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This book suits readers who love gemstones, astrology, symbolism and old legends, and anyone who enjoys travelers' tales and the stories behind famous jewels.
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Why would a priest wear twelve stones, each cut with the name of a tribe, and why would the stars matter to a jeweler? Isidore Kozminsky answers in The Magic and Science of Jewels and Stones, finished in Melbourne in January 1922. He sets out to join modern science with the old occult philosophy of precious, semiprecious and common stones.
He writes as a believer, and he gathers evidence from the Bible, Pliny, medieval stone books, travelers and chemists. The book moves from the High Priest's breastplate to legends, then to an alphabetical guide from agate to zircon. Begin with the first idea, that stones and stars answer each other.
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- 1Stones and stars answer each other by sympathyFree
- 2Color is vibration and gems hold it
- 3Two onyx stones mark the soul's gates
- 4The breastplate was a zodiac and an oracle
- 5Each of the twelve stones has its sign
- 6Old legends give stones living magic
- 7Myths from many lands honor stones as sacred
- 8Every gem has virtues, a sign and a story
- 9Famous stones bring fortune or doom to owners
- 10All matter changes and ancient science returns
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Stones and stars answer each other by sympathy
Kozminsky opens with a bold claim. The ancient masters believed that attractions and oppositions linked atoms, stones, plants, animals and people in one network. Heavenly bodies send influences, and certain earthly substances respond to them.
From this grew the old philosophy of lucky stones and planetary gems. He treats it as an organized science, built by patient observation over ages. He cites the book of Enoch, where the angel Azazzel teaches people about stones. He cites Baron Reichenbach's experiments and reports strange effects from diamonds, emeralds and lodestones on magnetic sleepers.
For the reader, the key is to see how the book reasons. A stone is linked to a planet, a metal, a color, a sign, a body part and a mood. Once you grasp that chain, the lists of virtues make sense as one system.
The takeaway is that every gem in this book hangs on a chain of heavenly correspondences.
That’s 1 of 10 key points.
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What is The Magic and Science of Jewels and Stones about?
It is a guide to the lore of gems. Kozminsky links stones to planets and zodiac signs, explains the breastplate of the High Priest, and describes the virtues, legends and famous examples of dozens of gems from agate to zircon.
What are the twelve stones of the breastplate in this book?
Kozminsky identifies them as red hematite, emerald, marble, chrysoprase, sardonyx, jasper, opal, banded agate, amethyst, serpentine, lapis lazuli and crystal, and he matches each to a zodiac sign and a tribe of Israel.
Is this book easy to use for finding a birthstone?
Yes, in the sense that its gem entries run in alphabetical order, each ending with a zodiac sign, and its closing chapters give tables of forms, properties, zodiac links and places of origin for the main gems.
What is the main message of the book?
Kozminsky argues that stones and stars answer each other by sympathy, so that each gem carries a color, a planet and a sign, and that ancient gem lore holds truths worth studying alongside modern science.
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Kozminsky, Isidore. The Magic and Science of Jewels and Stones. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-magic-and-science-of-jewels-and-stones.
Kozminsky, I. (2026). The magic and science of jewels and stones. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-magic-and-science-of-jewels-and-stones (Original work published 1922)
Kozminsky, Isidore. The Magic and Science of Jewels and Stones. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-magic-and-science-of-jewels-and-stones.
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