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