Pendulums are a lump of material attached to something which will not constrict its movements. A little later we will discuss different types of pendulums, but basically the radiations which can be indicated by a pendulum are radiations in some way similar to radio. They are radiations transmitted by all and every material as it decomposes, or gets ready to change state. We know, for example, that throughout countless years’ radium decays into lead.
We know that all matter is a whole horde of molecules hopping about like fleas on a hot plate, the smaller the fleas the faster they can jump, the bigger the fleas the slower and more cumbersome. So it is with material. Everything has its atomic number, number of atoms indicating how slowly it is going to vibrate, or how fast it is going to vibrate. So all we do in pendulum work is to tune in to some atomic vibrations, and, if we know how, we can tell which one it is and where it is. When we are dealing with radio we have an aerial system which absorbs or attracts or intercepts (call it what you like) the waves coming through the atmosphere. Perhaps they are bounced back by the Heaviside layer or the Appleton layer, but in addition there is a ground wire which makes contact with the ground wave because you must have two - positive and negative – in everything.
You can take the ground wave as negative and the air wave as positive. So
in the matter of pendulums the human body collects the air wave, acting
as the antenna or aerial, and the feet - both, not just one - in contact
with the ground act as the earth connection, or “ground”. For
correct pendulum work it is necessary to keep the balls of the feet on the
ground unless one uses another method of tapping the earth current. Of course,
using a pendulum is simplicity itself. It is even simpler than simplicity
if we know why a thing works.
You cannot tie a pendulum to a hook and expect it to work
because there would be no source of current. Nor would it be of much use
if we could tie our pendulum to a hook and supply it with current because
the current has to be in pulses varying according to the type of action
desired. Just as in radio we have high notes, low notes, loud notes, and
soft notes, so with a pendulum we must have the necessary current variation
to do ‘the necessary’. Who
is going to vary the current? Well, the Overself, of course. That
is the brightest citizen we have around us, you know. After all, you who
read this are just one-tenth conscious; so knowing yourself, just think
how brilliant you would be if you could call in the other nine-tenths of consciousness?
You can certainly enlist its aid, the aid of the subconscious. The
subconscious is brilliant; it knows everything that you have ever known,
can do everything that you could ever do, and can remember every single
incident since long before you were born. So if you could touch your
subconscious you would get to know a very considerable amount of things,
wouldn’t you? You can touch your subconscious - with practice and with confidence.
The subconscious can also contact other subconscious minds. There are
truthfully no limits to the powers of the subconscious mind and when the
subconscious mind is allied to other subconscious minds; then
indeed results may be achieved. We cannot just ring up a telephone
number and ask to speak to our subconscious because we have to look upon
that Mind as being something like a very absent-minded professor who is
constantly sorting knowledge, storing knowledge, and acquiring knowledge. He
is so busy that he can’t bother with other people. If you pester him enough
in the politest way, then he may answer your requests.
I want to know what I must do to get success at such-and-such a thing. If you are going to make the pendulum work, will you make it swing backwards and forwards to indicate “yes” and from side to side to indicate “no”; just as a human does when he nods for “yes” and shakes his head for “no”. You have to get over a message like that about three times, you have to explain very slowly, very clearly, and very carefully indeed what you want your subconscious to do and what you expect of the test because if you don’t know what you want, then how can the subconscious give you any information? The subconscious won’t know either. If you don’t know what you want, you don’t know when you’ve found it! We started with dowsing, so let us deal first with what we call the dowsing pendulum.
The
dowsing pendulum should be a ball possibly an inch or an inch and a quarter
in diameter. If you can get a very good wooden pendulum so much the better;
or you may be able to obtain a neutral metal one. But for the moment
any pendulum will do as long as it is about an inch; or an inch and a quarter,
in diameter. You should get a piece of thread such as boot-makers use for
stitching on soles. You will need about five feet of it. Tie one end
to your pendulum which should have a little eyelet on the top for that purpose,
and tie the other end to a rod or even to an empty cotton reel. Then
wind all the thread on to the cotton reel so that when you hold the small
cotton reel in the palm of your hand the thread holding the pendulum is
between the finger and thumb of your right hand - your right hand if you
write with that one - but if you use your left hand instead, then, of course,
the pendulum will be in the left hand. First we have to sensitize or
tune our pendulum for the particular type of material we wish to locate.
