#11 - East Indian Religion & Sacraments

40,000 years ago mankind gathered the bluing Psilocybin mushrooms from the tropical climate of India—As a ‘long lasting food’ and the wealth of cattle.  Naturally enough, these mushrooms sprang up in and around cow pastures.  At around 2,000 BC Nordic Tribes of Aryan’s invaded the Indus Valley bring with them the “Red Bull of the Mountain.”  Soma, originally Psilocybin was now Soma—Amanita muscaria.  The original Soma was renamed Indu by the mixed culture.  Later a vine crept into the mix, Argyreia nervosa of the Morning Glory Family—Symbolized again as the universal  Conch Shell.  “Ye will not find him who produced these creatures: another thing hath risen up among you.  Enwrapt in misty cloud, with lips that stammer, hymn-chanters wander and are discontented” (Moore, 1957:18).  The lotus symbol at left with the circumpunct set in its center is a highly stylized East Indian symbol for the Psilocybin mushroom—often it is shown held aloft in the right hand of various Hindu deities.  The morphine like substance found in certain lilies was also very likely to have been known by these peoples.

The start of East Indian religion traditionally stems from the Aryan invasion of the Indus Valley.  However, prior to the arrival of the Aryans a civilized people existed in the Indus valley called the Dravidians or Harappens.  This society had developed stone buildings, cities, plumbing and the agricultural techniques of farming.  These dark skinned people migrated into the Indus Valley around 4000 BC as Hunters and Gathers (a timeline in congruent with Noah’s flood 3200BC—did the Flood not extend to India or is the date of migration off?) .  Above are some of the clay seals and sculptures these people created.  At the top left is a Harappen clay seal of an elephant, and a symbol of what looks like an upside down Psilocybe cubensis as yet unopened is set.  Surprisingly, Cubensis and other Psilocybin containing mushrooms do grow on elephant dung.  Below this seal another elephant is displayed with images of upright flying-fish.  It may well be that the ‘civilizer’ of Samarian culture was also the teacher of the early Harappen culture.  Baskets sit before other species on whose dung grow these sacred mushrooms.  A Harappen “Priest-King” wares a cow hide garment, perhaps the ‘holiness’ ascribed to cattle in India today originally came from the dependable mushrooms common to the bovine.  Aside from cattle and elephants, rhino's and other large grass grazers produce the means by which Psilocybin grows.  The Dream Catcher-like symbol is another common hieroglyph of these seals and looks very much like the underside of a mushroom.

The top right seal is an early Harappen design of a cattle-like creature, above it resides as picturesque a representation of a Psilocybin mushroom as can be expected of this clay medium.  Given the date of four thousand years back into antiquity and the medium of clay impressionism it is not bad anyway.  At top center we have clay devotees much like the Sumerian statues, showing a cultural continuance perhaps.   To the right of the devotees a Harappen seal showing a three ungulate or herbivore. All three produce dung on which Psilocybes thrive.  At lower center a shaman with three faces sits in cosmic meditation, an eaten apple core supports him while three psilocybin producing herbivores: water buffalo, rhino and elephant symbolically surround him.  His head is crowned with water buffalo horns and a mushroom-like effigy emerges from its center while a lion roars next to him.  The lion (tiger) represents the ‘fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom.’  No one enters into the Sacrament without this fear, it is the circumstantial reverence one has when ‘laying down ones life -in order to save it.’  The tiger on the left also has a basket (indicating ‘to gather’) set in front of it, aligning it with the herbivores.  Tigers like lions were universally associated with the God encountered thru Psilocybin, causing the “Overcomer” to become ’lionized.’  By extension the tiger on the right, also of Harappen creation, has been given a pair of cattle horns to point out this association.  Above the lion is a simplified geometric cap and what looks like a primitive sift—for juicing.  These sifts or strainers were consistently developed in Harappen seals.

Amanita muscaria has unique properties in that it commonly removes fear and the emotion of empathy from its practitioners range of emotions.  However it requires a good deal of knowledge to prepare it.  Some believe that Amanita muscaria gathered under Birch trees does not have the toxic qualities causing nausea, vomiting and delirium.  Specifically, that these mushrooms when found growing on Pine trees absorb the turpentine qualities common to Pines.  Others stress that one must roast or otherwise dry Amanita muscaria to transform the active ingredient from one state to another specifically from muscimol to ibotenic acid.  Which ever the case, and both may be true—the Veda’s make no reference to fire roasting or drying the Aryan Soma but rather talk about pressing the plants juice out in wooden vats with filters arguing for the Birch vs. Pine hypothesis.  Above we see the Aryan Soma or Red Bull with the wooden bowl and spotted mushroom cap turned upside down.  The reason for not making it more obvious, but for turning the mushroom upside down and conjoining it with the crushing or pounding stike and wooden bowl is a case of security through obscurity.  Only those with ‘eyes to see’ will know what the seal says.  A flying fish is seen over the left bulls head, harking back to Oannes or the “Man Teaching Fish” and further demonstrating that Psychedelic State was the traditional college where one might receive a higher education.

