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After this point develops a Holy War. I wonder how many unbelievers read ancient scriptures simply to prove that Jesus was high, and so 'it must be OK man for, like me'. Or are they seeking Enlightenment? Maybe they want to Rise again?
The problem is that any questful reader, in this present era, will read exactly what they want to read. They ignore the original context, and forget the fact that they have acquired experiences and knowledge that were not known in the time it was written.
It is also easy to analyse a substance in present day laboratories and isolate particular molecules which can be shown to have properties that are now considered on the suspect list. Hindsight is easy, Magnification is expected.
Also remember the words of Sir Francis Bacon; There is nothing so good that it may not be perverted by reporting it ill.
Not having seen her Paper, though I gather it has been reprinted in 1967 and 1972 in The Book of Grass (though some claim it is the whole, I have seen the index page, and there is considerably more than her Paper. It would appear to be a combined energy in convincing the world that it is OK, to immerse oneself in marijuana, hashish, and so on. In this convulsion, a number of factors are ignored.
The calamus mentioned in KJV Exodus, is not the original word used in the Hebrew. It was originally kaneh bosm, which was ‘tracked down’ as being hemp. I will return to that. Hemp was one of those universal plants that had many uses. Maybe the question is, did Man discover those uses because he had a lot of it and did not want to throw any of it away, and investigated any possible use? Fine, we can make fibres, cloth and ropes from this, what do we do with the flowers, the seeds, the roots? The name Cannabis was not properly postulated until 1753, a couple of thousand years nearly after the Holy Words were put to the scrolls and well after the KJV. What with the confusion as to ‘mistranslation’ by the Septuagint in c300 AD, and the further translations for the King James Verson, followed by the intervention of Sir Francis Bacon, who took it into his head to alter a few words of this translation, he put calamus, having experience of that herb in his own writings and concoctions. When Linnaeus categorised the plant in 1753, he ‘drew upon’ his own experience. In 1785 came the name for the ‘Indian’ verson. The name cannabis was official. Before that it was hemp in Old English henep.
So, unless one knew Greek, or happened to know a merchant from Scythia (said to be the origin of ‘scythe’ by some, as being designed specifially to harvest said crops; yet actually the word scythe descends through Old English and Germanic ‘sithe’), the word or its precursor would not have entered your consciousness. It is said, in hindsight works for the term kaneh bosm to originate from Scythian, ‘astonishing similarity seen between Semitic 'kanbos' and the Scythian 'cannabis'; I regret that I see precious little similarity in this anglicized comparison.
Remembering the general level of ignorance in the people, controlled by The Church, nowadays contolled by the Media, I would even suggest that the word cannabis was unknown at that time in general circles in Europe.
Until Sara began her quest, 'Calamus' was considered to be Sweet Cane, perhaps even Lemon Grass.
After this point develops a Holy War. I wonder how many unbelievers read ancient scriptures simply to prove that Jesus was high, and so 'it must be OK man for, like me'. Or are they seeking Enlightenment? Maybe they want to Rise again?
The problem is that any questful reader, in this present era, will read exactly what they want to read. They ignore the original context, and forget the fact that they have acquired experiences and knowledge that were not known in the time it was written.
It is also easy to analyse a substance in present day laboratories and isolate particular molecules which can be shown to have properties that are now considered on the suspect list. Hindsight is easy, Magnification is expected.
Also remember the words of Sir Francis Bacon; There is nothing so good that it may not be perverted by reporting it ill.
Not having seen her Paper, though I gather it has been reprinted in 1967 and 1972 in The Book of Grass (though some claim it is the whole, I have seen the index page, and there is considerably more than her Paper. It would appear to be a combined energy in convincing the world that it is OK, to immerse oneself in marijuana, hashish, and so on. In this convulsion, a number of factors are ignored.
The calamus mentioned in KJV Exodus, is not the original word used in the Hebrew. It was originally kaneh bosm, which was ‘tracked down’ as being hemp. I will return to that. Hemp was one of those universal plants that had many uses. Maybe the question is, did Man discover those uses because he had a lot of it and did not want to throw any of it away, and investigated any possible use? Fine, we can make fibres, cloth and ropes from this, what do we do with the flowers, the seeds, the roots? The name Cannabis was not properly postulated until 1753, a couple of thousand years nearly after the Holy Words were put to the scrolls and well after the KJV. What with the confusion as to ‘mistranslation’ by the Septuagint in c300 AD, and the further translations for the King James Verson, followed by the intervention of Sir Francis Bacon, who took it into his head to alter a few words of this translation, he put calamus, having experience of that herb in his own writings and concoctions. When Linnaeus categorised the plant in 1753, he ‘drew upon’ his own experience. In 1785 came the name for the ‘Indian’ verson. The name cannabis was official. Before that it was hemp in Old English henep.
So, unless one knew Greek, or happened to know a merchant from Scythia (said to be the origin of ‘scythe’ by some, as being designed specifially to harvest said crops; yet actually the word scythe descends through Old English and Germanic ‘sithe’), the word or its precursor would not have entered your consciousness. It is said, in hindsight works for the term kaneh bosm to originate from Scythian, ‘astonishing similarity seen between Semitic 'kanbos' and the Scythian 'cannabis'; I regret that I see precious little similarity in this anglicized comparison.
Remembering the general level of ignorance in the people, controlled by The Church, nowadays contolled by the Media, I would even suggest that the word cannabis was unknown at that time in general circles in Europe.
Until Sara began her quest, 'Calamus' was considered to be Sweet Cane, perhaps even Lemon Grass.
yep! I agree with BoP.
