This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 12th day of November, 1943, in accordance with request made by the self Miss [3498], new Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research and Enlightenment, Inc.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. (Notes read to and transcribed by Jeanette Fitch.)
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 11:05 to 11:20 A. M. Eastern War Time. ..., Penna.
1. GC: You will go over this body carefully, examine it thoroughly, and tell me the conditions you find at the present time; giving the cause of the existing conditions, also suggestions for help and relief of this body; answering the questions, as I ask them:
2. EC: Yes. Now as we find, the deterioration of the nerve and muscular forces - especially as indicated through the lower limbs has been of long standing. There has been such destructive forces as to cause nerve ends to become almost eliminated.
3. There can be much help, if certain types of applications are made. While these will be long and arduous, if the mind of the entity is set in that direction there may be brought much better conditions for the body, and much help may be given.
4. To be sure, these are partially karmic conditions, yet much of these may be met in this experience.
5. These were brought on by a high temperature and a condition that took away the nerve forces by direction of the lymph centers through the areas that supply activity to the lower extremities - activity as well as muscle and nerve building supplies.
6. These, then, are the manners in which aid may be given:
7. First begin with prayer in self. Pray to be shown - by prayer, to be shown - whether there be the answer within self or not.
8. Then, through deep meditation, even leaving the body almost in same, find there the answer - through the raising of the kundaline forces in the body itself, from the cells within the Leydig gland, so as to carry energies through the body. Get the answer as to whether now, here, we would apply physical conditions for the benefit, for the correction.
9. Then, when this direction has been received (that is to begin):
10. Use at least once a week an Epsom Salts Bath. Put at
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least six to ten pounds of Epsom Salts in twenty to twenty-five gallons of water, thoroughly dissolved and just as warm as the body can well stand to be put in same. If this is prepared so that a bubble bath may be given with same, it would be well. If not use the massage of the limbs, of the spine, especially in the lower portion of lumbar and throughout the sacral areas. Not rubbing with a cloth or an irritant as to produce counter-irritation, but just with the hand on the flesh. Take at least thirty minutes to give such a Bath. Follow this with an oil rub using this combination of oils, adding these in the order named: Russian White Oil or Nujol or the like as the base.........4 ounces, Rose Water.........................1 ounce, Peanut Oil.........................2 ounces, Olive Oil..........................1 ounce, Oil of Sassafras Root............1/4 ounce, Lanolin (liquefied)..............1/2 ounce.
11. These will separate but shake them together before being used, and pour into a saucer. Dipping the fingers in same, massage - beginning at the toes and feet, the ankles, the limbs; massaging thoroughly at least to the 9th dorsal, more thoroughly in the points of the hips, as in those areas of the extremity of the pelvic bone, around the base of the spine, in the coccyx center, the sacral and lumbar centers. These do thoroughly. Take at least an hour to give this massage, and let this ever be not some thing just to be hurried through with but as something to be accomplished and done for a reason - the reason being that attained in the periods of meditation.
12. Do the first things first. Don't get the cart before the horse. Begin with self. Begin with the thought of what the body would do with itself if the improvements were such as for the body even to be able to walk with crutches. What would you do with it? Would it be to the glory of self, to the glory of a person, or to the glory of the Creative Forces in self?
13. In the diet, keep to those things that will bring good eliminations - as in the fresh raw vegetables often, including a great deal of watercress and other such foods that are often used as garnishes but are really the more helpful as the food needed in the body.
14. Do that.
15. Ready for questions.
16. (Q) Would it be possible for me ever to walk? (A) This answer must come within self, as has been
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indicated. Do that, and when the treatment has been followed for a period of twelve months, if it has been applied consistently and persistently for that length of time, we will give further instructions.
17. We are through with this reading. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file " " Miss Goodall for indexing