Reading 531-9

TEXT OF READING 531-9 M 48 (Salesman, Christian)

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Date: 2/28/1942 Sex: M Age: 48 ReadingID: 3706

This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 28th day of February, 1942, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [531], Associate Member of the Ass”n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

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

Time of Reading … Street, 10:45 to 11:15 A. M. Eastern War Time. Philedelphia, Penna.

1. GC: You will have before you the entity, [531], who is in a retreat house on Warren Ave., in Malvern, Penna. You will give the entity the advice and counsel needed at this time, answering the questions he has submitted, as I ask them:

2. EC: Yes, we have the enquiring mind of the entity [531].

3. The turmoils of the mind and the sincerity of its nature in seeking through this channel for help mentally at this time we find indicated.

4. In giving that as we find may be helpful for this entity, many conditions are to be taken into consideration.

5. The entity finds here peace, and an atmosphere as of a very closeness to that being sought. The channel is well, if the entity would accept those directions and instructions that might be given through those seeking to aid the entity in finding its closer relationships to the Creative Forces, or God the Father.

6. There are these evident truths that should be taken into consideration by the entity as it seeks:

7. Know, as has been given of old, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; but the fear of man is the indication of weakness in the body-mind.

8. As has been given, seek ye the Lord while He may be found. “Call and I will hear,” saith the Lord. And this is a promise that each soul must make his own. Not merely by the calling, but as in an active service. For as He hath given, ‘As ye do it unto the least of these, my brethren, ye do it unto me.”

9. Remember that given of old, and say not Who will descend from heaven that I may know the Lord, or Who would come from over the sea to bring a message; for Lo, He is in thine own heart.

And His Son, even Jesus the Christ, has come into the earth, dwelt among men, and has given “Ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place, that where I am, there ye may be also.”

10. But, ye may say, this is of old, it was spoken to those present with Him in that hour of separation.

11. Yes, but He hath promised, “If ye will love me and keep my commandments, I and the Father will come and abide with thee.” And, “Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.”

12. These ye know. Make them thine own. For thy body is indeed the temple of the living God. Seek not for signs. For, as He hath said, a sign is not given unto a wicked and an adulterous generation. But remember what has been given, that “If ye will be my children, I will be your God. Though ye go far, if ye will call I will hear, and answer speedily.”

13. Trust not in the short arm of material things but putting aside all those things that do so easily beset, - doubt, fear, hate, jealousy, - so live before even those who question thee, even those who doubt thy purposes, that THEY may know ye walk and talk oft with thy Lord, the Christ. Not as one boasting of power, or as one boasting of companionships, but humble thyself even as He. Though He were the Son, know that there was the lonesomeness, the fear of those influences that beset those He loved. Yet, knowing He hath entered into that glory, becoming the high priest of HIS people, they that seek Him daily, and having sat down on the right hand of the Father, then through Him ye have that promise, - “Lo, I am WITH thee.”

14. With this assurance, why should doubt and fear, why should the turmoils that arise bring consternation or trembling within thee?

15. For He hath assured that He will give that peace within, not as the world knoweth peace but that peace that comes from the knowledge that, “As I treat my fellow man, day by day, so am I treating my Lord, my Master - even my brother, Jesus, the Christ.”

16. Let not thy heart be troubled, neither be ye afraid. For as ye seek, as ye LIVE, so will it be measured unto thee and thine. For the love of the Father in the Christ casteth out fear, and brings that assurance of His abiding presence with thee.

17. Ready for questions.

18. (Q) The uppermost thought in my mind is to do aright, for the sake of myself and family. How do you think this right should be handled? (A) This should be not for self OR family, but rather for the love of the Father which was shown thee in the gift of the Son, that ye through Him might have access to the Father.

19. (Q) What entities or entity, - that is, person, - should be reached, as a person with a clean conscience to direct me in my relationship with men? (A) Let that heart be in thee as was in the Christ; not as men, not as spirit, not as a person, not as any individual - only the Christ.

20. (Q) How shall I proceed to withdraw from my nearby association, any evil influence or any evil doer, or anyone working amidst greed, jealousy or the direction of some one or group of individuals? (A) So surround thyself by thought, by deed, by act, WITH the consciousness of the Christ that NO MAN, no group, no THOUGHT, may hurt thee.

21. (Q) What sudden enlightenment comes to you, now, describing my future life? Relate just what you see as you see it. (A) That is in thine own making. For, know, He, the Father, hath made thee a free-willed individual; choosing then (and choose YE) whom ye will serve.

There is set before thee life and death, good and evil, choose THOU!

As to what, as to which, as to where, as to how ye will choose, - this is within thine OWN consciousness. Choose thou.

