The Energy of Conscience concentrated in the largest Gemstone in history

Diamond and marble are interlocking mosaics of carbonate crystals which give them their power and attraction. But while diamond is an allotrope of carbon, marble is a metaphoric rock composed of recrystallized carbon minerals. It’s name has come from Ancient Greece and translates literally as ‘crystalline rock’ or ‘shining stone’.

Since Antiquity people associate special powers with precious and semi-precious stones. The purity of white marble is said to be especially powerful for meditation and the healing of injured souls. The Cloak, with its interior walls cut like diamonds, allows for the first time, visitors to experience this power in a sculpture.

The concentration of energy is reinforced by the octagonal shape of the lower plinth and the four meridians meeting at the center. The octagonal form was used in many of the great buildings of old, since the Tower of the Winds in Athens 300 B.C., among them we see it in Pagodas, China; the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem; the Palatine Chapel in Aachen; and Castel del Monte in Sicilia.

Each Meridian crossing the Cloak of Conscience bears at each end the name of a person who has been a Guiding Light of Humanity in their lifetime. Therefore each Meridian symbolizes the energy of a particular aspect of Conscience.

Each axis represents the following:
- Confucius / Rumi: Harmony and Kindness
- San Francesco / John Paul II: Humility and Compassion
- Michelangelo / W. A. Mozart: Beauty and Justice
- Mahatma Gandhi / Albert Einstein: Truth and Peace

The Meridians meet in the center of the Cloak where a subtly illuminated crystal ball creates an atmosphere of comfort and well-being, the feeling of universal conscience.
The flowing tissue of the exterior shows a garment used in many different cultures. Never have such dramatic folds been created on such a large scale. The Cloak radiates weariness and contemplation, and envelopes us in its warmth, love and compassion.

These days our conscience wishes for peace when we look at developments in the Arab world. Mahatma Gandhi¡¦s teachings of conflict resolution without violence, perfected through the Einstein Institute, the Serbian Otpor, and others, prove the efficiency of his ways; Just as they prove failure when violence is used to resolve differences, even in defense.

It is one of the primary teachings of Gandhi that you cannot defeat violence and cruelty for as long as you keep them in your own armoury. ‘Satyagraha – the Truth Force’ allows the breaking of suppressive laws, but disallows violence. Einstein shared this view completely, as shown in his essay ‘My Life as I see it’.

The artist Anna Chromy, the creator of the Cloak, was only able to meet one of the eight ‘Guiding Lights’ in person: John Paul II, and it changed her life.

It occurred on May 15th 2002. The Archbishop of the City of Salzburg in Austria had commissioned Anna a sculpture for the 82nd anniversary of the Holy Father. On this day they had arrived together at the Papal audience in Saint Peters square to present the ‘Heart of the World’ to John Paul II.

While sitting there on the podium, under the blaring sun of Rome, waiting for her turn to kneel in front of the Holy Father, Anna had enough time to interiorize this image of a seated person in a white Cloak, bent from his suffering. When it was finally her turn she almost fainted. She felt that she had finally encountered the Conscience of the World.

John Paul II thanked her in a frail voice for this wonderful gift, and read aloud the words of Ezekiel inscribed on the plinth of the sculpture ‘Throw away your Heart of Stone, and I will give you a Heart in Flesh’, a universal appeal for compassion. From this day the image of the white Cloak would never leave our sculptress, and it resurfaced materially a few years later in her Cloak of Conscience.

Today, the Conscience these exemplary human beings left behind continues to radiate around the world. Perhaps now their energy is most concentrated at the Cloak. Every visitor is able to experience it according to their own emotional and intellectual state and to achieve a state of enlightenment where they perceive everything as unity; – the Cloak of Conscience turned the Philosopher’s Stone.

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