Elements of Radiesthesia (Translated) E-Book

Pietro Zampa

• Herausgeber: David De Angelis
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Beschreibung

Index

Part One

What is dowsing

Historical notes

Applications of dowsing

Means and tools

How to use the devices

Dowsing faculty of individuals

Some elementary notions of physical dowsing

Fundamental ray solar ray, capital ray

Attraction, repulsion, polarity

Initiation to dowsing

Rotations, oscillations, Witnesses, impregnation and disimpregnation, identity

Eye radiation - Orientation without a compass

Harmful waves and beneficial waves

Radiation at a distance

Is there such a thing as brain radiation?

About the canvas - dowsing

Colors

Part Two

Dowsing in aid of Public Security

Dowsing against the enemies of the nation

Part Three

Search for minerals, archaeological remains and treasures

Part Four

Dowsing applied agriculture

Part Five

The witness bag of Rev. Father Bourdoux and his cares

Part Six

Radiesthesia and medicine

Part Seven

Other useful applications of dowsing

Conclusion

Leseprobe

Elements of Radiesthesia

Theory and Practice

PIETRO ZAMPA

Translation and edition 2021 © David De Angelis

All rights reserved

Index

Part One

What is dowsing

Historical notes

Applications of dowsing

Means and tools

How to use the devices

Dowsing faculty of individuals

Some elementary notions of physical dowsing

Fundamental ray solar ray, capital ray

Attraction, repulsion, polarity

Initiation to dowsing

Rotations, oscillations, Witnesses, impregnation and disimpregnation, identity

Eye radiation - Orientation without a compass

Harmful waves and beneficial waves

Radiation at a distance

Is there such a thing as brain radiation?

About the canvas - dowsing

Colors

Part Two

Dowsing in aid of Public Security

Dowsing against the enemies of the nation

Part Three

Search for minerals, archaeological remains and treasures

Part Four

Dowsing applied agriculture

Part Five

The witness bag of Rev. Father Bourdoux and his cares

Part Six

Radiesthesia and medicine

Part Seven

Other useful applications of dowsing

Conclusion

Pietro Zampa, a master

Dowsing in Italy is linked to a name: that of Eng. Pietro Zampa. Who knew him before the war remembers a physiognomy that made one think of the great altitudes and had the placid majesty of it: the whiteness of the snows and the blue of the sky. That blue that was in his eyes flashed just at times under the thick eyebrows when the fine and good-natured smile appeared shaded by the white moustache on which the nose curved between the still florid cheeks. Noble and imposing in bearing, he had the sly tranquillity of the philosopher who listens and meditates and whose witty phrases suddenly amaze you, and he was so profound a philosopher that he thought he hated philosophy; because he understood the great things that are clear only to the simple and escape the complicated and abstruse minds. His judgment was always upright and clear, and inspired by the highest spirituality, for he was a sincere believer and kept his eyes fixed on the eternal. Like all the pure in heart, he had a chosen mind and the soul of a child: in life he was naive and therefore he was never fortunate, of the fortune sought by the greedy and the ambitious: his fortune was not of this earth, it awaited him in the hereafter. Life took everything from him before it gave him death; or rather he gave everything to life. When I saw him, the dear Master and friend, for the last time in August '42 in Miramare di Rimini, in a little garden not far from that beach that the war was about to upset with iron and fire, and that at that time was still populated by colourful and playful bathers, he had already given all his vitality to work, study and adverse fate. In the last refuge of his existence, from which he would not have been able to escape at the approach of the horrendous bloody storm that he (a valiant fighter in the war of 1915) detested with his deep humanitarian sense, Pietro Zampa was almost nailed on an armchair by his unsteady legs and could not recognize me except in the voice that greeted him moved, because his eyes already full of light could not see anymore. The lonely soul still shone in him with the hope of the future beyond the future. And he was comforted by the devoted and unalterable affection and assiduous care of his soul mate. Then his dear and noble figure disappeared into the darkness of events, cut off by that insurmountable barrier of armed men that for months and months divided Italy in two. I no longer received even his letters that another hand wrote for him, faithfully reproducing his thoughts. Afterwards I searched for news of him in every way and finally I was able to get it, but not from him, because he was no longer there. In July '44, while he was dying, the streets around him were sprayed with deadly volleys and not even the doctor could reach his bedside. He, thus, calm and serene left the earth amidst the roar of the most frightening storm, yearning for boundless serenity.

