Crystal Balls and Divination Throughout History - Traveling within the World2024-03-28T09:52:55Zhttps://travelingwithintheworld.ning.com/forum/topics/crystal-balls-and-divination-throughout-history?groupUrl=divination&commentId=2185477%3AComment%3A196139&groupId=2185477%3AGroup%3A23709&feed=yes&xn_auth=noDonna Hoyt-Campbell 5:13in th…tag:travelingwithintheworld.ning.com,2014-01-25:2185477:Comment:1962632014-01-25T19:13:45.629ZDept of PMM Artists & thingshttps://travelingwithintheworld.ning.com/profile/Artistsandthings
<p>Donna Hoyt-Campbell 5:13in the evenin' Jan 24<br></br> Crystal Ball Gazing<br></br> ________________________________________</p>
<p>This technique is best if done with a Crystal Ball 2-5 inches in diameter and works best on nights of the full moon.<br></br> ** If the purchase a Crystal Ball is not within your budget, a bowl of water with a Quartz Crystal Cluster at the bottom will suffice. True Quartz Crystal Balls can be quite expensive. Also, never substitute a resin or glass ball since they are…</p>
<p>Donna Hoyt-Campbell 5:13in the evenin' Jan 24<br/> Crystal Ball Gazing<br/>
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<p>This technique is best if done with a Crystal Ball 2-5 inches in diameter and works best on nights of the full moon.<br/> ** If the purchase a Crystal Ball is not within your budget, a bowl of water with a Quartz Crystal Cluster at the bottom will suffice. True Quartz Crystal Balls can be quite expensive. Also, never substitute a resin or glass ball since they are ineffective for anything other than children's games.<br/>
Try to Snipe one off of E-bay, I do know some readers who use the different colored crystal balls, just make sure they are Stones of the Earth.</p>
<p>Light one or two candles in a darkened, quiet room. You can hold the crystal or place it on a stand, but it should have a blue or black velvet cloth underneath it. Make sure that there are no reflections from anything showing in the ball. You can also burn incense if you wish. Nag Champa works great for me.</p>
<p>Before beginning, center yourself. Gaze into the ball, but do not stare. Try not to blink that much. While you are gazing, breathe in and out slowly and deeply. Just relax and gaze. You will feel a sense of limitless time. Enjoy the peacefulness and simply gaze. Do this for at least 15 minutes, and increase your time by 5 minutes with each succeeding session.</p>
<p>Usually around the second or third session, you will notice a small cloudy glow in the center of the crystal. This is your focusing area where your visions will appear. You may get a vision on your first try, while others have to attempt it several times before seeing something. Go at your own pace.</p>
<p>Just a small warning: Always remember the saying "Be Careful What You Wish For" while gazing. Think about what you wish to see before gazing.</p>
<p>On my fourth session ( when I got my first vision ) I asked to see a vision of my previous life. I saw myself in the 1920s as a ganster chick being shot, I wasn't a nice person....Now I find that it is best to just gaze and receive whatever comes to me. Perhaps you can have more peaceful visions by doing that too.</p>
<p>There are also different forms that visions come in. You can get actual visions of places and people, or you can get symbolic pictures. Another form that visions come in are color clouds. Although no one has been successful in identifying what each color cloud means, the following has been pretty accurate for a lot of seers.<br/> *Blue clouds symbolize success of career or business</p>
<p>*Gold clouds symbolize prosperity, steady cash flow, and renewed romance to come</p>
<p>*Gray/Dark gray symbolize ill fortune</p>
<p>*Black clouds symbolize some seriously bad stuff coming one's way</p>
<p>*Green clouds symbolize health, happiness of the heart</p>
<p>*Orange clouds symbolize hidden aggression and anger, troubled emotions</p>
<p>*Red clouds symbolize danger to come. This person must watch themselves</p>
<p>*Silver clouds symbolize troublesome times ahead followed by goodness</p>
<p>*White clouds symbolize very good fortune to come</p>
