Reading 1472-9

TEXT OF READING 1472-9 F 58

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Date: 1/1/1939 Sex: F Age: 58 ReadingID: 7313

This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 1st day of January, 1939, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [1472], Active Member of the Ass”n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

[Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Hugh Lynn Cayce.]

Time of Reading 12:20 to 12:35 Noon - Eastern Standard Time. New York City.

1. GC: You will give the physical condition of this body at the present time, with suggestions for further corrective measures; answering the questions she submits, as I ask them. You will please give instructions as to the proper procedure for further improvement, and a complete recovery of health and vitality.

2. EC: Yes.

3. Now as we find, conditions show an improvement; though there are periods of disturbance, - when there is the dissipation of the congested area in and through the kidneys, or any undue activity.

4. Yet such dissipations are decreasing the congestion.

5. And while we would have periods of rest, we would continue to have those periods of treatment and the application of those things suggested through those activities as we have indicated for the body.

6. There should be less of inclinations for the body to so act towards food, drink OR activity of any nature as to cause greater disturbance to the system; as getting too cold or too hot, or the feet becoming damp, or the head and neck and shoulders under draft, or overindulgence in food of the nature that is a reactory influence upon the lower hepatic circulation.

7. If these are kept in that order and directions, we will find the improvements continuing.

8. The applications would not be too much of the CORRECTIVE nature, - that is, adjustment treatments, - but gentle massage following the nerves from their impulse center TO portions of the body where they are distributed into the connection with the superficial circulation. These will be the better; and with the electrical forces of the low vibration that bring about the attunement of the coordination between cerebrospinal and the vegetative or sympathetic system impulses.

9. These are the better activities for the body.

10. Ready for questions.

11. (Q) How often should the massage be given? (A) This has been indicated, - that there should be three to four weeks and a rest period of ten days to two weeks; then we would continue

12. (Q) How often the electrotherapy? (A) As has been indicated heretofore for the body.

13. (Q) What is the cause of my continued nausea and how can it be relieved? (A) As has just been indicated, when there is the dissipation of the congested areas, and there is not sufficient coordination in the eliminating system, it reacts to the assimilating system; thus causing nausea. It is a reactionary condition, and may be expected until there is sufficient of the congestion removed, or sufficient associations of vibratory forces built up within the system to prevent same.

14. (Q) Why don’t I have the same degree of spiritual exaltation in my new apartment that I had while living at the Hotel …? How can I recapture that inner radiance? (A) Variations in the vibratory influences about the body. Let there be held by those with whom and in whom the body feels those associations that make for the awareness of the high vibratory influences, and we may dispel those that have existed here.

15. (Q) Would it be advisable to have the electrotherapy daily as Dr. Miller advises? (A) When the massage is given, the electrotherapy may be given. If the massage is given daily for a period, very well. If not, no.

16. (Q) Will the New Year unfold greater opportunities for my professional advancement and my greater service to my fellow man? (A) These are part of self’s own development and must rise within by taking advantage of those opportunities which are offered from day to day.

As has so oft been indicated, and this body will find same within its own experience, it is as we use that in hand that the greater opportunities are given.

17. (Q) How shall I proceed to secure the right opportunity for broadcasting my “Folk We Touch in Passing” program? (A) This may be through the meeting or contacting or giving of the activities in such a manner to interest those who are given to the expression of that which is the impelling influence in such a program.

Do not cast pearls before swine, or attempt to make for contacts or associations where there is not the feeling that there is the appreciation of that attempted, - else we only create barriers that bring about disturbing forces.

When each soul, each entity so lives in its own daily life that it is ready, it is willing to give of itself in service, - without finding fault, without feeling there is the slight here or there, - then the way is opened for such service. But as long as such barriers are builded, you create that which may not offer the same channel through which greater service may be rendered.

REALIZE that we only sow the seed. God alone may give the increase. WAIT on the Lord - and this doesn’t mean man-made lord!

18. We are through with this Reading.

Copy to Self - Special Delivery ” ” Ass’n file

[Questions submitted which did not get asked: What is responsible for [1564]‘s failure to hear my “Folk We Touch in Passing” program and what is the wisest course for me to follow in the situation?