He was born in Bologna in 1877; he descended from a noble family from Forlì which included, in addition to his father, a famous doctor, other illustrious members, such as the Napoleonic general Giovanni Zampa and Count Carlo Matteucci, a distinguished physicist; but his talent was particularly versatile, ranging from technology to art with surprising ease. After graduating in engineering in Italy, he lived and worked abroad and in 1918 he was called to direct a large industrial plant in Milan. He designed and directed the laying of underground telephone cables in Liguria and Tuscany and in part those of the national network in Calabria and Sicily with the relative laying of submarine cables. He had a great passion for agriculture and in 1896 he was the first to introduce the use of Sack ploughs and chemical fertilisers in Umbria; he then advocated the large-scale cultivation of soya and sugar sorghum. In 1920 he was the first to compress methane gas into cylinders to power internal combustion engines. His technical writings are numerous and document his knowledge and prodigious activity in these fields. A fertile and brilliant musician and man of letters, he expressed his soul in wide-ranging operas, of which he also conceived and wrote the plots and librettos, preferring classical forms and drawing inspiration, while maintaining a personal originality, from his highest artistic ideal embodied in the sublime genius of Verdi, for whom he had a deep veneration. His musical studies had been perfected under the guidance of the great Maestro Giulio Massenet. Of Pietro Zampa's nine operas, some have been performed in important Italian theatres with flattering success. But what particularly interests the scientific environment of our readers is that Pietro Zampa was the first to introduce Radiesthesia in Italy. His mind, open to all possibilities, had grasped the occult essence of this apparently magical science, founded on the physical reality of the universe vibrating with intense life, radiating infinite energies in an incessant exchange of communications from star to star, from atom to atom, from psyche to psyche. He understood that grandiose phenomenon which leans its manifestations on the most refined human sensibility, for the reception of the irradiations of the bodies and of the vibrations of the thought, and launched the first word on which the Italian Radiesthesia is building its solid scientific basis. This is the best proof of the faculty of intuition of Pietro Zampa, in whose hand the pendulum swung and turned speaking a clear and precise language, which translated into nods on the dials he devised the unknown realities and revealed to him the secrets of the brain no less than those of the subsoil. His volume "Elements of Radiesthesia" has taught and teaches to all the wonders of this science; his other book "Radiesthesia in Psychical Investigations" presents the way of measuring and evaluating the intelligence, mental aptitudes, qualities and defects of human beings. And his dowsing novels: "The Treasure of the Rocca-bruna" and "Atonement" are two typical literary jewels full of fine humour and dramatic sense at the same time, illustrating the advantages of the application of Dowsing to practical life. All these works are published by the Vannini Publishing Company, which had also entrusted him with the direction of its Dowsing Library. In the world everything passes and everything is renewed, but the truths remain incorruptible and eternal. Pietro Zampa had found a truth, believed in a truth. This truth we also, by studying and experimenting, seek and love with him, even now that he is no longer here. Continuing his work we pay homage to him who was our dear and unforgettable Master.

Preface

One day (since then several years have passed) a noble and learned French lady, who had just returned from a journey to her native country, showed me a sort of pendant attached to a string, and asked me: "Do you know this?" I blushed at my ignorance, and had to confess, that I was not at all acquainted with the pretty trinket, which she continued to dangle before my eyes, and that I had no idea what it might be. Well," she said, "this trinket is a magical, wondrous thing, because it can answer in the affirmative or negative to all the questions you wish to ask it. And as I looked astonished at my kind interlocutor, not knowing whether she was being serious or mocking me (which she does with such grace and sparkling vivacity, all Parisian) she grabbed my right hand and on the back of it suspended her pendant by the thread that held it. And I saw the pendant, without any thrust being impressed upon it, move spontaneously and begin to swing along the longitudinal axis of my hand. Then the young lady in turn extended her right hand and gave me the pendulum to hold, which, this time, began to turn whirling on the back of her hand. I stood speechless. "And that is nothing;" she went on to say, "it is nothing at all compared with what this pendulum can say and do. I don't know how old you are, but I can tell you at once. And in fact, after having written on a large sheet of paper a beautiful series of numbers, from 40 upwards, lightly touching my right hand with his left, he began to hold the famous pendant suspended with his right hand, first on 40, then on 41, then on 42, and so on until 58.

