Reading 294-212

TEXT OF READING 294-212 M 67 (Psychic Diagnostician,

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Date: 9/17/1944 Sex: M Age: 67 ReadingID: 2171

Protestant) This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at The Patrick Henry Hotel, Roanoke, Va., this 17th day of September, 1944, in accordance with the request made by the self - Mr. Edgar Cayce, Honorary Member of the Ass”n for Research and Enlightenment, Inc.

[Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Dr. and Mrs. Harry Semones, and Dr. Henry George III.]

Patrick Henry Motel, Time of Reading Room 802, 11:00 to 11:45 A. M. Eastern War Time. Roanoke, Virginia.

1. GC: You will go over this body carefully, examine it thoroughly, and tell me the conditions you find at the present time; giving the cause of the existing conditions, with specific analysis of each portion affected, also suggestions for help and relief of this body. You will answer the questions, as I ask them:

2. EC: Yes, we have the body here - Edgar Cayce; this we have had before.

3. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let it be afraid, for, “Lo, it is I, and I have promised to be with thee, even unto the end of the world.”

4. Ye have much work to do. Ye have many helpers. Be not dismayed or troubled.

5. In giving the conditions of this body physically - this we have had before. Many changes have come about, even since last we had it here. Many are for physical improvements, yet much physically needs to be done YET, that the body may - in a union of effort through the physical organisms - find those responses for better functionings of the work.

6. Then, in giving the disturbance, we would find - first, in the blood supply: this, as we have indicated, is in a toxic condition, as much or more from the conditions which exist in the colon as from other disturbances. Here there are two areas where spastic conditions exist, or a condition wherein the caecum is very much disturbed. This is from the lack of the ability, because of the stricture area, for that digested to be properly eliminated.

7. With the overactivity through salines [GD’s note: For some time, for years really, he had taken Sal Hepatica almost daily to relieve pain in stricture area by forcing eliminations], then, there has been caused a weakening in the abilities of the digestion to assimilate all portions of that taken in body. Thus the conditions have become so as to weaken the red blood cellular forces to that which is not abnormal, yet not normal for this body. This portion, then, needs strengthening.

8. The hemoglobin count would show a lessening of the red, an increase in the white, and a lessening in the leukocyte - or the ability of the conditions to cause perfect coagulation even where used energies have weakened cellular forces in the intestines. And this is connected or associated with the strictures or adhesions in the upper portion of the left lung.

9. The urea of the blood itself is not below the normal for this body, measuring in the present a count of 13 to 15.

10. There needs be supplied, then, rest from overenergy or activity - but in the open as much as practical, where there would be the ozone, more oxygen, and such that strengthens the nature of the cellular force through the body which produces the urea, the red blood, the plasma in lymph circulation.

11. For the excess use of salines to flush or cleanse the colon has reduced in blood more of that which causes that plasm. Thus the inabilities of those centers, those patches [Peyer’s Patches, see 294-212, Par. B11] through which there are the areas of the lymph circulation, are such as to cause ofttimes a state of disintegration. In these patches, then, there is a lack of sufficient globular forces to cause the coagulation in the flow of the lymph, or that portion of same which is the leukocyte, or the sticky portion in the blood is not sufficient to make perfect contact between sympathetic and cerebrospinal activities of the body.

12. Those congestions caused in the trachea, the conditions in the heart activity - the pressure is near normal at most times. When there is overexercise physically, or especially the mental forces as of worry or anxiety, to be sure it calls on the necessity of these emunctory activities - or those patches that are called by a man’s name. These are then lessened in their number and thus make a quickening, or an anxiety, causing the flow of blood in the heart, as an organ, to dilate. There is no organic heart trouble.

13. These, then, are activities that are apparent in the blood supply.

14. In the nerve forces of the body - the plasma through the generation or the regenerating of nerve energy in the body is as necessary as the restoring of energy in every portion of the body. The exercising of the mental processes in the activities through which the body has gone, does go as in the present processes of a physical activity in this individual entity, has caused a deterioration. There is lack, then, of those elements in the energizing of those activities through the body-forces.

15. As indicated, this deterioration is not in the cerebrospinal system, else we would have mental deficiency, but is in the secondary brain, as it is ordinarily called, or the brain - as it were - of mental processes. Then, those centers along the cerebrospinal system that are called the sympathetic or vegetative nerve forces have been, and are, deficient. They need that supply, then, of those elements or vitamins which may be had from the combinations of B vitamin, or the B and C and E. These are necessary elements, or those elements needed to supply to the activities of the gland centers.

16. In making administrations to supply these glandular centers which supply to these patches, or the emunctories add these in the B Complex or the Riboflavin - the necessary elements in each portion of the B vitamin forces. These will be found most through the supplying of elements in Gold and in Nitrate of Silver - the Sodium Gold Chloride and the Nitrate of Silver. These should be added to the body, then, vibratorially, as well as through the alimentary canal - or by mouth. Not such great quantities, but by the vibratory method all the system takes; by mouth, about two drops of the Gold Solution (one grain to one ounce of distilled water) every other day, with the Bicarbonate of Soda solution to equalize same for the activity in the stomach itself. (Four drops of the Bicarbonate of Soda solution.) These will supply those elements needed to the body.

17. The solutions should be carried to the body vibratorially through the larger plate of the Wet Cell Appliance being attached to the umbilical center directly to the right and two fingers up from that point. There attach the larger plate through which the solution passes vibratorially.

18. Attach the Appliance for thirty minutes each day, using the Gold Solution, the next day using the Nitrate of Silver Solution - one ounce of a ten percent Nitrate of Silver Solution added to one ounce of distilled water and one ounce of grain alcohol.

19. When using the Gold, attach the small copper plate to the 4th lumbar. The next day when using the Silver, attach the small plate to the 4th dorsal - or the brachial center.

20. The Appliance should be charged with two pounds of the Copper Sulphate to the gallon and a half of distilled water, ten grains of the Zinc, with an ounce and a quarter of the Sulphuric Acid C.P.

21. Each day following the use of the Appliance for thirty minutes, the centers on the spine and on the front of body. This should not be as a corrective measure, but particularly in those centers in the frontal portion of the body at the glandular center at the area of the pubic center, just below the naval center, just above the naval center - remember, these are in pairs and are upon each side and about, on this particular body, three inches apart. Also massage those at center of the fifth rib and those at the area just below or at the collarbone. These should be massaged gently - these by pressure, yes; and those on the back side of body at the 3rd cervical on each side, at the 4th lumbar, at the 4th dorsal, at the 6th dorsal, 9th dorsal, 12th dorsal, 4th lumbar. All of these should receive attention.

22. For massaging use Peanut Oil to be absorbed, all that the body will take. This will add to the replenishing of the nerve energy that is depleted. This will recharge the gonads, better even than the taking of either the male or female hormones; though, if hormones are given - or should these be necessary - here the female would be more preferable for this type of condition.

23. In the activity of the lungs - as indicated, from the effect of a drug [GD’s note: A previous rdg. had indicated that the lung obstruction had been caused by taking the Sulfa Drug last Feb. to ward off pneumonia. The M.D. Himself stated that in EC’s case the Sulfa Drug had certainly been detrimental], there are adhesions in the area of the upper portion of the left lung. With this tendency for the lack of proper assimilation of foods, this causes the occasional cough. This may be better reduced, as we find, by the wet heat - or the short wave and massage to cause this to be eliminated through the eliminations. Rather than the adjustment or chiropractic method, then, there should be the osteopathic massage along the area of the sympathetic nervous system. And this should extend from the 1st cervical to the end of the spine.

24. As to the activity of the heart itself - there is not, as we have indicated, an organic heart disorder. In the nerve forces, as in the left hand, there is indicated, a neuritic condition, as well as a “catch” in the 4th dorsal center - or the brachial center. Thus, when there are resistances builded by the cleansing entirely of the colon, the replenishing of nerve energies by the addition of activities to the glandular forces, a building of greater centers through the emunctory patches, we will find that there will be a lessening of this effect to the hand.

25. It will be necessary, through the segments of the spine, to adjust throughout the brachial area; and this will aid in restoring or giving full activity to the nerves of the fingers of the left hand, as well as aid in removing the neuritic conditions which exist from poisons in the system in the general manner.

26. The heart’s activity is in pressure near to normal in the present. It varies according to the throwing into the system of poisons, from the colon, as well as the general debilitation in nerve energy - but these may be restored to normal activity.

