Reading 3320-1

TEXT OF READING 3320-1 F 60

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Date: 10/25/1943 Sex: F Age: 60 ReadingID: 10749

This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 25th day of October, 1943, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [3320], new Associate Member of the Ass”n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by her father Mr. [3141].

[Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. (Notes read to and transcribed by Jeanette Fitch.)]

Time of Reading 11:15 to 11:25 A. M. Eastern War Time. …, Florida.

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, also suggestions for help and relief of this body; answering the questions, as I ask them:

2. EC: Yes, we have the entity, the body here.

3. These are rather serious problems. For, there is the reaping of karmic influences, and the applications made are far from bringing a realization of same in self.

4. If the body-mind will accept same, each soul must meet its own errors - in body, in mind and in spirit. In spirit the entity is ever willing to correct same. Self so oft gets in the way. And there is little or nothing that may separate a soul from being perfect in body or mind, even in the earth, save self. For, the spirit is willing, and all that is necessary for this correction has been given in the earth, in “Let there be light.” Knowledge, power, understanding, subduing of the laws of the universal forces, - chemistry, plant life and the use of same, - were given; for food, for life, for sustenance.

5. There have been external injuries to the body, and these have brought pathological conditions that are not wholly corrected. But the plan - is in the correct direction, - in regard to the hydrotherapy places and massages. Such applications bring the nearer even balance. The rest must be done in self.

6. So long as the own mind is allowed to suspect others, you bar the way for love and hope to keep or bring that which if the basis of healing forces in the experience. Isn’t it the universal law that ye reap what ye sow? Then, it is also the universal law that if ye would have friends ye must make thyself friendly. If ye would have hope, manifest hope in thine own experience.

7. These are hard for thee to interpret in thine own set way and manner in the present.

8. Then submit to one who might - through the power of suggestion - correct thy mind and direct thy mind in the corrective manners for overcoming and meeting self.

9. Keep up those applications. But, unless there is the correcting in self, and unless the individual entity gets its own direction from the power of influence to control its own mind, very little physical help may come.

10. Ready for questions.

11. (Q) Would you suggest any particular person to give the suggestive treatments? (A) This might be chosen, or had best be chosen by self - or those whom the entity may trust. But do not trust someone and then condemn him for his choice - as ye have done.

12. We are through for the present.

Two copies to Self - (in case you wish to send a copy to your parents) Copy to Ass’n file

Reports

Reports & Follow-up

R1. 12/15/43 Mrs. [3320]‘s letter to EC:

Mr. Edgar Cayce: Virginia Beach, Va.

Sir:

We have nothing to communicate to each other, since you (pl.) and I stand on opposite sides of the Battle line of Armageddon. My only desire is to be rid of everything that smacks of so-called mental healing. I am asking you again to see that all this concentration on me is ordered stopped instanter. I am definitely much worse than I ever was even before this year. The only thing with which I concur with you disagreeable old control, is that I should be permitted to chose whom I want to help me. I have, long since. I want only the Lord’s help, and let every-one else trying to play God, clear out. Will you kindly attend to this and oblige

Very truly yours (Mrs.) [3320]

I don’t wish to put in a Christmas like the last one, going thru tortures that beggar the abhorrent iniquitous cruelly criminal Inquisition. At present I am enduring just such suffering because the mob here is so selfish rapacious ruthless and cruel - such people have no right to be taught to work on others. Of course the whole joker in this thing is, that they do what they do because they expect power for themselves. Their victims may get better or not - that is not their lookout. I know some of them.

R2. 12/27/43 EC’s letter to Mrs. [3320]:

Mrs. [3320] …, Fla.

Dear Mrs. [3320]

I have yours of the 15th. I don’t quite agree of course, with all that you said in it, but I know you expected that. Our experiences doubtless have been so different that we have very little in common. If we can help, I will be very glad to, and I assure you I do not expect to have any power within myself from same, for I know of myself, I can do nothing.

Hoping we can help, I am

Sincerely, Edgar Cayce EC/vw

R3. 2/8/44 Father [3141]‘s letter to EC:

Mr. Edgar Cayce, Virginia Beach, Va.

My daughter Mrs. [3320] sent me your reading of her “self” given on October 26th ult.

I note that you touched the sore spot and suggested a proper course of procedure.

However, so it seems, this only aggravated the trouble - instead of throwing off this silly obsession about certain people busying themselves with concentrating on her personality “to put her down and out”, she took the view that your group are doing the same thing.

