This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce in Altoona, Pa., this 13th day of May, 1923 (?).

Present: Edgar Cayce; David E. Kahn, Conductor; Fay Autry, Steno.

TEXT

1. (Q) DEK: In regards to Tex Rice resigning from the Penn-Tenn Fuel Corp. - has he used proper discretion?
   (A) EC: There are many ways in which this move may become the better condition for all. There are others in which it might become the dissension among many interested in the organization. With the appointment or election of one, who can hold the affairs of the organization in shape, the move is good. Such a one is in mind, see, however, if it is not accept with strings tied, for other people to dictate the policies Tex Rice should dictate, the policies of the organization at all times, for with the raising of funds there should always remain with the individual, the answer back to the investor from Rice, see.
2. (Q) Is David E. Kahn the proper man to extend the power and authority to that has been given him?
   (A) With the proper head to shade or equalize or govern Kahn, he is the proper one, see. The man in mind, who has headed the organization which is being taken into the organization now would be one well prepared to handle the situation, see.
3. (Q) Now Mr. Cayce, the one in mind to head the organization is Dr. Finley, will he accept the presidency of this Company?
   (A) He will unless the biggoty [bigotry?] of Kahn is exhibited too far. With the knowledge that he can, with Rice, control the policies of the organization, he will accept. Without it he will not.
4. (Q) Is that the man you were talking about?
   (A) That is the man we were talking about.
5. (Q) Now Mr. Cayce, in regards to Tex Rice of his coming week's work in raising finance, will he be successful and to what extent?
   (A) In this we have to consider too many individuals to give the full extent. There are oppositions to deal with that have the oncoming events to deal with. Not as successful as he hopes. More though than sufficient to carry out what is needed for developments at present. The plans that have been formed are good. There are many plans working in conjunction with those already laid. Will be some surprise to those connected with them. Work the plans ready made thoroughly and success will come, see.
6. (Q) In regards to the connections of Edgar Cayce and Tex Rice, will they have successful?
   (A) We see they will.
7. (Q) In regards to the plans of one Fay Autry with Tex Rice and Edgar Cayce?
   (A) There are no plans with them except as develop, see.
8. (Q) Now Mr. Cayce, one known as Hagstrom, Mr. Rice has decided to hand in his resignation on account of the life he is leading, is that proper?
   (A) Be very proper for the success of the organization, Beware of one ready in mind to take this same position, however. Use a little discretion and judgment and foresight in placing one in this capacity.
9. (Q) Now Mr. Cayce, is there any advice or any danger in the work laid out for Tex Rice?
   (A) Follow closely the plan as to how the work shall progress. There is no danger if these plans are adhered to and followed out closely - success will come over-abundantly in the next ninety days. There must be work done immediately for the success, however, of the further sixty days, see. There is no danger. Follow out the plan. Work the brain well. Keep the physical forces with the mental and work, see.

BACKGROUND

1. 4/25/23 Mr. W. Alfred Darling's letter to EC, in San Saba, TX, from Dayton, Ohio:
   "About a week or ten days ago I had a letter from Mr. Kahn relative to certain matters at Altoona, who invited me to be present at a proposed meeting which was to have been held on or around the 26th instant, at which meeting you were expected to be present. I accordingly made all arrangements to do this, and was hoping to see you, but I understand by telegraphic advice from Mr. Kahn yesterday, that the meeting has been postponed for several days, and am waiting further for definite advice as to to when it will be held, at which time I will endeavor to put in an appearance, and when possibly we can get together."
2. Subject of Reading 4945-2, "AFFAIRS OF PENN-TENN FUEL CORPORATION."

REPORTS

1. 5/24/23 See 257-1 answering questions in re Tex Rice, Penn-Tenn Fuel Corp., work of EC, etc.
