Reading 1800-26

TEXT OF READING 1800-26

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Date: 5/6/1936 Sex: F ReadingID: 8140

This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 6th day of May, 1936, in accordance with request made by Hugh Lynn Cayce, Manager of the Ass”n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., and Thomas B. House, Manager of the Health Home Remedies Corporation.

[Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Hugh Lynn Cayce and Thomas B. House.]

Time of Reading 308-9 Essex Bldg., 12:50 to 1:20 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. Norfolk, Va. (Preparations being manufactured by the H.H.R. Corp. under the supervision of T. B. House, also the experiments, connections and research work in connection with these products. Questions regarding each product.)

1. EC: Yes, we have the preparations, those experiments, those associations, connections, and the enquiring mind of T. B. House, present in this room.

2. Ready for questions.

3. (Q) First: T-I-M, a remedy for hemorrhoids, a jar of which T. B. House holds in his hand. Does this product carry enough Tincture of Benzoin to act as an effective astringent in reducing the surplus skin or sac left by the hemorrhoid after it has been assimilated in the system? (A) In this particular jar here, not sufficient; though it will act as an astringent. But a small quantity added to same would make it more effective, though in some types more irritating.

4. (Q) Should the amount of Benzoin now being used according to the formula that has been given be increased for general distribution? (A) Should be increased about one percent.

5. (Q) How many drops to each ounce should it be increased? (A) In the preparation of this there is a great deal of difference depending upon the time it is added to the solution, see? and in the temperature and in the condition of the oil that is reduced from the butterfat, or the butterfat oil; the condition of this as the base, as well as the quantity of the tobacco that is absorbed by same - or snuff. And when this is added then, to the whole amount we would add - for the ounce - five more drops. Instead of from six then to twelve, add fifteen drops. For in this the proportion is ten.

6. (Q) Please explain the reactions and effect of the Atomidine and the Snuff in this preparation. (A) The Atomidine being broken up from kelp (carrying an effective activity upon irritation) makes for an activity upon the tobacco, which also is as a preservative as well as a deodorant, as well as an activity that enhances the action of the atomic forces in the iodine, see?

7. (Q) At what temperature of the Butterfat should the Benzoin be added? (A) Hundred and one degrees.

8. (Q) At what temperature should the Atomidine be added? (A) At ninety-eight.

9. (Q) Is a sufficient quantity of the Atomidine being used? (A) Sufficient quantity, provided this same strength is kept.

10. (Q) Is the one percent solution of the Atomidine the proper amount? (A) There’s more than that in this!

11. (Q) What percent solution of Atomidine should be used in this? (A) The REGULAR solution that is put up for commercial use, which makes it about one and one-half percent of the atomic forces in same.

12. (Q) Is the pack of Tobacco now in the office of the Health Home Remedies Corp. as good to use as Snuff? (A) No.

13. (Q) Do you recommend any changes in this product for use in internal hemorrhoids? (A) Necessary that those put in tubes be MORE of the Butterfat and less of the Tobacco.

14. (Q) Just how much should the Tobacco be cut down? (A) When this is put in the solution, it would be stirred until it is the consistency of soft soap - or in proportion this would be, for each ounce of Butterfat there would be added half and a quarter of the Tobacco, see, or Snuff.

15. (Q) Which of the two types of tubes held by T. B. House is best suited from its composition to use as package for Tim? (A) That which has the most lead and the less of tin, see?

This is a little bit more expensive but the activity or the action of properties as they are packed will be held more into their normal state, see?

16. (Q) Is the tube now held by T. B. House the best to be used of any type for this product? (A) Well, there’s many different TYPES - but this will be correct.

17. (Q) Is my present method of approach in contacting doctors the proper one to use? Advise. (A) This will naturally mean that personalities are to be dealt with, in contacting those that may become users or suggestive users. These are not the greater numbers to whom or even through whom the product will be distributed, but these are necessary for their reports, for their aid, for their help in the various ways or manners that will ENABLE the body, or those distributing same, to know the BETTER approach to individual users. Or in the preparing of data, or preparing of ads that WOULD be the means of influencing those who are sufferers from such, to at least give the try.

As to the approach to these, these will be individual, meeting the personalities as they are found.

In the general it’s very good. The changes - use common sense in personal approach.

18. (Q) Any other suggestions for improving Tim? (A) These may come after preparations have been attempted or tried, and various characters of containers and the effect of oxidization of same in same. But in the main this is ready for distribution.

19. (Q) Second: Ipsab, a remedy for pyorrhea. A report [1800-26, Par. R1] submitted by the Norfolk Testing Laboratories is held by T. B. House, which indicates the results obtained from bacteriological tests on streptococcus and bacilli germs with Ipsab. Should Ipsab kill these germs, if so what is wrong with the product as prepared by us? (A) These are preparations that are made for the activity upon another form, as has been indicated. If it is the desire that these are to be included, then these are to be changed somewhat in the formula of the preparation. Increasing the strength of the solution of the toothache bark, as well as increasing the quantity of Atomidine and its strength IN the solution, see? and these will destroy those also!

20. (Q) Is it advisable to do this, considering our present formula and its value for distribution? (A) It may be well to do so, if this is desired to be activative in this kind or character. Or it may be used the TINCTURE of Iodine and thus require that there be a different CHARACTER of test made when these are combined in their order. But STRENGTHENING the solution or the elixir of the bark, strengthening the quantity of the Atomidine will make it for a more activative influence upon such. But not more effective upon the germ of the pyorrhea.

And these then become at times in specific cases or other character of cases an irritant. But these - should they be required - we would make a density of seven (this is double the strength, almost doubling the strength); but it will require a different form or manner of extracting the juices from the properties, see? And to the quantity of the Atomidine that would be the ordinary strength, or half the quantity of the CONCENTRATED solution, see? using the concentrated solution as may be procured for such, using the same quantity or adding the ten minims to the ounce MORE, see?

21. (Q) Do we understand ten minims more than is being used now, of the concentrated solution? (A) Of the concentrated solution ten minims more than is being used now of the REGULAR strength.

Another condition here - as this is a portion of that:

Do not change the specific gravity or the quantity of the calcium, see; but INCREASE the density of the seawater, by REDUCING (by boiling, see) before the other properties are added. Why?

The seawater carries many properties that CHANGE, see, as to the varied effects, the character, where it is obtained, how it may be obtained, etc. Portions of these are to be destroyed, the bacilli that’s in same. The density of the salt in same is to be intensified, see? This then will make for a more concentrated solution and more effective upon the activity of bacilli.

But these WILL destroy that which produces Riggs’ Diseases.

Reducing the quantity for the gallon to a half, and then adding the other solutions.

22. (Q) How should the juice of the bark be extracted as indicated? (A) Put to soak for twelve hours before it is taken off, or put into the solution, or soak twelve hours and THEN boil, see? Boiled in the same water it is soaked in, to be sure, and with the other ingredients added until the solution is extracted.

23. (Q) Please indicate how tests should be made to prove the value of Ipsab. (A) Only upon cases where there are disturbances of loosening of the teeth, the bleeding gums; such conditions on individual cases may the tests be made.

24. (Q) Would the suggestions made by Hunt of the Norfolk Testing Laboratories for testing the antiseptic power of each ingredient be advisable or useful to us? (A) Not as INDIVIDUAL tests but as those combined. For many antiseptic solutions are strengthened in their activity by combinations when they are less effective in their own individual activity. Others become less effective by combinations, see?

25. (Q) Should WE attempt to give Ipsab antiseptic value? If so, how should this be done? (A) There may be added alcohols for such a purpose. But that these are all natural or nature’s preservatives indicates the greater value of this FOR a specific purpose. It is not for the breath, it is not for decayed teeth, it is not for any of the numbers of mouth disturbances, but for disturbed GUMS that ARE affected by certain character of diseases!

If it is desired or required that this be added, then add it to those proportions that it BECOMES then only a ten to twenty percent solution.

26. (Q) What is the reaction of the Prickly Ash Bark on the gums? (A) It is nature’s preservative for STRENGTHENING the tissue about the teeth themselves. The very NATURE of it, from its name as given by the aborigines - that toothache bark indicates its very nature!

27. (Q) Any suggestions for getting this preparation ready for general distribution? (A) Many tests, many varied ways and combinations will be well. Make them to suit not only laboratory tests (NOT for gargles nor for others) but for the gums; not for whitening teeth. Rather does it tend to make for a skim, but of such a nature that this as even prepared into a toothpaste, using only iodine AND salt, and then a combination of the properties for a toothpaste in its combination, will make all the others look silly!

28. (Q) Third: Hair Curler [See 289-1, Par. 11-A; See 255-13]. T. B. House holds a solution prepared according to formula given through this channel for a hair curler. (A) (Interrupting) Not by a whole jug full! This is made AT it, but not like the formula given! First the bark of the same trees from which the fruit are taken, and the fruit or the seed of the fruit are to be crushed. They are to be crushed when the FRUIT has been taken from same and not when they have been dried or polished or rubbed off, and most of that which goes into the making for the curling solution has been lost!

Do this way and you’ll have it correct!

29. We are through for the present.

Copy to Hugh Lynn Cayce ” ” Ass’n file

Reports

Reports & Follow-up

R1. 4/30/36 Report on IPSAB:

NORFOLK TESTING LABORATORIES, Inc. NORFOLK, VIRGINIA

REPORT of PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION of IPSAB

Note.

The attached tests were made for the purpose of establishing the degree, if any, of antiseptic or germ killing power of IPSAB as submitted.

NORFOLK TESTING LABORATORIES, INC. Analytical, Consulting and Engineering Chemists 288 Bank Street Norfolk, Virginia John H. Parkins Harvey L. Hunt Telephone 26136

Mr. T. B. House Norfolk, Va.

RE: IPSAB.

