Psilocybin mushrooms have a profound number of associated symbols throughout human history, many of them are still popular in modern culture. From left to right we have the Lily Cross, made up of for joining lilies—the Lily being an exoteric symbol for Psilocybin. God Himself, aside from claiming the title of “I Am” what I am, claimed that He “was the Rose of Sharon, the Lily of the Valleys” -Song of Songs. The Fleur-de-lis, symbol of the Saints, goes marching back much further than France or Freedom Fries. As mentioned in ColdPlay’s “Us Against The World” - who doesn’t want to be there when the ‘lightning strikes and the Saints Go Marching In?’ The Golden Apple also is traced back to Psilocybe mushrooms as is discussed in the Greek traditions. The Circumpunct is probably the oldest universal symbol for the cap of these wondrous mushrooms, seen in ancient Hebrew art as well as Buddhism and the Mystery Religions. Jesus, for whom a great body of Christians died and were martyred was traditionally (though very privately) held to be the Eucharist “my body is real food and my blood is real drink.” Honey too was a traditional medium for preserving Psilocybin and also a profoundly common way of eating these potent mushrooms. Honey esoterically became symbolic for Wisdom. The Capstone on the back of the one dollar bill has been debated over for some time. Its design is traced back to Free Masonry and the Mystery religions, yet the original Great Pyramid is missing its Capstone and Jesus was called the Capstone… Old fashion keys were made with the cross section of a mushroom cap in their handle and Psilocybin having the power to unlock the doors to the kingdom of heaven within deserves this title too. The Scallop shell when properly represented is symbolic of these sacred capstones as well as with Venus/Love and the Morning & Evening Star. The Jewish, Arabic & East Indian “Hand of God” the Chamsa and Hamsa respectively are derived from this same Philosophers Stone.
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Amanita muscaria like Psilocybe Mushrooms and the Morning Glory Family has been given lots of names and titles. Some of the major names associated with this mushroom are “The Red Bull of the Mountain,” “The Red Dragon” which in Chinese tradition has reindeer antlers. “Santa Claus,” the “Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and via goddess worship is linked to both the constellations of Taurus & The Venus of Willendorf.”
Among the ancient East Indians, the use of Amanita muscaria arrived and took hierarchical form when the Aryans showed up in the Indus Valley. The Caste System was set up with the Brahman's, ritually using the “Red Bull” and suppressed the Dravidian peoples under their lordship. The age of Taurus is one of the twelve zodiac signs of Astro-theology. Roughly from 4000—2000 B.C., the age of Taurus saw a proliferation of Bull symbolism, from the Pharaoh Narmer who was represented as a bull to Sargon, conquer of Mesopotamia and the triple bull horn crown. The energy or spirit behind Amanita muscaria is shockingly logical, it hold no detectable emotion. Tied to the Siberian tradition of Reindeer, the Asiatic Red Dragon still has the antlers related to the custom of consuming the flesh of reindeers intoxicated with A. muscaria. Saint Nicholas, with his red and white outfit and flying reindeer surely come for this custom though they are thought to be much later. A ‘red nose’ after all is associated with “wine and spirits.” The fact that Satan, lord of the flies is called the Red Dragon in Revelation works well with very old Christian customs that depict Amanita muscaria as the forbidden tree. In Neolithic times, goddess worship became popular and among certain ‘brotherhoods’ the ‘V’ symbol is know to represent the five stages which lead us back to this pre-deluge state. The Venus of Willendorf was once painted all red and the head has the look of A. muscaria.
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The symbolism surrounding the LSD like Morning Glories is vast and many of its icons are universal. Above we have just some of these archetypal images, from left to right Hunab Ku—the Mayan deity whose symbol is the combination of the morning glories light and dark circular flower with butterfly antenna and the donative's spiral tendril. The Feathered Serpent or winged dragon, the humming bird and butterfly were more commonly Mesoamerican associations while the Unicorn was an East Indian association as the Morning Glory Argyreia nervosa. It was the Unicorn’s magical spiral horn that created this association. Uni-corn or grain of oneness. The Conch shell was universally used to symbolize the Morning Glories both because its flower looks like the spiral conch and because when you cut its “horn” off there the tendril shape appears. The snake eating its tail also crops up as an occult symbol for the Morning Glories, most like because of associations with the earliest secret societies “the Brotherhood of the Serpent” & the “Brotherhood of the Dragon.” -See Bill Cooper’s Mystery Babylon series for details. The Spiral and the Serpent are very much universally associated with the hallucinogenic Morning Glories and if in fact the “serpents head which is crushed” in Genesis is a subtle revelation that it was the spirit of Morning Glories that seduced Eve—then the circle is complete. For you will see that the Mortar and Pestle is used universally to crush the heads/seedpods of what the Aztecs called “The Green Snake Plant.”
Now you have every thingyou need to know about the three Psychedelics which most impacted Religion and by doing so History. Each Psychedelic had a variety of symbolic representations which were used to create a more or less universal symbolic language. Those who spoke the language either belonged to the Mystery Schools (a shady group), Priests (such as in ancient Israel) or were initiated by these Sacraments themselves. Now we begin the journey of examining human history in light of this knowledge to the ends that we can determine what the nature of these spiritual tools by their teachers and culture values. Surely someone will bring up cultural relativism here, but I assure you human motives are the same world wide. Heart's cut out on alters are not a good sign. Let's begin with the Mesoamerican histories...
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