It is really difficult to reconcile the fact that she has an unusually brilliant intellect yet in this one particular is so unbalanced as to think herself of enough consequence to appeal to a number of people to such an extent as to make them waste time at “concentrating” on her for any purpose whatever - especially in view of the fact that she is of little or not consequence to any body or anything.

She wants me to write a strong letter requesting your group, to let her alone; I am complying with her request so that I can tell her that I have done so. And I trust that I may have your reply to the effect that there is not, or will not be, any concentration at Virginia Beach. Perhaps that will help to dispel that much of the illusion.

As to myself… [See [3141] Reports.]

Wishing you every good thing for the year and always, believe me with warm regards, Ever sincerely yours, [3141].

Background

Background

B1. 8/17/43 [3141]‘s letter to EC: ”…I am urging my daughter - who goes about on crutches (due to nerve trouble, no doubt) to read “TIR” and to make application for membership in the [ARE] and for a ‘reading’…”

B2. 9/6/43 Mrs. [3320]‘s letter to A.R.E.:

Association for Research and Enlightenment, Inc., Virginia Beach, Va.

Sirs:

Here I am trying to get myself free of the McFadden Health Service Bureau outfit, and my father innocently precipitates me right into the midst of something equally as bad or worse! I am sending in the application for a reading by Mr. Cayce, but that in no way gives you people the right to eat up my consciousness and then reach over thru mine and afflict my poor mother. We need all the motive power we can muster. I have had so many people robbing me that I am nearly helpless. If you really are interested in helping, you will see to it I am not put thru the paralyzing experience I had last week, and which my mother is having this week. Naturally after what I have endured I don’t feel very enthusiastic over the whole thing, and am sending in a money order only because my father wishes it.

Mr. Cayce seems all right, but you people supporting him had better not exploit him, or it may not be so well for any of you. I know I am pretty well fed up with spiritual robbers. Let us have an end of these.

Very sincerely (Mrs.) [3320]

I want to be rid of psychical persecution I don’t know which reading.

B3. 9/10/43 EC’s letter to Mrs. [3320]:

Mrs. [3320] …, Florida

Dear Mrs. [3320]

I have your letter of the sixth, with the application for membership and the request for the reading. The first possible opportunity we have is Monday morning of October 25th 10:30 to 11:30 A. M. EWT. I hope that this time will be satisfactory and I trust we will be able to get real help for you. It is very well to give suggestions for questions, the exact address at which you will be and not just a post office box. Give street and house number, if possible. Also for you to be in a powerful meditative frame of mind and make a list of special questions that you would like to have asked.

I do hope that we may indeed be the means of a real service. I note what you have to say and I know you have a great deal back in your mind, that you won’t indicate just now. Let us hope that this information will prove to be an answer to something deep within yourself and bring real help.

Of course, if this time doesn’t suit you, we will be glad to return the membership fee.

Thanking you, I am,

Sincerely yours, Edgar Cayce

B4. 9/22/43 [3320]‘s letter to EC:

Thank you for your letter and the appointment for October 25, between 10:30 and 11:30.

The house number is … but our mail is always put in the box number.

I should like very much to write you many things if only I were not so constantly poisoned and paralyzed by the over powering quantities of waste sex-force thrown at me. Since my receipt of “There is a River” I have been so much worse, and my right hand and foot so much more helpless. According to a doctor here, this is not a true paralysis. Of course I know that this is so, because even now, there are times when I seem to get so much better. If there is any doubt that the Freudian theory is false, I can prove it in my own case: it is not quantity but quality that counts; I have had every sort of riff raff thrown at me, and all sorts of lying tried on me.

If there is anything further that I should do, please let me know. I can deal with an unworldly person such as you seem to be, but deliver me from your cruel self-assured know-it-all worldling.

B5. 10/11/43 Letter: If I continue to feel able, I shall write you further about some of the other things that are bothering me. You understand that my most serious trouble is that I have been rendered unable to walk without crutches since joining the McFadden Health Service Bureau, so that I can not help my mother in the way I should.

B6. 10/17/43 Mrs. [3320]‘s letter to EC:

Mr. Edgar Cayce, Virginia Beach, Va.

Dear Mr. Cayce:

My house address is the above, and I expect to be right here during the time of the reading. I shall spend the time in prayer and meditation, believing, if it is God’s will, that we shall obtain the help we so earnestly seek.

My most pressing desire and need is to be made to walk, as my mother so needs my help about the house.