27. As to the condition of the stomach itself - here we find quite a variation in the activity in the duodenum and in that which has been indicated heretofore. This has been materially aided by the activities of eliminating drosses, but it will require time, patience, persistence and correction of diets through the body.

28. Beware of starches. Beware of too much of that which would cause too much activity in the digestive forces. For, naturally, from a glandular disturbance, the pancreas and spleen and gall duct do not coordinate in their activity. From the poisons and from the stricture, a strain is produced upon the gall duct area. The duct itself would be found to be dilated, but there is neither gravel nor stone in same - a hurting through those portions of the area just below where the gall duct empties into the jejunum or the digestive portions. Thus the lacteals on the side aid to cause the gasping (grasping), as it were, for breath for itself. That is why the colon needs to be cleansed, that there may be purity through same.

29. The activity of the spleen is the greater destructive force in the red cells, and thus an electric vibration through same - with the building up of the energies of the emunctory activities in glandular centers - through the character of treatments as we have indicated.

30. There is no disturbance between liver and kidneys, but excess activity of the kidneys in the conditions existent causes or keeps the impurities from the body. These will naturally adjust themselves as the corrections are made through the body.

31. Do these things, as we have indicated. Rest - rest - rest, but in the open as much as practical.

32. Ready for questions.

33. (Q) By rest, is bed rest indicated? (A) Not necessarily. When adjustments are being made osteopathically, in the massage and corrections, if there is the need for resting in bed because of sheer weakness or exhaustion, then it should be had - but not for long periods for the body. But rest from anxiety. For, know, as given - “Lo, I am with thee, even unto the end of the world.”

34. (Q) Would it be advisable to plan to take five or six months off, away from work? (A) May plan whatever you like, but do the things necessary - whether it’s two months, two weeks, two years, two days!

35. (Q) Just where would be the best place now to rest and hasten recovery? (A) Resting very well now - very good! But be in the open when there is relief from the toxic conditions in colon.

36. (Q) Would the use of the girdle be beneficial to support abdomen? (A) The use of a type of girdle - not elastic but rather as a cloth about same, tightly, yes - very well. This would be well.

37. (Q) Is there an acid deficiency in the stomach? (A) At times there is - else we would not be adding the acid of Gold that is necessary in the system. These have been given. These have NOT been taken. These properties now may be taken vibratorially AND by mouth.

38. (Q) Should Dr. Slate’s instructions be followed, for giving glucose followed by S.U.P. 36? (A) This, as we find, would not be necessary - unless there is a deficiency in the urea in the blood supply.

39. (Q) Should the vaccine be used from the germs taken from the contents of the colon? (A) Vaccine may be used but if the colon is cleansed and let nature act it will be preferable. Use the long colon tube, not attempting to cleanse all of this patch here at once, but every other day fill the colon full. Do massage it gently but do cleanse it. Do use the soda and salt solutions for the first colon cleansing, followed by the Glyco-Thymoline antiseptic solution, else you will take too much strength from the vitality of the body in the processes.

40. (Q) Would you advise us staying on here in Roanoke for a while? (A) Stay on until you are well or dead one, as has been given.

41. (Q) Would there be some place better than here? (A) This depends on who is judging it! There are many places best for some people, and for some people this is the best place! This would be very well for the body for the next ten days to two weeks, if they get the cleansing of the colon accomplished and the stimulating of the gland centers.

Do take the B and C vitamins. Do keep the colon cleansed.

42. We are through for the present.

Copy to Dr. Harry Semones ” ” Ass’n file ” ” Dr. Henry George ” ” Mr. Hugh Lynn Cayce

[GD’s note: The above reading was the last one which Edgar Cayce gave, in Roanoke, for himself. A week after that he had his first stroke, or at least first bad one. When he left Va. Beach on August 30, 1944 his right hand was so affected so that he couldn’t write on the typewriter any more - that’s why he realized he had to stop and rest. His fingers wouldn’t function properly - no strength in them.]

Reports

Reports & Follow-up

R1. 9/17/44 He gave the last reading in Roanoke, for himself. A week after that he had his first stroke, or at least first bad one (When he left Va. Beach in August his right hand was affected so that he couldn’t write on the typewriter any more - that’s why he realized he had to stop and rest. His fingers wouldn’t function properly - no strength in them).

R2. See 1747-6, Par. R5 for Miss [1747]‘s letter written on 11/4/44 while she was taking care of Mr. Cayce in Cloverdale, Virginia.

R3. 10/19/44 EC’s letter to the Board of Trustees on hotel letterhead:

HOTEL PATRICK HENRY

ROANOKE, VA.

TO MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE ASS’N FOR RESEARCH AND ENLIGHTENMENT, INC., TO BE READ AT THE MEETING Oct. 21, 1944.

Friends and loved ones:

It seems that exceptional circumstances have made it necessary for this special meeting. God in His wisdom has seen fit that I not be present. Yet you know I am with you in spirit and purpose, when that purpose is to serve our fellow man - in love, patience, long-suffering, bearing one another’s burdens.

We all have fallen short of the glory which we may indeed manifest in the Christ.

I’m glad to say I am feeling better. Through His love and mercy I may be able to return to the work very soon. Even in the last reading, when everything seemed so awfully dark, He promised to be with me. We have much work to do. Let us be sure that it is for the glory of God and not to the glory of any man.

At this time I am asking, and have asked, Miss Gladys to be personal representative. She knows my personal wishes, as well as the faults and failures of each of us - as we have tried to be of a service through this channel.

I do not feel that there are a great many drastic changes to be made just now, until Hugh Lynn can return to act as Manager of the Association, which we trust by His grace will be in not too distant future.

I would like to have the Executive Committee, whoever is elected, to appoint Miss Gladys as Treasurer - or Assistant Treasurer - for each of the funds or accounts to be set up. She should have been given this authority long ago. It was through my own negligence that this was not done.

If it seems best to make other drastic changes, please do so. And above everything, may peace, harmony, love, with the purpose of the Association at heart, be the rule in this meeting.

God bless you all.

Sincerely,

Edgar Cayce

EC:GD

R4. 11/21/44 Edgar Evans Cayce [just home on leave from long duty overseas] got his father out of Roanoke via new Virginia Beach ambulance (Rescue Squad) to Virginia Beach (with Dr. C. W. Irvin (D.O., Norfolk)) going up to come with him in the ambulance. EC was a pitiful sight coming in on the stretcher, so weak he couldn’t speak above a whisper - and weeping - so glad to be home but heartbroken to be in such a fix.

R5. 11/30/44 EC dictated, (in whisper) to Jeanette Fitch, GD’s assistant, this letter to Dr. Morton Singer in N.Y.C.:

“As you may know by now, I am at home. Have been home a little more than a week. I stood the trip home much better than I ever imagined that I could. I really think I have made more progress in the last week than I have in all the other time before this.” [GD’s note: The left side of his body was paralyzed from the face down - perhaps his throat was partially paralyzed, too.]

R6. 12/2/44 EC dictated a letter to Hugh Lynn which included this paragraph:

“I really think I have improved more since I have been home than in all of the time since I have been sick, and I can tell you I have been pretty sick. I suppose the readings were right in sending me to Roanoke but they certainly are doctoring or working from a different viewpoint here than they did up there.

“The Colloidal Chemistry Theory [as used on me by Dr. Harry Semones, D.O. in Roanoke] is by some man in England and all of the medicine had to come from there. Most of it is given hypodermically and you are not given any meat or animal protein or milk in your diet at all. What they are doing now (here at home) is just the opposite, so I don’t know which way I’m going - up or down. I just hope it is for the best and I can come out of it alright.”

R7. 12/44 VOL. XIII. 3

B U L L E T I N

ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH AND ENLIGHTENMENT, INCORPORATED Virginia Beach, Virginia

“Man’s search for truth is his search for God.”

Members of the Association will be glad to hear that Mr. Cayce, after having been away from Virginia Beach for three months, is again at home. Although not able to give readings, he is definitely improving under the treatment outlined in his last reading of September 17th. [294-212] As this treatment is almost identical with that suggested in other readings for conditions of a similar nature, we are assured that this is the correct procedure. His Christmas message to you, which follows, speaks for itself. [See also 254-116 Reports.]