Supposing we are going to look for a gold mine; first of
all you get a little piece of sticky tape, about an inch long is sufficient,
and then you put just a very small shaving of solid gold on to the sticky
tape and then just lightly push it on to the pendulum. Then your pendulum has a piece
of gold which will sensitize it to that metal. When you have that, put your
ring, or another piece of gold, between your feet as you stand up. Stand
with this gold, such as a gold ring or a gold watch, between your feet and
slowly unwind the thread so that your pendulum lowers to perhaps a foot
and a half from your fingers. At this point the pendulum should swing in
a circular direction; that is, making a complete circle. If it does
not do so, lower the thread a little or pull it up a little, the point being
you have to ascertain the length of thread at which the pendulum swings
most freely for gold. When you have determined that - it may be eighteen
or twenty or twenty-two inches or similar - you make a knot in the thread
and you write down the exact length, such as “Knot One = Gold”
and then you pull off your gold specimen with the Sellotape and pick up
your watch or ring, and put a silver article on the floor; it may be a coin
or a piece of silver you have pinched from somebody else, but it must be
solid silver. You also put a very fine scraping of silver on another
piece of Sellotape and put that on to your pendulum. Then you try
again to find what the correct thread length is for silver. When you
have done that you make another note such as “Knot Two = Silver”.
You can go on doing it for different metals, and not only different metals but different substances. If you make a proper table, then you should have great fun “prospecting”. Generally you will find that in terms of length the first thing to respond (at about twelve inches in length) is stonework. A bit longer thread and you will get glass or chinaware. Longer still and you will get vegetable stuff. Go on increasing the length and you will get silver and lead, and then a bit further on you will find water. Longer still, you will find gold. Still longer; copper and brass and the longest will be iron, and iron will be roughly just less than thirty inches.
So if you want to know what is beneath you,
you just stand there and first of all think of whatever metal you are looking
for. You adjust the length of your thread to the appropriate distance,
and you very slowly walk forward. At all times you must definitely keep
thinking very strongly of that which you hope to find; otherwise, if you
change over and think of something else, then you won’t get it. Apropos
of this let me say that if you are looking for antique porcelain, for instance,
and you suddenly think of women, then you will get the reaction for gold
because the length of thread for gold and for women is precisely the same,
and if a woman thinks about men she will get the reaction as if there was
a diamond under the ground! That, of course, means that you will be
completely misled. It would never do if you got the reaction for a diamond
so you grabbed a shovel and pick and dug, but found instead a dead man.
It could happen! Now, it is advisable to use a shorter-cord pendulum for
everyday indoor use. After all, you don’t want three, four, or five
feet of thread getting tangled up every day. So when you are indoors use
a separate pendulum.
So until you are more practiced at this how about writing
out your questions first and looking at your words to see if there is any way at all
in which the question can be regarded as ambiguous or as having a double-meaning
or is unclear. Let me repeat in big, bold, black capitals
-
YOU MUST BE SURE OF WHAT
YOU ARE ASKING BEFORE YOU CAN POSE THE QUESTION.
Never, never, never let anyone else touch your pendulum as it’s very personal to you; and you alone. It’s got to be saturated with your own impressions. You should have several pendulums, one of wood, one of neutral metal, and - well, you may want a glass one or you may want a plastic one, you may even have one which is hollow so you can put a specimen inside - instead of sticking it up with Sellotape. But you will find one pendulum is more responsive than all the others for personal things, and you can make it even more responsive by carrying it on your person, getting it saturated with your own impressions. If you do that and never let another person use it or even touch it, and then you will find you have something as potent and as useful as radar is to aircraft on a foggy night.
The pendulum cannot
be wrong. Oh yes, you must be sure that your hands are clean before using
the pendulum, otherwise, if, for instance, you have been gardening or stubbing
out a cigarette butt in some poor plant pot at home, then you will get a
reading for the soil content of the pores of your fingers. So be sure
that your fingers and hands are clean. Be sure that your table is clean.
Well, how does one hold this pendulum? One rests one’s
elbow on the table, as already stated, and it should be the right elbow
for a right-handed person and the left elbow for a left-handed person. Then you bend your arm
so that your hand is at such a height from the table that your pendulum,
which is suspended at the end of its chain, rests about two inches above
the surface of the table. You actually hold the chain, string, cord,
or whatever it is between your thumb and forefinger, and if you want
to shorten the chain an inch or so in order to get a better swing - well,
do so. Always adjust the length of the chain or thread between your
finger and thumb so as to get the best swing or indication. Now, that
should be clear enough - you just hold your forearm at such an angle that
you are comfortable. You must be comfortable or you will not be able
to do pendulum work. Similarly, if you have just had a heavy meal
you will not be able to do pendulum work, or if you have something bothering
you greatly unconnected with this pendulum, it will distract your attention.
You must be in a fairly quiet state of mind, and you must be willing to
work with the subconscious.
Read “Candlelight” for more information