Dear Sir:

As per your order, you will find attached here-to experiments made on your “Ipsab”. We have conducted these tests according to our mutual agreements and have given also tests made on a well known antiseptic, for mouth and skin purposes.

In reviewing our results, we find that you solution in its present strength, has no direct killing power on the bacilli used. It may have tissue hardening power and a healing tendency, one or both. The standard time of exposure for testing antiseptics is five (5) minutes, as a maximum. You will note that we have run these tests on up to fifteen (15) minutes and we fail to find antiseptic qualities. This does not lead us to the conclusion the “Ipsab” is of no value, as you recommend its use, for the reason that the thorough massaging has not been possible for us to try out.

We know that there are ingredients in your preparation which possesses antiseptic properties and are naturally lead to believe that they have not been used in the required proportions.

We suggest that you let us make similar experiments on each ingredient used in your preparation in order that we can ascertain the merits of each and the strength required. From this information, even though we have to add other ingredients, we can produce a true antiseptic which possibly may be manufactured at a lower cost.

Yours very truly, Norfolk Testing Laboratories, Inc.,

[signed] John H. Perkins, Pres. [JHF/js]

NORFOLK TESTING LABORATORIES, Inc. MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TESTING MATERIALS NORFOLK, VIRGINIA

JOHN H. PARKINS, HARVEY L. HUNT

288 BANK STREET TELEPHONE 26136

Lab. No.: 31344-A Date Rec’d.: 4/20/36 Marked: - “Ipsab”

Sample of Liquid

From Mr. T. B. House, Norfolk, Virginia

CERTIFICATE OF ANALYSIS

BACTERIA KILLING POWER

Reaction…Acid (x)…Growth (-)…No Growth

This experiment was carried on at 37 degrees C for three days.

STANDARD TIME OF EXPOSURE 5 MINUTES

Solution, undiluted exposed to Typhoid bacilli.

ACTUAL TIME OF EXPOSURE,

MINUTES

2 1/2 5 7 1/2 10 12 1/2 15

Results x x x x x x

Reported 4/30/36

Respectfully Submitted, Norfolk Testing Laboratories, Inc. [signed] John H. Parkins, Chemist.

NORFOLK TESTING LABORATORIES, Inc. MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TESTING MATERIALS NORFOLK, VIRGINIA

JOHN H. PARKINS, HARVEY L. HUNT

288 BANK STREET TELEPHONE 26136 Lab. No.: 31344-B Date Rec’d.: 4/20/36 Marked: “Ipsab”

Sample of Liquid

From Mr. T. B. House, Norfolk, Virginia

CERTIFICATE OF ANALYSIS

BACTERIA KILLING POWER

Reaction…Acid (x)…Growth (-)…No Growth

This experiment was carried on at 37 degrees C for three days.

STANDARD TIME OF EXPOSURE 5 MINUTES

Solution, diluted 50-50, distilled water exposed to Typhoid.

ACTUAL TIME OF EXPOSURE,

MINUTES

2 1/2 5 7 1/2 10 12 1/2 15

Results x x x x x x

Reported 4/30/36

Respectfully Submitted, Norfolk Testing Laboratories, Inc. [signed] John H. Parkins, Chemist.

NORFOLK TESTING LABORATORIES, Inc. MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TESTING MATERIALS NORFOLK, VIRGINIA

JOHN H. PARKINS, HARVEY L. HUNT

288 BANK STREET TELEPHONE 26136

Lab. No.: 31344-C Date Rec’d.: 4/20/36 Marked: “Ipsab”

Sample of Liquid

From Mr. T. B. House, Norfolk, Virginia

CERTIFICATE OF ANALYSIS

BACTERIA KILLING POWER Reaction…Acid (x)…Growth (-)…No Growth

This experiment was carried on at 37 degrees C for three days.

STANDARD TIME OF EXPOSURE 5 MINUTES

Solution, undiluted Held in mouth for 30 sec.

ACTUAL TIME OF EXPOSURE,

MINUTES

2 1/2 5 7 1/2 10 12 1/2 15

Results x x x x x x

Reported 4/30/36

Respectfully Submitted, Norfolk Testing Laboratories, Inc. [signed] John H. Parkins, Chemist.

NORFOLK TESTING LABORATORIES, Inc. MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TESTING MATERIALS NORFOLK, VIRGINIA

JOHN H. PARKINS, HARVEY L. HUNT

288 BANK STREET TELEPHONE 26136

Lab. No.: 31344-D Date Rec’d.: 4/20/36 Marked: “Ipsab”

Sample of Liquid

From Mr. T. B. House, Norfolk, Virginia

CERTIFICATE OF ANALYSIS

BACTERIA KILLING POWER

Reaction…Acid (x)…Growth (-)…No Growth

This experiment was carried on at 37 degrees C for three days.

STANDARD TIME OF EXPOSURE 5 MINUTES

Solution, undiluted Streptococci.

ACTUAL TIME OF EXPOSURE,

MINUTES

2 1/2 5 7 1/2 10 12 1/2 15

Results x x x x x x

Reported 4/30/36

Respectfully Submitted, Norfolk Testing Laboratories, Inc. [signed] John H. Parkins, Chemist.

NORFOLK TESTING LABORATORIES, Inc. MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TESTING MATERIALS NORFOLK, VIRGINIA

JOHN H. PARKINS, HARVEY L. HUNT

288 BANK STREET TELEPHONE 26136

Lab. No.: 31344-E Date Rec’d.: 4/20/36 Marked: “Ipsab”

Sample of Liquid

From Mr. T. B. House, Norfolk, Virginia

CERTIFICATE OF ANALYSIS

BACTERIA KILLING POWER

Reaction…Acid (x)…Growth (-)…No Growth

This experiment was carried on at 37 degrees C for three days.

STANDARD TIME OF EXPOSURE 5 MINUTES

Solution diluted 50-50, held in mouth for 30 sec. then planted.

ACTUAL TIME OF EXPOSURE,

MINUTES

2 1/2 5 7 1/2 10 12 1/2 15

Results x x x x x x

Reported 4/30/36 Respectfully Submitted, Norfolk Testing Laboratories, Inc. [signed] John H. Parkins, Chemist.

NORFOLK TESTING LABORATORIES, Inc. MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TESTING MATERIALS NORFOLK, VIRGINIA

JOHN H. PARKINS, HARVEY L. HUNT 288 BANK STREET TELEPHONE 26136

Lab. No.: 31344-F Date Rec’d.: 4/20/36 Marked: Well known antiseptic.

Sample of Liquid

From Mr. T. B. House, Norfolk, Virginia

CERTIFICATE OF ANALYSIS

BACTERIA KILLING POWER

Reaction…Acid (x)…Growth (-)…No Growth

This experiment was carried on at 37 degrees C for three days.

STANDARD TIME OF EXPOSURE 5 MINUTES

Undiluted with Typhoid Well known antiseptic (for mouth and skin).

ACTUAL TIME OF EXPOSURE,

MINUTES

2 1/2 5 7 1/2 10 12 1/2 15

Results - - - - - -

Reported 4/30/36

Respectfully Submitted, Norfolk Testing Laboratories, Inc. [signed] John H. Parkins, Chemist.

NORFOLK TESTING LABORATORIES, Inc. MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TESTING MATERIALS NORFOLK, VIRGINIA

JOHN H. PARKINS, HARVEY L. HUNT 288 BANK STREET TELEPHONE 26136

Lab. No. 31344-G Date Rec’d. 4/20/36 Marked: Well known antiseptic.

Sample of Liquid

From Mr. T. B. House, Norfolk, Virginia

CERTIFICATE OF ANALYSIS

BACTERIA KILLING POWER

Reaction…Acid (x)…Growth (-)…No Growth

This experiment was carried on at 37 degrees C for three days.

STANDARD TIME OF EXPOSURE 5 MINUTES

With Typhoid 50-50 dilution.

ACTUAL TIME OF EXPOSURE,

MINUTES

2 1/2 5 7 1/2 10 12 1/2 15

Results - - - - - -

Reported 4/30/36

Respectfully Submitted, Norfolk Testing Laboratories, Inc. [signed] John H. Parkins, Chemist.

NORFOLK TESTING LABORATORIES, Inc. MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TESTING MATERIALS NORFOLK, VIRGINIA

JOHN H. PARKINS, HARVEY L. HUNT

288 BANK STREET TELEPHONE 26136

Lab. No.: 31344-H Date Rec’d.: 4/20/36 Marked: Well known antiseptic.

Sample of Liquid

From Mr. T. B. House, Norfolk, Virginia CERTIFICATE OF ANALYSIS

BACTERIA KILLING POWER

Reaction…Acid (x)…Growth (-)…No Growth

This experiment was carried on at 37 degrees C for three days.

STANDARD TIME OF EXPOSURE 5 MINUTES

Undiluted with streptococci.

ACTUAL TIME OF EXPOSURE,

MINUTES

2 1/2 5 7 1/2 10 12 1/2 15

Results - - - - - -

Respectfully Submitted, Norfolk Testing Laboratories, Inc. [signed] John H. Parkins, Chemist.

Reported 4/30/36

R2. 5/16/36 EC’s letter to Mr. Johnston:

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas T. Johnston. Port Washington, N.Y.

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Johnston;-

How lovely it was to have the opportunity to spend a few hours with you good people we all enjoyed every moment of the time, we have been back now for two weeks, when we left N.Y. that Friday afternoon, we made it to Dover by 9.30 and then to the Beach by 2 the next afternoon, very good trip and gave Mother time to get set for the week end. Very nice way to make the trip.

Hope you all are feeling the best, we are looking forward to your coming down real soon for some week end any way, some are coming for the weekend of the 30th.

