Place of Cannabis in Some Religions of the World.

Place of Cannabis in Some Religions of the World.


Cannabis legend and consumption are fundamental aspects of many of the world’s great religions. For example:



SHINTOISM (Japan)


Cannabis was used for the binding together of married couples, to drive away evil spirits, and was thought to create laughter and happiness in marriage.


HINDUISM (India)


The God Shiva is said to have brought cannabis from the Himalayas for human enjoyment and enlightenment. The Sadhu Priests travel throughout India and the world sharing chillum pipes filled with cannabis, sometimes blended with other substances.


In the Bhagavad-gita, Krishna states, I am the healing herb (Ch.9:16), while the Bhagarat-purana Fifth Canto describes hashish in explicitly sexual terms.


BUDDHISM (Tibet, India and China)


From the 5th Century B.C.E. on ritually used cannabis; initiation rites and mystical experiences were (are) common in many Chinese Buddhist sects.


Some Tibetan Buddhists and lamas (priests) consider cannabis their most holy plant. Many Buddhist traditions, writings, and beliefs indicate that Siddhartha (the Buddha) himself, used and ate nothing but hemp and its seeds for six years prior to announcing (discovering) his truths and becoming the Buddha (Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path).


ZOROASTRIANS or Magi


(Persia, circa 8th to 7th Centuries B.C. to 3rd to 4th Centuries A.D.), it is widely believed by many Christian scholars, commentators, etc., that the three Magi or Wise Men who attended the birth of Christ were cult references to the Zoroastrians.


The Zoroastrian religion was based (at least on the surface) on the entire cannabis plant, the chief religious sacrament of its priest class, and its most important medicine, (e.g., obstetrics, incense rites, anointing and christening oils), as well as lighting of fire oils in their secular world. The word magic is generally considered derived from the Zoroastrians - Magi.


The ESSENES


(Ancient Israeli sect of extreme Hebrewites, approx. 200 B.C. to 73 A.D), used hemp medicinally, as did the THERAPUTEA (Egypt), from whom we get the term therapeutic.


Both are believed by some scholars to be disciples of, or in a brotherhood with, the priests/magicians of the Zoroastrians.


EARLY JEWS


As part of their holy Friday night services in the Temple of Solomon, 60-80,000 men ritually passed around and inhaled 20,000 incense burners filled with kanabosom (cannabis), before returning home for the largest meal of the week (munchies?).







SUFIS OF ISLAM (Middle East)


Moslem mystical priests who have taught, used and extolled cannabis for divine revelation, insight and oneness with Allah, for at least the last 1,000 years.


Many Moslem and world scholars believe the mysticism of the Sufi Priests was actually that of the Zoroastrians who survived Moslem conquests of the 7th and 8th Centuries A.D. and subsequent conversion (change your religion and give up liquor or be beheaded).


COPTIC CHRISTIAN (Egypt/Ethiopia)


Some sects believe the sacred green herb of the field in the Bible (I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more Ezekiel 34:29) and the Biblical secret incenses, sweet incenses and anointing oils to be cannabis.


The RASTAFARIANS (Jamaica and elsewhere)


They are a contemporary religious sect that uses ganja as its sacred sacrament to communicate with God (Jah).

In the greek odyssey, when Odysseus lands at Scheria and is taken to the royal palace they are smoking something good while he tells them of his experiences.

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These so called religious people are in many ways more to blame for the sickness and misery we see around us than anyone else . Where were these people when they allowed our government to pass laws to make marijuana illegal , God put the marijuana plant here for our health and wellbeing and these hypocrites that claim to believe in God just sit back and allow the unjust laws to stand . Jesus called it right when he called them hypocrites .

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