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Amanita Muscaria; Herb of Immortality Amanita Muscaria; Herb of Immortality Brought to you by The Ambrosia Society in cooperation with the Author Permission is granted by the Copyright holder, Donald E. Teeter, for the Ambrosia Society to distribute this Copyright protected E-book version of “Amanita Muscaria; Herb of Immo rtality”. Permission is also granted to the reader for their personal, not for profit, electronic transmission or forwarding, copying onto information storage devises or disks, and the printing of a personal hard copy, in Toto, without alteration, of this Copy written work “Amanita Muscaria; Herb of Immortality”. All other Copyright protected rights are reserved by the Copyright holder. The Ambrosia Society Is an Educational, Scientific, Religious and Fraternal Association of individuals dedicated to understanding the ancient Sacrament. Help support this important ongoing Research Donate to the Ambrosia Society. At Ambrosia Society.org Or Ambrosia Society 4800 Yager Lane Manor, Texas 78653 Amanita Muscaria: Herb of Immortality Revised 2007 Copyright © 2005 By Donald E. Teeter All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner. Amanita Muscaria; Herb of Immortality Table of Contents 1. The Beginning Pg. 5 2. The Indo-Europeans Pg. 10 3. The Ancient World Pg. 12 4. Amanita Muscaria Legendary Herb of Immortality Pg. 13 5. Amanita Muscaria The Fruit of the Trees of Life Pg. 16 6. Amanita Muscaria Soma the pressed One And the Holy Grail Pg. 17 7. Amanita Muscaria The Living Bread Pg. 19 8. Amanita Muscaria The Healing Herb Pg. 21 9. Natural Science Pg. 33 10. Natural Science; Pharmacology Pg. 35 11. Natural Magic Pg. 37 12. The Resurrection Question Pg. 45 13. The Question of Wine Pg. 50 14. Natural Magic: Recreating the Grail Pg. 53 15. Growing the Eucharistic Bread and Wine in quantity Pg. 65 16. Gods, Books, Myths and Folktales Pg. 79 17. The Rig Veda Soma and the Holy Grail Pg. 80 18. Zoroaster the Prophet and the Mazda Religion Pg. 83 19. Mithras Pg. 85 20. The Bible Pg. 86 21. New Testament Bible Quotes Pg. 89 22. Dionysus Pg. 94 23. Odin; God of Wisdom Pg. 97 24. Alchemy and Hermeticism Pg. 99 25. Some Thoughts Pg. 113 26. The Names of a God, Part 1 Pg. 114 27. Names of a God, part 2 Pg. 121 28. Supplies and Info Pg. 127 Amanita Muscaria; Herb of Immortality Amanita Muscaria; Herb of Immortality Where does one begin? To tell the many tales Of the Wondrous One So very old Who today among you Will believe the Living Secret These Ancient tales Still hold? Tales of the One Fruit Of the Twelve Trees of Life Herb of Immortality Ambrosia Golden Elixir of Immortality Nectar of the Gods Honey sweet Taste of Divinity Great Gift of the Creator, That the lame may walk And the blind may see Wondrous tales of a Living God made of flesh Born from Thunder The Golden embryo Mighty child of Heaven Fountain of the water of life Ancient Sacrament And Sacrifice Page 5 Amanita Muscaria; Herb of Immortality 1. The Beginning Where does one start to tell the story of the legendary Herb of Immortality, after all there are no living eyewitnesses of this momentous ancient discovery? All the knowledge we have concerning the ancient mystical Herb of Immortality is now found in ancient stories, some of these stories are today considered religious truths by active religions. Other stories are ancient myths of religions now considered extinct. While still other stories are now considered folk tales and fairytales with which we amuse our children; and in doing so, pass these stories down countless generations. Modern people put their knowledge into books; the ancient people on the other hand placed their knowledge into stories. Some ancient stories are in fact very detailed books of knowledge concerning the Herb of Immortality, when the story is properly decoded a wealth of practical information concerning this unique life form can be rediscovered by a modern person. While I cannot give you exact information on the ancient discovery of the Herb of Immortality, I can give you some background on how I came to understand the knowledge contained in these ancient stories. As a young American child, I was exposed to many of the same stories you were as a child. Now some of these stories were completely baffling to me in that they didn’t make any logical sense. It wasn’t the fairytale bedtime stories that were so illogical, after all, no one, not even a child expected these stories to make sense. It was the other class of stories, the Santa Clause and most