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

Alabaster
Sacred Stones
Part Two

Found in: England, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, Pakistan, Spain, USA

Named for: Alabaster is derived from the Greek word, alabastros, which was used to define a variety of massive, fine-grained gypsum.

✵ Bible ✵

There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat. Matthew 26: 7

And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. Mark 14:3

And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, Luke 7:37

✵ Cayce Readings ✵

Alabaster is mentioned three times in three readings. The first mention is in a booklet that was published in April of 1930 by The Association of National Investigators, Inc.:

And now began preparations for the coming of the great King from far away, and for the wedding, and about the castle . . . and they erected an entrance of alabaster . . . 254-107, Report #1

While giving a reading to a client, Cayce dreamed about alabaster, as he noted in the first report:

I was conscious of the fact of separating my physical self from my soul self, my physical self being encased in a box like an alabaster . . . box, from a material I could not describe. It seemed the material manifestation of my physical and mental self was in the box. I gave the box to someone and felt, as I gave it, ’This is one I can trust.’ . . .

257-130, Report #1

In another reading, the subject was a high priestess in Egypt and the term alabaster seemed synonymous with a higher spiritual state of purity:

Throughout that particular period we find that the entity sojourned in that city where the Temple of Sacrifice and the Temple Beautiful performed their functions, their offices, as the aid to the people . . . For, few of those had arisen to that state in which there were the preparations so as to produce the alabaster, or all white, or all relationships that brought or made for individuality and better expression for the personality of the entity throughout that sojourn.

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More on Alabaster

Alabaster is a vague mineralogical term referring to either gypsum or calcite. Snowy white and often translucent, light can pass through it.

Depending on which variety of alabaster you choose, this material will connect you with the energy of Egypt or ancient Europe—and with any past-life connections you have had in those places. An important material in the ancient world, alabaster assists with tapping into the lifetimes of ancient civilizations by helping to recover skills and memories associated with places such as Egypt, Greece, or Italy.

Ancient Egyptian alabaster is a form of the calcite variety. In the Egyptian reading, Cayce would have referred to calcite alabaster.

Ancient Egyptians used alabaster for sacred objects such as sarcophaguses and other ritual items. King Tutankhamun’s tomb was filled with items carved from alabaster.

Oriental alabaster, another term for this stone, refers to the calcite-based marble, which will be discussed in a later section.

One of my most profound adventures was a trip to Egypt back in the year 2000. While in the magnificent city of Luxor, I went to a shop where several people were carving scarab beetles, bowls, and other items from huge blocks of alabaster. It looked like extremely challenging work, but luckily both kinds of alabaster are soft and easy to carve.

The scarab was a sacred symbol of the morning sun and renewal in ancient Egypt. The dung beetle laid eggs in a dung ball and rolled it across the ground, an action that soon became symbolic of the physical embodiment of the creation god Khepri, who moved the morning sun across the sky. Even today, the beetle is considered lucky in Egypt, and these scarabs are considered popular tourist items.

In terms of Biblical probability, the alabaster of the Bible would also be calcite because of its prevalence in the Middle East.

Spiritually speaking, calcite is a wonderful material to use for meditation because it calms the nerves and brings peace to the core or stomach area, connecting you with Mother Earth.

The second type of alabaster is from the material gypsum. Medieval Europeans used this variety of alabaster.

While both materials are soft, the gypsum is even more fragile than the calcite. I am a big fan of the gypsum-based material called selenite, one of the most profound healing stones ever.

Most healing stones require occasional energetic clearing because they take on unwanted energy to help with healing. For that reason, they must be cleansed from time to time. Gypsum materials such as selenite and alabaster are different from most other minerals because they never need cleaning. They do not become bogged down energetically after being used. Alabaster and selenite are of such high frequency that the issues and circumstances of mundane worldly life do not affect them.

Selenite works wonders on the chakra centers and energy fields around the body. Since selenite is often flat, you can use it to clean other stones by placing them on top of it. How long you leave the stone there depends on you. I recommend cleansing for at least twenty minutes. The high-vibrational energy quickly balances unwanted frequencies and cleanses your other stones so that they are ready to use once again. Whether placing the selenite on the body or using it to clean your healing tools, this material creates a higher overall vibration by transforming lower frequencies into pure white light.

I can certainly see how either variety of alabaster might have played a critical role in our spiritual history. Many of the sacred rituals performed in Egypt where priests and priestesses were busy transcending normal reality to access higher realms involved the use of alabaster. Many of us, like the woman who went to Cayce for her reading, have probably lived previous lives in Egypt and performed similar rituals. For that reason, we would all benefit from working with alabaster.