Precious Stones
(JP Delaney)

So after all this time what have we learned about our precious stones, and what have the life changing stories thought us?

We travellers all have forged a unique relationship with this imortal relics from distant pasts, as we stand on seashores holding our stones in the moonlight we should all think back to millions of years ago, as these materials cooled and solidified after swirling round the universe for aons. And when we are gone, they will remain. We should remember our stone age ancestors who slowly put together crude implements from what were previously mere ornaments on the earths surfaces. But ultimately these stones link us to much more - our family extends through entire galaxies, which are the original sources of different solar systems. magnetic forces, which are undividedly pervading the whole atmosphere, taking often the form of what generally people call cosmic rays - which seem to be not actually rays, but magnetic energies flowing from outer space - solidify themselves into the visible forms of bodily existence of human beings, of trees, of mountains, and of the very earth itself, and the stones on its surface.

Indeed this establishes the fact that the vibration of space created a movement which we call the activity of air pervading the surface of the earth. Friction caused by this continuous movement of the air principle created heat which we call fire. The further condensation of the density of these forces, right from the activity of space, became what we call liquid, the solidified form of which is this very large stone calledearth. Which brings us back to stones linking us with everything.

Ashes to ashes, sticks and stones.