Rosophia: Heaven and Earth - Jewelry, Crystals and Gems

Finding Rosophia Article by Robert Simmons I don't know whether it is because of the intensity of the currents of evolutionary change moving through the world at this time, or if we are on a run of good fortune, but once again a wonderful new stone has fallen into our hands in a very synchronistic way.Read on, and you'll see what I mean! Last August, my wife Kathy and I traveled to Sante Fe, New Mexico, where we were both invited to offer presentations at the Sophia Conference, hosted by the School of Spiritual Psychology. I had worked for months on my talk, entitled Stones and the New Consciousness (which is also the title of my upcoming new book!) Over the past several years, my understanding of the mystical interrelationships between people and stones has evolved in new ways. I now see the stones as the physical expression of spiritual beings, much as our bodies are the expressions of our spirits. The benefits of such relationships can be mutual, rather than only for ourselves, and the intuition of this joyful relationship is, I think, what we all feel as our love for the stones, and theirs for us. When we work with stones from a heart-centered perspective, their various qualities are released into the world, as a universally beneficial liberation, and their healing currents help the world as well as ourselves. In this way, the stone work becomes a sacred path of serving the world as well as making ourselves whole. To experience the joy of such a love-based path is itself the goal, whatever other results come from it. The center of all my new ideas is the intimate, co-creating relationship between ourselves and the Soul of the World, the divine Feminine Wisdom, the invisible presence of harmony and beauty running through all the world. She is called by many names, but I was introduced to Her (by my friend Robert Sardello in his book Love and the Soul) as Sophia. She is not a goddess, but the Mother of all Gods and Goddesses. She is as vast as the Universe and as intimate as the flash of inspiration that lights you up with sudden joy. Her home within us is the heart, and Her teaching is the heart's truth. I now see our work with stones within the context of our relationship with Her, and the stones offer one of the clearest paths into conscious co-creation with Her. With thoughts and feelings like these in our heads and hearts, Kathy and I arrived in Sante Fe, eager to make our presentations, and to hear those of author Joseph Chilton Pearce, poet Robert Bly and Jungian psychologist Ruth Bly, as well as the conference organizers Robert and Cheryl Sardello and an amazing gathering of other speakers and artists. When we were shown into our sleeping accommodations, one of the first things I noticed was a colorful five-inch chunk of stone on a shelf right in front of the door. After putting down our suitcases, I picked up the salmon-pink, white-spotted rock, and I held it up to my chest. Within moments I could feel strong, swirling currents pleasantly circulating in and around my heart. The currents felt both strong and gentle, nourishing and inspiring, healing and even playful. I was astonished at experiencing such an immediate and powerful heart connection with this stone. I had never seen such a rock before, and I thought I knew about almost all the world's gemstones and crystals! I passed the stone to Kathy, and she, too, felt the immediate swirling currents of pleasant energy. I had felt the promise of new horizons opening in coming to the Sophia Conference, but I had never dreamed that discovering a new stone would be among them. I later brought the mysterious rock to Robert Sardello, asking him what his impressions of it were. He sensed the caressing currents in the heart, and was as excited about the stone as I was. I guessed that the stone which had appeared synchronistically on the shelf of my room must have been left there by someone who had found it near the Conference center where we were staying.The center was situated on a hill with an adjoining canyon, and later that day I set out looking among the nooks and crannies of the arroyo for more of the new stones. It felt like those Hollywood adventure movies, where Indiana Jones only has to look for a couple of minutes before he finds the treasure! I quickly found a few small pieces of the reddish-pink rocks with the white spots. Some of them also contained black material. Within a couple of days during the conference, Kathy and I were able to find enough of the stones so that everyone in my workshop could have one to work with in meditation. When they did, again, most of the people, many of whom were completely unfamiliar with stone energies, were quickly able to feel the heart currents. There was wide agreement about the sense of a caressing sweetness circulating in and around the heart. After more searching in the canyon, I was able to find a couple of dozen stones to bring home by the end of the conference. When I arrived back in Vermont, I was eager to show the new stones of Sophia as I had begun to think of them, to my friends and co-workers. Once again, the currents of the heart were quickly