APPENDIX
The traditional legend of Lucifer’s Lost EmeraldStory, comment and sources from Crystal Legends by Moyra Caldecott, available from Mushroom eBooks.
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There was once an archangel called Lucifer, Light Bringer, Star of the Morning. He walked in the City of Heaven as a prince, a favourite of the King of Kings, God of Gods. He was the fairest of the archangels, his raiment fine and rich, the diadem around his forehead studded with precious gems. In the centre was an emerald of the same substance as the emerald rainbow that spanned the sky above the throne of the King of Kings and reflected in the sea of crystal beneath the throne.
It was through this emerald, as through a window in the mind, that Lucifer saw the full glory of God, and we, many regions and realms below the He
