Reading 3823-3

TEXT OF READING 3823-3 F 59

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Date: 5/3/1935 Sex: F Age: 59 ReadingID: 11429

This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 3rd day of May, 1935, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [3823], Active Member of the Ass”n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

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

At Dr. F.A. Time of Reading Goerger’s office, 3:50 to 4:05 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. Peoples Life Ins. Bldg., Rm. 608, 1343 H St., N.W., Washington, D.C. (Physical Suggestion)

1. EC: Yes, we have the body, [3823]; this we have had before.

2. There are many changes in the general physical forces of the body since last we had same here. True, not all that has been suggested or given has been carried out in the MANNER and WAY as has been indicated! Some instances there has been added to, or others there’s been taken from; others some things taken for granted! Hence we have disturbances that are not as pleasing as they might be had the general conditions been adhered to in a more systematic way and manner. For, as we find, there is in the assimilating forces (that is, the activity of the secretions from the liver, the spleen, the pancreas, the gall ducts, the kidneys, the lacteals) that which produces, as it were, an effluvium in the blood supply that makes for quite a bit of irritation; especially in the extremities of the body. And at times in those centers where they are closer to the emunctory and lymph circulation (as in arms and elbow pits and groin and across portions of the body) there are blotches or splotches produced; for the circulation is impaired by same, for it carries within same - as it were - that of “tooth and nail” with the effluvium that lies between the circulatory forces of the red and white blood cells, preventing normalcy; or making a disorder in the effluvium of the blood that makes for proper coagulation as used energies are being eliminated from the system from the very activity of the organ themselves. See?

3. As we find, then, to make for the better or the nearer normal forces for this body [3823] we are speaking of:

4. First, we would give that there be kept most of that indicated for the diet, and in the MANNER as indicated!

Don’t add to this nor take from it, nor do this and don’t do the other! Follow those suggestions as to the alkalinity to be kept in the system. Don’t overdo it, however, else we will find the necessity of adding to the system that which will aid in creating for the body the hydrochloric reaction that is necessary for the assimilation of foods in the system! For it’s just as necessary as any other portion, or any other activity of the influences in the body itself - the hydrochlorics, see? that rise at the time of the digestive forces going to work in the system; that is, after food is taken, as there begins that motion of the stomach in the pylorus portion and throughout the duodenum. We will find the secretions begin to act from the glands there to produce in the churning of the foods that which produces the proper amount of the fluids from the activity of the organs as indicated with that secreted in the system itself to produce the manner in which ASSIMILATION - through the lacteal ducts and glands - may add that to the body for body, blood, nerve and system building. See? It is the storehouse or the chemical shop, or the activities - as has oft been indicated there - to keep these in the balance. As an outline, we would give:

5. Mornings, (this is not all to be taken, but as an outline) - citrus fruit juices. When orange juice is taken add lime or lemon juice to same; four parts orange juice to one part lime or lemon. When other citrus fruits are taken, as pineapple or grapefruit, they may be taken as they are from the fresh fruit. A little salt added to same is preferable to make for the activity of same. Yes, and we mean for this body, too - SALT - sodium chloride, see?

6. Whole wheat bread, toasted, browned, with butter. Coddled egg, only the yolk of same. A small piece of very crisp bacon if so desired. Any or all of these may be taken.

7. But when cereals are taken, DO NOT have citrus fruits at the same meal! This has been disregarded at times! Such a combination produces just what we are trying to prevent in the system!

8. When cereals are used, have either cracked wheat or whole wheat, or a combination of barley and wheat - as in Maltex, if these are desired; or Puffed Wheat, or Puffed Rice, or Puffed Corn - any of these. And these may be taken with certain characters of fresh fruits; as berries of any nature, even strawberries if so desired. (No, they won’t cause any of the rash if they are taken PROPERLY!), or peaches. The sugar used should only be saccharin or honey. A cereal drink may be had if so desired.

9. Noons - only raw fresh vegetables. ALL of these may be combined, but grate them - do not eat them so that they would make for that combination which often comes with not the proper mastication. Each time you take a mouthful, even if it’s water, it should be chewed at least four to twenty times; whether’s water or bread or a carrot, onion, cabbage or what! Each should be chewed so that there is the mastication, and that there is the opportunity for the flow of the gastric forces from the salivary glands well mixed with same. Then we will find that these will make for bettered conditions.

10. Evenings - vegetables that are cooked in their OWN juices, not combined with others - each cooked alone, then combined together afterward if so desired by the body, see? These may include any of the leafy vegetables or any of the bulbular vegetables, but cook them in their OWN juices! There may be taken the meats, if so desired by the body, or there may be added the proteins that come from the combination of other vegetables or combination of vegetable forces in the forms of certain character of pulse or grains. Any of these may be taken.

11. Then, for those conditions that exist already, with the general manipulations, we would stimulate the centers of each locomotory axis; as the 4th lumbar axis, the dorsal axis (in the 9th and 10th), the brachial and the 1st and 2nd cervical - those SPECIFIC, you see, so that the bursae and the activities of the glands from the bursae in each of these plexus centers coordinate with the gastric flow of the system itself.

