This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 30th day of December, 1926, in accordance with request made by self - Dr. [2739].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Hugh Lynn Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 12:00 Noon - Eastern Standard Time. New York City.
1. GC: You will have before you the body of [2739], ... N.Y. City, together with the information as was given yesterday respecting his experiences and urges in the earth's plane, and his ability to apply same in the present - together with the contemplated efforts of those who would establish the hospital of The Association of National Investigators - and you will answer the questions which I will ask you regarding this.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body, the experiences, and the contemplated conditions as respecting the establishing of the institution.
3. To correlate these conditions together would become quite an undertaking; though, as we find, there are many conditions, many plans, many places, and through these the efforts as have already been made, the contemplated plans might be worked out in an effective manner through the efforts of this body; yet there will be many changes to be made in the actions of the body, and much to be learned and much to be UNLEARNED by the body - for there are as many antagonistic conditions to be met as there are antagonisms in the mind of the entity. To correlate these there must be some basis from and through which these will come, for the final analyses or judgment, or of the institution, is to be followed in the way and manner as is set - which would be through the reading - that would be the final analysis, the final answer for each and every condition as would arise. Excepting from that plane we would have very good results, for we would find these would follow along those channels as has been outlined that these may be established, for the benefit of those in the physical, mental, and in the various conditions of life, and there will be seen there will be many elements created, worked out - the ability is within the entity, or body-mind of this entity, to work out many; yet these must be followed much in that channel as has been given.
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4. Ready for questions.
5. (Q) Is Dr. [2739] the right man to organize this hospital? (A) No! Not the right man to organize the hospital, but would be A CORRECT man to conduct same WHEN ORGANIZED. He's not an organizer! For we find these conditions as have been outlined, in the urges and those conditions as are latent and as are developing in the affairs of this body - the body, see, Dr. [2739] is CAPABLE in mind and in the correct ability for which such an institution basically is founded - but to found, establish, or build an institution upon the building principles (which are separate, now) of the body - wouldn't be well - wouldn't be in keeping; but for the institution head, or the institution operative, or the institution as the data gatherer, as an able physician meting out benefits to those who may be drawn to same, the ABILITIES are excellent - and these may be carried out. There are many changes, as has been seen, that should be made in the mental position or attitude of the individual.
6. (Q) Has Dr. [2739] the proper knowledge needed for development of this hospital according to the lines laid down by the reading? (A) He has the proper knowledge, the proper understanding, to a certain extent - but not ALL the knowledge as is necessary.
7. (Q) You will discuss in detail the manner and means of organizing this hospital and how Dr. [2739] should develop it. (A) The discussion of this is as a separate and distinct condition - though they may be merged into one. The foundation of same should be along those lines as have often been outlined for such an institution. That is, a PLACE - presided over by a capable individual, well balanced first SPIRITUALLY - that's the first element necessary in the change for this individual to qualify for such a condition, and the material knowledge as regarding physiology, anatomy, materia medica, hygiene, dietetics, and the mental application of all as respecting the individual - these are necessary qualifications of one heading such an institution. Spiritually set the individual capable of assisting or directing such a place. The place would be any place equipped sufficient to care for those who might be in that position of having those conditions applied to their physical and mental bodies, for the correction or correlating of same, so that physically, mentally, their bodies may be made-nearer whole, performing the functions for which IT - that BODY - has been given the experience in the earth's plane, see? Such a place as has
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been given would find the better surroundings for propagation, at or near the places as given. First, Virginia Beach, Virginia. The elements surrounding same would be that those that enter such an institution would first gain membership, or admittance, through that of the membership to the Association, which would be of the benevolent nature, see? No stock, no dividends - yet charges for the upkeep of the hospital would be in the nominal way and manner, and there may be endowed such places, or rooms, by individuals or groups that would take care of those that are as the beginning of a more perfect understanding of the relations between the spiritual, the physical, and the Creative Energies as are manifested in the material world. Much discussion may be made, many various phases must be considered - the purely material side, the spiritual side, the financial side, the conductive agencies, the abilities of each and everyone to function in their normal place, must be considered - with a head - the head not necessarily the doctor's head, but the doctor's head in that place necessary, and not too high above the rest!
8. (Q) Will Dr. [2739] be able to develop this hospital without additional medical aid? (A) For the present without additional MEDICAL aid - but many assistants of those other natures as regarding the treatment of the bodily ills.
