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Crystals, Minerals & Gemstones
Lapis Lazuli
The Blue Stone that symbolizes power and royalty
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Lapis Lazuli is one of the power stones of the ages, a precious commodity known in ancient Babylon and Egypt and have been valued as much as gold. This Royal Blue stone was used as an amulet, protection from physical danger, as medicinal stone or used to adorn ceremonial robes. Lapis is often thought of as being deep royal blue but the finest material has a slight Violet cast.
This stone is a conglomerate rock composed of Lazurite, Pyrite and Calcite. The deep blue color comes from Lazurite and Pyrite adds the distinctive gold flecks. The gem has been mined continuously for more than 6000 years at the Kakcha River in the Badakshan region of Afghanistan. Lapis is generally cut as cabochons, tumbled, slabs, or used as carvings.
Scientific Properties:
Color: deep blue to blue-violet, opaque, flecked with gold
Hardness: 5 to 6
Crystal System: Isometric, rare crystals, mostly dense, grainy aggregate
Chemistry: Na8 (Al 6 Si 6 O 24) S2 sulphur containing sodium aluminum silicate
Refractive Index: 1.50
Fluorescence: strong, white
Location: Kokcha River Valley, Afghanistan; Ovalle, Cordillera, Chile; Egypt; Mt. Visuvius, Italy; near Lake Baikal, Russia; Cascade Canyon, San Bernardino Mountains and Ontario Peak, California and in the Sawatch Mountains, Colorado, USA
Uses: mineral specimens, ornamental stones
Associated Minerals: Lazurite, calcite, feldspars, pyrite and quartz
Name:
The modern name originated from the Latin words: Lapis – meaning stone and Lazuli – meaning blue. The root word Lazuli is an older form of Allazward or Arabic word L’azulaus both meaning sky, heaven or blue. The French word Azur and the English form Azure came from the same roots.
Historical Presence:
43rd Millennium B.C. – ancient records states Puabi was the fist Sumerian Queen dressed in gems and precious metals, her royal robes were made of gold and silver, studded with Lapis Lazuli
2nd Millennium B. C. – Assyrian tablets states the gem as an article of tribute. The Babylonian goddess in preparation on her descent into the underworld adorned herself with ornaments of lapis lazuli and wore great lapis lazuli necklace.
19th Century – powered lapis lazuli prescribed as an astringent
King’s natural history of gems – medicinal, heals when powdered, mixed with milk and smeared over the sores, boils and ulceration
Chinese – for centuries used to make cosmetic to paint eyebrows
20th Century – shelters wearer from physical danger and psychic attacks. Treats disorders of the throat, bone marrow, thymus and immune system, said to rectify RNA/DNA damage.
Hebrews – used to adorn ceremonial robes
Egyptians – used the gem to make amulets, scarabs and cylinder seals. Funerary masks of the pharaohs included inlaid lapis and high priests wore lapis images of Mat, Goddess of Truth
15th Century B.C. – in Berlin Museum holds a papyrus for the curative powers of three precious stones; Lapis Lazuli, Malachite and Red Jasper strung as beads for a child’s necklace. The cure was affected by reciting a specific formula over the child – the incantation called upon the disease to be drawn from the patient, through the beads into the air and water.
1st Century Romans – Pliny states “Sapphiros contains spots of gold; sometimes blue and rarely tinged with purple.” Greek and Romans powered the blue gem and used as general tonic and an effective purgative
Middle ages – used as medicinal stone and source of pigment for illuminated manuscript.
Powered and mixed with oils produced an intense blue paint known as ultramarine
13th Century – Albertus Magnus refers to lapis lazuli as “a blue stone with little golden spots, as a cure for depression and quartern fever – an intermittent fever which returned on each 3rd day
14th Century – Chevalier Jean de Mandeville states “Lapis Lazuli, the magnet stone is found in parts of Armenia, it is a blue stone slightly shiny and opaque, protects against illness that causes fainting due to a weak heart; prevents conception when carried by a man or a woman
Myths, Legends & Lore:
King Solomon
Legends say, King Solomon wore a ring of Lapis Lazuli given by an Angel of the Lord. The ring allowed him to control the legions of demons to build the Temple of Solomon.
Metaphysical Use and Properties:
CHAKRAS: Third Eye, Throat
VIBRATION Number 3
ZODIAC: Sagittarius
ATTRIBUTES:
Lapis Lazuli bonds relationship in love and friendship, it aids expressing feelings and emotions. It dissolves martyrdom, cruelty and suffering. As a gem essence, it dissolves emotional bondage. Lapis Lazuli opens the third eye and balances the throat chakra. It stimulates enlightenment and enhances dream work and psychic abilities, facilitating spiritual journeying and stimulating personal and spiritual power. This stone quickly releases stress and bring deep peace. It possesses enormous serenity and is the key to spiritual attainment. It is a protective stone that contacts spirit guardians. This stone recognizes psychic attack, blocks it, and returns the energy to its source. It teaches the power of the spoken word and can reverse curses or dis-ease caused not speaking out in the past. It encourages taking charge of life, reveals inner truth, self-awareness, self-expression without holding back or compromising.
HEALING:
ILapis Lazuli alleviates pain, especially that of migraine headaches. It overcomes depression, benefits the respiratory and nervous systems and the throat, larynx and the thyroid, and cleanses organs, bone marrow, thymus, and the immune system. It overcomes hearing loss, purifies blood and boosts the immune system, alleviates |
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Raven
of Raven Crystals
Reiki Level 3 & Quantum Touch Healer
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Raven is a Pacific Islander born and raised in the Philippines. She has a degree in Bachelor of Science and Business Administration and attended two years of graduate school. Raven lives with her husband and son in Las Vegas, Nevada. She created an e-commerce business, Raven Crystals guided with love, intuition, and the spiritual magical energy of the Raven.
Raven is a Reiki Level 3 Practitioner and a student of Quantum Touch Healing. She channels Reiki Energy daily for distant healings and practices hands on healing several times a week.
Raven became interested in healing stones when she first became a student of Reiki. She was delighted with the beauty and qualities of the stones and decided she wanted to share them with friends and family. She began purchasing stones and studying the healing properties of each stone. Her desire grew and she wanted to provide unique, rare and hard to find items, as they were the most intriguing in shape and have such radiant colors along with their extraordinary energy and healing properties.
Raven has created an e-commerce business with the intention of sending Love, Light and Peace to everyone receiving Earth’s children from the mineral kingdom. She personally selects each specimen and provides an abundance of information about each crystal and mineral on display.
Raven has created several one of a kind new age products; Raven Energy Wands, the Antahkarana Grid with crystals and minerals and several display ideas found only at Raven Crystals.
To learn more about Crystals and the Mineral Kingdom or learning about Reiki, please contact Raven or visit Raven Crystals.
Contact Information:
Phone: 702-218-9985
Email: raven@ravencrystals.com
Website:
www.ravencrystals.com
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