2. 8/20/23 A. H. Lammers' letter to EC:
   Dayton, Ohio
   (Special Delivery)
   Mr. Edgar Cayce Selma, Alabama
   My dear Cayce:
   Your letter of the 17th just received by me. I was under the impression from Mr. Rice [William K. ("Tex") Rice] that he had wired you it was impossible for me to get away, at least so he told me over the phone from Chicago, where he now is.
   The facts of the matter are as follows: Until a clear statement of the Penn Tenn Fuel is made I will in no way be associated with its activities.
   It is very apparent that the proposition has been seriously mismanaged. Mr. Darling [W. Alfred Darling] has been working on the detail of a statement for the last week or so, but cannot complete the work until he has a conference with Mr. Rice and Mr. Kahn [David E. Kahn].
   I am not inclined to travel around the country with reference to a proposition that I do not understand, and until this statement is completed it is impossible for anybody to understand just who's who.
   Please do not misunderstand me. I have the kindliest of feeling for you and an interest in your end of the proposition, but I cannot be associated with the Penn Tenn Fuel Company until its affairs are in such shape as to warrant a business-like endorsement.
   If I can be of any service to you, I shall be glad to assist you whenever possible. With kindest regards to you and yours, I remain
   Yours very truly, [signed] Arthur H. Lammers AHL/H
3. 9/07/23 EC's letter to Arthur H. Lammers:
   Selma, Alabama
   Mr. Arthur H. Lammers Dayton, Ohio Dear Mr. Lammers
   Yours of 20th came in due time have delayed answering you for two reasons, first awaiting some developments from two quarters, the other, tried a little work when came on here and guess not being used to real work got my hands so sore couldn't use them for more than ten days to write either on machine or pen or pencil, but am in good shape again and would like to keep in touch with you if possible and then from what I hear from Mr. Kahn there is a possibility of some matters being worked out that would do good for all of us.
   No, I have not heard from Mr. Rice since leaving Dayton except one wire asking if I would handle some notes for him there in Texas, I answered that in the negative of course, and have heard nothing farther from him.
   Now that the Penn-Tenn seems doomed if I understand correctly, do you think there is a possibility of the acreage that I hold could be handled there in any manner or form. Has Mr. Rosenberg [Abraham Rosenberg] been to see you? Shroyer [Linden Shroyer] wrote me that he was going to see you. What do you think of him as one to handle the sales ends of a proposition? Have you talked the affairs over with Kahn, he is trying as I understand to release some of the lands that Rice once had in Tenn. and operate on those.
   Kahn has insisted by letter and phone that I meet him and come on there to confer with you regards starting the proposition, what about it? if could be done soon could it be handled. Understand you were to see Wyrick [Madison Byron Wyrick] again. How is he standing now, was in the right mood when I saw him last in Texas, but not for any thing from Rice. Would have gone to Chicago to see him again if Rice had not gone there.
   If you have time and will, shall be very glad to hear from you Mr. Lammers. Certainly thank you for the last paragraph in your letter, trust have conducted myself so as to deserve your trust and confidence. I know I want to do that that is right and honest, and certainly appreciate your friendship.
   Hoping to hear from you real soon.
   With kindest personal regards
   Sincerely, [signed] Edgar Cayce
4. 9/10/23 GD's note: Three days after the above letter, I started to work with Edgar Cayce taking down the readings. About a week later Mr. Arthur H. Lammers came to Selma, Ala., and took Edgar Cayce with him to Dayton, Ohio. In November Mr. Cayce moved his family, including me, to Dayton and we were there until 9/14/25 when we moved to Virginia Beach.
5. 8/07/24 Letter from EC to [779]: "...Plans have had to be changed considerable since coming here, for the gentleman who made such glorious pictures of his intent and purpose, towards assisting me and establishing the work as I desired, has failed me utterally, utterally, miserably. However, I do not think it was with malice or with any ill feeling toward the work but purely a condition of circumstance that has made it impossible for him to carry out his intent and purpose. Consequently, it has thrown me on my own resources and with the assistance of friends as yourself have I been just able to get by from month to month. There are at present some several propositions that are in the making. As to just what these will develop is yet an unknown quantity, but I am in hopes that very soon things will shape themselves in such a way that developments will come faster than I see at the present time..."