Q.1. Can you give me any instructions about how to help myself to get back my balance, and power to make my right foot and hand operate?

Q.2. Is there any way we can stop this fearful animalism which is most certainly making me more helpless, and which, to me, is so exceedingly antipathetic?

What I write may sound like an obsession. If it does, it is not much wonder. I have been so terribly afflicted for over 21 yrs. by every Tom, Dick, and Harry with a Messianic complex. And now these McFadden Health Service Bureau racketeers refuse to let up on me, tho I have repeatedly asked them to.

I find I am going to have to do something I regret having to do, but I am in an extremity and have no other way to help myself. I am enclosing a copy of a letter I wrote the man who seems to be directing things in this vicinity. He refused to accept it, as I had gotten his given name wrong. But when the letter came back from the Dead Letter Office some weeks later, the envelope had been cut and stuck to-gether with mucilage. (Such clever honorable? people)

Q.3. Would you be willing to write the McFadden Health Service Bureau (address: Dr. Alsaker, M.H.S. Bureau, 125 East 42 St. New York) and tell them to quit sending people in here to concentrate on me and who make me always worse? I am a widow and have no-one to protect me who can speak with authority. I have had Fr. Simkins write, but they paid no attention to him; and my father beautifully sidestepped the issue - and he is the one who should have handled my problem. Instead, he got me to apply to you for the reading. These M.H.S.B’s. have evidently banked on the fact that I was unprotected and impecunious.

Along with the usual racketeering forces from the regular M.H.S.B’s., I have specially bad times. I became involved with a very prominent man, and thru him got into the M.H.S.B. The nervous force in my right hand and foot has grown steadily weaker. I have known almost from the first that he is a robber. I have never said anything about it thinking there would soon be an end to it. But instead things are growing worse. Twice in August when he had special work to do, I was rendered prostrate; and the second time the muscles in my right hand fairly seemed to shrivel before my eyes. I was days and days recovering from that bout. Such abuse of psychic power deserves to be punished as severely as the thing being planned to do to Hitler and Mussolini. Something had better be done to stop these secret monsters obsessing average mankind and ruining womankind.

In the last analysis this thing becomes a question of one’s concept of Deity as you will see by the quotations from my Korsehan literature which you will see in the letter enclosed.

Faithfully and prayerfully [3320]

[enclosure]

April 20, 1943

Sirs:

If you know that I have twice written Dr. Alsaker (once in November and again after Christmas - Fr. Simkins also wrote for me about the same time-) stating that you have nothing to offer me that I want, and demanding that my name be removed from the roster of the McFadden Health Service Bureau, and proclaiming in unmistakable English that I cannot traffic with lying spirits, and that I wish to be left alone in order, that, with the Lord’s help, I may be healed - if it is His will -. If, I say again, you know this, your methods are those of subversive criminal Hitlerian gangsterdom; for you are interfering with Free Will - one of the most sacredly cherished possessions of mankind. Small use for the much-publicized Four Freedoms if secretly mankind is to be enslaved by such as you.

When I signed up with the McFadden Health Service Bureau I had two objects: I wanted to be rid of certain spiritual influences and to be made to walk. I have not attained either; but instead, am more helpless, and my body hideously deformed and bent, and my life more circumscribed than ever; and I am being continually afflicted with your most unwelcome attentions, and I am subjected to every sort of ignominious outrage. It seems all you know is to take any tendency and run it out to its logical conclusion. I was lame so you made me much more lame - my right hand weak, so you made it very rapidly much weaker, etc.

This is to certify that the only time in the whole three years since I became a member of M.H.S.B., that I showed any improvement in my walking, was after my reprimand to you last summer, which I sent to Dr. Alsaker, in which I said, that as healers you would make most excellent blacksmiths (not the proper term, since blacksmiths do not have horns.) At the same time I sent a “To Whom it May Concern” to Mrs. Ayers intending it for any of you who were down here, or for anyone who was bothering me. But she chose to disregard what I said, and deliberately vamped me twice a week over a period of weeks. (What would you call such a thing but gangsterism?) You let up then, the most malign of the forces left town and I began to improve. In August I began to do a good-sized ironing, every two weeks, and to hoe a little (an exercise that I love). I was so encouraged that I bot a mopstick which I proposed to use as a staff. I began to grow straighter and to lose weight. I did not feel strong; in fact, my strength was that of my weakest members - my right hand and foot - but that was all to the good since it balanced me up better, and, after all, a chair is only as strong as its weakest link. This keeping me jazzed up making me drunk on familiar spirits is the worst possible method of cure. Right here let me say I don’t think you wished me to get well - I made too good a guinea-pig for your young lout tyros. This in view of the seriousness of my situation - and just anyhow - is criminal.

