Reading 272-5

TEXT OF READING 272-5 F 34

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Date: 2/14/1933 Sex: F Age: 34 ReadingID: 1681

This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 14th day of February, 1933, in accordance with request made by self - Mrs. [272], Active Member of the Ass”n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

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

Time of Reading 3:10 to 3:25 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. …, Alabama. (Physical Suggestion)

1. EC: Yes, we have the body here, Mrs. [272]; this we have had before - partially a different name.

2. Now, as we find, the conditions that disturb the physical forces of the body show considerable improvements. There are still present in the system and the blood stream, however, those signs - and the effects as indicated in the organs involved in the conditions - of the infectious forces that have disturbed the body. Not to the extent as they have previously been seen or shown; and not so much in the PHYSICAL distress. Neither is there the abundance or the numbers as previously indicated.

3. In the present existent conditions we would make some little alteration in the applications for the body, and these will - as we find, with persistence - eradicate the conditions entirely.

4. We would continue with the small quantity of the Atomidine twice each day (five to eight minims in half a glass of water at each dose).

5. We would alter somewhat the douches; that is, instead of that which is being used at present [Creolin] we would change to the Atomidine also as a douche. One to ten; that is, one ounce of Atomidine to ten ounces of water, see? As we find, this will eradicate the conditions.

6. At the end of the period of six weeks, should there be the indication of the organs, cervix or uterus still being involved in the condition, then we would resort to other measures.

7. But, to either remove the organs themselves or to use the vaccine as a direct application to the organs, as we find, would - under the existent conditions - produce too GREAT an opportunity for large areas of scar tissue to develop, that would make conditions where there would be a CONTINUAL discharge that would be hard to EVER be overcome!

8. And with these treatments continued in the manner outlined, with the responses that we find in the organs, the glands as related to the eliminations and secretions for the body, we find that the system should be cleared entirely.

9. Be mindful that there is kept for the body a little excess in the way of eliminations through the alimentary canal, so that there may be the carrying away of the refuse forces that will be assimilated and passed to the circulation.

10. We would - one or two day periods in a week - have most of the water as taken carrying either small quantities of Yellow Saffron or Elm. [Powdered Elm]

11. The Yellow Saffron would be made into a tea, and a teaspoonful added to a glass of water. This may be made in a quantity and kept in a cool place.

12. The Elm will have to be made each time, just a short time before it is taken. Just put a small pinch of the Elm in a glass of water. Should this become such as to produce an acid condition, or become an irritant, then leave it off.

13. As eliminants for the alimentary canal, it would be well that these be used:

14. One day (in the evening) take a teaspoonful to three teaspoonsful Milk of Magnesia.

15. The next day take a dessert spoonful Milk of Bismuth.

16. The next day use the Caroid Bile Salts tablets (the caroid carrying the vegetable stimuli for the alimentary canal).

17. It would be well, too, occasionally, when there is felt heaviness after the meal, that the properties called ALCAROID be used as a digestant or digestal. A level teaspoonful dissolved in a small quantity of water, then a full glass of water added, and two glasses drunk at the time, see?

18. As we find, these would bring the normal conditions for this body, Mrs. [272].

19. Ready for questions.

20. Be mindful that the diet does not include too much meats, nor too much fats of any kind. While there will be the tendency for the desires in this direction, we would not include these in the diet. Rather use the foods that are easily digested.

21. The douches we would take at least every other day. They should be with tepid water.

22. (Q) How much water should be used at a time - what quantity? (A) A quart to a quart and a half.

23. (Q) How long should I follow these treatments before getting further advice through these sources? (A) As indicated, five to six weeks.

Follow these and, as we find, we will bring the greater, the better, physical forces for the body.

While such measures that we have suggested have the tendency to require a little more time, yet - if the body will know MENTALLY that it is, and see itself PHYSICALLY being CLEANSED, as it were, from any of those destructive forces that have been the lot of the body - we will find these will aid in bringing about much better activities in the physical forces.

Keep the mental and spiritual alive for the CREATIVE INFLUENCES that may be activative through all portions of the system!

24. We are through for the present.

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Reports

Reports & Follow-up

R1. 2/14/33 GD’s letter to [272]:

My dear Mrs. [272]:-

This is by far, I am sure, the most encouraging information you have EVER had. It seems almost too good to be true, doesn’t it? Still, I am perfectly confident that by the first part of May - with following these suggestions - you will be absolutely normal! Just as your Life Reading indicated.

