RGL e-Book Cover 2019©
RGL e-Book Cover 2019©
THE sideric pendulum has been known toSpiritualists as a medium of communication. There was an accountin the papers about a year ago of how a jewel was lost at agarden party, and how the daughter of the host by this method wasable to indicate where it could be found. But these indicationsas to sex, etc., are, so far as I know, new, and of very greatinterest. I tried it fourteen times, without a failure, uponphotographs, in several cases concealing the photograph so that Idid not myself know, until after the ring had given the circle orthe ellipse, what the sex was. It never failed. I find on testingother materials apart from sex that one gets a constantresult— e.g., gold and amber are circular or male, silveris oval, steel and bronze are almost longitudinal. Photographsare, on the whole, better than letters, and recent letters betterthan old ones, but the latter respond for a long time. I had amale circle from a letter 1776. It is a score for Mr. Pussyfootthat the only substance which I have found give the evilreaction—that is, from left to right— is Alcohol.
I agree with the writer that this bears strongly upon theDivining-rod. Even more strongly does it bear upon psychometrywhen a person with sensitive perceptions takes, we will say, alock of hair and derives from it much knowledge about the owner.If so indirect a thing as a photograph can give definiteinformation, how much more might an actual portion of thepersonality be expected to do?
One cannot, so far as I can see, claim the matter as bearingdirectly upon Spiritualism, but it strongly supports theexistence of forces outside our present scientific knowledge.These seem to be of a very subtle personal and psychic nature,which brings them into the same class with those other forces ofetherealized and refined matter forming the basis of the physicalphenomena which inexperienced people have for so long derided anddenied.
The Pendulum And Its History
IT was a warm, dreamy summer night. A tall,middle-aged man sat in his study before a large writing-desk, hisglances wandering idly over the variety of articles on which hehad been experimenting with the sideric pendulum. A solitary lampcast flickering waves of yellow light ever them, while he himselfwas left in a half-shadow.
The name of the men was Frederick Kallenberg. unknown at thattime to the world at large, but destined to be mentioned in thenear and distant future with that of the propounder of the "0d"theory, and the discoverers of the X-rays and radium.
He sat and thought to what new experiments he might ncxt putthe sideric pendulum. At his right hand lay an photograph of hiswife, who had gone the long way from which nobody everreturns—as is commonly supposed. Mechanically, without anyclear expectation uf results, acting, perhaps, on a subconsciouspurpose, he placed it in front of him and for a little while heldthe pendulum over it.
What happened?
Well, the wonder! The wonder will astound the world, justify ahundred times those who always defended metaphysics as anundisputable reality, and put the materialist and other scepticswho thought they could laugh and scorn the divining-rod out ofexistence absolutely and finally in the wrong. And this is meantin all seriousness, too.
For in the hand of Kallenberg, on this summer night, thesideric pendulum proved that the photograph of his wife, whom hehad buried not long before— and, for that matter of that,the photograph of any and every person alive or dead, may he orshe have died but yesterday or a hundred years ago—is not adead reflection of the original, but is living.
And, pray, what is thc sideric pendulum?
To answer that question scientifically needs a somewhat longerexplanation, which I shall attempt farther on. But to answer ifin a way that everybody may grasp at once the stupendousimportance of this discovery, let me say that it is a never-failing divining-rod you can use at home, and not only for thefinding of water and metals and other "dead" bodies, but also forthc exploration and determination of thc character, sex, andmorality of any and every human or animal being from phctographs,handwriting, drawings, in fact, everything that has received thcradio-active emanation from that body. It is not a new thing,either—part of it at least; a fact which makes the disoverynot any the jess great and sensationally important. It may havebeen known in some form or other to the human race from the dawnof ages, as every cccult thing has been known. But pleaseunderstand that the sideric pendulum longer an occult thing. Inhistory, however, we cannot trace it back farther than to theRomans of the early centuries. Under the Emperor Valens {364-378A.D.), so we are told, several leading citizens were accused ofhaving conspired against him and tried to have the name of hissuccessor revealed to them through thc sideric pendulum. They hadused a ring, which, by means of a thread held between the fingersof one hand, was suspended over a vessel of some metal. In itsside, forming a circle, were engraved the letters of thealphabet. The ring began to swing round, but stepped at certainletters, and thus the name sought for was disclosed.
