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This episode is the chapter about rousing the dead. Ammon Hillman opens with a line from Seneca, a prayer asking a witch goddess to give drugs the power of arousal. He then describes how the Greco-Roman world understood witchcraft. In his account, sexuality was not a sideshow. It was the engine. Priestesses who served Hecate (Ἑκάτη), Priapus, and Dionysus studied the ecstasy of sex as a way to transport a person from the ordinary world into the magical one. Hillman says they worked for one goal: to resurrect a bi-gendered creator, the gynomorphic god, and open a doorway through the world they called Erebus (Ἔρεβος).
The drugs are named. Powdered aconite, the milky latex of the opium poppy mixed with nightshade, and above all snake venom. He reports that venoms were used as medicines, as regulators of menstruation, and as weaponized poisons. Horace’s witch Canidia boasts that with her own voice she can draw down the moon, arouse the dead, and concoct drugs of desire. Seneca’s Medea, he notes, gathers every kind of poisonous snake, milks them, and mixes the burning and freezing powers together. That, he calls polypharmacy.
The episode closes on the claim that these women treated the human body as a chemical factory, and the substances of the rite as the seeds of fire. He reads the old texts as evidence that the gods of the underworld were called up for prophecy, and he draws a line from the priestesses to the Christos. The work, he says, continues today: the same pharmacology the church later banned, and the same fight over who controls the body and its medicine.
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Welcome back to Satanic Initiation.
This is Ammon, and tonight we’re going to do a little bit of trekking.
We’re going to rouse the dead.
we’re going to bring them back. Our chapter tonight is called Arousing the Dead. It’s very,
very much like ISIS, don’t you think? It’s fantastic. I love it. I’m going to read a
little bit to you and hopefully get this train going with some initiation subliminal
trans trickery. Yes, tonight on Lady Babylon, we will. Fantastic. Let’s not waste your time.
And we’ll get our half hour. So we started taking the poll. For those of you who want to see Derek Lambert in lingerie for a Fight Club event next Friday, where we will, all of us, put on the kit of the mean ads.
we’ll wear lingerie and platinum wigs and we will talk why are we doing this because we are
taking back we’re taking back what our ancestors um what our ancestors pushed anything good
anything good in this american experiment we’re doing it we’re doing it and we’re following that
And I think in the spirit, in the spirit of loving those principles of honor, we need to push back for Tennessee and for Texas, where Twisted Sister cannot perform without being arrested for a felony.
That’s right. It’s time for us to jump out. All those of you men who, for no particular reason, would put on lingerie and a platinum wig, now it’s time for us to do it. Now it’s time for us to do it. We need to take back Texas.
So why? I suppose it’s because we’re just not going to take it. Yes. Yes. Fantastic. So I’m encouraging Neil and Derek to come next Friday for this event. And I’m going to let them know who’s ahead in the poll, Chewy. Is it yes or is it absolutely? It’s yes right now. Just by a hair, you can answer the question.
