Dating has come a long way from boy-meets-girl at local diner. Now it’s online dating, Tinder and . . . crystals?Relying on crystals to find love is not a new invention. Scores of articles on the Internet recommend a variety of different stones which they believe contain powers specific to love.
For example, in this article, rose quartz is named as the "stone of unconditional love" which is "abundant in feminine energy and overflowing with compassion." It somehow has the power to "create trust, tolerance, and levels of true unconditional love." To use it, simply wear rose quartz as jewelry, place it on your heart chakra, or place it somewhere in your home.
Because there is no scientific evidence of crystals containing any kind of power - either natural or preternatural - relying on these stones to attract love, abundance, guidance, etc. is the equivalent of relying on a talisman.
But there are more insidious ways of using crystals to attract love. Years ago, I came across an article by Laura Argintar, Senior Women’s Writer on the Generation Y online magazine Elite Daily in which she describes a Wiccan practice seen on an episode of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. On the show, former cast member Carlton Gebbia, who was openly Wiccan, was trying to attract the man of her dreams and engaged in a ritual involving crystals and the alleged energies they hold that are somehow made magical when buried in the direct light of a full moon.
“In time, the crystals’ energies coupled with your intent will bring this man to you,” Argintar writes.
She summarizes the five easy steps of this ritual to use when trying to attract the right mate, which include writing down your specific goals and the traits you desire in the person. Then wait for a night when the moon is full. When this night arrives, recite an incantation of your choice, then “Partially bury the list with your crystals in plain sight of the full moon, so that the moon can cleanse and embrace the different vessels of energies,” she instructs.
Once done, she advises the mate-searcher to “be at peace with yourself” then grab some wine and enjoy the rest of the evening.
Argintar’s story doesn’t come with a happy ending because she never says if the ritual brought her the mate she was seeking.
However, someone who posted a comment on the story said she made a list of desirable traits in a man, put it somewhere, then promptly forgot about it. A year later, she met a guy with the exact traits she listed and is now a believer in what is essentially the New Age creed known as the Law of Attraction – meaning you attract what you desire.
Even the most basic understanding of the occult can explain how incidents like this occur. The devil is more than capable of inspiring people to bury crystals and make lists full of wishes that he can then arrange to manifest. By doing so, he trains a person to turn away from reliance on God and toward reliance on self and/or occult powers in order to make their dreams come true. Once he has them where he wants them, he slowly begins to destroy them.
This age of poor catechesis, coupled with an extraordinary level of interest in the occult, creates the perfect conditions under which Satan can operate and do so while almost completely undetected. People believe it was the crystals, the energy, the list, the desire, that did the trick – when it was really the Evil One all along.
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