COMING HOME By Edgar Cayce

Unless you have experienced the sorrow of being away from home, lonely and confused as to what to do, spiritually, mentally, materially, you cannot know what a hunger it creates.

But I am at home now and, I believe, doing better, though my strength seems slow returning. The most joyous Christmas I could have would be the answer to my prayer that I may be used as a channel to help others. The promise given in my last reading, “Ye have many helpers,” is being proven each day in more ways than one.

I have every expectation that my prayer will be answered, by His grace and mercy, if I remain faithful in thought and purpose to the trust which has been placed in me.

Let each of you be very diligent in your prayers for me and with me. Remember, we must each live as we pray, if our prayer would be effectual.

If the world is to have the wonderful Christmas gift it should have at this season, we must all pray earnestly for peace and manifest it in our own lives.

God bless each and every one of you. This I ask in the name of Jesus, the Christ.

[GD’s note: He dictated this to me in a whisper.]

R8. 12/11/44 Gertrude Cayce’s card to their friend Mamie Gray (Mrs. A. Wood Gray) in Selma, Ala:

Va. Beach, Va.

My dear Mamie,

Thanks for all you’ve been doing for us - I just didn’t get a chance as you know to write letters. Your cards are lovely and appreciated. Was so glad to talk to you. Dr. Woodhouse said this morning that Edgar was much better. I think so too, looks better also - SO VERY SLOW tho. We’ve got a nurse yesterday. Real nice, on from 12 at night till 12 next day. We did enjoy Ecken, he left with Kay & Evans, for Drew Field at Tampa, Fla. a week ago to-day - drove. They got a house in Clearwater, Fla. about 22 miles from Drew Field, I believe. I miss them so - Sally & Tommy fine, he is talking so cute - now. Sister [Annie Cayce] here with us till after Xmas.

Love, Muddie

[GD’s note: See Par. R31 below.]

R9. 12/13/44, After sleeping most of the day, EC went into a coma in the evening - which lasted all night. The next day he looked much better, circulation seemed much improved, and color. Still, after this, he never seemed to have the mental alertness as before. He would sleep a few minutes and then wake up. He wasn’t satisfied to stay in bed. We’d get him up in the chair and in a few minutes he’d want to go back to bed, and the same thing all over again. For the rest of his life he never slept over thirty minutes at a time without waking - sometimes he’s speak rationally, ask for a water, etc.

R10. 12/19/44 Dr. Henry George III, D.O., from Wilmington, Delaware came again to see Mr. Cayce and recommended the following: [He also told me [GD] that he thought the daily massages I was giving him should be discontinued, that it was too much for him - he should be allowed to rest - also the things recommended in EC’s last rdg. we were still trying to do - apparently Dr. Semones had not done them, but had followed the English doctor’s theory, etc - Dr. George thought we should discontinue all that and concentrate on the following:]

R11. 12/19/44 Dr. Henry George III, D.O., recommended the following, saying he thinks EC has pulmonary edema.

I feel if Mr. Cayce doesn’t want to go to a hospital, the hospital must be brought to him - that’s all inclusive - 24 hour nursing service - got to have oxygen - he must be digitallized and isn’t at present. He should be given sufficient atropin or belladonna to dry him up.

I think he should have sedatives when actually in need of them - morphine or codeine - should have placebo (sugar pill) for psychic reasons when emotionally upset - they won’t hurt him.

I think he should have a blood count, blood urea, blood phosphorus done. Suggest that he have cardiograph made, and if possible - if anybody out here has a portable x-ray machine - x-ray his chest to find out how much congestion is in the upper apex.

As for foods - I’d suggest Aminoid tablets, made in the Arlington laboratories - a protein concentrate like beef tea but about 50 times as strong to help build up.

I think he needs highly concentrated vitamins and plus minerals. Van Patten makes a good one. Then there’s the Vi-Synerol. Three to four of each of these a day. One is concentrated vitamins, the other concentrated minerals.

I’d give him small amounts of foods frequently. Clapp’s Baby food, or Heinz, or Campbell’s - they’re broken down so they’re almost pre-digested.

If you’ll do all these things I think you’ll be doing as much as can be done - otherwise, not - can’t see how he can last long without something further being done for him.

He should have nurses constantly. I’ll be glad to write a letter to the Red Cross if it would be any help.

For the bowels, I’d keep pretty much toward the bland type - Petrolagar with Cascara would help him as a laxative. If more is needed, then give about six ounces of oil as an injection through an enema at night - have the oil warm and let him retain it through the night so as to make the movement easy the next morning. Use for this olive oil, Wesson Oil, cottonseed oil, Usoline or anything of that nature.

Also as a change for the laxative you might use Agarol, or Cascara Sagrada aromatic - something on this order.

Don’t give him anything that is apt to strangle him. I think the real danger is in him strangling to death. [See 294-70 on 4/8/26.]

Try to get a hospital bed that can be raised and lowered - it’ll save you and be more comfortable for him. If you can’t get one, phone me tonight before nine o’clock and I’ll phone Dave Kahn and see if we can’t get one in Philadelphia or New York. [We got one from Willis Furniture in Norfolk.]

CHART FOR MR. EDGAR CAYCE - Beginning 12/21/44.

GENERAL: #49807 (Atropin solution) 1 tsp. 2 or 3 times daily - P.R.N. oil - if needed for mucous in throat, to dry it - 2 times in 24 hours.

OXYGEN when needed to facilitate breathing.

A.M.

7:00 Stool 7:15 Olive Oil - 1/2 tsp. 7:30 Vi-Synerol mineral vitamins - 2 tablets, 1 of each type 8:00 Breakfast 9:00 Digitallis - 10 drops in wine glass of water 9:15 Shave, bath and oil rub. Epsom Salts Packs on swollen foot & leg 10:15 Beef juice with cracker 10:30 1/8 grain Animated Ash, followed in 10 minutes with Ultra-Violet light for 1 minute on back between shoulders - to release oxygen in lungs. 11:00 Epsom Salts Pack on swollen leg & foot (if not used sooner), followed by oil rub. 11:30 Vi-Synerol - 2 tablets, 1 of each type. 12:00 30 minute quiet period with Gladys for prayer group healing work. 12:30 Lunch. 1:00 Nap 2:15 Get in chair for afternoon 2:30 Olive Oil - 1/2 tsp. 3:00 Beef juice with cracker 4:00 Walk around room, etc., if desired 4:30 Get back in bed 6:00 Digitallis - 10 drops in wine glass of water 6:15 Olive Oil - 1/2 tsp. Vi-Synerol - 2 tablets, 1 of each type. 6:30 Dinner 8:30 Fruit, wine or whatever 9:00 Wet Cell Appliance for 30 minutes, followed by Oil Rub for 30 mins. 11:00 Fruit, wine or whatever 12:00 Sleeping for rest of night if possible. If waking in night and desiring it give fruit juice.

GENERAL: Check with night nurse and if needed give at proper time a small amount of laxative such as Petrolagar with Cascara, Agarol, Cascara Sagrada, Syrup of Pepsin, etc.

If stool has been difficult, give an oil enema at night, injecting 6 ounces of Olive Oil, Wesson Oil, Usoline, to remain in rectum overnight to make morning stool easy.

NOTICE: When a supply of anything gets low, or when anything is needed, make a note of it on the shopping list in small drawer of Mr. Cayce’s medicine cabinet - this list to be torn out by Mrs. Cayce each morning when she goes to market. [12/19/44 List of things suggested by Dr. Henry George III, all arranged for and started on 12/21/44.]

Nurses Oxygen -Digitalis -Atropine or Belladonna -Codeine or Morphine, with sugar pills to be used between times -Blood count, blood urea, blood phosphorus Cardiograph made X-ray of chest - upper apex Aminoid Tablets Concentrated vitamins made by Van Patton - also Vi-Synerol. 3 to 4 of these each day. Petrolagar with Cascara - Agarol - Cascara Sagrada aromatic Hospital bed

R12. The following names of those who nursed Mr. Cayce are taken from the fourteen-day chart of treatments established by Dr. Henry George, III on December 21, 1944.

Days: Nights: Gertrude Cayce (d.4/1/45) Della Brown Annie Cayce (d.7/20/57) Katherine Patterson Gladys Davis Turner (d.2/12/86)

R13. GD’s note: Soon after EC came home from Roanoke, Dr. Woodhouse called in Dr. Waller L. Taylor. Dr. Woodhouse had said to me that the sulfa drug apparently worked miracles in some cases but he felt that it had worked just the opposite in EC’s case. [I seemed to remember someone mentioning the term coronary thrombosis.]