especially the Jesus stories that I had the most trouble trying to understand logically. The Santa Clause story was just baffling from a logistical viewpoint of making and then delivering the Gifts, you know around the world making millions of stops all in one night. Why, those reindeer would have to travel at the speed of light. This Santa Clause story was however nothing compared to the completely baffling Bible story of the man-god called Jesus Christ because the Santa story was always being told kind of tongue in cheek, the Christ story instead was presented to me as not only true but the ultimate truth. Now this Jesus Christ story was so completely unbelievable to me that I just couldn’t get my skeptical little mind to wrap around it. After all, the story starts with the birth of a man supposedly created without intercourse and born from a virgin. Now as a young country boy, I knew the mathematics of animal and human reproduction at a young age and that no person could be immaculately conceived, so the story starts out completely unbelievable to me. Next he turns ordinary water into a superior wine in the first of many miracles, then he miraculously heals the sick, the blind see and the lame walk, yet the Sunday school teacher couldn’t explain to me how he did it, it was a miracle and as such could not be explained. Later in the story he is a prophet and can tell or predict the future, again with no explanation given as to how he did it. Then there is his death and resurrection in the flesh in three days; again something that totally goes against logic and nature, since no human who is truly dead has ever rose up again. After his resurrection he is immortal in the flesh and ascends back to heaven where he came from, thus ending the story. Page 6 Amanita Muscaria; Herb of Immortality Now this Christ story is very strange but there were other strange things taught in Sunday school that just did not make sense; like my Sunday school teacher saying that the Christ of the Christians was the ancient Hebrew God of the Old Testament bible. I tried for weeks to figure that one out. The Communion was another strange thing since we were supposed to eat the flesh and drink the blood of Jesus, like a bunch of cannibals; luckily all we really had to consume was a little cube of white bread and a shot of grape juice. I think I was about ten when I just completely gave up trying to rationally understand the Christ story and became a non-believer in both the story and the Christian faith as containing any kind of real truth. Over the next few years I experienced a growing spiritual hunger and decided to study some other religions to see if they had anything real to offer or if they were just as insane as Christianity. My mother had bought a complete set of 1898 edition Encyclopedia Britannica at our local library’s book sale. In 1969 when I was thirteen I happened to open the Encyclopedia at an article on Hinduism and I came across this quote about an ancient plant god named Soma from the Rig Veda; the oldest collection of books in the Hindu literature. Rig Veda “Book 8 hymn LXVIII” “1. This here is Soma, never restrained, active, all conquering bursting forth, a Seer and Sage by sapience. 2. All that’s bare he covers over; all the sick he medicines, the blind man sees, the cripple walks.” This quote completely “blew my mind” as you would say in 1969; here was a real plant worshiped as a god, that was doing the exact same cures attributed to the Christ. Could it be that the Christ story was about a real plant god and not about a man-god at all? The next paragraph said that Soma was identical with the ancient Persian Haoma, that it is the Ambrosia and Nectar of the ancient Greeks and that this plant was the ancient and legendary Herb of Immortality. Soma was said to be an Indian version of the Greek God of intoxication Dionysus. However exactly which plant was the real Soma was unknown in 1898. Since the plant was real there was at last a solid starting point to try and understand these very confusing religious stories. Some checking confirmed that the Rig Veda was far older than Christianity; so Christianity could not have influenced the Rig Veda; in contrast the much older Rig Veda could easily have influenced Christianity. Research in several dictionaries showed that all the names mentioned in the second paragraph; Soma, Haoma, Ambrosia, Nectar and Dionysus are Indo- European words, meaning that they all belonged to a specific language family called Indo-European.
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