I was most interested to hear of Covenant’s Senior Researcher Sylvia D’Angelo’s paper in the Journal of the Society of Practical Occultism, particularly as it pertains to some of our European endeavours currently under way. Here is the abstract:

Using a standard, clear quartz scrying crystal, available at most high street occult and gift emporiums, and a common cantrip used for observing another place or time, the project developed a method for binding the crystal such that it could be used for tracking a specific target. The successful method uses a combinatorial approach, layering different acquisitional properties into the crystal structure, employing the standard targetting methods (i.e. personal items, a strand of hair, some blood). In effect, the “location” or the “motion” of the target is “trapped” as an abstract property of the crystal. Thus, it is possible to use the crystal to determine either where the target is or what the target is doing. The project was unable to devise a method that could enable both location and activity to be observed, which is likely due to Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. The project also determined that, while one such crystal is in existence, it is not possible using this specific method to create an additional crystal to track the other property. This is most likely due to the collapse of the wave function within the crystal matrix, although experiments are continuing in our sister project at the Materials Laboratory in Helsinki using semi-conductors and room temperature superconductors. The method has been developed to be usable by small field teams with restricted access to materials, with the key limitations being the requirement for target-specific material with which to bind the crystal, and the size of crystal available. Crystals of diameter less than approximately 0.15m have limited resolution.

 

I very much look forward to obtaining the full paper, and wish the project team in Helsinki the best of luck. We all know how valuable their work is.