R14. DOCTORS LABORATORY 800 Wainwright Building Norfolk 10, Virginia

Dec. 21, 1944 Dr. Woodhouse Dec. 22, 1944 Reported

Mr. Edgar Cayce

Blood Count Bld Urea - 23 mg. Hgb - 75% RBC - 3,780,000 Phosphorus - 2.97 mg/100 cc WBC - 9,400 Diff ------

PMN - 65 SL - 34 LL - 1

Total-100

R15. 1/1/45 - 12:01 A.M. EC heard horns announcing New Year. GD said, “Happy New Year - we’re going places and do things in 1945!” He said, “Same to you - maybe - maybe - if the Lord is willing.”

1:50 A.M. Wakes every 5 minutes to drink several swallows of water - tries to spit up phlegm each time but very little comes. Breathing sounds like the air has to seep through a pool of corruption. 2:45 A.M. Spit up gob of matter.

R16. 1/2/45 - 5:35 P.M. Dr. Woodhouse - atropine - digitallis - R. 34, T. 101, P. 104 [See 294-8, Par. 23].

R17. 1/2/45 Scene at Edgar’s bedside which GD witnessed, the night before he died: [1/2-3/45 See also 254-116, Reports.]

On the evening of January 2, 1945, Gertrude, standing by the hospital bed, was getting ready to tell Edgar good-night and get some rest while Gladys took over until the nurse would arrive for the midnight shift. She reached over and kissed him. He said, “You know, I love you, don’t you?” She nodded, and he asked, “HOW do you know?”

“Oh, I just know”, she said, with her dear little smile.

“I don’t see how you can tell - but I do love you.” Reflecting, he continued, “you know, when you love someone you sacrifice for ‘em, and what have I ever sacrificed because I love you?”

This bedside scene was so beautiful that it made Gladys cry, and does even now when she thinks of it, because she understood so well how Gertrude had stood by him and put his wishes always above her own when it came to the good of “the work”. Gladys knew how much they each had suffered through the years, and how hard it was for them because of their different manners of expression. But the readings had indicated that love knows no barriers; that when there is the same spiritual ideal in marriage all material obstacles can become steppingstones.

The next evening, about the same time, on January 3, 1945 Edgar Cayce died, at 7:15 P.M. There must have been a most beautiful sunset that evening, because the golden glow out of Edgar’s southeast bedroom window made it appear that the sun was setting in that direction instead of on the west side of the house.

Three months later, at sunrise on a BEAUTIFUL EASTER SUNDAY, April 1, 1945, GERTRUDE ALSO DIED IN VIRGINIA BEACH AND WAS BURIED IN HOPKINSVILLE NEXT TO EDGAR.

[See details re Gertrude’s illness and passing in Mary Ellen Carter’s book, MY YEARS WITH EDGAR CAYCE, The Story of Gladys Davis Turner, especially pp.130-132 of the hardback, Harper & Row, c 1972 by Mary Ellen Carter and Gladys Davis Turner.]

R18. 1/3/45 - 1:15 A.M. Spit up gobs of mucous.

• 5:00 A.M. Best nights sleep he’s in ages. Still spitting up some phlegm each time he wakes. Have given him about all the egg white-lemon-honey mixture. He said, “They can say what they want to, this stuff sure works.” [See 808-4.]

• 4:20 P.M. Bowel movement - kidneys acted very much. Got excited - had to use oxygen mask - pulse very fast - gave digitallis, broke out in a clammy sweat.

• 5:50 P.M. Sitting in chair. Dr. Woodhouse said all had been done that could be done. Pulse 140.

R19. 1/3/45 GD’s notes: 6:00 P.M. He said something to me and his voice sounded like water running over rocks. Realizing he couldn’t make me understand, he stretched out his arm toward the bed (the one paralyzed) to let me know he wanted to return to bed. (His hands and feet had been so cold and I had put an electric pad on to try to warm him up. His skin was very white, ashen looking.) We got him into bed and tried to put the oxygen mask on but he pushed it away. There must have been a most beautiful sunset that afternoon, because the golden glow out of EC’s southeast bedroom window made it appear that the sun was setting in that direction instead of on the other side of the house. (I could hear GC crying softly in downstairs [dining room].)

• 6:30 P.M. Miss Annie Cayce brought him up some oyster stew, which he had known beforehand that she was making for him. He took 2-3 sips of it.

• 7:15 P.M. He stopped breathing.

R20. January, 1945

VOL. XIII, 4

B U L L E T I N ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH AND ENLIGHTENMENT, INCORPORATED Virginia Beach, Virginia

“Man’s search for truth is his search for God.”

EDGAR CAYCE, 1877 - 1945 [Editorial by Thomas Sugrue]

Edgar Cayce passed from this life on January Third at 7:15 o’clock in the evening, at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Virginia. Funeral Services were conducted at the residence on Friday morning, January 5th, by the Rev. Jos. B. Clower, former pastor of the local Presbyterian Church, and in his native town of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, on Monday morning, January 8th, by the Rev. Monroe G. Schuster, pastor of the First Christian Church.

He had been ill since August, 1944, when the strain of overwork pressed him down to a sick bed. For more than a year he had worked under unbelievable handicaps. His son, the manager of the Association for Research and Enlightenment, Hugh Lynn Cayce, entered the Armed Services. At the same time an unprecedented number of requests for readings came to Virginia Beach. Often there were more than 500 letters in the daily mail. The library, which had seemed so large when first built, was jammed with stenographers working at correspondence. Mr. Cayce himself examined every letter, and worked late into the night dictating answers.

During the morning and afternoon periods he gave not two but from eight to twelve readings. Still he could fulfill but a small portion of the applications. The others, with their tales of misfortune and suffering, weighed heavily on him. For the first time in his long life of service he could not help everyone of his fellows who asked for aid. He worked harder and harder, but the appointments ran on and on, until they were more than a year ahead of him.

His own diagnosis, given in a reading last September was that he had reached a point of complete nervous exhaustion. From this he did not recover.

At this is written the shock of his passing is so deep that even the most glib tongues are stilled. Once a person came to know Edgar Cayce, he thereafter could not imagine a world without him, without his readings, without his personality, his friendliness, his simple and complete Christianity. The role of those he served is long. How many he reached through his readings, through his sixty years of Bible teaching, is incalculable. His only ambition was that after his death even more people be reached and given whatever in the readings was good and helpful.

That is the first reaction to his death - that faith must be kept with him, and his work continued. It is symbolic that his own passing was brought about largely by the change in his work; that is, he could no longer give all the readings which were requested of him, and the necessity for giving to people the information of general use in the readings was growing each day.

Now that he is gone this will become the whole of the work, and as it proceeds the real stature of Edgar Cayce will be revealed. Truly he fulfilled the Christian ideal; he laid down his life for his friends. He was a great man. We shall not see his like again.

R21. 1/4/45 - Thursday A.M. - NORFOLK VIRGINIAN PILOT:

CAYCE, PSYCHIC DIAGNOSTICIAN WHOSE HOME AT VIRGINIA BEACH WAS MECCA FOR AFFLICTED, DIES

INSTRUMENTAL IN FOUNDING ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY; STRANGE POWERS STUDIED

Edgar Cayce, 67, Kentucky-born psychic healer who made his home at Virginia Beach during the last 20 and most dramatic years of his life, died there last night at 7:15 p.m. at his home on Arctic Circle.

The basis of his career was the faculty, which he discovered early in life, to diagnose human ills while in a hypnotic trance. Believers in his psychic powers, many of them from distant points, flocked for “readings” in such numbers that he was forced to employ a staff of secretaries, and his engagement book was filled for months in advance.

His greatest splash into public life came in the late twenties and early thirties when he attracted wealthy Morton and Edgar [Edwin] Blumenthal, New York brokers, to his support for the founding of Cayce Hospital, Virginia Beach, and obtained Blumenthal money for the founding of transitory Atlantic University.

IN NATIONAL LIMELIGHT

National attention again was focused on his healing powers and career early in 1943 when Henry Holt & Co. published “There Is A River: The Story of Edgar Cayce,” by Thomas Sugrue, New York newspaperman who attributed his relief from invalidism to Cayce’s unusual abilities.

