Reading 1734-2

TEXT OF READING 1734-2 M 50 (Retired, Investments, Hebrew)

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Date: 3/20/1930 Sex: M Age: 50 ReadingID: 7940

This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 20th day of March, 1930, in accordance with request made the by self - Mr. [1734].

[Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mr. [1734].]

Time of Reading 3:30 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. New York City. (Body and enquiring mind - questions on Beryllium Corporation of America and Laboratoire Durveaux, and other matters)

1. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, [1734]. This we have had before; also the associations and relations as regarding the Beryllium Corporation and Laboratoire Durveaux. These have not changed since last we had same, though some mental attitudes are changed in respect same. Ready for questions.

2. (Q) Should the entity identify himself with Visionola Co.? (A) Not in its present status would we find it advisable. There will COME the period when the entity, or body, identifying himself with same would be beneficial to self, and of helpfulness to others.

3. (Q) Will it be successful in near future? (A) Not so very near. It will be on rather a mediocre basis for the time being. There is not sufficient of a working basis on the originality of the operations for this to at the present TIME become a howling success. These will eventually be changed, as we find, and when these changes are to be made, so that the BASIS of operations are more secure, THEN would be the time, and then there may be expected the greater success.

4. (Q) Shall he sell his General Motors holdings and at what price? (A) Do not sell them at ANY price as yet, for there will still be the advances and the division of the stocks in the re-financing or organization in the developments. This represents rather one of the basic industries of the country. Why change?

5. (Q) Regarding Beryllium, what metal below Beryllium in the scale of metals has most affinity for Beryllium? (A) Tin.

6. (Q) With these two metals combined, name the various usages for which it is especially adapted. (A) Those where aluminum have been in usage, and where there is needed for greater strength in the usage of same. These would be the recourse for the use of this combination.

7. (Q) What percentage of each? (A) These would, of necessity, be altered according to the use to which same is put. As has been given, the percentage would be twenty and one, for the first combination, for ORDINARY usage. For that necessary for the heavier usage, this may be altered to two and thirty. This, for instance, in the usage of fuselage in planes would be excellent, offering a resistance as has not yet been attained for such construction; being light, yet the strength in the textile strength of same BEYOND that of aluminum, even with its combinations. As given in the low scale, not so much of other combines are necessary. Those of manganese may be added in making for the heavier, or the textile strength heavier.

8. (Q) Which metal is twenty? (A) Tin.

9. (Q) In two and thirty, which is thirty? (A) Tin.

10. (Q) What temperature is required for rolling? (A) Two forty to two sixty.

11. (Q) What two metals above Beryllium in the scale of metals have most affinity for Beryllium? (A) That next to same!

12. (Q) What is meant by that? (A) The scale of metals run in their regular order, from the drosses on up in their scale, see? These, then, in this, as it comes above same, comes into those of the more heated, or as given in the tungsten area, and the usage of same IN the scale, or change, with the one above, would be in those combinations of carrying heat and or vibration as is used in those of tungsten AND its affinities.

13. (Q) Name the two metals. (A) Won’t they do some work themselves! or do they expect it all to be given here! We are through for the present!

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R1. 9/29/29 (Sunday) Brooklyn Eagle Magazine article:

INDIA’S FIRST NATIVE INVENTOR

Sunkar A. Bisey, Hindu Scientist, Developed Malaria Remedy Which Cured Him

By Fletcher Pratt

Sunkar A. Bisey is a variant.

German professors of immense erudition write works in twenty volumes with quotations from classical authors and many mathematical formulae to prove that the future of civilization depends upon such people as he. A variant (take it on our word or that of the German professors) is a man for whose remarkable ability nothing in his ancestry or associations accounts; an Abraham Lincoln brought up in the backwoods who becomes a great lawyer and statesman in spite of poverty and lack of educational facilities; an Edgar Allan Poe brought up in the military atmosphere of West Point, who becomes the greatest poet of the age.