12. And begin with the deep therapy. This doesn’t mean to have high voltage in that, but the deep therapy of the electrical forces that will make for the coordinating of the centers. DO NOT USE the ionizing electrical forces, but the diathermy - or the deep therapy, but NOT at too high a voltage, and not longer than at least thirty to thirty-three or thirty-four minutes three times a week.

13. And these conditions will disappear, as will those reactions from the poor digestive forces and the breath and the eliminations, and those activities through the body will be nearer and nearer normal.

14. Ready for questions.

15. We are through with this reading.

Copy to Self ” ” Ass’n file

(See letter [which was enclosed] with directions for Dr. Goerger’s treatments.)

Reports

Reports & Follow-up

R1. 5/3/35 GD’s letter to Dr. Goerger:

Dr. F. A. Goerger, Peoples Life Ins. Bldg., Room 608, 1343 H St., N.W. Washington, D.C.

Dear Dr. Goerger:-

For Miss [3823] as per your suggestion, we have gotten a check reading outlining treatments as follows:

“Then, with the general manipulations, we would stimulate the centers of each locomotory axis; as the 4th lumbar axis, the dorsal axis (in the 9th and 10th), the brachial and the 1st and 2nd cervical - those SPECIFIC, you see, so that the bursae and the activities of the glands from the bursae in each of these plexus centers coordinate with the gastric flow of the system itself.

“And begin with the deep therapy. This doesn’t mean to have high voltage, but the deep therapy of the electrical forces that will make for the coordinating of the centers. DO NOT USE the ionizing electrical forces, but the diathermy - or the deep therapy, but NOT at too high a voltage, and not longer than at least thirty to thirty-three or thirty-four minutes three times a week.”

Sincerely, ASS’N FOR RESEARCH & ENLIGHTENMENT, INC., [signed] Gladys Davis, Sec’ty.

R2. 5/4/35 EC’s letter to [3823]:

Dear Miss [3823]:

I certainly trust the information in your last reading will prove very much worth while. I would like very much to have Dr. Goerger’s reaction to this, and if you will have him drop me a line I will appreciate it very much.

Be sure and let me know just how you get along.

With kind regards I am

Sincerely, Edgar Cayce

R3. 5/21/35 [3823]‘s letter to EC:

Washington, D.C.

Enclosure $1.00

Mr. Edgar Cayce,- I regret the delay which caused me to apparently ignore your various communications but will hurriedly make reparation at this time.

The “Reading” is quite to the point and Dr. Goerger, who is ever too busy to write, is applying the principle of Diathermy as recommended in his part of the letter. I thank you.

The condition MUST come up with all this super knowledge and will let you know from time to time how it progresses. I thank you for your kindly interest. The arm is not perfect and the alkalinity of the blood affects it greatly.

Kindly accept this small donation towards your current expenses of the organization and hope some day that it will increase in leaps and bounds but right now I have manifold places for every penny since my doctors and X-rays and hospital are all clamoring to be paid and my attorney failed to produce any remunerative results. Sorry, for my conditions grow grave at times, but feel find now, but not 100% which is my goal.

I thank you for your part in my present improved condition and hope to hear from you all again.

Sincerely, [3823]

R4. 5/35 Ballot returned for Annual Election of Trustees:

ANNUAL ELECTION OF TRUSTEES OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH AND ENLIGHTENMENT, INCORPORATED, Virginia Beach, Virginia

EXPLANATION OF PROCEDURE

The Board of Trustees of the Association is divided into three groups: those serving for one year, those for two years and those for three years. All Trustees elected this year will serve a two year period. The Board of Trustees may number as few as three and as many as twenty-five. All Trustees are nominated by the Active members of the Association, passed on by a reading and confirmed by the present Board. Trustees may succeed themselves in office.

As an Active Member you are entitled to vote for as many Trustees as you desire up to thirteen, which number would fill the quota of twenty-five. The names of all individuals receiving as many as five votes will be presented in a reading given by Edgar Cayce with the question as to their ability as a Trustee and will be passed on by the Board at its regular Annual meeting June 29, 1935.

PRESENT BOARD To Serve Two More Years

William B. Cravis, New York; Francis H. Greene, Virginia Beach, Va.; Douglas T. Johnston, New York; David E. Kahn, New York; R. N. Ladd, New York; Helene Zentgraf, New York.

To Serve One More Year

A. D. Butler, West Palm Beach, Fla.; Boyd Davis, Virginia Beach, Va.; Harry M. Goetz, New York; Thomas B. House, Knoxville, Tenn.; H. H. Jones, Greenville, N.C.; H. E. Poole, Virginia Beach, Va.

Term Expires in June. May be re-elected.

[Each of the following names were “checked”] L. B. Cayce, Virginia Beach, Va.; Florence, Edmonds, Norfolk, Va., Thomas Morrow, Norfolk, Va.; Chester Robinson, Boston, Mass.; Esther Wynne, Norfolk, Va.; Robert Zentgraf, New York.

