Jacob's rod : a translation from the French of a rare and curious work, A.D. 1693, on the art of finding springs, mines and minerals by means of the hazel rod / To which is appended researches, with proofs of the existence of a more certain and far higher faculty, with clear and ample instructions for using it.

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[1870?]
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Credit: Jacob's rod : a translation from the French of a rare and curious work, A.D. 1693, on the art of finding springs, mines and minerals by means of the hazel rod / To which is appended researches, with proofs of the existence of a more certain and far higher faculty, with clear and ample instructions for using it. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AQQEJTQA. CHAPTER I. If further proof be needed of the existence of the faculty of finding minerals, &c., I cannot do better than quote largely from the volumes of the Spiritual Magazine, as by so doing a much more comprehensive view of the subject will be obtained, with the experiences of others also, some of high rank and well known, premising however that the quotations have been copied from other works. This I do that no doubt may remain on the mind as to their truth, and to prove, as far as testimony will do so, their correctness, and as the works are now scarce and expensive, it will save the trouble of pro- curing them. DIVINING RODS AND HAZEL WANDS. Spiritual Magazine, March, 1862. It is grateful to us to have to quote again from the pages of All the Year Round, some excellent remarks by Mr. Dickens’ great collaborateur, Sir E. Bulwei Lytton, on this subject. Neither divining rods nor hazel wands have been much heard of as forming part of the modern manifestions. As for divining rods, they are, with the exception of those mentioned in lhe Bible, almost entiiely connected in our minds with the magical arts of the earlier and middle ages, and ihey have disappeared frem amongst us, who are seeking rather to develope Spiritualism as an incident of higher laws, than to 1 ultivate the supposed n laticns of the magician. Hazel wands, on the contrary, have been more heard of, for no such uncanny ideas attached to them, for they have been earned to advantage in ihe hands of sickly girls, and others of the magnetic temperament, in searching sui cessfully for mines and springs of water. The hazel wand performed wonders in the hands of Ang< lique Cottin. Indeed, its use has been occassional for many years in England al.-o. We know that