For centuries, crystal and other gems have been used for their magical healing and mystical powers as conduits of energies. The Mayans and Hebrew civilizations, Native American Indians and East Indians have used them in spiritual rituals and as aids to physical healing. Crystal and gemstones 'vibrate' on their own individual frequency. They vibrate in a way that resonates with and strengthens particular energies inside each person. These are energies of the inner self, the energies that make up the attitudes and human qualities of a person. They are believed to work as conductors, allowing to focus energy via a person's thoughts to stimulate healing. This is determined by its internal crystalline structure and by the atomic vibrations that are specific to that structure.

Crystals and gemstones are different in the sense that a gemstone gives a very narrow bandwidth of subtle energy vibrations, whereas a quartz crystal operates in a much broader way and amplifies all the subtle energy frequencies. A stone is the source of the energy vibration, whereas a crystal amplifies and reflects back the vibrations that exist in their environment.

Thus the stone and crystal work somewhat differently. A stone could be termed stronger than a crystal for it could help you in concentrating on your growth by working on one energy at a time. A crystal strengthens all areas of the inner self at the same time.

Let us examine crystals and gemstones separately.