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This is for spiritual reasons im posting this ... so many in religion nowadays are against its use. It has LONG been a part of spiritual rituals and uses, as well as medical uses documented back to egyptian times ..
Here is some dedicated to the divine feminine and truth about the original holy annointing oil and philosophers stone
Religious and spiritual use of Marijuana
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Sacramental, religious and spiritual use of cannabis refers to cannabis used in a religious or spiritual context. Cannabis has an ancient history of ritual usage as an aid to trance and has been traditionally used in a religious context throughout the Old World. Herodotus wrote about early ceremonial practices by the Scythians, thought to have occurred from the 5th to 2nd century BCE. Itinerant sadhus have used it in India for centuries, and in modern times it has been embraced by the Rastafari movement. Anthropologist Sula Benet's evidence was confirmed in 1980 by the Hebrew Institute of Jerusalem[1] that the Holy anointing oil used by the Hebrews to anoint all priests, and later Kings and Prophets, contained cannabis extracts, "kaneh bosm" (קְנֵה-בֹשֶׂם), and that it is listed as an incense tree in the original Hebrew and Aramaic texts of the Old Testament. [2][3] The Unction, Seal, laying on of hands, the Counselor, and the Holy Spirit are all often synonymous with the Holy anointing oil.[4] Many early Christian and Gnostic texts indicate that the Chrism is essential to becoming a Christian.[5][6] Some Muslims of the Sufi order have used cannabis as a tool for spiritual exploration.[citation needed]
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Bast (Kemetic/ancient Egyptian Goddess)
Seshat (Kemetic/ancient Egyptian Goddess)
If you do a search you will find Marijuana associated with many Goddesses
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There are many different Goddesses of Cannabis and Witchcraft from every culture around the world.
The most important Goddess of Cannabis Witchcraft is Bast (ancient Egyptian name). The center of worship of Bast at Per-Bastet (which the Greeks called Bubastis) in the 18th Sepat (which the Greeks called a nome) of the Nile Delta, Am Khent (which translates as the Prince of the South).
Portions of a red granite foundation are all that remain of the world’s largest temple, the main Temple of Bast on the main island of the Am Khent sepat.
Bast: Bast, or Bastet, is one of the oldest of the Kemetic neteru. The city of Per-Bastet, capital of the Am Khent sepat (or state), was dedicated to the worship of Bast. Bast is a very complex and complete Goddess. She if often described as the Goddess of cats and usually depicted as a beautiful human woman with the head of a cat. She is also the Goddess of cannabis and every cannabis plant is a physical embodiment of Bast. All followers of Am Khent Kemeticism are required by their religion to honor Bast, cats, and cannabis.
The Greeks called this same Goddess Artemis. The Temple of Artemis (or Diana) at Ephesus was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
The Romans called this Goddess Diana.
The Germans called this Goddess Easter. The famous Germanic holy day of Easter, held on the first day of the sun following the first Full Moon after the Spring (or vernal) Equinox, is a celebration of this Goddess and the return of spring. The use of baskets of grass filled with eggs and carried by a mythical rabbit are all symbols of Easter’s role as the primary Goddess of fertility.
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Goddess of Marijuana and Hemp
Bast is the Tameran (ancient Egyptian) Goddess of hemp and marijuana.
Obviously, the material on this page is controversial. One well-researched source of information is “Green Gold: The Tree of Life; Marijuana in Magic & Religion” © 1995 Chris Bennet, Lynn Osburn, and Judy Osburn; Access Unlimited, PO Boix 1900, Frazier Park, CA 93225; ISBN 0-9629872-2-0.
My brief moment of disclaimer: Although I have no doubts about the historical association between Bast and hemp, there are very knowledgeable individuals who have personal contact with the Goddess who dispute this claim. Also, just because there were historical connections and practices involving hemp and marijuana, that does NOT necessarily mean that those practices are still valid for all modern humans. Although I am highlighting the connections between Bast and hemp, I need to emphasize that Bast is first and foremost the Goddess of civilization. To see Her first (or even primarily) as the Goddess of hemp and marijuana is to miss the true nature of the Goddess.
hemp bud (PICTURE)
civilization
Bast is the Goddess of civilization. The Tamerans (ancient Egyptians) believed that paradise could be accomplished in our lives (not just in some future afterlife) and that civilization was the gift of the deities (particularly Bast, Aset [Isis], Asar [Osiris], Ptah, Djehuti [Thoth], and Seshat) for achieving paradise. The obvious connection to hemp is the general usefulness of the plant, providing fuel, lighting, fabric, rope, sails, cooking oil, nutritional meal, medication, and enlightenment. Writing and mathematics were originally viewed as magical arts, to be performed with reverence and respect on hemp and other papers (N.B. the first paper was made of papyrus, not hemp).