"You are, then, fifty-eight years old," she said to me, and I, not being a woman, nor having any reason to conceal my age, had to say, "It is true." "But you are something more than fifty-eight; there must be a fraction of a vintage to add: the pendulum tells me so. Let me see if I can guess again." And he wrote, on another sheet of paper, from 1 to 12, that is, the months of the year; and repeated the operation of before. Now I was born at the beginning of December and we were, at the time of this experiment, in April, therefore 4 months to add to my 58 years. And the pendulum, which had always reacted negatively on 1, 2 and 3, began to turn when it was above 4.

"Do you wish to know also the number of weeks, of days, of hours?" continued the amiable young lady to ask me. "No, no, that's enough for me; that's enough for me!"

I was, more than astonished, stunned. Why and how that trinket now swung and now spun I could not understand. Magic? Spiritism? Mediumship?... Yes, I confess it; at first I believed that the pendulum obeyed to some occult force; later on, studying in depth this phenomenon on authoritative texts of eminent scientists and pious priests, I found the explanation of many facts that in the first times were shrouded in mystery. But from that day on, when I returned home, I immediately began to make myself a trinket to serve as a pendulum, and I applied myself to making trial after trial, experiment after experiment. Unfortunately - I recognized it later - I lacked the basis for obtaining good results. I considered, in those first times, the pendulum as a simple toy, ignoring its prodigious possibilities, and the immense vastness of the new and almost unknown science that gravitated around it! If I guessed anything by means of it, I acknowledge that it was by mere combination, or because, unconsciously, I had operated according to the rules of art. I was, in short, in the same condition as a child who has a good piano before him. He does not know how to play it; but it may be, that when he lays his little fingers on the keyboard, he will draw from it a beautiful consonant chord; but to make pleasant sounds, beautiful melodies, to make him sing, in a word, it is necessary for the child to study for several years, not only the piano, but solfeggio and harmony. After a few months that I was swinging and turning my pendulum, the first Treatise on Dowsing I read came to my hand: the beautiful one by René Lacroix à-l'Henri. It was a real revelation for me; it was as if God had given me a new visual power that allowed me to explore, with my glances, distant regions that dense clouds kept hidden from me. I saw unknown countries, astral worlds that my mind had never conceived of. And then I was invaded by the eagerness to know more and by the ardour of research. A very good friend of mine came to help me by providing me with a number of foreign publications which illustrated diffusely and with richness of data and theories, all this great scientific problem of Radiesthesia. And the more I studied it and the more I experimented it, the more I was aroused in me the wonder and the admiration for this science which, through the cosmic waves and the vibrations of the bodies and of the ether, puts us, almost, in direct communication with the Creator of the Universe. So, continuing to study, and comforted in this by my dear and learned friends Dr. Aldo Buttazzoni and Dr. Valerio Perchiazzi who so much enlightened me with their advice, I thought to collect in this booklet what I had learned from others and from my modest personal experience so that it could arouse, in scholars, that curiosity that drives us to be interested in something and then to devote time and talent. I know very well that I will have to fight against the scepticism of the ignorant and of the supermen. I know this ridiculous skepticism, this spirit of denial of which many people are so proud, but I do not fear it. How many times, speaking of the virtues of the pendulum, have I seen myself laughing and heard myself say: "Are you dreaming or do you want us to understand? It's all nonsense! etc. etc.". Of course, I do not even discuss with such people, because their blunt denial is the best proof of their gross ignorance. You cannot reason with ignorant people or with deniers for their own sake. The man of true intelligence and rich in doctrine will never deny a priori a fact or a phenomenon that he ignores, even if he does not know how to give an explanation immediately because he who has studied a lot has learned a dogmatic truth, fundamental: that nothing, or almost nothing, we know of what the Universe encloses in its infinite kingdom. It is not, therefore, for those who do not know how to do anything else but deny (because their brains are very small) that I undertook the fatigue of exposing in these pages the elementary principles of Dowsing; but if such fatigue I made it is in the hope to make proselytes and to spread also in Italy an art that in the other Nations is already flourishing and that counts so large a crowd of adherents. Radiesthesia, in fact, which can be considered an art, as well as a science, is strictly called to exert a great influence in the civil world and on its destinies because it allows us to know the mysteries hidden in our planet, as well as it allows us to put us in direct communication with each other with the only thought and without moving, crossing the oceans with our radiations, flying over the highest mountains with our vibrations. I have had to adopt in this writing words which are certainly not to be found in our dictionaries, at least in the sense intended here. For example, pendulum, wand, prospecting, etc., but I have not yet found the equivalent terms. But I have not yet found the equivalent terms and I leave to others the care of this linguistic study. On the other hand, it is not always possible to substitute one word for another, especially in the technical or commercial field. I do not know what reception the public will give to this modest work of mine, written without great pretensions, but with the sole purpose of making known a new branch of study that will bear good fruit, in due time. I have tried to be clear and concise because I wanted to make, in these pages, a general picture of the matter, to offer an overall view of it, because Radiesthesia, as it will be seen, embraces many fields of human activity: from the research of waters to that of minerals; from police investigations to medicine, and so on. But everyone who finds here a starting point for his own specialized branch of study will be able, later on, to consult the distinguished works of the masters of this science and to deepen, in this way, his own knowledge on the subject. I do not know whether in so doing I have been a good sower: and whether I have sown the chosen seed well. I have put all the effort and all the love I felt animated by it, hoping that my readers may, one day, reap happily and profitably the rich harvest that will sprout from it.

