday
life on this plane. You have dedicated your life for the
good and upbuilding of mankind on this earth, and good as
well as evil can be best promoted and controlled through the
power of money.
I am interested to know just how you stand and what your
difficulties are. I do not presume to have the knowledge
necessary to advise you, but if in any manner I can be of
help am willing to do what I can within the restrictions
under which I am bound at present.
I hope this will find you and family well. With kindest
regards to all, I remain,
Very truly yours,
M. B. Wyrick [MBW:VBS]
3/09/31 EC's letter to Mr. Wyrick [Used also under
254-51
Reports of Reading]:
My dear Mr. Wyrick:-
I have yours of the 28th. I was somewhat surprised at the
last meeting of the Association when Mr. Blumenthal, who
seemed to have been so very sincere in his undertaking in the
work with the Association, took such radical steps or changes
in his ideas. It may have been partially brought on by the
economic conditions; it may have been partially caused by
differences of opinion as to who should and who should not
receive readings of materialistic or commercial nature.
Anyway, his decision was to discontinue the hospital
activities, close it, and disband the Association.
We have taken three readings [
254-52, 53, 54] as to what
should be done. These will be forwarded to you later, when
they have been followed up by others in which we will ask
more material questions. We want to be very sure of our
foundation in a new organization. If you see fit to join in
with us for a new application for charter, we are ASKING you
to do so. However, as you know - as always - my policy has
been, I do not want to induce anyone under stress of any
kind to join into a work that they are not wholeheartedly
interested in. I am asking, too, for your counsel and
advice, whether you join in with us or not - for I have long
since learned to respect your counsel, and I feel that if we
would listen to your advice we would be much better off.
I am hoping that you continue to be on the improve
physically. I'm sorry that we are not closer together, that
we might counsel together the more often - but the
information has seen fit to say THIS is the place we may
succeed. Of course, we realized - and no doubt you remember
- that just such conditions as have arisen might arise, if we
were not working in the right and proper way and manner.
Let's hope we won't make the same mistakes again.
We will be expecting and hoping to hear from you, and we will
send this data to you. Please understand, Mr. Wyrick, it is
not financial assistance we are asking for. As the
information has intimated, and I believe - if it is built
properly - the work should be able to take care of itself.
The first and foremost thing we want is a BUSINESS MANAGER!
With kindest personal regards and love from all,
Ever the same
Edgar Cayce [EC:GD]
3/19/31 Mr. Wyrick's letter to EC:
My dear Cayce:
I have your letters of March 9th and 12th.
I have read very carefully the statements that have been
given in readings you have taken regarding reorganization
name and management of your institution.
Now Cayce, I would like mighty well to be able to be of some
service to you in this matter of reorganization, but it seems
that conditions in general are against me ever being present
at your meetings, and as usual I will have to pass up the
meeting of March 28th.
Regarding taking an active part in connection with the work
as outlined in your psychic readings, I fear that I am not
qualified to be of much assistance. I have studied closely
the requirements as pointed out in the readings of March 2,
3, and 4th. [Readings
254-52, 53, 54] I must confess that
due to change in my mental attitude in the last few years
toward the things in life, in which I had implicit faith and
belief, I fear that I could not qualify and line up with the
requirements as expressed in the readings.
I wish you, however, unbounded success and hope that you may
this time be fortunate enough to be associated with those who
will prove to be loyal and true in promoting the affairs of
your institution in line with your personal desire.
I am always glad to hear from you and will appreciate a line
whenever you have the time to write.
With kindest personal regards, best wishes to your family and
friends, I remain
Yours very truly,
M. B. Wyrick [MBW:VBS]
3/21/31 EC's letter to Mr. Wyrick:
My dear Mr. Wyrick:-
I'm just in receipt of yours of the 19th, and I am sorry
indeed that you find it impractical to be with us at this
coming meeting. Of course, I am unable to make any comment
on your attitude or views toward things in life. I WOULD
appreciate, could you find the time and opportunity, your
writing me your honest and candid opinions regarding the
outlines in the information given, and tell me whether you
feel they are worth while following out or not, and - as is
suggested - just what phase of, and IN the phenomena should
be stressed the most. Could you do this?
