MANNA sounds like manure...I always wondered how Jesus turned water into wine...
Grab a cup of something and get comfty. If you haven't heard of this one, it is the mother of all conspiracy theories.
This is jumping into an old topic- because I still remember so fondly the trip I took and relayed here...
Last summer I once again went on a ride of magical proportions- but ended up having a little visit with the devil rather than god. It was the answer to greed I suppose, and something I will never forget. A dark visit to the parts of my mind where I need not be, but couldn't stop myself from going. I now could say that I understand that place, where only those have gone could understand...
Anyhow- what brings me to this topic, and this thread... is a discussion my sister and I had last night over the phone. She was mentioning how on her recent trip to my lovely little city that she noticed everyone was frowning...
These are such uncertain times in our society, I too fell a weird energy around me at all times. I've spoken on it in my blog, and in the pages of my diary at home... just how things have this odd "unfinished" edge to them. As though we are the brink of something not necessarily catastrophic, but huge.
She touched on the Mayan Calendar, and something she had seen on Youtube recently...
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_quer...=zeitgeist+reliThen the discussion reached this point, which ties into the actual thread here...
I'm going to pull quotes from a random page that speaks on a belief held by many...and the more I investigate the oddity of it all, the more I too feel it could be the root of something...
Everything that has been quoted from the website I've put into bold italics...
http://www.mannabook.ca/MANNA is the “food-from-heaven” provided by God to Israelites in the wilderness, according to the Bible the Israelites are said to have eaten Manna daily with Quail while escaping from slavery in Egypt. Whether Manna actually fell form the sky, or whether it came up from the ground depends on interpretation of many ancient documents both inside and outside of the Bible, as well as on an in-depth understanding of the linguistic connections and origins of the word Manna itself.
My book "Manna" also explores the idea that Christ was the leader of a Pagan Cult teaching a revival/renaissance of an ancient Egypt Mysticism at the center of which existed a mushroom ritual, learned of by Moses and Christ, a mushroom religion known also to the Maya of ancient Mesoamerica, and many other cultures around the world. The Manna-Book asks if this knowledge was kept secret by an elite caste of priests within the Kabalistic Jewish Rabbis until such a time as Christ came and taught it to the masses, resulting in accusations of blasphemy and the crucifixion of the first Christians. "The second paragraph is more a personalized opinion from a book by the author, but you can dig into ALOT of information that is out there...
With these below, all interperations of the quotes (of which I pulled up in full from here:
http://www.biblegateway.com with the King James version) are also opinions of James Dure, but once again, Google "mushrooms bread of god" and you will be surprised...
Exodus 16:14-34"And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.
When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, "What is it?" For they did not know what it was.
Moses said to them, "It is the bread the LORD has given you to eat.
This is what the LORD has commanded: 'Each one is to gather as much as he needs. Take an omer for each person you have in your tent.'
The Israelites did as they were told; some gathered much, some little.
And when they measured it by the omer, he who gathered much did not have too much, and he who gathered little did not have too little. Each one gathered as much as he needed.
Then Moses said to them, "No one is to keep any of it until morning.
However, some of them paid no attention to Moses; they kept part of it until morning, but it was full of maggots and began to smell. So Moses was angry with them.
Each morning everyone gathered as much as he needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away.
On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much—two omers [a] for each person—and the leaders of the community came and reported this to Moses.
He said to them, "This is what the LORD commanded: 'Tomorrow is to be a day of rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. So bake what you want to bake and boil what you want to boil. Save whatever is left and keep it until morning.
So they saved it until morning, as Moses commanded, and it did not stink or get maggots in it.
"Eat it today," Moses said, "because today is a Sabbath to the LORD. You will not find any of it on the ground today.
Six days you are to gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any."
Nevertheless, some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather it, but they found none.
Then the LORD said to Moses, "How long will you [a] refuse to keep my commands and my instructions?
Bear in mind that the LORD has given you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Everyone is to stay where he is on the seventh day; no one is to go out."
So the people rested on the seventh day.
