tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17688131070617499382024-03-13T03:27:08.727-07:00The Green LionPantagruelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01611889523250839127noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1768813107061749938.post-2194764157693827462009-08-04T07:26:00.001-07:002014-10-28T16:54:56.525-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It will be questioned perhaps by the envious to what purpose these sheets are
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Three things
suffice for the work: a white smoke, which is water; a green Lion, which is the
ore of Hermes, and a fetid water... The stone, known from the chapters of
books, is white smoke and water.<br />
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Michael Maier<br />
<i>Atalanta Fugiens<br />
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</i>Of this self-same body, which is the matter of the Stone, three things are
chiefly said; that it is a green Lion, a stinking Gum, and a white Fume...
Having twelve pounds of Green Lion thus brought into gum, thou mayst believe...<br />
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Wolf is
the antimony; the Lion, however, the pure gold... The philosophers have written
entire books about it. Especially in the Rosarium it is often said that there
are three things that do the work, Leo viridis (Green Lion), aqua foetida
(evil-smelling water), and fumus albus (white steam).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Leo Viridis- is the Ore of Hermes... The green is that which is perfect upon
the stone, and can easily be made into gold. All growing things are green, as
also our stone. It is called a plant. The stone cannot be prepared without
green... Gold, according to some opinions.<br />
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<i>Lexicon of Alchemy</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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substance the philosophers called immature or unripe gold, or the
"Green" Lion... Having said this, because he had proved it, he called
the first substance "green lion" and "unripe gold," for so
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">You will see
marvelous signs of this Green Lion, such as could be bought by no treasures of
the Roman Leo. Happy he who has found it and learned to use it as a treasure!<br />
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<i>The Treasure of Treasures</i><br />
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Beware therefore of many, and hold thee to one thing. This one thing is naught
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">First in our
green Lion is had the true matter and of what colour it is, and is called Adrop
or Azocke, Duenech.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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unbound, from Earthly Chains set free,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Have wak'd to read your several colours, sir,<br />
Of the pale citron, the green lion, the crow,<br />
The peacock's tail, the plumed swan…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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A green Gum called our green Lyon, which Gum dry well, yet beware thou not burn
his Flowers nor destroy his greenness.<br />
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Wherefore they being silent, Ripley the first, and indeed the only man of all,
declares to us, that the key of all the more secret chemy lies in the milk and
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And therefore, to be more short, when all the parts of our stone, are thus
gathered together, it appears plainly enough, what is our mercury, our sulphur,
our alchemic body, our ferment, our dissolvent, our green lion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">By which
Green Lion another saith, "All Philosophers understand Green Gold,
multiplicable, spermatick, and not yet Perfected by Nature; or Assa Foetida,
because in the very first of this Operation or Distillation, a white Fume with
a stinking smell exhales" <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I have
ventured to call the Green Lion of Ripley the Key of the Work, because his
Expositor has as good as called it so. "Learn then," says he,
"to know this Green Lion, and its Preparation, which is all in all in the
Art; it's the only Knot; untye it, and you are as good as Master: For whatever
then remains, is but to know the outward Regimen of the Fire, for to help on
Nature's Internal Work"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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But they said I could not be a full colleague so long as I did not know their
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Then the
sowing of the field can take place, and you obtain the Mineral Stone, and the
Green Lion that imbibes so much of its own spirit.<br />
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<i>The Glory of the World</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Mercury is
our doorkeeper, our balm, our honey, oil, urine, may-dew, mother, egg, secret furnace,
oven, true fire, venomous Dragon, Theriac, ardent wine, Green Lion, Bird of
Hermes, Goose of Hermogenes, two-edged sword in the hand of the Cherub the Tree
of Life, etc.; it is our true, secret vessel, and the Garden of the Sages in
which our Sun rises and sets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Philalethes<br />
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Perfect bodies we naturally calcine with the first, without adding any impure
body but one commonly called by philosophers the green lion, and this is the
medium for perfectly combining the tinctures of the Sun and Moon.<br />
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And now it is known in Metallic Mysteries, that at the very Entrance, we meet
the enigma of the Lion of Green growth, which we call the Green Lion; which, I
pray thee, do not think is so-called, from any other Cause but its Colour.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Metals, as
above stated, contain a salt, out of which fire and the sagacity of the artist
can educe a water, which the Sages call Mercurial water, the Virgin's milk,
Lunaria, May dew, the Green Lion, the Dragon, the Fire of the Sages... This is
the hidden and incomparable treasure of all the Sages, which none can obtain
except through the teachings of a Master, or by revelation of God, who, in His
goodness makes it known to whom He will.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Moreover the Lion is said to be green in the threefold aspect. First in respect
of his attractive power, for here the Central Sun is like to the Celestial Sun
and makes the world flourishing and green. Secondly, it is called the green Lion,
because as yet the Gold is incomplete, nor fixed in any body, and therefore is
called living Gold. Thirdly, it is called a Lion by reason of its very great
strength, reference being had to the Animal Lion, for as all beasts obey the
lion, so all metallic bodies do give place to this living Gold.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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You have then nourished and dissolved the true lion with the blood of the green
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<i>The Golden Tripod</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The aforesaid Green Lion's Blood is the true Philosopher's Oil, above all aromas,
always fixed and unalterable in the fire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">With the