Lovely here now, only dry for the garden that was so far behind and has kept me strictly busy trying to keep up with the appointments and the work round the place, but hope the flowers and the garden will be of some help here and there. Possibly keep me busy any way.

Let us hear from you when ever you have the chance, want to thank you again and again for the lovely afternoon at your home.

All send love and best wishes to you and yours.

Sincerely [signed] Edgar Cayce

R3. 5/18/36 Mr. Johnston’s letter to HLC:

DOUGLAS T. JOHNSTON GRAYBAR BUILDING NEW YORK MOhawk 4-0350

Mr. Hugh Lynn Cayce Association for Research and Enlightenment, Inc. Virginia Beach, Virginia

Dear Hugh Lynn:

I am again very late in acknowledging your last letter - this time the one of May 6th.

I assume by now the letter and accompanying prospectus with regard to the preferred stock of the Health Home Remedies Corporation has been sent out to the membership of the Association. I have not received a copy. When you have time you might send me a copy of the letter and possibly two or three copies of the prospectus. I have also heard nothing from Mr. Parker as to whether he has received any subscriptions as yet.

The dates set for the Congress are all right as far as I am concerned. It might be somewhat more convenient for me if the Board meeting could be made later in the afternoon. Then if I leave here Friday afternoon I will be able to arrive on Saturday in time for the meeting. Would not a meeting time of, say, four o’clock be equally satisfactory. If, however, that interferes with your plans do not hesitate to say so and I can make my plans in accord with yours. As you know, I am not a good public speaker and I would much prefer it if you do not include me as a speaker at any of the sessions.

Your letter enclosed check for $35 which is hereby acknowledged and with which I have credited the Association in connection with the Detroit advance.

We received a nice letter from your father yesterday and are glad that you are apparently all well at this time. I am hoping in a short time to take a few days off and it may be that Mrs. Johnston and I will come to Virginia Beach at that time.

With best regards to all,

Sincerely yours, [signed] Douglas T. Johnston

R4. 5/25/36 Dale Parker’s letter to D. T. Johnston:

Douglas T. Johnston, Esq., Graybar Building, New York City

Dear Douglas:

I am somewhat disturbed about our not having received any subscriptions for Health Home Remedies Corporation Stock. As I understand it, we will need additional funds very shortly, and if these are not forthcoming the only alternative will be to abandon the project.

In this connection I think it is only fair to tell you that until I am able to dispose of my Sands Point property I personally will not be in a position to subscribe for any further stock myself, and, therefore, do not want the Corporation to rely on me alone for funds.

With kindest personal regards, I am

Yours sincerely, DALE PARKER

CC: Hugh Lynn Cayce

R5. 5/26/36 HLC’s letter to Dale Parker:

Mr. Dale Parker 25 Broad Street, New York, N.Y.

Dear Mr. Parker:

A copy of your letter addressed to Mr. Johnston under date of May 25th, is before me.

Naturally I am concerned over the situation which arises from the position you feel it necessary to take.

Frankly I have been pleased with the activities of the Norfolk office and with the progress which has been made and conditions here appear most favorable to me. First, I would like to understand if you expected a better showing through operations with the funds which have been available? If your position is simply due to the lack of response to the prospectus sent to the members of the Association and to your own problems then our present difficulties can be discussed without confusing the two possible reasons for the present situation which must be met. I hope I make myself clear.

Activities in the Norfolk office have proceeded as we planned, in brief: (1) Contacting doctors to secure needed reports on Ipsab and Tim; as well as the appliances; (2) Small scale campaign in small territory on Tim; (3) Preliminary research activities. We were as you know proceeding with the idea in mind of making the Norfolk office self supporting just as quickly as possible, with the view of then being able to use available funds for extension of activities. I am firm in the belief that this can be done within another TWO months. As you know we cut our original estimate from 2500 for six months to a figure nearer 1500. It was my understanding that any proceeds from the sale of stock beyond this estimate could be used to extend the Corporation’s operations. As you well know any productive activity for a business such as ours will depend upon the amount of advertising we are able to do. In simple words I do hope you will see your way clear to making at least 350 to 40 available to cover our actual overhead for the next two months. I am confident that we will by that time be able to meet and slightly go beyond this actual overhead. Even if we were able to secure sufficient funds to meet the immediate needs it would cut heavily into our advertising fund and thus work toward defeating us. I am sure you understand that a cut in our original budget of almost one half naturally curtails our plans through the Norfolk office. But even at that I am confident, as I have said, that we will be able to put the work across under this set-up.

Perhaps a word of explanation regarding the prospectus which were mailed to the members of the Association would help to clear up your ideas regarding subscriptions. There was considerable delay in getting the prospectus to the members and I do not feel that we have had time to get a response on them. None of the prospectus went out before the 15th of May. I have not taken the time to follow these up with personal letters as I intend doing. We have had favorable comments from several members who will purchase stock. This follow up is most important and I regret the fact that I have not written these letters. Naturally I will do so at once. Frankly I do not expect any large sale of the stock very quickly, but I do believe that we may safely rely upon funds from such sales to extend our operations. I certainly hope that you will be able to carry through as originally planned, on the curtailed basis, in order to make these funds available for extension rather than carrying overhead.

Certainly we are now and in another month will be in a far better position to discuss intelligently just what products should be pushed, and how, for the quickest results.

Mr. Parker, I hope you realize that to some extent at least we appreciate your position. There is not, and there never has been, in my mind any thought of just finding someone to put up money to carry the production of the “specifics” given in readings. It has always been, so far as I have had anything to do with it, an opportunity of enlisting others in a service which is very much worthwhile. I know so very well what it means to see no enthusiasm in others for something that I feel is so very much more important than many things to which they devote time and effort. The actual funds needed seem to mean so much just now - you and I know they mean little in comparison with the ideal involved. I do hope you will look at the situation in a little different light and if it is at all possible carry through as we have planned.

Thank you for advising me of the situation. Please let me hear from you.

With the kindest personal regards, I am

Sincerely yours, H.L.C

P.S. I hope I can do this well or better on prospective buyers.

R6. 5/27/36 HLC’s letter to Mr. Johnston:

Mr. Douglas T. Johnston Graybar Building, New York, N.Y.

Dear Mr. Johnston:

There are just one or two matters relative to the Association which I would like to take up with you at this time simply as a matter of advising you of our activities here.

Then change you suggest for the Board meeting will be entirely satisfactory. I was not planning for any other meeting on Saturday, the 27th. Intended leaving the time open for a rest and swim for those who cared to indulge. By making the time at four we will be able to accomplish the same purpose. The following is a tentative outline of the program:

Saturday, June 27 4 p.m…Meeting of Board 8:30 p.m…Opening Meeting in Norfolk -David E. Kahn (?) -Edgar Cayce

Sunday, June 28 3 p.m…Open Reading

Monday, June 29 11 a.m…Open Reading 3 p.m…Discussion Life Readings (Case Studies) 8:30 p.m…Lecture - Norfolk Dr. Hardwick (M.D. and former President of A.S.P.R.)

Tuesday, June 30 11 a.m…Open Reading 5 p.m…Group - Norfolk Spiritual Healing - Discussion 7 p.m…Dinner (Informal) Norfolk Sugrue Toastmaster Dr. J. B. Rhine - Speaker

I understand indirectly that Dr. Hardwick [Henry S. W. Hardwicke, M.D.] has accepted our invitation to speak on June 29. He is a very fine man and one of the foremost authorities on psychical research in this country. It will be a real privilege if he is able to be here. In all fairness to our program I should have put a question mark after Dr. Rhine’s name. He is the man who has carried on the excellent work at Duke on mental telepathy. I am driving down to Durham tomorrow with my father to meet him personally for a discussion of our work. At that time I hope to be able to convince him that he should be our guest of honor for the dinner on June 30.

The publication program is going forward nicely. I will have at least two booklets ready for the Congress, one of them Sugrue’s preface to his book on my father’s life and work.

Upon our return I started - at the suggestion of the readings

• a training course for group leaders in Norfolk. We have twenty five taking the course, during which we will compile a sixty page manual for study group work which will in reality be a compilation of the philosophy of the readings. I will see that you get a copy during the congress [See 262-100 Reports].

I was a bit upset for a time over Mr. Parker’s recent letter. Doubtless I would worry more - considering all aspects of the situation in view of our previous conversations - if I had time. I am sure the delay in getting the prospectus out, in some measure at least, is responsible for the lack of subscriptions. It is the attitude, not the money which concerns me most. My letter, a copy of which I sent you, was self explanatory. I will advise you of the reaction, if any, and will appreciate it if you will keep me advised of any developments. Reports on T-I-M, IPSAB, and the Appliance are continuing to be excellent. With them in proper shape (typed booklet case form) as they will be within the next two weeks I believe I can do some personal selling of stock if my letters do not bring the desired results. Sugrue plans to take some stock, as does Poole [H. E. Poole] here at the Beach. Neither realized any urgency of buying and I do not like to have to go into details with them unless it becomes absolutely necessary. As soon as the Congress, this Teacher’s course and a stack of mimeographing are out of the way I will go into this matter further. There isn’t any use of counting chickens too early and I realize very well that the road we are looking down on the H. H. R. Corp. set-up is pretty narrow and rocky, but briefly my opinion based on observation and facts accumulated here is as follows.

T-I-M is our best product for immediate turn over. True it is taking time to obtain reports from doctors on it, but they are coming in and we are getting excellent cooperation. On the strength of these reports and the individual case reports from our files I believe it would be wise to put the major portion of our funds from the sale of stock - unless it is very large - into a centralized advertising campaign on T-I-M in local territory. From this with the assistance the appliances will furnish I believe we can begin a small turn over that will carry our over head and gradually build up.

