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Lemurian Quartz Dream Crystal Point Cluster with Babies 

 A LiDiex Shrine Find

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This is another of our very long listings with an abundant text and 6 photographs, so please sit back and read the listing through.

If you have come this far, we feel you will find it was worth the wait.

Nearly twenty-three years have now past (12/06/2001) since we were called to do an estate that had been closed up for seventeen years!

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The Voodoo Estate!

This type of call usually gets us excited as they are a treasure trove.  Located here in Florida, there was no electricity or running water so we rigged our own lighting and in we went.  If you have ever seen the Adams Family you will have some idea as to what we were greeted with!  Then the attorney handling the liquidation gave us some background.  The estate had belonged to an alleged powerful Voodoo Priestess/JooJoo Exorcist, grand daughter of a Marie Laveau, and favored daughter of a Marie Glapion.

These names meant nothing to us, but the late night talk of Voodoo and exorcism in the old mansion was enough to make us decide to spend the night in a hotel and return in the morning to assess the estate.  The rest is history. 

Our research has shown that this woman was what she claimed and was indeed descended from a long line of well known Vodoun family originating in New Orleans in the early 1800's.  We were a bit unnerved by this and then we discovered she and many of her associates were also devout Catholics!  Although I have to admit this was unlike any Catholic home we have ever been in and some of the items found inside were a little more than disturbing.  There was no feeling of dread or unwelcome in the mansion, however there was quite a bit of contraband and other items we can or will not sell here.

This is one of a few pieces from this estate we will be listing this week, so check our other listings!

 We will, upon the new guardian's request, issue a named Letter of Authenticity with each lot from this estate, complying with the terms set forth to us by the estate's attorney.

Some Back Story

Found and recovered from what was named, "The LiDiex Chapel Room."  This was not the largest of the altar rooms but large nonetheless, as it measured 17 x 24 feet!  But it certainly was an unusual room that in describing, we could just as well be describing an ancient Cabinet of Curiosities.  It was indeed used as their chapel, "a place of solace and meditation where ancestors are revered," according to one of her journal entries.

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The LiDiex

And may I introduce to you, the men known only as LiDiex...The research involved in this estate provides continuous fascination.  This was a group of men known to most simply as LiDiex.  Descendants of the original Man Known Only as "LiDiex" to these shores who arrived as a survivor and saboteur of the slave Ship Henrietta Marie in 1701.  He then found his way to New Orleans to meet with the parents of the then infant grandmother of our priestess, Marie Laveau. Referred to as the 1701 LiDiex in her ledgers, he was a wood carver and furniture maker known for his travel trunks,  as were many of his descendants.  This is another case of the multi-generational relationships we have encountered with this family as the LiDiex all had a strong association with these women.  Known and named as close practitioners and believed to be fathers to four children of three generations of these women.
 Many served as their enforcers as "Zuvembie" and are referred to as, “a skilled sorcerer, tactician, warrior and artist" who were deeply involved in their works.

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The ClusterHere is another natural quartz crystal formations she has inventoried as a "Lemurian Quartz Dream Crystal Point Cluster with Babies," as the title implies.  Her journals and inventory tell us it is one of the twenty-six 'teaching crystals' she had brought back from Brazil in 1949.  Only it was considerably larger when it was initially inventoried than it is now, as will be explained.We know very little of this trip due to two missing ledgers.  She does tell us her guide had taken her party to a group of crystal caves in southern Brazil where these formations were recovered. We sold twenty-three of these crystals since 2007 and this is the last of the remaining three.  What we have been able to piece together from the surviving journals is the estate once had a rooftop observatory that was a Crystallography teaching classroom for the personal use of the residents.  It was where the teaching of crystals or Crystallography as they saw it, was taught.  These teachings involved Hermes Trismegistus early interactions with their, and if one can believe her notes, if you are reading this, "your ancestor's!"

