Hand Harvested Crystal Salt

x Hand Harvested Crystal Salt - Cyprus Flake
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We might not think of including Salt among our crystal friends. Some use Salt in ceremony and in cleansing/clearing crystals - but these crystals - and THEY ARE crystals, have beautiful qualities themselves that we might take for granted because we are around them so often and they are easily found. These very special crystals have been singing to me in connection with the Crystal Alchemy and so I sought them out in their purest and most natural form - as I do with all crystals. I was surprised at what I found. Crystals that are lovingly hand harvested with time honoured tradition in a craft handed down from generation to generation. These Salt crystals have joined my family of crystal friends in work and play and are the ones I choose to keep in my kitchen too. Images provided by; SaltWorks, inc. www.seasalt.com (800)353-7258 SALT Rock salt, is a mineral that is composed primarily of sodium chloride. Salt occurs naturally in many parts of the world as the mineral halite. It is a crystalline solid, and the crystals are cubic in form. Salt cleaves into perfect cubes. Very large cubic crystals, of two, three or more inches in size, can be seen in some salt mines. Crystal salt is one of the few minerals whose atomic structure is bound electrically, not molecularly. This characteristic of the mineral structure enables the crystal to change back and forth from crystalline to liquid state. The size and shape of salt crystals can be modified by temperature. Salt is colorless when pure, but is found in various colours depending on mineral content. ANCIENT AND ABUNDANT The best sources of this natural nutrient is Seawater or rock deposits or the dried-up ancient seas like the famed Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Salt even arrives on earth from outer space, and its presence on the planet Mars has led scientists to think life may exist there (or at least be supportable). Salt is one of the oldest, most ubiquitous food seasonings and salting is an important method of food preservation. Evidence indicates that Neolithic people of the Precucuteni Culture were boiling the salt-laden spring water through the process of briquetage to extract the salt as far back as 6050 BC. The taste of salt (saltiness) is one of the basic human tastes. The word salary originates from Latin: salarium which referred to the money paid to the Roman army soldier's for the purchase of salt. The word salad literally means "salted," and comes from the ancient Roman practice of salting leaf vegetables. SALT IN ALCHEMY In Alchemy, Salt, Sulphur and Mercury are known to be the Three Principles. It is believed that all matter can be divided, via alchemical processes, into these three things. Salt was the principle of fixity (non-action) and in-combustibility. Salt is the earth element, representing the vegetable salts extracted from calcined ashes of plant body. The Salt represents the Body of a thing. It is the receptacle for the energies of Mercury and Sulfur. Salt contains the elements Water and Earth. The receiving of the influences of the Soul which are transmitted through the spirit occurs through the element Water. In the chemical aspects, this neutral energy resides in the salts of the lab materials, both soluble and insoluble. Mercury was the principle of fusibility (ability to melt and flow) and volatility. Mercury is the water element, representing the life essence of the plant, the very alcohol extract of the plant is the carrier of the life essence. Mercury is the passive, Female energy of the universe. It unites with the Sulfur to produce a Manifestation, whatever that may be (whatever you are trying to create). In order for the energies of Life to transmit their influence into matter, Mercury is needed: It contains the Air of Life and the Water of Matter. In chemistry, this energy resides in the alcohol of the material you work with. Sulfur was the principle of inflammability. Sulphur is the fire element, virtue of plant, representing the volatile oil essence of the plant. Sulfur is the Male, active energy of the universe. For us it represents the Soul. Chemically, it resides in the essential oils of the material you work with. NOTE: My thanks and gratitude to James Collins of Alchymie.ca for permission to use his well researched and beautifully written information on the Three Principles of Alchemy. * * * * * Cyprus Flake Salt Cyprus Flake Salt is a unique Mediterranean pyramid-shaped crystal. Flake sea salt is a light crystal reminiscent of snowflakes. Seawaters are evaporated using the natural processes of sun and wind, producing salt brine that is fed into an open evaporating pan. The brine is then slowly heated to the point where delicate pyramid-shaped crystals of salt appear. Listing is for one 45gm. package of Cyprus Flake Salt Crystals (recycled/reusable plastic tub is made in Canada)

x Hand Harvested Crystal Salt - Cyprus Flake