From ancient times to the present day, quartz crystals have been a source of light to mankind. Highly valued by spiritual leaders and healers as well as scientists, the unique attributes of quartz have played a key role in many historic and modern customs.
 
Composed of silicon and oxygen (silicon dioxide), quartz is a six-sided prism of pure light and energy. In its sparkling light is contained the entire color spectrum.
 
Clear quartz is also called rock crystal or ice crystal, from the Greek word "krystallos", meaning "ice", because crystal was believed to be water frozen so hard it could never thaw. The prismatic hexagonal crystals have relatively smooth sides and naturally faceted terminations at one or both ends, and may be transparent as glass, milky or striated, often found in clusters and ranging in all sizes.
 
Ancients believed these stones to be alive, taking a breath once every hundred years or so, and many cultures think them to be incarnations of the Divine.
 
Many cultures from Native American Indians, African tribes, ancient Egyptians, Aztecs, Romans, Scots and countless others have used clear quartz in diagnostic healing, meditations and spiritual development, as religious objects and in funerary rites, and to dispel evil and magical enchantments.
 
Resonating at the level of an individual's needs, clear quartz amplifies whatever energy or intent is programmed into it, and continues to broadcast that energy throughout the world and into the etheric realms. This may accelerate the fulfillment of one's prayers, intensify healing or spiritual growth.