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Excerpted from Wisdom of the Gemstone Guardians, by Michael Katz. Order the book here.

Chapter 5

Emerald: Healing the Physical Body

As I closed my eyes, I wondered what the Guardian of Emerald would look like. The sound I was hearing grew particularly loud, making it especially easy to follow. It led me to a small dark amphitheater where three others, including Michael, were already awaiting the arrival of the Guardian. 

We stood in the center of this amphitheater, bathing in the glow of what appeared to be seven floodlights. Each of these lights showered one of the colors of the rainbow on us. The colors moved, as if dancing to the rhythm of music. My heart danced with them as I watched, awe-struck by their beauty.

Suddenly the green ray grew larger, and the other six rays receded to quiet flickers in the background. Within the column of green light, an Emerald crystal began to materialize. When it had fully formed, the crystal stood about six feet high and three feet wide. Like a magnet, the Emerald began to draw to itself all the green ray showering from above. The green ray moved faster and faster until it was pouring into the Emerald at a high velocity. 

The transformation continued as the crystal took the shape of a tall figure wearing an emerald-green cape. The man who now stood before me had short black hair and a closely cropped black beard. He appeared to be in his thirties. As he opened his eyes, green rays of light shot from them, piercing the darkness that surrounded us. Then his eyes became a more familiar dark brown. 

I looked up and noticed that the ceiling of the amphitheater had disappeared, revealing a midnight sky brilliant with stars. The seats in the amphitheater also vanished, and we found ourselves standing in the middle of a vast grassy field. 

I approached the Guardian of Emerald. We looked deeply into each other's eyes, and again his eyes became green. The color overwhelmed me. Feeling somewhat intoxicated, I turned and stepped backward into his aura. 

Mother Crystals

I am glad all of you were able to make this inner-world journey to meet me halfway between your world and mine. Let us begin. 

When a planet becomes ready to support life, it is the duty of the Guardians of the Physical Universe to direct the implantation of the seven gemstones bearing the color rays. Emerald is one of these gemstones. As the Earth evolved and developed a capacity for life, it began to prepare matrices to encase that life. When the Guardians of the Physical Universe noticed this and saw that Spirit wanted life on the planet, they fulfilled their duty to direct the implantation of these gemstones. 

You will soon learn of the other six color-ray gemstones. Not all these gemstones were present when I was planted on Earth. This is because, at that time, some of the color rays were carried by gems other than the ones that carry them now.

I was not planted in an existing gemstone, the way Lavender was planted in Quartz. Before I explain how I was planted, let me say this: Some wheat seeds are planted to produce flour for eating; other wheat seeds are grown specifically to bear higher quality seeds for replanting. Emerald crystals have similar classifications.

A few coveted and highly protected Emerald crystals have a life energy so intense that only one race of people in the physical universe can handle the responsibility for them. These Emerald crystals are like the wheat seeds that are grown to produce more seeds.

The Earth is a living planet. It contains supra-physical channels that fulfill a function similar to that of your blood vessels. Some people call the places where these channels reach the surface the "power points" of the Earth. When the Earth was ready, representatives from this race of people planted a cluster of these special Emerald crystals in a channel beneath a power point. This special cluster became the "mother crystal" of all the Earth's future Emeralds. The mother crystal gave the Earth a "blueprint" for making crystalline matrices to contain the Emerald's energy.

Once this mother crystal was planted, the Earth distributed the crystal's vibratory rate to other places in the planet. These birthplaces for future Emerald crystals were chosen by the Guardian of the Earth for the good of the planet. 

The base of the mother crystal is somewhat circular. The cluster itself is about one-and-a-half- to two-feet wide and one-foot high. These dimensions are only approximate and, ultimately, the actual shape and size of the mother crystal doesn't matter; it's just good for you to understand that it isn't a mile wide.

The race of people I referred to is responsible for planting mother crystals throughout the universe. These include more than just Emerald crystals. These beings have a technology and spiritual awareness far beyond anything even your science-fiction writers have yet conceived. Although they use spaceships, they are not bound by the limitations of the physical universe. They move from one end of the universe to the other in little time. This race works directly with the hierarchy of Guardians in this physical universe and in nonphysical universes as well.

When Spirit directs the attention of a Physical Universe Guardian to a planet ready to support life, the Guardian then notifies this race of people. When they are presented with a planet ready to support life--and thus ready to be implanted with at least the seven color-ray gemstones--they begin to research the planet. 

These beings are like scientists. They scan the planet for its energy channels and power points; then they chart them. Because the planet is preparing to support life, all types of data about the planet must be gathered and stored. Of the millions of planets in the physical universe, many are preparing for life at the same time. Consequently, this race of people is kept very busy.

After the mother crystals are planted, certain members of this race continue to record data. One spaceship of these people, whose lifetimes span much greater lengths of time than yours, stays with this planet for hundreds of your Earth's years. Among the things they monitor are how the planet receives the gemstones, whether the planet is forming crystalline matrices as well as it can, whether the proper connections are being made between the mother crystal and its offspring, and how the planet is responding to the new light rays now available to it.

