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History records the use of crystals as both functional
and ornamental. The Gods of ancient myth wore them in their breastplates. Priests
of many societies and brotherhoods, as keepers and preservers of lost prehistoric
wisdom, often wore bejewelled amulets and plates, which acted as "oracles"
and "voice pieces" from which advice was obtained. The Urim and Thummim
stones of the Hebrew high priests were a prime example. The Atlanteans used crystals
for healing - communication - weather control - as record keepers - among other
things. Tibetans used them to produce light. |
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Mayans, among others, used crystals in their statues. John L. Stephens in his classic
work on the Mayan civilization, Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas
and Yucatan, tells how in one small Mayan temple he discovered 'a pedestal formed
of a shining substance resembling glass' around which he was told the ancient priests
gathered and consulted pictures created in the 'black, transparent stone.' He wrote,
'A native informed me that their ancestors had known the gift of the vision stone,
when his people were instructed in the arts of civilization.' |
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In Peru, Spanish chroniclers recorded that when they invaded the Incan Empire and
captured the King, the Queen and priests immediately fled to the Temple of the Sun
in Cuzco, where they communicated with other regents of the land, and decided what
was to be done, by gazing into the 'black mirror' situated at the Temple's centre. |
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Significantly, the Incan Temple of the Sun, and the pyramid complexes of the Mayas,
were all located on Earth energy lines. There is thus reason to believe that the
Ancients possessed the ability of transmitting images along these lines, and crystal
lenses or screens were used at specific centres to transform the images into pictures,
much like a modern television set. |
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When we examine what modern research is uncovering regarding the full spectrum of
the properties of crystals, and compare this with the Ancient knowledge, we discover
we are touching upon only the very beginnings of a vast forgotten technology. |
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Crystals, at their simplest functional level, can store light and discharge it,
or convert sunlight directly into electricity. A step beyond, the crystalline form
can also store information in vast quantities. A cut sliver of crystal can pick
up a specified vibratory pattern; the silver can then be 'frozen' and subsequently
'unfrozen' later to playback the pattern. |
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A complex sandwich of liquid crystal layers and mirrors act as light valves to create
closed loops of light and moonlight signals, which correspond to a two alphabet
system of information storage. By such means, information can be stored with a density
of 2,500-fold over that of conventional electrical-digital computers. The first
working model of the light and crystal computer is scheduled to be operational within
a very short time. But one wonders if someone else, long ago, developed such a system
before us. Could there be banks and libraries of knowledge stored in the crystals
of standing stones, stone circles and other monuments around the world, just waiting,
silently, for modern man to tap into them and learn the wisdom hidden within? |
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Not only knowledge, but the actual consciousness and emotional energies of psychic
individuals from past ages may still reside in many ancient crystal forms. Several
researchers have used crystals to capture the life force, or the vibratory pattern
of a person at death. |
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Other experiments being conducted are said to have successfully captured a human
thought within a crystal and retransmitted it back as an image. Author George Hunt
Williamson, who believes that crystals played a significant role in past civilizations,
expressed his opinion that crystals can think, and many standing stones have an
'intelligence within them". Masses of crystal flakes encased in a single stone
may act as individual neurons passing along information from one flake to another
and organize it, like a large crystal brain. |
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Certain individual crystals, in particular diamonds and other precious stones, can
hold conscious emotional energies from a bygone era, which may be triggered from
time to time, affecting their owners. |
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The best classic case of this is the famous Hope Diamond, and the mysterious curse
attached to it. The Hope was originally part of a much larger gem called the Great
Blue, later the French Blue, stolen from the temple of Rama site in India by Frenchman
Jean Baptist Tavernier in 1668. In revenge, the priests of the temple, along with
the Mogul Emperor Aurangzeb, held a special rite and infused the gem with a negative
consciousness or emotional pattern. Since that time, every owner of the gem, or
even those who have handled it, have been subject to misfortune, tragedy or violent
death. Even after the original Great Blue was cut into pieces, the Hope remaining
as the largest, the curse has followed every piece, even to the present. |
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Interestingly, tests have shown that the Hope Diamond and its sister stones are
the only blue diamonds in the world which glow like red-hot coals when exposed to
ultraviolet light, and can conduct an inordinate amount of electricity. |
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Cursed gems are the exception to the rule, however, for in most respects, gems and
crystals are generally looked upon favourably, having properties for good luck,
for healing, and in aiding in psychic abilities. The positive magical quality of
crystals impressed themselves upon humankind far back in antiquity, for we find
among Neanderthal remains dating back to 70,000 B.C. collections of quartz stones
and stone balls made of quartz crystals. Pieces of crystal have also been found
in megalithic cairns, and at New Grange in southern Ireland, tiny pebbles of white
granite quartz cover the entire mound above the energy-chamber. |
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The Druids called certain coloured crystal forms ovus anguinum or glein neidr -
'serpent eggs' - who believed were created by etheric serpents of energy beneath
the earth and conjugated together at the time of the midsummer sunrise. Such stones,
worn about the neck, had the power of projecting one's auric field to favourably
influence the aura and mind of anyone else who came within range.
