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They are considered as a tool to focus awareness and concentration in order to allow intuitive images to appear. Although some people can achieve visions from gazing into flames or even a shallow bowl of water or black ink, the clear quartz crystal ball is the most common method.
The crystal most favored by crystal gazers is a spherical or oval globe, about four inches in diameter, and preferably a genuine rock-crystal without a speck or flaw. It may be white, blue, violet, yellow, green, opalescent, or transparent traditionally based in a stand of highly polished ebony, ivory, or boxwood. The crystal and stand are inscribed with sacred characters as the floor in the room where the invocation is performed be inscribed with such characters.
Such a rock-crystal is very expensive and is many times substituted by a sphere of glass which renders good results.
In the practice, Hindus use cups of treacle or ink. Stones of pale sea green or reddish tints have been used.
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