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dications that the effect of the mark of this individual nature remains so long as the mark itself is not destroyed, and its emanations are not changed by other contacts.

Such would seem evidence of the eternal nature of something within each individual and appertaining to the individual. The universal and eternal has thus seemed to have taken on some special individual quality, which is one way of saying that the individual life is an eternal, unalterable fact, even though the human consciousness of them is evidently not con- tinuous.

This point, above mentioned, would seem evidenced in considering the case of a dead person, for over any type or kind of representation we may have of that person, we get only the simple movement of "The Pendulum" as for sex, and, no matter in what direction we turn the representation, we find nothing to interfere with that simple movement.

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The Pendulum" would indeed seem to be a means of making visible the invisible, and point evidence in the direction that the universal and eternal principles visible to our reason have their counterpart in the physical world which is rendered in the movevments of "The Pendulum."

Certain events happen, certain people are the actors or participators in those events. We have never seen those people. We do not know who they are, or where they are, or even their sex. Yet knowing the events, we know there must be certain persons to make or participate in the events. Know- ing this, if we make a little line on a piece of paper to represent each such person, with "The Pendulum" we can ascertain the sex of each one and find where each one is. How can we account for all this?

All-Consciousness is the Father of All. Human partial consciousness is

the growing child of the Father. The source of the child life must be the All Consciousness of the Father. And the life flow in each is our nearest contact with the Eternal and the Jnfinite.

Everything that happens becomes a fact, the human consciousness of which is limited by the partiality of human consciousness, but the con- sciousness of which is not limited for the All-consciousness, every fact be- ing eternal for the All-consciousness.

As an example, if I am conscious of an event and that event is the only consciousness I have of the individual or individuals concerned, by simply thinking of them as a part of that event, my consciousness of them, though limited, is true because I can only be thinking of the persons really con- cerned and cannot be falsely imagining it was someone (or others) else. Therefore, when with my limited consciousness of the individual I make a mark on the paper to represent him or her, there flows through my hand that eternal life force which has his or her sex characteristic as well as the characteristics especially belonging to the individual to whom I become partly connected in consciousness by the events concerned. Thus the mark on the paper, proceeding from the eternal force passing through me and taking on an individual characteristic due to my thought of the individual, will in every direction, except one, show the ordinary movement of sex, and in one position, i.e., in line with the individual will be immobile, because the flow of the vitalforce (individual vibrative energy) from the individual will in that position neutralize the flow of the same force coming from my con- sciousness of the individual. Accordingly, "The Pendulum" may well be the

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means of objectifying the personal identity with the close-knit unity of the entire ETERNAL.

Experimental evidence with the pendulum. While the theories of the

operation of the pendulum are interesting and thought provoking, it is in relation to experimental evidence that it is particularly important.

In this regard, let us first consider a quotation by A. A. Voysey, and then study some of its experimental possibilities.

So thrilling are the things revealed by "The Pendulum" _{that I feel} something ought to be published as soon as possible. But the reader is asked to remember that in a new and extraordinary study of this kind there must necessarily be a growth of experience and ideas which may tend to modify the present provisional statements later on. Owing to the inter-position of the human being as the main agent in the use of "_{The Pendulum," the sub-} ject can hardly be treated as an exact science, and it is quite possible that we have to face conflicts of results, not only owing to personal differences in the observers, but due also to lack of experience with regard to possible causes of interference. Whatever we have yet to learn in the use of "

The Pendulum," the powers already revealed in it are among the most extra- ordinary and illuminating in human experience, and no excuse is necessary for an earnest consideration of its capacities.

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The Pendulum" _{unquestionably has an old and interesting history, but} long as it has been known, there does not seem to be any evidence that its true worth, vast importance, and significance has yet been realized. It not only reveals most extraordinary things in human experience, but it helps us to carry human consciousness of the invisible world higher than it has ever gone before, making visible through the reason that of which the eye of the flesh alone could never become conscious.

Objectivity of pendulum research. While it is true that the human

factor is interposed in experimenting with "The Pendulum," that need he no barrier to its scientific study. Experimental psychology con- tinually meets that challenge and rises above it. For in "The Pendulum" is a tangible, material agent (a recording machine, as it were), and while what it records is, of itself, introspective, its records are de- cidedly objective and as such capable of not only observation but even statistical checking.

Systematic experimenting with "The Pendulum" could involve the keeping of careful records of its responses, and then checking against the correctness or failures of its indications, thus determining its percentages of accuracy both in relation to itself (as an instrument) and its various operators. Ramification of such tests can go in all directions from the discriminating of sex, location of persons, de- termining live names from dead, accuracy of the answers to questions pertaining to both present and future, and down through the entire

list of capabilities credited to "The Pendulum.

Experiments can even proceed on further into the parapsychological

;field, using "The Pendulum" as an instrument of telepathic reception

and clairvoyant insight in connection with the experimental operator. .Here is a great opportunity for research.

Fantastic as does a consideration of "The Pendulum" seem, it deserves no criticism, for the evidence of its truth or fallacy are clearly evident for all to investigate.

The pendulum in relation to miracle. For us, in our search for per-

formable miracle effects, "The Pendulum," quite independent of its research possibilities, holds tremendous fascination. For here is as- suredly a subject of great controversy and potential miracle perform- ; ance of amazing interest to all beholders.

If these facts of operating the pendulum he true, here, indeed, in this simple form, is one of the greatest miracles ever presented man- kind. You be the operator and the judge. But on one point we can certainly agree, the pendulum can produce "miracles" that will prove bewitching fun for everyone.