6. 9/04/24 Letter from EC to [779]: "...I think it did me more good than anything in the world, if, as you say, it had only made me stick to Selma. I guess, however, the experience that I have been through since I left there has been necessary in my life, else it would not have happened, but I have certainly wished many a time, since this man [...] here fell down, that I had not listened at his talk and had stayed in Selma. However, I know that I have made some mighty good friends since leaving there; however, the old ones are the ones that are the best and the closest, and they always keep a place in our minds and hearts that cannot be replaced, no matter how many new ones you may find, nor how nice they are to you in any way. No, I do not think you are speaking out of the way at all. I only wish that I had had you to talk with before I made the decision to remove my family to Dayton..."
7. 2/03/28 Arthur H. Lammers' letter to EC:
   HOTEL GIBBONS (Letterhead) DAYTON, OHIO
   Mr. Edgar Cayce - The Greatest Psychic Virginia Beach
   Dear Mr. Cayce
   While I haven't seen you for several years I do think of you often. I was discussing your work with a friend of mine several weeks ago, and he wrote me a few days ago asking your address which he wanted for a friend of his by the name John Smiley of Dallas Texas. I wrote him last night giving him your address and told him to also send you fifteen dollars which I understand was a membership charge in the Institute.
   I know you can give Mr. Smiley a reading which will do the work and I will personally appreciate your prompt attention to his letter.
   Seems more like a few months than several years since we used to meet together in Dayton.
   Time goes fast as we get older. I have become deeply interested and quite a reader and student of Astrology and philosophy since the meetings we used to have.
   I hope you are progressing nicely with your work and that you and the family are well.
   I am back in the Advertising Business again and things are getting much better with me again although I certainly had my share of reverses for several years.
   With kindest regards to you and the family.
   I am
   Sincerely [signed] Authur H. Lammers
   P.S. If you have time drop me a line at your convenience. You can address me % Gibbons Hotel - Dayton as I am here nearly every week on business although I am living at Cincinnati.
   Give My regards to Miss Davis please. A. H. L.
   Mr. Cayce - Special
   I hope that "Dame Fortune" will continue to smile if not "Laugh out loud" so I will be able to give you a lift in the Institute work at some time in the near future.
   I have yearnings in that direction as I always have had, but we can't be philanthropists until we have something to PHILANTH with - so says Emerson.
   Lammers
8. 2/28/28 EC's letter to A. H. Lammers:
   Dear Mr. Lammers:-
   I was quite agreeably surprised to find a letter from you on my return from a trip south. There are so many things that have happened since I last talked with you, that I would hardly know where to begin to tell you anything about them. I am sending you some data that will possibly be interesting, for it will indicate some of the forward movements that have been going on in the last two years. The Association has purchased the property for the institution, and we believe now we will begin the erection of same by the middle of March. We hope to have it ready for occupancy by the first or middle of June. It will be a thirty bed institution, run on the lines of any other well equipped hospital - simply the added facilities for carrying out whatever suggestions may be made in readings for individual cases. Of course it's purely a philanthropic organization. We haven't done as much work possibly as we would like to, but I think we have kept as busy since being at Virginia Beach as I ever was during my life, and seemingly - from reports - we have gotten most remarkable results. Possibly one of the most interesting phases of the phenomena is the Life Reading, and I suppose we owe the development of this phase of the work to your suggestion - when you first suggested that we attempt a horoscope reading. After the fourth or fifth horoscope reading, this presented itself in one of our readings - when the name and date was given for an individual for a horoscope: "Horoscope to this individual would mean little, as the will of the entity has been used in such a way that the inclinations would be only inclinations, and mean little. A LIFE Reading might mean much." Hence the change in the name of such readings, and the readings furnishing the suggestion that should be used for such a reading. Since then we have found some very unusual developments as to various combinations, etc.