I think all this is very clear, but should any part of it not be please don’t hesitate to ask. We are only too glad to help in any way possible. We are all so happy for you, and with you. Now you will just have to be very persistent and consistent, knowing that the results are on their way - in fact, being accomplished each and every day as you go about to do those things necessary to bring normalcy.

Let us hear from you anyway, whether you understand the reading or not; for we certainly do want to keep in touch with you and know that you are doing everything just right.

Here’s hoping that you will feel as much encouragement from this information as I do. We’ll be waiting anxiously to hear from you.

Sincerely, Gladys Davis

P.S. That Atomidine is certainly wonderful! We are getting such marvelous reports from those, on every hand, who have been using it. I think yours will cap the list, however. So, let’s get busy!

R2. 2/16/33 EC’s letter:

We mailed to you a few days ago the information gotten in the check-physical reading. From this I understand that, with the change being created in your system, with the following out of the suggestions mentally AND physically, you should expect within the next five to six weeks a great alteration in, if not an entire eradication of, the condition with your body.

As you will readily understand when taking both of the readings into consideration, much will depend upon your diet, the mental attitude, and - of course - there should not be any unusual exertion, or any opportunity where you might take a severe cold. All such conditions affect the eliminations from your system. It is necessary that you be very mindful to keep rather on an alkalin diet, and the eliminations rather excessive - not allowing yourself to become constipated at all, though you do not want eliminations to become so excessive in this respect as to sap your vitality or strength.

We will be very anxious to hear from you, and to know just how you are feeling. Now you won’t have to worry about what the other fellow’s going to say!

Hoping the information will prove as satisfactory and worth while to you as it has in so many hundreds of other cases, we are, with all good wishes and kindest regards.

Sincerely, ASS’N FOR RESEARCH & EC:GD ENLIGHTENMENT, INC.

R3. 2/20/33 She wrote:

Mr. Edgar Cayce, Virginia Beach, Va.

Dear Mr. Cayce:-

I was very happy to get your last reading, and I believe it is the best one that I have had. I am getting better. I can feel that I am and I am very hopeful of the day when I will be entirely well.

I do not quite understand how to take the Atomidine Douches. One part of the reading said: “One ounce of Atomidine to ten ounces of water.” You know, the bottle of Atomidine is only about four ounces. Then in another place in the reading, the directions were: “A quart to a quart and a half.” I used between 30 and 45 drops of Atomidine to a bag of water, about a quart and a half of water. I am having a little trouble getting the Yellow Saffron, in fact I don’t think I will be able to get it. However, as I understood the reading, it or Elm could be taken. One druggist told me that he though that he could get me the powdered Elm. I am trying my very best to follow every suggestion.

I am sending some money, ($3) I hope to be able to do better later.

In a letter some time ago, Miss Davis spoke about your plans of making a trip to Birmingham some time in the future. You, Mrs. Cayce, and Miss Davis are welcome to stay in my home if you find it convenient to do so. I am looking forward eagerly to your coming.

Let me thank you again for the wonderful encouragement and help that you have given me.

Sincerely, Mrs. [272]

P.S. Your letter of the 16th was appreciated. I am truly glad that I do not have to go to some one else and I feel that I am getting better every day. I wish you much success in your help of others, and a great prosperity on your part.

R4. 2/28/33 EC’s letter:

We were certainly very happy to have yours of the 20th. and to know you are getting better right along. We give thanks and praise to our heavenly Father for having shown you a way, even through these channels.

As to the Atomidine douches, I don’t know whether you are using them quite strong enough or not - thirty to forty-five drops in a quart and a half of water. However, you will probably be able to judge by the results produced. If you find there is a continuation of any discharge, then I would advise that you increase the amount little by little - that is, eight or ten drops at a time. Also continue to take it internally.

From experience where such a treatment has been given (though I don’t believe this has been suggested for you in a reading), I believe it would be well for you to take a very hot Epsom Salts bath about once a week - putting ten to fifteen minutes’ time sitting in a tub of hot water, to which there has been added about two pounds of Epsom Salts. No doubt this will make you feel weak; consequently, I would suggest that you take it just before retiring. The idea is to give the reaction throughout your whole system and make for a general cleansing. Once a week or twice a month should be sufficient. When taking this, you will no doubt notice the Atomidine that is being absorbed in your system, by the tendency for the perspiration to discolor towels as you sponge off. [4/17/33 See 272-6 advising her to continue the Epsom Salts Baths!]