But my recovery without the unwelcome offices of the powers of darkness did not suit them, so when their servants returned to the town, in spite of the fact that I had expressly told them to get clear outside of my psychic field, I was suddenly slammed down under the kitchen sink, hurting my knee very badly, and leaving me terribly shaken. This was about six o’clock in the evening of Sept. 8, 1942. On the morning of Sept. 14, on getting up, I was forced down on top of my weak foot, which was badly sprained, the collar about the ankle badly swollen and my sense of balance so upset that I was in danger every step I took. (You have most malign forces in your personnel. People who use alcohol, tobacco and lots of coffee should be debarred from exercising their powers, for they are dangerous in the Silence as well as in the outer world. In fact, the ones I mean were so evil that they reached right thru my subconscious, and, three times last spring, gave my mother awful attacks of nervous-hiccups, so that she nearly died. Again around Christmas-time this occurred, and there has been a slight attack lately. It is a criminal force that will so afflict an aged conscientious woman (like my mother). It was then I called in Fr. Simkins and told him what had occurred, and he offered to see the chief offenders. And I had to send him out three times on like errands, and to see some of you myself. What sort of devils do you harbor in your obsessions?

For a good while, I myself did not know what was the matter with my motor-nerves under your false stimulus, except that it felt as tho I were being short-circuited every time there was polarization (some of it so brutal, leaving me staggering all over the room - how did you ever dare have such forces turned loose on me.) Now I know why you can never heal me, and if you persist in monkeying with my subconsciousness will end up by wrecking not only me, but yourselves as well. There must be certain principles to be observed even in outer darkness, or your powers will be taken away from you. Certainly you have no right to continue with me in the face of all I have said. Now altho I do not owe you any explanations whatever, I am going to tell you why you can not be successful in my case, and why I get better if I am let alone - that is, when you let me alone.

We are taught that where THERE are DIFFERENCES in BELIEFS THERE CAN BE NO HEALING. Mental Science (so-called) TEACHES DUALISM, whereas I BELIEVE IN BI-UNITY. I believe that Jesus was what St. Paul said “the fulness of the Godhead bodily”, and that beside Him was no other God, for He Himself said “He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father”. (Right here let me state that I made my mistakes when I strayed from our doctrines, hence also with St. Paul I say ” - Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.”

Read carefully, please - from works of Koresh

“Dualism Due to the Segregated State.”

“The apostasies of the Jews and Israelites in the highest objects of worship to which they inclined when led away from the worship of the one God of the Hebrews always took some form of dualism. In male and female dualism Baal or Bel and Ashtaroth constituted the god and goddess of Hebrew adoration. This conception was in agreement with the state of separation obtaining in Adam when thru the operation of his desire, his body was disintegrated and that in him which constituted him an integral being was divided, so that two forms instead of one characterized the man. The worship of Baal and Ashtaroth originated with the segregation of Adam.

The two calves set up by Jeroboam symbolized the dual desire of the Hebrew mind, which looked forward to the time when a form of dualism should control the mind in its worship of God during the career of the Christian church. The separation of Deity into two or more personalities or forms is always a state of apostasy.”

Right here let me express my gratitude to Mr. Beeman who is so beautifully integrated and who helped me so much when I had been thru that terrific spiritual battle (Sept. 8, and 14) and was left so fearfully disintegrated. I feel that he was sent to me - the only one of you for whom I have felt no enmity; for, whatever his own beliefs, he has the finest oversoul I’ve ever encountered - truly Christian with no apostate dualism to distress my soul or my own oversoul. I have prayed fervently for him thruout the winter, since I understood from what he said that he wished spiritual advancement; he is one of my god-children, and I should love to take him with me into the Kingdom.

For the rest, you “locusts with the faces of men” will doubt - return to the smoke of the Abyss and Abaddon, your ruler, whence you came.

Read carefully please - from works of Koresh

“The unity and blending of the two sex principles (with their forms into one organic structure, form, and life, constituting that life the neuter life, and those genders the neuter gender, will restore man to his original paradise in God. Sex-unity, by which man bears the image of the heavenly, must emphatically work the distinction between the true Messianic recurrences and that FORM and MANIFESTATION of ANTICHRIST presented to the world as SEX DUALISM manifest in the HYDRA-HEADED FORM just prior to the coming of the Lord.”