 It is also apparent their studies included the geometry of crystals that measured the angles of crystal faces relative to theoretical reference axes and establishing the symmetry of the crystal.  Some of the teaching relics found were optical goniometer's.  We had no idea as to what they were at the time, but have since determined those that taught and learned here conducted scientific occult studies of crystal formations. It is really unfortunate that what amounted to what we feel may have been the most comprehensive occult and alchemic libraries ever compiled was destroyed by water, heat, light, humidity, dust, dirt, rodents, insects and microorganisms.

The observatory itself was torn from the roof by Hurricane Andrew and this crystal was broken into five pieces by the storm, this being the largest surviving piece that was relegated to the LiDiex Dream Shrine.
The remaining pieces found their way into spell boxes used in the Dream Works.Their journals indicate the LiDiex used this cluster for past life dream recall, divination and spell invocation.  They describe their being, "held aloft in both hands before being drawn into the chakra in descending order as a prelude to entering the meditative state." They describe a lengthy, silent use of intense physical and mental concentration as this would take upwards of three hours to perform. "Holding it aloft, in the lap or caressed upon a stand or pillow throne while unconsciously caressing it to the point where the crystal cuts flesh, this blood being left on the body and the stone to activate and feed it." She also notes, "these stones have side affects, usually on those not indoctrinated to our ways," as she puts it in one entry.  These side affects include disorientation, nervousness, excessive sweating and nausea.  Another entry reads, "If these discomforts arise, discontinue your use, bathe and cleanse yourself.  After a brief rest you may continue, noticing longer periods of use without discomfort with each successive session." Another entry reads, "Ones chakra must be cleansed once the stone has let blood.  Once considered, it is a stone of clear communication, allowing access to information along the timeline of our adult and childhood spirit memories often invoking laughter.  This is a beneficial, healing crystal we have utilized in stimulating intuit ability blocked with childhood memories.  These are advanced practitioner stones that communicate this knowledge to those that walk our paths.  This is not a lone use stone, as it feeds on, and generates energy among groups fostering the group energy into a single, focused force that can be controlled as it is quite cooperative."   There are numerous formations on the body and faces of the crystals in this garden cluster, with numerous pyramid faces she mentions as, "being a window" being obvious. Real or imagined, we do understand why these people were as feared respected as they were.

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It should also be noted that their crystals found their way to many areas of practice conducted throughout the estate being used in "divination, spell and individual practical magic work as well as healing." Our examination of this crystal concludes its measurements and weight of approximately 4 1/8" x 3" x 1 3/4" and weighs 7.84 oz. This crystal cluster is an ultimate spiritual teacher's crystal according to their journals. 

It also displays heat sensitive Aurora Borealis, or Rainbow inclusions while patches of dark brown chert remain attached to the quartz matrix.  These Aurora Borealis or Rainbow inclusions are caused by refracted light and the prismatic effect of a crack or inclusion, are often temperature sensitive.

And that our friends concludes the listing for this unusual artifact with an extraordinary provenance that is much nicer than the photographs are able to depict.

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We have been contacted and visited by a number of people who were interested in the items from this estate since our first batch was listed.  Among the buyers have been known psychics and practitioners.  More than one, after adorning themselves or handling their purchase, stated, "this is a woman of power!"  Many of our clients, after receiving items from this estate have reported dream contacts and other unexplained phenomenon.

Unusual, authentic Voodoo Priestess Estate piece and at a bargain price!

This is truly a rare opportunity to own anything with attributes to this estate.  The majority of this estate is now gone.  Most of what we had left, and it was considerable, has been split up and sold to a couple of private, foreign collector practitioners and will never be available to the public again.  We made the decision to do this as we have had some pretty strange visits from even stranger individuals and there have been enough unexplained phenomenon going on in the warehouse where her things were kept that many of our employees refused to go in there.

The lots offered and sold here are some of the few remaining that will ever be offered to the public.

Nice addition to any collection, altar, wardrobe or decor, displays really well.

Really doesn't get any better than this.

There are 6 photographs below to tell the rest of this tale.

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