Edgar Cayce Readings, 4958-1

Time: Unknown.
Reading is not on file with Edgar Cayce Foundation or elsewhere according to available records. [See 4958-1, Reports.]

REPORTS

1/22/21 Brother's letter:
The Birmingham News The South's Greatest Newspaper Birmingham, Ala.
This is to certify that the writer, A. B. Bealle, associate editor of The Birmingham News, has personal knowledge of several cases in which Mr. Edgar Cayce has revealed remarkable clairvoyant powers: (1) In the case of his sister, Miss Estelle Bealle [4958], whose complication of ailments, with which Mr. Cayce was utterly unfamiliar, was accurately diagnosed by him while sleeping. Although Mr. Cayce had never seen my sister, he described her troubles and prescribed a remedy, or treatment, which she is now taking. The remarkable part of this diagnosis is that while the writer was present at this reading Mr. Cayce described a certain dislocation of the spinal column about which I, the patient's brother, knew nothing; but the reading was verified later. (2) In a reading given Dr. James E. Tinder, a Birmingham optometrist. Mr. Cayce diagnosed and prescribed a remedy for a child of five years old [4956] who had been given up by the physicians. Under this treatment the child is now in flourishing health. (3) In another reading the wife [4955] of Dr. Tinder was advised to undergo an operation. In his clairvoyant condition, Mr. Cayce described a previous operation to which Mrs. Tinder was subjected, but none of the auditors knew anything of the malady until Dr. Tinder himself, who was not present, verified the truth of the reading. (4) While in Birmingham several months ago, and at the time of his reading for my sister, he cured a serious case of shell-shock which had puzzled the local medical fraternity. Under his treatment, the young man [4957] (?) is perfectly normal. (5) Another marvellous reading was that of a lady confined in the Norwood hospital, who had been stricken by paralysis of all her limbs. The doctors had confessed their inability to give her any relief. But in a reading accorded this lady, Mr. Cayce advised electric massage treatment. In a very short while, the patient was in full possession of her limbs and is now perfectly restored.
The writer is confident that Mr. Cayce has remarkable psychic powers. The only explanation I can make of these extraordinary phenomena is that he is the agent of some beneficent power outside the physical domain.
Respectfully, [signed] A. B. Bealle [495] Associate Editor The News
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 22nd day of January, 1921.
[signed and sealed] W. L. Fullerton Notary Public.
7/07/21 Dr. Ventura Williams' (D.C.) letter to EC:
J. H. DOWNING, M.D. CHIROPRACTOR AND OSTEOPATH 514-15-16 LYRIC BUILDING BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
Mr. Edgar Cayce New York City,
Dear Mr. Cayce:-
As I am the chiropractor who has been treating Miss Estelle Bealle [4958] - sister of Mr. Bealle of the Birmingham News, I feel very much interested in the reading you gave Miss Bealle during your recent visit to this city. You diagnosed her case just as we had done and mentioned the subluxations of the cervical and dorsal regions of the spine just as we find them. I think both readings you gave Miss Bealle perfectly wonderful.
Mr. Cayce, I wonder if it would be possible for you to give me a reading for Dr. J. H. Downing (James Henry). He's the Dr. in charge of this Sanitarium. He resides at 1112 Princeton Avenue, West End, Birmingham, Alabama and may I request that you have a stenographer present at the time of reading.
Let me assure you that if you can give a few moments of your most valuable time it will be appreciated very greatly.
Yours very sincerely (Miss) Ventura Williamson
[GD's note: There is no correspondence on file re the above and no reading for Dr. Downing on record. This does not mean he did not get one. However, I am sure EC did not give one unless he, himself, asked for it.]
2/28/37 Mr. [370]'s letter to EC:
..., Ala.
Mr. Dear Mr. Cayce,
I have an urge to write you at this days climax. I began the day after a day and night very much under par for me physically but bent on doing an errand to headquarters pertaining to my daily toil - with sprinkling rain about me - (that is dreary without the physical grunts). Dropping into the office of our county Commissioner W. E. Dickson with whom I enjoy spending some pleasant visits when at the Courthouse, - I was led into pleasant conversation with his agreeable old maid secretary and found I had unsuspectingly, entered into deep and earnest conversations on health and psychic subjects or soul subjects, - and about Edgar Cayce.