third which is a permanent incombustible unctuous humidity, our
fire natural, Hermes tree is burnt to ashes... This menstrue [brought
out of our earth by the water] is the blood of the green Lyon not of
Vitriol, as dame Venus [that water] can tell you if you ask her in the
beginning of the work. For this secret is hid by all
Philosophers... After I knew the true matter I studied five years before
I could extract out of the stone its precious juice by reason I knew not
the secret fire of the sages which makes to flow out of this Plant
which is dry in appearance, a water which wets not the hands which by the
magical union of the dry water of the sea of the sages resolves it self
into a viscous water, a mercurial liquor which is the principle the
foundation & the Key of our art.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If of love,
"Hei mihi quod nullis amor est medicabilis herbis!" <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If thou dost
treat of love, and hast but two ounces of the Tuscan language, thou shalt
encounter with Lion the Hebrew, who will replenish thy vessels with store in
that kind; but, if thou wilt not travel for it into strange countries, thou
hast here at home in thy house <i>Fonseca of the Love of God</i>, wherein
is deciphered all that thou or the most ingenious capacity can desire to learn
of that subject. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I have seen the Green Catholic Lion, and the Blood of the Lion, i.e., the Gold
of the Sages, with my own eyes, have touched it with my hands, tasted it with
my tongue, smelled it with my nose.<br />
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I know well this Lyon Greene...<br />
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Upon the
delicate leaves thereof it retaineth for our use that sweet heavenly honey
which is called the manna, and, although it be of a gummy, oily, fat, and
greasy substance, it is, notwithstanding, unconsumable by any fire. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Francois Rabelais<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This is
called the blessed stone; this earth is white and foliated, wherein the
Philosophers do sow their gold... The fourth color is Ruddy and Sanguine, which
is extracted from the white fire only.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">For this our
praised plant on high doth soar,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Above the
baser dross of earthly ore,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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brave spirit and ambitious mind, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Whose
eaglet's eyes the sunbeams cannot blind;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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clog of poverty depress<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in base and native lowliness,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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scorning to behold the Earth,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">O how many
are the seekers after this gum, and how few there are who find it! Know ye that
our gum is stronger than gold, and all those who know it do hold it more
honorable than gold... Our gum, therefore, is for Philosophers more precious
and more sublime than pearls...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
smattering I have of the Philosopher's Stone (which is something more than the
perfect exaltation of gold) has taught me a great deal of divinity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">O
pre-eminent gold of the philosophers, with which the Sons of the Wise are
enriched, not with that which is coined. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Therefore I affirm that the Universal Medicine for bodies is the philosophic
gold, after it has been separated and drawn to the highest state of perfection.
Our common gold has absolutely nothing in common with the philosophic gold we
use to begin our task. In that respect common gold is dead and clearly useless.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The green
lion is the body, or magical earth, with which you must clip the wings of the
eagle; that is to say, you must fix her, so that she may fly no more. By this
we understand the opening and shutting of the chaos, and that cannot be done
without our proper key- -I mean our secret fire, wherein consists the whole
mystery of the preparation. Our fire then is a natural fire; it is vaporous,
subtle and piercing. It is that which works all in all, if we look on physical
digestion; nor is there any thing in the world that answers to the stomach and
performs the effects thereof but this one thing. It is a substance of propriety
solar and therefore sulphurous. It is prepared, as the philosophers tell us,
from the old dragon and in plain terms it is the fume of Mercury—not crude, but
cocted. This fume utterly destroys the first form of gold, introducing a second
and more noble one. By Mercury I understand not quicksilver but Saturn
philosophical, which devours the Moon and keeps her always in his belly. By
gold I mean our spermatic, green gold — not the adored lump, which is dead and
ineffectual. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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fellow-workers must be able to recognize the true lead and mercury, which are
neither common cinnabar nor mercury. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But what say
you of this? The Philosophers say plainly, "Our Gold is not the common
Gold, and our Silver not common Silver." I say that they call it water
Gold because it ascendeth to higher things by virtue of the fire, and in truth
that Gold is not common Gold, for the common people would not believe that it
could ascend to higher matters by reason of its fixedness. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I will now
speak of the Philosophers' Secret, and blessed Viridity, which is to be seen
and felt here below. It is the Proteus of the old Poets; for if the Spirit of
this green Gold be at Liberty, which will not be till the Body is bound, then
he will discover all the Essences of the Universal Center.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Our Gold is
not vulgar Gold, which is sold by goldsmiths, or anything like it, but it is a
certain other substance more precious than Gold itself, whose green and golden
Colour doth sufficiently demonstrate its original and Excellence. This Green
Gold in its first root is clothed with a foul Garment, which must be separated
by dissolving it by help of Mercury of Gold, first extracted out of Gold, and
abounding with a bright golden Sulphur; which alone is capable of performing
this Solution; because it dissolves nothing but the golden nature of Gold,
which is of its own Nature...<br />
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But this Golden Mercury is wonderfully intricate to be searched out, and though
it be found everywhere, yet it is most difficult to be found, by those who know
it not, though easy to those who know it, and know its Nature exactly. For it
is a white and serene, ponderous, Acid and pontic Liquor, of an ethereal
Substance, which is sublimed with a most gentle fire, and converted into Air...<br />
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This is that Liquor permanent and Triumphing over all Metals and Stone, the
blood of the Green Lion, the Secret Fire...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Our secret
fire, that is, our fiery and sulfurous water, which is called Balneum Mariae...
