THE DIVINING ROD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17780, 13 May 1921, Page 7

THE DIVINING ROD.

WATER AND RADIUM.

MP,. C. WRAGGE'S OBSERVATIONS.

j Mr. Clement L. Wragge writes on the I subject of the divining rod :—" The tailing of the rod is due to the etheric and magnetic vibrations and emanations acting between the nervous system of the individual and the nature ot the object " divined," and some people are far more sensitive than others, remembering that no ) two individuals are exactly alike. At fnchclutlia I ha\e seen the rod respond to gold, sdver, copper, etc., and especially radium, in u manner beyond the shadow of a doubt, in the hands of Mr. Mosley, of that place. In fact, I was present when Mr. Mosley had to walk over half a mile before the undulatory motions of the rod ceased after passing over an atom of radium. At my own house at Birkenhead a gentleman holding a piece of ffeueingwire was so affected even on approaching the spot where radium is kept that, had he not let go by an effort of will, the rod would surely have severely lacerated, if not dislocated, his wrist. These are facts that there is no gainsaying. That water can be found, and has been found, by divining—as I know from experiments in South Australia— when thei rod is in sympathetic hands, should bs known to all intelligent people. Remember! What was deemed folly in the past may become the science of to-day; it :is all a part of the great evolutionary scheme by which the Taws of Nature gradually become manifest to mankind.

GROUND WELL TESTED, FIVE INDIVIDUAL DIVESi^S. " Interested " wiites : I believe J. am one o£ a number of people who are gilted more or less with Uie power of water divining. A relative who had quite recently discovered he could divine water by tne use of a twig waa demonstrating to me how it was done. He suggested i should try, which I did, with not such a' strong response from the twig as he obtained. There was a decided " pulling '' at the* twig, as if some force was pulling the twig lrom me in a downward direction, and, far from this being an involuntary action of the muscles, as Professor Segar suggests, I had to exercise muscular action to prevent the twig being drawn out of niy hands. The pulling action only took place in certain parts ot the ground, there being absolutely no response in I other places. 1 have tested many times, I with the same results. i Later a stranger called on business. The business being disposed of, conversation turned to water divining. He stated he could divine water. Thereupon I asked him to try all over the around I had tested, without telling him where I found the strongest indications. I followed to watch the results, wnich proved to be the same as my own, but in a much stronger degree. This man was the third to test the ground. Then anot.her person, this time a young man of about 22 or 23 years of age, on hearing what had been going on, asked how iho stick was worked; it was all new to him. To nur surprise the twig responded very promtly just where he ftood. on a- spot which had not been tested. Naturally he was asked to walk over the tested ground, without being told the spots where the greatest response had l>een obtained on the previous trials. Airain the same places responded as before. That was number four diviner. Number five was a little boy of seven. He was put to the test with the same results. That the little boy was not prompted by what anyone else had done was proven by this fact: At one particular spot water had tveen located by I myself only, and I had not mentioned the fact- The child was playing about at this spot amusing himself with the stick, when he looked nn suddenly and said : " There is water under here." This child'.i body responds to the water without the stick. If he stands with arms stretched out in a horizontal position his arms are drawn backward and downward, and if the position is maintained his faro becomes convulsed. I am affected in the darno way in a less marked degree. Now, I have tried these l<-sts, and cannot understand how or why the hands of each diviner should exercise those i slight muncular actions (to which Professor Segar attributes the phenomenon) at those particular spots and not at other places. With aJ! due respect, to the letters after his name. I do not think Professor Seear has arrived at the correct cause of the phenomenon. If is not reasonable that five people with so much difference in their ages shou'd ail he influenced bv the exertion of holding the anus in position at the same spot and not at other places, no matter how long the twit' i,» held in position. T have not had the opportunity of proving the l«sts by sink- • intr a well, or otherwise. If it is not water that produces the effects given above, what is it?