Let thy prayer be:

“LORD, MAKER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH! GIVER OF LIFE AND LOVE THAT IS MANIFESTED IN JESUS, THE CHRIST! BE THOU NEAR UNTO ME! NOT THAT I MAY HAVE OTHER THAN PERSONAL LOVE FOR THEE AND THY PURPOSES IN THE EARTH.

“MAKE ME, O GOD, A CHANNEL OF BLESSINGS TO OTHERS DAY BY DAY.

“IN HIS NAME WE ASK THIS.”

22. We are through.

Copy to Self ” ” Ass’n file

Reports

Reports & Follow-up

R1. 3/2/42 Letter from EC to [531]: “Hope you find just what you are seeking in the information attempted for you Saturday, am sure you are going in the right direction when you went to the retreat to meditate and pray, that brings us closer to God than anything else, and HE has promised to hear when we call - will be glad to hear from you at any time and to try and help when and if we may.

“With all good wishes and His blessings on you…”

R2. 8/22/43 Letter from [531] to EC: “Sunday alone at home reading the book #262 - ‘There is a River,’ which you sent me, and which I found on my return from El Salvador - where I went to give the best in me & found opposition & hopes shattered - shattered by man’s ego - that ego which now more than ever, here as in everywhere is destroying us all.

“I find the book very interesting and [?] all subject to the cynical thought of men, who ‘has to be shown’ & doubts & suspects. Just as some common ordinary fool would suspect me of being something or another or anything JUST TO LET HIS ‘EGO’ run away with him! Yes, today more than ever men and men alone is doing more harm than good, thus, believers and experimenters of things of the soul & of God, are ridiculed & often crucified!

“On page 369, 4th par. it says: ’, but God did not know’ & I suggest we change this to: ‘God awaited his plan’. I say this because, Edgar, GOD DID KNOW & he doesn’t miss a single thing!

“Now my friend, I found myself literally persecuted a year or so ago, by what must be some jealous person that sent to my office a man, on whom I did not have power to throw away from my office, and I wonder if he was possessed of some hypnotic command to come to my office & mentally misguide and confuse me. All I know, that since this man came, my mind is in a whirl, ‘shocked like’, and I can’t think clearly many times. His name is Antonio C. J. de Velasco, a Filipino posing as a worker, destitute but no doubt smart and cunning and he must have been working for some cause, no doubt evil, for some ‘secret’ group. But what he wanted or his aim was I do not know anymore than since this nemesis came to my office, I just can’t THINK STRAIGHT, solve problems, and in my desire to work for God, this satellite has, even planned Things that I feel as if I were watched or persecuted, and I ask: ‘for what’ & ‘what is the aim’?

“So, after this man came, I went to a retreat, for the first time in my life & my nerves were shattered, because of the sudden outbreak of war, illness of wife & the fact I learned my being consul of Salvador for years was just so that men of the type apparent to this Filipino would rejoice, I guess, in some political scheme, and I say this because, from the day I left Phila. & during the days (10 months) I stayed in Salvador, C.A. I have had more opposition, intrigue, filth, & have made more errors than ever before, though I yearned more & more to dedicate my everyday’s work to GOD!

“I do not know if the Retreat is all it should be, as parables are used & while I have had other retreats after the first one in my life, the days before I left, I just seem to come out PUZZLED. (It is 2:30 now, & I wonder if perchance, you were thinking of me at this time?) (I have looked at clock & would like for curiosity to verify this.)

“Now Edgar - I am interested to know why & by whom was this nemesis sent, what is the object, and who is he? He lives in Phila., and I do not know his whereabouts, but I recollect that prior to my going to the retreat, I must have been made crazy by the EYES & looks & force this fellow had on me, and if so, I will forgive & forget but I think this was unfair, illegal, without object and just as a friend tells me the results of some green eyed monster jealous man or group accentuated by the war, by politics or some condition that I just can’t comprehend & MUST analyze; that’s why I am burdening you with this letter. No man can boast of a more heartfelt desire to make good than I, but when anyone, or any force is around me, I LOOSE MY HEAD & I need assistance to carry on bettering my service to society and man - when DECENT men help & do not jeopardize! Too much abuse & suspicion & interference going on now-a-days which shows the lack of respect for men’s rights nor love of God.

“Will appreciate your news, meanwhile, thanking you for your kindness, I am, Your sincere friend, [531].

“What type of a material being is this Filipino Antonio C. J. de Velasco who entered into the life of [531]?

“What group of men or what man sent him?

“With what purpose?

“And what is the result of such unfair attitude by this Filipino?

“Is he an instrument of torture or intrigue used by other men?

“Was [531] hypnotized or mesmerized by any one man during the last three years?