 

The foundation of East Indian religion is tradition is originally thought to have stemmed from the Aryan invasion of the Indus Valley.  However, this is clearly inaccurate as the Harappen society was highly developed prior to the arrival of the Aryan influx.  If anything the Aryan’s brought a more restrictive society into being, dominated by the Brahmans.  As a classed society it was predominantly controlled by the white skinned Aryan’s who had the advantage of advanced knowledge in warfare with horse driven chariots and iron weapons.  A knowledge which they gathered by means all too transparent now.  The above clay seal shows the bull and the spotted cap, stem and annulus (skirt-like ring on the stalk).  The pressing stick and wooden bowl are also present and have been turned right side up for closer inspection.  Above we see the mountain mushroom with stick, the crushing bowl with stick inserted, the filter and a more modern wooden bowl with pressing stick.  This is the root of the Hindu religion from which the Caste System was born and a bitter root it is indeed.

In rare cases, Hindu court paintings showed a reversal of the Caste System, rather than knowledge, law and order going from the top down it came from the bottom up.  India today is famous for its seeks and ascetics, much as it was in the days of the Aryan take over of the Indus Valley.  The above court painting shows two well to do white skinned Brahmins sitting as students outside the golden hut of a Yogi.  The Yogi’s skin is blue-grey and the dark clouds above display stylized lightning bolts.  The Yogi’s skin color tells us that he has used the naturally bluing Psilocybin mushrooms to transform his consciousness.  These devotees must have impressed their teacher for he shared with them the ‘key to enlightenment.’  Back at their own plush houses these Brahmin’s are shown with deep blue skin themselves and one extends a golden capped mushroom to his ‘enlightenment curious’ partner.  See ColdPlay’s song “Yes.” In Clark Heinrich’s ‘praise to Amanita muscaria’ - titled “Strange Fruit” he records: “Yoga philosophy mentions drug-plants as one of the valid means of attaining Siddhi, or supernatural power obtained from the practice of Samadhi.”

In ancient times the Prophets were called Seers, much is recorded about them in the earliest written religious texts.  It is widely believed that “the seers realized that true religion comprehends all religions, so that “God is one but men call him by many names.”  To this we add that the pre deluge peoples “knew God but did not count Him as such.”  While others may mistake the preternatural for the supernatural or less caustically but still in error—honor a supernatural being from God (Angel) as God Himself.  But now lets look at what the Seers say about divinity in the Vedas:

To Soma Pavamana [Self-Purifying Soma]

4. Splendid by Law! declaring Law, truth-speaking, truthful in thy works, Enouncing faith, king Soma!...

To Vayu

Whatever sin is found in me, whatever evil I have wrought, If I have lied or falsely sworn, Waters, remove it far from me.

To Indra

Eternal Law hath varied food that strengthens; thought of eternal law removes transgressions.

By holy law long lasting food they bring us; by holy law have cows come to our worship.

Men have abstained from pouring juice; they count not Indra as a god.

It is note worth to take measure of the focus on truthfulness, Law (you can’t have civilization without it), the removal of sin/transgressions, and the hint that Eternal Law has varied foods…  True also is the fact that Indra was a bluing god.  Above at left Vishnu holds what appears to be the Sacrament Psilocybin in his right hand.  For more on the Right Handed Path vs. the Left Handed Path see Neil Finn's "Left Hand" Produced by Mushroom Records.

As time passed and Hindu culture grew into a much larger and necessarily more structured society. The symbolic representation of Psilocybin and the Morning Glory became more stylized.  Above at left is a very old stature of Vishnu in which the Psilocybin mushroom can be fairly clearly seen to have a proper likeness to its natural state.  The Morning Glory is also more clearly represented as the ‘question mark’ tendril; combining elements of the Conch Shell with the coiled serpent.  The more modern metal statue of Vishnu on the right shows a highly stylized lily or lotus wheel representing the Psilocybe mushrooms while the Serpent plant is now only a ‘tri-flowered question mark’ signifying the left handed path.  Above on the left this stylized Morning Glory’s flowers are now represented as flames.  Later in a variation of the Buddhist traditions you will see these flaming flower depicted on the third eye or above the head of certain Buddha’s with the tendril within it...

