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This study begins with Pliny, and Ammon Hillman uses the Roman writer to make a single point: in the ancient world, drugs and magic were one art. Pliny traces the beginnings of magic to the same pre-Socratic wave that gave the Greeks the atom, to Democritus, Pythagoras, and Empedocles, and then to the Persian magi, who practiced an interrogation technique. The magus gives a hallucinogenic drug, takes the daimon (δαίμων) into himself, and speaks it back to the drugged person, who then reports the truth as he sees it. Hillman compares this to the myth of Eros, the archer whose sting is a drug.
The heart of the episode is from the Protoevangelium, the Infancy Gospel of James. Joseph finds Mary pregnant and cries that a serpent has defiled his virgin, repeating the story of Eve. The high priest says he will make Joseph drink the water of the judgment of the Lord, potizon (ποτίζων), and sends him out into the wilderness. When Joseph and Mary both return holokleros (ὁλόκληρος), whole in their lot, the bond is released. Hillman reads this not as a miracle but as a drug interrogation, the same operation Pliny describes, and calls the priest a Jewish necromancer.
The water of judgment, he says, is a drug title, and the judge’s formula belongs to the pharmacological world. He closes with Pliny’s wonder at the Mithridatic antidote and its fifty-four precisely weighed parts, the treacle well of later legend, and the claim, reported rather than endorsed, that the Gospel’s strange scene makes sense only as a rite of the mystery. The episode ends with the channel’s constant appeal: protect the texts, because an ideological war is being fought over what they mean.
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Welcome back to Lady Babylon.
this is our 30 minute Thursday night Bible study and tonight I’m gonna take
you somewhere that you haven’t yet been this is gonna be fun we also have a
couple of clips of Derek Lambert from Miss vision and I want to look at a
couple of things that he said in a recent video just emphasize those great
points that he’s making after that we’ll talk about plenty bring him back from
the dead we’ll look into some of the deepest darkest confusing bits of gospel that you’ll
ever see on lady babylon tonight so i’ll also have a little appearance tomorrow night on
gnostic informant we’ll be talking about drugs talking about the drugs of antiquity a topic that
nobody ever ever wants to talk about classicists included classicists included it’s getting a
little bit better a professor from brown told me it’ll take people 10 years to catch up and then
once they do it’ll take off well it’s been about 12 years now so we ought to be making some
progress in the field of ancient drugs try going for fun try going to your preacher pastor minister
priest try going to one of those people and asking them what do you know about drugs when they tell
you they don’t know anything if they’re honest if they you can just say okay thanks for being honest
but when they try to bring up the topic of a goat, ignore them. Run. Run. You’re in the wrong
place. That’s the only back alley they can find to catch you in is that goat, that goat of
sacrifice. It has nothing to do with anything, anything, especially not the language. They love
to dance around those silly poles all the time it’s hilarious let’s get let’s get on with a
couple of clips tonight of myth vision derrick is hit a couple of points this week that i was just
like hey kudos to this man kudos to him and what he is doing there’s an honor a real honor in this
he has really captured the satanic spirit yeah he’s on fire with it chewy hit us he just saying
we’re at a battle here in terms of ideologies which affect all sorts of other things from
politics ethics you name it do you want to see the world become a better place i do and i am in
no way saying we need to shut down all religion or people should not be allowed to practice them
fundamentalism is an absolute opposition in my opinion to being able to freely think
fundamentalism notice he said fundamentalism not one type of fundamentalism but fundamentalism
in general is an enemy of the old thought box yeah hence the old argument why are you worshiping
nature you don’t need that nature stuff we’ve got creed yeah that’s what that’s what mr lambert in
all of his you know he’s having all of his guests on he’s got experts he’s got access to them and
you can see he’s growing you see the same thing in gnostic informant they’re outgrowing their tutors
yeah they’re outgrowing their tutors they’re essentially getting an education and they’re
outgrowing their tutors and they’re seeing this is a war this is a war yeah beautiful let’s roll
that second clip because christians don’t do that when they’re doing the claims for other deities
they don’t believe those things are all true but theirs they do muslims are doing the same thing
with their particular worldview they have their own spin not interested so help us with this
battle this war by liking the videos of the content creators you like by sharing the content
out there as far and as wide as you can leaving a comment goes a very far distance in helping the
algorithm pay attention even if it is just a comment here’s one for the algorithm because
we have such large christian apologetic channels that get all this attention and there’s there’s
really an ideological war going on to speed up the process and make this material more broad
and more public that’s how you can help there is an ideological war going on he’s talking about
youtube yeah yeah this is a man who has worked the front line and seized the front line for what it
is yeah do you see the energy in him the zeal this smacks of the ancient museum i can i can smell it
I can smell the ancient museum.