Tests with the Ipsab are going forward but they are even slower than the T-I-M, as are the tests with the appliances. A connection with a local doctor may offer a quick development on the Radio Actives which have a good commercial value. They are of course the source of what little income is coming in. Too the Ash, of which we now have a supply, may develop a small income if successful in the experiments through Manly and James, the Iodex people. Taking everything into consideration I am much encouraged over the general prospects for the company and certainly hope this decision of Mr. Parker’s is not too final.

This has certainly turned into a manuscript rather than a letter. I hope you will forgive me and just do a page per day if you are too busy.

I hope you had an opportunity to see Mr. Harrison Milton W. Harrison]. I have a letter here from him under date of May 5th, indicating that he was to have lunch with you the following day. He and Mrs. Harrison [Irene Seiberling Harrison] are spending the week-end here this week. We are looking forward to meeting them again as we were all impressed by their sympathetic understanding of the work and their apparent interest.

You mentioned in your last letter that you and Mrs. Johnston might be able to get down for a day or so before the Congress. The family join me in hoping this well be possible.

We are having some beautiful golfing weather and the Beach is preparing for one of the biggest seasons in its history.

With kindest regards to you all, I am

Sincerely, H.L.C.

R7. 5/28/36 Mr. Parker’s letter to HLC:

Dale M. Parker 120 Broadway New York

Hugh Lynn Cayce, Esq., % Association for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., Virginia Beach, Va.

Dear Hugh Lynn:

Judging from your letter of May 26th you have completely misunderstood my letter of May 25th.

I did not for one moment intend to convey any idea that I was dissatisfied with the progress of the Company in Norfolk, nor did I want to convey the idea that I was discouraged as to the future of the Company. On both these points I am emphatically with you.

I did, however, want to raise a warning that the Corporation needs capital and as Treasurer I felt obliged to call attention to this fact. Furthermore, I wanted to make it quite clear that my personal financial position does not permit me at this time to go any further than I have, and I thought it only fair that both you and Douglas Johnston should realize my position fully and not count on me unless and until my position improves through the sale of my house or otherwise. In other words, while I am perfectly satisfied to have invested as far as I have, and will be perfectly satisfied to invest further when I am in a position to do so, others will have to help out too if things are to go on even on a limited scale.

Getting down to very practical facts, every effort should be made to get other members of the Association to subscribe for stock and provide sufficient cash for the Company to go on. Subsequently, when I am in a position to do so, I shall be quiet happy to do more, but as I have said above, I cannot do anything more at the present time.

Unpleasant as they may be, my dear Hugh Lynn, facts are facts, and I sincerely hope that I have made my position clear. I can only repeat again that I have not in any way lessened my confidence in the Corporation or its management.

With kindest regards to all of you, in which Mrs. Parker joins me, I am Yours sincerely, [signed] Dale Parker

R8. 6/1/36 Mr. Johnston’s letter to HLC:

DOUGLAS T. JOHNSTON GRAYBAR BUILDING NEW YORK MOhawk 4-0350

Mr. Hugh Lynn Cayce Association for Research & Enlightenment, Inc. Virginia Beach, Virginia

Dear Hugh Lynn:

I have read over the tentative outline of the program which was included in your letter of May 27th and it would seem to me that this would make for a very successful Congress. I hope that both Dr. Hardwick and Dr. Rhine will be able to speak as planned.

I was glad to hear that the publication program is making such satisfactory progress and that you will have two booklets at least ready for the Congress.

With regard to the correspondence between yourself and Mr. Parker, it is of course disappointing that he is unable to carry his financial support further. I do not think that anything more was implied in his letters than just this one fact. I feel sure that when you have more time so that you can write personal letters to a number of the members it will be possible to secure a number of subscriptions, sufficient to carry on the work at least for a number of months. Also at the Congress we will be able to discuss the matter with those who are present and possibly secure some subscriptions at that time.

I had hoped to spend this week at Virginia Beach but I was not able to arrange my plans that way, however, and so had to postpone my trip until later in the month. I hope now to be able to come down at least two or three days before the Congress starts or else to stay two or three days after it is over. In either event we will have time to discuss H.H.R. Corporation matters in some detail. At the moment I feel that the income from Ipsab would far exceed that from Tim and that we should do everything possible to get Ipsab on the market as promptly as possible. I may, however, be entirely wrong and will be glad to learn more in detail when I am in Virginia Beach.

I had a very pleasant luncheon with Mr. Harrison Milton W. Harrison] two or three weeks ago and have been looking forward to having another luncheon with him. Will try and do so either this week or next.

With best regards to you all,

Very truly yours, [signed] Douglas T. Johnston

R9. 6/11/36 Mr. Johnston’s letter to HLC:

DOUGLAS T. JOHNSTON GRAYBAR BUILDING NEW YORK MOhawk 4-0350

Mr. Hugh Lynn Cayce Association for Research & Enlightenment, Inc. Virginia Beach, Virginia

Dear Hugh Lynn:

I just talked with Mr. Parker and find that he has still received no subscriptions for H.H.R.C. stock. From the statement which was received from Mr. House under date of June 1st I imagine that the funds of the corporation have by now reached the vanishing point. Mr. Parker says that he is still unable to supply further funds himself. Much as I would like to, I do not feel that I can subscribe for any substantial amount of stock. I probably can take one or not to exceed two shares, if necessary, to help out for the rest of this month. At the time of the Convention we will have to go into the matter of finances very carefully and decide just how additional funds are to be raised. Have you had any opportunity as yet to write any personal letters to members of the Association soliciting subscriptions?

I am hoping to be able to come to Virginia Beach a day or two before the Convention but, if I find that impossible, to stay a day or two after the Convention is over.

With best regards to all,

Sincerely yours, [signed] Douglas T. Johnston

R10. 6/12/36 HLC’s letter to Mr. Johnston:

Mr. Douglas T. Johnston Graybar Building, New York City

Dear Mr. Johnston:

Checking back over my letter to you under date of May 27th, I find two or three points which require clarification in the light of recent developments.

My father and I met Dr. Rhine. He seemed extremely interested in our work and promised to try to work out some plan for cooperation with Duke in their experimental activities. Unfortunately, he will not be available for our dinner June 30th. I have asked Dr. Warner to give an informal talk on the progress of scientific psychical research at that time. Sugrue will be here to act as toast-master. Other features of the program are outlined in the data sent out with the May and June Bulletins which you should have by this time.

I have been making progress with the material for the booklet on dreams and believe we will have this ready also for the Congress. Sugrue is having his own printed [See 6/15/36 booklet, Par. R12], a group here in Norfolk is having another prepared and that will leave only one of the first group to be carried by the Association. I am reasonably sure that I can get this financed as planned. It is rather difficult to write individuals about this and the H.H.R. Corp. at the same time, yet under the circumstances it becomes necessary. I have another letter from Mr. Parker in answer to the one of which I sent you a copy. He makes it clear that it is simply a matter of his personal situation which makes it necessary for him to take the position which he has taken. We are in pretty close quarters on operations here. I hope there will be some response to my letters, but this is a bad time to catch either Ashley [James R. Ashley] or Reilly [Harold J. Reilly], two of the people I was counting on. Ashley is in the middle of work on opening a large swimming pool which he owns there in New York and Reilly is tied up with his country place. We will hope for the best.

Dr. Henry Hardwick has definitely accepted our invitation to speak on June 29th. Would it be convenient for you to have him come down with you? You would find him a far more interesting person than Carrington. Please be perfectly frank as to how you feel about this. As usual collections at the lectures, and this year an added small amount on the cost of the dinner will carry the actual costs.

Best wishes,

Sincerely, HLC

P.S. Your letter of June 11th, is before me.

The funds of the H.H.R.corp., as you aptly describe it, have reached “the vanishing point.” The rent is paid, so we will not be moved into the street right away. House is taking a very cheerful attitude, but is hard pressed, I know, because he is sending money home and holding himself to close margins. Whatever you feel able to do at this time will be most helpful. Small amounts are owing on appliance materials which will eventually be taken up as they are sold.

I have selected ten of the most hopeful prospects from our membership list and am getting off letters to them as fast as possible. Ashley will probably call you or Mr. Parker before taking action. He is in a position to be of considerable assistance if he can be interested at this time. (James R. Ashley - Home address Essex House, N.Y.)

House feels that you are right about pushing IPSAB over T-I-M, but we will have everything in shape to go over carefully by the time of the Congress.

Best regards, [initialed] HL

R11. 6/12/36 HLC’s letter to Mr. Parker:

Mr. Dale Parker 120 Broadway, New York City

Dear Mr. Parker:

Thank you for your letter of May 28th.

The situation with the Health Home Remedies Corporation is slightly involved, due to very close running on funds, but we will make the best of it until matters can be cleared up. I hope we will have some response shortly from other members of the Association in order to relieve the tension.

Announcement of the Congress June 27, 28, 29 and 30th, and an outline program for same have been forwarded to you. I hope you and Mrs. Parker will be able to come down for a few days during that period. As I told you I would like to present your name for consideration as a member of our Board of Trustees and we would be happy to have you sit-in at the meeting of this Board on the 27th. The publication program and the prospective work with Duke will both provide material for discussion and we would like to have your advice. Virginia Beach sunshine, air and surf are excellent tonics for disturbed New York nerves. Combined with a leisurely Congress they offer four attractive days. We all hope you will be able to slip away. The boat trip is very nice, or perhaps you could drive down with the Johnstons.

With best wishes for a clearing of your problems, I am

Sincerely, HLC

R12. 6/15/36 Thomas Sugrue’s booklet THERE IS A RIVER preface to book then being planned on Edgar Cayce’s life and work.

THERE IS A RIVER By Thomas Sugrue

(Copy was autographed with the inscription, “For Gertrude Cayce from her third son, Tom.”)

