The 1800-series of readings were given by Edgar Cayce to help his associates better understand some of the technology he consistently recommended.

1800-28:

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21. In those experimentations of the RADIO-ACTIVE APPLIANCE:

22. Not near sufficient experimentation has been given these products for commercial
distribution. These CAN be produced in such ways and manners as to
become a product that may be COMMERCIALLY distributed, as well as one
for a specific condition. And this will be, as has been indicated for
same, a type of appliance for bringing rest to the weary, rest to those
who have been inclined to depend upon sedatives and narcotics for rest;
to those who have been under great periods of stress or strain; to
those who seek to find an equalizing influence that will assist them in
producing a coordination in their physical and mental beings with the
spiritual affluence and effect of its activity of spirituality upon the
body-physical.

23. Hence this will lead to great specific fields of activity for this product, yet
in it is to be considered to be prepared for such – as ye are forming into a
corporation or organization for definite purposes for carrying out the
PRINCIPLES, the ideals and purposes for which the organization has come
into being and that the corporation is to function in those same lines
becomes apparent, or else it becomes that where it defeats its own
purpose.

24. Experimentations here are necessary that in making for a commercial product it is not
carrying so much then the appearance of being handmade, or amateurish –
so as to be considered not worthy of consideration. Yet this may be
produced in a cabinet or box where its activities may be such that they
may be tested upon the BODY; NOT as that the ohms or the discharges as
are created in the extremities of the body itself are the active forces
and not the instrument, though the testing will be that when the body
HAS produced that vibration that causes or produces the movements of
the measurements that would be upon the instrument itself, it is time
to remove from the body and not time to attach to body. For this works
with the vibratory influences of the bodily force itself. Hence it is
as a magnet. Hence a radio-magnet that applies or supplies from the
very vibratory forces of the bodily functionings that as produces a
coordination of the activity of the nervous system as related to the
actions of the cerebrospinal and sympathetic or vegetative nerve system
by its application to the body in the ways and manners that produce to
the central nervous system, as they reach the extremities, and
influence of a vibration that affects the glandular system in
reionizing the body, recharging and revitalizing the body.

25. For as the body breaks down the activities by exercises mental or physical,
there are used energies yet not ALL are active; for the muscular forces indicate
that unless all coordinate one with another these then produce a fag in
some portion of the body – but is the rest of the body worked down? As
is indicated by the very principle upon which this acts, then, these
produce that in the body itself that will RESUSCITATE and revive same.

26. Do not build same so that they short circuit in their very activity, as
has been indicated by there not being at all times the proper consideration to the
insulations between the sixty percent carbon steel that will vibrate to
that activity of the bodily function itself, PROVIDED same is set in
the elements (as carbon) that BUILD UP the radio-activative force of
the circulatory system itself. [As in 261-26.]

27. These then have not been at all times considered how these are to
be kept as a magnet.

28. When there is an influence that short circuits even a U magnet, what
happens to its ability to attract or to throw off? This is built not as a U but as a
GENERATIVE magnet, that in each connection with the body the short
circuiting is to be the flow of the body-fluid in the vibration of the
pulsation of the body itself, and not in the instrument itself.

29. Hence the wrapping of these with the coil each connecting with its OWN SELF,
not one with the other, will assist; but keep each one of the metals in such a shape
that they do not through ANY connection short circuit in the appliance
itself.

30. The wrapping of same is MOST necessary. Not only (this is for
commercial use, to be sure) with the coil or the wire but when the taping is to be put into the
container, and the container as it is to be in water for its charging
of temperature, which affects the various portions of the activity of
the instrument or the metals as well as having its influence upon the
bodily functions, this must be considered – that it is to have then an
insulation about same. Ye have used charcoal. This is very well for the
individual use, but bakelite or its equivalent will be found to be much
more considerate when ye are making same for commercial use.

31. Hence a formula or an activity of same must be worked out. Not that
ye cannot experiment with that ye have. This, rather than with the bakelite as yet – or a
Double X. These are different forms of paper and a bakelite substance.

32. Then, in those that are builded for individual use, or built
to order:

33. These, too, must present not that continually of giving disturbance
by the breaking of crocks, or the conditions that make for factors that become
troublesome. But there must be used elements or containers that do not
in their expansion make for destruction to the solutions that form the
very living forces for their effect upon the body. But so build them
that in their expansion, as in hard rubber or a composition of rubber,
these may have in the cases themselves a packing that will allow for
this expansion. These, however, are always to be built only to
specifications, but adhere to those specifications. Prepare self in the
ways and manners that these may offer the very best possible. You are
working under conditions that to you are not satisfactory, but if you
are not giving your best under these conditions if you had the IDEAL
conditions you wouldn’t give your best either! and don’t fool yourself
that you would! Because he that says he would give to the poor if he
had a million, and doesn’t give when he has ten cents, wouldn’t give if
he had a million! The same applies in the preparations of those things
that represent ideals and principles and purposes. Not that ye are
perfect but that ye would GROW!

34. Each and every soul then that would touch these, in any form or
manner, dedicate their lives to a service for humanity! And those
not willing to do so, GIVE IT UP!

35. In the abilities for the individuals to know how the charges
work upon their bodies, whether discharging through principles of vibrations
from emanation to the body or whether carrying a discharge of electrical
vibration through some specific portion of the body, use here also an indicator
such as that that indicates the nominal strength. And this should be that when
the appliance has been set in motion before attached to the body, it builds
up to a certain discharge. And then as it’s given in each specific
case, whether twenty minutes, thirty minutes, thirty-five minutes,
forty minutes, it will be found that when it has built to a certain
charge it will require that period for it to discharge in THAT
particular body. And when it has reached then its low ebb, it is here
ready to be taken from the body and to be allowed to recharge itself.
For here, in this appliance, the charge is built in the instrument, to
be discharged in the body; while in the Radio-Active the BODY builds
the charge to be discharged through the instrument into other portions
of the body – working just the opposite, you see, one to the other.

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