| Mustika-Pearls and bezoar stones from animals, plants | | | | human spirits and jinns may not pose a problem but |
| and natural events. Mustika-pearls are the stones of | | | | elementals may sometime elude them. This is |
| legend possessing magickal virtues. Referred to in | | | | because elementals will not interact with humans that |
| ancient Hindu scriptures. Freaks and anomalies are | | | | are spiritually unbalanced and have not harmonized |
| found abound in Nature and her creations--if we | | | | their element psychologically within the psyche. For |
| would just look for them. "Mustikas" or "Magickal | | | | this reason, genuine mustikas or magickal pearls may |
| Pearls" having their origin in animals and plants are just | | | | be mistaken for fakes by psychics who know no |
| some of Nature's curiosities hardly known or | | | | better. Sometimes other factors fool people who |
| mentioned in the literature of the Occident, accept | | | | think they know something about mustikas; two |
| perhaps in faerie tales. It is different in the East, | | | | such factors are the color and form of a pearl. When |
| however. Pearls, other than those originating from | | | | shown a genuine pearl of a certain color and size, like |
| oysters are mentioned in the Hindu scripture, "Sri | | | | one having its origin from a bamboo plant, for |
| Garuda Purana," where it explains the powers of | | | | instance, they would search for further bamboo |
| several types of pearls derived from mammals, | | | | mustikas having only such characteristics--other |
| reptiles and even the natural conditions or specific | | | | genuine bamboo pearls of a different form and color |
| events of Nature. In Indonesia, legends are found in | | | | would be labeled as "false." This is unreasonable as |
| which brave men died searching for these pearls--and | | | | there is nothing in Nature that are exactly alike. |
| when acquired they are treasured and valued as high | | | | Oyster pearls, as an example, come in various colors, |
| as other family heirloom items such as kerises, spear | | | | sizes, and forms. Oyster pearls are not always round, |
| heads, and other sacred objects. Almost all magickal | | | | they may come in pear-shape forms, as in |
| stones mentioned in Arabian, Chinese, and other | | | | tear-drops, and even flat pieces resembling |
| Eastern tales or legends actually refer to mustikas, or | | | | angel-wings. We personally possess bamboo pearls as |
| magickal pearls of an organic origin. Dragons, for | | | | large as a chicken egg, red in color. We also have |
| instance, in Chinese lore, are known to guard | | | | blue and green, and black bamboo pearls of diverse |
| pearls--these pearls are actually produced by them | | | | shapes and sizes. Not all of our stock are presented |
| rather than acquired from some external source. | | | | on our web-site. The pearls shown are merely |
| It would be appropriate here to explain the word | | | | representative of what is available. Those ordering |
| "Mustika": it is from the Kawi language, of an old | | | | mustika-pearls from us are not always given the |
| Javanese origin and translates as, "magick jewel," or | | | | exact same mustika as seen in the |
| "precious stone." Some Indonesian occultists use the | | | | pearl-pictures--mustika-pearls are one-of-a-kind. |
| word to refer to any magickal object or power. That | | | | Descriptions from ancient texts as to the color and |
| most western occultists and shamans do not mention | | | | shape of a mustika do not tell the whole story as |
| animal pearls or pearls originating from plants is quite | | | | not enough pearls were found at that time to make |
| unusual in itself. One would expect this knowledge to | | | | a proper comparison or a true statement. To put it |
| be universal, especially among aboriginal shamans in all | | | | plainly, mustikas or magickal pearls of the same animal |
| parts of the world--yet we find that this is not--as | | | | or plant origin do not always have the same color, |
| far as we can tell (if anyone can offer us some info | | | | size or form. They may appear as an unworthy |
| on this regard we would greatly appreciate it). In | | | | object or as a thing of beauty--their appearance |
| contrast, the shamans of India, China, and South-East | | | | should not be too much of an issue for the magickal |
| Asia are always on the look-out for these occult | | | | practitioner, for their true value lies in their occult |
| objects as they hold great power and magickal | | | | nature. |
| virtues--powers and virtues often employed in | | | | In their natural state most mustikas have rough |
| magickal work, mystical rites, spiritual development, | | | | textures. It is only after being tumbled and polished |
| and occult healings. In the past, kings, ministers, and | | | | do they give a lustre. It is actually in their natural |
| noblemen sought for them and paid handsome | | | | state that one may see that a mustika is genuine as |
| rewards for those able to acquire them--many have | | | | they are unlike any crystal or gem stone in their |
| died trying. Unfamiliar with pearls of origin other than | | | | uncut, untumbled, and unpolished state. Sometimes |
| oysters, westerners approach the subject with a | | | | natural objects such as a grass or part of an insect |
