Reading 4959-1

TEXT OF READING 4959-1 M ADULT

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Date: 10/15/1920 Sex: M ReadingID: 13069

This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the Tutwiler Hotel, Birmingham, Alabama, this 15th day of October, 1920.

[Edgar Cayce; (?), Conductor; Wm. K. Schanz, Steno.]

Time of Reading Unknown. Reading is not on file with Edgar Cayce Foundation or elsewhere according to available records.

Reports

Reports & Follow-up

R1. 1/22/21 [4959]‘s affidavit:

WM. K. SCHANZ - Court and General Reporting - Depositions, Bills of Exceptions - Conventions and Hearings - NOTARY PUBLIC - Court House Building - Bessemer, Ala.

STATE OF ALABAMA ) ) ss. JEFFERSON COUNTY )

Before me the undersigned authority, Notary Public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Wm. K. Schanz, who is known to me, and who, being first duly sworn, deposeth and saith as follows:

In the five years that I have known Mr. Edgar Cayce, of Selma, Alabama, it has been to my great personal pleasure and benefit. Meeting him through Christian Endeavor, he being Superintendent of the best Junior C. E. Society it has been my pleasure to meet and talk to, I being State Treasurer of the Alabama C. E. Union and Field Worker, I first came to know him as a deep, earnest sincere Christian man; naturally we met at different times and talked about Christian Endeavor work, and religion, until we became close friends. Visiting in Selma quite frequently, I came to hear, from others, of the great work Mr. Cayce had done in Selma and other places with his psychical power, and it has been my pleasure to meet quite a few people who have been benefitted by readings given by Mr. Cayce, and who have personally told me of the good Mr. Cayce has done for them. I, however, do not wish to speak from hearsay, but from personal knowledge, it having been my pleasure to be present at the following readings, where, as Court Reporter, I reported verbatim every word uttered during these readings, and which I afterwards transcribed, a copy being given to Mr. Cayce of each reading, and a copy of which I have here in my office, and which I will forward, if necessary:

While on a vacation to my mother’s home in Reading, Pa., this Summer just past, I had the misfortune, while bathing, to get water in both of my ears, which later resulted in abscesses forming and making me wretched. I consulted and was treated by a doctor in Atlantic City, N.J., and also by a doctor at Reading, Pa.; the abscesses opened, and left me with running ears. From this trouble my nose and throat became affected, and though taking treatment from an Ear, nose and throat specialist in Bessemer, Alabama, upon my return South, I got gradually worse, until in the middle of October I could hardly hear and had great difficulty in breathing and speaking. I got in touch with Mr. Cayce, and he came to Birmingham and gave me a reading upon his arrival here. Mr. Cayce knew very little of my trouble in my head, but in the reading went thoroughly into the trouble, explained where the trouble was, and how it could be cured, telling me to stop treatment with the ear specialist and take up osteopathy and electric violet ray treatment. I have followed his advice as closely as it was possible for me, and am still following the treatment, and today my hearing is entirely restored, my ears have stopped running since the beginning of December, and I have again started singing; with the exception of a little trouble with my nose (which I know will disappear in time), I am perfectly well.

During Mr. Cayce’s stay in Birmingham I was present and reported verbatim readings on the following persons: Oct. 15, Mrs. Fannie Kahn [325]; Oct. 19, Louis Halbert Tinder [4956]; Oct. 20, Mrs. Lorena Tinder [4955]; Nov. 2, a second reading on myself, the first having been given on Oct. 15th; Nov. 3, Phillip Pendleton [4957], and Nov. 5, Mrs. Willie Vandergrif [4960]. All of these readings were on diagnosis, and given in the Hotel Tutwiler, Birmingham, Alabama; however, Mrs. Fannie Kahn was in Lexington, Ky., when the reading was given for her; Louis Halbert Tinder was sitting in an automobile in front of the Tutwiler Hotel while his reading was given; and Mrs. Lorena Tinder was visiting at Irvine, Ky., at the time the reading on her was given. The others were present in the room. At most of these readings the room where the reading was given was full of spectators, and at nearly every one there was from one to three doctors present and asking questions. I know personally that every one of the above mentioned people have been greatly and wonderfully helped by following the diagnosis and treatment given in the reading by Mr. Cayce, and every one are loud in their praise of Mr. Cayce and the help he has given them. I know also that the doctors and professional and business men present at the readings were amazed at Mr. Cayce’s revelations, but one and all have confessed that there was no doubt but that Mr. Cayce had a power that few, if any possess; and that his practice of using his power for the benefit of humanity was noble and princely.

For myself, I believe in Mr. Cayce and his psychical power, for seeing and experiencing, is believing. I know not whence comes his power, but I do know that he is using his power for good, hence it must come from good, - the All Good, which is, God. May he never lose his power.

[signed] Wm K. Schanz

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 22nd day of January, 1921.

[signed] G. P. Benton, Notary Public, my commission expires Sept. 19, 1923

R2. GD’s note: He corresponded with EC through the years and obtained further readings for his family and friends.

Background

Background

None.

Mentioned Entities

Alabama, Selma Alabama, David Kahn, Atlantic Ocean, Osteopathy, Violet Ray

Source: The Complete Edgar Cayce Readings, A.R.E. CD-ROM (2006). Reading 4959-1, ReadingID 13069.