Born on a farm in Christian County, Kentucky, near Hopkinsville, the son of the late Leslie B. and Carrie Major Cayce, Cayce was considered a dull boy, says his biographer. He read the Bible prodigiously and one day while so engaged was approached by a woman “with wings on her back” who asked him what he wanted most in life. He replied: “Most of all, I would like to be helpful to other people, especially children.”

The very next day, Sugrue relates, Cayce had been having trouble with his spelling. He placed the book under his head and went to sleep; when he woke up he knew all that was in it. In much the same manner he discovered his diagnostic powers somewhat later when he lost his voice and in a hypnotic trance was able to determine the trouble and tell what to do for it.

Soon he was giving “readings,” in which he placed himself in the hypnotic state and described events, medicines, diseases and scientific terms with which he was completely unfamiliar during his waking hours. In later years, his wife or one of his secretaries transcribed his remarks during these trances to make them the basis of his advice to “patients.”

In 1912 he was investigated by the Harvard psychologist, Hugo Muensterburg, who told him, “If it is a trick, you are not aware of it.”

With the Blumenthals, he founded on May 6, 1927, the Association of National Investigators and moved to Virginia Beach. The purpose of this corporation, the charter stated, was “to engage in general psychic research and to provide for the practical application of any knowledge obtained through the media of psychic phenomena.” To house the clinical work of this organization Cayce hospital was founded. With the diminution of Blumenthal funds in the stock market crash, together with a waning of their interest, this building later became the Princess Pat Hotel and still later the Terrace Beach Club. The corporation was dissolved on February 26, 1931, at a meeting which Cayce attended, in the Blumenthal offices in New York.

UNIVERSITY IS BORN

In the meantime, however, Dr. William Moseley Brown, a professor at Washington and Lee University decided to run for Governor on the Republican ticket in 1929 to capitalize on the Hoover landslide. Losing the election, he was approached by Cayce and asked if he would undertake to establish a university at Virginia Beach. Cayce’s son had been a student under Dr. Brown at Washington and Lee.

Cayce enlisted the aid of the Blumenthals, who agreed to make $100,000 available for the first year’s operations; and Brown set about to establish an institution to rank with the greatest in the world. He recruited a faculty of prominent educators, at top salaries; and a site near the ocean in the vicinity of the hospital was purchased for the buildings. (The foundations of two structures, never completed, still stand.)

In organizing the seat of learning, Dr. Brown used Cayce hospital as his headquarters; and in the autumn of 1930 Atlantic University opened its doors. These doors opened into beach hotels and cottages, which had been leased for university quarters pending completion of the institutions own buildings.

DIFFERENCES ARRIVE

Sugrue sets out that differences arose between Brown and his backers over the purpose of the university - the Blumenthals and Cayce wishing to direct its emphasis toward psychic research and Dr. Brown holding out for a more traditional academic institution, with psychic research, if any, to come after its reputation was established. It was the stock market crash, however, which really wrote finis to Atlantic University in 1931. There, as the depression was beginning to develop in earnest, the professors were left high and dry, unable to find new positions. The Virginian-Pilot conducted a campaign of public subscription for their relief.

Sugrue, stricken with a form of paralysis in 1938 while a reporter for the New York Herald-Tribune, lived at Cayce’s home at Virginia Beach - as both “patient” and Boswell - from June, 1939, to October, 1941. He entered Cayce’s home an invalid and, at last reports, was walking.

Cayce is survived by his wife, Mrs. Gertrude Evans Cayce, of Virginia Beach; two sons, Hugh Lynn Cayce, USA, and Capt. Edgar Evans Cayce, USA; two grandsons; and four sisters, Miss Annie Cayce, Mrs. W. A. McPherson and Mrs. J. L. Hesson, of Nashville Tenn., and Mrs. J. J. Crume, of DeLand, Fla.

The body was taken to the H. D. Oliver Funeral Apartments pending the completion of funeral arrangements.

R22. 1/4/45 - Thursday P.M. - THE NORFOLK LEDGER - DISPATCH:

EDGAR CAYCE, “PSYCHIC HEALER,” DIES AT BEACH; FUNERAL FRIDAY

Edgar Cayce, “psychic healer,” who attracted national attention by his diagnosis of human ailments while in a hypnotic trance, died at his home at Arctic Circle, Virginia Beach, last night at 7:15 o’clock.

Mr. Cayce had lived at Virginia Beach during the last 20 years, the most dramatic period of his life. Thousands of believers in psychic powers flocked to his home for “readings.” He employed a staff of secretaries, and his engagement book was often filled for months in advance.

In the late twenties and early thirties, Cayce attracted the attention of Morton and Edgar [Edwin] Blumenthal, wealthy New York brokers who supporting the founding of the Cayce Hospital, Virginia Beach, and obtained Blumenthal money for the founding of transitory Atlantic University.

National attention again was focused on his healing powers and career early in 1943 when Henry Holt & Co. published “There Is A River: The Story of Edgar Cayce,” by Thomas Sugrue, New York newspaperman who attributed his relief from invalidism to Cayce’s unusual abilities.

Born on a farm in Christian County, Kentucky, near Hopkinsville, the son of the late Leslie B. and Carrie Major Cayce, Cayce was considered a dull boy, says his biographer. He read the Bible prodigiously and one day while so engaged was approached by a woman “with wings on her back” who asked him what he wanted most in life. He replied: “Most of all, I would like to be helpful to other people, especially children.”

The very next day, Sugrue relates, Cayce had been having trouble with his spelling. He placed the book under his head and went to sleep; when he woke up he knew all that was in it. In much the same manner he discovered his diagnostic powers somewhat later when he lost his voice and in a hypnotic trance was able to determine the trouble and tell what to do for it.

Soon he was giving “readings,” in which he placed himself in the hypnotic state and described events, medicines, diseases and scientific terms with which he was completely unfamiliar during his waking hours. In later years, his wife or one of his secretaries transcribed his remarks during these trances to make them the basis of his advice to “patients.”

In 1912 he was investigated by the Harvard psychologist, Hugo Muensterburg, who told him, “If it is a trick, you are not aware of it.”

With the Blumenthals, he founded on May 6, 1927, the Association of National Investigators and moved to Virginia Beach. The purpose of this corporation, the charter stated, was “to engage in general psychic research and to provide for the practical application of any knowledge obtained through the media of psychic phenomena.” To house the clinical work of this organization Cayce hospital was founded. With the diminution of Blumenthal funds in the stock market crash, together with a waning of their interest, this building later became the Princess Pat Hotel and still later the Terrace Beach Club. The corporation was dissolved on February 26, 1931, at a meeting which Cayce attended, in the Blumenthal offices in New York.

UNIVERSITY IS BORN

In the meantime, however, Dr. William Moseley Brown, a professor at Washington and Lee University decided to run for Governor on the Republican ticket in 1929 to capitalize on the Hoover landslide. Losing the election, he was approached by Cayce and asked if he would undertake to establish a university at Virginia Beach. Cayce’s son had been a student under Dr. Brown at Washington and Lee.

Cayce enlisted the aid of the Blumenthals, who agreed to make $100,000 available for the first year’s operations; and Brown set about to establish an institution to rank with the greatest in the world. He recruited a faculty of prominent educators, at top salaries; and a site near the ocean in the vicinity of the hospital was purchased for the buildings. (The foundations of two structures, never completed, still stand.)

In organizing the seat of learning, Dr. Brown used Cayce hospital as his headquarters; and in the autumn of 1930 Atlantic University opened its doors. These doors opened into beach hotels and cottages, which had been leased for university quarters pending completion of the institutions own buildings.

DIFFERENCES ARRIVE

Sugrue sets out that differences arose between Brown and his backers over the purpose of the university - the Blumenthals and Cayce wishing to direct its emphasis toward psychic research and Dr. Brown holding out for a more traditional academic institution, with psychic research, if any, to come after its reputation was established. It was the stock market crash, however, which really wrote finis to Atlantic University in 1931.

Sugrue, stricken with a form of paralysis in 1938 while a reporter for the New York Herald-Tribune, lived at Cayce’s home at Virginia Beach - as both “patient” and Boswell - from June, 1939, to October, 1941. He entered Cayce’s home an invalid and, at last reports, was walking.

