This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 8th day of March, 1937, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [707], 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. [688], [707] and [1183].
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 11:00 to 11:30 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. Washington, D.C.
1. GC: You will have before you the entity known as [707], born November 2, 1876, in Coosa Co., Alabama, and the information given this entity in Readings through this channel on October 23, 1934, and especially as related to the experience as Tecum Tec in the vicinity of what is now Talladega, Ala. You will give the entity further directions to assist him in locating the moneys, gold, jewels, etc., buried at that period by him. Answer questions.
2. EC: Yes, we have the entity here, [707], the information that has been given as respecting the activities of the entity in the earth's plane; and especially in reference to that which has been given regarding buried treasure.
3. As we find, many things, conditions, enter into the consideration of those experiences and those conditions.
4. First, as has oft been given, each experience of an entity in the earth's plane is for its development, as related to what an entity does about the Creative Forces in its relationships with its fellow man.
5. In the experience of the entity in that particular period, that treasure - as would be called today represented the exchange between the Whites and the Indians; the entity being the Chief or Chief Medicine Man as related to its brothers and its associations.
6. Hence the treasure first in itself belongs to the entity in the present. Hence there will not be any of those influences that are as innate forces to prevent the entity from exercising in the material plane the emotions as may arise from the experience of the entity in the environ, in aiding the entity to locate same.
7. Rather these become helpful, these become a part of the experience.
8. Hence as has been given and intimated for the entity, it would be well - for not only the material satisfaction but for the mental satisfaction - that the entity attempt at
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least to locate same; by being in that portion of the land during certain seasons, as has been given. For then there are the natural forces, or nature's forces that would work together with the desire of the entity in making the proper, definite location or site of same.
9. Then, to give something of the background, these to be sure now represent an activity in a period when the landscape or the material environ was in that period when the entity now called [707] - was in that experience.
10. It was near what is now Talladega, Alabama; to the West, and a little south, there is what is known as the old Indian camp of this entity's people.
11. It was from that camp that all of those peoples of the Cherokees as well as the other tribes held or had headquarters. From there were given out the various distributions of not only the hunting lands but the farming lands for the associated tribes.
12. The entity then, when there was in those periods the coming of the white man, with Levitt(?), Boone and others into the territory, eventually made an exchange for the privileges or trades or barter of the use of those lands. And when the entity with the Indians or his own peoples journeyed from the land, the entity received the exchange that was given and made a cache of same, that there might be at the period of the gathering of ALL the warriors, all the various tribes as were represented, an equal and proper division of same. It was then in 1769 to 1789-90-98.
13. Hence as has been given, the entity made for a development during that particular period in the very concept of the idea of dealings with not only its own peoples but all those who were contacted.
14. Those friendships meant much not only to the Whites but to those of its own native peoples.
15. Now: In making the location in the present, it would be well first that the entity go to those grounds themselves - see - alone! In the evening and early morning, go about the grounds; for they are still marked, not only by the clearings and the various mounds where varied activities were carried on in a main camp of the entity's people, but the entity then will be able in its meditation, in its seeking - not digging, but seeking within self - to find much returning to self of the experience.
16. To be sure, the stream of water is now very small, compared to what it was during those particular periods. These interpretations, to be sure, then, become somewhat harder to make; but there will be found that ledge over the stream nigh unto where there was the conduit of cedar; not
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visible to the eye in the present, that was arranged by the entity as a means of sanitation as well as a means for a supply of water in another conduit (these were of cedar, but they are still a part of this).
17. And when this is found, this will point the way to where the entity may locate the treasure.
18. To be sure, this is not to be just go and picked up; it will require much of self's own meditation in same, and then there may be the aids given as progress is made.
19. When there is the locating, then first there must be a returning to the conditions as exist in the present. The lands are under the supervision of companies that have been organized for not only the farming and the mineral rights but both are taken into consideration. The owners then are to be considered, after there is determined where search is to be made. The owners are to be then reckoned with, that there may be in all, in every way, no questions of any legal phases to arise.
20. Begin by first going then to those environs, those surroundings; and these then may be gradually REALIZED, EXPERIENCED - the happenings of the entity in the experience at that period!
21. The amount is sufficient for the entity to give due considerations for its location, to say nothing of the satisfaction of the proof of many phases of human experience that are now only partially conceived of.
22. Ready for questions.
23. (Q) Approximately how far southwest of Talladega, Ala., is the site? (A) The inquiry would be made as to the old Indian camping ground. This is approximately a mile and a half to two miles. But the inquiry would be made as to the location, and the best one to inquire from is the Postmaster at Talladega!
24. (Q) By what landmarks now visible may I recognize the location? (A) As has been indicated, there are still the mounds, there are still many of the indications of an old camp ground; and the stream that is about a hundred yards from the main body. Along the line of the conduit is the manner - where the way is to be sought. But the first activity is for the entity to get, as the best words would be, the "feel" of it, the experience of it, by quiet, meditation about the grounds. Not attempting to reason by what may be materially seen in the beginning, but to get what would be called a "day dream," an introspection of self, seeing self in the role of the Chief Medicine Man and the Chief of the Tribe, or what would be called today the last word in all of
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those five, yea ten tribes who made that their headquarters. And the "feel" of this, as it comes over the entity. Do not reason from purely material. Take time; two, three, four days. And then begin to make marks, and we may aid.
25. (Q) How deep is the cache from the present surface of the ground? (A) Let's rather take the first things first. As we find this will be about sixteen to eighteen feet to the ledge, and it is a part of the ledge. But let's begin and do the first things first, and we will have all of the good that was the prompting of the entity. This becomes rather hard to put into words, because it must be felt rather by the entity - the good the entity would do, the purposes at the time it was put there; also there is the reasoning, if it's reasoned, as to what it will be done with in the present. Do not confuse these, but do the first things FIRST! And if it requires many returns to the same territory, it will be worth it; not only in treasure but in satisfaction.
26. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file