ING. PIETRO ZAMPA

Part One

Chapter I

What is dowsing

It would be, perhaps, more appropriate to give the definition of this word, of rather recent birth, at the end of the present paper, instead of at its beginning, so that the reader, who had the goodness and the patience to read it all, could grasp its fundamental concept, discarding, with a certain knowledge of the cause, the idea that Radiesthesia is part of the occult sciences, of spiritualism, or is, maybe, some art, some emanation of the Angel of Darkness. But since Treatise or Manual, more or less scientific or didactic, must, according to the ancient customs, define, in primis et ante omnia, the subject of which it speaks (almost to make it decline its own generalities) I will try to explain what is meant by such word. Radiesthesia is the science which, by means of the capture of the irradiations that every body or every substance emits, allows us to discover hidden bodies or substances, to know the location, the entity, the nature, the species and the quality, and the influence that they exert one on the other. It will be said to me, that this is nonsense or utopianism. But before pronouncing such a grave sentence, without any positive foundation, have the courtesy, my friend the reader, to read this little volume, which I have endeavoured to make as brief as possible, and as rich in facts and data, in order to present it to you in the easiest and most agreeable form. Read it all and meditate well on what you will read. Remember that the truly wise, intelligent, and learned man must never deny anything a priori, nor must he admit anything without proof or without knowledge of the facts. What we call Science, that is, our cognition of earthly and otherworldly things, is as vast, as infinite as space. What we know, or think we know, is nothing, scarcely an atom, of the great mysteries of creation, some of which we glimpse, some of which we know; but the greatest part of the remainder will perhaps remain unknown to us for ever, because they belong only to the Divinity. And if the Most High allows Humanity, through some Genius, to snatch from Nature some of its immense resources, some of its countless treasures, not for this reason He reveals to us the nature, the origin, the secret. We have an example of this in electricity. Today we use it at our pleasure for lighting, for heating, as a motive force, as a means of healing, etc., etc. But do we know exactly what it is? The definitions we try to give it are vague, uncertain, and perhaps erroneous. Therefore, even this new science, which presents itself to us so shrouded in mysterious unknowns and dense veils, must be cultivated and spread because the benefits that humanity will be able to draw from it are endless, in every field of our activity, as I will demonstrate later. Do not laugh or scoff, dear reader, at what I am going to expound to you in these pages. Only fools, ignorant and presumptuous people think it their duty to deny what they do not know or what their short minds cannot understand. When I spoke earlier about irradiations, some may have wondered what I meant by this word. Irradiations are emanations imperceptible, directly, by our five senses, which are released from any animal, vegetable or mineral body, and which spread through the atmosphere in much the same way as sound waves, supported (I would say almost) by electrical waves, which spread through the ether and go, free and mysterious, from one point to another of our planet and .... perhaps, beyond. Such radiations, as I have said, are not perceptible by our material senses, except in some individuals who can pick them up and feel them directly in different ways. However, almost all normal people can grasp them, understand them, interpret them, more or less powerfully, and even make use of them, by means of small and very simple devices that act for us almost as radio-antennas. In fact, we, with our marvellous, complicated and still unknown human organism, are nothing but an extraordinary and very perfect receiver of light, sounds, smells, colours and other infinite sensations, not only material but also spiritual, which for the most part we do not even feel because we ignore them, because we neglect them and because we do not think about them. Until a few years ago the word Dowsing was absolutely and universally unknown: so much so that we do not find it registered either in vocabularies or in the major modern European encyclopaedias. Today, however, it begins to make its entrance, resolute and triumphant, in the world of intellectuals and of those