The History of Crystals 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.
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.'
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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'.
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.