would you like to see Derek Lambert in lingerie yes or absolutely is the second response definitely
definitely you know yes or more assuredly yes if you’d like to whatever wherever you stand
um and hopefully we’ll have that next Friday I’ll keep you appraised of the situation it takes a lot
of courage yeah so give us give us that ladies give us that give us that takes a lot of courage
to step up like this. Next Friday, tonight we’re going to be looking at one of the chapters that
is in my book on hermaphrodites. Some of you just watched the Gnostic Informant. We talked about
drugs. We talked about ancient drugs. We talked about specific drugs. We talked about verbs that
just express getting high we talked about doctors using terminology to describe different types of
drugs the drugs that put you in different states we talked about in sales this is one of the big
things getting that god within that possessive form right this is all induced by the use of drugs
all by all by the use of drugs and we’ve got to remember we’re bathing our fetus think of a fetus
grab this image think of a fetus growing in a rich chemical bath that’s designed to burn off
his mortality yeah there’s a place in your skull it’s right in the middle of your head it’s called
the third ventricle i will meet you there i will meet you in the third ventricle there is
a spring there in the middle of your head it’s called the water of life we can access this water
we can access it yeah think of that fetus developing you take it back into yourself
when you perform the sacrifice when that mother comes to you and gives you that oracular voice
of her daughter and she is on dedicated to the temple she is on the drugs that will be making
her abort and we will be consuming that abortion yeah people said it’s not about drugs you can’t
say that bro how long have i been telling everybody here right give me my moment i don’t
usually stand back like this but give me my moment i’ve been telling you people the people in the
bronze age were using drugs and not just uh mild ones either not just ones that give you constipation
i’m talking drugs that are mind-altering right big ones how long have i i’ve been saying people
in the bronze age were huge drug users what happened today they wrote up london uh no new
york times right wrote it up and it turns out they’ve got the hair and the hair shows that they
were on some heavy psychotropic drugs right it’s not like they just had them when if they’re
detecting them in the hair that’s from long-term use that’s a chronic baby these were chronics
yeah chronics those scythians i tell you god you gotta love them you gotta let it was dyed red
it was dyed red did you see that with everything that you people have been studying and you know
i’m talking about you know and the things i can’t say that i know right but you people have been
studying this their hair was dying it was dark red isn’t that nice fantastic yeah you know what
i’m talking about you’re there this is gorgeous i’m gonna read a little bit to you i’m gonna read
a little bit to you yeah would you like to yeah let’s go i’m getting instructions here chewy i
No, we’ve got to jump.
We’ve got to jump now.
Grant my drugs the power of arousal, witch goddess,
and with my concoctions preserve the germinal semen of life
established in the flames of desire.
Thank you, Seneca.
Thank you, Seneca.
That should get us in the right place.
There’s a good reason ancient witches became experts in the use of sexual drugs.
They understood that the manipulation of sexuality was a means of transport from the mundane to the
magical. Ancient philosophers studied logic, mathematics, and natural science in pursuit of
personal enlightenment. Clerics read signs of the sky and prognosticated on their oracular
significance in order to avert disaster and to honor the gods. Statesmen pursued oratory and
law in order to perpetuate the machinery of ancient governance and as equally valued members
of ancient society greco-roman witches studied the ecstasy of sexuality in order to resurrect
a bi-gendered creator a gynomorphic god who was the key to unlocking a multi-dimensional universe
witches for the young priestess who served gods such as hecate priapus and dionysus the secrets
of the natural world were not just for the theoretical musings of natural scientists
these educated women took an active approach to the cosmos by advancing the notion that the world
around them particularly the human body could be actively manipulated they believed they were not
just spectators of a cosmic dream, but active participants in the progress of the universe’s
drama. Ancient witches were part of a long religious and medical tradition that predates
written history. They were a bridge between the shaman of early human civilization and the
philosopher of the classical era. The earliest written records of Greek, Roman, and Etruscan
civilization are replete with drugs and drug recipes used by priestesses and witches. The
witches’ understanding of drugs predates the written word. Even the palace records of the
Minoans and Mycenaeans, the earliest ancestors of the Greeks to leave written documents,
they show an awareness of the use of botanicals as drugs it’s old you go through this old linear b
and a lot of lists you get a list for the drugs that they’re trading it’s right there it’s gorgeous
you can tell what they’re doing right you can tell what they’re doing by the drugs all right
have you been to cyprus did you get the smyrna you know what that stuff smells like oh god i can’t do
this i can’t do this it gets to me just sitting here it gets to me witches were never passive
they actively engaged the discipline subject matter in order to advance their cause with a
clear unified agenda and laborious training in their arts ancient witches claim to be able to
harness the power of the natural world to perform supernatural feats their miracles were based in
the reality of sexuality as the witch canidia said in horus’s epodes with my own voice i am
able to draw down the moon i can arouse the dead once cremated i can concoct drugs of sexual desire
they can bring that they can bring that individual back they can bring that individual back
even after they’ve been their bodies consumed it’s fantastic love this they can also make the
sex drugs yeah fantastic makes you wonder about mary magdalene doesn’t it that pope
cares that she has sex drugs really she needs to be pardoned pope greg the great
you guys are hilarious the watchers they always know the best places in the universe
Witches accomplished the impossible by manipulating the mundane.