“Has his mind been affected? If so - who are responsible for this condition? “The entity [531] wants to succeed in life, wants to serve man with kind deeds, he feels his work has been opposed and caused to make unnecessary errors, simply to satisfy some group that is malignant and intriguing. These groups are located in United States, Salvador and Mexico - This is right isn’t it?

“Where can [531] find peace of mind that he may go ahead and do his work and serve God and man in an honorable way? In Cuba, in Canada, in Salvador, in Brazil or in the United States?”

R3. 10/7/43 EC’s letter to [531]: “I have yours of the 23rd. We are so far behind, [531], that there isn’t a chance in the world for me to get in a reading like this for you for another year and that is to you all out of the question. I am putting it down and maybe the problem will be something else before I can get to it, but the first possible chance is Saturday morning, Sept. 30, 1944, from 10:30 to 11:30. I am sorry to hear that you have had so many disturbances and that you have let this get hold of you and control you. If you will just stop and analyze it, you know there is nothing in Heaven or Hell that can separate you from the love of God except yourself and if you put yourself wholly in His hands, there is no such thing as another person being able to control you in any way. You can break out of it by going to Him and consciously surround yourself by His presence, but you have to live it day by day. But who am I to tell you what to do?

“Don’t wait so long before you write me again. I think I am correct in what I said about a man didn’t know what God is going to do, but when man takes thought, God knows the end of it, but we are co-creators with Him. We have in the story of Saul and the life of Solomon and the garden, when He cried, ‘If it be possible, let this cup pass away.’

“Now, He could have had His way, but He knew as you and I know when we are doing wrong, and for that purpose, He said He came into the world and each of us have just such a job to do, and if we let Him be the guide.

“Think it over. I know you are letting yourself get loose or you wouldn’t let someone else rule you, but thanks a lot, and do write me more often.”

R4. 10/7/43 Letter from [531] to EC: “I wrote you what may seem to be a rather impulsive letter, and I have not heard from you. Yesterday I finished reading your book and candidly I find that this World is very skeptical and that there is too much Paganism running around loose, looking for evil, instead of trying to turn evil into a force of good. Result many of us are guided by an ambition, an unfounded ego against the laws of humanity and of course against the principles of decency and the teachings of Jesus.

“In Salvador, much to my regret I was more than disappointed and in coming here I have been as stated in sort of a turmoil, caused unquestionably by some force or intriguer, that must invariably account to God at the proper time. Your book is a great inspiration, and your work while it may seem questionably is just the work of any man, that as you put it wants to do what is right. But today if you do what is right it is look at with suspicion, and it seems the world wants bad people, in fact they run around to their advantage and the disadvantage of men, who having see the light want to do something for the world.

“This war is a mess, and while I now, and only now know that for years I have had to contend with all sort of rotten good for nothings, I have come to the conclusion that unless real men of decency pray in earnest and unless we try to uplift each and every human being regardless of errors, accomplishments or beliefs, we are bound to end in a hell on earth that will show us the fallacy of our ways of life.

“Well, I have been so disappointed that it all serves as a lesson to me. But when I haven’t heard from you I wonder, if the many things I hear about what is going on this good old USA is true, and since anything is bound to happen for the satisfaction of a few, and for the hindrance of others, well, nothing surprises me, but I would like to hear from you and hope you are not sick. As to the reading, well since I haven’t heard from you forget it, and may I ask that you pray for me as I pray for you so that in prayer we both can help, to perhaps straighten out this dog-gone world of ours.

“Your book has been a great joy. There are some items that ought to be corrected for the next edition, but all in all, it is splendid piece of work and since as you say, it all tends to the good, and we seek no evil it is a work that must win the admiration of decent people. God bless you and best wishes to you.”

R5. 10/28/43 EC’s letter to [531]: “Thanks for yours of the seventh. I do hope that you will soon get yourself in the right frame of mind - looking through the right window frame and keeping your eye on the one purpose - Jesus the Christ. When you do let other things come in and blind your way, we are doubtless controlled by other forces than that which is right and just to our best interest. Will you be in New York about Nov. 9? I am going there to speak on the evening of that day at Steinway Hall. If you do happen to be in town, look me up - I am staying at the McAlpin Hotel.

“Thanks and with every good wish, I am…”

R6. 1/25/45 [531]‘s letter to EC, from Medellin, Colombia, S.A., 1:30 P.M. [Edgar Cayce died 1/3/45]:

“Guess you must be busy as sixty, yet you have friends in hundreds of places, and am sure little would you have thought of a letter from me, as a gentle reminder of our friendship, and coming from this beauty spot of nature, where folks are real and kind and considerate.