   I am hoping that some of these days you'll have an opportunity to drop in on us and see what's going on. We continue to have a great deal of interest manifested. I think it has been continually growing in a consistent manner, ever since we first went to Dayton.
   Under the rules of the charter, we find the work practically self-sustaining, and we have been gradually building up the interest and a fund for the institution proper.
   We often think and speak of you and Mrs. Lammers - have wondered how things were going. I'm sure you have been "through the rubs" just as we have, but I'm in hopes that everything will soon work itself out and you will be in position to do as you wish.
   We'd be mighty glad to hear from you all - I'm sure the boy is a great big boy now, and I hope all the others are coming along fine. I've asked Brown [Thomas B. ("Tim") Brown] about you several times - said he only ran into you occasionally. I believe though he's away from Dayton now, for the time being anyway. We spent part of the winter in Florida last year - saw Shroyer [Linden Shroyer] while we were there. He seems to have a pretty good job now. We never hear anything from George [George S. Klingensmith]. I don't know what's become of him. We came through Dayton last summer on our way to Kentucky - we drove through - spent a couple of days there but didn't see anything of you.
   Certainly very glad to have your letter, and I hope you will let us hear from you again.
   With kindest personal regards to you and yours, I am
   Sincerely, Edgar Cayce EC:GD
9. 3/17/33 See EC's letter under 269-3 Reports giving more details about Mr. Tex Rice.
10. 10/20/35 Mr. [269]'s wife [1408] wrote:
    "Just recently I was going through some papers that Tex Rice left with us, worthless indeed, and I wonder why no one ever hears of his whereabouts, if Mr. [257] knows anything at all. But I guess we were not the only suckers."
11. 1/19/50 GD's letter to A. H. Lammers [GD's note: Listed in phone book, Lammers, Arthur H. - pub. relations.]:
    Mr. Arthur H. Lammers American Building Cincinnati, Ohio
    Dear Mr. Lammers:-
    For some time we've been wanting to get in touch with you. Finally the bright idea came to me of checking the Dayton and Cincinnati phone books for your address.
    Perhaps you have read the book THERE IS A RIVER by Thomas Sugrue, The Story of Edgar Cayce. If so, you are familiar with the fact that the author gives you full credit for introducing or discovering the philosophy of Mr. Cayce's readings.
    Approximately 2,500 Life Readings were given before Mr. Cayce's death on January 3, 1945. These readings dealt with reincarnation, karma, vocational guidance and problems of the mind and soul. Many people were helped immeasurably by them.
    Gina Cerminara, Ph.D, spent two years in Virginia Beach studying these Life Readings and collecting material for a book called A NEW DIMENSION IN PSYCHOLOGY [MANY MANSIONS]. Before publishing the book, William Sloane Associates, New York publisher, want Dr. Cerminara to give more detail regarding the early discovery of the Life Readings and the effect on the people who secured them. Since you are so prominently mentioned in Mr. Sugrue's THERE IS A RIVER, it would be good to continue the theme in Dr. Cerminara's book by illustrating with your personal experience. Would you object to having your name used, and if not, would you make any comments on your Life Reading or the material contained in it which might prove helpful as an illustration of its value? I remember quite well the beautiful introduction you wrote to the first EC material which you were instrumental in securing, under the title, PHYCHIC PHENOMENA THROUGH THE SUBLIMINAL [See [3744] series]. That material is still unpublished - perhaps all these years it has been waiting for you to do the final editing job.
    Yesterday I mailed to you a sample of current data being sent to first inquirers; it will give you an idea of how the work is now being handled and the possibilities which lie ahead.
    Do let us hear from you and yours.
    Sincerely, [signed] D. Gladys Davis
    cc to HLC & Gina
12. 2/20/50 HLC's letter to Arthur H. Lammers:
    Mr. Arthur H. Lammers American Building Cincinnati, Ohio
    Dear Mr. Lammers:
    Recently while I was in New York I asked Gladys Davis, our Secretary, to write you and we have looked forward to hearing from you.