and easily felt by virtually everyone--even people who had never felt a stone before, no matter how many times they had tried. I could not forget about these new stones, and I knew I wanted to offer them to all the crystal-lovers who read our catalogs. But there was no way to buy these stones. If we wanted them, we would have to go back to New Mexico and find them! Guided by the strong feeling that this new gemstone was an essential piece in the unfolding of both the crystal work and the evolution of heart intelligence guided by Sophia, I set off early for my fall buying trip to Denver, planning to go first to New Mexico to look for more of these stones of destiny. Justin from our mail order staff came with me, his own sense of adventure piqued by the stories we had told. We drove for thirty-nine hours straight, in order to have some days available for our search. In the original canyon site, we found a small amount of the stones I was now calling Rosophia (for the Rose of Sophia). I loved the new name, which was inspired by the swirling heart currents they emanated--as if a many-petaled rose is opening in one's heart. We also searched elsewhere in the area and in other parts of northern New Mexico, and here and there we found enough of them to offer them in all the forms in which I had wished to present them to our readers--raw, tumbled, spheres, hearts, beads and in jewelry. As soon as we got home from our Rocky Mountain journey, we set to work with Rosophia, in both outer and inner ways. Spiritual Properties of RosophiaT We commissioned a mineral analysis of the Rosophia, and we learned that it was composed of a mixture of pinkish-red Moonstone (Feldspar) and Quartz, with particles of Biotite. The Moonstone or Feldspar component of the stone made sense to us, in regard to its decidedly feminine feel, and the Quartz may in part explain the unusual strength of the currents, since Quartz is known as an amplifier of the energies of other stones. There is also some mysterious synergy of the components of Rosophia that make it somehow much more than the sum of its parts. And its emergence at this time seems as if it was planned or destined to happen. This seems especially true, since we found it at the time and place where a conference for and about Sophia was taking place. Rosophia is first and foremost a stone of the heart. Its currents quickly and deeply move into and throughout the chest, in and around one's heart, bringing sensations of soothing, calming, loving caresses. Through this stone, it feels as though one is being touched with the loving invisible hands of the Divine Feminine, the Intimate One who is vast enough to fill the world and even the cosmos, and is at the same time fully aware and caring of each human being. There is a feeling quality engendered by these stones which I can only describe as a delicate yet powerful sweetness. They bring an inner feeling of beauty, a serene sense of centeredness within the heart, a gentle appreciation of each perception and of all the beings who make up the world. Holding Rosophia, one softens inwardly with no loss ( in fact, an increase) of strength. One sees more truly, because the veils of stress and anxiety are lifted. One's compassion is enhanced, because one's fears have been quieted. The heart-centering engendered by Rosophia encourages one's capacity to meet each moment fresh and free, ready to respond with clarity and creativity. For self-healing, I recommend Rosophia for almost everything, since this is in essence a stone that draws one into wholeness.It helps one to calm the emotional body, release stress, and to dissolve repetitive negative patterns on all levels. It is of special benefit to the heart, and my feeling is that its currents are restorative to the natural, healthy functioning of the heart, both as an organ of the body and as a center of consciousness. For diseases which are rooted in negative self-image or a fearful attitude toward the world, Rosophia can be a powerful spiritual medicine. The self-affirming qualities of this stone make it an excellent ally in dealing with maladies in which the body turns against itself, as in autoimmune conditions. It feels to me like a stone which can work spiritually to aid in circulation of the blood and perhaps the lymphatic system. Psycho-spiritually, Rosophia can facilitate the remediation of problems having to do with feelings of lack of self-worth, fear of the future, mistrust of other people and all kinds of stress-related difficulties. It aids one in freeing oneself from negative patterns created by old wounds, in this life or past lives, and it helps one recall repressed material, if necessary, in order to release it. It can facilitate insight into the unconscious patterns that lead one into similar problems again and again. It encourages a stronger sense of self, based in the heart's truth rather than in egoic pride. In a more mystical aspect, Rosophia can, I believe, help one awaken to the consciousness present within one's heart. This is its greatest potential gift, because when we meet the self, the I residing in our heart, we enter the realm of our wholeness and we have at last found