By George Frederick Kunz
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Unquestionably, when these objects had once been worn, there was a disposition to attribute certain happenings to their influence and power, and in this way there arose a belief in their efficacy, and, finally, the conviction that they were the abodes of powerful spirits. In this, as in many other things, man's first and instinctive appreciation was the truest, and it has required centuries of enlightenment to bring us back to this love of precious stones for their esthetic beauty alone. Indeed, even to-day, we can see the power of superstitious belief in the case of the opal, which some timid people still fear to wear, although until three or four centuries ago this stone was thought to combine all the virtues of the various colored gems, the hues of which are united in its sparkling light.
THE CURIOUS LORE OF PRECIOUS STONES 16 even an unavoidable defect, but much should be minimized as it as possible. The treatise known under the title " ' 7 Cyrianides was, as we have noted, a product of the Alexandrian school. It was asserted to be the work of Hermes Trismegistus, to the Egyptian god Thoth. I I, a plant, and a fish, each beginj, & crcgionc Latinos* ning with the same letter and the name given by the Greeks PATRIS PIPHANII iolaHicrotitantino irttcrpcctc; cum Corollano Conra* diGc&crL signifying the four elements, are given for each of the twenty-four letters of the Greek These four objects alphabet.
Proof that bright and colored objects were attracin tive themselves, and were first gathered up and preserved by primitive man for this reason alone, may be found in the fact that certain birds, notable the Chlamy- A dera of Australia, related to our ravens, after constructing for themselves pretty arbors, strew the floors with variegated pebbles, so arranged as to suggest a mosaic pavement. At the entrance of the arbors are heaped up pieces of bone, shells, feathers, and stones, which have often been brought from a considerable distance, this THE CURIOUS LORE OF PRECIOUS STONES 22 giving evidence that the birds have not selected these objects at random.