Bisey’s case is not less remarkable than these. Born in Bombay the son of a high-caste Hindu district judge, of a race which has for ages considered manual labor menial and mechanics unworthy the thought of a serious man, of a family so bound by tradition that its head refused him all pecuniary aid unless he took up the traditional career of a bureaucrat, he became - a great inventor!

The Orient has never before produced a great inventor. One might expect that an inventor would some day rise from the mechanical and ingenious race of Japan, the progressive Turks or the skilled Burmese architects, but that India should produce an inventor and that he should come from the old Hindu aristocracy is as amazing as it would be for an Eskimo to establish a reputation as an abstract mathematician.

Bisey, however, was always of a mechanical and inventive turn of mind. At fifteen and while still in school he shocked and delighted his family by making with his own hands an ingenious device for producing water-gas to light the house. (It is important to realize that such work should have been done by servants according to a pattern brought out from England.) A copy of the Scientific American fell into his hands about this time and fed the growing flame of his scientific curiosity. He subscribed to it, and today he is able to say: “I owe everything to the mechanical education I received from that American magazine. I simply had no facilities for studying what I wanted to in Bombay. My family was opposed to it, and there were no technical schools. I had to learn everything for myself and from this magazine.”

His father was bitterly opposed to this course. Why couldn’t the boy settle down to a government job for the rest of his life, as a good boy should? The boy took the government job (a minor clerkship) but with no strings attached. He refused to ask his father for money, lived on his own income and openly avowed his intention of going in for mechanics at the first opportunity. It was due to this independent spirit that he was never able to go to college. His father tempted him with money and position - Bisey refused both and went on studying the Scientific American.

One night, on the way home from work, he dropped in at the public library in Bombay. A new magazine had just come in from England - the Inventors’ Review and Scientific Record. In it was offered a prize for the best machine for automatically weighing and delivering from a hopper small quantities of bulk powdered substances, such as sugar, flour, coffee, etc. A nice idea, thought Bisey, and I’d like to try it; but the time is short. The distance of India from England placed the closing of the competition at so early a date that if he were to submit anything it would have to be mailed by the next morning. As he walked home from the library the idea suddenly struck him of how it could be accomplished. “I wonder,” he thought again, and then - “no, it’s no use. My idea is probably no good anyway, and they wouldn’t consider a plan from an unknown Hindu boy.”

But the idea stuck in his mind, tormenting him. He couldn’t sleep - and finally, at three o’clock in the morning, he crawled out of bed and began to make a rough sketch of his machine. At seven o’clock in the morning he mailed it, with a note saying that if they thought well enough of the idea he would send detailed drawings. Several months later he received a courteous note from the editor of the magazine asking for the detailed drawings.

He sent them. By this time the machine was complete in his mind - with its big hopper above into which two hundred or more pounds of sugar could be poured; with a wheel one set at the right point to make it deliver one pound (or more or less); with a lever that one pressed, whereupon the intelligent machine delivered one pound of sugar, correctly weighed and neatly wrapped. It won the prize - which was the more remarkable since eighteen inventors, some of them of more than passing note, had entered the competition. And his machine was so good that in addition to the 25 Pound Sterling prize he received a 7 Pound Sterling bonus.

The news made an immense sensation in Bombay. Dr. Yone Noguchi was as yet unheard of, and it was the first time any Oriental had accomplished anything in the sciences. A committee of Hindu leaders, including the sheriff of Bombay, the chief justice of the province and others, was formed.

They waited on this unknown Hindu boy, these great dignitaries, and begged him to resign his government post and go to England, there to study science and make inventions to raise the name and fame of the Hindu race from the low estate in which it was held there. A national fund was established to finance him.

And so in May, 1899, he sailed for England to take up his new work and new life.