| good deal of skeptism--even those involved in the | | | | may be found embedded within them--these magickal |
| occult are somewhat surprised at the possibility. This | | | | pearls often possesses additional power. |
| shows that a good deal of work and investigation still | | | | Pearls may be tested by the layman whether they |
| lies before the seeker and average practitioner of | | | | are genuine or fake using the finger test; however, |
| the occult from the Occident in the probings of | | | | this method is not conclusive--it does entail having |
| Eastern Mysteries. We also still have to hear what | | | | some psychic sensitivity on the person testing it. The |
| open-minded zoologists and botanists have to say | | | | method is to hold a pearl with the right hand |
| about these mustika-pearls. | | | | between the thumb and forefinger. Inhale and hold |
| In Indonesia, a shamanic specialist on the animal | | | | your breath, then feel the energy flowing along the |
| kingdom called a "pawang" is normally the one that | | | | arms to the heart. Exhale when you need to. Repeat |
| goes looking for these objects in the jungles and | | | | the breathing cycle--the more you do this, the more |
| wilderness. Sometimes magickal pearls are acquired in | | | | definite will the energy be felt. The arm holding the |
| an occult manner directly from the faerie realms | | | | pearl would feel intensely heavy at one point--this |
| where they are guarded by elemental beings--often | | | | effect is generally not felt with ordinary stones and |
| with considerable psychological struggle. Pawangs are | | | | objects. You may test this for yourself should you |
| those who speak the "language" of animals, birds and | | | | possess a magickal pearl. Some people make a |
| plants. The pawang would meditate and sleep in the | | | | mistake of stating that testing every object makes |
| wilds requesting Nature for her gifts in the form of | | | | their fingers tingle and thus feeling this as a result of |
| mustikas. In dreams or while in the trance-state he is | | | | holding a magickal pearl is of no import. This is |
| guided by the spirit-dwellers and guardians of the | | | | fallacious, and is not the effect sought. This tingling is |
| forests and jungles as to where mustikas may be | | | | the result of the blood pulsation as the fingers are |
| acquired, and sometimes what he has to do in order | | | | pressed against the hard surface of the pearl. What |
| to acquire them. He is almost always directed to | | | | we are actually after in this experiment is to feel the |
| caves, nearby lakes or streams and shown the | | | | subtle energy flowing into the arms--thus the pearl |
| cadavers or remains of animals or plants and trees | | | | should not be held between the fingers too tightly. |
| where they are found. Animals are never hunted for | | | | When the energy flows, it accumulates in the arm |
| their pearls, as shamans and pawangs respect them. | | | | before reaching the body--this makes the arm |
| Nevertheless, pearls are also sometimes found in | | | | intensely heavy. When one's subtle nadis or etheric |
| animals being hunted for food by native huntsmen. It | | | | nerves have been cleansed of psychic toxins and |
| is said that it is the senior members of any animal | | | | enlargened for a greater capacity of energy-flow, |
| species or those displaying exceptional qualities that | | | | just holding a mustika-pearl for a few seconds is |
| yields mustikas. | | | | sufficient enough to feel the rush of the force. |
| Occasionally, ordinary people in a rural environment | | | | In the days of yore, most men could only mention |
| would have visitations in dreams by the regional | | | | animal/plant pearls in their writings. Nowadays, |
| spirits. These intelligences would direct someone to | | | | magickal pearls are bountiful and readily available to a |
| accept a special gift from Nature lying at a certain | | | | wider public--to those that seek them. The reason |
| spot. These dreams are often found to be | | | | has partly to do with the Aquarian-Age that we find |
| substantially true as the object is located--objects | | | | ourselves living in. It is, however, mainly because |
| which are normally mustika-pearls. | | | | Nature wishes to offer humanity something that |
| Why are mustikas so highly valued? Magickal pearls | | | | would help men embrace her and not destroy the |
| are held in great regard not only because of their | | | | platform where the other lower kingdoms have their |
| scarcity, and sometimes beauty, but also because of | | | | place of evolution. Mustika-pearls are Nature's gifts to |
| the power that resides in them. These pearls are | | | | humanity, it connects us directly to the |
| formed with the help of elementals spirits--gnomes, | | | | Spirit-Intelligences of the mineral, plant, and animal |
| elves, and other etheric beings of Nature. That | | | | kingdoms. |
| etheric spirits help to form gems is not quite | | | | As alluded to previously, the reality of mustika pearls |
| unknown in western occultism. In the fairy tale, | | | | are to be found in certain literature. Below we quote |
| "Snow White," for instance, we read of 7 dwarfs | | | | fully the summary/translation of the Sri Garuda |
| working in their "mines." From the esoteric | | | | Purana by the gemologist , Robert S. Brown, |
| perspective, they were actually not mining at all, but | | | | regarding this matter. The commentary in square |
