Theos-Talk Archives (August 1998 Message tt00315)

>From Isis Unveiled
p589

"The cornerstone of MAGIC is an intimate practical knowledge of magnetism
and electricity, their qualities, correlations, and potencies. Especially
necessary is a familiarity with their effects in and upon the animal
kingdom and man. There are occult properties in many other minerals,
equally strange with that of the lodestone, which all practicioners must
know, and of which so called exact science is wholly ignorant. Plants also
have like mystical properties in a most wonderful degree, and the secrets
of the herbs of dreams and enchantments are only lost to European science
and, useless to say, are unknown to it, except in a few marked instances,
such as opium and hashish. Yet, the physical effects of even these few upon
the human system are regarded as evidences of a temporary mental disorder.
the women of Thessaly and Epirus, the female heirophants of the rites of
Sabazius, did not carry their secrets away with the downfall of their
sanctuaries. They are still preserved, and those who are aware of the
nature of Soma, know the properties of other plants as well"

HPB

Here are some of those plants and herbs described above:
Phalaris Arundinacea (Reed Canary Grass) - Dimethyltryptamine DMT can be
extracted and smoked or combined with an MAOI and taken orally.
Psilocybin Cubensis, Stropharia Cubensis, Amarita Muscara ( Mushrooms)
Hawaiian Woodrose , Virola cuspidata, Virola theodora, Trichocereus pachanoi,
Tetrapteris methystica, Syrian Rue, Sophora secundiflora, sassafras,,
Psychotria viridis, Myristica Fragrans (Nutmeg), Mimosa Hostilis, mescaline,
and so on

Before you go out and try any of these you should read some of the following-

The Human encounter with death - Stanisalv Grof & Joan Halifax
Hallucinogenic Plants - Richard Evans
Island , the Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley
Joyous Cosmology - Alan Watts
the Politics of Ecstacy - Timothy Leary
On the Evolutionary Significance of Psychadelics - Ralph Metzner
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THE MAGICAL AND RITUAL USE OF HERBS: A MAGICKAL TEXT ON LEGAL HIGHS -
Richard Alan Miller (Organisation for the advancement of Knowledge)
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the Private Sea- LSD and the search for GOD - William Braden

and the grand-daddy of them all RG VEDA

Did you know that SOMA is so precious to some tribes that they actually
drink the urine of people that consume it to get a second dosage. The urine
of some animals that consume the mushrooms is also collected for consumption.

i hope I haven't given away to many of the ES's dirty little secrets.

gNOSis