The first problem that came to his attention was that of the typecasting machine. The machines then used would cast about 150 types a minute. A faster machine was desired. Bisey undertook the problem and his first effort was a machine that by casting several types at once would produce 1,200 types a minute. The heads of the famous Caslon type foundry looked over his drawing and dared him to prove the process practicable. Their laboratory men had been working on that very problem for many years, with no success whatever. Bisey accepted the challenge, got financial backing, and began to build a model. While he was building it, another idea struck him and he changed the model in the making. When the heads of the Caslon factory came for the demonstration he showed them, amid dropping jaws of amazement, a machine that would cast 3,000 types a minute.

This was good, but the machine, thanks to its enormous output, was suitable only for type-founders. A London typefounder, in the friendliest spirit, told him what he should have done was to produce a machine that printers could use. “Very well, I’ll do it,” said Bisey, and set to work.

He came out with the marvelous Universal type casting machine

• a machine that will cast any size or style of type, and so simple that it has only 250 operating parts against the 1,500 in the older type of machine; a machine, moreover, which eliminates the changing of molds necessary to all other machines.

Then, at the height of his achievement, fate dealt him a couple of nasty digs. Sir Tata, the Hindu millionaire who had been backing his inventions, died; and England went to war. He was no longer able to obtain workmen for his factory, and the printers and type-founders were no longer interested in new equipment. What could he do?

What he did do was to come to America and start all over again. And he started in an entirely new field. On a visit to Southern France he had contracted malaria. When he returned to England he still had it - of the chronic, relapsing type. His condition became more and more serious, and as it did so, the news went to India. Now in India Bisey was by this time a famous man, and the whole peninsula was concerned over his condition. The ordinary European remedies of quinine didn’t seem to do him any good. His life was despaired of, and a Hindu doctor, hoping to save the life of India’s first and greatest inventor, sent on a few doses of a Burmese preparation, made from seaweed, that had proved useful in treating chronic malaria there.

Bisey tried it. The effect was electrical. He began to improve at once and in a month was a well man. “This gave me the idea,” he says, “that God had preserved my life to be of some use to the world and I determined that the use must be to give to the world the preparation the Hindu doctor had sent to me.” It was about this time that he came to America, and his first work was to analyze the medicine that had been sent to him. The analysts could not make it out. He sent for the formula, and when the Hindu doctor had parted with it, with some reluctance, began to work its possibilities on a commercial scale.

Now up to this time Bisey knew nothing of chemistry. He had to teach himself the whole science as he went along. But he persisted and, after some time had passed, produced the compound now known as Beslin or atomic iodine. When he had completed it it proved a specific not merely for chronic malaria but for dozens of diseases and infections. Today it is used in over nine hundred hospitals by the gallon, and without any exaggeration may be said to have saved the lives of thousands, even as Bisey’s own was saved by it.

So there he is today, with his Beslin, his type-casting machines, and his many minor inventions - a pleasant-faced man with hair just turning gray, a home in Mt. Vernon, and an office in New York; in fact, a modern American business man and inventor. He has two sons and a daughter in his American home, and his chief amusement, aside from the inventions which are at once his life work and greatest interest, is studying the Yogi philosophy.

R2. 3/21/30 He obtained a Life Reading - See 1734-3. Correspondence under 1734-3 mentions his interest in the product called Atomidine, promotion of it, etc.

R3. 9/19/30 He obtained a Physical Reading - 1734-4.

R4. 5/19/31 He referred his sister-in-law, Mrs. [1733] for a reading.

R5. 5/29/31 [1734]‘s letter to EC:

Mr. Edgar Cayce, The Association of National Investigators, Inc., Virginia Beach, Va.

My dear Judge:

I was very sorry that when you were last in town I was not able to give you the glad hand and to encourage you in your recent difficulties but it is never too late to mend.

