Judy Hall - 101 power crystals: The ultimate guide to magical crystals, gems, and stones for healing and transformation

101
POWER
CRYSTALS

THE ULTIMATE GUIDE
TO MAGICAL CRYSTALS, GEMS, AND STONES
FOR HEALING AND TRANSFORMATION

JUDY HALL

INTRODUCTION

The Power of Crystals

The wondrous lore that I prepare to show. For all the pests that out of the earth arise, the earths ownself the antidote supplies. She breeds the viper, but she to the sage the means presents to quell the vipers rage. All kinds of gems spring from her bosom wide. And hapless mortals with sure help provide. For all what virtues potent herbs possession, gems in their kind have, nor in measure less. Great is the force... that in stones inherent are. For in the stone implanted mother earth external force, unfading, at its birth.

The Lithica

Crystals have always been regarded as a source of powerand as a gift from the gods. Impressive no matter what their size, gems hold an aura of mystery and authority. From prehistory to the present, gemstones have symbolized wealth and been accorded wondrous properties. The ancient texts that tell us so much about the power of stones had their origins in the Stone Age, a time when technology quite literally came from stones. Since that time, we have continued to harness their magical power.

In 1714, M. B. Valentinis Museum Museorum pictured an airship designed five years earlier by a Brazilian priest; the craft was to be powered by Agate and iron that, when heated in the sun, would become magnetic. Strange as this may seem, our present-day technology could not exist without crystals; they power computers and surgical tools, coat automobile engines and spaceships. Crystals provide the basic building blocks of science and art.

The ancients credited crystals with healing power. The Greek philosopher Theophrastus and Roman geographer Pliny passed these remedies on (even though Pliny denounced some as false claims). The Babylonians attributed humankinds destiny to the influence of precious stones. Our ancestors believed the Earth was surrounded by crystal spheres where gods, stars, and planets dwelt. Originally a crystals color or constitution or its planetary affiliation indicated its efficacy for specific conditions. Unfortunately, translation difficulties often make it impossible to ascertain exactly which stone early texts referred to, but some references are crystal clear.

Templates of Light

Each crystal has its own unique energy signature. These templates of light are encoded with all you need to activate your own power. The key is to find a crystal that is attuned to your own personal energy or that raises your energetic resonance to ensure well-being and expand your consciousness.

THE POWER OF GEMS

Not only flashy gemstones hold power. Since antiquity, crystals of all sorts have served as protective amulets. Humble stones such as Flint were magical carriers for the soul, for metaphysical workings, or for shamans to use on their otherworldly journeys. Many stones produced incandescent sparks or could be super-heated into streams of gold, silver, copper, and other precious metals. Just as magical were the sky rocks that fell to Earth, bringing with them iron to forge tools and create weapons.

Egyptologist Wallis Budge explained, each stone possessed a sort of living personality, which could experience sickness and disease, and could become old and powerless and even die. However, in Egyptian medicine, stones could also heal. The Greek philosopher Plato believed stones were living beings, produced by a fermentation process induced by a life-giving intelligence descending from the stars. According to many myths, crystals solidified from ice, a view reinforced by the bubbles of water sometimes found within a crystal.

The fifth-century Roman poet Claudian tells us that:

When the Alpine ice, frost-hardend into stone

First braved the sun, and as a jewel shone,

Not all its substance could the gem assume

Some tell-tale drops still lingerd in its womb.

HOW CRYSTALS FORM

Crystals are, for the most part, created by the Earths awesome power. Boiled, compressed, and excoriated, some were born of volcanoes, glaciers, earthquakes, and immense pressure; others dripped into being through osmosis, gas bubbles, and natures gentler forces.

Some so-called crystals dont actually have a crystalline structure. Amber, for instance, is fossilized tree resin, and volcanic Obsidian formed so fast it didnt have time to crystallize. How a crystal forms affects how its power works. Those that grew slowly tend to emit their power gently; those that were on an accelerated path of growth blast their power out to the world. Paradoxically, some of the youngest geological stones have the highest vibrations and the greatest power to transform our world.

The Power of Color

The power of color was first noted by the ancients and became an integral part of the magical healing processes by which imbalances were rectified and harmony restored. In 1878, Edwin D. Babbitt suggested color had therapeutic properties that could be applied in healing. His rationale may help to explain the power behind sympathetic magic and why particular colors traditionally were used to treat specific dis-eases. In Babbitts ray system, red attracts iron, zinc, and Strontium; yellow sodium, phosphorous, and carbon; and so on. These minerals are required for correct functioning of the body. His chromatherapy was complex, and exposure to the colored rays needed to be carefully calibrated.

Crystal workers, though, simply utilize crystals of the appropriate color based on the ancient correspondences.

Pink and peach stones heal emotional imbalances and gently energize your system.

Red gems energize more forcefully and resonate with the reproductive system. Red also aids blood-related and inflammatory conditions.

Orange is a mental and creative energizer, stimulating personal power and resonating with the Leydig gland above the testes, a seat of kundalini power.

Yellow and gold stones are mental and nervous system stimulators; they resonate with neurotransmitters, the adrenal glands, and intestines, and balance your mind and emotions.

Green is calming and associated with the heart, eyes, and thymus gland.

Blue-green resonates with the subtle levels of being and opens metaphysical abilities.

Blue resonates with the throat and thyroid gland, and has a tonic effect.

Indigo has mystical qualities; it resonates with the pineal gland, but also effects mental healing.

Violet and purple stones resonate with the pituitary, regulating metabolism and regenerating the body. They also open you to higher awareness.

Black and brown stones detoxify and ground energy, protecting the body from harm.

Combination stones synergize the effects of the colors and constituents.

The Power of Magic

For thrice seven days the mighty wizard fled the baths refreshment and his consorts bed. For thrice seven days a solemn fast maintained. Then in the living fount the gem he laves.

And in soft garments like an infant swathes. As to a god, he sacrifices brings. And potent spells in mystic murmurs sings. Till moved by fervent prayer and mighty charms, a living soul the prescient substance warms. Then in his hands he bears the thing divine, where kindled lamps in his pure mansion shine. And as her infant son a mother holds, so in his arms the talisman he folds. And thou, if thou wouldst hear the mystic voice, thus do, and in the wondrous thing rejoice.The Lithica

Crystals have always been credited with possessing magical power, as the above quotation from a third-century B.C.E. stone book shows. It also describes the awe and reverence with which they were handled. Magic isnt mere superstitionit is the foundation for the experimental sciences that the modern world values so highly. Without magic we would not have medicine, astronomy, literature and drama, chemistry, mathematics, music, mythology, and perhaps even religion itself. Magical formulae constitute some of the oldest writings, and it could be argued that the alphabeteven the recording of knowledge itselfis a form of magic. Magic isnt just a set of practices and beliefs; it is a way of looking at the world. The view that the natural world was animate, alive with magical forces interpenetrating the substance of the physical and the metaphysical realms, governed ancient life and death. Crystal workers today still interact with the animate forces, the living beings, within crystals.