Edgar Cayce's Sacred Stones: The A-Z Guide to Working with Gems to Enhance Your Life and Health - Shelley Kaehr 2015

Stone of Destiny
Stones of the Bible
Part Three

And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. Genesis 28:11

And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. Genesis 28:18

In the book of Genesis, Jacob finds a stone in the desert and uses it to rest his head. The stone, currently known as the Stone of Destiny, Jacob’s Pillow, or the Stone of Scone, revealed an amazing dream to him about a ladder reaching up to heaven. Jacob carried this stone with him and learned that the Stone of Destiny would witness the coronation of every ruler of God’s people until the return of the Lord.

Nobody knew where this stone was until it turned up in Great Britain and was supposedly present even during the coronation of none other than Queen Elizabeth II. Also known as the Coronation Stone, it is a block of sandstone kept in an old abbey in Scone, Scotland.

Scottish legend says the Stone of Destiny originally belonged to Jacob. The stone served as the pillow where Jacob rested his head and had his dream about a ladder leading to heaven. The stone left the Holy Land and went to Egypt, Sicily, and Spain before it was taken to Ireland in the 700s and used for coronations there until the Scots stole it from them during a raid. The stone arrived in the village of Scone around 840.

For centuries, several Scottish monarchs used the Stone of Scone as part of their coronation ceremonies. In 1296, Edward I invaded Scotland and took the stone to London. Edward I built a special coronation chair to encase the stone, and placed it in Westminster Abbey as a symbol that the monarchy would rule both England and Scotland, but historians debate this “Westminster Stone’s” authenticity as Jacob’s Stone of Destiny.

After the crowning of James I of Scotland as monarch occurred on the Stone of Scone, some believed that the prophecy regarding Scottish rule had finally happened. The Scottish weren’t finished with the stone yet. In 1950, Scottish nationalists stole the stone from Westminster Abbey. The British government recovered it but eventually gave in and officially returned the Stone of Scone to Scotland in 1996.

Of course, as with all things of this nature, some people believe the stone is a fraud and not at all associated with Jacob. Nevertheless, the stone is sacred to the Scots and Brits who have used it to crown their kings and queens and therefore must have some extraordinary power associated with it.