After the meeting, if I may, I would like to submit to you
the line which we hope to follow out and to have your comment
on that also; for I cannot help but feel that I SHOULD - and
would like to - honor and revere your counsel in the matter.
I'm glad to say that we are all fairly well here. The
prospects that we will have quite a number at the meeting,
and I am sure there will be many minds.
Again thanking you for taking the time to write, and with
love and kindest personal regards from all, I am
Ever the same,
Edgar Cayce [EC:GD]
4/01/31 EC's letter to Mr. Wyrick:
My dear Mr. Wyrick:
I feel sure you are anxious to know about our meeting last
Saturday. I'm not going to give you full details at present,
as everything was taken down and will later be sent to all
who express a desire to know the details of the meeting.
We had a very enthusiastic meeting. In all, there were
thirty-three present. The purposes and aims were discussed,
rather than ways and means. This is to be left for the
organization meeting. A committee was appointed to draft
resolutions on aims and purposes. This committee was headed
by Dr. Paul Kaufman, which in itself insured proper
scientific consideration. The outline of this committee's
report was adopted. This, however, is to be expanded upon
and also sent to all interested. It was the concensus of
opinion of all present that the work should continue, and I
personally feel that it will be established on a more
satisfactory basis than ever before.
I am thanking you for your interest, hoping that when we do
have organization meeting you may be here in person - or that
we may have your report in full.
With love and kindest regards, I am
Ever the same,
Edgar Cayce [EC:GD]
5/08/31 HLC's letter to Mr. Wyrick:
Dear Mr. Wyrick:
I would give a good deal if it were possible for me to talk
with you instead of having to depend on the medium of a
letter. We have come to a time and a period when we need the
co-operation of the best thinkers who have contacted this
work. All the preliminary steps to forming the new
organization have been taken and we are now ready for the
organization meeting.
On June 6, about three o'clock this meeting will be held
at our home here in Virginia Beach. We will select a
business manager and a board of advisors or trustees who will
guide and direct the policies and functioning of this new
association. We need you as a member of that board. It will
be composed of men and women all over the country who are
vitally interested in seeing this work grow and expand. We
don't want your money or your time. We just want your mind,
your ideas. There are one or two people in Chicago with
whom you could do some cooperative thinking that would be
invaluable.
Now, Mr. Wyrick, you were once a vital part, a great power in
this work back in Egypt. We are setting out to carry forward
the ideals which meant so much to the world at that time. We
have passed through the valley of the shadow just as we did
then and we are going to rise again to give the world
something worth while. We need you now.
Frankly, if there were any other way however extreme by which
I could get you to be present at this meeting I would use it.
That is why I say if I could only talk with you I could show
you how important it is that you again become a part of this
ideal. There will be some real people here, some real
thinkers and we need you to help them think. There isn't
going to be any splurging this time and we are completely
clear of the influence that has brought so much trouble. We
are going to build slowly and surely. The readings insist
that the work will more than pay for itself if we will but
set it up in the correct way and put our energies behind it.
Dad is now in New York meeting individuals who are interested
and want to see this carried on. Everything is shaping up
nicely and I believe we are going to really take some
definite steps forward.
If it is at all possible won't you be present at this coming
meeting? If you can not then let us hear from you by letter.
I know of no one who we would rather see a member of this
board than yourself - if you so desire it.
The family joins me in sending kindest regards to yourself
and family.
Sincerely yours,
Hugh Lynn Cayce
8/14/31 Paul Kaufman's letter to Mr. Wyrick:
Dear Mr. Wyrick:
I have the honor to inform you that the Charter and By-Laws
of the Association for Research and Enlightenment, Inc. have
been fully accepted and organization completed by the Board
of Trustees, and it is now functioning as a corporate body to
assist in carrying on and building on the solid foundation
the work as manifested through Mr. Edgar Cayce; and to do
this it must be placed upon a sound spiritual and material
basis in the shortest possible time.