Now, as to the Yellow Saffron, I do not see why you cannot obtain this. Some years ago the Greene Drug Company there made a specialty of obtaining crude drugs suggested through these sources. Possibly this may be obtained under the name American Saffron, for Yellow Saffron is usually considered that shipped from Spain - but the American Saffron is just as efficient where it is taken as a tea. I understand that it would be well for you to alternate the Saffron and Elm; that is, one day drink elm water and the next day Saffron tea. Elm, as you know, is a very healing property for the stomach and intestinal disorders. However, it is very easy for this to become offensive unless digestion and elimination is being carried on properly. The Saffron in small quantities has the tendency to quiet the stomach, intestines and digestion, and makes for better assimilations throughout, absorbing poisons from the system. You can see with a little thought, just how this should work with all the other things recommended.

Thank you very much for your contribution. We appreciate your invitation, more than we know how to tell you, and should we be able to make the trip to Birmingham we will certainly get in touch with you before we come. Of course, we don’t know just what sort of arrangements may be made by those considering handling the trip for us.

With all good wishes, and hoping to hear from you again soon, I am

Sincerely,

ASS’N FOR RESEARCH & ENLIGHTENMENT, INC.

EC:GD

R5. 3/30/33 She wrote:

I believe this is the sixth week of my treatments as given by your last reading, and I am happy to say that I feel some improvement in my condition. At least, I am very hopeful. I wondered if you thought it necessary for another reading just now. My last two readings showed that a change would take place at or near my next birthday, which is May 3. Do you think it advisable to continue my present treatments on through the month of April? I believe I notice a gradual improvement, however the discharge has increased as you indicated that it might. I have increased the Atomidine in my douche as suggested. I don’t believe I am taking enough of the Atomidine internally. What do you think of increasing the drops to about ten and taking it three times a day? I like the Epsom Salts in the bath, but I have failed to notice the yellow color on the towel in sponging off. I wondered if I just overlooked this, or was this an indication that my system was not yet completely saturated with Atomidine. Last Saturday the Dr. reported a positive smear. However I am hoping that this will clear up.

I want to express my thanks and gratitude to you for your wonderful help and encouragement. Your explanation of many things seems very logical to me. I thoroughly enjoy your monthly bulletins.

As it was indicated in my life reading that I had been associated with your work in previous existences. I have wondered what I could do now to help. I am sending a contribution of two dollars ($2.00).

It seems that I was given your name and address by accident, yet is it the working out of a divine plan. Some one mentioned your name in a Psychology class of Prof. William E. Bohannon’s at Howard College, of which I was a member. Prof. Bohannon praised your talent and work highly. And thus I felt an urge to write you.

I just received Miss Davis’ letter and I appreciated its kind message of good cheer. It’s nice that you think of me.

I am delighted that you are planning a trip to Ala. this summer, and I shall be most happy to have you spend part of your time at my home. I would just love to talk to you!

I would like to know the man in Tarrent [Wallace W. Wells] who is going to form one of your Study Groups, however isn`t his name in one of the Monthly bulletins that you sent out some time ago? I would like to go to some of the meetings.

Sincerely, [272]

R6. 4/6/33 EC’s letter:

I was very glad to have yours of the 30th. I want to thank you also for your contribution to the Work, and assure you we appreciate your thought in this direction; for no doubt you are aware that we are dependent upon those whom we try to assist for contributions to carry on this work.

I’m certainly glad to know that you are continuing on the improve. I feel your mental attitude has had a great deal to do with this, as I’m sure you realize yourself. It would be very well, I believe, for you to have a check reading in the near future. Possibly Monday morning, the 17th, if that would be satisfactory with you. I think you will find it more satisfactory to submit a list of questions. Even though they may be answered in the main body of the reading, they will assist the questioner in following the line of thought that may be the most helpful to you in analyzing any condition you feel is disturbing you at the present time.

Until you have gotten the check reading, no doubt it will be well to increase the quantity of Atomidine taken internally; as well as that in the douche. Then, if there are any changes, the reading, of course, will make suggestions for them.