Being the Preface to a Volume, Now in Preparation, on the Life and Work of Edgar Cayce…

Published by THE ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH AND ENLIGHTENMENT, INCORPORATED, Virginia Beach, Virginia

“There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God…” Psalms 46

It is not here my purpose to strike on the bandor of time more notes than were awarded, in the beginning of my plan, these minutia of preface. I had intended to announce in brief the purpose of my efforts, the effect toward which sentence and paragraph and chapter were aimed. But it seems, as with all things in which man and his mind properly have no business, that I am entangled. Such simplicities as were clear to me in their birth have clouded on the pages where they were to mature. Their dress in words cannot be a Grecian gown, simple and caught at the middle with a golden clasp. They demand designs with which I am not now, nor ever will be, familiar. Yet in the face of challenge I can but cross their desires with language, and hope they will come forth fulfilled.

The story of Edgar Cayce is not the chronicle of a man born, appointed to a destiny, and fulfilling it. It is not a biography built upon facts, garnished with anecdote, and served with similitude and interpretation. It has more to itself than that. It demands, in its telling, the scope and poetry of legend, the depth and preciseness of history, the clarity of science, the exactness of mathematics, and the vision of religion. Such abilities do not come in the same human package. The mind with which I had hoped to mate the matter of this tale has no solution for its meanings, its ramifications, its subtleties and myriad implications. Only by the inflation of a vast insolence, and loud singing to drown the voice of fear, can this venture hope to pass through the dark valley of verb and come out walking.

There is contained in the life of every man, whatever his caste in the system of human intelligence, a mystery as great as the universe: a formula so intricately woven, so cunningly patterned, that even his soul, groping through ages of thought, can but feebly guess at the solution. The architecture of his skeleton, the chemistry of his flesh, are phenomena which he has never more than vaguely under- stood. Of his mind he has no knowledge at all, except that it operates - objectively upon the life which besets him from without subjectively upon the death which gathers within. He has no certain knowledge of how to deal with either of these exigencies, and in puzzlement he blends them, to his further bewilderment. He labors in the life without him; in order to preserve the life within him; yet the execution of this labor is the matter upon which the death that grows within him feeds. His existence is a paradox: he moves inexorably toward extinction, laboring that he may preserve himself for it. He works that he may live that he may die.

To the beast and the flower this is not an irrational procedure. There are other beasts and other flowers, descendants of those which return to earth. Nor does it seem unreasonable to the average man that people in China occasionally die. It is when this fact of cessation presents itself to the individual that mind fails to follow the pathways of matter. It is something with which reason, however fortified by evidence, will have nothing to do. It will sanction all things but its end. To this it presents argument; of this it is afraid. The first man with a soul, trapped in his cave by fever, or age, balked at it. To him had come a revelation: that he was lord of the earth. He would not relinquish his scepter.

So made for himself, this man in the cave, a comforter. He told himself of another life, beyond the winds and the seas and the rivers and the forests: a life wherein there was always harvest, and where age could not enter in. He told it, before he died, to his sons and daughters and wife, and said he would meet them there. They believed him, and they were happy.

We, too, have believed that story, and we have been happy because of it. We have examined the architecture of our skeletons and the chemistry of our flesh, and have found no answer to them. We have divided our minds into squares and circles and put names upon them, but nothing has come of it. We have questioned each other closely about the thoughts that have been engendered within us, and have found no cause for joy. In the end we have accepted the word of the witnesses of death, who have told us that peace comes to the faces of those who are about to travel into nothingness. With this as our guide we have carried our ancestors and our lovers and our friends to their graves, and have prayed for them. We have built churches, and taken to ourselves religion. We have made our hope into a belief, and our belief into a social structure. We have taught others to believe as we believe, for in numbers there is strength. We do not wish to go into this nothingness alone.

Yet when the city lights have receded and the doors of our churches are closed we stand alone with doubt. We can gaze through telescopes at stars greater than our sun, and speculate on other worlds in the space toward which some day we will be propelled. We can see upon the blackboard of a schoolroom scrawling numbers which prove that space and matter and life and death are one. We can pass swiftly through the air, or over our lands, or through the seas, or even underground. We can receive from the hands of the chemist substances which restore our health. We can hear in our homes the voices of men a thousand miles away. But from none of these can we receive surcease from our end, from none of these can we gain knowledge to illumine our doubt. With this we must grapple alone.

The facts are few. At some unspecified time we emerge into a world with which we are not familiar, and with which we are not equipped to cope. At another unspecified time we leave it. We are, when we die, somewhat larger in body than when we are born, but this has no bearing on our contemplation of the two events. Before birth we had nothing to do with our bodies, and after death we have nothing to do with them. What, then, are we? We are apparently our thoughts. When we do not have them we do not exist. When we have them we are alive. We do not remember having had any before our birth, nor for some time thereafter. As we die they flee from us. Yet they are we. How then can they flee from us? We must, perforce, go with them. But where?

They may be, these thoughts, only another of our senses. These, we know die. They pass away slowly, painlessly, leaving us without feeling, without sight, without hearing, without taste, without smell. When we are young they are strong and alert. They pick up the world for us, and bring it to our minds. When their work is done they begin to sleep, and then to die. Our eyes grow dim, our touch is muddy, our ears and our taste buds and our noses are untrustworthy. We can no longer smell spring in the air, nor feel it against our feet, nor sight it through the bark of trees. We grow old, and only remembrance of things makes them real.

As my fingers strike the keys of the typewriter which is translating these thought impulses into words, tiny cells are brushed off my finger ends. These cells, which were a part of me, are destroyed. So soon as they leave me, however, trophic nerves, which carry impulses throughout the body, send an SOS to headquarters. Immediately the blood supply is marshalled for service, cells are put into swift-flowing streams, and dropped into the empty spaces. The tissue is repaired, and I have no knowledge that damage was done.

If I suffered from anesthetic leprosy this repair would not take place. My trophic nerves would not send any message, and my body would be unaware that help was needed. No cells would replace those worn off by the keys, and when I had completed the life of Edgar Cayce my fingers would be stubs.

That is what happens to our senses. As life proceeds from the simplicities of childhood to the complexities of adolescence, maturity, and senility, we become confused. An odor that was once the perfume of the roses becomes a snarl of memories, a heap of circumstances and happenings in which the perfume of roses was in some way concerned. Our senses, besides being duller, are no longer straightforward in their accounting to us. Our eyes no longer see a house in which we live. They see a kaleidoscope of happenings and events and people that have had to do with us in that house. Our taste buds no longer tell us that we are drinking Rhine wine. They tell us instead that we are sitting on a sidewalk in Budapest, watching the Danube and the people who are passing by. The senses have given over to their own death. They are immersed in a pile of memories, recognizing things only because of the remembrances these things incur.

Likewise the mind, struggling to extricate itself from this mass of wreckage, becomes confused. Desperate to escape, it denies itself: it says it has no part in the wreckage, it calls what is past the subconscious. It divides and re-divides itself, making excuses for its incompetencies, tracing its mistakes to prenatal influence and heredity, blaming its dullness on environment, seeking to escape through a process of mental suasion that depends for its rationality upon irrationality. In the end it comes face to face with itself again, having rounded the block in its flight and arrived, panting and exhausted, precisely at the point where it began. It is inevitably itself, existing without effort, but unsure of its future. The doubt remains.

All of these things are known to each of us, and each of us, now and again, ponders them. In our youth we talk of them to other persons, until we perceive that these other persons are precisely as muddled as we are, and as fearful. Then we take the task within us, and thereafter turn it over and exercise it, frequently at first, then with less and less regularity, and finally at only those times when the hand of the potter seems about the crush us in the mold.

It was my fortune when, in my now quite faraway youth I was putting these things to myself and others, that a listener happened in who was not of the common herd. He seemed, though as young as I, to be unworried. He smiled tolerantly at my voiced heresies - wild cries of fear that I tried to make into shouts of courage. To my inchoate philosophies he made quiet answer, puncturing their tender shells with barbs of what I forthwith considered genius. I took him to my bosom. Through long nights of the 1926 winter in Lexington, Virginia, in our tiny rooms in Lees Dormitory, when we should have been preparing lessons for the stern masters of Washington and Lee University, we talked of the doubt.

He said he knew, this bespecaled young man who so willingly gave up sleep to instruct me. I asked him how he knew. Then for days he would not talk to me, and I saw him brooding over his books, staring at me occasionally with opaque eyes, staring at me occasionally with eyes that shot into me and stabbed at my nerves. Then one night he told me how he knew.

“My father,” he said, “is a psychic medium.”

It is now a long time since that happened, and I do not remember much except that we stayed up all night, and that at breakfast we were still talking. I wanted to know, but I did not believe. I was a Roman Catholic Irishman from Connecticut. He, Hugh Lynn Cayce, was a Christian Church member from Virginia. There was no valid reason why we should like each other, why we should be together. It was, I thought afterward, almost indecent.

But he said he knew, and he talked of a God Who was merciful, Who was understanding, Who saw eye to eye with my blundering desires in life. So we forsook sleep on other nights, and talked again, and again.

He told me of a man, his father, who lay down to sleep and spoke with the voice of authority: who cured the halt and the lame and the sick and the blind; who told the story of the world before history began; who traced in the minds of those who came to ask him, other lives on earth and the promise of more lives to be; who spoke of the Old Testament and the New Testament as truth; who made heaven and salvation a reward for the strong, not a dull fortress in an inconceivable land manned by the wimpering and the cowardly who had prayed and given alms and fled from battle.

So in that spring I went with the boy to Virginia Beach, Virginia, to see his father. I expected a dark-haired, sharp-eyed, stalwart man who walked with gods and spoke in the language of metaphysics. I met a mild, amiable, soft spoken man who on the first day changed his cigarette brand to suit mine, who allowed me to teach him the intricacies of rummy, and who asked me to go fishing with him. He took me down town and bought me a soda, introduced me to the village barber, and played three sets of tennis with me. I went to bed in his house that night with complete peace. Such a nice man, I knew, would not let the devil get me.