As an old friend of Mr. Edgar Cayce and of the work he is
doing, we know that you are interested in moulding a
permanent organization, and this requires vision and
imagination. We must, first, have the knowledge of our
power, second, the courage to dare; third, the faith to do.
Nothing can be accomplished without the necessary funds to
realize our ideals, and with this in mind we appeal to you to
enroll as an Active Member, either a Class "A" or Class "B"
Member, (see enclosed application form), making your
contribution as liberal as your purse will allow.
Counting on your spiritual understanding to support the great
purposes for which your Association stands, we remain,
Cordially yours,
Paul Kaufman
Chairman, Board of Trustees
NOTE: Make your checks payable to the Association and mail
to P.O. Box 495, Virginia Beach, Va.
11/13/31 Mr. Wyrick's letter to EC:
Dear Mr. Cayce:
I see an account of your trouble [arrest in N.Y.
11/07/31]
in New York Herald of the 9th. Can I give testimony in your
behalf that would be of benefit?
Yours truly,
M. B. Wyrick [MBW:CK]
11/28/31 EC's letter to Mr. Wyrick:
My dear Mr. Wyrick:-
Please allow me to thank you for your note of the 13th,
offering to give testimony in our behalf. It was indeed
quite an experience for us, as we had never had anything of
the kind before in our lives. Possibly it was one of those
necessary things that we might know just who our friends are,
who would stand by us when we are under fire. It was indeed
very gratifying to come through with, we might say, flying
colors. The newspaper stories were very much distorted.
Most of them would have you believe we were discharged on a
technicality, but if you read the Herald-Tribune account you
saw the true state of affairs, that it was dismissed on its
merits and not on any technicality [Tom Sugrue the author].
We stand with a clean bill of health, and justified before
the courts of New York. It was quite an experience. We hope
we are bigger and better for having had it. It was very
unpleasant, the anxiety that naturally came with such, but it
was indeed good to know we had many friends ready and willing
to go to the bat for us - and it is indeed a pleasure to know
that we can count you among those.
Let us hear from you from time to time. We are always glad
to hear from Mr. Wyrick.
Again thanking you, and with love and good wishes from all, I
am
Ever the same,
Edgar Cayce [EC:GD]
6/08/32 EC's letter to Mr. Wyrick:
My dear Mr. Wyrick:-
We haven't heard from you for some time, and are wondering
how everything is going. For the last year we have been "on
the go", since the formation of our new organization last
June just at the time when so many things were going through
a change. It seems too bad that we couldn't have been rather
well set, than going through the change with everything else.
Possibly, however, it was necessary for the best. You no
doubt remember much of the counsel you gave us in Dayton,
when we were considering the first organization and moving to
the beach. We have found that you were almost a prophet. I
hope we have profited by our last seven years experience.
We have had considerable anxiety in getting ourselves located
in a home. A few days ago we contracted for a place. While
it may be an endless chain, if we can keep up the rent-like
payments, we will eventually have some equity in the
property, and we will not be bothered as in the last eight
months with some of our former associates making it
unpleasant by either renting or buying each place we would
move into. I hope this is going to be satisfactory in every
way. As I feel that you have always been interested in the
welfare of the family, and in our attempt to be of help to
others, I thought you would like to know that we are at least
settled for a while.
Conditions have naturally been quiet with us, as with every
business, I suppose, throughout the country - possibly
throughout the world, as it seems to be an international
rather than a local or national affair. We have been able
thus far to keep going. Our reports from those we have tried
to help have been most satisfactory. As more of the
spiritual is being stressed all the while, I hope we are at
least being helpful in many directions.