What The Pendulum Does
THE emanation of every body has an individualityof its own, producing different, wel]-specified movements of thependulum. The basic movements are the circle and the ellipse, oroval. The circle signifies the male and positive. the ellipse thefemale and negative—the terms male and female to beunderstood not only as an abstract, but in the ordinary sense ofsex, when the movements are caused by a human or animal body oreven a photograph of them.
When Kallenbcrg made his sensational step into the unknown,conquering for exact science a large part of what up to that timehad been assigned to the realm of metaphysics or occultism: whenon that night he held the pendulum over the photograph of hiswife, supposed to be nothing but a piece of dead cardboard, hefound it to be herself, her "soul," causing the pendulum to swingin certain well-defined geometrical figures.
It is not the purpose of this article to describe hissubsequent experiments in detail, but to report the facts beestablished for everybody to reproduce at leisure and to his ownsatisfaction, for they are not—or at least not in anyremarkable degree—subject to special gifts or medium- shipof the operator.
The basic fact of all what Kallenbcrg has proved is that allliving bodies emanate a substance which at the moment of exposureto the camera is absorbed by the plate or film and conveyed fromthere to every positive print made from it, no matter whetherthey number thousands and thousands. This—it may be well tomention here—applies, however, only to photographic prints,not to reproductions of them in magazines and otherwise, sincethe latter have not been in contact with the original through theintermediary of the film.
That much proved, other experiments following as a matter ofcourse showed that everything having been in contact with aliving being, human or animal—handwriting, articles ofclothing, especially underwear, jewellery, boots and shoes, forinstance—holds and reflects these emanations in a wayunfailingly individual to that body and strong enough to move thependulum even if a pile of books or other obstacles are insertcdbetween it and the object experimented on.
ln all these cases it will be found that over objects producedor used by a female the pendulum will swing in a narrow ellipse(an oval), while the male sex is indicated by a circular swing,even if by nature of the substance different movements shouldoccur. The radiation of the subject dominates the radiation ofthe object.
Take a wedding-ring, for instance. Kallenberg used the oneworn by his wife for twenty years. Being of pure gold thependulum should have moved in a circle, as the character of goldis masculine. But having absorbed the personal magnetism of thewearer for so long a time, it showed the female sign of theellipse.
Again, suppose in a much-used leather case containingdocuments are kept a number of white sheets of paper. When boughtat the dealer's they would produce no movements at all. Buthaving for a considerable time absorbed the emanations of theowner of the case, they would swing the pendulum exactly as theowner would himself.
Further, pure silk swings the pendulum in a wide circle. Ifworn by a man the movements would be the same. Kallenberg, inexperimenting with the tie of a young man who in a state ofunsound mind had committed suicide, found, however, the pendulumswinging in the same confused way over it as it did over thephotograph and handwriting of deceased.
How To Use The Pendulum
TAKE a smooth silk or cotton thread or a woman'shair, about fifteen inches long. Tie a little noose in one end.taking care to cut the loose end of the thread close to the knot,to prevent leakage of the magnetic current into the air. At theother end fix a wedding- or other ring without stones, a goldencollar-stud. or any like article. Other metals will answer thepurpose also, but gold is considered the best. Here, too, theloose end of the knot must he trimmed off. Then push the noose onthe first joint of the foreiinger, which it must fit tightly. Itis not sufficient to wind the thread around the finger.
Now the operator, if he has not done so before, divestshimself of every metallic article, such as watch, keys, coins,pocket-knife, studs, etc., as they might interfere with themovements of the pendulum, that is, stop them or lead todeviations which would tend to wrong conclusions. For the samereason no metallic articles should be in too close proximity withthe place where he intends to carry out the experiments. Also,which is important, he must take care to stand true in the lineof the meridian. with the face turned south, The right hand, palmdownward, forefinger extended and the other fingers closed, israised over the object just high enough so that the ring issuspendcd one or two inches above it. The left arm. being ofopposite polarization, is best held at the back. The picture onpage 181 shows the correct position. The some applies to thethumb, which must not therefore touch the forefinger. For abetter insulation a newspaper or sheet of white paper may beplaced under the object. The pendulum must be held steady, whichwill not be found very difficult even if the experiments arecontinued for an hour or two.