This water is a white vapor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Know the
secret fire of the wise, which is the one and sole agent efficient for the
opening, subliming, purifying, and disposing of the material.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this fire, for had I myself found it at the first, I should not have erred two
hundred times upon the veritable material.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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No philosopher has ever openly Revealed this secret fire, and this powerful
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It is the
Philosophers' Fire, by which the Tree of Hermes is burnt to ashes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It is this
most famous medicine which philosophers have been wont to call their Stone, or
Powder. This is its fount and fundament, and the Medicine whereby Aesculapius
raised the dead. This is the herb by which Medea restored Jason to life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Then must you wait till he shall obtain some substance from his mercury as it
happens in the fruit of trees. For as the argent vive, both of perfect and
imperfect bodies is a tree, so they can have no more nourishment, otherwise
than from their own mercury.<br />
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In this therefore, it is understood, that mercury, the much commended tree must
be taken...<br />
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Philosopher's stone, or tincture is nothing else, but Gold digested to the
highest degree: For vulgar Gold is like an herb without seed, when it is ripe
it brings forth seed; so Gold when it is ripe yields seed, or tincture.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Take the
fire, or quicklime, of which the philosophers speak, which grows on trees, for
in that God himself burns with divine love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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It appears then that this Stone is a Vegetable, as it were, the sweet Spirit
that proceeds from the Bud of the Vine...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Trust my word, seek the grass that is trefiol. Thou knowest the name, and art
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You ought to know concerning the Quintessence, that it is a matter little and
small, lodged and harbored in some Tree, Herb, Stone, or the like...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>The Tomb of Semiramis</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It contains
the fire of Nature, or the Universal Spirit; with Air as its vehicle it
contains Water, which must be separated in the beginning of the work, and also
earth which remains behind in the form of caput mortuum, where the fire has
left it, and is the true Red Earth wherein the fire dwelt for a while. The
subject, duly collected, should not be less than eight nor more than sixteen
ounces: place it in a china or glazed basin and cover it loosely to keep the
dust out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sigismond Bacstrom<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Long have I
had in my nostrils the scent of the herb moly which became so celebrated thanks
to the poets of old... this herb is entirely chemical. It is said that Odysseus
used it to protect himself against the poisons of Circe and the perilous
singing of the Sirens. It is also related that Mercury himself found it and
that it is an effective antidote to all poisons. It grows plentifully on Mount
Cyllene in Arcadia...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Maier<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Philosophica</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The peace
god of Cyllene had given him a white flower,<br />
Moly the gods name it, and black is the root that holds it.<br />
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Ovid <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I call it
the Flower of Honey,<br />
The Flower known to the Wise...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Homer knew it well, and called it Moly...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The gods
also have bestowed it upon man<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As a
singularly great gift,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Designed to
assuage and comfort him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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It is called the Red and Green Lion…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Certain
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Concerning
the Great Work of the Tincture</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Depart from
me, thou murky cave of Circe, for I am ashamed,<br />
Belonging as I do to heaven, to eat acorns like a beast.<br />
Rather do I pray to receive from God the soul-healing flower Moly,<br />
The good physic against evil thoughts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>Anthologia Palatina</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The most
renowned of herbs, on Homer’s testimony, discovered by Mercury as a remedy
against all kinds of poisons….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The most renowned of plants is, according to Homer, the one that he thinks is
called by the gods moly, assigning to Mercury its discovery and teaching of its
power over the most potent sorceries. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And Hermes
gave Odysseus moly - the most effective of magic drugs - but his companions, in
their stupidity, were transformed by Circe from men into irrational
animals. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">All-heal
grows in abundance and best in the rocky ground Psophis, Moly about Pheneos and
on Mt. Kyllene… it is used against spells and magic arts. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Moly, a type
of plant; an antidote or herb; a remedy for suffering.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I wasn't
born on wandering Delos nor out of the waves of the sea nor 'in hollow caves',
but on the very Islands of the Fortunate, where everything grows 'unsown,
untilled'. Toil, old age and sickness are unknown there. There's no asphodel,
mallow, onions, vetch or any other such worthless stuff to be seen in the
fields, but everywhere there's moly, panacea, nepenthe, marjoram, ambrosia, and
lotus, roses and violets and hyacinths, and gardens of Adonis to refresh the
eye and nose. Born as I was amidst these delights I didn't start life crying,
but smiled sweetly at my mother straight away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Erasmus<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of Folly</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We can
conclude from this that from the very beginning Homer's moly was a thing
surrounded by mystery and that it is not the botanists but the mythologists who
are really in a position to tell us the truth about it. Unfortunately, it is
precisely what the mythologists have to tell us that has tended to be
neglected, and even the most recent and learned discussions of the matter are
content to relegate the question of this mythical symbolism to a couple of
lines. In particular the story of the Christian symbolism connected with the
"soul-healing flower" has received deplorably little attention and it
is this that I shall make the starting-point of my enquiry. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Hugo
Rahner <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Greek
Myths and Christian Mystery</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In Thrace near the Hebrus there grows a plant which resembles the origanum
(wild marjoram); the inhabitants of that country throw the leaves on a brazier
and inhale the smoke, which intoxicates them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Plutarch<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">De
Fluvius </span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Scythians take the seed of this cannabis and, crawling under the mats,
throw it on the hot stones, where it smoulders and sends forth such fumes that
no Greek vapour-bath could surpass it. And they howl in their happiness at the
vapour-bath.<br />
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The lower people [Sufis] are fond of raising their spirits to a state of
intoxication... The smoke exalts their courage and throws them into a state in
which delightful visions dance before their imagination.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Niebuhr<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Travels
in Arabia</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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For take but <i>Monardus</i> his own tale; and by him it should seem;
that in the taking of <i>Tobacco</i> they [the priests] were drawn
up; and separated from all gross, and earthly cogitations, and as it were
carried up to a more pure and clear region, of fine conceits & actions of
the mind, in so much, as they were able thereby to see visions, as you say:
& able likewise to make wise and sharp answers, and ecstasies, as we are
wont to call it, have the power and gift thereby, to see more wonders, and high
mystical matters, then all they can do, whose brains, & cogitations, are
oppressed with the thick and foggy vapours of gross, and earthly substances...