“God”

God is the focal point in human consciousness. Jesus is the focal point of consciousness (I know precisely what I mean) without whom, as a personality there can be no life in man.

Jesus said “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.”

“Truth in the aggregate is a pivot or point in human consciousness. There is a focal point or pole in human consciousness, consisting of a centre, which is the congeries of all mental activities of all mankind, and embraces the love of all knowledges in the universe of objective being. This pole or focal point of all love and, consequently, of all truth or the wisdom of all things, is the subjective point or pole. This is God. It is personality for the aggregate of all love and wisdom is the spiritual and soul potencies and activities. These are not abstract things, neither are they distinct from objective material structure.”

Perhaps this will hold you - at any rate, don’t try to upset me any more. I stand on the battle-line of Armageddon and will fight Fallacy until it is no more, and I don’t care who gets hurt. We are definitely coming into the broad and glorious Day, tho the Almighty seems very busy right now with His great Bosom of Destruction.

Pray for the Kingdom - the end will be too terrible.

Mrs. [3320]

R7. 10/21/43 Mrs. [3320]‘s letter to EC:

Mr. Edgar Cayce:

Association For Research and Enlightenment, Inc., Virginia Beach, Virginia

Dear Mr. Cayce:

My father [3141] says to write you as much about my trouble as I can. I raced some kids to a barrel-stave hammock, beat, but fell out on top of my head, injuring my spine. This was when I was ten, in 1893. I grew up with one shoulder higher than the other, my digestion was always poor, I had an unnatural appetite and never was very well. I added to my troubles by wearing my shoes too short, which crippled my feet. Also wore high heels to give me height, since I am short; and wore tight corsets because I am too heavy about my hips. I had a major operation for fibroid in 1923.

When I wrote you the other day I did not include the good that the McFadden Health Service did me last spring. I was thrown down on the street as I stepped from my car, because my right foot caught on the running board. This twisted me in such a way that it was just like a very drastic Osteopathic treatment. My right knee was twisted, breaking old lesions, my diaphragm freed from my lower ribs on the left side, the vertebrae between my shoulders, which had been out of place since my ‘93 fall were freed, and a small bone in my left foot pushed in place. I began to be much heavier, and then the M.H.S.B. treated my subconscious as tho it were an arena of combat for wild beasts.

The letter I sent you a copy of was the result of the inhuman treatment they accorded me. There must be something very rotten in their “State of Denmark” since any of those whom I have asked if they were members of M.H.S.B. insult my intelligence by offering me lying denials. They look like a lot of cheap fakers to me. They continue to send in people who put me thru a lot of useless suffering and who are making me worse. Can’t you use your influence to get this outrage stopped?

I got all mixed up and thot this was the day of the reading; I am so glad there is still time for this letter.

I can’t stand without my crutches and taking steps without them is out of the question. I had a lordosis, but now I am actually deformed by the pressure that has so constantly been applied. I know these people don’t know their stuff, for I have been psychologized by one person and held straight, and my nervous force freed, so that I walked as tho I were floating, and sang with the most gloriously free tone and rich quality. This was twenty-one years ago. These M.H.B.S.’s tie up my nervous force, I have lost my voice and I am a mess generally, except that I have a tremendous digestion, no pain, and I wish we had Euthanasia in this country, for I am a pretty useless citizen. However, I don’t sit idle even tho I can’t run around. Strangely enough, I can drive my car tho I never go very far.

This is all I can think of right now.

Faithfully (Mrs.) [3320]

I have had a number of sudden breaks in my life - the greatest and hardest was seven years ago when my husband took “the nearest way” because of some trouble with his first wife. Please do not think I am a mental wreck; quite the contrary - for all these hard things only make me understand my Koreshanity better. I have learned OUR mental science thru all this fallacious stuff.

Mentioned Entities

Virginia Beach, A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment), Jesus Christ, Soul, Entity (Cayce Term), Healing, Subconscious Mind, Adam and Eve, Armageddon, Florida, Free Will, Paul (Apostle), Sons of Belial, Antichrist, Gertrude Cayce, Gladys Davis, Hydrotherapy, Karma, Meditation, New York City

Source: The Complete Edgar Cayce Readings, A.R.E. CD-ROM (2006). Reading 3320-1, ReadingID 10749.