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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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The author explicitly calls divining rods uncertain, saying they deceive repeatedly even if once correct. This negative judgement belongs beside the positive mining-sign catalogue and should not be omitted as an inconvenient exception. The passage also warns against fraudulent apparitions. Its presence shows that the work discriminates among alleged sign systems rather than endorsing every divinatory method alike.
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- Book 9 · Signature · Passage 51Latin“virgulae divinatoriae”