Abbe Mermet first published his findings regarding radiesthesia 75 years ago in this landmark work, detailing techniques and experiments rather than theories – believing that no theory could fully account for all facts.
He became widely known for introducing brass pendulums equipped with Witness Chambers, hollow spaces drilled in their top that could be accessed by detaching their top.
Principles and Practice
Dowsing or radiesthesia is an ancient art that involves using a pendulum to detect invisible energies. The practice dates back thousands of years, used by ancient Egyptians, Chinese, and Indians alike to find underground water sources, minerals deposits, missing persons and mines; even Queen Elizabeth the 1st sent German miners trained in this technique to find veins of ore before digging with hoe and shovel.
Radiesthesia has often been seen as an act of witchcraft; those who use it to locate items or send healing energy could consider you crazy; fortunately, modern science now recognizes radiesthesia as an established field.
Radiesthetists assert that all living things, from animals and plants to people, possess energy fields containing vibrational information called auras. Aura colors and intensities vary according to organism or object types and some individuals possess the natural ability to see these auras while others can acquire it through practice. Radiesthetists believe these colors and patterns reflect electromagnetic energy produced by objects; using this principle they use dowsing rods to locate people or objects using their auras.
Dowsing involves various techniques, but most involve long rods or strings as tools. One popular form is L-shaped or ring dowsing rods which come in various lengths. Most commonly made out of brass and copper but others made of gold or silver have also been made. Abbe Mermet was an accomplished modern radiesthetist; his book chronicled his discoveries; he became well-known for locating water sources as well as lost or stolen items across South Africa as well as long distance water source detection known as “tele radiesthesia“.
Dowsing for water, minerals, or objects has long been used by radiesthetists; but recently medical dowsing is also used to detect illnesses in their patients or assess medication effectiveness. Medical dowsing is a subfield within radiesthesia that uses simple dowsing tools to measure vibrational interactions between objects and the energy systems of individuals.
Experiments
Abbe Mermet presents various experiments using a pendulum to demonstrate its use and demonstrate its capabilities in his book “Principles & Practice of Radiesthesia“. Additionally, he describes dowsing for water and minerals – his area of speciality; furthermore radiesthesia was often employed for diagnosing illnesses or disease using this approach, which was documented through written reports by Mermet himself.
Radiesthetists work under the assumption that all objects, whether living or inanimate, emit vibrations that create an audible tone which has its own colour – sometimes congruent with what we perceive of as the object’s color; other times not so; for instance a green deciduous tree may or may not emit sounds with hues identical to its visible hue.
All objects, including humans, produce vibrational fields which can be detected by radiesthetists with their pendulum. Furthermore, each object emits its own main radiation which radiates over a broad area and can be detected even from faraway when there is strong connection between dowsing device and object being sensed.
Dowsing (radiesthesia) has an extensive history, dating back to prehistoric times. Even today, people still use dowsing rods for finding underground water or materials. Jesuit missionaries used this technique extensively when searching foreign countries for medicinal herbs and mineral waters for herbal medicines or mineral water treatments; French Jesuit priest Abbe Mermet became well known as an accomplished radiesthetist after publishing an important book about it around 1930 (“Comment J’opere”).
Wilhelm Reich created an orgone energy system using radioesthesia that is now studied worldwide. Radionics was another offshoot of radiesthesia which the German army utilized during both World Wars for mine detection. Dowsing rods have also been employed by Feng Shui practitioners since 3000 BCE for locating springs and choosing building sites; today this ancient Chinese practice can also help detect healthy energies within houses.
Conclusions
Madame Marguerite Maury was an expert in teaching Radiesthesia, particularly its medical application. As a former nurse and massage therapist with remarkable results, Madame Maury became intrigued with Radiesthesia after discovering an eczema case that failed to respond to conventional treatments; upon experiencing its promise she decided to devote all of her free time and energies to teaching it and sharing its secrets with those eager to discover its mysteries.
This book is the first in a five-book series designed to introduce readers to radiesthesia (dowsing or divining). Written specifically with beginner readers in mind, this comprehensive course includes methods, exercises, and tips which will allow them to gain confidence and accuracy with this remarkable technique.
Dowsing can help locate underground water and minerals, missing people or objects, illness in humans and even detect cancerous tumors. While not well understood by scientists, recent advances in quantum physics provide some support for this ancient practice; nonetheless, many remain closed-minded towards it as an option.
Abbe Mermet was an ardent Roman Catholic, so to publish a book about the art or magick of dowsing with a pendule would have broken through the Church’s veil of silence around its own magickal operations and did not receive its Apostolic blessing from either himself or his Jesuit teacher.
Early in the eighteenth century, it was discovered that one could detect someone’s ailments by passing one’s hands over them, or using a pendulum over their energy field or something of theirs (e.g. a piece of string) with each movement indicating which remedy best fit that individual.
Appendices
Throughout the 1950s and 60s, Dr. Carrel worked alongside other French priests – mostly priests – on what was known as “radiesthetic work in medicine.” This scientific approach to diagnosis and treatment uses pendulum designs and charts with special pendulum faculties to seek out and treat real root causes of disorder or disease before prescribing homoeopathic remedies that would support creative medicine – with great success; so much so that in 1969 Psionic Medical Society with both medical and lay membership was formed to support and advance this method of healing.
Underlying this exercise was the emphasis on not relying on intellectual evaluation of truth but instead using a chart of relative truth positioned over magnetic rubber to reduce interference from intellect. Furthermore, participants learned the value of working on actual problems instead of simply theoretical ones as this allows progress to occur more efficiently.
An additional appendix provided information on locating springs of water using a dowsing rod, and included a list of 53 major and minor springs located throughout England and Wales – making this text particularly valuable.
This book, along with Abbe Mermet’s “Principles and Practice of Radiesthesia,” is one of the dowsing classics and should be included in every dowser’s library. Although Maby affirmed the dowsing of physical radiations, he believed that anything beyond this was divination or nonscientific divination which made his method nonscientific and subjective – however this could have been avoided had he developed and utilized the necessary instruments for exploring supersensible forces; otherwise he would have fully utilized their potential within radiesthetic faculty’s unique role within truly scientific approaches to healing; unfortunately only gradually acknowledged now by practitioners themselves!