    When you secured the first horoscope and life readings from my father in Dayton years ago, you began a long series of this type. About 2,500 people received the life readings prior to his death in 1945. This information has become increasingly important in the metaphysical research work we are now carrying on. When put together, hundreds of these readings involve a fascinating pattern of spiritual evolution for mankind.
    Frankly, I do not remember you very well as an individual and you probably have completely forgotten me. It seems improbable to me that you have completely given up all metaphysical study. I would like very much to bring you up-to-date on our work with the records with which you are so peculiarly identified.
    In any case, will you drop me a note about the present status of your interest?
    Sincerely yours, Hugh Lynn Cayce HLC:mb
13. 8/20/52 HLC's letter to Thomas Sugrue:
    Mr. Thomas Sugrue St. John's Nursing Home Aberdeen, Scotland
    Dear Tom:
    I have a letter of August 12 from Molloy at Henry Holt indicating that the price on the plates for STRANGER IN THE EARTH IS $100 plus packing and shipping charges. They are offering 2,500 copies of the book at 50 cents each. The Publishing Company is not in position to handle this whole deal. I will plan on purchasing as many of the books as I possibly can at as reasonable a figure as they will give us. I feel certain that over a period of time we could dispose of these books and I certainly wish we had the capital to carry them. It is a good buy and a bargain. Would you object if we made some direct efforts to get someone to put up money to purchase the whole lot and let them make money out of them slowly, as would the publishing company, even if we cut the price of the book to $2.00? Any suggestions you have on this will be appreciated. I'll work it out the best way I can.
    A letter from Rudy Johnson indicates that they have had more trouble with tools in the well and that there is considerable conflict between the partners and the driller with difficulties arising also on the holding of leases. I'll keep you posted.
    Lucille Kahn is doing a terrific job in getting speakers lined up for the Willkie series this fall and winter.
    I have a letter dated August 12 from Miriam Jackson of the Club Program Service saying that she is waiting for the return of people from their vacations to discuss finances of the trip with them. You probably have the same word from her. Enclosed are copies of my letters to Molloy and Jackson.
    A most interesting development has recently come up with Eileen Garrett. She seems to move in and out of our activities and bit by bit her activities prove out her Life reading. David Wollermann, one of our old active members, is here from Cincinnati. He is Professor of Literature at the University of Cincinnati, I believe. He tells me that Eileen Garrett offered him the editorship of the new TOMORROW magazine and he went to see her backer in Cleveland. We have his life reading and it has an interesting Egyptian incarnation involving both you and the Ibex rebellion. Eileen has accepted Lucille's invitation to speak for us on the Willkie series. We mailed circular announcements to all our members of the new TOMORROW. We have gotten quite a few orders for it for her.
    Another interesting angle is that David Wollerman says that he has been to see Arthur Lammers, who has bounced back financially and who apparently does considerable bragging about his connection with the work and the accuracy of his son's readings, etc., and we couldn't, as you remember, get a word out of him. David says Lammers told him that he had copies of readings that are not in our files and he plans to read them and make copies for us. This may turn up something interesting.
    Love from all here. HLC:mb Enc.
14. 6/08/53 I. David Wollermann's letter to HLC:
    149 Mason Street Cincinnati 19, Ohio
    Dear Mr. Cayce:
    This morning while decreeing order in the confusion on my desk, I discovered in a book a November letter to you, unmailed. It was a report on Operation Lammers that I promised to make [mail?] to you, and since I try, reasonably, to keep my promises, I'm sorry the letter wasn't sent.
    This is the situation: When I got back to Cincinnati in September, I immediately called Lammers and asked him to let me see the Readings he has. He was most affably amenable, but asked me to call again in a week. I called; he put me off, was too busy. I kept calling and he kept putting me off, his affability decreasing each time. Finally, he told me he couldn't be bothered, he didn't know where to find the Readings, and that he'd call me when he found them. Well, he hasn't called. But I tried.
    Sincerely yours, [signed] I. David Wollermann

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