who, greedy of knowledge, are always looking for the new and the true. And not only does it appear, now, quite frequently in foreign newspapers and magazines, whether of a political, literary, scientific or religious nature; but, in its name, congresses are held, conferences are held and Associations are formed among the lovers of this new science which already has to its credit a discrete collection of publications that speak about it at length with profound and meditated knowledge. But it is not enough: in England Radiesthesia is officially taught in the Military Engineer School. In Germany there are already more than 12.000 dowsers gathered in a large national Association. Similar Associations are also found in Belgium, Switzerland and especially in France where almost every province has its own Circle. All those Circles are headed by the big society called "Association des Amis de la Radiesthésie", founded in 1931 and based in Paris, Boulevard Magenta, 105. In Italy in this field we are still very backward and Radiesthesia is still almost unknown both in name and in fact. There are some people who use the hairpin (dowsers) and other very few use also the pendulum; but both of them use these means almost only for the search of water, empirically and without knowing or being able to draw a real profit, completely ignoring the most elementary principles of this singular science. Certainly there will be some who, in the face of this solemn word science, will shrug their shoulders and tell me that it cannot be called such a practice that is not based on any scientific fact and that does not yet possess (how should I say?) a birth certificate, a marriage certificate or a civil status. But what do you mean by scientific fact? The scholastics or the big wigs will answer me that "the scientific fact is the one that can be reproduced by anyone, anywhere and always". Big mistake! There is no scientific fact that can respond to such a concept, for it is absurd to believe or think that anyone can do anything in the scientific field: discoveries, inventions, etc., which are reserved only for a few men enlightened from Above and which are not born every day. It will be said again that Radiesthesia does not have a civil status; that it is not officially recognized as a science, etc., etc. Well, is this sufficient to deny it its place in the wide arena of human knowledge? It is evident that, in order to be admitted into the Scientific Senate, every manifestation of genius and doctrine must undergo its apprenticeship; it must present its documents, its certificates; it must produce its proofs, experiments, etc.; but, in order to possess all this enormous wealth of knowledge, it must be able to produce its own results. But to possess all this enormous baggage of academic garments takes years and years. You will tell me that Radiesthesia, even if you want to consider it as a science, is not yet perfected. It can be, indeed I admit it certainly. But what do you mean by this fine tuning? Is it the tuning of a violin or a piano? Is it the tuning of an engine? No. So what? Tuning means the attainment of perfection, the complete development of an art, of a theory, of a science. But what science in this case is fine-tuning? None, since every day a new fact intervenes which shows us that what we believed to be unsurpassable yesterday has already waned today. Science is not an art like music, like painting, sculpture and architecture, which have already reached the now unattainable heights of perfection through the work of geniuses such as Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Raphael, Michelangelo and others. Science is a continuous evolution, it is the continuous search for new mysteries that Creation jealously hides from us and that it lets us glimpse and gives us only little by little, through imperceptible glimmers. It would therefore be an insane pretension on our part to want to penetrate, ipso facto, the deep recesses of the unknown, to tear away with a slight effort the veil that separates us from this unknown and that the divine will has interposed between it and us, perhaps to make us feel its supremacy better, perhaps to make our incessant toil more arduous and meritorious. The objections which I have mentioned above are not, therefore, of such value as to combat and demolish a new source of profound and vast studies such as those which I shall here attempt to illustrate, basing myself on the texts of eminent men who have devoted time, sacrifice and ingenuity to this science, and on positive facts partly checked by me and partly