Similarly, they understood that wearing crystals over certain acupuncture points
of the body aided in the healthy flow of physical and psychic energies. The Emperor
Tsin Shi, who reigned from 259-210 B.C., is said to have possessed at his palace
at Hein-Yang in Shensi a mirror-like stone of crystal which 'illuminated the bones
of the body' when a person stepped behind it. It was rectangular in shape, measuring
four feet by five feet nine inches, and glowed on both sides. The placing of the
hand over the heart somehow activated the stone, whereby the patient's inner parts
were clearly portrayed, and diagnosis of illness could be obtained.
Two hundred and fifty years earlier, the Hindu sage Jivaka also had a large 'jewel'
which 'illuminated the body like a lamp lights up a house,' and from which nothing
within could be hidden by any intervening obstacle. In like fashion, the medicine
men of the Hopi Indians of the American Southwest use crystals to observe the energy
centres of the body, and can tell when physical currents are impeded, causing ill
health. These crystals, too, have the power, when concentrated upon, to be energizers
in influencing events, including forestalling bad weather.
On the Isle of Skye near Ireland, is a chapel dedicated to St. Columbus, and on
the altar is a round crystalline blue stone held sacred to weather and health. Local
fishermen, to appease contrary winds, bathe this stone with water and claim good
results. The stone has also been applied to peoples' sides to relieve cramps.
Among the Australian aborigines of north Queens land on the Prosperine River, quarts
crystals are used by the shamans to cause rain to fall. At other times, in special
initiation ceremonies the aboriginal shamans are sprinkled with quartz beads mixed
with water, and are thus able to see and speak briefly with spirit beings, exercise
telepathy, and cure maladies.
The Ancients appear to have possessed sophisticated methods of growing and shaping
crystals, in order to produce gems with specific magical properties. There are three
major axis of crystal growth which can develop into any one of seven geometric systems,
with lattices and facets in different ratios, producing 230 groups and variations,
each one specializing in organizing, redirecting, separating, concentrating or converting
applied energies.
In crystal growth, combinations of light intensity, light color, electric current,
sound, the direction of these, plus the shape and size (frequency pattern) of the
container or room, will all affect the final characteristics and energy potentials
of a desired stone. Recent experiments, for example, have shown that crystals grow
five times faster when their supersaturated solution is subjected to frequencies
of 10 to 100 cycles a second.
Manly P. Hall and other students of esoteric wisdom have also noted that many ancient
crystals were produced by 'zodiacal formulae' grown at specific times, when the
sun, moon and planets were in special heavenly positions. During the growth process,
crystals are also highly susceptible to consciousness imprinting, whereby the meditations,
through-patterns, healing energy or bioelectric field identity of the grower may
be enjoined within the crystalline structure and memory.
Writer and researcher A.H. Fry tells of his experience with a woman who produced
a special copper alloy by alchemically subjecting the ore to solutions of carbon
and electric current, and then grew a crystal from the results. The crystal, Fry
reported, possessed electrical resistance factors quite different from ordinary
copper, and seemed to have tiny microscopic 'wires' embedded within it. When he
attached an electrometer to the crystal, he was surprised to find it was also alive;
it produced a pattern similar to that of a living plant, and reacted to outside
physical and mental disturbances in the same way as Cleve Backster's experiments
using a polygraph.
Fry, commenting on the Ancients' use of crystals in general, stated: "Legends
occasionally mention crystals that could render invisibility (such as the one Apollonius
of Tyana used before the Roman Emperor) and even cause weightlessness. They even
used crystals to discover how to enter and escape time by negotiating a ninety degree
angle phase shift. Was it all in the size and shape? Or did it involve mental forces
and special 'live' qualities within the crystal?'
Fry also made this interesting observation, which relates the use of crystals to
the Crystal of the Earth itself, and to ourselves, whose bodies are also made of
crystalline forms: 'It is a literal fact that most of our planet is made up of crystals
of specific shapes. The present energy problems will be a thing of the past when
we start using the wondrous potential of these shapes. Even the food we eat must
be converted to tiny crystalline shapes before it can pass through the tissue walls.
The ancient Central American word for blood was chalchuihatl, and it literally meant,
'water of precious stones' |
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