This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the [470] home, 7919 East Morrow Circle, Dearborn, Michigan, this 29th day of February, 1936, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [470], Active Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [1100], Mr. [470], and Hugh Lynn Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 5:30 to 5:55 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Michigan. (Idea as conceived by [470] for introducing into a molten mass of iron the vibratory rates of other minerals through electrical current so as to produce a steel with the same elasticity and tensile strength but 50% lighter than produced at present. You will tell us whether this process can be worked out and give advice as to just how to proceed in the first preparation for experimentation. Questions.)
1. EC: Yes.
2. In considering conditions of this kind, as we have given, the body has those abilities within same of making not only the experimentations but plans that may develop those applications of electrical forces to metals, in ways and manners such that there may be made many changes in the activity of metals, chemicals, and other products of these in varied combinations.
3. That various forms of the activities of electrical influence upon metals have often been used is a common knowledge. The use at the various stages of same has been and is the variation that we find may make for a product that will be of a lighter nature, yet of a tensile strength for greater activity or usage of same in many fields; that is, of the steel itself.
4. While many another product presents itself, this for the beginning - though among those of the more necessity for the experimentations to be carried to a varied degree - would be the manner for its preparation:
5. First, as has been indicated, in the separating of the ore from slags and impurities (which is necessary for its usage), for a great period an ordinary ore of one form or stage has passed through a state of preparation by the heating to such an intensity that, with the addition of the chlorate, the manganese and the carbon, it has brought forth - by its natural settlements, or natural sediments being removed - a state, or gained such a state (the ore) as to
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turn to metal.
6. In these manners, then, the preparations would be made. When the combinations are made for the various types of the metals, that are later to be re-heated and other properties added - or the variations made in the heat and its working for the production of that temperament wherein it is termed steel; in the FIRST add the current in such measures - not as high as it is in the present, so as to destroy or to break the atomic forces, but - that the direct currents are passed through same in its stages of development. Thus the solution or the problem of its forming into the metal will produce a much different tensile strength, and turn much of that in the varied qualities of ores in the various sections of the producing fields to quite a different usage.
7. Hence the IDEA may be said to be partially correct. Or, if it is carried to its application in the BEGINNING of the operations, then the idea is correct.
8. (Q) Is the arc-resistance type of furnace suitable for this process? (A) The arc; so long as it is made of the DIRECT current - or of that frequency that is the direct.
9. (Q) In what state should the mineral be from which the vibratory rate is to be introduced; that is, solid or liquid? (A) As indicated or given, when the HEATING process of the ore is in its original state - or when it is BEGUN, then the vibratory rate should be applied. MANY processes. And much that has become as the usage, of course, in the various forms of the producing organizations, has arisen from the manner in which these have been handled. Remember, there is a variation in the ore that would be had from Minnesota and Michigan and Pennsylvania and Alabama or Colorado. Yet all of these - the lowest (as some of those, of course, where the larger deposits are indicated) may be turned into the finest, by this electrical force being sent through same in its FORMATIVE stages. For here: Begin at the first, not only of the chemical but of the atomic chemical reaction upon its influence. The very ore itself is classified by that number of the positive and the negative forces or influences that FORM the unit about which the vibration makes it an ore in the first premise, see?
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Then, the very activity of electric energy upon same TURNS same into an energy that becomes different; yet partaking of the very influence or elements that MAKE for the metal-bearing ore to become more of the affinity to that it will produce in its clarification, or when it has been purified, see? Hence we set, then, the first premise: Not in the molten fluid, you see, but in the beginning - before and as it becomes the molten fluid. Thus we will produce, by the very force, that quality force of the character of current passed through same, as to how high the purification does become. Hence it requires, then, that it be set up in such a way and manner that the various experiments with the ore itself may be had; to know the number of the electronic forces or ions or ohms that make up for the force that passes through same in its formative state. 10 (Q) What minerals should be used? (A) FIRST, we begin with that making for its first separation. The minerals, or the greater portions of those that are added, are the amounts of carbon, the amounts of the manganese - that separates afterward. This should be a secondary consideration. Let's BEGIN the process in its formative state. Then we may find how this has added (this passing of the current through same) that tensile strength, that characterization; that will seem so easy once it is shown or perfected, in comparison to all that which has been necessary heretofore to produce a lighter steel and of greater tensile strength - or greater flexibility, lasting. Begin, then, at the beginning.
11. (Q) Should more than one mineral be used at a time? If so, in what order should they be used; that is, one mineral to an anode and a different mineral to each anode of the furnace, if they are to be used at the same time. If at different times, how? (A) This is getting the cart rather before the horse. These would come later, to be sure, but the first passing of the current to make for a different variation from that which has been indicated begins when the ore, the iron ore, is being reduced to the metal state, see? In the beginning, then, for the preparation of the first
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ore, there in only the addition of the lime, the carbon - these with a very small quantity of the manganese (that is, mixed WITH the ores - as these are); then the course of the current through same. Begin with these; then we may aid.
12. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file [See 470-13, Par. R1 for questions submitted that did not get asked.]