Should I resume the ”…” program over station … or await a better opportunity?

Is my present plan for writing a magazine article on Edgar Cayce and his work the right angle from which to approach the subject? Have you any suggestions to offer regarding it?

How should I proceed to get a moving picture production for my play “The Gift”? Is Mr. [437] the right channel for this?]

Reports

Reports & Follow-up

R1. 1/3/39 EC’s ltr. to [1472]:

Dear [1472]:

There is not much to say about a reading after it is made - just as have said before, it either answers or doesn’t. Hope the one gotten for you Sunday helps out - you know my heart and mind is in the right place as respecting same any way.

We enjoyed having the boys home for Christmas - H. L. back as we heard him last evening guess you did also.

Have been and still am quite busy - finding enough days is the question with me - and keeping away from a cold - seems I have them more than usual this winter - guess am not a wise eater - far from it am sure but feel better today hope can keep going for surely have the periods all taken up for another two weeks or more.

All the rest here are fairly well. Hope everything is better with you - and that all the things that are good for you come your way this coming year.

With love from all.

Sincerely, [signed] Edgar Cayce

R2. 1/10/39 [1472]‘s ltr. to EC:

New York

My friend:-

I am sorry not to have been able to acknowledge the receipt of my last reading at once, but my time has been very crowded since it arrived.

Hugh Lynn may already have written you that I gave quite a big “party” in the way of a reception last Saturday from four to seven, and this meant a lot of extra work. I had about forty-five people among whom was Hugh Lynn. I had a caterer take charge of my service and refreshments, but even so it meant a lot of work for me, - both before and after it took place, and I find myself pretty tired in consequence. Also my daughter’s entire family has been ill with the “flu” since before Christmas, and this has taken a good deal out of me, - all of which negativity I put into words only by way of explaining my not having written immediately.

I shall follow the new reading regarding the Dr. Miller treatments, - stopping them for a couple of weeks, and resuming them again. I have now had them for three months, and see improvement in some directions and none in others.

They have helped raise my vitality, - and consequently my resistance, - which has been a great help, and is probably responsible for my ability to resist colds, for thus far I have had none this winter I am grateful to say. The thing the treatment has not seemed to reach is the chronic sinus infection, which has been so bad the past two weeks that sometimes I have felt I would go mad with the constant pain through my face and eyes. I had hoped the new reading would give specific instructions regarding this, but judge the idea is that the treatments of Dr. Miller will eventually help this condition. Well, I will resume the treatment the first of next week after the prescribed two weeks rest from it.

I was sorry the question regarding the magazine article of you and your work was not answered, as I would have liked information regarding the effectiveness of my approach and any other suggestions. I have had no opportunity to touch it since last writing you. Am about a third through it, and do not know when I can get back to it. There is no chance whatever in my busy days at the office. In fact I have no right to do personal writing when in the office as my time here belongs to […], and the state of my health is such that it seems necessary to rest over Sundays if I am to carry on the work for which I am being paid. However, if I am meant to do it, and the work means real service to the world, I am sure the way will be opened to give me the necessary time and strength.

I had so many people at my Saturday reception I got no time to talk much to any one person, so have not had a real talk with Hugh Lynn since before Christmas. However, I am having dinner with him Friday night of this week, and we will spend that evening in a nice long talk. I am anxious to know from him how things are going with W O R. Also other matters pertaining to his work, and welfare.

In answering my question re. the possibility of greater opportunity for my work and service during the coming year I was told that this would occur only as I “use that which is in hand.”

Again, in a subsequent question re. the best procedure for my “Folk We Touch in Passing” program, it is implied in the answer that I, myself, erect barriers to my greater unfoldment and service.

All this is rather discouraging because I am NOT CONSCIOUS of any failure to fulfill my obligations to the best of my ability, or of thought and action that may be obstructive to greater opportunities for a bigger work and a bigger help to the world. The next time I have a reading I SHALL ASK IN WHAT WAY I am doing these things, for it would be a great help to know wherein I so fail.