No matter what you fundamentalists do, no matter what you indoctrinated, dogmatic, orthodoxic, hegemonic, theocratic people do, the museum will persist.
You can burn all of our scrolls.
You can take all the books out of circulation.
You will not stop reason.
You won’t stop us.
This is beautiful.
Kudos, Derek Lambert.
myth vision yeah he’s right there with war this is field of mars right oh love it love it love it
love it okay let’s go tonight to our first little bit of uh jaunt back into the history we’re gonna
be doing bible study tonight i’m gonna take you to the proto-evangelion the infancy gospel
of james we’re gonna look at a section that makes no sense in the english that’s because
the translation is terrible but first we’re going to start with some plenty and you’ll notice i’m
giving you all of plenty in english yeah yeah think about that there’s a good reason the latin
comes across much more clearly you can refine it with technical adjustments but as my students who
are learning both languages now as they’re going to see as they’re going to start to develop
different forms of communication there’s different levels of thinking and with the ancient greek
sometimes we can get so lost in the orphic analog that we lose sight of what’s going on that’s right
tonight’s text is full it’s full of orphic radiation you’re gonna love it first we gotta go
through a little background with plenty hit that first plenty yeah i should have been inclined to
think that orpheus had been the first to introduce into a country stoner’s own certain magical
superstitions based upon the practice of medicine right off the bat right off the bat we have an
association with medicine and magic plenty just hits this over and over and over and over again
you have to realize you cannot separate the drugs and the magic you can’t when he says medicine
those things that are given medeo to make put you in a state of wellness yes he’s talking about
drugs he’s talking about pharmacy right sorcery it’s why we call us you know all the pharmacon
roots we translate sorcery sorcery right drugs and magic are one let’s go to the next quote for the
art of magic is a fact beyond all doubt though at the same time i’ve remarked that in the most
ancient times and when plenty says ancient times he’s talking about bronze age he’s talking about
his antiquity right and indeed by the way he’s first century um and indeed almost invariably
it was in this branch of science that was sought the highest point of celebrity and of literary
renown at all events pythagoras we thought we find in pedocles democritus and plato
across the seas in order to attain a knowledge thereof and you say to yourself democritus what
did democritus give us he’s that pre-socratic philosopher who gave us the atom yeah your concept
everything that modern physics is based on it’s a conception in from the mind of a pre-socratic
philosopher who studied and wrote about magic extensively extensively good good let’s get
another quote from plenty it was democritus too who first drew attention to apollo becky’s of
comptos to dardanus and to phoenix the works of dardanus and yes that’s the famous dardanus who
we call the greeks after right we call them dardanians yes that’s him he sought in the tomb
of uh of that personage right you always bury your magic scrolls with you numa’s doing it
right for a reason and his own were composed in accordance with the doctrines there found give
me one more give me one more text there is also a marvelous coincidence in the fact that the two
arts medicine i mean magic were developed simultaneously medicine by the writings of
hippocrates and magic by the works of democritus so right away they should throw you a little bit
wait a minute the origins of that greek literary magic where we have books that contain these
magical principles and premises and spells and incantations and hymns that all of these things
literarily go back to a pre-socratic wave of renaissance like thought yes they do they do but
we’ll see that the earlier forms of this that come uh from this persian um magus
this medo persian magus these forms are ultimately where plenty is going to say all of this
interaction took place with the drugs all of this knowledge plenty tells us about the magi using
drugs to interrogate and he says they have wonderful drugs for causing you to hallucinate
for you to be able to see things that are horrific that are incredibly scary and all the mag magus
has to do who’s performing the interrogation is to give you the drug and then for himself to take in
the demon the daimon and to express that daimon to this drugged person and that person will tell you
the truth as they perceive it they will reflect what exactly they perceive it’s amazing it’s
amazing technology so plenty tells us that the magi do this they’re the best interrogators and
they work against conspiracies right you want to find out who the other conspirators are drug the
guy that you catch and get their names and locations. So what does that have to do with
the Bible study? What does that have to do with the Bible study? Of course, the evangelicals are
not going to know this. The guys at the seminary who claim to be Greek experts are not going to
know this. Why? Because the only thing they ever read was their own little text. And when you do
that. You don’t develop a vocabulary. You develop an inbred, two-headed, three-eyed monster. It’s
disgusting. It’s disgusting. Don’t tell me you can translate those texts. You can’t, right? I’ll take
