Also called rock crystal, crystallus, krystallos, master healer (modern crystal lore)
Clear quartz, or rock crystal, is the stone that gave us the word crystal: Pliny believed it was ice frozen so hard it could never melt. It is the stone of crystal balls and seeing stones, and modern practitioners treat it as an all-purpose amplifier for intention.
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Take care: A clear sphere can focus sunlight and has started real fires, so never leave one in a sunny window. Points have sharp tips; keep them away from small children.
Pliny writes that crystal forms where winter snow freezes hardest, that its Greek name comes from ice, and that the best came from India and the Alpine heights, where men hung from ropes to reach it. Empress Livia dedicated a block of about 150 pounds in the Capitol.
Pliny reports that doctors considered a ball of crystal held in the sun the best cautery for the human body. It is one of the earliest written mentions of crystal spheres and a reminder that a clear sphere really can start fires.
Uses: crystal ball, sunlight
The Frankish king Childeric I (died 481) was buried with a small crystal globe, and similar balls appear in later Merovingian and Anglo-Saxon graves. By the 16th century John Dee and his scryer Edward Kelley were using a crystal shew stone to seek visions of angels.
Uses: crystal sphere
Clear quartz is silicon dioxide in its purest crystal form. The Greek krystallos meant ice, and Theophrastus in the 4th century BCE already listed crystal among stones used for engraved seals. Pliny the Elder, writing in the 70s CE, stated in Book 37 of his Natural History that crystal forms from extreme freezing and is a kind of ice. He described miners on ropes in the Alps and a 150-pound block dedicated by Livia in the Capitol, and he noted that doctors used a crystal ball in the sun to cauterise.
Crystal spheres were buried with Merovingian royalty, and crystal gazing for visions spread through medieval and Renaissance Europe, most famously with John Dee's shew stone. The Victorians revived crystal balls in parlours. Modern crystal practice calls clear quartz the master healer and uses it to amplify intentions; that is belief. Crystal healing has no scientific support: in a 1999 Goldsmiths experiment by Christopher French and colleagues, volunteers holding fake crystals reported the same sensations as those holding real quartz. Glass and lab-grown quartz spheres are sold widely, and many cheap clear points are glass.
A hollow glass sphere, often colored or silvered and sometimes filled with glass threads, hung in a window to catch, dazzle or trap evil spirits and ill wishes before they enter the house.
Gazing into a clear sphere of glass or quartz until images seem to form, then reading what you see. Famous from John Dee's angel sessions and the Victorian parlor, it is a form of scrying.
Holding a weight on a thread still over a question, a chart or a map and reading its swing as yes, no or a direction.
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