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The Great Opal “The Flame Queen”
Kelsey I. Newman Collection
In these pages a sincere attempt is made to blendmodern science with the ancient and occult philosophyof the precious, semi-precious and commonstones of the earth. It will be shown that many of theseemingly absurd narratives of old authors are butcunningly concealed truths, the unravelling of whichcan be followed with interest and profit along the linesherein indicated. The ancient masters held that theinfluences exerted by the heavenly bodies entered intoharmonious relations with various terrestrial substances.Hence we have the venerable philosophy of fortunatestones, planetary gems and “stones of power,” whichform a part of the vast department known as talismanicmagic. It is the philosophy of sympathy and antipathyprevailing through nature—atom for atom, stonefor stone, plant for plant, animal for animal, man forman. This observation was subjected to an orderlyscientific arrangement which