but being used to clear the brains, and thereby making the mind more able, to
come to herself, and the better to exercise her heavenly gifts, and virtues; me
think, as I have said, I see more cause why we should think it to be a rare
gift imparted unto man, by the goodness of God, than to be an invention of the
devil.<br />
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Roger Marbecke<br />
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The sensations it then produced were those, physically, of exquisite lightness
and airiness - mentally of a wonderfully keen perception of the ludicrous, in
the most simple and familiar objects... I noted, with careful attention, the
fine sensations which spread throughout the whole tissue of my nervous fibers,
each thrill helping to divest my frame of its earthly and material nature, till
my substance appeared to me no grosser than the vapors of the atmosphere, and
while sitting in the calm Egyptian twilight, I expected to be lifted up and
carried away by the first breeze that should ruffle the Nile.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Taylor <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A Journey
to Central Africa</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">They have
many odoriferous and medicinal herbs different from ours; among them is one
called fumo which some call Betum and I will call the holy herb, because of its
powerful virtue in many ways...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There is an
Hearbe in India, of pleasaunt smell, but who so commeth to it, feeleth pleasant
smart, for there breede in it, a number of small Serpents. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and His England</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
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...And another called bang, like in effect to opium, "which puts them for
a time into a kind of ecstasis," and makes them gently to laugh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Some take it to forget their worries and sleep without thoughts; others to
enjoy in their sleep a variety of dreams and delusions; others become drunk and
act like merry jesters...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">On the
Drugs and Medicines of the East Indies</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Almost
invariably the inebriation is of the most cheerful kind, causing the person to
sing and dance, to eat food with great relish, and to seek aphrodisiac
enjoyments. In persons of a quarrelsome disposition, it induces, as might be
expected, an exasperation of their natural tendency.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Those of my
servants who took it, unbeknownst to me, said that it made them so as not to
feel their work, to be very happy, and to have a craving for food. I believe
that it is so generally used and by such a large number of people, that there
is no mystery about it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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on the Simples and Drugs of India</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There was
once, my lord, crown of my head, a man in a certain city who was a fisherman by
trade and a hashish user by occupation. Whenever he earned a daily wage, he
would spend a bit on food and the rest on a sufficient quantity of that
hilarious herb whose extract is hashish. He took the hashish three times a day:
once in the morning on an empty stomach, once at noontime, and once at sunset.
Thus he never missed being extravagantly happy. Yet he worked quite hard at
fishing, though sometimes in a very unusual way. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Two Hashish Eaters, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Nights</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">One farmer
in Midlothain was mentioned to me eight months ago as having taken it, and ever
since annoyed his neighbors by immoderate fits of laughter... I hear that the
farmer is laughing more uproariously than ever, continues in the happiest frame
of mind, the kindest creature and the general torment of his neighborhood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">For some
time these drugs have, for me, exerted a certain attraction. I even possess
some excellent hashish, prepared for me by the pharmacist Gastinel. But it
frightens me - and for this I blame myself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Charles Baudelaire <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">'Ah, yes,'
said Sinbad, 'the hashish is beginning its work. Well, unfurl your wings, and
fly into superhuman regions; fear nothing, there is a watch over you; and if
your wings, like those of Icarus, melt before the sun, we are here to ease your
fall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of Monte Cristo</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It is
hashish that brings enlightenment to reason; but he who devours it like food
will become a donkey. The elixir is moderation; eat of it just one grain, so
that it can permeate your existence like gold. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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To the Hindu the hemp plant is holy. A guardian lives in the bhang leaf... To
see in a dream the leaves, plant, or water of bhang is lucky... No good thing
can come to the man who treads underfoot the holy bhang leaf. A longing for
bhang foretells happiness. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Besides as a
cure for fever, bhang has many medicinal virtues... It cures dysentery and
sunstroke, clears phlegm, quickens digestion, sharpens appetite, makes the
tongue of the lisper plain, freshens the intellect, and gives alertness to the
body and gaiety to the mind. Such are the useful and needful ends for which in
his goodness the Almighty made bhang... It is inevitable that temperaments
should be found to whom the quickening spirit of bhang is the spirit of freedom
and knowledge. In the ecstasy of bhang the spark of the Eternal in man turns
into light the murkiness of matter... Bhang is the Joygiver, the Skyflier, the
Heavenly-guide, the Poor Man's Heaven, the Soother of Grief... No god or man is
as good as the religious drinker of bhang... The supporting power of bhang has
brought many a Hindu family safe through the miseries of famine. To forbid or
even seriously to restrict the use of so holy and gracious an herb as the hemp
would cause widespread suffering and annoyance and to large bands of worshiped
ascetics, deep-seated anger. It would rob the people of a solace in discomfort,
of a cure in sickness, of a guardian whose gracious protection saves them from
the attacks of evil influences... So grand a result, so tiny a sin!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Campbell<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"On the
Religion of Hemp"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Indian
Hemp Drugs Commission Report</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Firestick -
ah, and soma! The first drink I ever had, Father gave me on the q.t. Bhang,
they probably called it, but our old man never called it anything but soma. The
curious thing about it is, it's exactly the same as this mescal here, I could
swear. The sacred fire, Yvonne, was Agni, called down from heaven to the family
hearth, kindled, with his firesticks, by the priest. Yes, even the Indo-Aryans,
before they separated from the Indians, knew all about soma. The plant grew on
the mountainsides they made it from, and what they made was of course Amrita,
the nectar of immortality. One whole book of the Rig Veda praises it; one
drinks of it and sine mora, you were at the gates of heaven. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Malcolm
Lowry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Notes
