Color, brightness, and clarity are of equal importance in therapeutic-quality Emerald. The color green that most closely matches the green of the rainbow is most powerful. Therapeutic Emerald is a rich, radiant, pure bright green with good clarity. When the necklace is examined as a whole, it should either be free of black flecks or have only a minimal number of them.

Avoid any Emerald that is cloudy or dull in appearance or noticeably yellow-green or blue-green in color. This is not therapeutic Emerald. The blue in particular is a contaminant that can alter the vibration of Emerald. Not only is it not therapeutic, but it can actually have a harmful effect.

A rondel is a sphere that is somewhat flattened on two opposite sides. Therapeutic Emerald is best shaped into rondels rather than spheres. Emerald spheres tend to have a somewhat harsh, searing effect on the aura and body. The rondel shape helps the body regulate the absorption of Emerald energy in the aura, while providing benefits similar to those of gemstone spheres.

The rounded yet irregular form known as “chips” should be avoided in the case of Emerald. Emerald chips have an irritating effect on the human aura.

Remember, once you have taken care of your physical disharmonies, you must also resolve their inner causes; otherwise, these inner disharmonies will continue to manifest in your physical body. Perhaps they will manifest in a different location or as a different condition, but they will manifest. Therefore, to fully resolve the inner disharmonies, you should continue wearing enough Emerald to saturate your aura for some time after your physical condition has appeared to heal. People whose physical bodies are overburdened with disharmony should - probably for the rest of their lives - wear enough Emerald to continually saturate the aura and provide enough Emerald energy to work on the underlying, inner causes of their physical conditions.

The most effective way to maintain Emerald saturation of the aura is to wear a large amount of Emerald. A solid necklace of 30 to 45 carats of therapeutic-quality Emerald will probably maintain saturation of the aura at all times. It should also provide enough Emerald energy to work on emotional and mental causes of physical conditions.

For a relatively healthy person who wishes to use Emerald for minor disharmonies or preventive purposes, a smaller amount of Emerald will probably be adequate.

In this case, a necklace of 5 or 6 carats of Emerald harmoniously combined with other uplifting gemstones, such as the Summer necklace, will likely be enough to saturate the aura. However, it will take much longer to do so than if a larger amount of Emerald is worn, and it won’t have enough strength to neutralize large amounts of disharmony or to reach deeply into the emotional or mental areas.

When your body has a serious condition or is experiencing acute symptoms, inner disharmonies are more difficult to abolish. These negative energies resist the entrance of Emerald and other healing energies into your aura. A larger amount of Emerald, such as that present in a solid necklace, can overcome this resistance more easily. If the disease is serious or life threatening, perhaps as much as 75 or more carats, may be necessary.

To maintain a therapeutic level of Emerald energy in your aura, it is important to keep your Emerald necklace either around your neck or within three feet of your body at all times.

Emerald works in stages. When the energy of an Emerald necklace has saturated your aura and resolved a certain degree of disharmony in your physical body, it begins to neutralize the negative emotional energies that are feeding your physical condition. Then, when it has resolved a certain degree of disharmony in your physical and emotional aspects, the Emerald begins to work on the mental issues contributing to your condition.

Because disharmony and the green ray are opposites, the green ray radiated by Emerald gets used up in the process of neutralizing and disintegrating disharmony. If the disharmony is strong, the green ray is used up rather quickly. Therefore, if you wish to address not only your physical condition but also its emotional and mental causes, you must wear enough Emerald to maintain constant saturation of your aura with green ray.

Emerald brings life, nourishment, and healing to your physical body. It helps resolve your greatest physical disharmonies with the life-giving green ray it carries. Emerald is the gemstone bearer of the green ray, an essential element for the life of all plants, animals, and human beings. Yet it is not through the green ray alone that Emerald has its healing effects but through the green ray in combination with the energy of beryl, the family of crystals to which Emerald belongs. For simplicity’s sake, we shall refer to this combination as “Emerald energy.”

