Jewelry
eople use jewelry for many things from traditional purposes; sentimental reasons including wearing pieces those before them wore or gifts, to stuff that gives people identity, or, how we see them because of how they want to be seen. The emphasis is what the eye first: the head including the hair; the face. and ears. The "Grill" or teeth adornment with precious metal covering the teeth and embedded with stones gave some rappers the idea of letting their lips part, in some cases extremely, so their teeth can be seen.
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People wear rings - expensive and numerous to "dazzle" on manicured hands. Few have adornments on their waists or feet. Maybe they think it's
wasted below the face on the body. One can move the hands and face more than the rest of the body.
Some people encourage not wearing jewelry. Others say the hell with that and drop thousands on custom pieces.I like crystals, or gems, and they are the There is much lore on what they do for people, animals, and places. The information is considered esoteric because there is no documentation supporting the properties they are said to possess. Science studies crystal properties with respect to electricity but not human energetic healing. One way to look at this issue is that science has to evolve in order to prove and demonstrate crystals can do what they were believed to do
Marie and Pierre Curie worked on radium;
Semyon Kirlian discovered electrical coronal discharges accidentally.
Ozzie Williams worked on radar and Lewis Lattimore invented the carbon
light bulb filament. There were hundreds more who investigated the
invisible, that which is unseen by the naked eye.
The science will have to be invented.
Jewelry from The Hidden Side of Things by C.W. Leadbeater
Another adjunct of ordinary life, in which the hidden side is of great importance, is jewelry. On the whole, the wearing of jewelry is to be discouraged, because, though every stone has its own special property and influence, the most prominent effect of nearly all of them is to excite bitter envy and covetousness in the hearts of others. Quite a number of women seem to be unable to contemplate a jewel without becoming filled with an inordinate greed to possess it, so that there is scarcely a stone of any beauty or value which is not the centre for many converging streams of jealous longing.
Jewelry and History
In the case of the great historical jewels we have the additional complication that all kinds of ghastly crimes have been committed in connection with them, and they are therefore usually objects of horror rather than of beauty to any sensitive person. The jewel represents the highest development of the mineral kingdom, and consequently its power of receiving and retaining impressions is much greater than is the case with almost any other object. The Gnostic gems employed in initiation ceremonies two thousand years ago still remain vigorous centres of magnetic influence, as may be seen and felt by any sensitive person who will take the trouble to examine some of those in the British Museum.
Jewelry and Crime
At the spot where any great crime has been committed, or where vivid emotions of fear, anger, hatred or revenge have been in action, an astral impression is made which is immediately obvious in its full horror to the clairvoyant, and is frequently sensed to some extent even by persons in whom the higher senses are entirely undeveloped. This is true to a still greater extent of a jewel which has been the cause of many crimes, has been present at them and has absorbed the effect of all the passions which prompted them. Such a jewel retains these impressions with unimpaired clearness for thousands of years, and continues to radiate out from itself the vibrations appropriate to them; and the psychometer sees around it all these pictures of indescribable horror. The wearer of the jewel frequently does not see them, but nevertheless their pernicious effect is constantly exercised upon her.
It is not only in connection with great historical gems that this unpleasantness exists, for I have come across several instances in which ordinary stones have been the occasion of a terrible crime among the miners who discovered them. I know of one such, in which the finder was murdered by another man, but lived long enough to attach a fearful curse to the gem for the sake of which he had lost his life. This curse was acting so definitely upon various wearers of the jewel fifty years later, that it seemed the safest and best course to throw the stone into the sea-- which was accordingly done.
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