"Love and laugh if you love answered, cry if you do not feel strong, the diamond does not come at all, the flowers come from manure ..." Someone I know who has left this comment "radical chic" to my post, and these words - taken from a wonderful song by Fabrizio De André, Via del Campo - I have done much thinking. Not because they are beautiful, some love it on the spot is more important than a diamond, some manure promotes growth flowers, and if a diamond is not conducive to bury anything. On the diamond, physically, not born anything. So those who love gems, according to this comment, which tend not love love, not love life. It 'a materialist. Ama something cold, immobile, material, soulless.
I (with affection while thanking the author of the comment) not share this view. I will try to convey my metaphysical conception of the gems. I will try to convey to you, my friends, my idea according to which the physical properties (color, refractive index, density, crystallographic properties, etc..) Gems are nothing but the sensitive property and brightness of very different orders.
We start from an ancient Sanskrit word, Asman: one word designated precious stone and sky, as if there was no difference between a "cold" bud and the sky where the gods live par excellence, where he shone and the sun shines by day and night bonfires were lit far, the stars, while the silver moon shone and still shines impassive. As if it were an emanation of the gems of the sky, perhaps the crystallization of the Word of God (or of a Higher Will).
Diamond. Only the name evokes a multitude of concepts and images. Diamond is a mineral, a natural crystalline substance, the transparent form of pure carbon. The diamond is superb, the king of gems, throwing flares and symbolizes the strength and purity. Accompanies the betrothal, the promise of eternal love. It is indomitable, the hardest substance known in nature. He was trained in the bowels of the earth and came to us through volcanic activity. It is also likely to be the oldest thing you've ever owned, a good approximation of about 4 billion years, certainly more than two thirds of the age of our planet.
Today diamond symbolizes wealth, durability, quality and rarity. Through the various ancient cultures, the diamond has been associated with invulnerability, to lightning, magic, healing, protection, poisoning. The word diamond comes from the greek adamas , invincible. Being able to cut a diamond (the hardest substance in nature repeat) for the ancient represented a crucial evolutionary step. I will not elaborate on what the ancient cultures associated with the diamond in terms of healing properties, talismanic. Today we tend to translate the diamond, like any gem, in terms of value. But those who study, even those who love gems, you know that it has entered into a context that goes beyond history, beyond time, the chaotic flow of events, far beyond its commercial value. The universality Gems, their inherent superiority to contingent things, the history, life, makes it a unifying element of all great traditions.
I know what many of you think, however, I sell diamonds and other gems, so I personally translate commercially gems betraying my philosophy. We were wrong. There is nothing in the world to witness the love like a diamond. The eyes of a woman who accepts the gift of a diamond from her man talk about love. The other day, a woman I had just sold a two-carat diamond, he said "she is the noblest work of the world: it makes women happy!" Nothing more true friends and my friends. So I live for love. Believe me, and give yourselves a gem from your husbands.
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