{"collection":"bos","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bos/bos202.htm","path":"bos/bos202.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bos/bos202.htm","text":"Internet Book of Shadows, (Various Authors), [1999]\n \n \n \n \n CRYSTALS & STONES\n \n \n \n Gemstoneshave beenusedforcenturiesas meditationalaidsand\n magical magical foci. Each individual type of stone has different\n properties. Here are some healing and spiritual properties from a\n list I have. These descriptions are based on ancient legend and lore:\n \n \n \n AGATE: Moss Agates considered to be most powerful. Aid in\n restoration of energy, used in healing, and believed to bring wearer\n happiness, wealth, health, and long life. Increases\n ability to ward off self-induced anger and inner bitterness.\n Carnelian-gives protection and energy. Moss green-balances emotional\n energy. Moss red-balances physical energy. Blue lace-gives\n tranquility.\n \n Amber: Powerful healing stone with large amount of organic\n energy. In ancient times, ground to a powder and mixed with honey or\n oil of roses for various physical problems. Filters germs and\n infections and has the power to disinfect. Worn around the neck to\n help fight infection and respiratory diseases. Lifts the spirits.\n \n Apatite: Promotes communication and mental clarity.\n \n Amethyst: Increases spiritual awareness, has a calming and\n soothing influence, has the ability to transmute negative into\n positive, and is very effective as a healing stone. Warmed and placed\n on the forehead and temples, it is good for headaches. Has the\n ability to draw through it forces directed towards the body and repels\n vibrations which the body doesn't need, thus releasing only the energy\n patterns beneficial to the body. Best worn in healing near the heart\n center. Opens up spiritual and psychic centers. Helps prevent\n drunkeness.\n \n Aquamarine: Calms nervous tension. Calming effects of the sea.\n Used to help banish fears and phobias. Means seawater.\n Soothing and cleansing.\n \n Adventurine: Increases perception and creative insight.\n Stimulates opportunity and motivation.\n \n Azurite: Powerful healing stone, invokes spiritual guidance,\n opens psychic eye. Good for dreams and improving psychic ability.\n \n Bloodstone: Stimulates flow of energy for healing blood\n circulation, stops hemorrhaging. Removes emotional blockages.\n \n \n Citrine: Stimulates openness and accelerates the awakening of the\n mind. An aid to the digestive system. Helps eliminate\n toxins. Encourages tremendous healing on the emotional and mental\n levels, helps unblock subconscious fears, and serves as a natural\n relaxant.\n \n Coral: Balances physical energy and relaxes tensions. Carries\n the creative vibrations of the sea.\n \n \n 912\n \n \n \n Emerald: Promotes creativity, stimulates perception and insight,\n and strengthen memory. Beneficial effect on the eyes.\n \n Garnet:Balances hormones, goodfor mentaldepression, enhances\n self-esteem, alleviates bad dreams, and encourages success in\n business. Thought to assist in seeing into past incarnations.\n \n Hematite: Calmingto the emotions. Worn as an amuletto confer\n strength and procur favorable legal judgements. In Egypt, used to\n reduce inflammation and treat hysteria. Considered to be a grounding\n stone. Helps maintain balance between body, mind, and spirit.\n \n Ivory: Spiritual protection.\n \n Jade:Stimulates practicality,wisdom,and universalattunement.\n Thought to provide a link between the spiritual and the mundane. Most\n revered by the Chinese.\n \n Jasper: For energy balancing of emotions and stress.\n \n Flourite: Opens andsoftens the wayfor the useof otherstones.\n Excellent used in aquariums-provides needed minerals.\n \n Lapis Lazuli: Stimulates wisdom, truthfulness, & psychic\n experiences, healing and strengthening when worn next to the skin.\n Strengthens mind and body to spiritual awareness.\n \n Malachite: often used asa child's talisman to sleepsoundly &\n protect from bad dreams. Stimulates clear vision and insight,\n represents hope and inner peace, believed to protect from danger.\n Increases abundance in all areas of life.\n \n Moonstone: Bringsgood fortune. Reflects the wearersbeing and\n feelings. Promotes unselfishness. Opens the heart to humanitarian\n love and hope. Good for protection while travelling on water. Gives\n clarity to spiritual understanding. Good for pre-menstrual symptoms\n and balancing to the reproductive system. Used to ease childbirth.