Book Number: 21 790

Brown, Richard S.

ANCIENT ASTROLOGICAL GEMSTONES & TALISMANS

Seekers of ancient Oriental wisdom will be well rewarded by this comprehensive study of gemstones and their astrological powers. Author Richard S. Brown (aka Hrisikesananda Dasa), a graduate of the Gemological Institute of America (G.I.A.), has spent most of his life in the East, where he has devoted himself to the study of the classical sidereal astrology of ancient India, focusing particularly on the relationships between gemstones, planetary astrology, and personal talisman jewelry. He was initiated as a disciple of the late Indian Guru Swami Bhaktivedanta in 1967, and spent seven years as a monk in an ashram in India, where he learned Sanskrit and studied the original Vedic texts on planetary gemology.Those interested in the astral aspects of precious gems and how they relate to one's personal karma will find abundant food for thought in this authoritative book on “Ancient Astrological Gemstones & Talismans”, which for the first time reveals the hidden astral powers of gemstones to Western readers.

(Bangkok 1995)

160 pp., fully illus. in color, 220 x 350 mm

35.- US-Dollar

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