Guest guest Posted July 1, 2006 Report Share Posted July 1, 2006 A true Kavacha or "talisman" is not only the gem, which represents the earth element. A real Astral Talisman is composed of all 5 elements, i.e., gem for earth, herb for water, metal for fire, symbol for air, and cosmic number for space. This process of "Pancha-amrita" astral talisman making is the most bona fide. Even the Western alchemists are known to use herbs as the "water" ingredient in an Astral Talismans. These herbs have been ritually turned into "bhasma" or sanctified ashes. Therefore, one may understand that the gem alone is not the complete kavacha or talisman, the gems are only for one of five elements, viz., earth The philosopher Agrippa has nicely described in Three Books of Occult Philosophy the basic preparation of astrological rings as follows: "When any star ascends fortunately we must take a stone and HERB that is under that star, and make a ring of the metal that is suitable to this star, and in it fasten the stone, putting the herb or root under it, not omitting the inscriptions of images, names and characters, as also the proper suffumigations." In 1974 we were fortunate to receive guidence from Dr. Mana Vajracharya, Chairman of the Nepal Ayurveda Association. He informed us which were the main "bhasma" herbs for each planet. At our request the good Dr. prepared nine different herbal bhasmas which we now seal in golden tubes on our jewelry talismans. It took one week for the Dr. to prepare the 9 herbs and transform them into ashes or Bhasma. At that time he also gave us rare samples of the actual herbs. Somehow we retained these rare herb samples over the years, and recently we had these nine herbs photographed by a jewelry expert. All nine herbs are available in Nepal (Himalaya) and some are quite rare even in India where they sometimes substitute because of lack of the actual herb). Please take a look: http://www.agt-gems.com/Herbs.html Best rgds, Richard Shaw-Brown, PG Designer & Gemologist http://www.richardshawbrown.com http://www.agt-gems.com http://www.astralgemstonetalismans.com http://www.themisunderstood.com http://www.hrisikesh.com http://www.hrisikesh.net http://www.p-g-a.org http://www.satyavrat-shastri.net http://www.generalprem.com http://www.navaratna-museum.info http://www.sacred-objects.info sacred-objects/ planetary-gemology/ Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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