Description
This 48 Sided Ultra Clear Natural Quartz Phantom Vogel Healing Wand is 4.95 inches long and weighs 226 grams or 7.97 ounces. This wand comes from the collection of Marcel Vogel's student Paul Jensen, creator of the Tools for Evolution line of sacred geometry jewelry, based in Casper Wyoming.
This Vogel wand has a very comfortable fit in the hand for a lightworker or meditator. It has a nice feel to it, well-proportioned, slim, and tapering to a definitive point.
This unique Vogel wand is a textbook example of the phantom crystal formation, which is considered excellent for therapeutic work designed to release old energies formed by traumas held in the physical, emotional and mental bodies.
You can barely see a wispy triple phantom formation in the shaft of this extremely clear natural quartz wand, and of course no inclusions reach the surface of this highly polished crystal.
This precision light instrument, with a unique cut based upon the specifications of legendary scientist and crystal healer Marcel Vogel, is a powerful subtle energy tool, and can be used for many kinds of healing work as well as for meditation.
Mineralogical and Metaphysical Properties of Phantom Crystals
This phantom was created when a faceted tip formed at one point in the crystal's growth, but the crystal's growth was interrupted for some reason, and then the quartz crystal resumed its crystallization, eventually enclosing the phantom crystal within itself, creating a residual outline of the previous point completely enclosed within the enlarged crystal formation.
The phantom typically displays one or more translucent thin, cloud-like layers of mineral deposits resembling small points.
Each layer of cloudy inclusion contains a revealing snapshot of the crystal's termination faces in the remote past.
Each phantom marking represents a different stage in the crystal's growth -- and each stage can last for hundreds of thousands of years!
Each phantom crystal reveals its own evolutionary pattern -- it is as though we can see the record of the transmigrations of the crystal's soul.
It should come as no surprise that phantom crystals help us to unearth our own histories, and to come to terms with unresolved issues from our past. Phantoms help us to see our own messy histories and our painful karmic issues as part of a beautiful spiritual evolution. In this way, they help to restore a sense of inner balance, unity and an aura of magic where there had been pain and struggle.
How do phantom crystals form within the Earth?
One possibility is that a pocket of mineral rich liquid inside the earth surrounding the crystal dried out, stopping the crystal's growth.
When a crystal's growth is interrupted for some reason, a thin dusting of such minerals as pyrite, hematite, chlorite or galena can gather on the termination faces.
Later, if the pocket is resaturated, another stage of crystal growth can occur.
If the crystal's growth then resumes, over long cycles of geologic time, the dusting of alien minerals covering the crystal's original termination faces is incorporated into a much larger quartz crystal.
This long growth process creates a crystal exhibiting the classic phantom crystal point which can be seen within the larger crystal.
Sometimes one can see two or three phantom points within a given crystal wand, and in such cases, the growth process was undoubtedly stopped and started several times over unthinkably long periods of geological time.
The final result is the formation of a phantom crystal much larger than the original crystal structure at the point of growth interruption.
Properties of Vogel Cut Healing Wands & Marcel Vogel's Crystal Wisdom
This precision light instrument, with a unique cut based upon the specifications of legendary scientist and crystal healer Marcel Vogel, is a powerful subtle energy tool, and can be used for many kinds of healing work as well as for meditation.
Marcel Vogel worked for IBM for 27 years doing research and development. He developed the magnetic coating for IBM’s disc drive, which acts as the storage unit for a computer's memory, and he created the first liquid crystal displays, or LCDs.
From his experimental work with crystals, Vogel learned that by pointing a crystal at another person, the crystal would amplify the person’s thoughts and emotions. This often also led to putting the individual into an altered state of consciousness. The next step was for Vogel to utilize the quartz crystals for therapeutic purposes.
Marcel Vogel sought to use the power of science and of the lapidary arts to perfect crystalline forms of nature in order to maximize their potential for receiving, amplifying and transmitting Universal Life Force Energy charged with the intent to heal and with the force of love. Vogel cut his crystals to harmonize with the natural quartz structure to enhance the energetic properties of the wand for healing purposes, and the result is also aesthetically pleasing.