| forming gems and crystals. Tales such as hens laying | | | | brackets are ours: |
| "golden eggs" possesses some truth if considered in | | | | "Besides (natural) oyster pearls there are seven other |
| the light of magickal pearls. There are many such | | | | types [In fact, almost every animal specie and |
| golden eggs available. Elementals are Nature's | | | | perhaps plant-life may produce pearls--although rare] |
| handmaidens and are the hidden forces acting behind | | | | found in conch shells, wild boar heads, elephant |
| all phenomena and natural formations or creations. | | | | heads, king cobra heads, bamboo stems, clouds, and |
| Elementals help "paint" the flowers and nourish them | | | | fish heads. |
| with prana and the necessary gases. Science calls the | | | | "Pearls from elephant heads, bamboo stems, boar |
| latter process osmosis, but behind the physical scene, | | | | heads, fish mouths, and conch shells are lusterless, |
| in the etheric world, one may perceive fairies | | | | even though possessed of other auspicious qualities |
| frolicking among plants, flying to and fro, entering and | | | | [Not all crowns of animals are lusterless--some have |
| exiting the stem and leaves of plants taking the | | | | clear crystalline-structures and do give forth a sheen; |
| pranic globules from the air and into the flora. | | | | some bamboo pearls also have lustre]. Pearls from |
| Such similar work as the above are being done by | | | | conch shells are usually the size of a large kona (the |
| elementals in the formation of mustikas. The | | | | large end of a drum stick), and they possess a color |
| difference with ordinary gems and crystals is that | | | | similar to their host shell. |
| these elementals eventually make the pearl their | | | | "Fish pearls are perfectly round and symmetrical. |
| dwelling place until released by the destruction of the | | | | They possess a yellowish hue like the scales of the |
| pearl or for some other cause--thus sometimes we | | | | pathenam fish which often inhabit the mouths of |
| have genuine pearls without the elemental spirit | | | | deep sea whales [Again, not totally true, we have |
| present. Below we quote a paper, "Conversations on | | | | seen shark pearls white in color.] |
| Occultism" by H.P. Blavatsky on elementals to give a | | | | "Boar pearls [we have this pearl available in our |
| greater insight on these beings (italics are ours) : | | | | collection] are colored like a boar's tusks and are |
| "Student.- If I understand you, an elemental is a | | | | found only in remote parts of the world. Such pearls |
| centre of force, without intelligence, without moral | | | | are auspicious symbols of the Varaha boar incarnation |
| character or tendencies, but capable of being | | | | of the Supreme Lord, Sri Vishnu. |
| directed in its movements by human thoughts, which | | | | "Pearls derived from bamboo appear like hailstones in |
| may, consciously or not, give it any form, and to a | | | | color, and they are found only within bamboo that |
| certain extent intelligence; in its simplest form it is | | | | has grown in a region populated by religious people |
| visible as a disturbance in a transparent medium, such | | | | [Lots of bamboo pearls in our collection--they mostly |
| as would be produced by 'a glass fish, so transparent | | | | come from Ujung Kulon, Java, which secret sources |
| as to be invisible, swimming through the air of the | | | | say is one of the remote places where the |
| room,' and leaving behind him a shimmer, such as hot | | | | Indonesian Spiritual Masters regularly convene]. |
| air makes when rising from a stove. Also, elementals, | | | | "Pearls from the cobra's hood are perfectly round, |
| attracted and vitalized by certain thoughts, may | | | | like fish pearls, and they radiate a natural effulgence. |
| effect a lodgment in the human system (of which | | | | By repeated washing, a snake pearl becomes as |
| they then share the government of the ego), and | | | | lustrous as a polished sword blade. Anyone |
| are very hard to get out. | | | | possessing such a naga-mani attains piety, rare good |
| "Sage.- Correct, in general, except as to their | | | | fortune, and eventually becomes illustrious as a leader |
| 'effecting a lodgment.' Some classes of elementals, | | | | of men, complete with a great collection of all |
| however, have an intelligence of their own and a | | | | precious gems [Cobra-pearls are not always round, |
| character, but they are far beyond our | | | | they may also come in other shapes]. |
| comprehension and ought perhaps to have some | | | | "Upon acquiring such a snake pearl, the owner should |
| other name. | | | | have the rite of installation performed by a priest |
| "Student.- Am I to understand that a clairvoyant or | | | | who is learned in religious formalities. After hearing |
| clairaudient has to do with or is affected by a certain | | | | from the owner how the pearl was obtained and |
| special class or classes of elementals? | | | | conducting the benedictory ritual, the priest should |
| "Sage.- Yes. A clairvoyant can only see the sights | | | | formally install the jewel inside the owner's house. On |
| properly belonging to the planes his development | | | | such an auspicious occasion, the sky becomes filled |