Emerald focuses its healing effects on the area of greatest disharmony in your body, which is often the source of disease. When you first wear Emerald, its energy floods your aura and locates areas of physical disharmony. Then, like the eagle that has spotted its prey, it swoops down on these areas. Emerald energy enters your body through your skin in a process similar to osmosis. There, it neutralizes and disintegrates the disharmony that manifests as disease and discomfort. Then it helps your body release this disharmony.

The origins of physical illness are usually more than physical. Conflicts and discord in the emotions and mind often lead to physical problems as well. Inner disharmonies block the flow of life force to the physical body and feed it with disharmonious energy. Emerald not only addresses the physical manifestation of illness; it also helps resolve these inner causes of disease.

Emerald increases the flow of spiritual energy, or life energy, throughout your entire being. It does this by lubricating certain components in your inner aspects. These components, which resemble needle-like fibers, direct life energy through your inner aspects to your physical body. They perform various other functions, as well. In your emotional aspect, they direct the emotional energies that eventually manifest as emotions. In your karmic dimension, they manifest as pattern lines. In your mind, they represent formulas that your mind uses to make its decisions and perform its other functions.

As Emerald energy fills your inner aspects, it provides these fibers with something like a tune-up: it loosens, cleanses, and lubricates them. As a result, the fibers are freed from obstructions and become more flexible and efficient in their functioning. This allows more spiritual energy to move through them to all aspects of your being.

Although Emerald’s effects on the emotions and mind are secondary to its effects on the physical body, when you wear Emerald, you can take comfort in knowing you are using a powerful tool¾not only to heal the physical body but to resolve the very causes of your physical condition. Emerald also prepares your emotions and mind for the new state of consciousness that will arise when your physical condition has been resolved.

Emeralds are fascinating gemstones. They have the most beautiful, most intense and most radiant green that can possibly be imagined: emerald green. Inclusions are tolerated. In top quality, fine emeralds are even more valuable than diamonds. The name emerald comes from the Greek ’smaragdos’ via the Old French ‘esmeralde’, and really just means ‘green gemstone’. Innumerable fantastic stories have grown up around this magnificent gem. The Incas and Aztecs of South America, where the best emeralds are still found today, regarded the emerald as a holy gemstone. However, probably the oldest known finds were once made near the Red Sea in Egypt. Having said that, these gemstone mines, already exploited by Egyptian pharaohs between 3000 and 1500 B.C. and later referred to as ‘Cleopatra’s Mines’, had already been exhausted by the time they were rediscovered in the early 19th century. Read the rest of this entry »

The green of the emerald is the colour of life and of the springtime, which comes round again and again. But it has also, for centuries, been the colour of beauty and of constant love. In ancient Rome, green was the colour of Venus, the goddess of beauty and love. And today, this colour still occupies a special position in many cultures and religions. Green, for example, is the holy colour of Islam. Many of the states of the Arab League have green in their flags as a symbol of the unity of their faith. Yet this colour has a high status in the society,  where green is regarded as the most natural and the most elemental of the liturgical colours.
The magnificent green of the emerald is a colour which conveys harmony, love of Nature and elemental joie de vivre. The human eye can never see enough of this unique colour. Pliny commented that green gladdened the eye without tiring it. Green is perceived as fresh and vivid, never as monotonous. And in view of the fact that this colour always changes somewhat between the bright light of day and the artificial light of a lamp, emerald green retains its lively vigour in all its nuances. For the detail, go to Gemstone:

Whilst its good hardness protects the emerald to a large extent from scratches, its brittleness and its many fissures can make cutting, setting and cleaning rather difficult. Even for a skilled gem cutter, cutting emeralds presents a special challenge, firstly because of the high value of the raw crystals, and secondly because of the frequent inclusions. However, this does not detract from the cutters’ love of this unique gem. Indeed, they have developed a special cut just for this gem: the emerald cut. The clear design of this rectangular or square cut with its bevelled corners brings out the beauty of this valuable gemstone to the full, at the same time protecting it from mechanical strain.Emeralds are also cut in many other, mainly classical shapes, but if the raw material contains a large number of inclusions, it may often be cut into a gently rounded cabochon, or into one of the emerald beads which are so popular in India. Read the rest of this entry »