Since the very first communications from you, we have all felt we would like to know you better; especially since the Life Reading, as the indications are that we have been associated in work of this nature in the past. It is very hard to write about such things, for so many questions arise that it is practically impossible to follow a continuity of thought; or to answer the many questions that may arise in the mind of an individual. We have had so many hundreds of Life Readings, that to us many of the things are clearly understood that would be hard for others to grasp. Possibly we have become accustomed to using such terms or hearing the phrases. Just as we might say about the use of the telephone. While very few of us would be able to analyze or describe just how it works, we are so accustomed to it that even those who have not heard of one - it seems to us - should know what it’s like and what to do with it.

In reference to Mr. Wells, one of the Regional Representatives of the Association, you may be able to work with him in forming a study group. However, it might be the better if you would consider forming your own study group. I am sure your qualifications are such that you could direct such a group in a most satisfactory way and manner, even though you might begin with only two to three individuals. I would like to send one of the lessons to you, and some of the data concerning this work, if you feel you would be at all interested. It is in this direction, I believe, that you could be of a great service to the organization, as well as this offering a channel that will be of the greatest assistance to you in this work. If I understand properly, it would also be following very much along the lines of the associations - which we think of as being ages ago, but which were only yesterday.

The lessons are prepared by the Norfolk Study Group. Readings are given, and the individuals interpret these in their daily experience. This is a very inadequate explanation, but - as you will see from the lessons - they are not just formulas or theories. As the readings have suggested, they are living lessons; that individuals may by practice make practical and demonstrate in their daily experience. Please let me know about this, and we will be glad to send the data to you.

It has been quite unusual, our contact or association with Prof. Bohannon. I have known him possibly for the last thirty years, since he was in school as a pupil in Bowling Green. Again I met him in Birmingham as instructor of psychology there. Quite a number of people through the years have been referred to these channels for information by him. Some have become very warm personal friends; others - as in all things of this nature - have gotten little or nothing. It is the attitude, of course, that makes the difference - whether we say of the approach, of the individual, or all combined.

Please let us know about sending the data. Should you like to get in touch with Mr. Wallace Wells, his address is 1608 Mount Drive, Tarrent, Alabama.

Appreciating your letter, trusting this finds you still on the improve, that we may have the opportunity to know you in person in the near future, thanking you for your invitation, and with all good wishes and kindest regards, I am

Sincerely, EC:GD

R7. 4/11/33 She wrote:

Dear Mr. Cayce:-

I am so happy to say that I believe that I am better. Am I? A strange thing happened about three o’clock Monday morning of the tenth. I was awakened and I believed that I was well. I had no discharge all day Monday or I couldn’t tell it if I had; while the day before which was Sunday, the discharge was very profuse. However, I am not feeling so well to-day. I don’t think that I am well to-day. This change in my mind, how I want to feel sure that I am entirely well. However according to your readings the change would come about the first of May. I am very hopeful. How I want the time to come.

I am sending you ten dollars ($10.00) for a reading for the morning of the 17th. That morning, which is Monday morning I will be at …, Ala. teaching grade six.

Now as to the questions, I hardly know where to begin. First, let me say that I am still taking the Atomidine and trying to follow the other suggestions.

Questions:

1. Where or what organs are the G. C. germs effecting in my system now?

2. What further things must I do in order to completely eliminate them from my system?

3. What can I do in order to have a normal orgasm? (I want to be a normal woman sexually.)

4. Is my heart bad again?

5. Why do I have rheumatic pains in my knee joint, finger joints, and arm muscles?

6. What could I do to make my eyes become normal, so that I would not have to wear glasses?

In other words, I pray and desire, so much, to be a normal healthy person.

Mr. Cayce, I think you and your work wonderful. Don’t you think I had better go with Mr. Wells in his study group, for a while anyway, as I feel so unqualified, you know? I am going to write him about his study group very soon.

My doctor has worked with me beautifully in the past few weeks. I am not taking any kind of treatment from him now. I told him about you and your plans to be in Birmingham this summer. I want him to meet you and know about your work.

I am so thankful and grateful, from the bottom of my heart for the help you have given me and will continue to give me. You have helped to bring sunshine where all seemed dark.

Sincerely, [272]

R8. 4/17/33 EC gave her Ck. Physical 272-6.

Background

Background

B1. See 272-3 on 12/3/32 for gonorrhea infection of sexual organs, and subsequent correspondence.

Mentioned Entities

Atomidine, Alabama, Gladys Davis, Epsom Salts, Physical Body, Gertrude Cayce, Virginia Beach, A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment), Glands (Esoteric), Healing

Source: The Complete Edgar Cayce Readings, A.R.E. CD-ROM (2006). Reading 272-5, ReadingID 1681.