For nearly three years I have discharged the duties of my … job to the best of my ability, devoting myself and all I have to give conscientiously to it, - as I always have done to any job of any nature I have ever held, - so I am puzzled as to what is meant by my “use of that which is in hand” in order that greater opportunities may open.

I was greatly interested in the answer regarding the new apartment. I, myself, had analyzed it just as given in the answer from you. I had felt - and voiced the feeling to several friends, - that the vibrations created by former tenants lingered there, and I am happy to know through the reading that they are being dispelled. I begin to feel greater joy in my new home as the days go by. I think this change came with the evening you spent with me there. I felt your presence lifted the vibration, and that you blessed the place. I wanted several times to ask you to say a prayer there before you left, but somehow couldn’t bring myself to make the request.

I am deeply concerned about your own health. I do hop you will continue the improvement you said you felt the day you wrote me, and that all of Good (God) will be made manifest in your life; your work and your associations throughout the New Year.

My love to Gertrude and Gladys, and very much for you from

Yours most faithfully and lovingly, [1472]

R3. 1/12/39 EC’s ltr. to [1472]:

Dear [1472]:

Good to hear from you - No we haven’t heard one word from Hugh Lynn since he was home - must have been some party - would not of minded being there am sure.

Do hope you will soon be feeling a whole lot better of course the Sinus is a very definite condition - and you have had the trouble so long that it may have set up a very definite condition yet - it is a result of other things and when those other things are removed it should be better - I gather this from the information - that is tho you have told me often about the sinus - and it has been mentioned in the reading yet - it has always treated it as a secondary condition - tho am sure you have and do feel it is anything else when it gets to giving you fits. But lets hope it will clear up soon.

Please don’t blame Gertrude or any of us about questions not being answered - when the information is being given - it often says “We are through” before several questions that were desired is answered, and that we have never been able to control - even when suggestions as Mr. Kahn has attempted at time that you will not stop until all questions are answered

• and at such times have had it refuse to answer any questions - apparently as Mr. Cooldridge it doesn’t choose to run.

That the information - answers at times in implication - rather than direct - suppose - for of course have noticed this often - it is that the person may themselves THINK of what is what - that isn’t said very well - and don’t know how to explain - but hope you get what I mean.

Hope the vibrations of the new apartment - continue to improve and feel they will - funny but had a dream other night about you and your apartment - wonder if it was the night of your party - don’t really remember whether it was Sat. or Sunday that had this dream - if it were a dream - but seemed to enter into the vibrations of your rooms - by your request - to see what cause some uneasiness - some restlessness and found there was a very serious triangle carried on there - and that it was necessary to - Ring - the triangle to break this vibration and did it with odors of Cedar and Hislop [hyssop] - whatever that is.

Well just hold a helpful thought for me - don’t condemn - because I may be going beyond my strength at times - just hold the strong helpful influence about me - am passing through a change - whether for good or bad know not - but a definite change - and of course it affects my physical as no one but me knows how - just wish to be of a greater service if I may.

Thanks for everything.

With love from all, sincerely, [signed] Edgar Cayce

R4. 1/14/39 Saturday [1472]‘s ltr. to EC:

New York

Dear Edgar:-

I found your letter when I got home last night, and hasten to reply to it because of its last paragraph in which you ask that I do not condemn, but hold a helpful thought for you.

How could you think for one instant I would do anything but surround you with every constructive mental concept and emotional regard of which I am capable?

In telling you that I was sorry the question regarding the magazine article I am trying to do about you and your work was not answered, I was merely making a comment by way of stressing my great interest in doing said article, and regret that I am so crowded in my life and its work as to make it difficult to get enough consecutive time in which to write it. In doing so there was no condemnation in either my mind or my heart. To me you are a rare and precious gift to the world, and are performing the service assigned you with signal unselfishness. Having this concept of you there could never be anything in my heart and mind for, or regarding you, save love, appreciation, and a profound desire to be of help to you.