They secured their environments for the tools necessary to alter the natural world,
and they used the act of human sexual intercourse as a springboard to affect their supernatural tinkering.
It’s fair to say that the heart of ancient witchcraft was sexuality.
There is a good reason that so many ancient spells are concerned with intercourse.
Witches believed sex was the cosmic magic that gave them their power.
Drugs. Let’s talk about drugs.
The desire to bend nature led priestesses of Hecate, Priapus, and Dionysus
to the use of potent plant and animal substances.
these chemicals had dramatic effects on human physiology powdered aconite was lethal in very
small doses opium latex from the poppy mixed with the juices of the deadly nightshade plant
caused benumbed ecstasy there’s one for the there’s one for the biotech people
benumbed ecstasy you know what they call that they call that the chill the chilling ecstasy
you can get heated or you can get chilled you know what i’m talking about you can get heated
in the ecstasy yeah you can get chilled in the opium that’s how they that’s how they expressed
it in antiquity yeah you get chilled one of the drugs used in antiquity that has entirely escaped
the radar of modern scholars is snake venom. Venoms of various snake species were used as
medicines, regulators of menstruation, and weaponized poisons. Don’t you love this, ladies?
Listen to this. If you have a cycle, did you know that you can regulate that cycle? Did you know
that you can flow when you want to flow? Did you know you can turn your flow up and down? Did you
know that you can design your flow yeah turns out you can’t listen to what these people are doing
that’s medicine this is all coming out of the midwives right oh god that’s the medicine imagine
you we just suffer the effects right and for the sake of trying to control our our reproductivity
we could put the kibosh on that we haven’t gotten as far though as to find the drugs
that enable you to control your own menstruation that’s amazing i call it drawing down the moon
because that maine is what the phase is that you go through in order to produce
that communion that communion is your unfertilized um soul yeah that you can abort
yeah if you can fertilize it and then abort it wow now we’re going somewhere now we’re going
somewhere it’s in the process fetal loving the fetal stuff fetal cells they’re doing this in
antiquity yeah they’re doing antiquity they coffee them at middle ages right they would take the bowl
out from underneath the virgin as she ejaculated and they would give you that anal applicators
yeah good stuff for antiquity um recognize the level of sophistication that you have to have
remember plenty that we had in bible study plenty was the one saying hey you know they’re just
showing off these magi are just showing off they’re just really good at these drugs and you
know you’ve got the one with 50 some remedies in it it’s oh god it’s good stuff let’s keep going
The Greeks and Romans recognized that snake venoms were potent, biologically active substances.
These venoms, when applied to the human body, caused physiological changes that were readily observable by natural scientists and laymen alike, and were frequently quite dramatic.
An elaborate mythology of snake lore appears in the earliest recorded Greek texts.
Snakes are presented as gods, guardians, and demons.
for example the followers of bacchus wrap snakes around their heads the followers of bacchus now
you remember that followers of bacchus wrap snakes around their head right these are vipers yeah
wow let me be jesus right let me be jesus for a second let me give you water of life right out of
your head right out of your head that’s delicious you haven’t drunk water until you’re drunk from
the waters of life are you thirsty are you thirsty you’re gonna need an antidote you’re
gonna need an antidote that’s why nona says what they give them on the cross antidote antidote
it’s in the commentary on john love it love it in the epodes by the celebrated roman poet horace
Canidia is presented as a cunning witch involved in the preparation of an
infernal sacrifice. That is, a ritual sacrifice to the gods of the underworld.