I know you have rather an aversion to the Jews; that is, some
of them. For a number of years one of them has been my
friend, and I have often wondered how it was that you and he
had never met, as he has been making Chicago for many years.
I understood from a conversation with him a few days ago that
he has some interests that would possibly have to do with
your department in the Western Union. He no doubt will be in
to see you sometime soon, if you are in Chicago. I would
like to know your impression of him when you meet him. In
the twenty odd years that I have known him, I have found him
to be a man that can be relied upon. I refer to Mr. David E.
Kahn, who has recently perfected his own organization for his
work. Any courtesy you may show him will be appreciated by
me. I've never found him to be other than straightforward in
all his dealings. I know you are a very busy man, but if you
do find the time we would certainly appreciate a line from
you. We are always glad to hear from you.
All here send their love and kindest personal regards.
Ever the same,
Edgar Cayce [EC:GD]
Christmas 1932 Mr. Wyrick mailed Christmas greetings to the
Cayce family and Miss Davis.
1/04/33 EC's letter to Mr. Wyrick:
My dear Mr. Wyrick:-
We were indeed very happy to have your Christmas greeting.
Throughout the year we have been thinking about you, and
wondering just how and where you were. From someone in the
office I heard that you were in Mexico. I'm glad you are
back in the U.S.A., and trust that you find San Antonio and
the surroundings agreeing with you most favorably. As I
remember the place, it is quite a beautiful and lovely spot.
I'm sorry you are on the sick leave, but trust that very soon
you will get straightened out and back into whatever field of
endeavor suits you best.
The past year with us has been, as with possibly most
everyone else. We have all enjoyed the beach, and are in
better health than we have ever been in any part of the
country. I've always thought of this as being a wonderful
place for you. You would really enjoy it here, I think. In
your rounds or travels, I wish you could be a while at
Virginia Beach, for I think you would find it most restful
and helpful in many ways.
Possibly the psychic work has gone through many changes since
you heard from us last, anyway since you have heard direct.
Many things we discussed in our early days in Dayton came to
pass. Although we ourselves and many individuals may have
been disappointed in one another, it was the human side
rather than the spiritual side, I think, that we find
lacking. I feel, however, that we have not had a better
year's work, more definite results, than we have had in the
year 1932. A greater number of people no doubt have been
influenced, and are being influenced by the work. Some
definite groups have been formed that I believe are really
accomplishing things, making life more worth while for
themselves, bringing some little help and hope to others. We
have much for which to be thankful.
I hope that the New Year will bring to you much, and that you
will not let such a great period elapse before letting us
hear from you again.
Hugh Lynn is working with our organization. He assists in
the Study Group work and superintends the little data sent
out each month to every Association member. The membership
now is close on to three hundred; that is, for the new
organization, with the probability of the number being more
than doubled during the next twelve months. If we are able
to be of the same service so many feel we have been to them
in the past, then it will indeed be worth while.
Miss Gladys, of course, continues with the work and, if
possible, is more efficient than ever, not only in her
abilities to furnish the individual with an exact copy of
what is given but to talk with those who from time to time
appear in person to discuss their problems. Gertrude still
conducts the readings.
Many things you suggested in the long ago are still adhered
to, and each has been found to be sound and right.
Drop us a line occasionally. You know we each and every one
find a great deal of pleasure in hearing from you, for we all
think so much of you.
All send our best wishes and love.
Ever the same,
Edgar Cayce [EC:GD]
5/19/33 J. E. Crews' letter to EC:
I'm sorry I neglected to tell you before that our good
friend M. B. Wyrick passed to the great beyond on Apr. 28 at
Seminole, Oklahoma where he was buried Apr. 30. Diabetes
finally got the best of him.
Write when you can.
J. E. Crews
5/27/33 EC's reply:
Yes, I was certainly saddened to know of Mr. Wyrick's
passing. Of course, we had expected it for a long while, but
- to us - he was a wonderful man, a generous friend, and one
that I am sure had a great number of friends. No doubt he
had his enemies as well, but who hasn't - that has ever
accomplished anything? Do you know whether his family is
still in Chicago, or has it been divided up? I believe his
daughter is married; does she still live in Chicago?