for <i>Under the Volcano</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(Borrowed
from Rawlinson, India: A Short Cultural History)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Hemp and
mulberry... have long been used in worshiping the gods. The business of paper
making therefore, is no ignoble calling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Kamisuki
Chohoki<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A Handy
Guide to Paper Making</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
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Planting hemp, how do you do it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">You plant it
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I pluck the flowers in the sacred hemp field, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Pluck them
for him who is far from me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Inside there
is a layer of hemp, for the purpose that it may blaze up. And as to its being a
layer of hemp, the inner membrane (Amnion) of the womb from which Prajapati was
born consists of Uma, and the outer membrane (Chorion) of hemp.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Brahamana</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Make the
most you can of the Indian hemp seed and sow it everywhere.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">George
Washington<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Hemp is of
first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country. The greatest
service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its
culture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Thomas Jefferson<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We shall, by
and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John Adams<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Hemp [is] a
plant universally used in this country, though for a purpose very different
from that to which it is applied by the industrious Europeans. The Hottentot
loves nothing so much as tobacco, and, with no other can they become so easily
enticed into a man's service; but for smoking and for producing a pleasing
intoxication, he finds this poisonous not sufficient strong; and therefore in
order to procure the pleasure more speadily and deliciously he mixes tobacco
with hemp chopped very fine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">An
Account of the Cape of Good Hope and Some Parts of the Interior of Southern
Africa</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Water is their drink, nevertheless they are frequently drunk, not indeed with
wine, which they lack, but, what you will wonder at more, with smoke...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Lopez de
Gormara<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Historia
general de las Indias</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Hemp taken
as an inhalation may be placed in the same category as coffee, tea and kola. It
is not dangerous and its effects are never alarming, and I have come to regard
it in this form as a useful and refreshing stimulant and food accessory, and
one whose use does not lead to a habit which grows upon its votary. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Walter
Ernest Dixon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">British
Medical Journal</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Better be
chokt with English hemp, then poisoned with Indian Tabacco. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Apothecaries
were not worth a pin, If Hempseed did not bring their commings
in;Oyles, Unguents, Sirrops, Minerals, and Baulmes,(All Natures treasures, and
th' Almighties almes,)Emplasters, Simples, Compounds, sundry drugsWith
Necromanticke names like fearefull Bugs,Fumes, Vomits, purges, that both cures,
and kills,Extractions, conserues, preserues, potions, pils,Ellixers, simples,
compounds, distillations,Gums in abundance, brought from foraigne nations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
Praise of Hemp Seed</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">All
Wine-pots... I haue for-sworne till Michelmas, unlesse the new wine of Peru,
that is made of no Grape, but a strange fruite in the West-indies, and is more
comfortable to the braine and the stomacke, then any restorative or cordiall
whatsoever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Humfrey King<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The five kingdoms of plants, having soma as their chief (crestha), we address;
the darbha, hemp, barley, saha - let them free us from distress.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It creates
vital energy, increases mental powers and internal heat; corrects irregularities
of the phlegmatic humour; and is an elixir vitae. It was originally produced,
like nectar, from the ocean by churning with Mt. Mandara, and inasmuch as it
gives victory in the three worlds, it, the delight of the king of the gods, is
called<i>vijaya</i>, the victorious. This desire-fulfulling drug was obtained
by men on earth, through desire for the welfare of all people. To those who
regularly use it, it begets joy and destroys every anxiety. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rajavallabha</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The subtler
attainments come with birth or are attained through herbs, mantra, austerities,
or concentration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>Yoga Sutras of Patanjali<br />
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The fourth
method of awakening [<i>i.e.</i> enlightenment] is through the use of
specific herbs. In Sanskrit it is called <i>aushadhi</i>… knowledge of the
herbs is a closely guarded secret…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Swami
Saraswati<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Kundalini
Tantra</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">By means of
drugs and incantations one may change bronze into gold. By skilful use of
chemical substances, silver may be transformed into gold and gold into silver.<br />
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Prafulla Chandra Ray<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">[The Hindus]
have a science similar to alchemy which is quite peculiar to them. The call it
rasayana. It means an art which is restricted to certain operations, drugs, and
compound medicines, most of which are taken from plants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Al-Biruni<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ch'eng Wei tried to make gold according to the directions of the Vast Treasure
in the Pillow. He was unsuccessful, and his wife, going to look at him, found
him just fanning the ashes in order to heat the retort. In the retort was some
quicksilver. She said: "Just let me see what I can do," and from her
pocket produced a drug, a small quantity of which she threw into the retort. A
very short while afterwards she took the retort out of the furnace, and there
was solid silver all complete!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ko Hung<br />
<i>Pao P'u Tzu</i><br />
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Once the floriate elixir is finished, one ounce constitutes a
"transcendent dose." If one wishes to remain in the mundane world,
half an ounce is sufficient.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The fruit of
this tree will be ring shaped. Its name is the Tree of Ringed Adamant. Eating its
fruit causes you to be born together with the heavens and rise up to the Grand
Bourne, your form transformed into clouds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Upper
Scripture of Purple Texts Inscribed by Spirits</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />
Xianke said, "We have numinous herbs and can only practice flying steps.