All that, too, seems a long time ago. He has been my friend now for nearly ten years. I am so conversant with his life and with his work that I begin where I began myself, and explain it step by step, seems a confusing and arduous task. Perhaps I should have done it long ago, before I was so lost in the trees that I could not see the forest. Perhaps I should not ever have attempted it.

Yet there is, in my files, an envelope labeled, “Readings;” and there is, in my mind and in my heart, a certain peace.

These things are due to Edgar Cayce. Since that day when we played rummy and discussed cigarettes and drank soda and played tennis, no one of the questions which arise in the dark hours to plague the minds and hearts of men has troubled me. The soundness of my body, the temper of my mind, the quiet of my soul, are due to him. He has slept for me many times, with the sun across his face, and he has told me who I am and what I ought to be, and who I was in the years that are history and legend.

He has informed me of the reasons for my ills and my frettings; and given me ointments for their heal. He has calmed me when I was unruly, and praised me when I was meek. He has set my feet again and again on the highway of humility, and held over and over again that mirror before my face in which is reflected the charge of my existence. These things he did when asleep. Waking, he has given me roof and sustenence, friendship and company. We have walked together through the canyons of Manhattan and over the sands of Virginia Beach. We have whiled away the hours on golf courses, and on the shaded porches of his home. He has listened to my troubles, and unburdened himself to me. Thereis not any man for whom I hold greater love. He is, in brief, my friend. I believe in him; I believe in his labors; I believe in his gifts.

Therefore this task has come to me. I had hoped that someone more worthy would be appointed. I know that I am inadequate, that never in my life will a more difficult problem be set before me. It deserves better hands. Yet the time has come for its fulfillment, and no other workman is at hand. I have taken it gladly; it is my honor.

To those who know Edgar Cayce and his work I have this to say: the breadth of the assignment has not escaped me. I know that on any one of the innumerable subjects which have coursed through his 25,000 readings a book could be written. These books, in time, will be written. My job is to break the ground, to lay down with as much completeness and exactitude as is possible the fundamentals of Edgar Cayce, his life, and his work. Much must be excluded. Things that were momentus in their days of happening seem, in perspective, shadowy details that stray into dull byways. The outline, massive in years and importance, remains. It is this which I hope to get solidly planted between covers. The rest, in due course, will follow.

To those who come upon Edgar Cayce for the first time let this be warning: it is no tale to take in stride. Whatever else it gives you, it will give you pause. There is not in the chapters which will follow any program of ballyhoo, any attempt to sell a product. This is a document for the purpose of record. Those who would quibble, who would point the finger of their intelligence in scorn, who would call questions and cry for proof, had best leave off and take again to their school books. Here is a river for those who wish to bathe; but those who enter it had best know how to swim.

Thomas Sugrue June 15, 1936 New York City.

R13. 6/16/36 Mr. Johnston’s letter to HLC:

DOUGLAS T. JOHNSTON GRAYBAR BUILDING NEW YORK MOhawk 4-0350

Mr. Hugh Lynn Cayce c/o Association for Research & Enlightenment, Inc. Virginia Beach, Virginia

Dear Hugh Lynn:

This is a brief acknowledgment of your letter of June 12th. I am sorry the Dr. Rhine cannot be at the dinner on June 30th but believe that Dr. Warner will be a very good substitute.

With regard to our bringing down Dr. Hardwick with us I think I told you in my last letter that we are hoping to leave New York a few days ahead of time, possibly stopping off for two or three days fishing en route to the Beach. If this plan materializes it would not be very convenient for us to take Dr. Hardwick along. I believe, therefore, that you had better make some other arrangement for him.

In order to help carry through the H.H.R. Corporation for this month, I am sending my check for $200 to Mr. Dale Parker for two shares of preferred stock. I assume that he will promptly transmit these funds to you. I have heard nothing as yet from Mr. Ashley. Will try and get in touch with him before I leave here.

With best regards,

Very truly yours, [signed] Douglas T. Johnston

R14. 6/17/36 Mr. Parker’s letter to HLC:

DALE PARKER 120 BROADWAY NEW YORK

Hugh Lynn Cayce, Esq., % Association for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Virginia Beach, Va.

Dear Hugh Lynn:

I am enclosing herewith check in amount $200. in payment of the purchase of two (2) shares of the Preferred Stock of HEALTH HOME REMEDIES CORPORATION issued this day to Mr. Douglas T. Johnston.

With kindest regards to all, I am

Yours sincerely, [signed] Dale Parker

[FIB.] Encl.

R15. 6/19/36 HLC’s letter to Mr. Johnston:

Mr. Douglas T. Johnston Graybar Building New York, N.Y.

Dear Mr. Johnston:

I received your letter under date of June 16th.

As yet we have received no further communication from Mr. Parker but expect this will be taken care of within a few days. I am hoping that Mr. and Mrs. Parker will be able to attend the Congress and I have asked him to sit in at the meeting of the Board of Trustees if he is here.

We appreciate your assistance in the matter of the H.H.R. stock. The last of my letters will go out today and I hope they bring some results.

We have received the copy for the preface to Sugrue’s book and it is now in the hands of the printers. It is an excellent introduction to the work. I feel confident that it will create a favorable impression in the minds of both members and those who contact the work for the first time. We are having a thousand copies prepared and he is meeting this expense as part of our publication program. Copies will be ready to be used as souvenirs at the dinner on June 30.

I am making arrangements for Dr. Hardwicke to come down with Mr. Kahn. Other plans are progressing nicely and I believe we will have an interesting series of meetings. Will you please ask Mrs. Johnston to phone Mrs. Fox [Mrs. Fontaine Fox (Edith)] and Mrs. Macsherry [Mrs. S. H. Macsherry (Josephine L. B.)] regarding their plans? Sometime ago we heard from Mrs. Fox that she planned to be here but have not heard anything definite from Mrs. Macsherry. I am writing them today.

Best wishes for a pleasant trip down and some successful fishing. Dad said to save a day to go with him either lake or ocean near the Beach.

Sincerely, HLC

R16. 7/29/36 Mr. Parker’s letter to HLC:

DALE PARKER 120 BROADWAY NEW YORK

Hugh Lynn Cayce, Esq., % Association for Research & Enlightenment, Inc. Virginia Beach, Va.

My dear Hugh Lynn:

On my return to New York yesterday I immediately got in touch with Mr. Johnston as I have been very worried - and still am - about the financial position - both present and future

• of our Health Home Remedies Corporation. As I told Mr. Johnston, we must be realistic and face the facts honestly and fearlessly, even though they may be unpleasant.

As matters stand now, it is quite apparent that the Corporation cannot expect to continue in business unless further capital is forthcoming, and unfortunately neither Mr. Johnston nor I have thus far been able to get any further subscriptions. Furthermore, the response of the other members of the Association has been practically nil, and while I understand that there have been certain promises, even if they were fulfilled, it would still leave the treasury very short.

Therefore, looking at things as they stand now, absolutely cold bloodedly, the Corporation is living entirely on hopes. Of course, those of us inside feel that these hopes are well grounded, but from an absolute business standpoint, it is foolishness to attempt to carry on just on hopes, no matter how well grounded they may be. Therefore, looking facts straight in the face, we must frankly admit that the Corporation is in a jam, and quite frankly I do not see how it can be expected to continue unless additional capital is raised forthwith.

It is particularly unpleasant for me to have to write in this vein, as I had such great hopes for the Corporation, and I also had great hopes that I, myself, would be in a financial position to carry over any intermediate period prior to getting the expected response from the other members of the Association. However, my business experience tells me that sentiment must not enter into such matters, and, therefore, I must write you in this way and ask you and Mr. Johnston (to whom I am sending a copy of this letter) to give your immediate attention to this problem and together with me come to some conclusion as to what is to be done.

[initialed] DP

[page 2 of letter:]

With kindest personal regards to you all, in which my wife joins me, I am

Yours most sincerely, [signed] Dale Parker [DP.FIB]

P.S. What would you think of having your father give a special reading on this matter - particularly as to whether we should go on, and if so, where we should direct our activity to find the necessary capital.

[initialed] DP

R17. 7/30/36 Mr. Johnston’s letter to HLC:

DOUGLAS T. JOHNSTON GRAYBAR BUILDING NEW YORK MOhawk 4-0350

Mr. Hugh Lynn Cayce c/o Association for Research & Enlightenment, Inc. Virginia Beach, Virginia

Dear Hugh Lynn:

As you know after my return from Virginia Beach I went to bed for several days and was quite miserable. Gradually, however, I am getting back on my feet again and now I am approaching normal.

Because of my being laid up I have been unable to see any possible prospects for the sale of HHRC stock. I talked with Mr. Parker on Tuesday and have just received a copy of the letter which he wrote you yesterday. I am, of course, disappointed that he has been unable to supply the funds which he originally indicated he would be able to do.

I assume that the situation of the company must at the moment be rather bad. While I do not feel able at this time to subscribe to more shares of stock I am enclosing my check for $200. as a loan to the corporation with the understanding that it will be repaid when through the sale of stock to others that becomes possible. I hope that this will be ample to take care of at least the current needs of the company.

When I was at Virginia Beach I meant to talk to you about the money which I advanced to the Association during the winter. Will it be satisfactory to you to leave the amount due me outstanding as a credit on the books of the Association against which we will charge such readings as I may have from time to time. I would like my contribution to be 100 this year, the same as last year, of which 40 (I think that is the amount) is available to the Association for readings for others. Of course, if the Association becomes “very flush” before my credit is used up in this way, I assume that it would then pay any balance to me. Will this method of handling the matter be entirely satisfactory to you and your father?

