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of the planets were then distributed among the hours as recorded in the
nautical almanac for the date of the meeting. Hodson accurately placed
Uranus at 8:30, Neptune at 3:00, Mercury at I:OO, Mars at 6:00, and
Jupiter at 7:oo.Thereafier he repeated the observation on a number of
other occasions, always accurately able to clairvoyantly observe the an-
gular positions of the planets and their relative distances from the sun.
Psychometry, the art of divining facts concerning an object, its
source, and its background merely through contact with or proximity
to the object itself, is described by Leadbeater as deriving from astral
sight, though dependent on etheric radiations. The psychometrist de-
velops a rapport with a place and an event occurring there, or having
occurred there, by means of a material object that, as occultists explain
it, is still etherically connected to the spot from which it was taken.As
Leadbeater explains the phenomena, every material object throws off
radiations in all directions, and these radiations are continually being
recorded on a higher, finer plane, the Akashic.
Hodson carefully described his method of psychometrizing an ob-
ject from some area remote in time and space, simply by holding it for
scrutiny close to his brow chakra, or "third eye." "If I am examining a
fossil, at first I see small pictures of its environment before my eyes, then
a change may occur, and the vision ceases to be a picture and becomes
my environment so that I seem to be present, reliving the events....
There is a sense of immediacy; one is there in the scene, and I have even
felt the temperature in my physical body." But one cannot take action,
says Hodson: "If I am asked whether the creature I see has a tail, and he
happens to be sitting down, there is nothing I can do about it, except
wait till he gets up and allows me to see; I cannot exercise any additional
occult powers to see through the body and observe the tail."
One of the most effective ways of validating psychometric data ob-
tained clairvoyantly is by means of archaeological digs. This was the
case with Hodson's psychic exploration of the great buried metropolis
of Teotihuacin outside Mexico City, which flourished two millennia
earlier around the great structures known as the Sun and the Moon
Pyramids.
In 1956, when nothing of the ancient city was visible above ground,
Hodson stood atop the Sun Pyramid and described ceremonies dating