Cayce is survived by his wife, Mrs. Gertrude Evans Cayce, of Virginia Beach; two sons, Hugh Lynn Cayce, USA, and Capt. Edgar Evans Cayce, USA; two grandsons; and four sisters, Miss Annie Cayce, Mrs. W. A. McPherson and Mrs. J. L. Hesson, of Nashville Tenn., and Mrs. J. J. Crume, of DeLand, Fla.

The body was taken to the H. D. Oliver Funeral Apartments. Funeral services will conducted at the residence at Virginia Beach Friday at 10:00 a.m. by the Rev. Joseph B. Clower, pastor of First Presbyterian church, Morganton, N.C., and formerly of the Virginia Beach Presbyterian church. The body will be shipped Friday at 1:30 p.m. via Norfolk & Western Railroad to Hopkinsville, Ky., for services there Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Burial will be in Hopewell cemetary, Ky.

R23. 1/5/45 P.M. NORFOLK LEDGER-DISPATCH Obituary Column

Edgar Cayce - Funeral services for Mr. Cayce, who died Wednesday, were held at the residence, Arctic Circle, Virginia Beach, this morning at 10:00 o’clock by the Rev. Joseph B. Clower, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Morganton, N.C., officiating. The body was taken via Norfolk & Western Railway at 1:30 o’clock this afternoon to Hopkinsville, Ky., for burial.

R24. 1/4-5/45 Excerpts from Mrs. Ben (Evelyn) Gimbert’s diary, submitted by her daughter, May Gimbert St. Clair, years later:

MEMORANDA - JANUARY 1943 - Cold 22 degrees.

4th - THURSDAY

That it would clear - so washed. May called and told me sad news of Mr. Cayce’s death last nite at 7:15.

Began raining late in afternoon so brought clothes in and finished drying over radiator.

R25. 1/5/45 Mrs. Ben (Evelyn) Gimbert’s diary:

5th - FRIDAY

Cold, clear and windy

Ben and Evelyn to Mr. Cayce’s funeral at the house 10:00 a.m. 3 rooms filled. Edgar Evans arrived from Fla. just after services were over. Hugh Lynn across some where in France. Body was taken to Norfolk & Western which took funeral party to Hopkinsville, Ky. for burial.

R26. 1/5/45 - Friday - NORFOLK VIRGINIAN-PILOT:

CAYCE FUNERAL THIS MORNING

Funeral services for Edgar Cayce, Virginia Beach psychic healer, who died Wednesday night, will be conducted at his residence on Arctic Circle this morning at 10:00 o’clock by the Rev. Joseph B. Clower, pastor of the Morganton (N.C.) First Presbyterian Church.

The body will leave this afternoon for Hopkinsville, Ky., near which Cayce was born in 1877, for interment.

Cayce is survived by his wife, Mrs. Gertrude Evans Cayce, of Virginia Beach; two sons, Hugh Lynn Cayce, USA, and Capt. Edgar Evans Cayce, USA; two grandsons; and four sisters, Miss Annie Cayce, Mrs. W. A. McPherson and Mrs. J. L. Hesson, of Nashville Tenn., and Mrs. J. J. Crume, of DeLand, Fla.

The body was taken to the H. D. Oliver Funeral Apartments pending the completion of funeral arrangements.

GD’s note:

ACTIVE PALL BEARERS HONORARY PALL BEARERS

Mardsden Godfrey Benjamin Gimbert Edward Hardy Herbert Denney Henley G. Moore Burt Davis H. E. Poole Russell Hatchett Riley Simmons A. C. Peele Noah Miller R. B. Stith Theron Helms Malcolm H. Allen

R27. 1/5/45 - Friday A.M. - NORFOLK VIRGINIAN-PILOT:

Editorial: EDGAR CAYCE AND HIS FABULOUS COTERIE

At his Virginia Beach home Wednesday night died Edgar Cayce, at the age of 68. Who was Edgar Cayce? The best answer to that question is to be found in Thomas Sugrue’s THERE IS A RIVER published by Henry Holt & Company in 1942 with the subtitle THE STORY OF EDGAR CAYCE. The life of this man, it is asserted by the writer of the advertisement on the book’s dust cover, is “the story of one of the great psychics of all time.”

The story, notes Mr. Sugrue - a true believer in Mr. Cayce’s psychic powers, and a confessed beneficiary of his ministrations - “belongs in the history of hypnosis, as a chapter in evidence for the theories of Armand Marc Jacques de Castenet, Marquis de Puysequr” who, and not Mesmer (Mr. Sugrue contends) “in 1784 discovered hypnosis.” The biographer relates by the spring of his thirteenth year Cayce had been through the Bible from Adam to John a dozen times. Then, one afternoon in May, he became aware of a presence. A young woman was standing before him; “there was something on her back; something that made shadows behind her that were shaped like wings.”

“Your prayers have been heard,” she said. “Tell me what you would like most of all, so that I may give it to you.” Young Cayce was frightened. Then he heard himself saying: “Most of all I would like to be helpful to others, and especially children when they are sick.” In the middle ages this kind of experience sometimes led to sainthood. In the Twentieth Century it made of Edgar Cayce a psychic healer. When Sugrue came upon him in 1942, Cayce had been practicing “medical diagnosis by clairvoyance for 41 years,” his files at Virginia Beach containing “stenographic reports of more than 12,000 of these diagnoses.”

There is nothing in the Cayce record that suggests the exploitation or charlatanry that is TOO often encountered in this disputed branch of healing. People were impressed by his simplicity and personal integrity. He did not advertise. He made no platform appearances. He sought no patients. Patients sought him. Thousands of therapeutic trances seem to have yielded him not riches but an extraordinary position in that dim twilight zone of human mind the growing literature on which falls under the head of parapsychology.

This part of the story of Edgar Cayce can be turned over to students of psychic - or perhaps psychotic - phenomena. Another and briefer chapter of the story concerns the coterie of his disciples who organized the “Association for Research and Enlightenment” out of which, through steps that need not here be traced, grew the short-lived Cayce Hospital at Virginia Beach and the even shorter-lived Atlantic University.

How the “University” came to brief flower when a couple of psychic Wall Street brokers decided to use some of their boom profits in providing a formal educational vehicle for psychic research and for Cayce’s hypnotic therapies, and how the university withered and died when the stock market crash gave its Wall Street angels something else to think about, is a baroque tale that ranks with the most fascinating in local history.

R28. 2/7/45 Gertrude’s note paper on which Thank You notes were written to those who had sent gifts during her husband’s illness.

Now ailing herself, and trying to continue writing daily to her two sons still in the service, she allowed Mrs. Gray to help her with other correspondence.

Mrs. Edgar Cayce

Dear Mr. & Mrs. Gimbert: - Mrs. Cayce wishes to thank you for your loving thought, expressed by your generous gift at Christmas. [GD’s note: Mrs. Gray, a friend of the family, came to help, shortly after Edgar Cayce died on 1/3/45, and helped Gertrude with all the “Thank You” notes in appreciation of gifts rec’d during Edgar Cayce’s illness. She, Mrs. Gray, remained after Gertrude’s death and helped to continue the A.R.E. She became one of the first official lecturers of A.R.E., helping at home and out in the field, along with Hugh Lynn.]

Sincerely,

Lydia J. Schrader Gray for MRS. CAYCE

R29. 1/11/45 - Thursday - VIRGINIA BEACH NEWS:

Editorial: EDGAR CAYCE

Edgar Cayce, who has died in Virginia Beach at the age of 67, arrived there in September of 1926, after a career as a photographer and “psychic diagnostician” (the term he used) which had carried him into many parts of the country but had still left him with much of native Kentucky and later Alabama atmosphere about him. He was induced to come largely by the Blumenthal brothers, Morton and Edwin (originally of Pittsburgh, later New York brokers), who had grown interested in his diagnoses and were chiefly instrumental in organizing the Association of National Investigators and the Cayce hospital and later the fumbling beginnings of the tragic Atlantic University.

The full story of this latter episode is still to be recorded. It would have to come from the Blumenthal brothers, who provided most of the money; from Dr. William Moseley Brown, earlier of Washington and Lee University, who turned from his political adventures in 1929 with the Republicans and the remnants of the anti-Smith Democrats to become its first and only president; and from various persons in Virginia Beach and Norfolk and perhaps elsewhere, who were familiar with details - as well as from Edgar Cayce. Thomas Sugrue, who wrote the Cayce biography (THERE IS A RIVER), tells part of the story, but it still awaits the historian who can bring together the infinite possibilities in a strange educational effort.

