Precious Emeralds are from Magma
They can help increase clairvoyance, give energy, strengthen the heart and kidneys & aid blood circulation.
It’s hard to believe gemstones are rocks, formed within the earth, and that they too, like the earth itself, continue to form and change over eons of time. I find it absolutely fascinating.
Emeralds are rare because they require a combination of rare elements from different depths of the Earth. It can take up to 100,000 years for emeralds to fully develop!
The green color of emeralds comes from chromium, iron, and vanadium. Here are some ways beautiful emeralds form:
In pegmatites: When magma cools, it leaves behind elements in a fluid that can crystallize into emeralds.
In hydrothermal veins: When hot liquids from deeper magma escape into the crust and cool in veins, they can form emeralds.
In metamorphic rocks: Emeralds can form in large-crystalled granite and other metamorphic rocks.
In contact with sedimentary rocks: Emeralds can form in the narrow zone where magma comes into contact with sedimentary rocks like limestone or shale.
Synthetic emeralds are made two ways, but although synthetic stones can have healing properties too, I doubt emeralds are like real stones.
In the flux-growth process, crystals are grown on a beryl seed using a molten flux that contains chromium, beryllium, and other elements.
In the hydrothermal process, components are dissolved in an acidic solution at high temperatures and pressures, and then crystallized in a cooler chamber.
Tradition has it that emeralds are powerful stones…
In medieval times, healing powers were attributed to beautiful green emerald stone, including even the power to heal eye problems when held next to the skin for months at a time. Physical vision and spiritual vision, or clairvoyance, are both enhanced by wearing emeralds.
Emeralds comprise the 4th level of the foundation of the city walls in the new Heaven and new Earth written about at the end of the Bible, Revelation 21:19. The 12 foundations are made of 12 different semi-precious stones. So literally, having a gemstone is having a piece of Heaven with you now here on Earth.
It’s easy for us today, in the age of selfies, to think of the custom of wearing jewelry as vanity, but ancient civilizations didn’t primarily see it that way. Of course jewelry is beautiful. But foremost, jewels and semi-precious stones were worn as amulets for spiritual reasons and for their physical properties for healing.
Interestingly, Ancient Roman soldiers wore amulets (although not necessarily made of emerald) into battle to protect them against the scourge of contracting “war sickness,” a greatly feared phenomenon of soldiers returning from combat with the particular insanity of having developed a taste for cruelty, which would ruin lives by making them unfit for civilian life. Precious or semi-precious stones imbued with prayers and religious meaning were thought to very much lessen soldiers’ vulnerability to this.
Emeralds traditionally are thought to help increase clairvoyance, give energy, strengthen the heart and kidneys, and to promote good blood circulation.