The people of Israel called the bread manna. [a] It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.
Moses said, "This is what the LORD has commanded: 'Take an omer of manna and keep it for the generations to come, so they can see the bread I gave you to eat in the desert when I brought you out of Egypt.' "
So Moses said to Aaron, "Take a jar and put an omer of manna in it. Then place it before the LORD to be kept for the generations to come."
As the LORD commanded Moses, Aaron put the manna in front of the Testimony, that it might be kept.
It was a small round thing in the morning dew, it bred larva, and would melt to mush if not dried. [King James Version].
All "wild" mushroom pickers know that mushrooms are most notorious for being infested with worms. This is because flies worldwide of all varieties lay their eggs, which hatch up into the gills causing the larvae/worms to crawl out as the mushroom maturesDaniel 5:3-5 with Exodus 16:32 and Hebrews 9:4 Daniel 5:3-5: Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
Exodus 16:32 And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.
Hebrews 9:4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
indicates that the mushroom was a drug. After sacking the temple in Jerusalem and stealing the Ark-of-the-Covenant, the King of Babylon and his table drank from the golden cup containing the holy “Manna” they had visions within the hour….. Psilocybin mushrooms take 30-40 minutes to induce visions.Psalm 78:24-25 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.
calls Manna Food Of Angels, just as Mayan/Inca Priests from Meso-America called it Teonanacatl Food Of The Gods.
Manna is an Egyptian word, not Hebrew or Aramaic, meaning;
The Bread of God. This is what Moses called it in Exodus 16:15.
“Bread Of God” means “Food Of God”, which is the same meaning of Teonanacatl (Mayan), and Ambrosia (Greek), and Soma (Hindu) a word for mushroom tea, all these words mean “Spiritual Food”.
Coca and Tobacco Leaves found in Pharaohs tombs suggest it was ancestors of Mayan/Inca Priests who brought mushrooms to Egypt.John 2:6-9 And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.
Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.
And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it.
When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom,
indicates that Jesus made water into wine by boiling mushrooms (Mushroom-Tea), the waterpots were made of stone, not clay, (stone pots were used for cooking, clay pots used for storing water). These pots already contained 2-3 firkins of a substance before the pots were filled with water.
A “Firkin” is an Old-English measurement meaning a fourth part. Half to three-quarters of fresh mushrooms with water makes a potent tea. Tea is the safest way to consume field mushrooms, killing dangerous bacteria like E. Coli. In the Atharva Veda, the Hindus called this Tea Soma. Greeks called mushroom jelly Ambrosia.
Those who drank the water made into wine said it was the most potent intoxicant (St. John 2:10). The Bible tells us that Jesus making water into wine was the “beginning of miracles” … in other words no one saw any miracles until drinking the wine made from water. (St. John 2:11).
Certainly for the Israelites Egypt was the origin of Manna, which explains why all the Patriarchs of Israel were educated in Egypt, Moses, Christ, and Joseph [The favorite son of Israel], were all educated in Egypt. Solomon married Pharaoh’s daughter, and Abraham found his God at a place called Shechem (Sekhem), which is another Egyptian word for Manna. Teonanacatl [Maya] = Soma [Hindu] = Ambrosia / Broma-Theon [Greek] = Manna [Egyptian/Hindu] It can be no coincidence that the Mayan, Egyptian, Greek, Hindu, and Israelite words for the mushroom all mean exactly the same thing: “The Bread Of God”.
Manna was round, was found on the ground in the dew, would melt to mush if not dried or collected on time, and would breed larvae. All unique characteristics of mushrooms. When dried it was like “wafers of bread” and it’s color was like “coriander seed”, the consistency and color of dried mushrooms, as described in Exodus Ch. 16.
Other psychedelics used in the Bible include, of course, Cannabis, Mandrake and others. This book focuses on Mushrooms as “The Global Sacrament”, but most specifically to the Israelites.
Be advised that the author does not advocate the non-ritual use of mushrooms or in any way place their importance above that of love, “Seek first the kingdom of love and all other things shall be added to you” [Christ]
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