As a witch or sorceress, Canidia uses snake venom, specifically viper venom, to
prepare sacrifices for slaughter. Vipers produce a venom that affects the ability
of blood to coagulate. As predators, these snakes use hemorrhagic venoms to kill prey,
but the complex protein toxins they employ may also help prepare their food sources
for digestion. Venom glands in reptiles just evolutionarily develop saliva glands, after all,
and the poisons they synthesize are physiologically active when injected directly
into the bloodstream. They recognize this. You can’t eat these things, right? That’s why you
have to have the anal applicator. Did you ever wonder why that priestess walks around with a
dildo? Yeah, yeah. That’s her wand. That’s her wand. Sometimes they tie you down. I don’t know.
It gets questionable there, right? Several popular mystery religions of Greece and Rome relied
heavily on the use of vipers during their celebrations and the iconography of this
particular reptile regularly intrudes into the literature with our and artistic representations
of these same cults within the practices of these cults vipers typically appear in the context of
oracular transformation that is the vipers are represented as agents of maniacal metamorphosis
They enable mystery initiates to assume the madness characteristic of gynomorphic gods
like Dionysus. Other snake species also creep into mythological references in very specific
ways that reflect the ancient world’s fascination with gender switching and sexual manipulation.
Remember, these witches, they’re developing these dotes and antidotes, and they are focusing upon sexual reproduction within the big tent of midwifery or gynecology.
Think of that.
Those of you who are evangelicals, hold your ears.
Those of you who are in Tennessee, Texas, shout out to you guys.
Open up your ears for a minute and listen.
listen to the fetus being bathed in the venom. Yeah. Yeah. Genetic medicine, right? For the
biochemists out there who know what those toxins are capable of and how they interact with human
hormones. Yeah. We’ve got glorious stuff there. Glorious potential. There’s potential for a whole
new form of medicine yeah i’m gonna i’m gonna have a guest on the lady babylon tonight and um
to talk about such you know things some genetic medicine maybe he’ll take us to that that spring
that i was telling you about in the middle of your brain oh god it’s the water of life baby
stars priestesses and sorceresses i’ve got a little extra time tonight so just we’ll hang on there
um if you don’t mind priestesses and sorceresses who pioneered the use of snake victims for the
regulation administration believed in a universe composed of various overlapping planes the ancient
witches cosmos is strikingly similar to the multiverse of modern cosmologists who study
astrophysics. Witches like Medea, Circe, and Canidia believed that the universe was divided
into three realms. These dimension-like realms were given the names Earth, Olympus, and Erebus.
According to Greek accounts of the origins of the universe, the three realms of existence all
possessed basic elements and unique inhabitants. Earth was believed to be the realm of air,
the element consumed by mortals olympus was a plane inhabited by gods who breathe ether and
arabus was a realm of demonic powers these powers breathe and ingest dark matter yes that’s what
they called it that’s not the name that i just made up they called it dark matter cool the greco
roman realms of existence are very much like overlapping dimensions of reality the inhabitants
of each realm are invisible to the other realms but can communicate and interact under specific
controlled circumstances witches were most interested in the interactions of arabus
the underworld with the world of earthly mortals that’s what they specialized in the connection of
those two realms okay ancient mythographers recorded traditions that the gods of arabus
could only visit earth by access by accessing portals or gateways through collapsed stars
this dark star is picked up across time by lots of not so friendly groups and the process
of working through a darkened star is central to the work of the sorceress you have to capture
that wave of space-time distortion that those collapsed stars produce okay let’s hold it that’s
too much physics poindexter i know i have a hard time too those witches were smart you know you
gotta you gotta be a mental gymnast just to keep up with them it’s amazing you know due to the fact
that these immortal beings and infernal demons breached uh breathe darkness or dark matter
it was necessary to remove or destroy light sources in order to sanction i’m sorry to sustain
their travel poets like claudian of the late 4th century taught that the dark matter of arabus
neither reflected nor absorbed light and thus was incompatible with the earth realm where light is
abundant when the gods of erebus visited earth they were forced to remain within dark matter
bubbles it’s cool when he mentions yeah it’s a bubble of dark matter in order to sustain
themselves um for the transit yeah so dark matter bubbles this is what we get rights of apollo that
use this right these oracular practices underworld gateways the power to draw down the stars in order
to open gateways to the underworld became the purview of witches by employing poisons that
contain the power to manipulate the basic elements of the cosmos. These witches believed they were
able to enable the gods of the underworld to access the earth realm. The element-manipulating
powers of their drugs manifested themselves by alterations in sexuality. Okay, quantum.