9. (Q) Is this the proper beginning for this hospital? (A) Begin with one, two, three. The proper beginning is when the individuals have qualified THEMSELVES for the beginning! Qualify first! Do not begin and hope to qualify afterwards! The first necessary qualification for the individual is that of the spiritual attitude. The mental and physical attitudes are correct. The abilities are correct.
10. (Q) How may he gain the right spiritual attitude? (A) By fasting and prayer.
11. (Q) How large a building is necessary to begin? (A) One room is large enough to begin - but would be necessary, for those surrounding the conditions, to have from five, six, to ten rooms. We would find in less than twelve months there would be more than fifty necessary though, and in less than three years more than two hundred.
12. (Q) Has Dr. [2739] the business ability to organize and to develop this institution? (A) He has the ability to develop the institution - not to organize. The organizing as is necessary meaning that as of
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the proper correlation of the various elements and individuals who may be associated with same. Another at the head would be better than doctor as head, though doctor heading the medical phase of such an institution.
13. (Q) Who would be the proper person for this head? (A) One such as Morton Blumenthal.
14. (Q) What expense will be necessary at the beginning? (A) Depends upon the character or nature of the paraphernalia, and of the size of the institution. From thirty-five hundred ($3,500) to ten thousand dollars ($10,000), see?
15. (Q) What date should the hospital be started? (A) Today!
16. (Q) Shall Dr. [2739] retain any of his practice in New York? (A) Very good connection, if he has one that would be house physician while away at practice. For the correlation of such, do not spread too much ground at once. Begin with the small beginning. Satisfy self first of the plausibility of a workable basis - for to give the END of that which may be attained through these forces and be developed, he will pass through several generations and ages before he would find the end, see? He would not ever hope to see the end, nor that capable of being gained or learned through such sources; yet satisfy self first of the PLAUSIBILITY, see? of the CONSISTENCY of that being attempted. That would, then, be first through the application of that as is given, making two, three, to five, such applications to individual lives, seeing, knowing, obtaining the results through same. Then gradually build, build, build, see? For, as has been given, FIRST must the application come to the individual. Then to classes, then to masses. Not to masses or classes first, but INDIVIDUALS. Hence the individual application, would the entity conduct such - the individual application of the spiritual forces as must be necessary from WITHIN to APPLY that which may be gained by the entity! In other words, wholly SUBMERGING the ego that the I AM may magnify!
17. (Q) What sort of compensation should be arranged for Dr. [2739] and the hospital? (A) With the proper compensation as is necessary for the spiritual insight the individual obtains. That is, taking care of the material man in a way and manner commensurate with that given out. Not give out expecting to be paid in fame and fortune, but that commensurate with the efforts put forth - three thousand to thirty-five hundred, to four thousand dollars a year, to begin.
18. (Q) How shall the fees between the hospital and Dr. [2739] be arranged?
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(A) This is a matter of business that should be worked out by whoever heads the undertaking, as the club or institution - for, as the matter of the necessary charges for upkeep of hospital, with the necessary equipment and that necessary for the upkeep of those who conduct the affairs of the institution - basically business.
19. (Q) Is Dr. [2739] physically able to organize and conduct this hospital? (A) Physically able.
20. (Q) Is there anything abnormally wrong with the body of [2739]? (A) Nothing physically abnormally wrong. Spiritually - that would be different, for the body spiritually must gain the proper relations as must exist between the mental body, the physical body, and the spiritual body. The application of the one without the other is NOT the whole body. Hence [in] an entity there is the spiritual body, there is the mental body, there is the physical body. To be a physical [healer], or a physician of the material body, without a knowledge of the mental body, and [without] the ABILITY TO APPLY THE SPIRITUAL FORCE, [THERE] IS EXPENDED just part of healer, and a healer for dollars and cents! HEAL FOR THAT OF MAKING THE BODY ONE WITH THE WHOLE! Hence the spiritual insight that the body, the entity, may gain through that of prayer and fasting. The body in a physical manner has those conditions that may be called defects physically, but defects and abnormalities are different conditions. Defect may be made in mental, a defect in physical, or a defect in direction of spiritual! In the defects in physical, these are rather as WARNINGS for this individual, rather than that as of the conditions to be changed. The eyes, the strain on same - the conditions with the gormandized stomach. Yet these may be changed. These are direct conditions, but not abnormal conditions, for these are results of abuse of the physical body. Learn, then, to care for the physical, for the mental, for the spiritual! The body, the mind, the ENTITY, has the ABILITIES [if he will] WILL HE APPLY THEM!
21. We are through for the present.