For more information on the many uses of hemp: DigitalHemp (OUTSIDE LINK to the DigitalHemp)
agriculture
hemp may have been among the first plants used for agricultural purposes in ancient Tamera (Egypt). We get the modern English word “bast”, meaning the fibers of the hemp plant, from Her name.
There are many Tameran (ancient Egyptian) deities that are associated with agricultural production, including Aset [Isis], Asar [Osiris], and Geb. Bast is more associated with the bounty of the harvest than the process of farming. Any of there deities would also be associated with the nutritional uses of hemp seed oil and meal.
There are many Tameran (ancient Egyptian) deities that are associated with cloth, rope, paper, and other industrial hemp products. In addition to Bast, these also include Hapi, Nwt, Het Heret [Hathor], and Aset [Isis] (Aset being particularly associated with hemp rope and sails used in ancient sailing).
Cannabis Sativa plant part diagram (PICTURE)
50 year old hemp fiber (PICTURE)
Hemp helps wildlife (PICTURE)
peasants harvesting hemp (PICTURE)
For more information on the industrial uses of hemp: DigitalHemp (OUTSIDE LINK to the DigitalHemp)
food and nutrition
hemp seed provides a highly nutritious gruel that includes more amino acids than any other plant and a highly nutritious oil that includes an array of important fatty acids.
hemp seed nutrition (PICTURE)
cornucopia (PICTURE)
For more information on the nutritional uses of hemp: DigitalHemp (OUTSIDE LINK to the DigitalHemp)
medicine
Marijuana and herbal preparations made from marijuana have a long history of use in the medical arts. Marijuana was used for easing the pain of menstrual cramps and child birth, and for assistance in both sexual activity and enlightenment. Food, sex, drugs, music, and dance all have clear magical and religious significance.
There are many Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) deities that are associated with herbal medications and healing magick, including Bast, Het Heret [Hathor], Imhotep, Sekhmet, Aset [Isis], Buto (also known as Wadjet or Edjo), Kherpi, and Tauret.
Kaya Indica (PICTURE)
enlightenment
Bast is the Goddess of enlightenment (symbolized by both cats and the rising sun). There is the obvious connection of the spiritual altered state of consciousness that some experience while under the influence of marijuana, hashish, bhang, and other herbal hemp preparations. She is Goddess of cats and the dawn, two important Tameran (ancient Egyptian) symbols for enlightenment. The Tamerans believed that enlightenment was a gift from the Goddess and was delivered to the human mind in the form of artistic inspiration. Painters, sculptors. poets, musicians, storytellers, dancers, and other members of the artistic community were at the forefront of the priesthood.
The Tamerans (ancient Egyptians) believed in a strong connection between physical pleasure and enlightenment. Food, sex, drugs, music, and dance all have clear magical and religious significance. Marijuana, as well as other plants with drug effects (especially poppies and mushrooms), was used extensively in Tameran magical and religous ceremonies and rituals.
Sacred Smoke (PICTURE)
Bast’s Breath
Bast’s Breath is the belief that the smoke of marijuana is the holy breath of the Goddess Herself. The original phrase is “Neter Sentra”, meaning incense or the “breath of the deities”.
Picture of Bast (PICTURE)
Morning Ritual
Morning Ritual was celebrated in honor of Bast and/or Aset [Isis]. This ritual involved greeting the rising sun. Most commonly done nude, it included singing and chanting, sometimes set to music (especially the shaking of the sistrum). Neter Sentra, or incense, was burned, with a combination of hemp flowers and cinnamon being the most common ingredients. Often the ritual also involved cunnilingus.
Neter Sentra
The following incense recipe is synthesized from several ancient and modern sources. Because it includes marijuana as an ingredient, you will have to mix it yourself if you live in a religious totalitarian nation where the oppressive rules of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, or other patriarchal religions are enforced in direct contradiction to the United Nations Declaration of Universal Human Rights.
Incense for Bast
6 parts marijuana buds, marijuana leaves, or hashish
4 parts frankincense
3 parts acacai gum
2 parts myrrh
1 part catnip
1 part cedar
1 part cinnamon
1/2 part juniper
2 drops civet oil
tribute to Bast (PICTURE)
hookah
The famous “hookah” started as large, intricately-carved table-like pieces of furniture, which originally served as home altars to Bast. In addition to use in home rituals such as Morning Ritual, guests would be invited around the altar to honor the Goddess with a few tokes.
There are many Tameran (ancient Egyptian) deities that are associated with the religious use of drugs, especially Sekhmet, but also Bast and Het Heret [Hathor]. It is important to note that although a wide variety of drugs were used to induce religious experiences, this was done under the control and supervision of experienced members of the priesthood and many of the most powerful drugs were limited to use only by certain members of the priesthood on rare occassions.