I have been in touch with [257] and at his suggestion I am enclosing a list of questions [In re Atomidine?] which I would appreciate if you could arrange to have answered at your earliest convenience. These questions cover a subject that I am deeply interested in and for the time being I am at a loss to find a way out of the situation I am in, and it goes without saying that if you would be the means of leading me into the light that I would always feel under obligations to you.

I am enclosing a small check which I trust you will accept as a slight contribution to your work.

With kindest regards,

Sincerely yours, [1734]

R6. 6/5/31 EC’s letter to [1734]:

Mr. [1734] New York City

Dear Mr. [1734]

I have yours of the 29th, and I certainly appreciate your interest. You were among those I had hoped to see while in New York. I trust that you and your family are enjoying the very best of health.

For a few days I have been “under the weather”, which has naturally produced a piling up of requests. Then the organization meeting being scheduled for this week interferes with our carrying on as fast as we would like, but I am putting your application on the list and will get to it just as soon as possible. I hope this will be satisfactory.

I wish that you might be with us for our meeting tomorrow, and that we might interest you sufficiently in the organization for you to be a part of it. I’m sure your counsel and advice would be good for everyone connected with it. We are hoping to see this organization builded on the proper basis, not dependent upon others save as to the help or good that we may give or lend to others.

Thanking you for your interest and for your contribution toward our work, and with kindest personal regards, I am

Sincerely, [EC:GD]

P.S. We will write you next week in regard to an appointment.

R7. 6/25/31 GD’s letter to [1734]:

Mr. [1734] New York City

Dear Mr. [1734]

You will be surprised to get this letter from me, but I hope you will not think me too bold in addressing you as I do. It is because I feel that you are interested in Mr. Cayce and his welfare that I am writing this personal letter, which has no connection whatever with the Work or the New Association. I have written a letter similar to this to Mrs. [2541], Mrs. [903], and a few other friends in New York whom I feel might be interested [See 254-57 Reports].

It seems to me that the time has come to DO something. It’s all well and good to form the new organization for the carrying on of the work, and to have committee meetings about this, that, or the other, but I feel that Mr. Cayce and his family should have first consideration. He certainly cannot give his best to this work as long as he is troubled by all the petty and detail worries such as house rent, etc. As you no doubt know, I have been with Mr. Cayce now for almost eight years, and I feel like one of the family. Still, I am in a position to suggest this when the family is not, and I don’t want Mr. Cayce or any of his family to know about it.

A letter came a few days ago from Mr. [900], DEMANDING that we be out of this house by the first of July; not even offering to rent it, and I can remember the time when they offered Mr. Cayce the house OR the money. He chose the house, but because they apparently wanted to hold it over him as a wedge (or felt they could) they never gave him actual title to it. The only trouble with Mr. Cayce is that his heart is too big. This is the very worst time of the year to make a move in Virginia Beach. Rents go sky-high for the summer; nevertheless, Mr. Cayce wants to move - he doesn’t feel that he could stay here under the circumstances, and I don’t blame him. To fight it out with them would be putting the material value of this house above the whole work, or this whole life’s purpose - which is to serve humanity. Necessarily, he will have to locate and rent a place of some kind for the summer, no matter what the cost. The whole thing seems wrong to me - in fact, I KNOW it is wrong, because I know that he has bought and paid for this house with his very life’s blood, not once but several times. That can’t be helped now. What I want to do is to plan for the future. If Mr. Cayce and his family can’t come out and ask his friends to give him a house, I can! Here is my plan:

It will take approximately ten thousand dollars to buy a suitable lot, or to make a substantial down-payment on a desirable house in Virginia Beach. I am starting a fund among Mr. Cayce’s friends, and the friends of the work, to raise that amount. Although I have only written a few letters, already I have a reply from one with a pledge of $500, and the promise to help raise the rest. This campaign is to be without Mr. Cayce’s knowledge, and when the fund reaches that amount it will be presented to him as a GIFT (without any strings tied to it) from those who have contributed, and he can select a lot and build a house, or make the down-payment on one already built - whichever he likes. I am sure he has enough friends who are desirous of helping them, that at least by the fall we should be able to present the ten thousand dollars to him. Would you be interested in helping to raise this money? I am very ignorant about such things, as I have never attempted to raise any amount of money; still, I have always felt that money could be procured for the better carrying on of this work if gone about properly. It is my idea to appeal to the leaders of various groups in different portions of the country, who have been and are interested in the work.