our true home. Many of the old mystic traditions speak of the Guest or the Friend, the consciousness within the heart that sometimes makes itself known to us. The poets and teachers who have spoken and written of this experience have said that it offers one the deepest possible satisfaction, the fullest nourishment, and that this is the true goal of all our misplaced desires. One realizes that one's truest self is this heart-dweller, rather than the one we thought we were, and that this one knows us in every detail and loves us without any judgement whatsoever. I feel a resonance between the Rosophia stone and this deeper I, and I feel the stone's heart currents support the growth of a web of ever-stronger and more conscious relationship with this one. Behind the true Self I have described is Sophia, and I feel that through deepening into this Self we simultaneously reach further into conscious, loving, co-creative partnership with Her. This is, from all I have been learning, our truest destiny, and each step on that path is an entry into joy. Rosophia fills my heart with a quiet joy that is resonant with the feeling I associate with the intimacy of Sophia. I'm sure all who are reading this can understand now why I have been so eager and determined to bring forward this lovely and blessed stone. Rosophia and Azeztulite Azeztulite is the other stone in the Heaven and Earth repertoire which had come to us in the most synchronistic way. My co-author Naisha experienced a telepathic link with the spiritual beings, the Azez, who announced and activated certain deposits of Quartz to carry the emanations of the Nameless Light, the Divine Light which they serve. The Azez told her the destiny of Azeztulite was to awaken humanity to an evolutionary transformation. They said its energies could dissolve the patterns of contraction and deterioration within the cells of the body, as well as the negative patterns of the emotional body. Azeztulite offered an infusion of Divine Light from beyond the Earth. With the coming of Rosophia, we have the entry of an equally Divine Light from within the Earth rather than beyond it..(Of course both stones are from within the Earth, but the energies of Azeztulite are said to originate in the Great Central Sun, and Rosophia is more like the invisible radiance of the Heart of the Earth.) I feel that Rosophia and Azeztulite can work together as partners. Azeztulite is highly active in the head, powerfully stimulating the third eye and crown chakras. Rosophia is deeply centered in the heart. When one uses Rosophia and Azeztulite together, their simultaneous resonance in the head and the heart encourages their full conscious partnership, leading potentially to a full integration in which they function together as a unified whole. Both Rosophia and Azeztulite are resonant with the Philosopher's Stone of Alchemy. The Philosopher's Stone has been described as red, like Rosophia, and white, like Azeztulite. The Philosopher's Stone was always said to be hidden in plain sight, available but overlooked. This description fits both stones. Here is a quote about the Red Stone from an alchemical article:. The Great Work consists of finding the Red Stone, also known as the Philosophers Stone or the Elixir. This (not only a physical substance but also a spiritual one) will transmute everything, Lead into Gold, Man into Superman. It is the alchemical Ascension, when everything will evolve into the highest possible state and the universe becomes truly complete. The alchemists want to hasten this evolution, by finding the Red Stone. I want to suggest that the qualities of Rosophia and Azeztulite represent different aspects of the Philosopher's Stone, and that they can be used together--Azeztulite offering the heavenly Light infusion from above (in the head) and Rosophia providing the dark, rich, Earthly love infusion from below (in the heart). Wearing or working with them together holds great potential for hastening evolution, as the alchemy author indicates. Rosophia, Azeztulite, and Moldavite Moldavite is another of the most powerful transformational stones, and its very substance is a union of the Heavenly and Earthly realms. It has long been associated with the fabled Stone of the holy Grail. Moldavite was formed from a meteoric collision in which the meteor and the earthly rock where it struck were vaporized by the explosive impact and thrown high into the sky, finally raining down as a new substance, Moldavite. Thus Moldavite blends the Above and the Below. One can think of the stone trio of Rosophia, Azeztulite and Moldavite in this way: Azeztulite represents the masculine Light radiance, Rosophia the feminine Dark radiance, and Moldavite the divine Child or offspring of their combined qualities. To work with these meditatively, I suggest placing Rosophia over the physical heart, Azeztulite on the third eye and Moldavite a couple of inches above the heart, at the Seat of the Soul. This can engender a very powerful and transformative resonance of spiritual currents within oneself. Wearing the three stones together in jewelry is also highly recommended.

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