With best regards to all,

Very truly yours, [signed] Douglas T. Johnston

R18. 7/31/36 Mr. Parker’s letter to HLC:

DALE PARKER 120 BROADWAY NEW YORK

Hugh Lynn Cayce, Esq., % Association for Research & Enlightenment, Inc. Virginia Beach, Va.

My dear Hugh Lynn:

I do hope that my yesterday’s letter about Health Home Remedies Corporation financial position has not upset you unduly.

After I had finished talking again with our friend Douglas Johnston yesterday afternoon, I really wished that I had not written you as I did, and after further contemplation over night, I now am extremely sorry that I ran the risk of upsetting you.

I know full well that you and House have done everything in your power and are making the fullest possible progress under the circumstances, and I should not have added to your worries by so baldly pointing out the financing problems, which, as Mr. Johnston pointed out to me, is primarily the problem for us up here. No doubt it was my own personal problem that was coloring my analysis of the Corporation’s position. However, I should not have allowed this to project itself to you.

Again our friend Johnston is coming to the rescue. He tells me that he will load the Corporation $200. to get over the hump this month, and I am praying that I will be in a position to carry the ball next month in case sufficient subscriptions do not come in from other members and friends to carry the load.

With my very kindest regards to you and everyone else down there, I am

Yours most sincerely, [signed] Dale Parker [DP.FIB]

P.S. I telegraphed you this morning as follows:

PLEASE DISREGARD MY YESTERDAYS LETTER WRITING FURTHER TODAY. [initialed] DP

R19. 8/4/36 HLC’s letter to Mr. Parker:

Mr. Dale Parker 120 Broadway, New York City

Dear Mr. Parker:

Thank you very much for both of your letters. I well understand the situation relative to the Health Home Remedies Corporation.

I am going over the details of the operations here with House in line with conversations we had with Mr. Johnston while he was here. We will have certain suggestions to offer and an immediate plan of campaign that will I believe help in meeting actual running expenses. With regard to my own activity along this line I plan to follow up my letters to members who have shown some interest in the proposition with a statement of progress to date on the research activities. For example I feel that a report of six cases of pyorrhea treated by a local dentist would be interesting. Out of the six he has gotten six cures. We also have some excellent reports on appliances that should provide good material for such a letter. These are facts and should - if anything will

• move these individuals to take action on purchase of stock.

We are making progress. It is slow, of course, for our plans for even small amounts of advertising have had to be abandoned. It takes time to get reports on these products and a constant attack on the doctors to get their cooperation. I will write you in more detail within a few days.

I recently mailed you a study group manual [See 262-100 Reports]. When you have had time to go over it I would like your comments and suggestions. It is our intention to use a revised edition of this manual as the basis for our group work in connection with the lessons in the future. Our group work must be expanded in order to create a more direct market for our publications. (You understand, of course, that this is not the first objective for that is spiritual awakening.)

With kindest regards to both you and Mrs. Parker, I am

Sincerely, HLC

R20. 8/4/36 HLC’s letter to Mr. Johnston:

Mr. Douglas T. Johnston Graybar Building New York, N.Y.

Dear Mr. Johnston:

This will acknowledge receipt of your letter enclosing your check for $200 as a loan to the Health Home Remedies Corporation. Thank you very much.

I am going over the situation in detail with House and we will write you within the next few days. Personally I plan to write again to members of the Association who have shown interest in the company and report programs on the research activities. I hope this will have some effect in moving them to purchase stock. We are making progress but it is slow.

We certainly appreciate your suggestions regarding the funds advanced on the Detroit situation. We are making the credit of $100 for your current yearly contribution and will of course keep the other credited to your account. I sincerely hope that we will be able to return the balance to you though it may only be small amounts at a time.

We were all sorry to learn that you were ill after returning to New York and hope that you have by now entirely recovered.

With kindest regards from all,

Sincerely, [signed] Hugh Lynn Cayce

R21. 8/10/36 Mr. Parker’s letter to HLC:

DALE PARKER 120 BROADWAY NEW YORK

Dear Hugh Lynn:

The Higher Power has unexpectedly been kind to me financially and the first thing I am doing is to take up a further fifteen preferred in the Health Home Remedies Corporation. The stock is being issued to me here and I have sent it to Johnston for signature as President.

I am sending you the enclosed check for $1500.00 in payment for these shares.

This will keep things going - even tho only modestly - until the end of the year and also fulfills my subscription for 2500 - 1,000 paid in at the beginning and the balance now.

Perhaps this will also help you get some others to come along. I have no objection to your telling them of my purchases.

My very best to you all.

Yours ever, [signed] Dale Parker

R22. 8/12/36 Mr. Parker’s letter to HLC:

DALE PARKER 120 BROADWAY NEW YORK

Dear Hugh Lynn:

I know House is probably terribly annoyed about not getting Dawson’s OK on his label situation.

I talked to Dawson again this morning and begged him to rush this, and I trust he will. If, however, House doesn’t hear very soon, I suggest you or he write Dawson and personally ask him to get busy.

Cheerio and best to all,

Yours ever, [signed] Dale Parker

R23. 8/12/36 Mr. Johnston’s letter to HLC:

DOUGLAS T. JOHNSTON GRAYBAR BUILDING NEW YORK MOhawk 4-0350

Mr. Hugh Lynn Cayce Association for Research & Enlightenment, Inc. Virginia Beach, Virginia

Dear Hugh Lynn:

You have probably heard before now of Mr. Dale Parker’s good fortune as a result of which he has been able to subscribe to 15 additional shares of the preferred stock of H.H.R.C. This will relieve our present worries and make it possible to carry on for a few more months. The amount is still too small, however, to permit of any program of expansion. This means awaiting our securing of additional subscriptions of a fairly substantial aggregate amount.

I am planning to leave for vacation at the end of this week. Upon my return I will do what I can to assist in securing subscriptions from some of the New York members of the Association who I feel should be willing to help this enterprise.

In the meantime since the immediate financial worries have been eliminated I know that you and Mr. House will do everything possible to complete the preliminary work necessary for introducing the specific remedies.

With best regards,

Very truly yours, [signed] Douglas T. Johnston

R24. 8/19/36 Mr. Parker’s letter to HLC:

DALE PARKER 120 BROADWAY NEW YORK

Dear Hugh Lynn,-

Herewith 25.00 check from H E Poole - his second payment on his purchase of 1 share of Preferred Stock in H.H.R. Corp. I endorsed this over to Corpin[?] so you can deal with it. Kindly acknowledge receipt of this check - also the check for $1500.00 I sent you last week. Need these acknowledgements for my files.

Hope all going well with you and your family. My wife & Miss Murray join me in very best to you all.

Yours ever, [signed] Dale Parker

P.S. Talked to Dawson yesterday - he says he wrote to House re label last week as promised.

[initialed] D. P.

R25. 8/21/36 HLC’s letter to Mr. Parker:

Mr. Dale Parker 120 Broadway, New York City

Dear Mr. Parker:

Thank you very much for your letter enclosing Mr. H. E.

Poole’s check for twenty-five dollars ($25) as second payment on one share of Health Home Remedies Corporation preferred stock. This has been deposited to the account here and will appear on the regular report.

I am sure you have my letter acknowledging your previous letter and check. The delay was due to my not being here when your letter arrived.

General conditions are moving along nicely. The whole Beach has had an excellent summer. My father has been working pretty hard but is feeling very well. He and mother are planning to take a few days for a short automobile trip about the first week in September. I am sure the rest will do him good.

Will you kindly tell Mrs. Parker that I am ashamed to say that I mislaid the memo Miss Davis gave me regarding the hair preparation and let the matter slip my mind until recently. In checking over the reading I do not find specific proportions given. Perhaps I can slip a question on this in on check readings sometime soon.

With kindest personal regards and best wishes from all,

Sincerely, HLC

R26. 9/9/36 Mr. Samuel M. Gordon, Secretary Council on Dental Therapeutics 212 E. Superior Street Chicago, Ill.

Dear Sir:

In accordance with the rules set forth in the Official Rules of the Council on Dental Therapeutics of the American Dental Association [June, 1934], we desire to submit for your consideration a preparation which is to be known as IPSAB. We ask that you make any tests that you may deem necessary to prove the value of this preparation and if these tests prove satisfactory to you, include IPSAB in your list of Accepted Dental Remedies.

Ipsab is not on the market at present. It is our earnest desire to cooperate with the Dental Profession in every way and it is to this end that we have been working. The tests that have been made with Ipsab have been made in the mouths of individuals who were suffering with tender gums and these tests were made by recognized members of the American Dental Association who stand high in their profession. Every effort has been made to conform to the requirements of your organization in shaping our label and introductory sheet. This sheet is to be given only to Dentists with a bottle of Ipsab to be used as a sample and to introduce the preparation to the profession. Under no circumstances will these introductory sheets be given to the general public. We only ask that Ipsab be given a trial. The results will speak for themselves.

The following is the information requested in your book of Official rules for the presentation of an article to the Council of Dental Therapeutics. The information is in the same numerical order that it appears in the book of Official Rules.

1. Name - Ipsab

2. Synonyms - none. Title to be used in prescribing or purchasing - is Ipsab.

3. We prefer not to make public the proportionate ingredients or the method of manufacture as both are of vital importance to the value of the preparation and are strictly confidential.

4. Ipsab has a base of Extract of Prickly Ash Bark and sterilized sea water. To this are added small quantities of Calcium Chloride, Sodium Chloride and Atomic Iodine. (The Calcium Chloride is U.S.P. grade).

5. Ipsab is dark colored liquid with slightly peppermint odor and salty, bitter taste.

6. No practicable method of identifying and estimating chief constituents.

7. Stimulates action of salivary glands, stimulates circulation of blood to the gums, strengthens tissue about the teeth.

