Reading 499-2

TEXT OF READING 499-2 F 22 (Socialite, Christian Background)

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Date: 1/25/1934 Sex: F Age: 22 ReadingID: 3616

This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. Mitchell Hastings, 410 Park Avenue, New York City, this 25th day of January, 1934, in accordance with request made by self - Miss [499], Associate Member of the Ass”n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by her parents, Mr. [442] and Mrs. [443].

[Edgar Cayce; Hugh Lynn Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Miss [499], Mrs. [443], Mr. [442] and Miss [510].]

Born January 10, 1912, in Philadelphia, Penna. Time of Reading 3:45 to 4:25 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. New York City. (Life Reading)

1. EC: Yes, we have the entity and those relations with the universe and universal forces, that are latent and manifested in the personalities of the present entity, [499].

2. In entering the present experience we find - that which will be of interest to many that are seeking an understanding of such - that this entity, among many, comes at a period (and from the astrological environ) that will have a great influence upon the thought and the activity of many in this earth, in its sojourn.

3. As to the astrological aspects, then, we find these rather in this entity’s experience, as most others, the influence from sojourns of the soul entity in that environ influencing the entity in the present experience. And in this particular entity, during those periods when Venus with other astrological sojourns has been in conjunction with other planetary influences, the entity in self has done - in its activity and relationships to others - unusual things, even for self.

4. In this experience these influences are brought innately in the activities of the entity, and as to what the physical and mental relations of the body do regarding those impulses received by such an influence make for the development or retardment of the soul towards its goal - that it has either innately or consciously set as its ideal in the scheme or the activity of things, places, conditions, relations, or others as in respect to its own self.

5. Then, these are made as urges:

6. One that is affable; one that makes friends in those relations that are contracted toward the activities of the entity.

7. One that often is compelled to in a manner, while not in the manner of being repulsed by the relationships - but for conscience’s sake, or for rather “the right things to do”, makes for activities towards peoples, rather than that it innately feels SHOULD be the activity towards conditions or peoples or relations.

8. Hence often are those activities called by the associates or friends of the entity as unusual, or different, or that the entity lives its own life, - or doesn’t care for the laudation or praise from others, provided the entity feels, knows or thinks within self that self is correct. Yet sentiment and the real activities of love’s influence are dominant factors in the entity’s inner self.

9. The influences from Mercury show the high mental abilities; with the Aquarian influence in its relationships to the Jupiterian making for abilities in certain given lines of activity. And these, as we find, will change, do change, as developments are applied in the experience of the entity in its relation to the active influences in the present sojourn. For, as in the present, certain types of art and its relationships to activities in individuals’ lives may make for an influence in the present activities. And there will come those periods when the activities in relation to art, that has to do with a great deal more of that as from stained glass or those that make for activities in the prism reactions to influences as related to things and to people, will be of a greater interest; as also music of a certain character or nature, or nature studies will become the more active in the experience of the entity as changes come.

10. This, as we find, will be when Jupiter is in conjunction or is square with Venus in relationships to earth’s activities from those, or through those, that have sojourned in that environ; making for, then, one well balanced in the activities of life as related to material things, and all holding for the entity in their respective positions the necessity of their thought and their relations to the principles in the material experiences of the entity.

11. As to the appearances and their relationships to the more material activities in the entity’s present experience, while many have been the activities of the entity in the earth, these - as we find - are those that make for the greater influence in the material, or material-mental, relations in the present:

12. Before this we find the entity during the early portion of the settling of the land of which the entity is a native in the present, during those periods when there was the establishing of the relationships between the early settlers and the natives.

13. The entity, in the name Beck, then gave much of self’s activities in the establishing of the tenets of activities of individuals in that sojourn towards the peoples that were being affected by the activity of those sojourning there.

14. Through those experiences the entity gained and lost. Gained in the unselfish activity in relationships to others; passing in the physical through many material hardships, yet in the spiritual gaining much as to the real meanings of the tenets that were proclaimed by those in associations with the entity during those sojourns. Losing only in that there were those in whom the entity had put confidence, in and among her own peoples and relations, that brought disaster to many; and the entity from that experience in the present has ever been wary of making friendships until there was the answer from within of that something that made for a sincerity that to the self, at least, could be unquestioned. Making also for abilities in the entity to make, in any walk of life, those associations or relations that would bring an understanding to the entity, or to self, of the impelling influence in the individuals’ activity; as to whether it is from necessity, emotion, or conviction.