“I have a selling job, and today somehow, your name came to my memory and thought to drop you this short note, to say ‘hello’. With kind regards to all…”

R7. 2/6/45 GD’s reply to above was returned - “NOT HERE.”

R8. 8/27/45 [531]‘s letter to EC, from Phila.: “Once before I thought of writing you and this evening I decided to drop you a line.

“I have been through South America, clinging to Jesus invariably, and while the war is over and we seem to be leading towards more peaceful endeavors everywhere, yet it seems there’s a lot to be done for the real establishment of a real peace.

“Back here have a job for which I am thankful but not altogether sold, as I haven’t the responsibility of doing what in my innermost I know can be accomplished these days when exports need export minded men. Regardless, this is no complain.

“Once in a while I obey the urge of dropping a letter to some friend, and this time it is you. My sincerest hopes for your continued success, and my kindest regards to your distinguished family and assistants.”

R9. GD’s note: We forwarded to him the 2/6/45 letter in re EC’s death, etc.

R10. 8/12/46 Miss Mary Ann Woodard wrote Mr. [531] asking him about the effect of the ruby stone which EC had recommended for him in his rdg. 531-3, Par. 19-A.

R11. 8/15/46 Letter from [531]: “Dear friends: Precisely last week I was thinking about the Association, and later one evening had found a mimeographed sheet with a picture of our old friend Mr. Cayce (may his soul rest in peace) while wondering if anyone individual has been able to take up his work? These days of super-ego, religious national antagonism, over-zeal, gossip, jealousy and factors accentuated with a skepticism that challenges everything, while bio-chemistry appears to want and want to get a lead in the dilemma of life, masquerading as a search for truth - the entire human race is involved in that mysterious situation to which Goethe referred in one of his books, and men who learned to trace their life in the fortitude of so called ‘spiritual’ things are very often set aside. I could be considered superstitious, where any explanation given could be taken with a ‘grain of salt.’ My convictions are that in the essence of life there is no doubt a ‘something’ which few men have been able to tap, know how to use for the welfare of the race, and consider it as ‘something’ where no dictionary can define, what our educators may call ‘spirituality’, ‘grace’ or ‘sanctification’. That is, the, let’s say ‘domain’ which governed many men in the past, and guided most strongly that man which men crucified, called, Jesus.

“Gems like many things have their legend, their beginning, and what may seem mythical created by the mind of men, is a ‘thought’ which can be transferred, increased or decreased to become a something, a realization. It can be termed an illusion, vision, dream, fallacy, anything, where regardless it was created and originated what may be termed speculation, auto-suggestion, etc., but what can be a strong belief, as strong as the assumption or anything we want to realize and do realize knowing that no matter how you turn it around, the thought must come and end in truth, love, respect - good things - in order to live, let’s say eternally.

“When Cayce gave me a first reading I was tired from overwork, from humble, moderate aspirations; where I knew I would gain most by serving best, and if my physical being did not respond to the power of my mind, I can’t say that I was at fault, but blame it in the hustle bustle, surrounding of business and possibly the individuals around me - let’s say the mental influences; and since I felt sick and found relief in proceeding just as Cayce said, it is fitting that again I should say I earnestly believed in his work, moreover as I felt improved. Truly he wrote me about a ruby, and I must say I always had fascination, like perhaps most people, for rare gems, beautiful stones, where I could never afford to have any such valuable items, yet hoped someday to work in a store specializing in out of the ordinary stones. While I have studied about gems, all I have done is admire them - whenever I saw a zircon with its blueish-greenish tints and I looked for the ‘reddish’ spectrum I was seeking that contrast which in reality gave the stone some life, regardless of the art of the lapidarist. In a way it was sort of a leaning to a hobby which I have never been fortunate enough to follow, and where I haven’t any other hobby than fishing with the disappointing experience that I get a lot of sun, and rarely even a minnow!

“Do not remember how I came to be in possession of a small stone a few months after the reading, and far from being a genuine ruby with its wine and carmine colors or tints, to me it was a ‘ruby’ though it could have been termed a garnet because of its leaning towards pomegranate tint, which never - as some rubies have - verged into a violet spectrum. I admired the little stone while it hanged on my chain, holding an old watch which I had for over 35 years, and someway, somehow, watch, chain and ‘ruby’ disappeared; I lost it, or misplaced it, or perhaps was stolen. I lost some documents, papers, etc. as I have misplaced or lost some old coins given to me by friends, though I am not a collectionist, or a philatelist, or a collector of gems, as ‘Mr. Green’ could be. All I know that the green of the emerald reflected the same hopes I have had for years to become of real value of broad minded men, and to make for myself a moderate success for the sake of my family, and nothing surprises me; as it seems, since the beginning of the first world war I have sort of walked like in a trance, and at the outset of this second war, as if among spider webs. As my physical being gets older and I examine myself, reasoning I hope, as if my memory had been attacked, where, I do know that up to that time I had my ‘ruby’ I was more contented, and today I miss the contentment I had when I knew I possessed the stone, as naturally I felt possessed of other, just as valuable invisible attributes, where I lived, let lived and hoped.