reported to me by persons above all suspicion. Of course, neither my words, nor those of others will be able to prevent someone from saying: "I don't believe it". And why, excuse me, do you not believe it? On what arguments do you lean to deny without reason, without proofs, without arguments or demonstrations? You will answer me later on that the facts that I describe here are not reliable because they are extraordinary, because they are supernatural, because they are so many miracles. And here I wait for you. What, according to you, is an extraordinary event? Simply that which you ignore or which your mind does not conceive. What is a supernatural event? That which is new to you, but which is supernatural, that is, foreign to Nature, there is nothing, because even the strangest phenomena have their cause, their origin in Nature itself, even if they escape our intelligence. Certainly he who said, sixty or seventy years ago, that one day it would be possible to see through opaque bodies, that one day voices and sounds and even images would be transmitted across the oceans without wires, but only by means of ethereal waves, he who said this would be thought a fool. And yet Rontgen and his rays have come, and Hertz, and Calzecchi-Onesti, and Marconi with their apparatuses, and what was then considered a folly, as an extraordinary fact, as a supernatural fact, is now found very simple, very natural, without the multitudes caring to know the mystery that still surrounds such discoveries and inventions. Finally, I will reply to those who may say that, if what I am going to say is true, Radiesthesia would perform miracles. Here is the great word, the Miracle, with which they think to shut my mouth. Now again I return to ask them: can you give me the precise definition of a miracle? The Catechism tells me: "A miracle is an extraordinary event accomplished by Divine Omnipotence, outside the laws of Nature. Therefore, according to this definition, in order for an event to be defined as miraculous there must be two essential, indispensable conditions: the first is that the event must be extraordinary; the second is that it must be performed outside the laws of Nature. But even an extraordinary fact is not in itself a miracle. For example: the aviator who flies, suspended in the air, performs an extraordinary fact, without for this reason performing a miracle, because he uses engines and propellers for the propulsion of his apparatus, which, by means of its wings, can navigate in space like a ship on the sea, because the resistance which the air opposes is in equilibrium with the other mechanical forces at his disposal. Therefore, if extraordinary results can be obtained by means of dowsing, we should not cry either to the supernatural or to miracles: we should simply observe the facts and try to discover the mysterious causes, which perhaps will remain so for years, for centuries, for eternity. And now, before going on to other things, I will say a few words about the relationship between Radiesthesia and Religion, in order to remove any scruple from the soul of my readers. Being a fervent believer myself, I wanted to know if the Church approved or condemned this new science, because I was told that abroad it had already raised some controversy not only orally, but also in newspapers and magazines. From what I have been able to ascertain, the conclusions are these: the Church does not condemn Radiesthesia at all when it is carried out for good and in favour of humanity; but she condemns it inexorably when it serves dishonest purposes, as, unfortunately, has sometimes already happened. But this can be said of any other science. Medicine itself is well regarded and blessed by the Church when it devotes itself to healing the sick and alleviating the ills that afflict mankind. Jesus himself, who was the supreme physician of souls and bodies, before speaking to the crowds who followed him from land to land, he healed the sick, and his disciples he admonished in these words: "When you go into a city, heal the sick whom you find there, and tell them: the Kingdom of God is at hand. (Luke, X, 8, 9). However, if the art of health care were directed towards evil (and this does occur) it would not only be condemned by divine laws, but also by human ones. Besides we know that, especially in France, Radiesthesia is practiced with faith and passion by many priests and also by many Missionaries who use it to come to the aid of those savage tribes to whom they bring the salvation of the soul with the Cross and immense material benefits with their neo-science.