Furthermore, - a part of MY DAILY PROCEDURE is to clear my own mind and feeling of negativity, and send into the world what thought I am capable of sending that will bless, and save, and heal. Like Paul, “I count not myself to have attained, but this thing I know, that, forgetting those things which are behind, I press forward to the high calling of Christ Jesus, my Lord.” (I may not have quoted that accurately, but it is near enough).

I was Hugh Lynn’s guest for dinner last night, and he was afterward my guest for the theatre. He told me during the evening that the transition of someone down there very recently has meant a lot to you [Edith Edmonds, Sec’ty of A.R.E. Prayer Group]. I don’t know the details of this, but I am sorry for anything that increases your burdens or affects your health in any way.

In many of my readings I have been reminded by the “Information” that “we can only do the sowing”, while “God giveth the increase”. I find in my own experience WHEN I CAN let go and let God, - or, - in other words, - do what my hands and mind and heart are given to do lovingly, kindly and conscientiously, that is my only job. The rest is up to my Maker. Of course - as already said - “I count not myself to have attained.” But I shall never stop trying. I speak of this because I would like to see you turn the responsibility YOU feel completely over to God. Only thus can either of us know peace. - Or any one else, for that matter, know it.

I blamed no one that all the questions I asked in my last reading were not answered. I regretted it but understood perfectly that you have no control whatever over this. I was greatly amused over the incident you cited of Mr. Kahn’s effort to force this issue by instructing in the preliminary suggestion that the “Information” should not stop until all questions had been answered.

I am resuming the treatment with Dr. Miller to-day. I shall take the new reading along when I go up there this afternoon, and show her all parts of it which pertain to the treatment. I feel the long period (three months) of treatments (already had) has builded up my vitality and resistance. I have thus far had no colds this winter, and think my better physical condition has unquestionably averted this, and hope it may continue to do so, as I do have a pretty bad time with the sinus when I have a cold. It is bad enough without that, so I am grateful not to have had a single one this winter to date, and wish you, too, could avert them, as they are miserable things.

Yes, I understand what you mean by questions being answered at times through implication rather than directly. Also that the purpose may easily be to stimulate one to think it out for one’s self and thus get the better lesson.

I am tremendously interested in the experience you had relative to me and my new apartment, even as I was in the answer to the question I asked about it in my last reading. I, too, question if it was a dream you had. I think it likely you came to help in answer to the purpose I had the evening you spent with me in the apartment when I wanted to ask you to bless it with a prayer, and somehow couldn’t bring myself to make the request for fear it might embarrass you. I met the couple who were in the apartment before I took it. I felt something wrong about them, and simply couldn’t bear the way they had the apartment furnished, and the whole atmosphere they had created there. I went there several times before they moved for some measurements for my bookcases etc., and couldn’t get out quick enough to suit me each time. But I never dreamed in my wildest imaginings that anything of this would remain after they had moved. I think your impression that the vibration left by this band master and his young wife due to a serious triangle quite likely and the symbology of the Circle to be drawn around this triangle is very significant, for the Circle is a Symbol of unity - or God. What the Cedar and Hyslop mean, however, I have no idea. Anyway the whole experience is most interesting, and affords another evidence of the deep purpose of service that pervades even your subconsciousness.

I have written this in the office and spent considerable time doing it while work lies piled high on my desk, so I must now stop. I will send it air-mail, special delivery that you may have it to-morrow. With it goes my love; my abiding wish for your welfare and peace, and a further desire for all of Good (God) for your household.

Faithfully yours, [1472]

R5. 1/17/39 EC’s ltr. to [1472]:

Dear [1472]:

Mighty nice of you to write me on the 14th - think I am feeling a whole lot better this morning. And many thing possibly contribute to that - and not a small one your letter.

Some times I get to feeling that can explain most everything about the readings - then realize from some happening that I know absolutely nothing about them. Why they do this or that now and then can never tell you - I try but guess am like poor old Peter - declare this or that and before the day is over have denied my Lord more than once - but personally have had the assurance that He has offered a prayer for me also - and have work yet to do.