8. Ipsab is recommended in conditions where the gums are tender, easily irritated, bleed easily or where they have become soft or flabby from lack of exercise.

9. Saturate a small tuft of cotton and massage the gums thoroughly for from three to five minutes once each day.

10. Ipsab is manufactured by the Health Home Remedies Corporation, of Norfolk, Virginia.

We invite the Council on Dental Therapeutics to make clinical tests with Ipsab because it is in this type of test that the real value of the preparation will be shown.

We sincerely trust that you will find Ipsab to measure up to all of your requirements and assuring you of our earnest desire to cooperate with you in every respect, we are Very truly yours,

HEALTH HOME REMEDIES CORPORATION

T. B. House

Samples of Ipsab and introductory sheets are being mailed to you under separate cover.

R27. 9/15/36 Mr. Johnston’s letter to HLC:

DOUGLAS T. JOHNSTON GRAYBAR BUILDING NEW YORK MOhawk 4-0350

Mr. Hugh Lynn Cayce c/o Association for Research & Enlightenment, Inc. Virginia Beach, Virginia

Dear Hugh Lynn:

Last week I had a letter from Mr. Dale Parker enclosing with it his resignation as an officer and director of the Health Home Remedies Corporation. He stated in the letter and the telephone conversation which I have since had with him that the reason for his resignation had nothing whatever to do with the company but was caused by other conditions which made it imperative. He has pledged his fullest cooperation in the future just as he has given it in the past.

He stated that since he will no longer be active as a director and officer of the company he feels that he is no longer entitled to the common stock which he holds and would like very much to transfer it to your father. I also felt that I would like to similarly transfer my stock so that after the transfer is made the holdings will be: the Association 85%, your father 10%, and yourself 5%.

It will be necessary to choose a successor to Mr. Parker as director and also one as treasurer of the company. Mr. Parker feels that it would probably be better also for Miss Bennett [Florence I. Benner] to resign as assistant treasurer. What suggestions have you as to who could fill these offices to the best advantage of the company and the Association. One possibility might be for you to act as treasurer and for my secretary, Miss Doebler [Helen M. Doebler], to act as assistant treasurer. This would still require someone to act as director. The time will, of course, come when we will want to have a larger Board of Directors. You may think that it would be advisable to increase the Board at this time. Do you think it would be well to have a reading on these and the other problems facing the company including the securing of additional capital.

Several days ago I had a letter from Mr. House enclosing statement for the month of August. Apparently continued progress is being made although we are still a long way from the break-even point.

With best regards to you all.

Very truly yours, [signed] Douglas T. Johnston

R28. 9/16/36 Mr. Johnston’s letter to EC:

DOUGLAS T. JOHNSTON GRAYBAR BUILDING NEW YORK MOhawk 4-0350

Mr. Edgar Cayce Association for Research & Enlightenment, Inc. Virginia Beach, Virginia

Dear Mr. Cayce:

Enclosed are Certificates C 4 and C 5 each for 50 shares of the Common Stock of the Health Home Remedies Corporation registered in your name. One of these is a transfer of the stock formerly in the name of Mr. Dale Parker and the other is a transfer of the shares formerly in my name.

I have already written Hugh Lynn of the necessity for the resignation of Mr. Parker as a director and treasurer of the corporation. He feels that since he will no longer so act he would like to have you have his stock. I have felt for some time that I would not personally wish to be in the position to make any profit from the corporation and so I am glad of this opportunity to turn the stock over to you.

With these transfers the ownership of the Common Stock is: Association for Research and Enlightenment, Inc. 85%, Edgar Cayce 10%, Hugh Lynn Cayce 5%. It seems to me that this is an admirable distribution and one which will be most favorably received by all members of the Association. I only hope that the time is not to distant when income may begin to be received on it.

With best regards,

Very truly yours, [signed] Douglas T. Johnston

R29. 9/21/36 EC’s letter to Mr. Johnston:

Dear Mr. Johnston;-

Well, we are still here, the storm didn’t take us off or make us run away. Took a bit of the roof off, and kept us busy trying to keep the things dry in the Office, but did pretty well. Thomas [Thomas B. House] had to have a stormy day for his wedding but the Sun came out just as they started out so the sun shown on the bride, and guess married life is stormy any way.

Hope the readings for your Aunt and for the young man will be helpful for only when they are does it count at all. Trust you are feeling fine yourself as well as the rest of the family.

Thanks for the papers and stock in Health Home remedies Corp. Don’t know as know what to do with it, but thank you both.

Let us hear from you when ever you can

Sincerely [signed] Edgar Cayce

R30. 9/22/36 HLC’s letter to Mr. Parker:

Mr. Dale Parker 120 Broadway, New York, N.Y.

Dear Mr. Parker:

I was sorry to learn from Mr. Johnston of your necessity for resignation as Treasurer and Director of the Health Home Remedies Corporation. We are having a reading on next Tuesday or Wednesday for the corporation and will write you again when I mail you a copy of it.

The pamphlet and labels on IPSAB have been copyrighted and the trade mark registered in the name of the corporation. The American Dental Association has advised House that is is making proper tests on the product to prove its claims. We are trying to get an accepted Dental Remedy seal on the basis of its value for bleeding gums and as a preventive for pyorrhea. Local tests are continuing to prove entirely satisfactory. On the six cases being treated by a local specialist reports are highly favorable. T-I-M reports are excellent. We continue to get reorders from people who have used the product for years (Members of the Association) and who recommend it to friends.

I am pushing the work on several printed pamphlets for the Association and am also stimulating the group work in order to create a channel of distribution for the literature. I would be happy to have your comments on the Study Group Manual by sections or articles as you have time. I hope to make this, after a careful editing, the basis of group work.

We are undertaking a series of readings for Dr. Rhine of Duke as soon as he gets located with fall classes. Dr. Warner is arranging for a series of readings for a group of professors at Columbia. Between the two our research phase of the work should move along, provided we can get decent cooperation.

I am writing this letter under difficulties as the plasterers are about to drive me out of the office. The storm here a few days ago took a good many of our shingles and the rain brought down parts of two ceilings. The house is in a slight mess and I am trying to get this off before turning the office over to them.

With kindest personal regards and best wishes, I am

Sincerely, [signed] Hugh Lynn Cayce

R31. 9/23/36 HLC’s letter to Mr. Johnston:

Mr. Douglas T. Johnston Graybar Building, New York, N.Y.

Dear Mr. Johnston:

Your letter of September 15, is before me. I was sorry to learn of the necessity for Mr. Parker’s resignation.

I feel that this may be a good time to make another effort to interest other members there in New York in subscribing to stock and at the same time include them as directors with the available voting stock. However, this can best be decided after we have secured a reading.

Your suggestions regarding a reading are very good. This reading will be given on Tuesday or Wednesday of next week. Please let me have any questions you would like to have asked. Besides the questions on securing additional funds and the new officers and director we will ask some questions regarding a proper presentation of IPSAB on the best moderate scale.

After the reading I will write you in detail regarding my father’s and my own ideas and suggestions on the situation.

Mr. Johnston do you wish me to send you a check covering the loan of the $200 to the Health Home Remedies Corporation or do you prefer waiting until additional funds are secured?

I am going forward with the work on the publication of the small booklets planned at the Trustees meeting and also a stimulation of the Study Group work in order to provide an outlet for the sale of the literature. We are planning to do a series of readings for Dr. Rhine early this fall as soon as he gets his classes and schedule organized after the opening of school. Dr. Warner is also arranging for a series of readings for Columbia professors. I am confident that both of these series will be beneficial, if we can secure the proper cooperation.

The labels and pamphlet on IPSAB have been copyrighted and the trade mark registered in the name of the Corporation. The American Dental Association has advised House that they are undertaking tests with the product to check our claims for it. Reports from local dentists continue 100% favorable. We are getting reorders from members on T-I-M who have used the product over a period of several years. This is a very good indication of its value. Recently a local doctor relieved a very severe case of Hemorrhoids with T-I-M. It is difficult to secure complete reports but progress is being made slowly.

With kindest personal regards to both you and Mrs. Johnston, I am

Sincerely, [signed] Hugh Lynn Cayce

R32. 9/24/36 Mr. Parker’s letter to HLC:

DALE PARKER 120 BROADWAY NEW YORK

Hugh Lynn Cayce, Esq., % Association for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., Virginia Beach, Va.

Dear Hugh Lynn:

Many thanks for your letter of the 22nd September. I am delighted to hear that the Health Home Remedies Corporation is making such excellent progress, and I am confident that it will be a great success. You may count on me to cooperate with you in every way I possibly can. The fact that I am only a preferred shareholder and no longer a director or officer will make no difference whatsoever in my great interest in the success of this enterprise.

I am glad to hear that you are making such good progress on the literary side - I am sure that you will put this over.

It is grand news to hear that you are about to get the cooperation of Dr. Rhine and Dr. Warner.

I am terribly sorry to hear that you have been so upset as the result of the hurricane. Such things come to us as tests, and I know that you all have stood firm and always will when things of this kind come along.

I am looking forward to the reading for the H.H.R. Corp. so please do not forget to mail me a copy.

With kindest regards to all, I am

Yours ever, [signed] Dale Parker [DP.FIB]

R33. 9/30/36 See 1800-27.

Background

Background

B1. See 1800-25.

Mentioned Entities

Hugh Lynn Cayce, New York City, Virginia Beach, A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment), John (Apostle), Thomas Sugrue, Atomidine, Purpose, Iodine, Healing, Soul, Baking Soda, David Kahn, Fallen Angels, Gertrude Cayce, Gladys Davis, Ideal, Milton Harrison, Book of Job, Chicago

Source: The Complete Edgar Cayce Readings, A.R.E. CD-ROM (2006). Reading 1800-26, ReadingID 8140.