Lucky charms and their history

We have built thousands of temples to honor luck yet none to honor logic… Inviting luck has always been wishful thinking thorough the centuries. At all times, men have used and still use a multitude of ways in order to propitiate luck and invite it on their side. Many try to win luck’s favors through the use of charms, a very ancient habit. The first form of these holy objects was the talisman, with representations of nature and effigies of the ones wearing them. Today the faithful use holy icons or blessed objects hoping that the saints will protect them from bad luck. Others carry their good luck charm, a tradition based on popular beliefs. This is how the systematic creation of all kinds of charms and talismans began, based on the theory of Analogy: peer creates its peer, therefore luck would bring luck. The energy of a body or an object is not lost, but when leaving a body or object moves to another and changes shape and function. Also, when an object is filled with energetic charge, then it may transform to an energy transmitter and radiate energy. The object must be “energetically conductible”, as some say, meaning that it has to be made by materials capable of offering the possibility of receiving energy, as well as having the “capacity” needed to store the quantity of energy desired. Such objects are the lucky charms, talismans, and mascots. A Lucky charm is an object usually of unusual shape or color which contains different types of material such as herbs, stones, minerals, dried insects, plants, metals, crystals, colors, animal replicas, writings, holy designs, paraffin, silk, symbols, representations of scenes, numbers, zodiac signs, religious symbols, feathers, parts of animals, names, hair, nails, personal objects, incense, beads, flowers, liquids, wine, vinegar, grains, eggs, snakes, cork, candles, fabrics, oils, perfumes, fruits, spices. In charms one can also note the use of Runes, Chinese hexagrams of the I- Ching, the marks of the planets, and sacred names of each religions. A Talisman is any neck pendant made from stones or crystals tied together by the proper metal of other material such as wood, clay, leather, thread, bird feathers, teeth or fishbones, and shells. A Mascot is a real or imaginary animal which is used to bring good luck or a positive outcome of a given situation. Marcus Aurelius Fronton Educator of Marcus Aurelius