 

Above a very modern image of Vishnu continues the tradition of showing the Psychedelic name plants in their highly stylized forms.  The wheel in the top right hand still represents Psilocybe but now it’s center shows the crown of the Poppy.  While the lower right hand displays the stem and Poppy capsule.  The left hand hold up the Morning Glory stylized Conch Shell and below that the morphine containing pink lily (much like the blue lily of the Nile: Nymphaea Caerulea). In some lilies the relevant narcotic-like part appears to be the root, in others the stalk, and in others the flower itself.  Speaking in thhe common tongue we are looking at the names of Angels: The Angel of the Lord (Psilocybin), Gabriel (Opium Poppy & Lily?), and Lucifer (Morning Glory).  

“Man winneth faith by yearnings of the heart, and opulence by faith.”

-Tenth Veda x.151 (Griffith)

So concludes our study of the East India where the Right Handed and Left Handed Paths have left their mark...  Next we will look at the lesser explored cultures of to the West of India and North of Egypt...

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# 10 - Egyptian History & the Psychedelic Religions

As we step into Egyptian history we are faced with a challenge; some research suggests that Egyptian history was pre-deluge in origin.  Still, as with this example of the Narmer plate, we don’t know exactly how old it is.  As such it seems better to except the possibility of Egypt’s history being older than 3,200 B.C.  Anyway, let’s begin with the Bull,  classically associated with Amanita muscaria—Known to the ancient East Indians as “The Red Bull of the Mountain.”  Narmer is considered to be the first Pharaoh of united Egypt.  Here we see him marching with the crown of the South—The symbol of the Morning Glory—its spiral tendril so carefully depicted on Xochipilli the Aztec statue deciphered by the Harvard Botinist Richard E. Shultez.  Hence, Xochipilli has become the Rosetta Stone of Psychedelics.  Notice the Egyptians taming of the long necked lions…  Lions and lionization are closely linked to Psilocybin as we say in the Olmec culture (prior to the blending).  In front of Narmer walks a “long haired shaman” with “mushrooms hanging from his neck” as Adrian Morgan points out in Toads and Toadstools.  There are other symbols tied into this early Pharaoh’s record of conquest, but for now the Bull, the Lions, and the Spiral Tendril will foot the bill so to speak.

 

Khufu (2589-2566 BC) was the 4th Dynasty (2613-2498) Pharaoh who is claimed to have been the builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Originally, the Great Pyramid stood 481 feet (146.6 m) tall. Although commonly called Cheops (and also Suphis) because of the late Greek influence on Egypt, the name Khufu is the original ancient Egyptian name for this king as demonstrated by his own cartouche (where was the cartouche found?  The author did not say) Khufu, seems to have reigned for approximately 24 years.

Although the Great pyramid has such fame, little is actually known about its builder, Khufu. Ironically, only a very small statue of 9 cm has been found depicting this historic ruler. This statue, pictured above, was not found in Giza near the pyramid, but was found to the south at the Temple of Osiris at Abydos, the ancient necropolis...

Why, if Khufu of the Egyptians was the builder of the Great Pyramid is there only one tiny statue of him left to us from history? 

Here is what scholars say about the antiquity of the Great Pyramid:

“Other researchers have observed radio carbon dating that places the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx at much older, pre-deluge dates.  In the words of one researcher: “the builders were either the Ice Age Civilization of 36,525 to 11,600 years ago, or, at the latest,  a part of a global Early Human Civilization that broke up about 6,000 years ago, and that the Giza Sphinx and Pyramids were already built about 5,100 years ago when Menes reunited Lower Egypt, including Giza, with Southern Upper Egypt.

 Mark Lehner also says "... Since most of the outer casing [of the Great Pyramid] is missing what you see now  is the step-like structure of the core.... they didn't join the [core] stones very accurately.

      ... I noticed that in the interstices between the stones and in this mortar was embedded organic material, like charcoal, probably from the fire that they used to heat the gypsum in order to make the mortar. ...we saw in many places ... fragments of tools, bits of pottery ... characteristic of the Old Kingdom. ... we did a first [radiocarbon dating] run in 1984 ... of some 70 samples from a whole selection of pyramids of the Old Kingdom ... getting dates ... that were on the average 374 years too old for the Cambridge Ancient History ... dates [such as 2550 BC for Khufu]."