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Marijuana and the Goddess
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Holy pot has been smoked by Goddess worshippers since before history, and was first banned by those who sought to subjugate feminine spirituality
Part 5 of "When Smoke Gets in my I" a series on the history of cannabis and human consciousness.
In most ancient hunter-gatherer societies, women balanced the males' supply of game with their collected harvest from the surrounding wilderness. Women therefore became the first to learn the secrets of plants, and how they propagated themselves.
This knowledge led to the development of agriculture, and the evolution from the animal totems of the hunter-gatherers to images of the Great Mother, who with proper worship produced her abundant harvest in the same way that women produced children.
Cannabis is among humanity's oldest and most useful cultivated crops, and so it is not surprising to find that cannabis, in all its forms, has been intricately associated with Goddess worship in many cultures, throughout history.
Kali-Ma
The most ancient goddess still worshiped in the world today is the Indian Kali-Ma, the Mother of Life and Death. Her worship stretches back into pre-history, and is believed to predate that of her more well-known consort Shiva, the longest continually worshiped god on earth. Both Shiva and Kali are strongly associated with marijuana.
Kali is generally depicted with a girdle of human arms and a necklace of skulls, and represents the dark aspect of the goddess trinity of virgin-mother-crone. Both ancient and modern devotees of Kali partake of marijuana in various forms as a part of their worship.
Devotional ceremonies to Kali involve cannabis ingestion and ritual sex, which is directed at raising the Kundalini energy from the base of the spine up into the higher centres of the brain.
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The worship of Kali, under various names, extended into the ancient Near East, and cannabis was also used by many of the worshippers of Kali's ancient world counterparts.
Kali is the Hindu counterpart of the ferocious and sensual Canaanite goddess Anath, (part of a similar trinity with Ashera and Astarte)who is also described with "attached heads to her back, girded hands to her waist."
In ancient Germany, marijuana was used in association with Freya, the slightly tamer Kali-like goddess of Love and Death.
Scythian Hempsters
It is generally accepted that it was the horseback-riding Scythians who spread the combination of cannabis and goddess worship throughout much of the ancient world.
Readers of part two in this series (CC#2) will remember that the Amazon-like Scythian women fought alongside their warrior mates, and that these "Hell's Angels" of the ancient world were known to have used cannabis in funeral rites, doing so in veneration of their own variation of the Goddess Mother of Life and Death, Rhea Krona.
Showing cannabis' strong ties with Scythian mythology, Rhea Krona came to reap her children in death with the scythe, an agricultural tool named for its Scythian origin, and originally designed for harvesting cannabis. This scythe image has survived through patriarchal times and into our modern day, with both Father Time and the Grim Reaper still carrying Rhea Krona's ancient hemp-harvesting tool.
The Tree of Life
In a cave where an ancient urn was found that had been used by the Scythians for burning marijuana, there was also a massive felt rug, which measured 5 by 7 metres. The carpet had a border frieze with a repeated pattern of a horseman approaching the Great Goddess, who holds the Tree of Life in one hand and raises the other in welcome.
Imagery of the Goddess and the Tree of Life is also found amongst other cultures with whom the Scythians came into contact. Readers of part three in this series (CC#5) will remember that the ancient Canaanites and also Hebrews paid particular reverence to the Near Eastern Goddess Ashera, whose cult was particularly focussed around the use of marijuana.
According to the Bible itself, the ancient worshippers of Ashera included wise King Solomon and other biblical kings, as well as their wives and the daughters of Jerusalem. The Old Testament prophets often chastised them for "offering up incense" to the Queen of Heaven.
Like the imagery on the Scythian carpet, icons dedicated to Ashera also have depictions of a "sacred-tree", most likely a reference to the cannabis that her followers grew and revered, using it as a sacrament, as a food and oil source, and also using the fibres in ritual weavings.
Eve: cultural hero
Among her other titles, Ashera was known as "the Goddess of the Tree of Life", "the Divine Lady of Eden" and "the Lady of the Serpent". Ashera was often depicted as a woman holding one or more serpents in her hands. It was Ashera's serpent who advised Eve to disobey the male god's command not to partake of the sacred tree.
The historical record shows that the Old Testament version of the myth of Eve, the serpent and the sacred tree was concocted as propaganda against pre-existing Goddess cults.
Originally, the outcome of the Eden myth was not tragic, but triumphant. The serpent brought wisdom, and after the magic fruit was eaten, Adam himself became a god. What was originally involved was probably a psychedelic sacrament, like the Elusian festival in Athens, in which the worshipper ate certain hallucinogenic foods and became one with the Mother Goddess Demeter.