“Many times I would sit down in my office, and as the sun shined I would take this little stone - which fascinated me - and mirrored it against the sun rays, to see it reflect in the wall, and particularly I could see the ‘sun’ mirrored, photographed as if in a microscope, on the top, or table of the stone. Diverting my thoughts, amused perhaps, I would turn towards my work with new impetus, an invigoration, as if I had taken a little rest, where no other rest outside of my own meditation of my own free-will, could replace my inner feelings. I liked my small stone, and many are the times that I admired it, though it may have been of a very low, almost intrinsic material value. Last night precisely my wife thought she had seen the stone and my chain, together with an old lapiz-azule (my birth stone) but we looked high and low and could not find it. We have lost or misplaced many items, so we just let it go at that, and apparently today my little stone, which I had forgotten, is gone. Perhaps someday I may have, and will want to have another one, now that this matter came to my attention. It could be a stone alike, or a real genuine ruby - which as ‘grace’ you cannot buy - it comes, or it is sent and that is that. I do remember now, as you have opened the storeroom of my mind, that when I was a child someone man from Utah, I think give me a pin with a pink stone, which I cherished, as a gift, but then too it was stolen or lost or misplaced. Today it wouldn’t matter, it’s really gone, but, I was a happy-go-lucky fellow, and didn’t know there was so much bile in the World. If I get a stone, naturally now I would be more careful to watch its effects without disclosing the cause, because I feel that stones are things, expressions to the eye, or feeling, as the picture of Washington or the conception of the Saviour represents. As Melchizedek, or Debussy, or Wagner, or Israel, or the Virgin Mary, as anything that is not repulsive, does represent to any mind, educated or not. It’s all within the individuality, yes the interpretation is within the person itself. Someday again - who knows - I’ll have another ‘ruby’.

“I feel that most stones - particularly rare gems found and to be found in the breast of mother earth, etc., carry, because of mythology, or any other expression a ‘hard-to-discern’ logic of events and developments, where even as I have studied gems, legends, etc. such study will not affect my conviction, that they are part of the illuminative wisdom of the Creator for men to make good use of them, in honor, esteem, truth - thus no different than a thing of the spirit, difficult for many to feel, as what could be termed ‘psychic’ vibrations, could be called an auto-suggestion, where a saintful, good, normal individual, would be as attacked as the Saviour himself if he were to Come back to earth. These days of imprudence, habit and antecedents seeking, the formation of a world trying to compete with reason and God, if Jesus was to arrive a Radar would be searching all over heaven for him, some electronic device would be listening to his conversations, and the curiosity plus, would torment, indirectly the man who has done the most for the human race. So you see, my friends, our scientific world with its present days systems and rationalism (?) makes it very difficult for the average layman to express such feelings, where it could mirror on a certain experience, as on a certain possession, where if we all learned to see ourselves and navigate in the belief and faith that made the Master exemplary of a dignity which men had tried to destroy for over 1500 years, then we could learn, as we feel ‘in the way of God’ mysterious, seemingly slow, sure and yet invisible, that things we cherish would help in meditation, in decision, in plans. Looking back, again I’ll say I was contented when I had the ruby.

“Great thoughts have turned into valuable contributions to the human race, from seemingly unknown persons, thoughts arising from meditation by free-will, without any outside interference, and those who have learned to be in good, of good and truth, have lived to naturally never parallel the wisdom of God, of nature, of creation, but could also ‘thank’ some little trinket attached to a watch chain, which has been cherished for sentimental value. Yes, while our hands played unconsciously with a ring, or a pin, or while smoking a cigarette or cigar we enjoy and cherish, or tapped a pencil against the desk - consciously or not - there has arisen light where there was darkness. Be it the stone, the trinket, the pencil, the thought itself, the hand of mystery solved a problem, when men had the right to attribute it to something that directly or indirectly is attached to the soul. Stones, gems, anything to which there is attached a soul value, an appreciation - as anything which some loved person gives, may turn to be another chapter in the book of superstitions, or the logical developments of life, but if we weigh all the explanations written about gems, and try to go back to the beginning - much of which I have read - am lead to feel, as on things I never read before that there is a ‘something’ as hard to explain as when you pray in earnestness, or the man who is drowned, to others, has saved himself because of FAITH, Certain Faith!