15. Hence those ordinarily termed as influences that may make for the activities of others as to their relationships to conditions, things, peoples or the like, are to the entity easily read, when there is the attempt to analyze peoples’ emotions or activities.

16. Also from that sojourn comes those influences that make for the interest at times in people, and at others in things and conditions.

17. Before this we find the entity in the Roman land, during those experiences when there were great turmoils in the land from the new tenets that were being proclaimed by the returning soldiery, as well as those that were being brought as prisoners, that turned the ideas of men in the varying directions of those thoughts and tenets that had been proclaimed from those activities in the new land - as it were - of the Roman empire.

18. The entity then was in the household of those in power, being in the household of one Pargarthas - an aide to the emperor Augustus Caesar at that time.

19. The entity did NOT embrace the teachings of the peoples, yet was sincerely averse to the persecutions that were brought on those that held to the tenets of those in the period.

20. Hence the station in the social activities of the entity was often questioned, and the relationships with many that had been the closest were broken. Yet the entity held self rather in the thought of those that acted according to the dictates of their own conscience as related to things in the forcing of issues in peoples’ experience.

21. The SOUL developed, the BODY suffered, during or through this sojourn. Hence often in the inner self in the present experience may the entity find those periods when there is much confusion in and about the entity as from the activities of others in relation to that as others deem necessary in their mental and soul development; yet to the entity these must become as the experiences of the soul or the inner self, for the answering of the questions as to what the SELF should do ABOUT such relations or activities.

22. Before this we find the entity in that land now known as the Grecian, during those periods when there were the sojournings of many to the Arabian land, where there were the activities of a teacher that had brought help, hope and understanding to many, though those tenets were of such a nature as to make for the experiences of those that adhered to same to be reborn, or to be changed in such ways and manners as to make their mode of life or activity in life an entirely different thing.

23. The entity journeyed then to the hill lands, and through the teachings, through the application of those tenets as propounded there, gained much in the experience. Gaining in the mental and soul development through the sojourn, as Ulda.

24. From the experience the entity finds in the present that there are innate within self tenets that (as to self’s own understanding) have not as yet wholly been reached; nor has there other than that as is shown in brotherly love, that that surpasses same in making manifest spiritual truths in the hearts and souls of men. For, to so live, to so manifest that which is deepest within self for the aiding and understanding of thine neighbor, of thine brother, is to the entity the highest of the activities in the endeavors of others. But to live or to act the lie is to the entity the most degrading and the most loathsome thing that may come to the mental experience of the entity.

25. Hence much in self will respond to those experiences in that sojourn; much in art, much that is to be developed in the relationships of making in manifested form that which moves the activities of the emotions in individuals, arises from the experiences and sojourns in that strange land - to the entity’s experience in same.

26. Before this we find the entity in that land now known as the Egyptian, during those periods when there were the sojournings of those from the Atlantean land.

27. The entity then was among those, and with those peoples, and the companions of those that came from Atlantis that aided in the establishing of those tenets into such tracks, or routes, or manners, as to enable them to be dispersed among those of other lands.

28. The entity was among those that aided in the activities as related to establishing the field of activity in relation to the bodily suffering, as to medicine, as to learning, as to hospitalization. In these did the entity lend itself in the sojourn in that land. Losing in those conditions that arose when there was the necessity for the leaving of the Atlantean. Gaining in the latter portion when those activities brought to the entity in its experience real aid, help and understanding, and the same to others through the applications of those things that had been gathered into the inner self. The name then was Apt-Uldan.

29. From that experience we find in the present sojourn much that harkens to abilities in the entity to meet and know the needs of those whom the entity contacts, or those whom the entity should contact for their own development.

30. Hence, the abilities in the present and that to which it may attain, and how, may be added also in these:

31. One having an analytical mind. One that may mete for individual activity much that may be helpful; for much may be given by the entity in its associations and relations among individuals.

32. And in those fields that are innately and manifestedly in the experience in the present, of the art, of the music, and especially that which may come in those that may make for the light through such activities to others, the entity may gain the knowledge of self - and in gaining the knowledge of self make applicable in the experience its relationships to others, thus bringing the greater development in this experience.