By the way, you should know that when I refer to a light ray, I also mean the sound that accompanies the light. Gemstones carry light and sound. It is just tedious to say "light and sound" repeatedly. The word "light" is more easily understood by most people, since it is a more obvious quality of gemstones.

Mother crystals still exist on the Earth. When your people have attained a certain level of technology and earned the responsibility, you may be able to locate mother crystals and dig them up. However, you will not be given this technology until you are responsible enough to take care of these crystals and know what to do with them. No mother crystals have yet been uncovered on the Earth planet.

"Do all gemstones have mother crystals?" asked Michael.

No. Lavender, for example, does not have a mother crystal; its vibratory rate was planted in Quartz.

As a planet constructs crystalline matrices to house the vibratory rate of a mother crystal's offspring, mutations can form. This is one reason this race of beings monitors the planet for several hundred years or sometimes thousands of years. They also regularly return to observe each planet they have implanted with gemstones. Yes, some of these beings do visit the Earth once in a while. They do not walk the planet, because they are very different from the Earth's inhabitants and would be too noticeable. From their spacecraft, they scan the planet to monitor, for example, changes in life forms and power points, and, as always, they record this data. 

If a planet begins to develop mutations in a certain matrix, these people have ways to make sure the matrix does not continue to change. Of course, certain mutant crystals are not bad or undesirable; the Earth often creates them to help balance specific energies within the planet. 

Gemstone Warfare 

During the Age of Atlantis, my powers were researched, and certain qualities of the vibratory rate of my crystal were discovered. You have heard of chemical warfare. There is also such a thing as gemstone warfare. I hesitate to speak of this. However, there are some things you must know even though they aren't pleasant.

Most of the black inclusions one finds in Emeralds today are the result of foul play. When this foul play occurred, the black inclusions were not visible. Otherwise, it would have been obvious to the gemstone's recipient that the Emerald had been tampered with. This Emerald brought disease of the mind, emotions, and body. The Atlanteans responsible for this foul play were assisted by individuals from beyond your planet. Not all extraterrestrials have the best intentions. 

At the destruction of Atlantis, the Emerald on your planet needed serious attention, and many were called upon to assist. We devised a way to transform the destructive vibratory rate that had been placed within all the Emerald crystals on the planet. We transformed it into what appear to be black flecks.

Today these black inclusions are no longer harmful, and there is nothing one could do to change them back into harmful energy. They are now a living part of the Emerald. Their vibratory rate continues to reproduce and grow within the Emerald crystals, somewhat like mutant genes. Although the flecks are now benign, they will always serve as a reminder that when powerful tools are misused, they can become highly destructive. 

Gemstones are powerful tools--more powerful than you may realize. Yet, when used with good intentions, an open and loving heart, and a clear and understanding mind, gemstone tools can yield astounding benefits.

Color Rays 

To gain a better understanding of my purpose, it will be helpful for you to have some knowledge of what color rays are, where they come from, and why they are so important to life. To explain the origin of color rays, I will use a simple image. 

Imagine that in an area of the intuitive plane, at the top of a towering mountain, lies an important crystal. Before the pure white light of Spirit can touch the worlds below, it must first flow through this crystal. As it does, the white light is separated into seven color rays: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and purple. This process is similar to the way sunlight shining through a crystal hung in a window separates into the colors of the rainbow. 

Each color ray has a specific purpose, and all seven color rays are essential for life and health. A deficiency in any one of these color rays in an individual moves that person away from optimal health and an optimal expression of life.

Every planet has a unique ratio of color rays. This ratio is essential for the life of that planet's inhabitants and the state of consciousness they are destined to achieve. The Earth, for example, has less of the red, yellow, and indigo rays than it has of the other rays. 

It is difficult to work directly with color rays in their pure form because they are not physical. The gemstones that bear these color rays are physical and therefore can be used as tools to enhance the flow of nonphysical color rays. 

In the past seventy years, people's consciousness has been rising rapidly. As people grow and expand in consciousness, they need increasing amounts of color rays. Individuals can fulfill this increased need for the green ray by wearing Emerald--and the more they wear it, the more effective Emerald can be.

Emerald and the Green Ray

Emerald is found throughout the physical universe on every planet where life is evolving. Only planets that are just rocks in space and that support no life or only primitive forms of it have no Emerald. 

My purpose for the Earth human who wears Emerald is the same purpose I fulfill for everyone in the universe who wears it: I provide the green ray. This ray is essential for the life of all plants, animals, and human beings. 

Emerald has been the bearer of the green ray since the beginning of time. Since I am not bound by time as Earth humans understand it, Emerald is still in its prime. It will continue to be the bearer of the green ray for as long as your imagination can stretch into the future.

Emerald works on raising the vibratory rate of the physical body. When this upliftment occurs, the wearer's attention can more easily expand to include the other states of consciousness that lie beyond the physical. 

