Ancient mystics and philosophers understood numbers and their "qualities", through arithmetic and geometric properties. They saw number and geometry archetypes everywhere, as we can today. More importantly however, they knew how to read this living book of nature, understanding how principles from what Plato called the plane of ideas or the causal plane of Vedic philosophy, manifest their patterns and qualities in this world. Living in the world without insight into the laws of nature is like not knowing the language of the country in which one was born. Numbers have now been reduced to mere indicators of quantity.

The number six was understood to indicate material perfection and optimum structure, function and order. Wherever we see the number 6, we can understand that at least an element of perfection is being realized. For the bees hexagonal architecture, it is maximum storage volume using the minimum materials and space. Where crystals are concerned, the area of perfection is more subtle, on an energetic level. Energies are brought back to optimum structure, an example would be the use to which the electronics industry puts quartz. The electronics industry does not use quartz because it is pretty, but because it structures electrical energy precisely, so precisely you can tell the time by it! The natural tendency of quartz is for harmony, the organisation of chaotic energies into their structured optimum. 
 

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 "Geometry existed before the creation"  Johannes Kepler

Most people have now forgotten how to see how many of our "primitive" ancestors did. The effect is not just having a few less mystics wandering about. Many people just can't see the point. Open a newspaper or watch the news if you are not sure what I mean.  How will a technologically advanced society help people in this situation? It's scientists will prove how intelligent you are in seeing that life is just random chemical combinations that got lucky. Misused technology may have brought the earth to the brink of ecological disaster, but hey, we can hurl big metal things into space and get 600 channels so it's not all bad.

The perfect, in geometric and mathematical terms, structure of crystals is the key "signature" that helps us understand them. This practice of seeing this "signature" in plants was used by herbalists and was ridiculed as childish by the scientific establishment. In time, the pharmaceutical industry found the observations of the herbalists to be true through rigorous experimentation and is testing the works of many reputed herbalists who employed this method.

Although "childish", the doctrine of signature worked. The proof for the pharmaceutical companies was that most convincing of all evidences - hard cash. The patterns are there if we know how to look. See crystals with these eyes and we can begin to utilise their great gifts. Part of this holistic vision was an understanding of numbers not as quantities, but qualities.  For those wanting a simple, practical method see our chakras information and chakra kits pages. For those wanting an even simpler method, see gemstone jewellery, or custom made jewellery, all you have to do is wear it. If our energies are in contact with natures tuning forks, our system can be nudged back into harmony. Crystals and Numerology >> Crystal Healing and Science >> Quartz and the Pyramids >> Water Quartz & the Mind >>