Edgar Cayce's Sacred Stones: The A-to-Z Guide to Working with Gems to Enhance Your Life and Health
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531-9, Report #11
Cayce described someone’s life in Egypt:
. . . emeralds . . . and all those things that made for adornment . . .
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Q: Does it appear that I will sell my emeralds? If so—
A: (interrupting) This again—it is the choice to, yes, If it is not the choice to, it is not necessary in the activities of the entity—unless it’s desirous to be used in other directions!
Q: If so, how much?
A: (With a sound or sigh of impatience) We are through!
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The entity was among those set in charge of the preparations of the precious metals . . . a carver of stones . . . emeralds and those prepared for those in authority and in power.
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. . . might the entity bring a great deal of joy . . . as a collector of stones that are colored . . . emeralds . . .
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More on Emerald
Until recently, I have not used emeralds much in this lifetime for myself. Ever since a Vedic astrologer advised me not to use this stone based on my astrological chart, I have consciously avoided it. Recently, however, while working on this book, I began using a rough piece in meditation.
My emerald brought up many internal visions about the famed Emerald Tablets of Thoth, the Atlantean. These tablets, formed from a substance created through alchemical transmutation, were emerald green and revealed the secrets of alchemy, the art of transforming base metals into gold.
I feel that alchemy is a spiritual, internal quest to cleanse the soul and purify the spirit to attain a higher spiritual ideal. Gold is the symbol of ultimate perfection. I believe that rather than working with the actual metal, we are dealing with an ideal in consciousness rather than creating gold in the material world.
Although I recognize that alchemy also gave rise to our modern thoughts regarding chemistry—a fascinating subject in and of itself—I enjoy contemplating the spiritual aspects of alchemy.
Emeralds are a powerful stone of transformation and healing, shifting the person’s inner and spiritual being from one state and transforming it into another. A carrier of the Green Ray, this stone activates the heart chakra center but goes much further than that.
You may have heard about the famed HeartMath® Institute, http://www.heartmath.com/, which does research in the recently discovered fact that your heart guides you and makes decisions for every single one of your cells. By activating the Green Ray within you, a transformation occurs that allows all cells in your body to open up to what your heart knows and feels is best for your path. The wisdom contained within your own heart, embodied in all your cells, allows you to tap into your soul’s purpose in order to accomplish what the Higher Power has in mind for you. Emeralds will help you to align with your cosmic mission by aligning your being with your heart’s desire, which is truly the most powerful form of knowing there is. You may do the work in the third dimension by sitting in a physical laboratory and trying to create gold, but that is not the point of the exercise. The real work occurs when you consciously choose to open yourself up to the higher wisdom available to you through the energy of the heart.
Emeralds will help you, and it is not necessary to buy an expensive gemstone. Even the lower-grade stones will work. The Green Ray is present in both types.
Part of this journey of discovery happens through your intuition and with your intention to use the stone to transform yourself. Acquire whatever kind of emerald fits your budget, and then begin to work with it. Ask the stone to reveal the proper path for your soul to follow in this lifetime.
With gently closed eyes, you can ask your questions while meditating with emeralds. Keep a journal and record your experiences. Like many spiritual quests, if you go on this journey for forty days, you will be transformed by the end of this time period. You will learn much about yourself and those around you as a result. Clarity will prevail, and you will have a new understanding of your role in the world and how best to contribute to humanity at this time.
The emerald is one of the most powerful stones of all time, connecting us to the wisdom of the great ones in Egypt as well as to many of our most powerful and influential past-life experiences. Use emerald to tap into that former awareness and bring it into the present to help the future of mankind for decades to come. Emerald is energetically believed to be a stone for personal enlightenment. Society has many troubles with the heart center and learning how to deal with the world from a heart-centered place. As a soul, once you master the arena of the heart, you are well on your way to achieving mastery over your entire life.
How to Use Your Emerald
If you or someone you love has heart trouble, it is beneficial to keep emeralds near the heart center. You can do this in one of several ways by placing the gemstone in a pocket, wearing emerald as jewelry, putting your emerald in a medicine bag, or placing the stone on the body while resting or sleeping. Regardless of how or where you use it, just having it nearby creates positive change!
FLINT
Found in: Australia, China, England, France, Germany, Netherlands, Russia, USA
Named for: Flint is derived from the Old English for flins, which means “pebble or hard stone.” It is a variety of chert, composed of microcrystalline quartz.