NOTE: Kindly list below the names of the individuals whom you desire to nominate for the Board of Trustees. You may select the names from the above list whose term expires this year or you may choose from among those individuals whom you feel have been actively interested and are capable of conducting the affairs of the Association. Remember five votes are necessary for a name to be presented to the reading. We will appreciate your prompt response.

Signed: [3823] - Active Member

R5. 6/3/35 [3823]‘s letter [transcribed on back of Ballot]:

Mr. Cayce,-

It would be my pleasure to vote by proxy and to leave my choice to you if you consider this beneficial to the organization, and, also, if permissible, to laws of your organization. These names mean nothing to me, as yet, beyond that of yours. Trust you will have a successful congress. It is impossible for me to attend from more angles than one.

Sincerely, [3823]

R6. 7/4/35 [3823]‘s letter:

My dear Mr. Cayce -

Now that “Congress” is over in Virginia Beach, most especially there, of course, I thot I’d write you of my conditions at this time, lest ye forget.

My condition is a peculiar one. In the first place I have to trust to the higher powers that my food is cooked scientifically, as your readings advise, as I depend on the restaurants for most cooked foods. Then the orange and grapefruit drinks, even tho I add the lemon or lime, give me pains in the arm so that I can’t drink them two consecutive days but I find many people are like that. I DO EAT APPLES because of elimination but am not sure that they are good on other purposes as my skin still itches or draws up tight and smarts in back of neck, under chin and around the ears, either one or the other but I can’t always tell which article of food is responsible for either condition. I eat a lot of watermelon of late, or berries or cherries.

Now, in regard to Dr. Goerger, he said it was one of the finest diagnosis that any one could give (meaning your Reading to me) but they could not possibly forsee the result of the diathermy and the adjustments.

One adjustment that you suggested could not be made until lately owing to the pain in the muscle of the arm but now it can be made with some difficulty and I think it is stirring things up together with the diathermy which he gives me according to his letter you sent him specially (to-gether with mine). (You will recall you had part of it recopied for Dr. Goerger.) He said the adjustments give therein were exactly as should be, isn’t that lovely! Such a remarkable thing to be able to follow up every phase! He is very enthusiastic over the reading you last sent me.

Now I don’t want to encumber you with a lengthy letter but you might be able to enlighten us as to the results of the last two things mentioned, IF it is so.

One or the other, or both together, with faulty food, sometimes maybe for I am a victim of circumstance when it comes to food, in some ways, there has formed here and there on my body little lumps which I call growths. Some of them have moved or accumulated right in the pit of the neck and looks like a boil but it remains to be seen - time will tell, in other words, but it annoys, tho not painful only occasionally, as the itching annoys is the drawing and hardened appearance of flesh and skin but we’d both like your opinion on that and the citric juices and whether apples are a harmful exchange for citrus fruits - pineapple is good at times?

I am trying to incorporate some solid food so I took a poached egg, what I could get and a piece of dry whole wheat toast with a little butter for a few mornings and nothing else but hot water to drink and an old trouble returned, swelling of feet especially left one this time, so then I had to eliminate that for a while and am down below 100 lbs in weight again for at noon I have only been eating head lettuce and at night greens and a little bit of lamb and Dr. Goerger told me to drink the fruit juices with the meat but can’t get it where I eat this meal so took the so-called sour milk made from a culture, I think, anyway, not milk merely turned sour of its own accord. So there you are again. You see I eat as little as possible, later in the evening I eat the melon or cherries or berries and usually end with apple as it seems to feed me for a longer period of time tho I don’t know that I should let them. I do enjoy them, also an occasional baked apple with my meal but there you have the sugar restaurants love to cook with.

I enjoy a scrambled egg, too, but the additional butter or grease gives its affects later I believe, also Dr. Goerger asks me to avoid that element of fat and oil.

This makes you think that life isn’t worth the living doesn’t it? But I still keep at my desk and the swelling at my throat makes people think I am developing a goiter but I know better. It is now taking on a reddish color and is spreading somewhat but I don’t touch it except to splash on hot water and sometimes a solution or bath of Epsom salts which I must begin again to-night.

On a few of these points we’d like to hear from you if and when possible, in your own time. My arm is quite good but the inner rotation isn’t so good yet but I have to work it out myself. I can not make it reach my right shoulder from the back but I hope to soon. I no longer have it [baked?] by Dr. Leadbetter, whom I had while in the hospital and after leaving the hospital. Dr. Goerger is the only physician in charge now and Edgar Cayce.

Hope you accomplished much in your “session” this summer for your objective in life.

Sincerely, [3823]

R7. 7/13/35 See 3823-4.

Background

Background

B1. See 3823-2.

B2. Eczema, severe - burning, itching, red splotches, especially behind ears - neck; skin - tight sensation under chin ear to ear. Allergy, food - eczema worse when she eats.

Mentioned Entities

New York City, Glands (Esoteric), Virginia Beach, A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment), Gladys Davis, David Kahn, Epsom Salts, Free Will, Gertrude Cayce, King David, Physical Body, Purpose, Well Shaft (Pyramid)

Source: The Complete Edgar Cayce Readings, A.R.E. CD-ROM (2006). Reading 3823-3, ReadingID 11429.