Today the whole household is secluded in the rear mountains and further
cultivates Taoist methods. As for the matter of direct ascension, how could I
have expectations therein? We only have long life and that is all."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sun Guanxian<br />
<i>Beimeng suoyan</i><br />
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It was after this discourse that the Son of Heaven for the first time performed
in person the sacrifices of the furnace... He occupied himself in experiments
with powdered cinnabar, and all sorts of drugs, in order that he might obtain
gold.<br />
<br />
Ssu-ma Ch-ien<br />
<i>Historical Memoirs</i><br />
<br />
<br />
The way to make oneself a Fo Shih Hsien [a drug-using supernatural being] lies
in the use of drugs of a nature similar to oneself.<br />
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<i>Ts'an T'ung Ch'i</i><br />
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He proved the truth of the Ts'an T'ung Chi; In a golden furnace he melted the
Holy Drug.<br />
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Chiang Yen<br />
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ma-fen
(cannabis) has a spicy taste; it is toxic; it is used for waste diseases and
injuries; it clears blood and cools temperature; it relieves fluxes; it undoes
rheumatism; it discharges pus. If taken in excess, it produces hallucinations
and a staggering gait. If taken over a long term, it causes one to communicate
with spirits and lightens one’s body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">T’ang
Shen-wei<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Cheng-lei
pen-ts’ao</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ma-fen if
taken in excess will produce hallucinations. If taken over a long time, it
makes one communicate with spirits and lightens one’s body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Those people
who want to see spirits use raw ma fruits, Ch’ang-p’u, and K’uei-chiu in equal
parts, pound them into pills the size of marbles and take one facing the sun
every day. After one hundred days, one can see spirits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Meng Shen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pen-ts’ao</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This elixir transforms a mortal into a divine transcendent person. The
teachings of the Tao emphasize hat one must forget his own consciousness in
order to attain the goals of Tao. It is precisely this state which can be
attained with cannabis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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If even the herb chu-sheng can make one live longer, why not try putting the
Elixir into the mouth? Gold by nature does not rot or decay; Therefore it is of
all things most precious. When the artist includes it in his diet the duration
of life becomes everlasting...<br />
<br />
When the golden powder enters the five entrails, a fog is dispelled, like
rain-clouds scattered by wind. Fragrant exhalations pervade the four limbs; The
countenance beams with well-being and joy. Hairs that were white all turn to
black; teeth that had fallen grow in their former place. The old dotard is
again a lusty youth; the decrepit crone is again a young girl. He whose form
has changed and escaped the perils of life, has for his title the name of True
Man.<br />
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<i>Shen Hsien Chuan </i><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Take three
pounds of genuine cinnabar, and one pound of white honey. Mix them. Dry the
mixture in the sun. Then roast it over a fire until it can be shaped into
pills. Take ten pills of the size of a hemp seed every morning. Inside of a
year, white hair will turn black, decayed teeth will grow again, and the body
will become sleek and glistening. If an old man takes this medicine for a long
period of time, he will develop into a young man. The one who takes it
constantly will enjoy eternal life, and will not die.<br />
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<i>Pao P'u Tzu</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The work is
easy and the medicine is not far away. If the secret is disclosed, it will be
so simple that every one may get a good laugh.<br />
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Chang Po-Tuan<br />
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Indeed, if
we were to tell the vulgar herd the ordinary name of our substance, they would
look upon our assertion as a daring falsehood. But if they were acquainted with
its virtue and efficacy, they would not despise that which is, in reality, the
most precious thing in the world.<br />
<br />
<i>Gloria Mundi</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Therefore
with all thy strength get this Water, of which an Ounce is worth above a
Thousand Pound, because by this alone, without any other Labour, except the
Addition of a clean, pure body, thou mayst perfect our most Honoured Stone, to
which no Treasure in the World can be equaled.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Eirenaeus
Philalethes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
Fountain of Chymical Philosophy</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">One ounce
thereof is better than fifty pound.<br />
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Thomas Norton<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If you ask
whether the substance of our stone be dear, I tell you that the poor possess it
as well as the rich.<br />
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<i>The Book of Alze</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Mark well
that which follows: The substance of the Stone of the Philosophers is common:
one finds it everywhere...<br />
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Albertus Magnus<br />
<i>Compound of Compounds</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I haue (as
it were) extracted oyle out of steele, and wine out of dry chaffe. I have here
a graine of Hempseed made a mountaine greater than the Apennines or Caucasus,
and not much lesser then the whole world. Here is Labour, Profit, Cloathing,
Pleasure, Food, Navigation: Diuinite, Poetry, the liberall Arts, Armes, Vertues
defence, Vices offence, a true mans protection, a Thiefes execution. Here is
mirth and matter all beaten out of this small Seed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
Praise of Hemp-Seed</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Arabians,
Indians, Sabaeans,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sing not in
Hymns and Io Paeans;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Your
Incense, Myrrh, or Ebony:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Come,
here, a nobler Plant to see;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And carry
home, at any rate, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Some Seed,
that you may propagate,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If in your
Soil it takes, to Heaven<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A thousand
thousand Thanks be given;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And say with
France, it goodly goes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Where the
Pantagruelion grows.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Gargantua
and Pantagruel</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Whoever
wishes to know the method of compounding the medicine ought to begin by seeding
and planting it in his own garden...This kind of precious thing will be found
in every house. Nevertheless, ignorant people are not able to recognize it.<br />
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Chang Po-Tuan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It is
manifest to all men, the poor have more of it (materia prima) than the rich.