Heard H. L. last evening not so well as our radio is on the bumb - but think it the best programme yet - what did you think of it?

Oh - I know - if I know anything of myself can do nothing the responsibility is keeping this body of mine a fit channel for God to use for service to His children - that is my job - and not HIS but am so weak - so easy for me to tumble off the applecart - get a bit panicky at times.

Hope you and Dr. Miller make out fine - feel sure she wishes to do the best - may like myself have poor judgement at times.

Hope things are getting better about the apartment - and feel they will - like a programme heard last night 10:30 over Columbia the talking statue - some of the best lines have heard in a long time in it didn’t happen to hear it did you?

Snow - the first of the season here yesterday - but is bright today and guess most of it will leave.

Write when you can all send love and regards.

Sincerely, Edgar Cayce

R6. 2/22/39 Letter: I feel you should know that I have come to the conclusion that Dr. Mary Miller follows your readings only in a general way.

I have been having her treatment for now five months. These treatments and the Readings combined have cost me nearly two hundred dollars, and for the past two weeks I have seemed right back where I was when they started. The sinus condition has never improved under the Miller treatments, and now the terrible aching has all come back to the left kidney, and I am otherwise seemingly just about where I started. I have felt I got some help from the electro-therapy part of the procedure, but otherwise none. I think this has lifted my vitality, even as the Readings said it would. The Readings ALL said THIS should be stressed and very little of the chiropractic adjustment given. Well, she HAS given the electro-therapy, but SHE HAS ALSO GONE IN HEAVY FOR THE CHIROPRACTIC STUFF. You see, she BELIEVES in the LATTER, and therefore substitutes HER JUDGMENT for the instruction of the Readings where they do not harmonize. At least that is MY analysis. I ASKED her if she had followed the instructions given her in my Readings accurately, and her answer was “in a general way.” Well, “a general way” is not satisfactory to me when I am myself following he Readings to the very letter. So, I am stopping the treatments now. I feel she has had time enough to have shown some real results. FIVE WHOLE MONTHS of faithfulness on my part would seem to me sufficient to show at least SOME improvement. There have been periods when I felt I was getting somewhere with Miller, but those periods were brief and transitory. Nothing PERMANENT in it.

So, again I take the vehicle God has given me through which to express Life and offer it to Him. Thus at least some of the strain and striving for human help will be lifted from my mind and heart.

I speak of all this JUST FOR THE SAKE OF OTHERS. I feel YOU SHOULD KNOW that Dr. Miller does not adhere to the Readings with any degree of accuracy for the protection of others.

R7. 2/24/39 EC’s letter to [1472]:

Dear [1472]:

Thanks again for yours of the 22nd - sorry you are not feeling so good - well it is hard for a body like Dr. Miller to get away from their own personalities - find trouble like that here and there in many and divers places - and at times am proned to feel the information must be not consistent as it should be - or something is wrong - yet - how often do we find then there is just that given done - no more or less wonderful results come - so one doesn’t know just what to say or do. But do hope you find the very thing that is for you at this time, and that soon you are feeling your own good self again. [Next paragraph used in 1822-1 Reports.]

What a mass of thoughts must bound on my poor weak brain - all the things people say and think of me - Oh well if it wasn’t that I knew it is not me - what a wreck I would be in deed. My head would swell at time to bursting and others - be certainly taken away.

Glad you saw H. L. lately he is pretty well balanced don’t you think for a boy - or at least to us.

Write when you have chance - all send love and regards

Ever the same, [signed] Edgar Cayce

R8. 4/7/39 [1472]‘s letter to EC:

I know you will be interested to know that I am getting great help from Mr. B. A. Copeland of the Copeland Masso-therapy Institute at Freeport, L.I. He is not an M.D. but treats along the chiropractic line, altho quite different from Dr. Mary Miller. Copeland found my sacrum out of place; the lower organs completely prolapsed, and vertebrae twisted. Since the discovery of such things is supposed to be the main accomplishment of the chiropractors I can’t think much of Dr. Miller’s ability when she discovered NONE of these things in SIX MONTHS of steadily examining, diagnosing and treating me. I have now had six treatments from Copeland, and EVERYTHING is better. He says the pressures from the misplaced sacrum and the prolapsed organs was such on the kidney that it could not drain; that this resulted in the pus capsule; pain etc. Well, he has put the sacrum back in place, and this pulls the muscles up, and takes in their sag, which in turn pulls the organs back up into place. Well, the whole effect is marvelous. I feel such release from the dragging down ache I formerly had; a great surge of new vitality, and less pain in the kidney. I know you will be happy to hear about all this, for it means a real hope on my part of getting well, and able to function in my life and work under less trying conditions than formerly.

R9. 5/12/39 [1472]‘s letter to EC:

Dear Edgar:-

This can be only a wee message to explain my not having written. My secretary has been quite ill and is still out of the office. She contracted a bad cold about two weeks ago; insisted on working until she got congestion of the lungs and a week ago had to give up and go to bed. In the meantime I caught her cold, - which is my deadliest foe because of a chronic sinus and tonsil infection. A cold invariably hits these infected spots and is worse for me than the average person. I have, therefore, worked all week with a temperature and have been miserably ill, but have stuck to the office because of secretary’s absence. I have been going almost daily to an ear, nose, and throat specialist, - a very noted woman here. She is Dr. Anne Belcher and has an enormous practice. I had her a year when I first developed the sinus infection three years ago, and she said then my tonsils were deeply embedded and badly infected, and should come out. I believed they would get well without an operation, so I didn’t have them out. Now she says the sinus and tonsils are in an acute state of infection because of my failure to have the tonsils out. Well, I don’t know about what might have happened had I had the operation when she first advised it, but I do know things are pretty difficult now.

All the above has also brought back the kidney condition, - and the Copeland treatments seem for naught.

This explains my not having written, and my writing no more than this now.

Thanks for both your notes. Also Hugh Lynn for his note. The time set for my Egyptian Reading is alright for me. I just hope nothing happens to prevent my getting down there on the 7th as now planned. Tell Hugh Lynn he forgot to send me the Warner Hotel folder he said he was inclosing. I wrote the hotel confirming my reservation, and asked them to send the literature when answering my letter. Thus far I have not heard from them, but suppose I will. Anyway Hugh Lynn might send the folder he left out.

I had a beautiful birthday on the 5th. [1151] and [1158] were my guests for dinner and we had a wonderful evening in the apartment after dinner. [1151] had a beautiful vision while I was talking to him about the Jacob Boehme teachings. My apartment was filled with gifts of flowers, - and it seemed somehow significant that every flower sent there was WHITE, - calla lilies, white tulips; lilies of the valley and gardenias. Perhaps they point the purity of thought and purpose I am required to reach. In any event they were very lovely and lifted me to great heights at the time.

Now I must stop. My love to all of you. [1472]

R10. 5/18/39 [1472]‘s letter: My specialist thinks I shall have great help in “baking” when at the beach. I am still going to her twice a week for the infected tonsils and sinus, and rather suspect she is right in her statement that I shall have to have the diseased tonsils out to get rid of that as well as the sinus infection. However, she has helped the ACUTE condition, and I am back to the chronic state where I can get along.

R11. 6/9/39 She obtained a Ck. Life Reading - See 1472-10.

R12. 7/26/39 See letter under 1472-10 saying she feels that most of her fatigue comes from her distressing dreams or nightmares.

R13. 9/20/40 [1472]‘s letter to EC: I have been through a very trying time with a new French specialist here who is treating me for my sinus condition. It got so bad while I was away on my vacation that I decided to follow the advice of a trusted friend here to try this new man and the treatment is very painful. Also the results are painful so I don’t know what to think. Since I started it I am determined to go through with it however, - at least until I can decide whether or not he is going to help me. I’d do anything, bear any suffering, if I thought he could cure me.

I hope you are feeling yourself again and that all is well with your entire household.

