Gomeda True Story

[Guest guest]

HESSONITE : The following story is also drawn from my own personal experience.

In 1976,

while staying on the Indonesia island of Bali, where I was having an extensive

collection of

unique astral jewelry crafted by goldsmiths there, I was introduced to a young

America

living on this island. His nickname was "Abdula" due to his dark complexion, and

he was

known as an inveterate, chronic gambler. I informed Abdula that the gem

hessonite, when

flawless, was renowned in traditional Hindu lore as a lucky charm for gamblers,

owing to

its relationship with the fickle planet Rahu. I happened to have an

exceptionally fine

specimen of hessonite with me, which I'd recently obtained in Sri Lanka.

Intrigued with the

idea of owning a bought the stone and asked me to have it properly set in a ring

for him.

So I designed a special astral ring in pure silver, complete with the

appropriate herbal

ashes sealed into tiny tubes next to the stone, and sold this talisman to him

for $400.

When I went to deliver the ring, Abdula was deeply engaged in a serious,

high-stakes

game of backgammon with several other people. He told his fellow gamblers about

the

lucky ring, and they all scoffed at the idea of such a powerful talisman. So

right then and

there he slipped the ring onto his finger and decided to test its purported

power. To

everyone's incredulous amazement (and to my own great relief), Abdula won the

price of

the ring in the very first game, and immediately I received three new orders

from the other

players!