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Ch. 2: Precious Stones

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PRECIOUS STONES,
Precious stones are incorporated into all religions, being made to represent the noblest meanings, and the divinest attributes. Savage, and civilised nations alike hold them as among the most precious circumstances of human life. These morsels of ordinary materials, these mere crystals, composed of the commonest clays, and earths, have been deemed even sometimes by wise men more precious than liberty or life : who have felt them­selves more richly endowed through the gift of gems than if they had become possessed of half the virtues, and all the knowledge possible to man. Perhaps we shall some day know the full meaning of this universal fascination, and learn the secret of the mysterious affinity so evidently existing between man and jewels.
It is more than possible, indeed, highly probable, that what the advanced mental science of to-day terms, after a pedantic fashion, " Psychometry," is largely concerned in this universal fascination exercised by precious stones. The said scientific art implies a supposed power of the human mind to discern the past history of inanimate objects by occult telepathic perceptions. The double constitution of the human mind, as recognised nowadays by all authorities, bears immediately upon this funda­mental question. Broadly speaking, every man has two minds : the one " objective ; " the other " subjective." The former (objective) takes cognisance of the ordinary daily outside objective world, through the five bodily
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