“The unfortunate thing is that things doubted or not found in facts and evidences, are derailed, attacked, where I would say contempt without real, truthful, honorable examination is a sign of ignorance, and as all things in the Universe are part of creation, that which leads to honor and truth will survive, and that which leads to evil - what more proof do you want then the war just ended? - not matter how represented is subjected to the law of adjustment, where the supremacy of God is in everything that is good and noble. The spiritual value of a true gem, is higher than its material asset, and men as a whole is a gem in the chysalisis [chrysalis] - so is everything he discovers for good - good that is love, hope, aspirations, truth.

“I miss the stone and if we feel effect and cause as logical developments, I must say that now I miss it more. I liked it. It had sort of a God given right, in which the tool of many men may have attacked its physical make up, while some may have while laboring honestly, diligently, in the spirit may have put a beauty that attracted me. I learned to like it, to tinker with it, as something that was indicated to me from a stranger who became a friend, and I learned to respect as a man. Often it would take me back to its origin, how come, what for, etc., where today I am not contented as I was years ago, where perhaps some green eyed monster or some one may have come into my way of living to satisfy his ego or his own potentials over mine, for no reason at all, where if I analyze myself prudently seeking to make the twilight of my life more serene, it would seem to me the lack of spirituality in others based on the experiences and tries and trials of the past, coupled to my own ego can be taken as reasons for my state of mind where am far from being a pathological case, but I sort of retreat, meditate, try to think and think, feeling that if my every days acts are worthy of the guidance of my Creator, just as I felt very contented, differently when I had the stone, may be someday I’ll have another, to caress it and cherish it till I fall asleep. In that union with my creator, in that interpretation of my inner self which the stone carried, and so far as I have misplaced or lost, the aspirations I had to be more successful, moderately, than what I have been since the beginning of the war, and, possibly since I lost the stone too, (as I do not have any recollection as to when, how and where I lost or misplaced it,) or what happened. As mostly everything seems to be challenged today I could not tell at present what’s in store, what I would feel and experience in the tomorrow which is not here yet, when another stone would be in my possession. I was contented when I had the stone.

“Very foolish of me to make these statements? It does not matter! You asked me to write, and I have obliged you, where, if you will say a little prayer for me, that will be amply reward for my time, the privilege that you have accorded me, to present these experiences and ramblings, to which you or anyone can give any valuation. My fears of what may be done with my expressions and sentiments, my emotions where you have asked in a realm that I like and admire, in my embryo of knowledge, may plunge or lift me according to the judgments given by my fellowmen. If these so called upsurges of emotions have any possibilities or realism - whatever its use or value - if the application is for good it shall live, if not, it shall die. I do not know where the principles and fundamentals of many strange things and even known things begin. There is a law applicable to every minute phase of human experience, and nothing can come before man, outside of such infinite wisdom, the effect being to harmonize if man does not attempt to fight it, and whatever may seem problematic belongs to that principle, where we all share in any endeavor, if MEN will only help each other, not jeopardize each other.

“And right or wrong - it has been a privilege to write you. It all depends on the spirit of truth, realizing that - Infirma mundi elegit deus el confundat fortia - et ea quoe non sunt, ut ea quoe sunt destrueret - ”

R12. 9/4/46 Letter from Mr. [531]: “The other day - I was agreeably surprised with a letter from the Association, signed by Miss Woodward. She spoke about something, where my reply perhaps was a bit too long, but I usually let my enthusiasm run away with me on matters of a spiritual nature.

“Today I am doing nothing practical, and have gone through so many disappointments, that perhaps the gentleman who collects gems will want to take a trip abroad and may need an interpreter, if so, let me know - I’d be glad to go!

‘All in all - we have gone through so many experiences and so many of us miss Mr. Cayce, that naturally when we are approached on any subject, we respond with the same fidelity with which Mr. Cayce served many of us.

“I hope you folks are carrying on, and that everything is going better with you all; and remember that everyone of the Cayce family as the associates, have always my best wishes for their continued success.

“This letter needs no reply. When and if a folder is published on these gems and result of your investigation I will like to have it.”

R13. 11/30/46 We sent him a copy of the 12/46 A.R.E. Bulletin carrying Mary Ann Woodard’s article, THE BENEFICENT INFLUENCE OF GEMS AND STONES.

R14. 12/2/46 Mr. [531]‘s letter from Phila. to HLC: “Will you please tell Mr. Green [S. N. Green] that I have a lapiz azule (turquesa) stone and a small, apparently ‘ruby’ where one that I really valued years ago has been lost, but if these two stones, can be replaced for those that Mr. Green himself as a collector feels, can be used by me, I will appreciate it. There may be a small very nominal charge for the exchange and perhaps the making of a pendant too, and if he will write me, I will send them to him for his consideration.”