The end of the effort was inevitable collapse. The earlier established hospital had to close when money for its support ran out. But, as to how much Edgar Cayce was responsible for the collapse of either institution, or even for the initiation of the “university” is only one of the puzzles of a life that was full of puzzles for most persons.

The idea that a person with psychic powers may also have diagnostic powers is not new. To others before Edgar Cayce such capacities have been attributed. He does not appear to have claimed any special knowledge of medicine or of physiology. He said that what happened to him in hypnotic trances was beyond his explanation and even beyond his remembrance. He had no gift for advertising himself, never attained any great public fame, despite much that was written and more that was talked about him, and he obviously preferred a simple and quiet life.

Virginia Beach can testify that he lived such a life there during the last 17 years of a career of “psychic diagnostician” which covered some 43 years all told, most of it in small towns. If he reaped any large material rewards, they did not appear on the surface. He seemed modest and unpretentious and religious. The rest belongs to the psychologists, to the students of psychic phenomena and to those who can pierce the strange ways of the human personality. They might have had - may yet have - a fruitful subject in this unusual resident of Virginia Beach.

R30. 2/15/45 See GD’s ltr. to those having appointments cancelled, under 254-116 Reports.

R31. 4/45 VOL. XIII. 7 $2.50 a year 25 cents a copy

B U L L E T I N

ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH AND ENLIGHTENMENT, INCORPORATED Virginia Beach, Virginia

“Man’s search for truth is his search for God.” [Editorial by Thomas Sugrue] [See also 254-116 Reports.]

GERTRUDE EVANS CAYCE 1880 - 1945

On Easter Sunday morning at 7:15 o’clock, in her home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Virginia, Gertrude Evans Cayce passed away. She was buried at Hopkinsville, Kentucky, in the family plot which three months before had been opened to receive her husband.

Thus ended the love story of Gertrude Evans and Edgar Cayce. It began on a hot summer day in the early eighteen-nineties, in Hopkinsville, where the Cayce family had come to live from their farm in south Christian County. Edgar was working in the local book store. One day a family friend, Miss Ethel Duke, drove up in a horse and buggy and called him outside. In the carriage with her was a pretty young girl. “I want you to meet a cousin of mine,” Ethel said to Edgar. “This is Miss Gertrude Evans. Gertrude this is Edgar Cayce.”

That was the beginning. He went to a lawn party at Gertrude’s home the next week. Soon he was visiting at the Hill regularly. They became engaged, and on Wednesday, June 17th, 1903, they were married. Through the years they worked together, and it was Mrs. Cayce who sat beside her husband, acting as conductor, during most of the 15,000 readings which he gave during his long career as one of the world’s great psychics.

Everyone who knew Mr. Cayce was amazed by his strange power, but those who were privileged to know the man personally, and to observe the family life which surrounded him, came eventually to be as equally impressed by the phenomenon of a home which seemed to achieve the ideal which every person cherishes for this sacred institution. There is no doubt that the Cayce family life was unique and inspiring. Not only was there complete harmony between the four members of the family - Gertrude, Edgar and their two sons, Hugh Lynn and Edgar Evans - but they had a genius for absorbing friends and visitors into the group in such a way that a stranger felt at home almost instantly. Many families are closely knit, but usually in such cases the members present a united front against outsiders. The opposite was true of the Cayces. A friend of any one of them was friend of all four. Their home was always big enough for one more friend, one more visitor.

Probably this is explained by the fact that individually and collectively they tried to live Christianity. They never gave lip service to an ideal; they carried it out in deed. But the guiding genius of this organized friendliness was Mrs. Cayce. She loved her home above all things, but she conceived it to be a place of rest and comfort and refuge for not only her family, but for anyone who needed these precious blessings.

Her youngest son, Captain Edgar Evans Cayce, was with her when she passed. Her oldest son, Sergeant Hugh Lynn Cayce, was at his post of duty with General Patton’s army in Germany.

R32. 4/2/45 - Monday A.M. - NORFOLK VIRGINIAN-PILOT OBITUARY COLUMN:

DEATHS

MRS. GERTRUDE EVANS CAYCE, 65, widow of Edgar Cayce and daughter of the late Samuel T. and Elizabeth Salter Evans, died at her home, 320 Arctic Circle, Virginia Beach, yesterday at 7:15 a.m. Her husband died on January 3.

Mrs. Cayce was a native of Hopkinsville, Ky., and had been a resident of this section for the past 20 years. Surviving are two sons, Sergt. Hugh Lynn Cayce, USA, and Capt. Edgar Evans Cayce, USA; two grandsons, Charles Thomas Taylor Cayce and Edgar Evans Cayce, Jr., both of Virginia Beach, and two aunts, Mrs. T. B. House, Sr. and Mrs. Kate B. Smith both of Hopkinsville.

The body will be taken from the H. D. Oliver Funeral Apartments via Norfolk & Western Railway train No. 3 this afternoon to Hopkinsville for funeral services and burial.

R33. 3/15/72 GD’s note: Card from Gertrude Cayce [see R7 above] was given to me tonight by Mamie Gray’s daughter, Mrs. Anne E. Gray, Holbein, Mobile, Ala.

R34. 4/25/78 GDT note for A.R.E. Staff Bulletin:

(Q) How did Edgar Cayce die? (A) From 2/23/44 through 3/13/44 Edgar Cayce was ill, bordering on pneumonia. He asked his family doctor, Dr. Robert Woodhouse, to try the new sulfa drug on him. It was a mistake. His heart became enlarged, with fluid on the lungs. 8/25/44 He wrote Mrs. [1770] “such a pain through heart and chest”. On 8/30/44 he and Mrs. Cayce left Va. Beach for Roanoke for a rest. His right hand was affected so that he couldn’t any longer use his little typewriter to peck out personal letters; no strength in his fingers. On 9/17/44 in Roanoke he gave the last reading, for himself. GD came up for it and Dr. Henry George III. It described general debilitation, the using up of all his energies without replenishing them. A week later he had a stroke and became partially paralyzed.

On 11/21/44 Edgar Evans Cayce (just home on leave from long duty overseas) got his father back home via new Va. Beach ambulance (Rescue Squad) with Dr. C. W. Irvin going up to come back with him in the ambulance.

Edgar Cayce was a pitiful sight coming in on the stretcher, so weak he couldn’t speak above a whisper - and weeping - so glad to be home but heartbroken to be in such a fix.

On 12/19/44 Dr. Henry George III came and consulted with Drs. Robt. Woodhouse and Waller Taylor. They advised that if EC would not go to the hospital they would have to bring the hospital to him; 24 hr. nursing service; oxygen; digitalis; sufficient atropine or belladonna to dry him up; blood count; blood urea; blood phosphorus; cardiograph; chest x-ray; etc., etc., etc. “Don’t give him anything that is apt to strangle him. I think the real danger is in him strangling to death.” Hospital bed; etc., etc.

At 12:01 A.M. on 1/1/45 GD, who had the night shift, said

• as they heard the horns blowing - “Happy New Year - we’re going places and do things in 1945.” He said “Same to you
• maybe - maybe - if the Lord is willing.”

On 1/2/45 in late P.M. a beautiful deathbed scene and conversation between Edgar and Gertrude was witnessed by GD as GC was getting ready to leave her duty and GD was coming on duty for the night. [See Par. R15 above and under 294-8, Par. R25.]

At 5:50 P.M. on 1/3/45 Dr. Woodhouse said all had been done that could be done. His sister Annie brought him up some oyster stew, which he had known beforehand that she was making for him. He took 2-3 sips of it. 7:15 P.M. he stopped breathing.

[GD’s note: Above was briefed from 294-212 Reports.]

[See also under MY YEARS WITH EDGAR CAYCE, Chapter 10.]

[Above was briefed further in 5/1/78 A.R.E. Staff Bulletin.]