• Bible •
Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint; Deuteronomy 8:15
He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; Deuteronomy 32:13
Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters. Psalm 114:8
Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind: Isaiah 5:28
For the Lord God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, And I know that I shall not be ashamed. Isaiah 50:7
As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house. Ezekiel 3:9
• Cayce Readings •
Flint is mentioned six times in six documents.
The Source discussed flint in a few Life Readings, including references to Flint, Michigan and a Flint building in Auburn, NY, which I did not include.
. . . In Uranus, we find that the entity may be very magnanimous in some experience and then as hard as flint in another, or variable even to that of pessimism or criticism . . .
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Another reading described the sale of a company called Flint Gravel:
Q: Will the Flint Gravel Company . . . be sold soon, and will this body lose anything on this investment?
A: . . . they will make some money out of it.
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Another reading discussed digging a well. The questioner wanted information about how to best proceed:
. . . Be not discouraged at even striking the hard flint formation as will be encountered in the last portion of the cap or the break that will occur . . .
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More on Flint
Flint has been used since prehistoric times to construct tools and is consequently an important stone in the history of mankind.
On the other hand, I almost didn’t include the stone. I accidentally found flint while searching through the Bible and ultimately realized that I needed to cover this important topic.
For millions of years, mankind has fashioned various tools and implements using the chert and quartz compound known as flint. We’ve already discussed why quartz crystal and other rocks composed of silicon dioxide are important. They are sturdy materials that could be used to make vital weapons or tools during those early times.
If you are guided to work with flint, this stone w
ill connect you to your past lives in prehistory and may help to provide healing for that energy. I believe that daily living was extremely difficult for people during that time. A constant fear of animals or the elements threatened the existence of mankind at every turn during those early days.
Working with flint will assist you in letting go of those memories at the cellular level so that you can move forward without carrying any of that primal fear into your current life. If you suffer from deep fears and do not know the cause, use flint by holding a piece during a past-life regression session. Doing so will allow you to travel safely back in time energetically to revisit those painful memories and then let them go. Releasing those memories will give you greater physical energy in the present and a renewed sense of strength and courage for all of your daily endeavors.
Often as we go about our present daily life, we are afraid of things, whether we realize it or not. There is the fear of rejection or the fear of failure—and these days our fears are usually more emotional than primal in nature. Nevertheless, we often carry deep memories of survival fears. Any fears that pale in importance to life and death matters can be crippling to our evolvement if we allow them to be.
Flint helps you to release emotional fear. It is beneficial to accept the simple reality that the fear of rejection or perhaps the documented worst fear of most people—the fear of public speaking—will not kill you. In fact, facing these fears will only make you stronger, as the saying goes. Use flint to empower your actions as you gain strength from this extremely tough stone. It will help you to transcend your limitations and become courageous in the face of any adversity.
GARNET
Found in: Brazil, Burma (Myanmar), China, India, Kenya, Madagascar, Russia, Sri Lanka, Turkey, USA
Named for: Garnet comes from the Latin word for grain because of rounded crystals that were considered to appear similar to pomegranate seeds. Carbuncle is from the Latin carbunculus for “coal or small, glowing ember.”
Birthstone: January
Vedic astrology: The gemstone of Rahu = hessonite
Other varieties of garnet include:
Pyrope is derived from the Greek for “fire and eye.”
Almandine originates from a town in Asia Minor. Almandine is also known as carbuncle. In early times, almost any red gem was called a carbuncle.
Spessartite was named after Spessart, a hilly, forested town in Bavaria, Germany.
Hessonite is a golden-orange variety, often called cinnamon stone.
• Bible •
And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be . . . a carbuncle: this shall be the first row. Exodus 28:17
. . . a carbuncle: this was the first row. Exodus 39:10
. . . thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones. Isaiah 54:12
Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering . . . the carbuncle . . . Ezekiel 28:13
• Cayce Readings •
Garnet is mentioned one time, and carbuncle is mentioned eighty-five times in sixty documents.
Garnet is only mentioned once in the Life Readings in a letter the A.R.E. received on August 15, 1946, from a member who wrote to discuss what a profound impact Cayce’s reading had had on his life:
Do not remember how I came to be in possession of a small stone a few months after the reading, and far from being a genuine ruby with its wine and carmine colors or tints, to me it was a ‘ruby’ though it could have been termed a garnet because of its leaning towards pomegranate tint . . .