Lovingly yours, [1472]

R14. 12/20/40 [1472]‘s letter to EC: I have been greatly helped by the Bragg vitamins which the [1100]‘s recommended to me. I have now been taking them faithfully for two weeks and feel much more vitality and “pep”. Gaining this there is greater resistance to sickness, and the sinus has been better, as well as other chronic conditions from which I suffer. Did you get the book (“Outwitting Illness” by Paul Bragg) and are you following the regime endorsed by [1100] and [470]? If so I hope it does you as much good as it has done me, for I am certainly better in every way, and am very grateful to them for telling me about the procedure.

R15. 2/2/41 [1472]‘s letter to EC:

Palm Beach Hotel Palm Beach, Florida

Sunday Night

Edgar dear:

You’ll be surprised to know I have been in Florida for the past ten days, and will be here until the end of this week, leaving Friday the 7th for home.

My coming was very sudden. I had a letter from a friend who is spending the winter at Winter Park, Florida, for her health, which has not been so good for several years. She had been better, however, and suggested my joining her, and her husband (both friends of long standing) for a week or two. I went to no end of trouble arranging - or rather rearranging lectures so that I could go.

Well, last Friday morning I had my grips all packed and in the station when I received a wire from my friend’s husband saying she was considerably worse and advising me to postpone my trip. Having made all arrangements for a vacation I phoned down here to see if I could get hotel reservations, and, succeeding in doing so, switched to another train and was on my way in less than three hours after receiving the telegram not to go to Winter Park.

I am now very grateful that it all happened as it did, for I have no strings on me here, such as I would have had with personal friends, and am trying to get myself more fit for my job during these two weeks I shall be here. I am having daily oil rubs and massages before taking my sun bath in the nude. The hotel has a fine Solarium for women, and the sun has been glorious every day since I came so that we are quite warm in the open with no clothes on. After the sun bath I take an ocean dip, and at night dance a bit, and otherwise relax. I did not know how tired I was until I got here and really let down. And the sinus has extended the infection to my eyes. I went to see my eye specialist just before leaving New York and he says the condition is very bad. Also the neuritis has returned to my left arm, and the left kidney (which is also infected) has been aching terribly of late, so I was altogether much in need of this rest.

I am delighted to know that you are better, but mighty sorry to learn that Gertrude is still having trouble with her eye. Give her my love and sympathy. And let me hear from you soon.

Devotedly, [1472]

R16. 4/6/42 [1472]‘s letter to EC:

Dear Edgar:

Could you give me a physical reading next Saturday afternoon? This would be April 11th, and I am wondering if it would be convenient to make it at two P.M. instead of 3? If not, three will be alright. If you will glance through my questions inclosed you will understand just why I want it. I have never understood why so many others have gotten physical help through the information given you in the physical readings while I did not. I was faithful to all instructions given me, and spent two entire winters following them, with an attendance expense to me of over two hundred dollars. I am, therefore, asking where the trouble lay in my very first question, in the hope of learning if the fault was mine that I may correct it, and get some results from this reading.

I am not going to take time this morning to answer your letter, which has just been received, as I want to get this off to you at once so that I will know as soon as possible whether or not you have the time free for a physical reading for me Saturday afternoon of this week. I will be grateful if you will let me know by return mail that I may be able to properly plan the time. I will arrange to stay home during the “reading” which will be in my apartment on the third floor of …, New York City.

Thanks for your letter, which I will answer later.

Lovingly, [1472]

R17. 4/8/42 [1472]‘s letter to EC:

New York Dear Edgar:

Thanks for your note which arrived by special delivery to-day.

When writing you I forgot that you do not like to give a reading within an hour of eating, so three o’clock will be alright. You said 2:30 in your note so I will be at my apartment by them and remain there until four, so if you feel three is better for you it will be alright with me.