This photograph shows the correct position forusing the pendulum.
As soon as the pendulum has come to rest over the object itenters the orbit or curve of its radiation of ions and begins toswing—usually after a minute or two. All bodies—except corpses, over which the pendulum would remainimmovable—send out electro-magnetic ions.
The circle stands for male sex. Over minerals, differentiatedby the radius and force of the swing in each case, gold, pyrites,and others. Water: over quiet water— water in a glass,ponds, lakes, etc., or their photographs—the swing is quietand regular; over rapids, falls, etc., it is agitated. Just tryit over a photograph of the Niagara Falls.
Ellipse: Female sex. Over minerals it stands for silver, lead,and others.
Straight line or narrow ellipse east to west: Moraldegeneration, abandonment to vice, lying habit. etc. Beware ofthat sign!
The Pendulum Over Letters, Oil-Paintings,Drawings, Handwriting, Music, etc.
ANYBODY having read the foregoing carefully willbe able now to determine at once without any difficulty the sexof a kitten or newly-hatched chicken, or whether a steed shown ina photograph is a horse or a mare, and a bird in a tree male orfemale. But significant as that may seem and undoubtedly is, ittakes second place in importance to the fact that a few lines oreven a single word written a hundred or some hundred years agowill reveal to the experimentator through the pendulum—justas the photograph does —the sex, health or ill-health,morality, temper, and sentiments of the writer. And drawings andpaintings are quite as loose-tongued. For when they were producedthe "I" of the originator, as it then lived and thought and felt,entered the canvas or parchment or paper to stay there for ever;to move this modern divining-rod of an epigonic explorer of theunknown hundreds of years thereafter, and to show to the sceptic,unbelieving world that life is not a thing to vanish at themoment of death.
Now everybody will be able to test the sincerity of a writerof a letter. If a poor nephew should write to a rich uncle: "Mydearest uncle," and the pendulum should move in an ellipse overit—the contrary sign —the uncle would do well to takeit at a discount only. Using the typewriter will not preventdetection, as the emanations of a writer are received andretained by the type-written sheet as well, Anonymous writerswill have a hard time now, as control tests over other specimensof their hand-writing or over photographs may establish theiridentity. Captain Dreyfus could not have been convicted in Parisif the sideric pendulum had been held over his handwriting andthe infamousbordereau.
As every energy is strongest at its source, the swing of thependulum if lowered enough to rest on the photograph or hand-writing will often be turned round in a whirl or attracted sopowerfully by the magnetic force that it stands still.
The Pendulum as Egg-Tester
IMMENSE sums of money will be saved every yearif breeders will test their eggs. Millions of unfertile eggs areannually lost to human consumption and disappointment caused tobreeders, thus wasting time, energy, and money. The pendulum doesnot move over an unfertile egg, but swings in a circle or anellipse over those that will hatch a cockerel or pulletrespectively. So breeders can now determine the proportion of thesexes they want.
The advocates oi the old-fashioned divining-rod are entirelyvindicated now, for the penetrating power of ionic emanation isalmost incredible. It does not make any difference whether aphotograph or hand-writing is tested openly or in a sealedenvelope handed, perhaps, by a friend—which, moreover,would prove thebona fides of the pendulum to any doubter.And if a pile of books or magazines is placed on top of theobject the pendulum will act just the same.
We have, therefore, in the sideric pendulum a precise anddependable divining-rod for the prospecting for minerals orwater.
In view of all these facts it is not saying too much tocall Kallenberg's discovery a new step into the unknown. Thepractical value of it, which seems almost as great as thepossibilities it opens for further research, is sufficientjustification for its publication. notwithstanding the apparentdanger that the revelations of the sideric pendulum may bemisused and misconstrued by irresponsible people.