33. Ready for questions.

34. (Q) Why do I react so strongly and am so disturbed by anything which is artificial, whether concrete or otherwise? (A) As described, this is from the experiences in the earth where the falsifying - or the activities with those in the individual’s experience - brought innately the dread of finding that it thinks the most of with feet of clay.

May the entity then in its own development find, and know through those things that have been given here, that in the study and in the application of same in the present experience may the entity come to know self better and in whom and in what it may believe.

Seek; for only the seeker may find. Do not lose confidence in self. Know in what thou hast believed, and if it does not answer to that thou hast set as thine ideal - know it will turn to but clay, and thus only reach the satisfying of cravings. But let thine heart, thine mind, thine soul, be joyous in that thou hast gained in thine experience, that to express love in thine activities to thy neighbor is the greater service that a soul may give in this mundane sphere.

35. We are through for the present.

Copy to Self ” ” Ass’n file

Reports

Reports & Follow-up

R1. 5/24/34 Father [442]‘s letter: “It now looks as though our daughter [499] might be married the end of June…she can’t tell exactly until the lucky man himself hears from the Army authorities as to just what date they are going to grant him his month’s leave of absence.”

R2. 7/19/35 See brother’s rdg. 440-20, Par. 14-A reproaching him for presuming to ask the sex of his sister [499]‘s unborn baby.

R3. 7/24/36 Mrs. [255]‘s letter: “[499] has a fine baby boy.”

R4. 4/27/71 Brother [440]‘s oral report: “[499]‘s husband is now a full General in the Army Retired. Their older son is an officer in the Navy, their daughter is an architect, and their third child, a son, is a Ph.D. They are all famous. [499] herself has become famous as a designer of stained glass windows. She recently has become very much interested in Edgar Cayce and A.R.E.”

R5. 3/18/77 Form letter currently being sent to all new A.R.E. Sponsoring Members:

ASSOCIATlON FOR RESEARCH AND ENLIGHTENMENT, INC. P.O. Box 595 Virginia Beach, Virginia 23451

Office of Cable CAYCE THE PRESIDENT Telephone (804) 428-3588

Dear Mrs. [Current name of one who later identified herself as [499]:

You have just become an A.R.E. Sponsoring member and I want to extend a very personal welcome.

Do keep in mind the name of our organization. Association for RESEARCH and Enlightenment. It is our hope that you will begin your own study into the aspects of the Edgar Cayce readings which have meant the most to you. In a very real way, your body and mind are laboratories. You are in a position to test psychic data which has changed the lives of thousands of persons.

Actually it was this kind of experience that motivated Edgar Cayce when he first discovered what the readings could do in his own life and the lives of those closest to him. In a very real sense he shared the inspiration and practical results of the readings with others as he continued through forty three years of work in this field.

In a much larger sense, YOU have an opportunity, not only to test the information, to work with it and experience the results in your life, but to share it with others. This constitutes a very unique and a very real service.

If you are already in a Search for God Study Group you know how much it can mean to belong to a small “spiritual family” in which you can share experiences and receive prayerful support. If you have not found such a Group, you may be missing an opportunity which could be most meaningful and rewarding. For me the information which was given for the original Study Group has helped more people than anything else he said. If you have not already joined one of the “spiritual laboratories,” write to our Study Group Department for information on the Group nearest you.

I am certain that you must recognize the great diversity of the readings and know that those whose lives you touch, your family and friends, acquaintances, may surely have interest and needs to which data from the Edgar Cayce files may bring help.

Sincerely yours, Hugh Lynn Cayce HL/nml

R6. 3/22/77 Mrs. [499] answered HLC:

“I am really not a stranger to the wonderful work of the A.R.E., though I have only just joined. Have been reading many of your books and booklets, though.

“When Mother [Mrs. [443]] died in ‘46, we found amongst her papers the readings that were done of me in ‘34 [499-1 and 499-2]. I was married six months after this was done and in all the turmoil and activity of my life I forgot the contents of these readings. Imagine my surprise to find the following in my Life Reading [499-2]: ‘and there will come those periods when the activities in relation to art, that has to do with a great deal more of that as from stained glass’… By ‘46 I was deep in the study of stained glass, with a deep inner feeling that this was to be my life. Mr. Cayce went on to say music and nature would also be important to me. These three things - next to my family - are my life. I am enclosing a few papers for you in the hope they may be of interest because of the prophecy of what I would do. I thought there might be someone studying this aspect of the readings.

