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LAPIS LAZULI: An opaque speckled and veined blue stone, a powerful meditation stone. The stone of truth, enhancing the
6th sense abilities to gain secret knowledge, visualisation. Wisdom, awareness, dreams and protection. Mind expansion,
creativity and helps to organise the mind. Use the lapis for visions, higher spiritual vibrations, vitality and strength. Anxiety, restlessness, insomnia, shyness,nervous systems, speech, hearing, pituitary, inflammation and pain.
Lapis lazuli is regarded by many people around the world as the stone of friendship and truth. The blue stone is said to
encourage harmony in relationships and help its wearer to be authentic and give his or her opinion openly. Lapis lazuli is a
gemstone of the kind that might have come straight out of the Arabian Nights: a deep blue with golden inclusions of pyrites
which shimmer like little stars. This opaque, deep blue gemstone has a grand past. It was among the first gemstones to be worn as jewellery and worked on. At excavations in the ancient centres of culture around the Mediterranean, archaeologists have again and again found among the grave furnishings decorative chains and figures made of lapis lazuli * clear indications that the deep blue stone was already popular thousands of years ago among the people of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia, Greece and Rome. It is said that the legendary city of Ur on the Euphrates plied a keen lapis lazuli trade as long ago as the fourth millennium B.C., the material coming to the land of the two great rivers from the famous deposits in Afghanistan. In other cultures, lapis lazuli was regarded as a holy stone. Particularly in the Middle East, it was thought to have magical powers. Countless signet rings, scarabs and figures were wrought from the blue stone which Alexander the Great brought to Europe. There, the colour was referred to as 'ultramarine', which means something like 'from beyond the sea.

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Years of war and exploitation have degraded many of Afghanistan's natural resources. But among the still highly prized assets is the lapis ...