 Mark Lehner in 1986 said (Hancock and Bauval, Message of the Sphinx, Crown 1996, p. 307) that 15 mortar samples from the Great Pyramid were dated by radioactivity at ... dates [that] run from 3809 BC to 2869 BC ... significantly earlier than the best Egyptological date for Khufu ... almost like a Bell curve ... when you cut it down the middle ... 400 to 450 years too early ..."

 In my opinion, when Menes reunited Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt, with a capital in the Abydos-Luxor-Thebes region, around 5,100 years ago, the Southern Upper Egyptians (whose culture was more advanced technologically in areas from copper working to constructing walled cities) came into control of the Giza area and its preexisting Pyramids and Sphinx. “

 

The discovery of this boat buried at the base of the great pyramid suggests what author Noah Hutchings states in his book “The Great Pyramid—Prophecy in Stone.”  Namely that one of the two pillars erected by the sons of Seth before the flood was the Pyramid itself.  It is recorded in Scripture that one monument of clay and one of fire was built to the survivors of God’s cleansing.  The visionaries of Seth's line saw the destruction of the world by either fire or flood—unable to decide which they built a monument of clay and one of stone.  Stone survives water while clay withstands fire…  A boat buried at the base of the Great Pyramid of stone could indicate an awareness that only a boat could survive the deluge. 

Since this Pyramid stands on the old border that divided Lower and Upper Egypt it could well have been a standing monument when the Egyptians first arrived.  One thing is for certain, no Egyptians ever has built a monument of equal caliber to it.  The Prophet records the following in reference to it:

Ah Lord God! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee…  Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day –Jeremiah 32:17,20

“During the first dynasty Egypt was divided into two kingdoms.  Because of its great antiquity, no one knows the exact date the first Egyptian dynasty began.  The twelfth dynasty was already established, according to the Egyptian historian Manetho, in 2000 B.C., at the time of Abraham.  Some place the first dynasty as far back as 4000 B.C., long before the flood.  However, according to Dr. Zaki Y. Saad, noted scholar of Egyptian history, the first dynasty began in about 3200 B.C.  King Aha of the first dynasty ruled over Upper Egypt and Queen Neithetep ruled over Lower Egypt.

 

The Pharonic ruler of Egypt was crowned with either the Upper, Lower or both the Double crown of both—depending on where he ruled.  The double crown of ancient Egyptians was generally referred to it as sekhemti, the “Two Powerful Ones.”   The Upper Crown, Psilocybin grew in the Marshes of the Goshen Valley.  The Lower Crown or Morning Glory was traded for in the South of Egypt—the Crown reflecting its tendrils.  Speaking of the crowns or “Stones of Pharaoh,” a study on contrast between the right handed path and the left handed path is found in Sting’s “Why Should I Cry For You.” - If North be true…

Genesis chapter 3:22 states “Then the LORD God said “Behold the man has become like one of us to know good and evil and now lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life let us cast him out of the garden…” Interesting that the Yale University society “Skull & Bones” has the number 322 upon its door.  Here we see the ancient tradition of the Brahmin, Pharaoh and Cesar, in this case it is an Egyptian Queen sitting down to eat of Amanita muscaria in order to gain god-like knowledge by which “Care” or empathy is put to death…  The ancients now doubt believed that by eating of this bright red “fruit” they would, as the beguiling serpent had told Eve—gain eternal life and knowledge unto apotheosis…  That is godhood and eternal life.  Notice the icon showing the Ankh and the Amanita muscaria called the “Was” scepter.  

 

Ah the “Was” Scepter...  There was a time when the “Was” was considered all that.  “Was” was the Egyptian name for the power staff of pharaoh, as you can see it has gills and a mushroom head and body.  the open bulbous bottom of the staff is typical of Amanita muscaria.  The “Was” is Amanita muscaria, that Tree of Knowledge which caused our fall into ego and death.  Amanita muscaria has close ties with Beelzebub, the Lord of Fly's—and this mushroom is also called Fly Agaric.  Amanita muscaria had all the stop-sign warning colors one would need to know not to eat it—Yet as Genesis chapter 3:22 states “Then the LORD God said “Behold the man has become like one of Us to know good and evil And now lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of Life…” Psilocybin is the other tree, is it therefore the Ankh?  Tree of Life depicted as the sign of life?  Perhaps… The ankh has been linked to the “bee plant” which as seen above often has the “bread” symbol with it.

Genesis 4:26 states that “after the birth of Seth and once Seth had a child, men began to call on the name of God again.”  Perhaps this was a ‘lets wait and see if those mushrooms make Seth’s child deformed.’  