We will appreciate it if you will let us hear from you from
time to time. Know that we like to keep in touch with our
friends, and we are hoping that sometime this summer we may
be in Chicago.
With all good wishes and kindest personal regards, I am
Sincerely,
Edgar Cayce [EC:GD]
9/11/33 Mr. Wyrick's wife's letter to EC:
Dear Mr. Cayce:-
Saw a newsreel at a local movie this week showing damage done
at Norfolk and surrounding territory and was very anxious
about your welfare. Hope you weren't effected in any way and
that all is well. I would appreciate a word from any of you.
Well in spite of all our best efforts we had to part with one
of the finest men in the world. He was so patient, hopeful
and yielding to the inevitable that it was most pathetic.
None could help having the utmost respect for him. I know we
are not expected to understand the workings of God but to me
it seemed unfair that he should pass on so soon. He had
planned to write a book on the history of the world,
especially about Atlantis the lost continent with your
assistance but the oil well failing us necessitated his
continuing with his position to grind out a daily living. To
the last, his concern was only for those he left behind and
that he must part with them.
I hope you will be able to get some message from him. We
made an agreement long ago that we would ask you to see if
you could obtain a message in event either of us passed on
and I will be eagerly looking forward to some word when ever
that may come.
Also enclosing picture of tombstone erected day before
Memorial Day, his sister wrote me.
9/20/33 EC's letter to Mr. Wyrick's wife:
My dear [M. B. Wyrick's wife]:
I was indeed very happy to have yours of the 11th. It would
be hard for you to realize how much we appreciate your
sending us the prints. I certainly wish it were possible for
us to have a whole set of these to keep for our own. For,
I'm sure you realize that very few of our friends or
acquaintances all of us thought as much of as we did of Mr.
Wyrick.
We have had quite a bit of information from time to time on
Atlantis. When we are able to get this in shape, no doubt
some of it will be quite interesting to you.
Occasionally we hear from some in the office; very seldom,
however, though we have been rather close in touch with one
that used to be in the office who has gone west; namely, Mr.
Taylor.
Yes, we have had a great deal of talk from time to time about
a visit to Chicago. I don't know now whether we will be
there any time in the near future or not. Our plans were
laid to come last fall, but they didn't materialize. But,
whenever we do come, we will certainly want to get in touch
with you.
Know that we will be very anxious and glad to hear from you
at any time, and if we can possibly be of any assistance or
help, you only have to let us know.
I certainly hope your present arrangements will work out
nicely, and that you will have no trouble in getting
sufficient patronage to make your place very much worth
while.
As for the communication, thus far we have had nothing. We
have wondered sometimes - I have personally - about this. I
do not know whether the last letters we had from Mr. Wyrick
(which were really just notes) while he was in San Antonia,
have had an influence upon this or not. My older boy, in
discussing it, seems to think that they might; I don't know.
I do know that it was some years after my mother's death
before I had anything directly from her; however, several
other times other members of the family present at a reading
had messages through me - though I was not conscious, and
did not know what they were until they were read to me.
Later I had something that I could say was my very own; I
was conscious of her presence, and of speaking with her. I
do not know whether it would be possible, or the correct
thing, to seek through my unconscious state to ask questions
directly about this. However, if there was any special
conversation between you two as to your attempting to
receive information, know that I'll be very glad to
undertake it. If so, you would know much better than any of
us to what sort of questions you would desire to ask; or
possibly your conversation was such that you determined a
means of making himself known through a channel by some
concrete code or signal. Anyway, I would love to hear from
you again about this. But if, in any of our experiences, we
have occasion to obtain anything that might indicate his
presence, you may be sure that we will let you hear from us.