“By the way, you were at the readings. Perhaps you will remember my parents [[442] and [443] … N.Y.C.]

“It might also be of interest to you that I am self taught in the field of stained glass, and have developed this original approach on my own that is quite different from anyone else’s work, either in the U.S. or Europe. A number of books and magazines have given space to my techniques. I have sold very little, being more of an experimenter and creator. The installed windows were all gifts after being accepted by the architects, etc., involved. I am blessed with sufficient income to carry on this work as I wish.”

My best wishes to you. [499]

R7. 8/24/77 GD’s note: Mrs. [499] and her husband visited A.R.E. today. She showed slides of her work and visited the Meditation Room to take measurements, etc., for making a stained glass window for it which she will donate. She told me that it is perfectly alright to use her name in this report on her Life Reading, since she feels this ability was a gift of God which Edgar Cayce foresaw. Kitty Brittell interviewed her for an article about her work and her Life Reading, to be used with her name in a forthcoming issue of A.R.E. News or the A.R.E. Journal. [See 499-2 Reports.]

R8. 3/1/78 Mrs. [499] requested, and was subsequently sent, a copy or her parents’ readings, 442-1 through 5 and 443-1 through 6.

R9. 12/77 A.R.E. News article A GIFT FOR THE MEDITATION ROOM: WINDOWS CREATED BY FREDRICA H. FIELDS

The A.R.E. Meditation Room, filled with the peaceful vibrations of those who pray and meditate within its walls, will some day become glowingly alive with the stained-glass creations of Fredrica H. Fields, a woman famous for her artistic works.

Descriptions of Mrs. Fields’ techniques have been included in such books as THE COMPLETE BOOK OF CREATIVE GLASS ART, DECORATING GLASS and STEP-BY-STEP STAINED GLASS. Some of the windows that she has designed and executed are installed in the YWCA in Greenwich, Connecticut, and the Washington Cathedral in Washington, D.C. She has won awards at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the National Collection of Fine Arts at the Smithsonian Institution, and is listed in the DICTIONARY OF INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHY 1976 and WHO’S WHO OF AMERICAN WOMEN 1977-8.

In March of this year Mrs. Fields, who has her own studio in Greenwich, Connecticut, wrote the following letter to Hugh Lynn:

“When Mother [Mrs. T. Mitchell Hastings, who had a Cayce reading] died in ‘46, we found amongst her papers the readings that were done for me in ‘34. I was married six months after this and in all the turmoil and activity of my life I forgot the contents of these readings. Imagine my surprise to find the following in my life reading: ‘And there will come those periods when the activities in relation to art, that has to do with a great deal more of that as from stained glass or those that make for activities in the prism reactions to influences as related to things and to people, will be of a greater interest; as also music of a certain character or nature, or nature studies will become the more active in the experience of the entity as changes come.’ By ‘46 I was deep in the study of stained glass, with a real inner feeling that this was to be my life. Mr. Cayce went on to say music and nature would also be important to me. These three things - next to my family - are my life…” [Mrs. Fields tells us that she has been a student of ballet and voice and plays the piano and organ - that she cannot live without music. Her other interest is a large and beautiful garden which she tends; raising her own organic vegetables and fruits. She is still amazed at how accurately Edgar Cayce “painted my mature character as it evolved.”]

Due to Hugh Lynn’s illness, Charles Thomas responded to this letter and wrote, “I was fascinated by your letter and inspired by your stained glass work. You are probably aware that we have a new library here. For several years, we have been searching for the appropriate design and an artist, to do several small windows in stained glass for the Meditation Room on the third floor… Might you be interested in a commission for such a set of windows?”

Mrs. Fields wrote back, “It would be the greatest joy to create windows for the Meditation Room, I ask only that I may be allowed to do this as my gift to this wonderful project.”

In the latter part of August, Mrs. Fields and her husband, Brigadier General Kenneth E. Fields, visited the A.R.E. to plan for the stained glass windows to be placed in the Meditation Room and the foyer outside. During their visit, Mrs. Fields presented colored slides of her work to various staff members and exhibited two miniature panels which contained her colored studies in three-dimensional glass. All of the work presented was abstract, some of the panels having such titles as “Eden” and “Burning Bush.” Her work was met with enthusiastic comments of admiration and appreciation from her audience.