Chapter II

Historical notes

Despite the fact that the name has entered the technical terminology a few years ago, even Radiesthesia was practiced since the most remote antiquity by people who had evidently discovered and intuited this means to communicate with the unknown. The ancients must have had some knowledge that we still don't know today and that we can't explain. I cite one example among many that I could expound: how did the Egyptians illuminate the deep and dark funerary cells enclosed in their immense pyramids, given that no traces of torches, lamps, or lights of any kind have been found in the cells themselves? Yet it is certain that they must have been illuminated in some way, for we know that those sepulchral chambers contained, besides the mummified remains of those kings, all the luxurious furniture which adorned their last abode. I do not think we need speak of electric light; nor of gas or acetylene. Nor can we suppose that the illumination came from outside, because there were no windows. So who can give me an answer? Besides, coming to more recent epochs, the notion that many famous sorcerers of the Middle Ages were nothing but true and great scientists of their time, is now almost universally admitted. They, by that special intuition which guides and enlightens the minds of truly superior men, made discoveries and performed deeds which, to the popular and ignorant masses of their time, seemed to be such wonders as to attribute the merit or the cause to the spirits of hell. And as such they were condemned to the stake and to the worst tortures. But even today, in an age which we vainly call civilization and progress, even today we often deride the one who offers the world a new invention; and perhaps, if we could, we would condemn him to perpetual imprisonment as a histrionic, as a revolutionary, as a swindler. And this is why, especially in Italy, inventors have never had any luck, nor will they ever have any, because there is a great deal of mistrust in us, because we do not believe, we do not have faith in the genius of the Italians, in that genius which has always, in all centuries, been the shining star that has illuminated the world. But, to return to us, I want to narrate here a fact, that I take from the beautiful book of R. P. Bourdoux, former missionary at Mato-Grosso, entitled "Notions Pratiques de Radiesthésie" (Maison de la Radiesthésie, à, Paris) and that proves how about 2200 or 2500 years B.C. the very ancient Celts had to practice, with great security and precision, Radiesthesia. In fact he reports that a friend of his, a very skilful dowser, Mr. Louis Merle of Capdenac, practicing in his studies, found that the famous dolmens and menhirs of Morbihan (France) are all located at the top of the angle formed by the intersection of the underground bands of water or minerals, but always outside (although very close to them) the so-called fields of influence. Merle carried out his studies and researches on more than 150 dolmens, menhirs and megaliths in the famous locality of Karnac in Morbihan and was able to ascertain that all these monuments, not one excluded, are located in the same position with respect to the underground water and mineral strata.

We must therefore exclude the possibility that this is due to pure chance. If it had been a question of two, three, or four examples only, a simple combination might have been admitted; but in view of the precise disposition of all the aforesaid monuments, we must conclude that those who so placed them knew the way of detecting the course of the subterranean waters, and had reasons for avoiding the fields or zones of influence. At this point I think it appropriate to explain what is meant, in Dowsing, by a field of influence. Any watercourse or any underground mineral vein shows its presence on both sides of the watercourse, or of the vein itself, for a distance equal to the depth at which it is located (fig. 1).

1. When the third influence (or watercourse, or mineral vein) cuts the angle formed by the two others, at its end, the menhir is perfectly vertical.

2. When the third influence crosses the other two towards the inside of the corner the granite block is inclined, backwards, as if to move away from it.

3. When, on the other hand, the third influence crosses the others beyond the angle formed, the menhir is stretched forward as if it wanted to approach them.