The good part of it people discard, and the bad part they retain.<br />
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Paracelsus<br />
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Men have it before their eyes, handle it with their hands, yet know it not,
though they constantly tread it under their feet.<br />
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<i>The Sophic Hydrolith</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
substance is vile and yet most precious. Take ten parts of our air; one part of
living gold or living silver; put all this into your vessel; subject the air to
coction until it becomes first water and then something which is not water. If
you do not know how to do this and how to cook air, you will will go wrong, for
herein is the True Matter of the Philosophers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Michael
Sendivogius <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The New
Chemical Light</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This stone
is of delicate touch, and there is more mildness in its touch than in its
substance. Of sweet taste, and its proper nature is aerial.<br />
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Khalid said: Tell me of its odor, before and after its confection.<br />
<br />
Morienus answered: Before confectioning, its odor is very heavy and foul. I
know of no other stone like it nor having its powers. While the four elements
are contained in this stone, it being thus like the world in composition, yet
no other stone like it in power or nature is to be found in the world, nor has
any of the authorities ever performed the operation other than by means of it.
And the compositions attempted by those using anything else in this composition
will fail utterly and come to nothing. The thing in which the entire
accomplishment of this operation consists of the red vapor, the yellow vapor,
the white vapor, the green lion, ocher, the impurities of the dead and of the
stones, blood, eudica, and foul earth.<br />
<br />
Begin in the Creator’s name, and with his vapor take the whiteness from the
white vapor. The whole key to accomplishment of this operation is in the fire,
with which the minerals are prepared and the bad spirits held back, and with
which the spirit and body are joined.<br />
<br />
In answer to you question about the white vapor, or virgins milk, you may know
that it is a tincture and spirit of those bodies already dissolved and dead,
from which the spirits have been withdrawn. It is the white vapor that flows in
the body and removes its darkness, or earthiness, and impurity, uniting the
bodies into one and augmenting their waters.<br />
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Without the white vapor, there could have been no pure gold nor any profit in
it.<br />
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<i>The Book of Morienus</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">All true
philosophers agree that the First Matter of metals is a moist vapor...<br />
<br />
<i>On the Philosopher's Stone</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
philosopher's mercury is an unctuous vapor…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">R.W.
