This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce in Bowling Green, Kentucky, this 13th day of December, 1907 (?). No copy in our files. This account of it appears in Edgar Cayce''s diary as dictated to Gladys Davis in the summer of 1932.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; T. B. House, Conductor; (?), Steno.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading Unknown.
1. One day, a man came to me and said, "Now, if you could take this gift to a place like New York, you could interest people with money and make all sorts of money out of it. I'm going to write a friend of mine there." Some days later, he came to me with a letter. "Well, I have an answer. Our friend [Paul Cooksey - [740]] says if we can convince him, he is ready to investigate." I said, "Well, let's try it - let's tell him what he is doing right now." He said, "Well, I don't know whether we can do that or not." I said, "I don't know either, but if we can't, there's not much in it." We undertook it, Dr. Thomas B. House conducting the reading.
2. The information was given that the young man was on Williams Street in New York and the hour was such and such. (That was the first time I knew there was any difference in time between New York and Bowling Green). He entered a cigar store. While he smoked a cigarette, he bought at this time a certain brand of cigar and went out smoking it, up the street to his office, and instead of waiting for the elevator (the reading said, "We will have him walk up so he will remember it") he walked up the steps whistling 'Annie Laurie'. In his office, he found a man waiting for him whose business was regarding a piece of property at the end of Williams Street bridge, and the case would be called in the Surrogate Court that afternoon at three o'clock. He turned to his desk and found three letters. One a bill, the other a business letter, the other, a letter from his sweetheart - which began "Dearest". While he was reading this, the telephone rang and he talked with a man by the name of Donnagan.
3. This report was wired to him. The answer came back within the hour. "Your report absolutely correct. A friend and I will leave for Bowling Green this afternoon." There were two or three more experiments with local men, Mr. T. and others connected with the bank. They finally agreed to finance the trip to New York, but I had misgivings about the character of the work. There were also family objections
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and I decided to go no further with it. A few weeks later, this same young man who first approached me came and said, "I understand you have a note in the bank. If you will give me three readings on wheat, I'll pay that note." I finally consented, provided he would have Dr. B conduct the reading and pay him for his trouble. He did this, and the records there show that he received twenty thousand dollars for his three days trading.