If you are in accord with this channel, have you any suggestions to make as to how would be the best way for us to go about it? I mean, if you can think of any better way than putting the plan before the people in this manner, won’t you say so?

Hoping that you will understand the spirit in which I have written this letter, and that you will consider it in the light of what YOU think is best for Mr. Cayce, the Work, and all concerned, I am

Sincerely, [signed] Gladys Davis

R8. 7/7/31 GD’s letter to [1734]:

Dear Mr. [1734]

There is to be the first Board Meeting of our New Organization at Virginia Beach this coming Saturday. Mr. Cayce says that if you are coming down, and can be here Monday afternoon, he can get your reading then. As you know, it is much better to be present for such a character of reading.

We have been awfully busy getting moved. Hence the delay in your appointment. You will find us at 105th Street and the Ocean Front [GD’s note 12/18/63: Now 67th & Ocean Front].

Hoping to see you over the week-end, and with kindest regards from all, I am Sincerely, [signed] Gladys Davis

R9. 7/9/31 [1734]‘s letter to GD:

Miss Gladys Davis, c/o Mr. Edgar Cayce,

105th St. & Ocean Front, Virginia Beach, Va.

Dear Miss Davis:

I have been delayed in answering your letter of June 25th, having just returned from a short trip. I am sorry I will not be able to cooperate in this undertaking as I have obligated myself in so many directions for the present time that I cannot take on any more. I feel sure though that through your new organization, Mr. Cayce will find himself in much happier surroundings and will be enabled to accomplish much more than he has heretofore.

I will be unable to be present at the first board meeting of your new organization to be held on the 11th, having make other arrangements for that week-end. I trust, however, that Mr. Cayce will be able to take care of my reading on the Monday afternoon following, as I am extremely hopeful that same may be very beneficial to me.

Yours sincerely, [1734]

R10. 8/1/31 EC’s letter to [1734]:

Mr. [1734] New York City

My dear Mr. [1734]

This will introduce to you Mr. A. C. Preston, who is business manager for our new organization A.R.E.].

There have been a number of things that I would have liked to have taken up with you at length. No doubt you will be able to talk with Mr. Preston regarding these in a more satisfactory manner than we have thus far had an opportunity to do. I have reference to the formulas or specifics that have been given through the readings, that would be practical to put on the market. If you are interested in any way, I would be glad for you to take these matters up with Mr. Preston. If you feel that you could in any way interest yourself in the new organization, aside from these, it will certainly be appreciated by me.

Sincerely, [EC:GD]

R11. 8/10/31 [1734]‘s letter to EC:

Mr. Edgar Cayce, 105th St. & Ocean Front Virginia Beach, Va.

Dear Mr. Cayce:

In further reference to my letter of May 29th, will you kindly advise me when I may expect a reading on the subject contained therein.

Yours sincerely, [1734]

R12. 8/12/31 EC’s letter to [1734]:

Mr. [1734] New York, N.Y.

Dear Mr. [1734]

I had expected to be in New York, so as to arrange for you to hear your reading. All such information can be made much more valuable by the individual seeking it being present.

As circumstances are set at present, it’s impossible for us to get this in this week. It may be possible to get it next week. If so, I will let you know the exact day - for if you cannot be present, you know that it will be necessary for us to know WHERE you are at the time of appointment.

