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The Sumerians purportedly used crystals in their magical formulas 6000 years ago. [7] Ancient Egyptians mined for crystals and used them to make jewelry. Crystals or gemstones were also used in practice, for their metaphysical properties. Specifically, they used crystals as aids for health and protection.
Crystal healing is a spiritual practice that believes in the power of crystals to shift, absorb, direct, detoxify, diffuse, or amplify the energy of your mind, soul, or environment, says Erin ...
Crystal is a transparent mineral resembling glass, most probably a variety of quartz. Job places it in the same category with gold, onyx, sapphire, glass, coral, topaz, etc. The Targum renders the qrt of Ezech. as "ice"; the other versions translate it as "crystal". Crystal is again mentioned in Apoc., iv, 6; xxi, 11; xxii, 1.
Many gems are crystals which are classified by their crystal system such as cubic or trigonal or monoclinic. Another term used is habit, the form the gem is usually found in. [12] For example, diamonds, which have a cubic crystal system, are often found as octahedrons. [13] Gemstones are classified into different groups, species, and varieties.
Asterism is generated by reflections of light from twin-lamellae or from extremely fine needle-shaped acicular inclusions within the stone's crystal structure. [1] A common cause is oriented sub-microscopic crystals of rutile within the gem mineral. It occurs in rubies, sapphires, garnet, diopside, and spinel when a cabochon is cut from a ...
The Sceptre of Scotland has a crystal ball in its finial, honoring the tradition of their use by pagan druids. [16] It was made in Italy in the 15th century, and was a gift to James IV from Pope Alexander VI. The Penn Museum in Philadelphia displays the third-largest crystal ball as the central object in its Chinese Rotunda. [17]
[citation needed] The Mormon Book of Ether describes "sixteen small stones; and they were white and clear, even as transparent glass", being touched by God's hand so that they might "shine forth in darkness." The Jaredites placed a stone fore and aft on each ship and had "light continually" during their 344-day voyage to America (Ball 1938: 500).
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