\n \n Pearl:Stimulates feminine qualities,used to focus attention,\n helps pull together mental and spiritual forces, peace of mind.\n Represents purity, modesty, & gentleness.\n \n Peridot: Dispels fears, guilt, and depression. Used to\n counteract negative emotions and healing of the spirit. Affects top\n three chakras. Once worn as a means of gaining foresight and divine\n inspiration.\n \n QUARTZ: Amplifiesthe healing energyof the one usingit. Used\n to help draw out pain. Able to tap into the energies of the\n universe. A good stone for meditating on. Works primarily with the\n Third Eye center, also relates well with the heart center. To be able\n to tune into the quartz promotes clarity while concentrating on it.\n Also affects the crown chakra. Very potent and often worn to protect\n from negative vibrations. Cleanse regularly. Rudilated-rutile\n needles help focus attention. Smoky-good for calming the mind.\n Rose-vibrations of universal love & inner serenity.\n \n Ruby: Increases vigor, renews vitality and cleanses the blood.\n The stone of courage.\n \n \n 913\n \n \n \n Topaz: Calms emotions, protects against external stresors. To\n restore physical energy & quiet emotional nature.\n \n Tiger Eye: Very powerful protection, clarity of thought.\n \n Tourmaline: Causes the wearer to be more flexible, more\n understanding and more objective in purpose and reason. Calming.\n Each person has a different response to this stone. Causes a\n reaction in the intestinal tract. Black and Crystal-removes\n negativity and cleanses. Some say it should not be worn as jewelry.\n Electric and magnetic properties.\n \n Turquoise: Vibratescalmingradiations, protective,andrestores\n healthy mental attitude. Stone of friendsship. Balancing and\n healing. Great strength and vitality. Takes on characteristics of\n the wearer.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 914\n \n \n \n CRYSTALS & STONES\n \n NAME COLOR CHAKRA USES\n \n AMETHYST Violet Crown Calming,grounding, a \n cleanser and spiritual \n stimulator, yin/yang \n balance, strengthens \n heart, cleanses liver of \n toxins, excellent for lung\n problems.\n \n ADVENTURINE Green Heart Soothes emotions, \n used for the heart and\n heartache, for acceptance o f\n self and others, for inner\n peace.\n \n AGATE Varied Solar- Compelstruth, promotes\n Plexus, good manners, happiness, \n intelligence, prosperity.\n Heart\n \n longevity, fertility,\n and\n good\n health,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n affects stomach,\n throat, heart.\n \n AZURITE- Blue-green Heart, Allpurpose healing \n stone, affects\n MALACHITE Crown ethericbody,parathyroid\n glands, nerve, spleen,\n pancreas, used to release \n repressed emotions and f o r\n physical detoxing.\n \n BLOODSTONE Green-red Root Offers courage, \n endurance, harmony, used t o\n stop bleeding, helps i n\n making decisions, used f o r\n iron deficiency, in t h e\n blood, for moving kundalini\n energy, and to invoke\n peace in all who are drawn\n to it.\n \n CITRINE Golden Solar- Generates radiant, happy\n Plexus vibrations, helps \n thoughts to be clear and \n emotions controlled, \n raises thinking to \n intuitive levels, on a \n physical level it can be used\n to help eliminate \n toxins from the colon, gall\n bladder and kidneys a n d\n entire eliminative \n system.\n \n \n \n \n 915\n \n \n \n CHRYSOPRASE Green Solar- Has a quality of \n compassion and a \n Plexus,\n \n \n \n \n capacity\n for\n fine\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n attunement works\n Heart\n \n \n \n \n \n \n on\n the\n solar\n plexus\n and\n heart areas to sooth \n emotions, will help \n tranquilize many forms of a n d\n neurosis, also used t o\n absorb or deflect unwanted\n energies.\n \n FLOURITE Clear, Crown, Multi-dimensional \n stone, balances\n Blue,\n 3rd\n Eyeandintegrateslower\n \n (human) self\n Purple withhigher(spiritual)\n self, good for meditation over\n 3rd eye chakra, works well\n with virulent diseases.\n \n GARNET Red Root Stimulates happiness,\n peace, balance, patience, \n inspiration, persistence, good\n for rebirthing, \n menstruation and life \n passages, disorders, \n fertility, eases arthritis\n pain.\n \n HEMATITE Grey-black Root A verygrounding stone,\n very cooling to the \n physical body, use for \n fevers, alleviates worry a n d\n anxiety as it allows f o r\n mental clarity, often known\n as the \"worry stone\".\n \n HERKIMER Clear Crown Very balancing special\n variety of quartz crystal\n \"DIAMOND\" works with yin/yang\n energies,\n often\n known\n as\n the \"Dream Crystal\", aids\n in bringing teachings of\n the dream state into\n conscious awareness, very \n highly attuned \n spiritually.