I have been so physically wretched all winter it has been a great handicap. Just an exaggeration of the old stand-bys. The sinus infection which I have had about eight years has been worse and more constant this winter than at any time since I have had it. Various throat infections have periodically made it worse, and I think these may have been the result of so much lecturing. Then I have suffered from violent indigestion and nausea, and the pelvic adhesions which I have had for years as the result of a major operation have become so bad that I am in constant pain and dragging fatigue from them. Also the kidney infection which I have had intermittently for some years has been more constant this past year, so that it aches most of the time. Add to this a great sense of exhaustion and you have a pretty messed up physical vehicle through which to function. My doctor has repeatedly told me that any one of with less will and determination would be in bed instead of daily driving in a big job. I have had my regular doctor (Dr. Irene Gates) and a sinus specialist now and again throughout the winter. I sometimes get a little temporary help, but neither gives me any hope of permanent help, and both say I “never will be well”. “NEVER” is a long time, and I do not believe it true. If I had sufficient spiritual understanding I am sure I would be able to dissolve the whole thing by this means, but I do not seem to have enough knowledge to accomplish it. So, we’ll see what the information which comes through you will have to say Saturday.

I had a letter this morning from Hugh Lynn. I wrote him an immediate answer, and in it told him to tell you that three oclock Sat. will be alright with me. He said he is coming up soon to see Sloane about the book, and arrange for your forthcoming visit. I am glad to know this, for there is much I want to talk with him about the Association and work. I’m afraid two of the people I have interested in having “readings” will not have the money to do so when you are here this time. It is a bad time because every one up here has just had to pay both Federal and State taxes, and they are financially stripped. I had expected to have a new “reading” while you are here, using part of my annual dues on same, but decided it might be more important to have the physical “check” instead. I can’t do both right now. I told Hugh Lynn to read my questions for the Saturday “reading” and add any he thinks might help. Another result of the sinus infection is that it has spread to my eyelids. They are crusted every morning, and sting and itch all the time. Maybe I should have asked something about this? I just thought it would be seen and taken up without a separate question, as it is all a part of the sinus infection, - or rather both sinus and eyes seem to be part of the general infection, which is a left-over of the operation which almost cost me my life in 1904. I have been suffering this low grade infection (according to all the doctors) throughout my system ever since. They say the kidney trouble; the adhesions; the sinus and eye business ARE ALL DUE TO THIS.

So, now you know my whole miserable story. I have never gone into it with you to this extent before because I hate mentioning it, but I think it may be well to do so JUST THIS ONCE, and ask you to show this letter to Hugh Lynn that he may reword any of my questions to better cover the situation if he thinks it wise to do so. I would like my first question to remain as it is. Also my last one. But if he thinks best to change any of the others, or add any further ones I will be grateful for the help, for I do greatly hope for some help from this “reading”.

Hugh Lynn writes me you are enjoying the gardening and fishing now that the weather is nice. I just wish I were there in my house right now!

I had a long letter from Raymond McDermott and he is going to give me his interpretation of my natal horoscope. I can hardly wait to see what he says about it. Like yourself, I have had many interpretations of my chart, and one alike. That is none alike in INTERPRETATION. So I am keen for McDermott’s approach, and will let you read it after I get it.

Love to all the family and heaps for my Edgar from [1472]

P.S. I don’t want the question about the large dosage of Vitamin A changed either. This is recommended by the Oregon specialists and the chemical company making it out there mentioned in the question. My own doctor does not approve it, but that is just because the advice comes from some one other than herself, and professional jealousy is back of her disapproval I am sure. Dr. Ullman in his book on sinus says A HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITS A DAY must be taken to have any effect on sinus. So does the Norwegian doctor mentioned in my question, and he has been experimenting on sinus with it with fine results for the past four years. So, if your information says to take it I will, altho it costs $10 a bottle and must be taken for two years according to these doctors.

R18. 4/11/42 See 1472-14.

Background

Background

B1. See 1472-8.

Mentioned Entities

Hugh Lynn Cayce, Vibration, Book of Job, New York City, Dreams, Gertrude Cayce, Massage Therapy, Prayer, Purpose, Chiropractic, Florida, A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment), David Kahn, Gladys Davis, Paul (Apostle), Virgin Mary, Astrology, Egypt, France, Jesus Christ

Source: The Complete Edgar Cayce Readings, A.R.E. CD-ROM (2006). Reading 1472-9, ReadingID 7313.