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Crystal healing is a pseudoscientific alternative-medicine practice that uses semiprecious stones and crystals such as quartz, agate, amethyst or opal. Despite the common use of the term "crystal", many popular stones used in crystal healing, such as obsidian, are not technically crystals .
Crystal quartz is a transparent crystalline variety of the mineral quartz, resembling glass. Job lists gavish (crystal quartz) alongside gold, onyx, lapis lazuli, glass, coral, and peridot as a valuable trade good. The Hebrew word gavish is a wanderwort, which probably originated in historical Nubia, modern Sudan.
Faith healing is the practice of prayer and gestures (such as laying on of hands) that are believed by some to elicit divine intervention in spiritual and physical healing, especially the Christian practice. [1]
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The 1604 Book of Common Prayer, [note 1] often called the Jacobean prayer book or the Hampton Court Book, [2] is the fourth version of the Book of Common Prayer as used by the Church of England. It was introduced during the early English reign of James I as a product of the Hampton Court Conference , a summit between episcopalian , Puritan ...
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Public bathhouses were common in medieval Christendom larger towns and cities such as Paris, Regensburg and Naples. [12] [56] There were about twenty-six public baths in Paris in 1272. [56] Many Christian monastic communities throughout history have emphasized cleanliness and hygiene as part of their spiritual practice. [14]
Most Protestant Bibles include the Hebrew Bible's 24 books (the protocanonical books) divided differently (into 39 books) and the 27-book New Testament for a total of 66 books. Some denominations (e.g. Anglicanism) also include the 14 books of the biblical apocrypha between the Old Testament and the New Testament, for a total of 80 books.