\n \n KYANITE Blue, Crown, Aligns all chakras, \n if so directed\n Black\n \n 3rdEye\n can\n openchakras(energy\n centers in the body),\n dispells frustration and \n anger, excellent attunement\n stone, good for meditating,\n aids in p a s t l i f e\n regression.\n \n LAPIS Blue Throat, Used over 3rdeye \n \n 916\n \n \n \n (brow) chakra,\n LAZULI 3rd Eye assists in opening \n and clarifying\n (Brow)\n \n \n \n \n \n inner\n vision,\n provides\n strength, vitality and \n self-assurance, used for \n disorders of the throat, \n heart,spleen, blood, skin a n d\n to counter effects of \n stroke and epilepsy, also good\n for dream work.\n \n \n LITHIUM Lavender Crown, Helps to reduce stress\n and ease depression,\n with Pink Solar- relates to cycles of\n Tourmaline\n \n Plexus\n \n \n \n birth\n and\n deathand\n eases\n transition, good \n preparatory stone inner \n spiritual work, on physical\n helps with digestion.\n \n MOONSTONE White Crown Has avery calming effect\n on the emotions,\n Pastel stimulatesthe pineal\n gland, assists in \n stimulating the feeling \n (intuitive) nature, eases \n menstrual pain, alleviates\n many degenerative\n conditions in the skin,\n hair, eyes, and body fluids\n (tears, digestive juices).\n \n OBSIDIAN Black- Used tosharpen both the\n internal and external\n Snowflakevision,oneofthemost\n important \"teachers\" of\n the New Age stones, \n teaches one the truth of \n oneself in relation to ones\n ego, depicts the contrasts\n of life-day and night,\n darkness and light, truth\n and error.\n \n PERIDOT Green Heart, Promotes digestion, \n eases ailments \n Yellow/ Brow inthedigestive \n system, used for\n Green forprotection, \n prosperity, emotional \n calming, purifies, \n balances.\n \n \n PHANTOM Clear All Very powerful tool \n for the New Age,\n Redor used togroundand \n center while\n \n 917\n \n \n \n Yellow attuning to higher \n spiritual energies, in \n healing work used to \n disperse congested energies.\n \n PYRITE Gold Solar- Hasa very protecting,\n shielding aspect which\n Plexus\n \n \n \n \n \n works\n on\n the\n physical,\n mental, emotional levels. \n Shields from many forms o f\n negative energy, strengths\n circulatory system, clears\n oxygen in the blood.\n \n QUARTZ Clear Trans- All-purpose, all \n healing, amplifies\n personal\n \n \n \n thought-forms,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n transmutes energy\n point\n \n \n \n \n \n \n and\n forms\n protective\n shield around auric \n field, excellent for \n meditation stone, color work,\n aura work, very \n energizing.\n \n IRRADIATED Very Absorbs all formsof \n negative\n QUARTZ Black energy,placed on or \n near\n electrical\n equipment\n (T.V., microwave, \n computer) to absorb \n harmful energies.\n \n ROSE QUARTZ Pink Heart Comfortsheart from all\n wounds, helps heal emotional\n pain, enhances l o v e ,\n self-love, positive \n outlook, joy and oneness, \n helpful for heart, throat,\n ears, nose, hypertension.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 918\n \n \n \n SMOKEY Black Root, Eases depression, \n fear and panic,\n QUARTZ Grey Solar- clears aura, very \n grounding,\n Plexus enhances positive \n attitudes, tranquilizes, works\n well with root chakra to\n release negative blocks\n emotional and physical,\n used for menstrual \n cramps,intestines, stomach\n and digestion.\n \n TOPAZ Yellow Solar- Draws negativity from \n chakras,\n Plexus\n \n \n \n \n \n protects\n against\n insomnia\n and depression, mood\n elevator, revitalizes, very\n stimulating to the \n creative thinking processes,\n eases death.\n \n TOURMALINE Varied Root, Works as a protective\n shield, consumes negative \n energy without releasing i t\n into the atmosphere, h a s\n to do with visions a n d\n \"seeing\" with compassion,\n good for the eyes, teaches\n to expand l i m i t e d\n concepts of\n thinking, relates to\n aspirations for higher love,\n very complete stone.\n \n TURQUOISE Aqua Heart, Known as\"The Sky \n Stone\", is\n Throat excellent for both \n Spiritual attunement and \n healing of the energy \n centers and the physical body,\n valuable for grounding as\n well as for vision quests\n and astral t r a v e l ,\n purifies all levels of\n being and is capable of\n handling strong negativity,\n also used for wounds and\n for damage to bones.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 919","title":"Internet Book of Shadows: Magickal Stones & Gems","type":"page"}