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I came across this burb. It touches on Freemason's and hemp cannabus. Any insights as to validity on this? Also interesting references to founding fathers: George Washington, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson all cultivated pot on their plantations. George Washington is said to have preferred a good pipeful of "the leaves of hemp" to any alcoholic drink. James Madison once remarked that had it not been for hemp, he would not have had the insights he had in the work of creating a new and democratic nation. --------------- The Order of Knights of the Temple was founded in the Holy Land in 1118 A.D. ....Its organization was based on that of the Saracean fraternity of 'Hashishim', 'hashish-takers', whom Christians called Assassins. The Templars first headquarters was a wing of the royal palace of Jerusalem next to the al-Aqsa mosque, revered by the Shi'ites as the central shrine of the Goddess Fatima. Most (scholars) agree that the Templars "had adopted some of the mysterious tenets of the Eastern Gnostics."'--Walker, 1986, quoting, R.P. Knight, The Symbolic Language of Ancient Art and Mythology, New York, 1982 'ambiguous references to a sacred plant or herb appear in their [the Templars] surviving manuscripts'-Sex and Drugs, R.A. Wilson, 1971 The Masonic Lodge, the Shriners, the Eastern Star, the order of DeMolay all religious fraternal orginizations, which have at their root Jacque DeMolay and the Knights Templar. The tradition of the sacred plant use in freemasonry is exemplified by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, both freemasons. Thomas Jefferson and George Washington often corresponded about the virtues of smoking hemp and are said to have traded parcels of it as gestures of friendship. Dr. Burke, president of the American Historical Reference Society and consultant for the Smithsonian Institute, included the following U.S. presidents as cannabis users: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor, and Franklin Pierce. "Early letters from our founding fathers often refer to the pleasures of hemp smoking", said Dr. Burke. There are even references to it in the Congressional Record. cannabis never became a commercial industry because the plant was too easy to grow. George Washington, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson all cultivated pot on their plantations. George Washington is said to have preferred a good pipeful of "the leaves of hemp" to any alcoholic drink. James Madison once remarked that had it not been for hemp, he would not have had the insights he had in the work of creating a new and democratic nation. Freemasonry and mushrooms Information can be found here: http://www.entheomedia.com/freemasonry.htm. Warning: site uses layers that only appear correctly in Opera browser. The importance of the acacia tree The acacia tree is a commonly appearing motif in freemasonry. It contains the psychoactive tryptamines DMT, 5-MeO-DMT and bufotenin. This is an excellent page on the spiritual use of acacia - sometimes in combination with harmala alkaloids - among bedouin tribes: http://www.acacialand.com/. The site contains loads of extremely interesting information on other subjects, too, so be sure to give it a shot. Some headers inside articles are links to more articles. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