To learn more about Marcel Vogel and his techniques for crystal healing, read the first several chapters of his never-before-published autobiography, edited by Curtis Lang, which is in our Vogel Archives.
You'll find Marcel Vogel's instructions for using crystals for healing and meditation in the book along with a lot of other very important information for all metaphysical rockhounds.
Vogel believed that the most important thing to remember in working with faceted crystals for healing is that the purpose of the faceting should be to amplify and transmit an increasingly coherent stream of energy to a subject.
Some hexagonal quartz crystal wands occur naturally with six more or less equilateral sides and more or less equal triangular termination facets.
Energy healers discovered that these six sided wands amplifed the energy being transmitted by the wand when the termination facets on the female end created a more obtuse angle and when the termination facets on the male end created a more acute angle.
In a naturally formed quartz crystal of somewhat irregular shape and symmetry, the energy within the crystal tends to move through the crystal in a less directed way than the Vogel style cuts.
But when a crystal had a very definite symmetry, especially the hexagonal symmetry, then the energy gathers in the larger, receptive end of the crystal, and if directed by a knowledgeable human hand, travels in a series of tighter and tighter concentric circles around the interior of the crystal, and down into the tip of the male end of the crystal, where it would be emitted as a much more coherent stream of energy.
Energy healers also discovered that when the sharp male tip of the healing wand is congruent with the C-axis of the crystal, exactly centered within the circle formed when you look head-on at the male end of the crystal, this made the energetic flow stronger and more coherent.
When the sharp tip on the female end of the crystal, where the six termination facets meet, is congruent with the C-axis of the crystal, exactly centered within the circle formed when you look head-on at the female end of the crystal the energetic flow becomes stronger and more coherent.
Total symmetry created the crystal healer's version of the laser beam.
Marcel Vogel's healing wands were refined artistic versions of thiswell-known type of hexagonal natural healing wand, known for millennia to energy healers worldwide.
According to Marcel Vogel's written specifications for Vogel healing wands, good Vogel wands should have precisely equal facets on the shaft and tips; good clarity, preferably 90% or more; a well-defined C-axis that runs parallel to the shaft; and termination tips centered in the very middle of the shaft.
The male and female terminations should be sharp, and the male should be more acute than the female.
The female termination should be larger than the male tip.
The male termination tip of this gorgeous Vogel healing wand is fashioned to form an extremely sharp tip designed to maximize the coherence and strength of energy streaming from the wand, while the female termination tip was cut a little wider, to maximize the area available for input of Universal Life Force energy from Source, and particularly from the palm chakra of the crystal healing practitioner.
As the prana spirals down the shaft of the wand, the energy stream is amplified every time it encounters a facet on the shaft. The super-charged energy stream coalesces at the male end of the wand, and is emitted as a highly coherent laser-like beam for use in meditation, vibrational healing and subtle communications.
Energy and crystal healers prize Vogel cut quartz crystals to this day.
The art of cutting crystals for use in healing requires extensive knowledge of the high art of crystal-cutting and polishing, an intuitive feel for the subtle energies involved, and an awareness of the needs of the energy healer who will be using the wand.
In his early experiments with cutting healing crystals, which he conducted for many years, Marcel Vogel saw the Kabbalistic Tree of Life in a dream, which is shaped very much like four sided crystal wand with double termination tips.
Marcel created his first 4-sided healing wands in that shape, and told the story of their origin in the crystal healing workshops he gave students around the world.
Model created by Robert Wang, from his book The Qabalistic Tarot
Over time, Marcel also designed 6, 8, 12 and 13 sided double terminated crystal healing wands and 6 sided single terminated meditation crystals with a flat base. At first he and his family cut them and sold them to students of crystal healing. Later they involved other cutters as well.
We are proud to offer our customers only those Vogel-cut wands that come from sources whose work is personally known to us. We personally "test-drive" and examine them all energetically prior to accepting them for our inventory.
Properties of the 48 Sided Vogel Wand
The number 48 resonates with the energy of the Divine Trinity.
"The Holy Trinity" painting in Seville, Spain's Iglesia de la Anunciacion
by Marcelo Coffermans (1560)
Numeralogically, forty eight equals 4 + 8 = 12, and thus 1+2=3. The underlying energy of the number 48 is symbolized by the number 3, the number of the Sacred Trinity.