which which is viewed as alterations of the generative power of their by gendered goddess
their folk they’re drawing the generative power of their goddess you see how this goes back to the
you know why paul the apostle is walking around saying you worship nature of course they do you
idiot yeah paul was it not the smartest knife in the drawer you know the power to draw down
the stars in order to open gateways the underworld became purview of the witches the element
manipulating powers of their drugs manifested themselves by alterations and sexuality their
drugs could sexually inflame their victims or stifle their arousal with the force of cold chill
as in seneca’s medea after she medea called out every sort of poisonous snake she gathered together
her accursed herbs. She picked the death-dealing plants and milked the snakes of their venom
and mixed them. The wild force of fire was in some, the power of numbing frost in others.
So this is a good example of our polypharmacy. Sorry, this is a good example of our polypharmacy.
We’re almost there to the conclusion. And I want you to see the, did we, are we going to get cut
for this somehow you think it’s okay let’s show the mother let’s just take ourselves remember
the movie that they programmed us with as children i’m talking to my 40 to 60 demographic
the movie that they programmed us with with his kids you didn’t know that it was a giant
drug trip did you hit it give us the witch please it’s always some witch working at a distance like
that putting you to sleep with a bunch of poppies my god man virgil was growing them uh virgil has
a book that talks about how to grow opium poppies why why is that augustus was a dude augustus was
big into the opium marcus aurelius yeah they were loving it i don’t see why not was all legal can
you imagine that a society where all the drugs are legal the only ones that they made illegal
and they have laws against this and cicero prosecuted somebody for this is if you use a drug
um to cause death can’t use a drug to cause death yeah yeah so you know can be prosecuted as murder
yeah the purpose of using these drugs was the attraction or liberation of underworld deities
and her demons that is these witches believe the gods of the underworld were readily available for
the cons for consultation and interference in the activities of the fates just like our witch
right that we just saw she’s putting them to sleep from the distance perfect bringing them up from
the underworld was a prerequisite for forecasting the future and you say oh wait what yes right
look into the crystal ball baby and see the future ah that’s that oracle sucking you in you got the
chilling or the burning right okay um yes the purpose of using these drugs was the attraction
or liberation of underworld divinities summoning the bi-gendered queen goddess of the witches
was a necessary step in commanding the forces of the underworld the realm where all mortals
eventually end up this powerful goddess hecate and her masculine manifestations were all guardians
of the gateways to arabus which is summoned hecate with sacrifice in order to access her
power to open portals remember canadia we were telling about the witch who was preparing her
infernal sacrifice they would take boys oh god they would take little boys you can you can do
a lot to extract certain substances right if the witches have figured out which they’ve known since
the bronze age that the human body is a factory for chemicals chemicals that can be used you know
call them elements of the blood seeds of fire yeah the seeds of fire all of a sudden the evangelical
turned on for a minute because he’s like what yeah you start to smell the christos don’t you
yeah you do ah yeah where were we we’re controlling administration right we’re bringing
it down to drinking that blood you know it’s the blood of the sacrifice when you eject that
chemically aborted fetus with the drug the burning purple that you’re using that is our communion
those cells in that concoction are the healing of the nation yeah isn’t that great
now you know where you came from ancient priestesses and sorceresses viewed the
underworld as a realm or dimension of the universe accessible through cosmic portals using their
pharmacological crafts they claim the ability to open these portals for would-be travelers
they don’t care if you can see them or not and for those brave enough to consult the dead wait a
minute isn’t jehovah wait where’s that jehovah where are you are you here mighty mighty joe of