In describing her type of work Mrs. Fields states in an article, “The Enchantress-Glass,” which appeared in the journal of the Stained Glass Association of America, STAINED GLASS, “It is not traditional stained glass in which the glass has been made to conform to a preconceived design for a flat pane. It IS stained glass in the dictionary sense in that it is made of ‘colored glass.’”

Mrs. Fields continues, “It is no easy matter to describe a creative process that is so much a thing of the spirit, a joint venture of material and artist, a communication between glass and handmaiden…

“How to begin? The reader must take a first step; forget the look of leaded lights in a Gothic church, think no more of figure or story rendered flat, pictorial glass, free the mind from traditional stained-glass techniques and all thought of modern plastic evolvements. We are dealing with an abstract construction in pure glass, truly three-dimensional, usually involving color, which presents a new visual experience. Because only translucent or clear glass of good quality is used, light journeys through the layers and intermingling shapes retaining the purity of color and the sparkle inherent in the glass itself. The source of illumination is fractured and dispersed so that the work is alive throughout.

“Aware that in the depth lies the magic, in the material the enchantment, my gentle reader may find his own terminology.”

The one question asked of the sleeping Cayce by Mrs. Fields was “Why do I react so strongly and am so disturbed by anything which is artificial, whether concrete or otherwise?”

The answer was given as follows, “As described, this is from the experiences in the earth where the falsifying or the activities with those in the individual’s experience brought innately the dread of finding what it thinks the most of with feet of clay…

“Seek; for only the seeker may find. Do not lose confidence in self. Know in what thou hast believed, and if it does not answer to that thou hast set as thine ideal - know it will turn to but clay, and thus only reach the satisfying of cravings. But let thine heart, thine mind, thine soul, be joyous in that thou hast gained in thine experiences, that to express love in thine activities to thy neighbor is the greater service that a soul may give in this mundane sphere.” [499-2].

It is interesting in the light of the Cayce reading that Mrs. Fields works with “pure glass” - only the best grade of glass collected throughout the years from all over the world; that she will not work with artificial substitutes or Victorian glass; that she uses only hand-made translucent glass and quality crystal sheet glasses. She does not change the character or brilliance of the original glass by fusing, bending, or laminating it.

Mrs. Field’s father was an artist and an architect; she has studied painting in California and etching in Paris as part of her training, but her stained glass career began when her two oldest children were three and four years old. “I was looking for something to keep my soul alive,” she reminisced, “and felt I was led by the nose to a Y.W.C.A. course in leaded glass. I was all thumbs to begin with. After this elementary course I undertook to teach myself. At this time, 1940, there were practically no books on learning the craft of stained glass, but I was fortunate through the years to have the help of masters in the field, with whom I became acquainted.

“Then, 25 years ago, I developed arthritis and bursitis from lifting the heavy glass. I now accept my arthritis as a ‘gift’, for because of it I was shown a new way of working. To avoid lifting the weight, lighted glass-top tables came into being. The glass scraps that accumulated on these tables showed me wonderful visions in color and light, which I HAD to capture. This led to my original three-dimensional creations, and was a lifetime vocation. I feel I was given the eyes to see the beauty in the overlapping of discarded glass. Along with this has come a desire to simplify the learning process so others will not have to struggle as I did.”

In describing her work, Mrs. Fields states, “It is a long demanding process, truly a work of love, and each undertaking is a new adventure.”

The A.R.E. is looking forward to the completion of her latest adventure with a sense of awe, for we know we shall find inspiration not only in her stained-glass windows, but also in the fact that Mrs. Fields is individually fulfilling the prophecy of her reading and is helping us to learn that “to express love in thine activities is the greater service that a soul may give in this mundane sphere.” [499-2]

R10. 12/7-8/78 The Beacon article ARTIST FULFILLS CAYCE PREDICTION by Mary Reid Barrow, Beacon Correspondent:

Forty-four years ago, Edgar Cayce did a reading for Fredrica Fields when she was a youngster. He predicted that she would work in stained glass.

“At the time he did it, it meant nothing to me,” Mrs. Fields said. “It went in one ear and out the other.”