Like the Tree of Life, the Tree of Knowledge was a symbol associated with the Goddess. The rites associated with her worship were designed to induce a consciousness open to the revelation of divine or mystical truths. In these rites cannabis and other magical plants were used, and women officiated as priestesses.
Roman Catholic Persecution
In early Christian times, the holy cannabis oil was ingested and used by many Gnostic Christian sects, in honour of the Queen of Heaven.
With the rise of one of the more harshly ascetic and anti-female Christian sects in Rome, and the subsequent development of the Roman Catholic Church, such groups were forced out of existence, along with most pagan religions and the cult of the Great Mother.
The new Church of Rome followed their Judaic predecessors in naming Eve (the representative of all women) the "Mother of Sin", as well as demonizing magical plants.
Their violent purges of Goddess worship and magical plant use persisted into medieval times. It has been estimated that over a million female practitioners of the older Goddess religions were burned as "witches" for utilizing cannabis, mandrake, belladonna and other plants in their "flying ointments".
Even medieval French heroine Joan of Arc was accused of using cannabis, mandrake and other plants in order to hear the voices which guided her, and this eventually led the church to commit her to the flames.
Marrying your Goddess
Similar to its use in the spiritual techniques of India, medieval European occult and alchemical masters used cannabis to aid in the "Marriage of the Sun and Moon" in the individual. The Sun and Moon represent the masculine and feminine aspects of the self.
Tantrik, Zoroastrian, Gnostic, Alchemical and occult literature all refer to "marrying your Goddess", which means connecting an individual's feminine and masculine aspects together into a unified force. This theme appears over and over again in medieval occult literature. Even the Gnostic Jesus states "when you make the male and female one and the same? then you will enter the kingdom." (Gospel of Thomas)
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cannabis
Cannabis hemp is a dioecious plant (meaning that an individual plant can be male or female). Both male and female hemp plants produce good quality fiber, but the female produces the best religious quality cannabinoids.
Also known as hemp or marijuana. Illegal in many places. You may want to seek the assistance of a lawyer to assert your religious rights to divine smoke.
See Complete Guide to Cannabis Religion, which includes information on the legal requirements to be safe from prosecution in the U.S. and religious cannabis use in many of the world’s largest religions (ancient Egyptian, Asatru (Norse), Assyrian, Australian, Babylonian, Bantu, Brazilian, Buddhism, Canaanite, Celtic Druidism, Chinese, Christianity, Coptic Christianity, Dagga, Essenes, Etruscan, Gypsy (including Tarot), Hellenism (Greek), Hermeticism, Hinduism, Hottentot, Islam, Judaism, Kemetic (ancient Egyptian), Mithraism, Persian, Polynesian, Pygmy, Rastafarian, Roman, Shamanic/Tribal religion, Shintoism, Sufi Islam, Tantra, Taoism, Thai, Theraputea, Wicca, Witchcraft, Zoarastrianism, and Zulu).
History: Cannabis seeds were used for food in China by 6000 B.C.E. and for textiles in China by 4000 B.C.E.
Hemp was used for rope and sails as well as fine linens in ancient Egypt. Hemp rope was found in the eighteenth-dynasty tomb of Akhenaten (Amenophis IV) at El Amarna, including a three ply hemp cord in the hole of a stone and a large mat bound with hemp cords.
In the third century C.E. the Roman emperor Aurelian imposed a tax on Egyptian cannabis.
Cannais was first documented in Kemet (ancient Egyt) around 2000 B.C.E. to treat sore eyes and cataracts. According to Diodorus Siculus (a Sicilian Greek historian who lived from 90 to 21 B.C.E.) Egyptian women used cannabis as a medication to relieve sorrow and bad humour.
Cannabis is mentioned as a medication in the following ancient Egyptian medical texts: Ramesseum III Papyrus (1700 B.C.E.), Eber’s Papyrus (1600 B.C.E.), the Berlin Papyrus (1300 B.C.E.), and the Chester Beatty VI Papyrus (1300 B.C.E.). The Eber’s Papyrus is the oldest known complete medical textbook in existence. Most scholars believe that it is copy of a much earlier text, probably from around 3100 B.C.E.
The ancient Egyptian goddess Seshat (above in her role as the Goddess who measures) is depicted with a hemp leaf in her head dress. Pharaoh Tuthmosis III (1479 to 1425 B.C.E.) called her Sefkhet-Abwy (She of the seven points). Hemp was used to make measuring cords. Seshat was the goddess of libraries, knowledge, and geomancy, among other things. Spell 10 of the Coffin text states “Seshat opens the door of heaven for you”.
deities associated with cannabis:
Bast (Kemetic/ancient Egyptian Goddess)
Seshat (Kemetic/ancient Egyptian Goddess)
Shiva (Hindu God)
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