Christians know this Trinity to be Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
The Trinity represents the Unity underlying the apparent multiplicity of existence.
The Trinity of light, energy and mass composes the totality of the known Universe.
Alchemists and Neoplatonic Western Mystery Schools in general worked with a Sacred Trinity known by their Greek names of nous, psyche and soma.
The Alchemist in Search of the Philosopher's Stone,
Painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1771
Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Nous represents divine intellect, or the consciousness which is the Source of all that exists in this Universe.
Psyche represents the soul, which is roughly analogous to the energy body of all living beings, including the etheric body and in more evolved beings, the astral body.
Soma represents the physical body, the material manifestation of Consciousness and Energy.
Wiccans know this Trinity to be composed of three Goddesses: Maiden, Mother and Crone.
Hindus know this Trinity to be Brahman the creator of the Universe, Vishnu, the sustainer of the Universe, and Shiva, the destroyer of the Universe.
Hindu metaphysics also honors a Trinity of major Goddesses: Sarasvati, Goddess of Wisdom, Lakshmi, Goddess of Prosperity, and Kali/Durga, Goddess of Judgment.
The Sacred Mantra AUM
In Hindu metaphysics, the creation occurred through the intonation of the sacred mantra AUM, composed of three vocalized syllables and surrounded by the silence that represents transcendent realities.
Brahman intoned this creation mantra, which brought consciousness, vibration and energy into being in the form of this Universe.
AUM is equivalent to the Logos or the WORD in Western mysticism.
In Modern Western Mystery School Traditions, the Archangel Gabriel and his legions of messenger angels are custodians of the sacred vibratory frequencies.
Archangel Gabriel, Messenger of the Lord
Gabriel and his heavenly hosts are masters of the mystic mantras that create the universal harmonics that underlie and structure the Macrocosmos.
Gabriel and his legions emanate the fundamental wave patterns manifest in the Universe generating mantra AUM.
Resonating in harmony with the sacred number three, the Triad, the 48 sided Vogel wand is tuned to the energy of synthesis, of creativity, of the Unity that is the Source of the Universe itself.
That harmonic resonance is in some ways, the ultimate healing energy, representing as it does, the primal Logos, the WORD, the Universal AUM.
Manipura Chakra
The 48 sided Vogel wand is ideal for all healing work that is designed to integrate the body, the emotions and the mind, and to increase the energy flowing through the human body and biofield, and for all healing work that involves energizing and activating the third, or Manipura chakra.
Working on the third chakra, which is the solar plexus chakra, associated in the Western mystery school tradition with the color yellow, the 48 sided Vogel wand strengthens the bearer's energy system and infuses the "hara" center and solar plexus with Universal Life Force Energy, also known as "chi" or "prana" in the Chinese and Hindu systems of energy medicine.
Energizing the third chakra is said to aid digestion, which is governed by the third chakra, and to activate the thymus, which regulates our immune system, thus promoting health and well-being. Energizing the third chakra is said to provide a feeling of comfort and optimism.
As students of Marcel Vogel well know, the American master of crystal healing focused his energy work on the thymus above all else. It is always beneficial to focus energy on the thymus when performing healing work with crystals.
A 48 Sided Vogel Wand is obviously ideal for energy work that centers on energizing the thymus and the immune system, since golden yellow citrine activates and energizes the third, solar plexus chakra, and the crown chakra, as we shall see in detail below.
This wand comes with its own FREE handmade pouch constructed of 100% polyester fleece and micro bonded suede that has the look and feel of real sheepskin. They are designed for a snug fit and come with extra padding to protect delicate tips and points.
This crystal has been cleaned with Universal Life Force Energy, and given an energy attunement using Reiki, a Japanese technique of energy healing, so it will continue to receive and transmit Universal Life Force Energy direct from the Source of Creation.
Check out our FREE e-book Spirits of Stone: A Lightworker's Guide to Crystals and Gemstones for Healing and Meditation for an overview of the metaphysical and mineralogical properties of quartz, and a step-by-step guide explaining how to cleanse, charge, and program quartz crystals for healing, meditation and other spiritual purposes.
Net weight of Vogel cut wand is 226 grams.