Hoping you will let us hear from you, again thanking you for
sending the prints (which I am returning herewith), and with
love from all here to you and yours, I am
Ever the same,
Edgar Cayce [EC:GD]
9/22/33 EC's volunteered reading immediately following check
physical reading
287-14, just before GC gave the suggestion
for waking him:
"Funny to see Byron Wyrick and Willard Lincoln together,
isn't it?"
GD's note: Mr. Willard L. Lincoln of Marion, Va., a
furniture manufacturer and also President of the Marion
National Bank, died from a stroke
9/02/33. He and his family
had visited Cayce Hospital frequently and EC, becoming
acquainted with the EC work in Sept. 1927 via Mr. David E.
Kahn. So far as we know, Willard Lincoln and Byron Wyrick
never knew each other in this life.
10/23/33 EC's letter:
Dear [M. B. Wyrick's wife]:
To be sure, I have thought a great deal about your letter;
and have wondered if I might not have an experience that
would give us something to question concerning a reading.
As yet I haven't attempted to get any association or
connection in a reading, but I believe I have something now
to base a reading on. And I hope you do not feel this is too
weird or out of place. But I felt, before undertaking a
reading, I should tell you about it; for you no doubt will
have questions to ask, in case we are able to get any direct
communication.
This is my experience of last evening: [Noted also in
Reports of Reading 294-161.] I had been listening to the
radio for several hours. Finally, all of the household had
retired and I was alone. I'm sure what happened was as
foreign to anything I had in mind as possible. The Seth
Parker program came on, and they were singing Blessed Hour of
Prayer when I realized that Mr. Wyrick was sitting in the
chair in front of me - between me and the radio. Whether I
heard this or imagined it, I don't know - for it was very
little, but I hope it is the basis for questioning in a
reading. I received the impression that he said, "Cayce,
this is the right way. There IS survival of the
personality." Then he vanished. Of course, I longed to hear
more. I was astonished beyond measure. I may have been
fooling myself, but I hardly think so. I do not know just
what to make of it.
If this is of interest to you, and if there are any questions
you would like to ask, you know we will be very glad to
include them in a reading.
Let me hear from you. With love and regards from each and
every one, I am
Sincerely,
Edgar Cayce [EC:GD]
Article written by EC in 1936:
I CAN'T EXPLAIN IT, BUT..." Some years ago I had a very warm
personal friend who was an executive of the Western Union
Telegraph Company in Chicago. We met quite often, and in our
discussions of various subjects the question frequently arose
between us as to whether or not there was a survival of
personality. It usually ended jokingly with one of us
saying, "Well, whichever one goes first will communicate with
the other."
During the last few years of my friend's life, we did not
meet - but corresponded intermittently. Then I was notified
of his death [
4/28/33].
Several months afterwards [Fall of 1933 - See above Par.
R91] I was sitting alone in my living room listening to the
radio. The program was Seth Parker's. Member of the group
had decided they would sing songs which their loved ones had
been fond of during their lifetime. One lady asked that they
sing, "Sweet Hour of Prayer." Another asked her which one of
her husbands had liked that song. I remember that I was very
much amused, and leaned back in my chair smiling to myself.
Suddenly I felt as if there was a presence in the room. I
was cold, and felt something uncanny or unusual taking place.
The program was still on.
When I looked toward the radio, I realized that my friend
(several months deceased) was sitting in front of the radio
as if listening to the program. He turned and smiled at me,
saying, "There IS the survival of personality. I KNOW! And
a life of service and prayer is the only one to live."
I was shaking all over. He said nothing more, and just
seemed to disappear.
The program finished, I turned off the radio. It still
appeared as if the room was full of some presence. As I
switched off the light and climbed the stairs, I could hear
many voices coming from the darkened room.
Jumping in bed and shivering from the cold, I aroused my wife
- she asked me why I hadn't turned off the radio. I assured
her that I had. She opened the door, and said, "I hear it -
I hear voices." We both did.
What was it?
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