R15. 1/14/47 HLC’s letter: “We are launching a new feature in our monthly bulletin under the title ‘My Personal Experience with the Readings of Edgar Cayce’. I believe that your original approach to the work was a very interesting one. First, constructively skeptical, and then, one of having been convinced as a result of some rather accurate clairvoyant information which came at the first of your reading.

“I would appreciate it very much if you would write this little incident up for me, using from 600 to 1200 words. I think it would be of great interest to many of our members. If possible, please let me have this by February 1st.

Best wishes for 1947.”

R16. 1/19/47 [531]‘s letter to HLC: (Sunday after communion)

Dear Hugh:

Could search book after book, library after library, and nothing could take the place of my “own inner-feeling,” experience, where not even the most complete dictionary would have words to express, what to many may seem foolish, to others may open the eyes towards investigation - often too secretive; where to me is, one of those phenomenas where we have been so uninterested in discovering man’s own potentialities, that we have lost the thread that held the ideal to man’s pursuit of happiness: “Knowledge of his soul.”

You have asked me to write. I could go into the closet and dictate a letter, filled with errors from top to bottom, and I could dig and dig into this fragile mind that just tells me, that am living and I only know it, where the unnecessary

struggle all these years has been such, that I want to shake the man who made “life a battle”, in competition with the wisdom of nature, creation, God. I say in competetion, because man, knowing that he is the image of his creator is his own competitor, and feels that he can equal God, and even search for truth, with the stint of sin and imperfection where absolute purity could be created, if we only had one man or group, with sufficient spunk to tackle the objective, as some tackled the much talked about atomic energy. The so called “psychic” subject is for a few, at present.

When your father’s name came to my attention, I was the same happy go lucky, student and observant, seeking moderate compensation for my services, and being, somewhat of an eternal fool, searching for things that I could not find in books. If I tell this to everyone, I place myself in an awkward position, but, it’s like sort of an spirit or an impulse, or a complex or a degree of emotion arising from nerve centers or “what have you” which I need not discuss. I liked what seemed to me: divine newness.

In my opinion - and thank goodness we can express this freely (?) on this side of the pond - this psychic business is something that every man has a bit of - but few men have had the purity of thought, mind, to cope with its grandeur, its good or its evil. At this time I do not know which. But, free from the analysis, your father did me a lot of good, he helped me in my studies, my hobby, as he helped me physically because following his information, regardless of how he got it or gave it, I felt better. Of that there’s no doubt.

It’s just like an experience I had years ago. I was walking the streets hunting for a job. I knew I was equipped to meet any competitor for the job I was looking for. But I had no money. Not a red cent. Walking in the middle of the street, while crossing the car line, I said: “God, if I only had a dime…!” At that time I heard a coin drop right on the rails, I picked it up, and there was a “dime”.

Sort of helped myself to find myself; to seek “that which gave me life;” asked something that I felt was worth having, and I got it. In your Father’s case, (as in the case of any one man that wants to team-work), when he gave me the so called first reading I consented to place myself receptive, in unison, and helped to set aside my skepticism and let him do for me what I felt was GOOD.

Thus my experience with your Father as just another human being, as just another man, was indication of the pleasantness that can be had in any of life’s logical developments, where man and man alone, must give his share, help and love, not hate or become doubtful, on things that even if we understand cannot be proved, where I alone can prove that am alive, at this moment, infinitesimal micro-lapse of time in the Universe.

Possibly, while I had hunted high and low for even a cent, this dime may have been concealed in the cuff of my trousers. My emotion was so great, my yearning such, that I shook the cuff and at that time, the dime was dropped; but I never knew, never suspected there was a dime in my cuffs. Then too there may not have been a dime in my cuffs at any time, but I prayed, a prayer that seeked no challenge from any man - it was unobstructed, and in the middle of the street - regardless of how come - there was what I needed.

At that time, beans, coffee and bread could be purchased for ten cents at a restaurant which served laborers, office boys, etc. I ate, felt better, shined my shoes with a rag, and the old shirt that I had washed the night before seemed as though present-day Duz had done everything to it. I went and applied for a job and got it.

That incident, no different than the retreats I have made in life, and the things that I have read and observed, coupled to the experience gained with your Father helped me, (as other people I know) lead me to feel that if we could create a group to close all black books, learn more about the need for love among mankind, disregard the ego, and try to become part of the essence of God through psychic research, training etc. perhaps - who knows - we may have in our hands the key that opens the door to eternal happiness, and holds the thread leading us to such pursuit; where in great measure if we can identify ourselves with Jesus - and this is not said in the purely religious sense - and be like him, we would live better.