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In terms of the Cayce readings, carbuncle is mentioned eighty-five times in sixty documents in the readings relating to the term when it is used to describe a boil in the skin caused by a bacterial infection. The readings repeatedly discuss the patients in question as having poor circulation and often pre-diabetic symptoms. Only once is carbuncle mentioned as it related to biblical gemstones:
. . . The entity was then of the sons of the Hittites who dealt with the sons of Aaron as they prepared the garments of the priest, and the entity supplied the various stones, especially the carbuncle . . .
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More on Garnet and Carbuncle
The biblical connection to garnets that were equated with the sacred pomegranate cannot be underestimated. Known as the fruit of God himself, the Latin word pomum means “apple or fruit,” and granatus means “having many seeds or grains.” In Exodus, God commanded Moses to wear a robe with embroidered pomegranates. It is easy to understand why the garnet has associations with biblical strength and endurance.
Throughout the ages, garnets, which were often called carbuncles, have been known to assist with circulation disorders, stimulating blood flow and helping with infections and ailments of the blood. Could it be the stones were used in ancient times to assist energetically to alleviate these symptoms? People in the Middle Ages believed that garnets warded off infections and helped to prevent the bubonic plague from taking hold.
Aside from its physical benefits, garnets have also been associated with passion and love. Giving a garnet as a gift has always signified dedication and commitment. Garnet also strengthens the will and helps you to fulfill your mission by increasing personal vitality and stamina, giving you the courage and energy necessary to complete even the most complex tasks.
In the past, I’ve reported my own experiences with the protective powers of the garnet as a tool for spiritual shielding and absorbing unwanted energies. Garnets will take on evil or malicious energies and when filled, will disperse, allowing the transmutation of dark into light. I attribute this quality to the sacred and protective nature of the stone, reminiscent of biblical times.
In other writings I have described hematite, which is the ore of iron. Incredibly, hematite absorbs negativity and will physically crack once finished with that task. Garnet is the only other stone I’ve seen that will do the same thing.
Once I was called to a home to do a spiritual clearing. When I do this kind of work, I usually go from room to room and then walk around the outside of the property, using Reiki and other modalities such as sage and salt to cleanse the area.
Before I left to go to the home that needed to be cleared, I was guided to wear a garnet bracelet. Once I was there, I proceeded to work from the inside out, going room to room and spending enough time in each space until I felt a physical shift in the energy.
Sure enough, I arrived at the master bathroom where I felt a thick, dense energy that was difficult to clear, so I spent some extra time there. Just when I was about to leave to go back to the living area and begin the work on the outside of the home, my garnet bracelet broke apart and fell to the floor. Strung on a thick cord, the stones were the chipped kind, so they did not disperse as I’ve seen happen with my hematite bracelet. In addition, the cord was strong. There was no reason for it to break other than for the same reason that hematite reacts similarly when filled with too much energy. I picked it up, put it in my pocket, and took it home. I placed it outside there, under a tree, and allowed the negative vibrations to ease off into the ground.
Had the piece been of sentimental value, I might have restrung it. Because it wasn’t, I allowed the stones to remain there. Even to this day, they’re buried somewhere outside of that house where they can do some good.
While you can use hematite for more mundane issues like an uncooperative co-worker or a temporary conflict with someone, garnet is a stone to use for spiritual protection.
In ancient times, people believed the garnet gave off a physical light. I agree that whether or not you can see the light emanating from the stone, garnet has a wonderful, protective energy. It will surround you with the light while protecting you against darker forces. Garnet has always been a personal favorite for me. I highly recommend that you keep a piece for use in your daily life.
IVORY
Found in: Africa, Egypt, Europe, Greece, India, Japan, Southeast Asia
• Bible •
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold. 1 Kings 10:18
For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. 1 Kings 10:22
Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 1 Kings 22:39
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold. 2 Chronicles 9:17
For the king’s ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. 2 Chronicles 9:21
All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad. Psalm 45:8
His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory . . . Song of Solomon 5:14
Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus. Song of Solomon 7:4
Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim. Ezekiel 27:6
The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony. Ezekiel 27:15