<p>*Yellow clouds symbolize upcoming obstacles</p> Bre Geier 11:27in the evenin'…tag:travelingwithintheworld.ning.com,2014-01-25:2185477:Comment:1961392014-01-25T18:30:02.627ZDept of PMM Artists & thingshttps://travelingwithintheworld.ning.com/profile/Artistsandthings
<p>Bre Geier 11:27in the evenin' Jan 24<br></br> Crystalomancy or crystal gazing</p>
<p>A mode of divination practiced since ancient times with the help of a<br></br> crystal lobe, a pool of water, or any transparent object. Also, it can<br></br> be accomplished with water, ink, and<br></br>
other like substances in the divination called hydromancy.</p>
<p>The divinatory practitioner is known as the scryer while the practice is<br></br> known as scrying. Depending on the era the practice ranges from a…</p>
<p>Bre Geier 11:27in the evenin' Jan 24<br/> Crystalomancy or crystal gazing</p>
<p>A mode of divination practiced since ancient times with the help of a<br/> crystal lobe, a pool of water, or any transparent object. Also, it can<br/>
be accomplished with water, ink, and<br/>
other like substances in the divination called hydromancy.</p>
<p>The divinatory practitioner is known as the scryer while the practice is<br/> known as scrying. Depending on the era the practice ranges from a simple<br/>
to an elaborate form. However, the main purpose of the objects is always<br/>
to induce in the clairvoyant a state of hypnosis so the seer can see<br/>
visions in<br/>
the crystal.</p>
<p>The crystal most favored by crystal gazers is a spherical or oval globe,<br/> about four inches in diameter, and preferably a genuine rock-crystal. It<br/>
may be white, blue, violet, yellow,<br/>
green, opalescent, or transparent. Blue and amethyst colors are less<br/>
tiring on the eyes. Such a rock-crystal is very<br/>
expensive and is many times substituted by a sphere of glass<br/>
which renders good results.</p>
<p>The crystal itself must be a perfect sphere without a speck or flaw, and<br/> traditionally based in a stand of highly polished ebony, ivory, or<br/>
boxwood.</p>
<p>In the practice, Hindus use cups of treacle or ink. Stones of pale sea<br/> green or reddish tints have been used. Ancient crystallomancers had<br/>
precise invocations of the spirits to aid<br/>
them in elaborate rituals. The man was pure in life and religious<br/>
dispositions. In preparation for the ritual, a few days before he made<br/>
frequent ablutions, subjecting himself to<br/>
prayer and fasts.</p>
<p>The crystal and stand are inscribed with sacred characters as the floor<br/> in the room where the invocation is performed be inscribed with such<br/>
characters. The room must be of<br/>
thorough cleanliness and solemn atmosphere. But, the mental attitude is<br/>
of the utmost importance in the divination,<br/>
because true faith in it is essential for success.</p>
<p>If the magician is assisted by one or two friends who must observe the<br/> same rules and be guided by the same principles. The time of the<br/>
invocation is set in accordance with the positions of the heavenly<br/>
planets, and all preparations are made during the increasing of the<br/>
moon. All instruments and<br/>
accessories to be used in the ceremony--the sword, rod, and<br/>
compasses, the fire and perfume to be burned, as well as the<br/>
crystal--are consecrated or "charged" prior to the ritual.</p>
<p>During the procedure the magician faces the east and summons from the<br/> crystal the spirit he desires. Magic circles which were previously<br/>
inscribed on the floor are those which the magician stands in, and it is<br/>
best for him to remain within the circles for sometime after the spirit<br/>
has been<br/>
released. No part of the ceremony must be omitted or the invocation<br/>
might incur failure.</p>
<p>Paracelsus and others declared the elaborate ceremonies were<br/> unnecessary, since the magnes microscomi (the<br/>
magnetic principle in man) was clearly sufficient to achieve the desired<br/>
object. In a later period elaborate ceremonies were not completely<br/>
eliminated, but were made less imposing.</p>
<p>If the person for whom the ceremony is intended, is performing the<br/> ceremony himself, has no clairvoyant faculty,<br/>
then the best choice for a substitute is a young boy or girl born out of<br/>
wedlock who is still perfectly pure and innocent. Prayers and magical<br/>
