Lapis Lazuli

"lap-&s-'la-z&-lE

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It was said to impart ancient knowledge, and the wisdom to use it and to enhance one's awareness, insight and intellect.

Ground lapis was the secret of the blue in ultramarine, the pigment which painters used to paint the sea and the sky until the nineteenth century.  Which means that all of the beautiful blues in paintings from the Renaissance are thanks to the blue of lapis lazuli; the blue rock loved by the ancients, from Mesopotamia, to Egypt, to Persia, to Greece and Rome. The ancient city of Ur has had a thriving trade in lapis as early as the fourth millennium B.C. The name is international, from the Latin, lapis, which means stone, and from the Arabic, aula, which means blue. When lapis was first introduced to Europe, it was called ultramarinum, which means beyond the sea. 

All cultures have used lapis to decorate the statures of the deities. It has always been greatly valued by rules, being used for magical and medicinal purposes.

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Lapis lazuli is a blue rock made up of several different minerals, including but not limited to: lazurite, sodalite, hauyne, calcite and pyrite.  The composition and color of the stone varies, but it is the intense dark blue with patches of white and pyrite that has always been considered the best. quality.

Lapis has been imitated by stained jasper and by paste with inclusions of copper. Imitation lapis lazuli produced by Pierre Gilson of France has a composition very similar to that of natural lapis.

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Lapis is also connected with Jupiter and thus expands the intellect, wisdom and leadership qualities as well as helping in legal matters that arise. The stone works as a shield from psychic attack. It is used to relieve insomnia and let go of anxieties.

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More Healing Information

Use it to soothe  throats and all inflammation of the neck and head. It makes quite a powerful elixir to align the etheric, emotional and spiritual bodies. 

Physicians for ancient Egypt, Sumer and Babylon used lapis for many medicinal purposes, including curing eye cataracts.  The connection with the eye may have come from the use of lapis to fashion carvings of a stylized, which was called the Eye of Isis or the All-Seeing Eye of the Goddess Maat.  Since Isis was said to watch over the dead on their final journey, the lapis eye was placed in the sarcophagus with the mummy.  The chief justice of Egypt wore the Eye of Maat when he rendered judgments. 

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Lapis has timeless associations with the kings and queens of all realms.  In ancient Sumer, the stone was very closely associated with the deities in general, and in carrying it, it's possessor bore the potent magical power of a deity, for the stone contained the force behind all divinity.  Some said the stone contained the soul the deity, who would 'rejoice it its owner". 

The energy of this stone is very high quality, and it does not lower its power to your level; rather you must raise it match it's.  You muse raise your mental, emotional and spiritual energies to connect with the Lapis Lazuli.  It teaches you to set aside your personality and all it's quirks, so that you can clearly see what is actually occurring within another person or a given situation.  It will also help in wiping out any part of the past, in this life or others that you are still carrying but need to let go of.

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Not a Traditional Birthstone for any Month

Stone of Sagittarius it gives the power of friendship and helps to make decisions. 

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