the highest where’d you go joe he hates this he hates this stuff right he’s like don’t you go
consult these witches these pharma case right these users of drugs do you know why you shouldn’t
consult them they can talk to the dead and it turns out that it works right and you bring this
up bring this up in your church say wait a minute how is this stuff working and it says that they’re
drug involving drugs right it’s because you as a christian are not practicing christianity
i don’t care if you’re a catholic or a protestant i don’t care you are phonies
phony and how do i say that because i’ve seen i’ve seen how the early church practice and you are
nothing of a mystery you are a fragment of a jaded past your faith is not the operation of a mystery
it never was yeah you got to go back to your text people evangelicals where are you in there go back
go back to your tags and look at them look at your tags yeah that’s what they need to do witch of
indoor yeah love it elijah’s doing that stuff too elijah’s into the drugs bro now he can bring the
fire of uranos he’s he knows what the purple is it’s that have you been talking i’m not talking
to the donkeys right it’s not at all difficult to see why the bishops of the early christian
church moved the roman emperor to declare the activity of witches to be illegal and
prosecutable by execution they’re not going to execute twisted sister are they twisted sister
we’re not going to take it to the great twisted sister let us not take it yes let us not take it
the sexual magic of greco-roman witches presented an impediment to the spread of christian mystery
rights wait what an impediment to the spread of christian rights these openly condemned
communication with any of the underworld divinities. Church fathers condemned the use
of pagan magic, but they could not entirely wipe out the influence of witches on the Roman
population. Drugs used by witches to treat gynecological problems had become an important
aspect of ancient medicine, just as they are today. You see, they’re fighting about the same
thing nothing changes oh my it’s beautiful isn’t it the watchers again let me just tell you something
watchers they’re like these humans man i know i know they call it the dung heap dimension right
they call it the the dimension of the refuse the prison some of them call it the prison and that’s
where we are in a giant prison this is your punishment yeah yeah this is your punishment
keep them from their sexual magic when they put on the clothes of a woman a woman do you hear the
disrespect a woman you know we all need to do now we all need to put on the clothes of a woman
yeah supporting our twisted sister drugs used by witches to treat gynecological problems had become
an important aspect of ancient medicine killing off individual witches did not put an end to their
broad influence and practices sexuality and magic were intimately tied together through the use of
pharmaceuticals by doctors and midwives christianity tried in vain to wipe out the influence
of these ancient witches yeah fantastic we’re in the same we’re in the same place today and um
that’s why that’s why this can be very practical this experience the satanic initiation can be
very practical because we are in a spot we are in a spot where you may now see they took down
the romans everything that the offspring of venus could bring to the world all the beauty right what
happened this week you know what happened somebody got fired for michelangelo’s david which is what
do we call it is it neoclassical is it drawing upon a class yeah it’s drawing upon a classical
tradition the christians defeated the romans they know that the only thing that can stand against
them is that queen lady roma they know their own texts acknowledge that it’s her it’s her that’ll
bring the spirit back yeah it’s her and guess what she was celebrated in a mystery through the
use of psychotropic drugs yeah we’re going to have a meeting after this i will send hopefully we’ll
have a fantastic guest tonight talk to us about some neuropharmacology i’m very much looking
forward to it i’m going to zip my lips at it and listen to some great musings of some very
intelligent people that we’re privileged to have time with yes so thank you for coming to satanic
initiation tonight for those of you who went the long haul and watched neil as well thank you um
i appreciate your time and hail satan
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