R35. 2/22/79 [GD’s note: Today, 2/22/79, is Gertrude’s 99th birthday!] GD’s list of old published articles to consider in possible anthology on EDGAR AND GERTRUDE CAYCE AS WE KNEW THEM:

1/45 EDGAR CAYCE, 1877 - 1945 - Editorial by Thomas Sugrue

• 1/45 A.R.E. Bulletin

4/45 GERTRUDE EVANS CAYCE - 1880 - 1945 - Editorial by Thomas Sugrue - 4/45 A.R.E. Bulletin

9/64 EDGAR & GERTRUDE CAYCE AS I KNEW THEM - editorial by Gladys Davis Turner - 9/64 Searchlight

1929-1941 Edgar Cayce’s approximately 45 lectures given consciously (not in a “reading”), some published bimonthly in Virginia Beach News in 1931, some later re-published in the little book WHAT I BELIEVE (c1946-1974 E.C.F.) and some that have not been published at all, though a few have been printed or reprinted in back issues of THE SEARCHLIGHT now out of print. (Vault Archives)

1923-1944 Edgar Cayce’s correspondence - umpteen loose-leaf volumes of GD’s so-far selected letters from which nuggets on EDGAR CAYCE THE MAN can be drawn, aside from his psychic work. - (GD’s office) (His letters are full of references to Gertrude and each of the boys, as well as to his close friends and associates.)

1912-1944 EDGAR CAYCE AS WE KNEW HIM - by Hugh Lynn Cayce, 2nd chapter of THE OUTER LIMITS OF EDGAR CAYCE’S POWER - ‘71 Paperback

1923-1945 MY YEARS WITH EDGAR CAYCE - MEC & GDT - ‘72 Paperback

2/46 EDGAR CAYCE’S STUDY OF THE BIBLE by Hugh Lynn Cayce

• 2/46 Searchlight

5/57 THE BIBLE AND YOU by GDT - 5/57 Searchlight

1915-1944 EDGAR CAYCE’S DREAMS - Library Series - DREAMS & DREAMING 8/76

1939-1944 EC’S TUESDAY NIGHT BIBLE CLASS MINUTES - (Krajenke’s bks ) - Archives

12/77 HLC’s still unpublished article - A PSYCHIC’S WIFE - (Ask him!)

6/48 A.R.E. Bulletin - Edgar Cayce as a Religious Figure - Bro. - O/P

10/51 Searchlight - Edgar Cayce - The Man & His Work - L.J.S. Gray - O/P

P.S. There are also many tapes to be transcribed, made of interviews with those people who knew Edgar Cayce.

2/22/79:

Copy to Hugh Lynn Cayce ” ” Charles Thomas Cayce ” ” Jim & Phyllis Embleton ” ” Ken Skidmore ” ” Kitty Brittell ” ” Gail Cayce

R36. GD’s note: Today, 2/5/85, Dr. Robert J. Jeffries told me that he has found the tapes he made of interviews with Hugh Lynn and me, during the last two years of Hugh Lynn’s life, in which he asked us to tell everything we could remember about Edgar and Gertrude, as far back as we could remember. [Hugh Lynn wanted me to be present because he thought I could remind him of things which he might not remember.]

R37. 3/13/96 JT’s note: William T. Turner, Christian County Historian of Hopkinsville, Kentucky [no readings] brought me Mr. Cayce’s funeral records from Hughart & Beard Funeral Homes of Hopkinsville for the record.

After the 10:00 A.M. funeral at the Cayce home on Arctic Crescent on Friday, January the 5th the casket was taken (by H. D. Oliver Funeral Apartments) via Norfolk & Western Railway to Christian County. The casket was transported from Guthrie to Hopkinsville by Hughart & Beard. Mrs. Cayce, who was quite ill by this time, did not leave with the funeral train on Friday the 5th but arrived in Hopkinsville on Saturday afternoon, January 6th, also by train.

Services at Riverside Cemetery in Hopkinsville were held on Monday, January 8, 1945, conducted by Reverend Schuster.

Background

Background

B1. See 294-211 on 8/28/44 and previous readings.

B2. 2/13/44 EC ret’d to Va. Beach from a visit to Tom Sugrue in Fla.

B3. 2/23/44 through 3/13/44 He was ill, bordering on pneumonia

• was given the sulfa drug by his request.

B4. 3/10/44 EC’s letter to Mrs. [[1770] - see under 1770-8]: “I believe it was a week ago today that I went to bed here [after getting back from N.Y.]. Almost had pneumonia. The doctor had to give me those sulfa drugs, [GD’s note: EC told us he asked Dr. Woodhouse whether or not he should take the sulfa drug. Dr. Woodhouse told him that he was very near to having pneumonia - might go into pneumonia, but he would not tell him to take sulfa drug, ‘You know more about what is wrong with you than I do - if you want the sulfa drug I will give it to you, but I will not prescribe it.’ It was EC’s decision to take the drug. Mrs. Cayce was most upset, knowing that the readings generally, for other people, had not approved of the drug.] and they do play Hobbs with me. I hope I’ve gotten over that don’t care stage, but if I have, it isn’t much [in fact, still feels pretty awful]. I am trying to catch up with my personal correspondence and trying to hold my mind and feelings in, about all the responsibility I have, and so inadequate in my physical feelings to meet it. Let’s hope it will be for the best.”

B5. 7/28/44 EC again visited Tom Sugrue in Florida.

B6. 8/10/44 He ret’d to Va. Beach.

B7. 8/12/44 He was again quite ill - gave only a few readings after this date.

B8. 8/25/44 He wrote Mrs. [[1770] - see under 1770-8] “such a pain through heart and chest.”

B9. 8/30/44 He and Mrs. Cayce left for Roanoke, Va. for a rest.

B10. 9/17/44 Dr. Harry Semones and Dr. Henry George III were present for 294-212, submitting questions:

1. What is the matter with my hand and what can be done for it? [When he left Va. Beach on 8/30/44 for Roanoke, Va., his right hand was affected so that he couldn’t any longer use the typewriter; no strength in his fingers.]

2. Has the heart condition progressed? Is the heart near the normal size now?

3. Has the condition in the colon improved? What treatment should now be followed?

4. Is this a neuritis or a hemoplegia? (a mild stroke)

5. Would the use of a girdle be beneficial to support the abdomen?

6. Is there an acid deficiency in the stomach?

7. Would soft tissue manipulations be more effective than forceful mobilization?

8. Is the use of the male sex hormone (female hormone) OROTONE indicated as a physiological stimulant.

9. By rest, is bed rest indicated? Would it be advisable to plan to take five or six months off, away from work?

10. Just where would it be best to go now, to rest and to hasten recovery? (Philadelphia or Florida?)

11. Should Dr. Slater’s instruction be followed, for giving glucose followed by S.U.P. 36?

12. Should the vaccine be used from the germs taken from the contents of the colon?

13. Would it be helpful to make a gastric analysis and gastric x-ray?

14. Would the P.S.P. test (kidney function test) be indicted?

15. The Mosenthal test (another kidney function test)?

16. The Salol test for pancreatic activity?

B11. 9/17/44 EC gave the last reading in Roanoke, for himself. (See 294-212, Par. 5—41). Dr. Henry George made the following notes while listening to the reading:

1. Blood supply is in a toxic condition As much or more from condition of colon Colon: 2 areas in colon spastic condition Caecum area is disturbed, due to lack of ability due to stricture Salines have caused weakening of digestion to assimilate foods Conditions have become weakened

Strengthening - hemoglobin shown lessening of red and increasing of white

Blood urea is not below normal for this body measuring 13.0-15.0 Supplied rest - from over-energy in open air where there would be ozone [Oz] Red blood Plasma Urea

From Excess:

Peyers Patches Bundle of His Non-organic heart trouble Necessary to regenerate the processes of the body Vegetative nerve forces deficient & needed vitamins Vitamins B, C, E

Rx: B complex - supplying elements in Gold and Silver AgNO3 - [Silver Nitrate] Gold Chloride vibratorially as well as by mouth 2 drops of 1 grain to 1 ounce aqua distilled - 2 gtts every other day

• these will supply to the body. Umbilical & lact [lacteals] - 4th from navel center and 2 fingers up from this point larger plates and gold passes charged to 2 lbs. AuCl3 [Copper Sulfate] to the gallon 1/2 water 10 grains Zinc.

Mentioned Entities

Gertrude Cayce, Virginia Beach, Thomas Sugrue, Hopkinsville, Hugh Lynn Cayce, A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment), Gladys Davis, Morton Blumenthal, New York City, Edgar Evans Cayce, Healing, Glands (Esoteric), Purpose, Atlantic University, Ideal, Kentucky, Prayer, Baking Soda, Massage Therapy, Olive Oil

Source: The Complete Edgar Cayce Readings, A.R.E. CD-ROM (2006). Reading 294-212, ReadingID 2171.