“Today, Mrs. Fields, who lives in Greenwich, Conn., is a nationally-known artist in the field of stained glass. She has just finished supervising the installation of her large stained glass windows in the meditation room at the Association for Research and Enlightenment, home of the Edgar Cayce Foundation.

It took Mrs. Fields almost all of the 44 years to come full circle. Cayce did the readings for her family and her in 1934. It wasn’t until 1946, after her mother died, that Mrs. Fields rediscovered what Cayce had said about her among her mother’s papers.

“At that point, I had been deep into the study of stained glass for about five years,” she said.

Surprising as the prophecy was, it still provoked no real interest in the ARE. Mrs. Fields’ brother, however, had maintained contact with the association. Several years ago, he told her that the ARE was collecting information on different facets of Cayce’s readings and what predictions had come true. In March of 1977, she wrote “out of the blue” to Hugh Lynn Cayce, Cayce’s son, and told him about her reading.

“It turns out they had been searching for three years for someone to do the stained glass work for their meditation room,” she said. “I said I would be delighted to do them as a gift.”

In selecting Mrs. Fields to do their windows, the ARE board of directors chose an artist whose work is unique in the country. Most artists work flat, cut glass which they weld together with lead. Hers is a multi-layered, abstract, three dimensional approach, the glass held together with clear epoxy. In the flat, leaded technique, a design is generally made first.

“I work in reverse,” she said. “I gather my glass and work with it in combinations and systems and find out what the glass can do and then design the work.

“It has a living quality I feel is lacking in the other,” she added.

Mrs. Fields has public installations in the Greenwich Library and Greenwich YWCA and in the Washington Cathedral in addition to private commissions. Her techniques have been included in several books on stained glass and she has won awards at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the National Collection of Fine Arts at the Smithsonian Institution.

In the early years of her career, Mrs. Fields worked in flat, leaded designs just like everyone else. When a bout with arthritis made it too difficult for her to hold her work up to the light to see the effect, her husband developed a lighted table for her to work on.

“I began to see all these visions of how glass intermixed,” she said. “In trying to capture this free form mix of material, I developed the technique.”

The two, 20-foot, 300-pound windows at the ARE each have three panels. Each panel is held together by an oak frame. Clear quarter-inch plate glass is on the back and front of each panel. In between, is a layer of glass rods. Some of the rods are solid colors, some clear, and some are hollow and filled with smaller colored rods. Behind the rods are two more layers of colored glass.

The primary colors are deep indigo blue and violet, both meaningful colors in meditation. Other colors are yellow, gold, orange, red, green and light blue. The abstract designs are reminiscent of large, rippling sunbursts.

The center portion of one panel represents man reaching upward and the center portion of the other panel is the “power above coming down to man,” she said. “The four side panels are individual thoughts or prayer points.”

Mrs. Fields said she read book after book in order to understand meditation and spent a lot of time working with ARE members to come up with the windows they wanted.

In some of her other works, Mrs. Fields makes use of antique glass, marbles, nuggets and figured crystal sheets. The glass rods were originally intended for costume jewelry and are no longer being made. Several years ago, she purchased her whole stock of rods from a jeweler in Czechoslovakia.

“When my present stock is gone, this will be it,” she said. “But it will last my lifetime.”

Mrs. Fields now is working on two more sets of windows for the meditation room lobby which she hopes will be installed sometime in the next year. It took her a full year to complete the first panels in her Greenwich studio in her home where she lives with her husband and photographer, retired Brig. Gen. Kenneth E. Fields.

“This is very demanding work,” she said. “There are long hours of just plain labor in putting it all together. “I’ll be 67 next January and I have to look out for my joints and muscles.”

Because of the time it takes, Mrs. Fields calls herself a “hermit.” She does, however take time “to raise a garden and put it to bed” and to listen to music. Oddly enough, Cayce also predicted in her reading long ago that music and nature would be important to her.

“These three things (art, music and gardening), next to my family and friends, are my life,” she said. “Music I couldn’t live without, and I don’t work happily without it. Glass is the closest other form to music. It has a singing quality.”

R11. 2/24/70 From an article written for the Stained Glass Journal by Stephen Bridges, New York:

“That a woman should design stained glass causes little surprise. That she should manipulate basic materials as Mrs. Fields does might astonish some. Her manner of working is to design directly with glass in full size, making sure that it is both fluid and yet controlled in its growth, strong with a hidden discipline, and with a deceptive appearance of spontaneity when finished.