The job is difficult, the man are few; but your Father contributed his share, so that those who seek light, may see, and to those that can’t understand, we all may say - yes; “Perdonalos Dios, que no saben lo que hacen…” Forgive them God, for they know not what they are doing…

Sincerely, [531]

R17. 5/16/49 Mr. [531] wrote he was hoping to bring his wife and 14 yr. old daughter for a vacation in Va. Beach.

R18. 5/10/58 He asked to be put on the A.R.E. Prayer List to help

him find a job. See Par. R18 below.

R19. 5/10/58 [531]‘s letter to Hugh Lynn Cayce:

My Dear Hugh:

Here is this letter motivated by the fact that I received and am thankful for the announcement you have sent me regarding your yearly get together, and more over your fifth summer which I trust will be most successful. Perhaps I never wrote you in my Consular letterhead, but am using it to state that since 1932 or so I have been just Honorary Consul, primarily a man engaged in administration, be it sales, advertising, credit, etc. all of which belongs to that material realm which may help to “bring home the bacon” though my bacon has been very small, limited indeed, but I am not complaining.

With the Carr-Consolidated Biscuit Co., with whom I worked for ten years to finally lose my investment in stocks and much of the wages and commission they owed me I lost much very much, and since then nothing worthy has come my way, but do you know that for some reason or another, whatever it may be, every evening punctually I read “There is a River” I meditate re your dear father whom in this skeptical work did so much for so many, that such meditation is a consolation to me, a soothing experience, free of just sentimentalism, but a “something that I can’t explain”. He did so much good for me when I was sick and working very hard that really I have missed him, many times.

Your dad was to me a clear-eyes seer of the things of God, a patient, loving, uncomplaining soul - a worthy friend.

Unfortunately my honorary position is one where I just prove my character as a clean minded man. It offers no financial remuneration. Things have been rather unpleasant with me because I have been unable to land a job - a worthy job, so I cannot go to your “get together”. But I was thinking - would a group of men and women, like to try an experiment with me. If they will tell me the number of persons, the time (Philadelphia daylight savings time) at which in a circle, in complete silence, for say 15 or 20 minutes (state exact time to begin exact time to end, preferably evening or early at night) they will TRY TO PASS ON TO ME their thoughts towards helping me find a job I will write to them, precisely what has transpired in my mind. If what I write to them “clicks” with what they may have thought (pre-arranged) then it will be evidence that, as mentioned in a passage in the bible “whatever you do in a group, etc., am in the midst of thee” (or words to that effect) perhaps - who knows - I will find a way to locate a job, thanks to the meditation of these men and women, in silence, while the Lord is in their midst too…! (Do I explain myself?) Will be glad to have your re-action. With kind regards, I am

Sincerely [531]

R20. HLC’s note to Ruth LeNoir:

Ruth LeNoir:

Bring this up at the Prayer Group meeting next Wednesday.

Hugh Lynn

Ruth LeNoir’s response: We have put him on the prayer list - no experiments.

R21. 5/29/58 Letter:

Dear [531]:

Just a note to say that your letter of May 10 was on my desk when I returned from the California trip. My secretary didn’t know just how to answer it, hence, the delay.

It’s very good to hear from you again, but I was sorry to learn that your work hasn’t been proceeding as you would like to have it. On June the fourth, Wednesday morning, between 11:00 and 11:30 a.m. our Prayer Group will be meeting at the Headquarters in Virginia Beach. At that time I have asked the secretary to put you on the list for a special prayer. This, I think, will coincide with your suggested schedule.

I certainly hope that we may be of assistance.

We are always glad to hear from you, and I hope that it will be possible for you to pay us a visit here at the Association headquarters sometime this summer. We’re back, you know, in the old hospital building, and I think you would be interested in seeing what we are doing in preserving and making the records available for use.

Sincerely yours, Hugh Lynn Cayce

HLC:jp

Background

Background

B1. See 531-8 on 8/6/41 and subsequent correspondence.

B2. 2/26/42 He submitted questions.

Mentioned Entities

Jesus Christ, Book of Job, Entity (Cayce Term), Prayer, Meditation, Soul, A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment), Purpose, Virgin Mary, Hugh Lynn Cayce, Crucifixion of Jesus, Grace, Photography (Atlantean), South America, Thomas Sugrue, Virginia Beach, California, Canada, Christ Consciousness, Clairvoyance

Source: The Complete Edgar Cayce Readings, A.R.E. CD-ROM (2006). Reading 531-9, ReadingID 3706.