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 8td).         Divination Methods?           STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION

DIVINATION   What is it, why do we do it, and what's in it for us? Lots of people think it's a way of avoiding responsibility - if the future is preordained, we might as well go back to bed. Of course, that's not it at all. Divination is the use of any one of several methods to obtain information which is not directly accessible to the conscious mind of the person asking the question. Whether you use cards, crystals, a pendulum, ink, lead, dice, the flight of birds or anything else, what you are really doing is opening your end of a channel to higher wisdom.  Consider the "actual" source of that wisdom irrelevant and immaterial; it could be one's own subconscious, the collective unconscious, the Gods' will, telepathic insight, or a big computer buried in the Balkans. It's still additional information which is not as tainted by ego and intellect's limitations as most. So what do we do with it? The same things we do with any other information; add it to what we already know and develop a synthesis that can help us do our decision-making? 

Although there are hundreds of kinds of divination, the principle ones are astrology, geomancy, the tarot, the I Ching, and direct psychic means (especially clairvoyance).  True divination is more than a mechanical system, for it implies true psychic interpretation (receiving). Some form of divination is often used in Magick ritual to communicate with the entity invoked. Since divination operates through the mind, it is affected and biased by the mind. Our attitudes and fears may alter it. Sometimes results are very detailed, and accurate -- but not always.  Often the future is plastic and changeable anyway, and the use of Magick may alter the result.  Thus divination shows tendencies only, which may be helpful, but must not rule us.

DEVELOPING CLAIRVOYANCE

It is possible to improve your natural ability with clairvoyance through  practice. A good start might be to look around you, then close your eyes and try to picture your surroundings. This is also good exercise for visualization. And visualization is an essential talent in Magick. Open your eyes again and check your accuracy.

Then close your eyes and try it again. When you use your physical eyes, look at everything like a child seeing it for the first time. Let the vividness of colour and form burn into you, until everything takes on a veritable glow. Try to capture that glow when you close your eyes now and picture your surroundings. It's just a simple step to extend what you see with your eyes closed into what you remember seeing in the next room, or what you *imagine* seeing in the next building, the next city, even the other side of the world. Don’t expect perfect results, especially at first. Just try to be even partly right. Another exercise is to picture a clock face, and thereby tell the time clairvoyantly.

PENDULUM DOWSING FOR VARIOUS SUBSTANCES

       SUBSTANCE                         SERIAL No.               CORD LENGTH (INCHES)  

SULPHUR                                                                                                                            7

CARBON                                                                                                                            12

CONCRETE                                                                                                                       13

SILICON, GLASS, ETC. (GLAZED)                                                                                14

ORGANIC MATTER                                                                                                           20

SILVER AND LEAD                                 6 or 7                                                                 22

DIAMOND                                                                                                                           24

ALUMINUM ,   (CROCKERY, UNGLAZED)                                                                 25

WATER                                                       2                                                                    26.5

GOLD                                                         11                                                                     29

COPPER                                                                                                                         30.5

IRON                                                             4                                                                     32

NICKEL  (COINS)                                                                                                             32.5

It is odd that the length of cord for diamonds is exactly double the length for carbon of which diamonds are made of, this could be by chance but also could have a hidden meaning? The cord length for oxygen is the same as for water, there for a rusty sword may be between the lengths for water and iron.

For testing objects on a table use a short pendulum up to 8” (same for whole test), before you hold the pendulum over the object steady it, then hold the cord between the thumb and finger over the object. Very soon the pendulum will either oscillate or gyrate, stop the motion by clasping your hangs together; then resume the former position and allow the pendulum to gyrate again. Stop and repeat until the pendulum stops dead!

The number of times it will resume its gyrations before finally going on strike is constant for the subject under test. Thus, when testing over water most dowsers find that the pendulum will start its gyrations only twice before going dead. This number is known as the substance’s serial number, so the serial number for water is two.  Certain substances, usually complex ones, may give odd responses.

Here’s an example for dowsing for say a copper coin, obligingly buried in the garden for us, in our absence. We take up position at one side of the garden plot and stand with the cord of the pendulum held between thumb and finger of the right hand, at 30.5” above the bob. Set the pendulum swinging.   Stretch out the left arm at an angle of 45 degrees to the body and point to the ground. Move this arm slowly backwards and forwards, sweeping the surface of the garden. At a certain point the pendulum will cease oscillating and begin a circular movement. Place a marker on the ground at that point to which you were pointing when this happened. Go to a side of the garden at right angles to the one where you were standing and repeat the exercise. When the pendulum starts to gyrate, put another marker down.

From the point where you were first standing, project a line through the first marker. And from the second starting point, project a second line through the second marker. The point at which the two lines intersect is very near the buried coin. To improve on the accuracy, approach the point of intersection with the pendulum oscillating. When the oscillation switches to gyration which will be by the intersection point put another marker on the ground. Approach the point of intersection again from another direction and again you will get a reaction before you meet it. Put another marker down and keep repeating this until you have a circle of markers around the intersection point, the copper coin will be at the precise centre of this circle. If you are using a forked twig the method of exact location is the same. But with the pendulum if you find say with an unknown object the oscillation and gyration occurs at a length of say 12” then the found hidden object is made of a carbon material. Check above table for guidance.

There are very few proper under ground steams of water, many are streams of energy know to many as Ley lines. Many ancient Sacred site such as Stonehenge and Avebury were built where these lines of energy converge (sometimes called blind springs). It seems the Christians also try to tap into these natural energy force fields as nearly all churches and cathedrals are also built on such sites. But the daddy of all of these sites is Stonehenge, which is covered with a labyrinth of very powerful convergences just as you would expect.

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