“Mrs. Fields pursues her art with meticulous craftsmanship. Using glass of many types and textures she builds up compositions in several layers improvising during the entire process. Diffusion and distortion of the color areas defies analysis in the finished work because of the complex variety of materials employed. In addition to familiar colored sheet glasses she also uses textured glass of many types, rods, tubes, beads, jewels and ornaments. The panels are assembled over light boxes and the composition can be changed as the artist wishes until the final covering glass is in place.

”…In the new Public Library of Greenwich, Connecticut… The brick wall in the foyer of the auditorium was especially built to receive her work. Each recessed opening is surrounded with faceted planes of masonry subtly integrating the asymmetrically placed panels with their background. The effect is one of complete harmony as if the wall and glass had been designed with one stroke… Color differences are as varied as the sizes but with a unity which makes the whole wall seem to glow.”

R12. See Source File Key #499 for photographs of Mrs. Fields’ three-dimensional stained-glass work.

R13. 3/12/92 Newspaper article, Greenwich, Connecticut:

Obituaries

Fredrica H. Fields, 80, glass artist

Fredrica H. Fields, 80 a nationally known and widely exhibited stained glass artist, died of natural causes March 4 at Greenwich Hospital.

A resident of Greenwich for 33 years, she was creating stained glass windows up to the time of her death. Her most recent installations were two windows at The Church of the Holy Comforter in Kenilworth, Ill.

Regarded as a pioneer and innovator in the field of abstract stained glass windows, Mrs. Fields received inquiries and requests for her windows from as far away as Saudi Arabia and India. While stained glass windows are usually associated with cathedral windows depicting biblical scenes, hers are abstract designs using layers of different types of glass of varied shapes and colors.

Mrs. Fields had taught classes at the Greenwich YWCA and her work was shown in exhibits of The Greenwich Art Society and the Stamford Art Association.

She was a member of the Stained Glass Association of America, from which she received several first-place commendations. Locations of her glass installations include the Greenwich YWCA, the Cole Auditorium of the Greenwich Library, St. John’s Episcopal Church in Stamford, The National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., The Connecticut Hospice in Branford, Concordia College in Bronxville, N.Y., and the Association for Research and Enlightenment Meditation Center in Virginia Beach, Va. Additionally, her works are part of the permanent collection of glass at the Corning Museum in Corning, N.Y.

Mrs. Fields studied stained glass with Mrs. Orin Skinner in Boston and later with George Sotter. Arthritis in her arms made it difficult to hold the glass up to the light so she worked over a light table. As the pieces of colored glass became stacked, she noticed how they took on different characteristics.

She was a contributor to several publications and reference books on the art of stained glass. For the past several years she had been selected to appear in The Guild, a sourcebook of American Craft Artists.

Born Jan. 10, 1912, in Philadelphia, Pa., she was the daughter of the late Theodore Mitchell Hastings, a New York architect, and the late Carolyn Corliss Bailey Hastings. She attended Wellesley College and studied at the Art Students’ League in New York.

Her eldest son, David Edward Fields, a Commander in the U.S. Navy, died in 1973.

She was married to Brig. Gen. (ret.) Kenneth E. Fields, a West Point graduate who was appointed by President Eisenhower to be general manager of the Atomic Energy Commission. As the wife of an Army officer, she moved 19 times in four decades before settling in Greenwich and developing her art after raising her children.

In addition to her husband, she is survived by a daughter, Luellen Fields of Stamford; a son, Stephen Francis Fields of Wilmette, Ill., and his wife, Mary Fields; a brother, T. Mitchell Hastings of Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.; six grandchildren; and one nephew.

The funeral was Saturday.

Donations may be made in her memory to The Church of the Holy Comforter, Kenilworth, Ill., or to The Connecticut Hospice in Branford.

Background

Background

B1. 1/25/34 A.M. She obtained a Physical Reading.

Mentioned Entities

Entity (Cayce Term), Soul, A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment), Incarnation, Meditation, New York City, Hugh Lynn Cayce, Astrology, Atlantis, Ideal, Prophecy, Egypt, Rome, Virgin Mary, Visions, California, France, Garden of Eden, Gladys Davis, Greece

Source: The Complete Edgar Cayce Readings, A.R.E. CD-ROM (2006). Reading 499-2, ReadingID 3616.