words are said prior to the ceremony along with the burning of incense<br/>
and perfume. The child's forehead may be anointed and he may wear<br/>
garments<br/>
befitting the impressive nature of the ritual.</p>
<p>Some early writers describe formula prayers, known as the "Call" given<br/> prior to the inspection of the crystal. Finally after the crystal was<br/>
"charged" it was given to the medium or clairvoyant person, The first<br/>
indication of the clairvoyant vision was a mist or cloud over the<br/>
crystal which gradually<br/>
dissipated and then the appearance came into view.</p>
<p>Modern crystalomancy continues using a similar procedure but the<br/> preparations are simpler. The crystal is spherical and about the size of<br/>
an orange. It may by held with the finger and thumb of the magician, or,<br/>
if one end is flattened it may be placed on a table, or alternatively<br/>
held in the palm of the hand against the background of a black cloth.</p>
<p>The procedure is done in subdued light. If the divination is performed<br/> for someone else it is recommended that the person holds the crystal in<br/>
his hands a few minute before it is<br/>
passed to the medium.</p>
<p>The aim of crystal gazing, as previously said, is to induce a<br/> hypnotic state producing visionary hallucinations, the reflection of<br/>
light in the crystal forming points de repere for such hallucinations.<br/>
Thus, the value of elaborate ceremonials and impressive rituals lies in<br/>
their potential to affect the mind and imagination of the seer.</p>
<p>It is suggested that if telepathy operates with a greater force in a<br/> hypnotic state then it may also function in a similar fashion with the<br/>
self-imposed hypnosis of crystal gazing.</p>
<p>With the help of visionary powers many incidents of crime, such as<br/> finding missing persons and discovering missing and stolen property,<br/>
have been solved. The telepathic theory does<br/>
not seem to answer the operation of this process when the appearance of<br/>
the incident appears prior to its actual occurrence. The answer to this<br/>
mystery must be left to future<br/>
psychic research.</p>
<p>Though, there seems to be general agreement that the appearance is<br/> preceded by a milky clouding of the crystal.<br/>
This clouding seems to be a picture itself. It is dependent on the<br/>
operational conditions, and not a result of strain on the scryer's eyes,<br/>
for the individual glances away for awhile the<br/>
clouding still exits when his gaze returns to the crystal.</p>
<p>The first pictures act as a drop-scene, the nearest allegory is<br/> the cloud and of which, in materialization seances, phantasmal figures<br/>
emerge. The pictures to which the could gives way to may be small or<br/>
expand to the entire extent of the sphere in amazing size.</p>
<p>Sometimes the sphere completely disappears from the scryer's sight. The<br/> figures and/or scene assumes life-size proportions rendering the scryer<br/>
a sense of bilocation as if he is part of the group or scene. This sense<br/>
differs from clairvoyance.</p>
<p>It has been discovered that the images produced by scrying are often<br/> symbolic and the elements of choice are discernible which indicates the<br/>
presentation is provided by an exterior intelligence. Usually, however,<br/>
the pictures are either disconnected, vague images, or they are very<br/>
clear. Also, in the visionary images have been detected thought pictures<br/>
or<br/>
forms, dreamlike visions, forgotten, reflected memories which may give<br/>
way to representation of past, present or<br/>
future events.</p>
<p>From the above is should be apparent the interpretation of images<br/> produced in scrying should be critically analyzed to determine whether<br/>
they give valid information upon which to act, or contain some figments<br/>
of the scryer's personal mental process which render the interpretation<br/>
invalid.<br/>
This is why it is recommended the scryer be in good physical and mental<br/>
health in order to maintain objectivity in his interpretations. Caution<br/>
should be the keyword when acting<br/>
upon the interpretations. Even the inquirer should question his own<br/>
intentions, how eager is he to believe the<br/>
crystallomancer?</p>