Councell<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Apollogia
Alchymiae</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Our true and
real Matter is only a vapor... This Green Dragon is the natural Gold of the
Philosophers, exceedingly different from the vulgar, which is corporeal and
dead... but ours is spiritual, and living... Our Gold is called Natural,
because it is not to be made by Art, and since it is known to none, but the
true Disciples of Hermes, who understand how to separate it from its original
Lump, tis also called Philosophical; and if God had not been so gracious, as to
create this first Chaos to our hand, all our Skill and Art in the Construction
of the great Elixir would be in vain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
Baron Urbigerus<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Aphorismi
Urbigerani</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There are
two vapors: the light and the heavy. They are the steam and the smoke. They are
the dry and the moist. The smoke is the dry, the steam is the moist. The smoke
is the soul, the steam is the spirit, and it is the moist.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Muhammed Ibn
Umayl al-Tamini<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Silvery
Water</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">, or <i>The
Chemical Tables of Senior Zadith</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">What though
thou dye'st my lungs in deepest black.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A Mourning
habit, suits a sable heart. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">What though
thy fumes sound memory do crack, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">forgetfulness
is fittest for my smart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">O sacred
fume, let it be Carv'd in oak,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">that words,
Hopes, wit, and all the world are smoke.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Poor
Laboring Bee</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Many laborers
in the fire she had heard of who turned their gold into smoke, but Raleigh was
the first who had turned smoke into gold.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">James Howell<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ouid 'mongst
all his Metamorphosis<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ne're knew a
transformation like to this,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Nor yet
could Oedipus e're understand,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">How to turne
Land to smoake, and smoake to Land.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">For by the
means of this bewitching smother,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">One Element
is turn'd into another,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As Land to
fire, fire into Ayrie matter,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">From ayre
(too late repenting) turnes to water.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">By Hempseed
thus, fire, water, aire, earth, all<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Are chang'd
by pudding, leafe, roule, pipe and ball.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John Taylor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
Praise of Hemp-Seed </span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Many who
found it were so intoxicated by its fumes that they remained in their place and
could no longer raise themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">An
Anonymous Treatise on the Philosopher's Stone</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
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Another burned his eyes out, and was thus unable to supervise the calcination
and the fixation: or bleared his sight with smoke to such an extent that before
he cleared his eyes the nitrogen escaped. Some died of asphyxiation from the
smoke. But for the greatest part they did not have enough coal in their bags
and were obliged to run about to borrow it elsewhere, while in the meantime
their concoction cooled off and was utterly ruined. This was of very frequent,
in fact of almost constant, occurrence. Although they did not tolerate anyone
among themselves save such as possessed full bags, yet these seemed to have a
way of drying up very rapidly, and soon grew empty: they were obliged either to
suspend their operations or to run away to borrow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">They concur
in stating that there is a despised and common substance, from which, with
little trouble and expense, may be obtained not only the mercury, but also the
sulphur and salt, identical with that in silver and gold. This substance is, of
course, not named in their practical working, as a recipe; they do not say,
“Take so and so.” They say: “Take antimony, or cinnabar, etc.”<i> </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Apollogia
Alchymiae</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
philosophers have called this maid and blessed water by many thousands of
different names in their books. They call it heaven, a heavenly water, a
heavenly rain, a heavenly thaw, a May thaw, water of Paradise, an aqua fortis
and an <i>aquam Regis</i>, a corrosive aquafort, a sharp vinegar and
liquor, also <i>Quintam essentiam vini</i>, a waxy green juice, waxy <i>mercurium</i>,
green water and <i>Leonem viridis</i>, quicksilver, menstruum or blood.
They also call it urine and horse piss, milk and virgin’s milk, water of
arsenic, silver, Luna or Lunae water, woman, a female seed, a sulphuric steam
and smoke, a fiery, burning spirit, a deathly all-penetrating poison, a dragon,
a scorpion which eats its young, a hellish fire of horse dung, a sharp salt,
sal armoniacum, a common salt, a lye, a viscous oil, the stomach of an ostrich
which eats and digests all things, an eagle, a vulture and hermetic bird, a
vessel and <i>Sigillum Hermetis</i>, a melting and calcinating oven, and
innumerable other names of animals, birds, plants, waters, juices, milks and
blood, etc. They have used all these names and written of it figuratively in
their books. They have suggested that such a water is made of these things,
with the result that all ignorant people who have searched for it in these things,
have not found the desired water.<br />
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<i>A Magnificent and Select Tract on the Philosophical Water</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Retain that which I will tell you. Take leaves of red cabbage, and of avens -
this is an herb which one calls 'bastard cannabis.' Take a herb which one calls
tansy and hemp - this is the seeds of cannabis. Crush these four herbs so that
there is nothing more of the one than of the other. Afterwards you take madder
two times more than any one of the four herbs, then you crush it, then you put
these five herbs in a pot. And you put white wine to infuse it, the best that
you are able to have, being somewhat with care that the potions not be too
thick, and that one is able to drink them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Let it be
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Geber<br />
<i>Search of Perfection</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Into the
woods thenceforth in hast she went,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hearbes, that mote him remedy...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There,
whether it divine <i>Tobacco</i> were, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Or <i>Panachaea</i>,
or <i>Polygony</i>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and brought it to her patient deare<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Who al this
while lay bleeding out his hart-bloud neare.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Why write I
still all one, ever the same, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And keep
invention in a noted weed,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">That every
word doth almost tell my name,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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their birth and where they did proceed?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Infume my
braine, make my soules powers subtile,<br />
Give nimble cadence to my harsher stile:<br />
Inspire me with thy flame, which doth excell<br />
The purest streames of the Castalian well,<br />
That I on thy ascensive wings may flie<br />
By thine ethereall vapours borne on high,<br />
And with thy feathers added to my quill<br />
May pitch thy tents on the Parnassian hill,<br />
Teach me what power thee on earth did place,<br />
What God was bounteous to the humane race,<br />
On what occasion, and by whom it stood,<br />
That the blest world receiv'd so great a good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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readily engages in conversation with strangers, discussing freely his pleasant
reactions to the drug and philosophizing on subjects pertaining to life in a
manner which, at times, appears to be out of keeping with his intellectual
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la cucaracha<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ya no puede
caminar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Porque no
tiene, porque no tiene<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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que fumar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In this
Pantagruelion have I found so much Efficacy and Energy, so much Compleatness
and Excellency, so much Exquisiteness and Rarity, and so many admirable Effects
and Operations of a transcendent Nature, that if the Worth and Virtue thereof
had been known, when those <i>Trees</i>, by the Relation of the <i>Prophet</i>,
made election of a Wooden King to rule and govern over them, it without all
doubt would have carried away from all the rest the Plurality of Votes and
Suffrages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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