One of the most powerful, popular and beautiful stones, amethyst, is said to bestow both physical and emotional healing.
Sensitive people can benefit from wearing this stone because it promotes groundedness, compassion and self-compassion, protects against anxiety and psychic attack, and helps you let go of negativity in the environment or in your own social programming — this is largely what is meant by having FAITH, primarily faith that God “who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.” -Phil. 1:6
The stone is very helpful also if you're dealing with difficult emotions — it helps you be practical so you can rise above the difficulties to become a better listener and turn the problem into a win-win situation or leave it behind.
Of the many gifts it bestows, intellectual clarity may be one of the most important. Reportedly, it helps open the 3rd eye. It’ll help you know the right things to say, as well as sift out unimportant details and hone in on salient facts. In our increasingly noisy information landscape, this is an important skill to have.
Known as a "living" stone of sorts, it must not receive prolonged direct sunlight. Sunlight degrades the quality of the stone.
A simple exercise to try is to hold amethyst in your hand and see how it makes you feel. If you are sensitive enough, when you focus on the gemstone you will sense a feeling of enveloping love emanating from the stone. The feeling matches the beautiful rose-violet color itself.
Actually, when a gemstone is not available, simply ponder the color and allow it to cleanse and elevate the vibrations of your heart, can have a similar healing effect, but you must allow yourself to soak in the good vibrations.
Just as listening to music with your full attention, or really paying attention to the flavors while eating heightens one’s enjoyment of top quality music or food, so it is with the subtle energetic vibrations of gemstones.
It is debatable whether people who are not sensitive to the energies can benefit from them as well — no studies have been done to date.
The major way the stone heals is by relieving health-destroying stress. Allow it to help you see what other changes need to be made in your environment to keep it a healthy, happy atmosphere.
Victory Assured
Amethyst is mentioned several times in the Bible. It is listed among the riches of the King of Tyre, and drinking cups were made of it in ancient times because it was thought to protect against drunkenness.
Most strikingly, amethyst is referred to in the penultimate chapter of the Bible, Revelation 21:20. The beautiful rose-violet gemstone makes up the 12th and last layer of the foundation of the city walls when there is a new heaven and a new earth. The Bible concludes as it began, with this planet again in pristine condition after all evil has been conquered and God's will is at last done on earth as it is in Heaven.
A New Heaven and a New Earth, Revelation 21
Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,”[a] for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4 ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’[b] or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”
5 He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”
6 He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life. 7 Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children. 8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”
The New Jerusalem, the Bride of the Lamb
9 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” 10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. 11 It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. 12 It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. 13 There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south and three on the west. 14 The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
15 The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and its walls. 16 The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia[c] in length, and as wide and high as it is long. 17 The angel measured the wall using human measurement, and it was 144 cubits[d] thick.[e] 18 The wall was made of jasper, and the city of pure gold, as pure as glass. 19 The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, 20 the fifth onyx, the sixth ruby, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth turquoise, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.[f] 21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass.
22 I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. 24 The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. 25 On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. 26 The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it. 27 Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
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