According to ancient Egyptian legend nomadic tribes surrounding Egypt worship Seth, Osiris “evil” brother.  Algerian Rock art showing “Bee Shaman” maybe linked to his worship.  The Seth Animal is a composite of  a dog body, anteater head and a tell tale sign for tail.  Egyptian deities also had a secret or hidden worship in which powerful psychoactive Sacraments were used.  The Seth Animal’s arrow tail is meant to bring up ideas about the other half of the arrow, the pointed end.  Golden arrows springing from the ground is as clear a match for Psilocybin as those who have eyes to see need.  It is interesting how pastoral mankind (Able?) vanished suddenly, but agricultural Egypt (Cain?) kept going… While the line of Seth lingered on until the Flood (Greek art depicted Seth line as Centaurs). Notice the arrow-tail on the Seth Animal, it too will continue, having first been seen in the ancient stone carvings of India...  It will appear again when Rome converts to Christianity…  

The story of the death of Osiris the primary deity of Egypt for much of its history is a very large part of Occult history and Mystery School Religion - its Symbolism reveals much.  Osiris was tricked into climbing into a coffin by 72 servants of Set, he was then drowned in the Nile river.  His wife Isis then found him in a Cyprus tree in Babalos (from where the world Bible comes).  Set or Seth however then cut the body of Osiris into 14 parts and dispersed them.  Nimrod, who stood against the God of Noah was himself killed and cut into 14 pieces by his uncle who saw how Nimrod lay with his own mother and set himself up as king over the people against the God of Noah.

Isis found all but one of the 14 pieces of Osiris—the phallus which as eaten by the Oxythynchus fish.  Interesting that this fish is given the qualities of an ant eater like the Seth Animal symbolic of the deity Set.  Now Isis reinstituted the body of Osiris with the 13 pieces she finds and designs a phallus of gold to replace the missing piece.  While the Oxyrhynchus fish is crowned with the symbol of Hathor—cow horns with the solar disk set in it (it is from cows that the heavenly bread comes forth - thus the association of Oxythynchus with Hathor.

Among the Mason’s, there is a riddle used to draw fellow craft’s men up through their ranks.  It is the “Lost Word of Freemasonry” which is used like a carrot to entice the student of the Mystery Schools up the latter of degrees.  This Lost Word is sometimes called the Name of God…  Yet the “Royal Secret” is never actually imparted to the neophyte as it was lost to them;  remaining  only as golden images like this Egyptian one showing the phallus of Osiris, or the Obelisk and also the Circumpunct.

Meanwhile, Herodotus the Father of History records that this same Hercules (Nimrod), whose name means for the glory of Hera— “is an ancient god” known first by the Egyptians and also having temples in Tyre that extended back “two thousand three hundred years” to the founding of the city of Tyre of Phoenicia.  Since we know that Herodotus lived around 450 BC we can extend that period to the founding of Tyre at around 2750 BC about 250 years after the Noahdic Flood.  This would place Hercules (Latin) or Herakles (Greek) at about the time of  Nimrod.

 

Egyptian men and women in temple and tomb artwork were commonly displayed with the Psilocybin mushroom upon their heads.  Often the psychotropic Blue Lilly was also displayed, here we see the aphrodisiac fruit of  Mandrake in yellow which was also a popular spiritual tool mentioned by Solomon in the Bible.  The symbolic caps that the Bemushroomed attendants ware is the true ‘sun-kissed’ fruit atop their heads—it isn’t an acid.  ColdPlay's “Politik” describes this glowing state where love is poured out on us… While their song “Strawberry Swing” describes the strait line “perfect day” of LSD…  Elsewhere the band records “if you love— the swing is broken…”  Strawberries have become synonymous with Acid/LSD in po-music culture—see “Strawberry Fields Forever.”  Is it the acid content - by association or the bejeweled nature of the straw-berry? Who knows???

 

The “wax cones” with their golden sun corona streaming down crown this Egyptian couples head too.  These ‘Cap Stones’ are the Egyptian way of saying “we are under the spirit of the Sacrament Psilocybin.”  Psilocybin has the additionally rare attribute of being one of the few Sacraments that has universally been given a set of eyes—denoting consciousness.  The Egyptian woman and the funeral flowers at center show these windows of the soul.  Besides Psilocybin, Blue Lilly and Mandrakes are also displayed above.  

This completes our study of Egypt and the tracing of the silver lining of Religion through this part of history.  Keep in mind the things you have learned as they will find niches all along the historical latter we are ascending and descending...  Next time we go to the East (the Mason's will like that) and India!

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