When I came to I found her observing about her surprise that I should be interested in such things and to find that we both had enjoyed so brief a hour and half and to find that I was so much elevated in spirit that my GRUNTS and the weather were forgotten. I hurried to another office before the noon hour should pass for what I expected to be a brief call on a gentleman I knew only passively but very respectfully - and thence to leave a small group's contribution to flood relief. Ensued there as I stood before his desk a seemingly inspired conversation on Tennessians [Tennesseeans?] and on through his experience with their pretty women and squirrel shooting men - on through the World War when he was Captain of Engineers. The luster of his eyes (and very watery at times) were expressive of whole heartedness, sincerity and courage. Another hour gone so quickly, - yes one o'clock sure enough! and I hadn't sit down. Joyfully I went about some small trading in town and home. There I found my son [640] and wife [1344] expectant and solicitous in a very agreeable way. Also a large envelope with the association bulletin and a copy of There is a River [6/15/36 Thomas Sugrue's booklet, preface to the book later entitled the same. See under 1800-26 Reports, GC's autographed copy] was awaiting me. I read it all before meal time.
I felt a thrill and appreciation of "There is a River" many times more intense then when I read it before. It was like reading it new entirely. I have since been heaping praises and thanksgiving for you in my mind since reading. And I have learned a greater appreciation of the writer. The world truly is a great place to live in with such souls in it. But what I say is not complete and I cannot neglect to complete the chain without Hugh Lynn Cayce.
I must go back to the old maid secretary [4958] of Com. Dickson's. She was taking your address pursuant to writing you about a membership. Before this she has impressed me as skeptical on things spiritual. I had never had so complete an opportunity to talk to her as today. She claims her sister is very much interested in psychic matters but I believe you will hear from her. She had a reading some years ago from you but did not act on it faithfully. She mentioned her father as having some connection with you. He is now dead. His name was [...]. Her name Miss [4958], ... So. ... St. B'ham. If she writes give her all the encouragement you can. I hope she becomes an active member.
I appreciate your personal letter and the one from Mr. Johnson [Douglas T. Johnston's letter in re A.R.E. membership & expansion program - See 1800- 29 Reports]. I am glad to see the association begin this mode of activity. It conforms to my wishes, it seems like an answer to prayer. You know I one time dreamed that I could relieve the finances of the work with OIL. But it did not materialize. I feel now that some will have a better chance to help some soul along the way in a different manner and that will be better than all the money I dreamed of.
I hope you will over look my short comings in this rambling letter. The cheerful thing about it all is that I too can claim you as MY FRIEND even as the author of There is a River. And THAT is the strongest thing he says in his PREFACE. I will be happy to see his completed volume when he crowds what he can say down between two lids.
Remember me faithfully and Sincerely [370]
3/04/37 EC's letter to [370]:
Dear Mr. [370]:-
Happy to have yours of the 28th, and to know about your conversation with some that have known of the work years ago. Yes, remember Miss Bealle [4958] very well. Of course, every one knows of Battle Bealle and his work on the Bhm News, thought a great deal of him, think he was one of the best editorial writers I ever knew and will be very glad to hear again from Miss Estelle, should she write, have a great many letters from Mr. Bealle, as well as many clippings that he wrote one time or another in the News.
A Mr. Dickson, was once a member of a Court Reporters group who wrote many of the readings while I was in Bhm, at one time or another. May be of same family, don't know, any way am glad you have had the opportunity to talk with others relative to the work, it brings back many memories those names. You possibly know that I spent about six months there at the Tutwiler hotel, giving from two to three readings every day.
We have some of the booklets, they have been called "Cayce" booklets just off press, and will a bit later have another the Assn. Booklet. Will send you as many of these as you wish, or that you can use to good purpose. "There is a river" is written beautifully, and the author is supposed to have the complete volume ready by or before Summer. Thanks for the contribution, am anxious to know what Mrs. [1344] thinks of her reading. We have had another case here in Norfolk very similar to your own, the Dr's were about ready to put the man on the shelf, as he is a Gov. man but he has gotten well. His Blood pressure is normal again, and he is to be sure back on the job with all the vim and vitality of a new man. Hope you are keeping on the improve, and thanks many many times Mr. [370] for your letters, they do me lots of good. Thanks too for joining in with the Assn. plans, and for all the nice things you say about all here with the work. We may be the means, the channel, but it is either God's work, or it is nothing at all.
Write every chance, and when you feel like it. With best to you and yours, Sincerely, EC