In order to uplift an individual, Emerald resolves the weakest link in the chain. The weakest link is always the lowest vibratory rate in the body, and it is often the source of disease. Emerald's green ray disintegrates the disharmony that manifests as disease and discomfort. 

It is not the green ray alone that does this. Rather, it is the green ray in combination with the vibratory rate of Emerald itself. For the sake of simplicity, I will refer to the combination of the green ray and Emerald vibratory rate simply as "Emerald energy." 

Emerald energy also prepares the emotions and mind for the new state of consciousness that will arise when it has resolved the physical disharmony. Although my effects on the emotions and mind are secondary to my effects on the physical body, those who wear me can take comfort in knowing they are using a powerful tool to help heal the very cause of their physical conditions.

Neutralizing Disharmony

It is not only physical-body disharmonies that manifest as physical illness. Disharmonies in the emotional and mental bodies usually lead to physical problems as well. Inner-body disharmonies block the flow of life force to the physical body and feed the body with disharmonious energy. Therefore, once you take care of the physical disharmonies, you must also resolve the inner ones; otherwise, these inner disharmonies will continue to manifest in the physical body. Perhaps they will manifest in a different location or as a different condition, but they will manifest. 

Between the physical body and the emotional aura lies a layer of supra-physical energy. This layer of energy is sometimes called the "supra-physical aura." The supra-physical aura appears to surround the physical body; the emotional aura appears to surround the supra-physical aura; the causal aura appears to surround the emotional aura; and so on.  

When Emerald is worn, its energy first floods the supra-physical aura and locates areas of physical disharmony. Then, like the eagle who has spotted its prey, it swoops down on these areas. The Emerald energy focuses on the disharmonious areas and enters them through the skin in a process similar to osmosis. It continues to do so as long as there is Emerald energy in the supra-physical aura.  

After the Emerald energy has saturated the supra-physical aura, it begins to saturate the emotional aura. There it works on any emotional disharmonies that may be feeding the physical condition. It takes more time and, in most cases, more Emerald to saturate the emotional aura than it does the supra-physical aura; and it takes even more time and, in certain cases, more Emerald to saturate the causal and mental auras. In these auras, Emerald focuses on resolving the causal and mental causes of the physical problem. 

This is one reason why people whose physical bodies are overburdened with disharmony should--probably for the rest of their lives--wear enough Emerald to continually saturate the supra-physical aura and to provide the other inner auras with enough Emerald energy to work on the underlying, inner causes of their physical conditions. This is also why people who wear Emerald and Aventurine necklaces together should keep wearing at least enough Emerald to saturate the inner auras for some time after it appears that the physical condition has healed. This will help resolve the condition's corresponding inner disharmonies so they cannot manifest again in the physical body. 

Now, you might wonder why, when an aura becomes saturated with Emerald energy, it does not stay saturated. One reason is that disharmony and the green ray are opposites, and in the process of neutralizing and disintegrating disharmony, the green ray gets used up. Indeed, if the disharmony is strong, the green ray is used up rather quickly. 

The size, quality, and quantity of Emerald worn determines its ability to saturate the auras and initiate healing changes. In other words, the higher the quality and the larger the overall mass and sphere size, the more effective the Emerald will be.

… If you want to focus primarily on the physical body, use Emerald by itself or with Aventurine. If your primary focus includes the inner bodies as well as the physical body, use Quartz with the Emerald. 

Do not underestimate the healing power of the gemstones that carry the color rays. Like some other color-ray bearers, Emerald is rare and precious, and therefore expensive. As a general rule, the more precious and the higher in quality a gemstone is, the more power it has and the stronger its effects are. Because of this power, less of the gemstone is needed on the planet. Therefore, it is naturally more rare.

If all you had were a solid necklace of Emerald and a solid necklace of Aventurine, your gemstone "tool box" for physical-body healing would be almost complete. I do not wish to negate the importance of other gemstones and their significance for speeding up the resolution of certain isolated conditions. However, if you are working on healing a physical condition, Emerald and Aventurine are indispensable.

There is still much to learn about Emerald. My nature is to assist in the upliftment of human beings. I do this by helping them resolve their greatest physical disharmonies. Once these disharmonies are resolved, attention can be placed on other aspects of growth, and spiritual evolution can accelerate. Emerald is ready to help. Now it is up to you.

Recognizing that the discourse had ended, Michael and the others thanked the Guardian of Emerald, who responded by nodding his head. As I turned to thank him, I found that I was no longer in his aura but was facing him. Again he looked into my eyes. Then he took my hands and gently laid in them a necklace of exquisite Emerald spheres. 

The starry sky disappeared, and we found ourselves standing once again inside the amphitheater. The Guardian's body soon vanished, and the green-ray beacon resumed its previous form.  Then the other six colored floodlights reappeared in their former positions.

We looked at one another, silently assimilating the experience we had just shared. Then, one by one, each of us walked away in separate directions.

© 1997 Michael Katz. All rights reserved.