Trusting I may see you in the near future, and that you don’t feel we are trying to get out of something - but wishing for the very best for you, and with kindest personal regards, I am

Sincerely, [EC:GD]

R13. 9/5/31 EC’s letter to [1734]:

Mr. [1734] New York City

Dear Mr. [1734]

I presume you feel like we have been putting you off a long, long time. We are making your appointment for the morning of Thursday, the 10th, between 11:00 and 12:00 o’clock Eastern Standard Time. If there are other questions than those we already have in hand, that you would like to have asked at that time, I would certainly be glad for you to make note of them. We will also have to know the exact address or location at which you will be at the time set.

When I was in New York I met Dr. Bisey [Sunker A. Bisey, DS.C., Hindese scientist, discoverer of Atomidine]. No doubt he has told you about our conversation. I suggested to him, and I think it would be well for you, that he or both of you be present at the reading. I certainly believe it would be more satisfactory, and would enable you to ask some questions in a more UNDERSTANDABLE way and manner; for there are often times, as you no doubt know, when the information is such that it SUGGESTS questions that you could ask at that very moment.

Hoping this appointment is satisfactory, and with kindest personal regards, I am

Sincerely, [EC:GD]

R14. 9/8/31 [1734]‘s letter to EC:

Mr. Edgar Cayce, 105th St. & Ocean Front, Virginia Beach, Va.

Dear Mr. Cayce:

I have your letter of Sept. 5th and expect to be in Cleveland this coming Thursday but in my place I will arrange to have Dr. Bisey go to Virginia Beach, in order to be present at the reading and ask whatever questions he thinks proper at the moment.

With kindest regards,

Sincerely yours, [1734]

If Dr. Bisey cannot come down there in time for Thursday, he will advise you just when he will arrive.

R15. 9/10/31 See 358-1 in re Atomidine.

R16. 9/11/31 See 358-2 in re Atomidine.

R17. 9/16/31 EC’s letter to [1734]:

Mr. [1734] New York City

Dear Mr. [1734]

Dr. Bisey was here, and you no doubt have all the facts concerning the information [358-1] gotten, and no doubt have formed your own opinions and determinations about same. We certainly are in hopes that it will be helpful in working out matters in the way that will be for the most good for the most number of people. After all, it’s to the public - to the individuals - you must carry the preparation, for they are the ones to be helped.

We will be glad to be of any further help possible, in making these tests.

Hoping to see you sometime in the near future, and trusting you will let us hear from you - with all good wishes to you and yours, I am

Ever the same, [EC:GD]

R18. 9/24/31 HLC’s letter in re A.U. University:

The [1734] Foundation, Mr. [1734], President, New York City

Dear Mr. [1734]

As librarian of Atlantic University, I wish to interest you in assisting us in our campaign to increase the facilities of our library. The University, as you know, has opened its second fall term with almost 200 students.

Our collection, with only a year behind us, is naturally very small and we are weak in almost every field. Might it not be possible that part of the funds of your Foundation be employed in providing a collection of a general nature or in some specific field, which would be known as the ”… Collection”!

Our library is destined to become not only one of the greatest in this section, but also the most unique of its kind in all the world in its collections in the fields of some of the more advanced sciences in which I know you are interested.

Anything that you may do to help us will be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely yours, [HLC]

HLC:MD

R19. 9/28/31 See 257-74, Par. 39-A—43-A in re Atomidine and Ipsab, Mr. [1734].

R20. 10/30/31 Mr. [1734] and Dr. Bisey were present for 1734-5 in re Atomidine and Mr. [1734]‘s other interests.

Background

Background

B1. See 1734-1.

Mentioned Entities

India, New York City, Virginia Beach, Atomidine, England, Gladys Davis, A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment), Abraham Lincoln, Book of Job, Entity (Cayce Term), Germany, Atlantic University, Destiny, France, Gertrude Cayce, Iodine, Japan, Ohio, Purpose, Vibration

Source: The Complete Edgar Cayce Readings, A.R.E. CD-ROM (2006). Reading 1734-2, ReadingID 7940.