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The Lingam is one of the oldest religious symbols of civilization. It was recognized as far back as the ancient Indus Valley Civilization for it's healing power. This power came to be associated with one of the three main Hindu deities, Lord Shiva. Over thousands of years, the Tantric Lingam has come to represent more than a physical or material form to be worshiped as an idol by the learned sages of the east and the west. To them the lingam represents a form of energy which is within each of us. We are all made up of part male and part female energy. Too much of one or the other is destructive, causing imbalance. The great Rishis of ancient India introduced the Tantric philosophy to bring a more harmonious balance in the dualistic world we are born. Male and female energies must be unified if we are to find real peace of mind. Through the union of opposites, the energies of creation are released and we can realize a state of higher consciousness.

The Tantric believes that all souls are unique emanations of God, just as God is everywhere and in everything. By concentrating our consciousness on an external object, we can realize that God consciousness within (enlightenment).The object should be as natural as a stone, round as the cycle of rebirth, and as smooth as the sea of meditation. Through senses of sight, touch, and feeling — one may calm the spirit and stop the internal dialogue for meditation. God is a state of consciousness, not a human form or statue.

The Tantric looks on the natural forms of nature to meditate. In the Tantric lingam, he finds all of his requirements. The Tantric lingam is a naturally formed stone born of this earth. Within the lingam are two kinds of minerals fused together under great pressures, representing not only the duality of man and woman, but also a world of constant change ... as no two lingams are alike. The vertical, or phallic shape of the lingam, represents the stream of man's expanding consciousness and evolution upward. The horizontal, or red female lips (stripes) of the lingam, represents the contracting stream of female consciousness and evolution inward. The lingam is solid and heavier than most stones, representing the life of those who live according to their faith. These are but a few of the hidden meanings of the lingam or "Cosmic Egg".

The perfect lingam is within each of us. According to Tantric symbolism, the ideal form of the Tantric lingam is concentric shaped, oval, smooth and gray colored with a red matrix. Not all lingams are Tantric. The true Tantric lingam, which the Hindus believe fell out of Heaven from the gods, actually comes from the Narmanda River in the central region of India. This place is known today as "Onkar Mandhata&quot,one of the seven holy pilgrimage sites of India. The Tantric lingam is naturally tumbled and pre-shaped by the river. The process of finding the lingams and shaping them into the beautiful concentric marble-like finished stone is a long one. Once a year during the dry season when the river is low, particularly on the full moon in February or "Sivaratri", the lingams are ceremoniously gathered from the muddy banks of the Normanda River. However, it is not as easy as picking up pebbles on the beach. Each stone must be washed and inspected. Very few stones have the special red marking or spots that make the Tantric lingam so unique. The lingams are not perfectly concentric and must be shaped and hand polished before they are acceptable for Temple use. This takes hours of manual labor and special skills to get a perfectly concentric, oval, smooth lingam.

The Tantric lingam is found only in one place on this planet .. in India. It can be identified geologically by its unique red spots. These spots do not run all the way through the stone like normal strata stone. In this case, the mineral known as "Crypto Crystalline Quartz" or geologically as "Chalcedony" has an inclusion or matrix of Iron Oxide and Goethite. This matrix crystallized after the formation of the Chalcedony. To the Tantric, this suggests a form of energy coming from inside the stone, i.e. ... creation. The body of the stone thus represents male energy (Knowledge) and the red spots represent the female energy (wisdom). The very essence of creation is symbolized by the Tantric lingam in that in the beginning there was one energy — call it God or anything you like. That energy lay dormant until a second energy was introduced. When that occurred, all thing in this universe were created ... the BIG BANG! The egg shape adds to the idea of the Cosmic Egg and of which the dualistic universe was hatched. Also, the oval outline represents the continuous unending motion of the universe as it expands and contracts .. forever changing but never ending.

When we bring higher consciousness down into the earth energies we initiate a time for all humanity to stop and pay attention to the vibrations we create. The wearer of this wand is transferring all negatives into pure light and love for all creations.

Quartz Crystal
Quartz has both piezoelectric and pyroelectric properties. It is thought to facilitate positive thoughts, meditation, harmony, love, wisdom, clarity of thought, general healing, memory, communication, transformation, awakening and to amplify prayers, wishes and visualizations.

A Susan Seddon Boulet Bestiary: A Book of Postcards

(This is one example of a book of these 30 beautiful postcards.) The Greek SPHINX had the head and breasts of a woman, the body and feet of a lion, and the wings of an eagle. She was the guardian of the enigma. Anyone unable to answer her riddle was punished by death. She symbolized the mysteries and embodied the four elements.

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