| reaches to or has opened. And the elementals in | | | | with dark and heavy rain clouds, thunder, and flashing |
| those planes show to the clairvoyant only such | | | | lightning, such as exhibited at the time of universal |
| pictures as belong to their plane. Other parts of the | | | | dissolution. A man in possession of such a snake pearl |
| idea or thing pictured may be retained in planes not | | | | will never be troubled by snakes, demonic beings, |
| yet open to the seer. For this reason few | | | | diseases, or disturbances in any form. |
| clairvoyants know the whole truth. | | | | "Cloud pearls [this could possibly be a "dew pearl" or |
| "As to the moral character of elementals, they have | | | | a variation], being naturally effulgent like the sun, |
| none: they are colourless in themselves - except | | | | illuminate the sky in all directions and dispel the |
| some classes - and merely assume the tint, so to | | | | darkness of cloudy days. Glowing brighter than the |
| speak, of the person using them." | | | | combined light of the moon, the twinkling stars, and |
| It is the presence of these elementals in pearls that | | | | fire, a cloud-born pearl dissipates even the darkest |
| give them an extra feel of power. Normal gemstones | | | | night exactly like the sunrise. A cloud pearl is so |
| and crystals do not have any elemental spirits | | | | priceless that the entire earth, with her oceans filled |
| dwelling in them unless willed by an occult practitioner; | | | | with countless jewels and covered in layers of gold, |
| mustikas, however, do have an etheric being living in | | | | would not be equal in value. Cloud pearls rarely reach |
| them as a matter of course. Lacking a spirit dweller, | | | | this earthly world, because they are usually taken |
| a mustika-pearl is still more powerful than an ordinary | | | | away by the demigods. |
| gemstone or crystal as it possesses the energies of | | | | "Even a low born man would become supreme ruler |
| the Guardian Group-Spirit or Intelligences (Animal | | | | of the entire world if, as result of some past pious |
| Totems/ Plant Devas) of the animal/plant species | | | | actions, he were to come into possession of such a |
| embedded in it. | | | | pearl. The appearance of such a man on earth who |
| Some occultist believe that the beings living in | | | | obtained a cloud pearl during his lifetime would bring |
| mustikas are human spirits, but we feel this to be | | | | good fortune not only to himself, but to the entire |
| untrue. Human spirits do not return to dwell in animals | | | | human race as well. No form of evil could even touch |
| or stones but live in the various realms of the astral | | | | the land within an 8,000 mile radius of his birthplace." |
| and higher regions. | | | | THE "OTHER" PEARLS By Richard S. Brown, |
| Elementals dwelling in pearls are not demonic; | | | | Gemologist (G.I.A.) |
| although some may be amoral. Some may assist the | | | | How do animal/plant pearls differ from ordinary gem |
| owner to gamble for instance--directed to do | | | | stones and crystals? Mustika-pearls contain energies |
| something negative by its master. The elemental | | | | of the Totem Animal/Plant Spirit-Guardians |
| would not know the difference between good and | | | | (Power-Animals/Plant Devas) of the species under its |
| evil or the natural law of consequence. Elementals | | | | care. During its construction, an elemental spirit |
| love to imitate human beings in clothings, names and | | | | appropriates these energies to actually construct |
| titles. Thus, psychics of high-caliber have found that | | | | every line of force within the pearl and to actually |
| most elementals adopt the titles and names of saints | | | | dwell within it after it is fully formed. The energies of |
| and kings. These names and titles should not be | | | | the Totem-Animal/Plant Spirit and the presence of |
| taken too seriously, but when given by the | | | | the elemental are the two occult factors that |
| elementals themselves, they do respond psychically | | | | differentiates mustikas from ordinary crystals and |
| to them. Acquiring the names and details of the | | | | gems. |
| elemental dweller is not an easy process, although | | | | Extraordinary mustika-pearls are sometimes found. |
| once acquired and contact made with the | | | | These are the crowns and horns of animals that |
| pearl-intelligence, many things may be known about | | | | normally do not possess them. In this category are |
| the origin of the mustika and its virtues. Yet, psychics | | | | also the fossilized-eyes and other parts of animals |
| who manage to contact the elemental spirit are | | | | and creatures. Crowns are normally lusterless as |
| probably 40-70% accurate in this matter. It should be | | | | described in the Sri Purana Garuda. There are, |
| noted that even without such knowledge, the | | | | however, crocodile-crowns that are crystalline in |
| powers and virtues of a magickal pearl may still be | | | | nature. Most crown-pearls come from snakes and |
| readily felt by those possessing it after a short | | | | centipedes. These crowns normally have a spiral, |
| period of time. | | | | conic shape. Horns/crowns of animals such as horses |
| Undeveloped psychics may have trouble detecting | | | | (unicorn) and cats do exist, though they are scarce. |
| and communicating with elementals. Interacting with | | | | |