any of you on. Yeah. Heavy, heavy breathing. Oh, I’m sorry. It gets me gassed, though, when that
happens. What does this have to do with the Bible, right? Devil’s only giving me another quarter of
hour so what does this have to do with the bible let’s run to the text now um chewy get us quick to
a star system that has the next set of quotes in it yeah here we go perfect nice look at this here
we are in the sixth month of her pregnancy that’s mary mary i told you this had something to do with
the bible joseph came from his house building and went into the house to find her swelling
uh-oh and he struck his face and threw himself on the ground and sackcloth and wept bitterly
how can i look to the lord god what will i pray about her for i took her as a virgin from the
temple of the lord and did not guard her who has set this trap for me who did this evil in my house
i want to come back to this but i want to stop there and just comment on it you see what’s
happening he’s saying who came in and raped my virgin somebody came in and raped my virgin who’s
i’m in trouble now i’m supposed to be guarding this virgin and now she’s pregnant who did this
who stole this virgin from me and defiled her has not the story of adam been repeated with me
for while adam was glorifying god the serpent came and found eve alone and deceived her and defiled
her. So it’s happened to me. Do you hear what he just said? He’s saying that Eve was entered into
sexual intercourse with you know who? Serpent himself, right? Everybody knows he’s the hottest,
right? You didn’t know that all of Genesis came down to one fact that Eve saw the hotter
of the two choices and ended up having intercourse now this doesn’t strike me as odd it does a lot
of people that eve would be having sex with the devil right um but we know that the devil used to
scrape his skin and put it in her water yeah isn’t that cool now if you were covered in paint
in psychedelic paint and you were going to influence someone to try to bring that sting
of eros to them right that’s why we have eros on the front today if you’re going to try to bring
that sting to them you can do it with a drug you can do it isn’t that that’s hesperus gorgeous
gorgeous right that evening star we all know what do people say hey neil and derrick
you guys have a lot of shows with experts on who talk a lot about the devil not once have i heard
any of these people talk about how hot the devil was devil was the best looking of everybody this
is adonis for a reason you see it do you see the morning star now i’m giving you the images that
those of you who have ears to hear will be able to know exactly where we are okay let’s go next
quote we gotta we gotta hustle through this and the high priest said to her mary what is this
how have you humiliated yourself did you forget the lord your god you were raised in the holy
of holies and received from the hand of an angel wait what yeah it looks at the greek it’s very
the same thing it’s it’s literally you’re nourished you were grown you were grown in
the holy of holies not just the temple he doesn’t say the temple in what the greeks called the
additon the inner space where you met with the god that’s where she was raised that’s where she
was raised she made the purple and the scarlet dies for the threads beautiful beautiful okay
the same quote you heard their songs and danced before what you heard their songs and danced
before them oh maybe that’s why he’s talking about dancing in the chorus for the temple
oh it’s beautiful look at the jews performing these rights the rights of a pagan mystery you
would think you would think their history would have stopped them but it didn’t it didn’t and
that’s how we get to this quirky this quirky scene that nobody can explain the english
translations are terrible keep going to the next uh what’s our next is it yeah here we go okay so
what’s gonna happen right the high priest has found out the high priest has found out that
mary’s pregnant and he summoned joseph and and mary right and so the priest the high priest says
give me back my girl give me back the virgin notice he’s still calling her a virgin
all right yeah the virgin whom you took from the temple of the lord and so i’m reading this
literally and so joseph stood there and started crying sorry it’s that he started crying okay
Okay, so, you know, probably because he’s scared, right?
He defiled the virgin of the temple.
My God, man, that can’t be good.
And so the high priest says to him,
I am going to make you drink the water of the judgment of the Lord,
and it will make clear your wrongdoings in your eyes.
Take that off for a minute.
It will make clear your wrongdoings in your eyes.
Now, in a minute, he’s going to untie them both, right?
If you read this in English, it makes no sense.
It makes absolutely no sense because, and this is where we on satanic initiation will benefit so much.
What they do is they follow the actual analog.
They follow the metaphor, right?
and they say joseph goes off to the wilderness he comes back and everything’s fine they’re
following the analog right listen to it with your ears it’s a drug interrogation okay so he’s going
to give you and that thing that he says he’s going to give him is a title for a drug the judgment of
god yes do you know what the judgment of god is it’s a drug the love of god the love of god let
said again the love of god is the name of an ancient drug do you know what it’s made of
it’s jesus’s semen yeah yeah bring those texts yeah let’s go back to the greek finish this up
and uh the high priest took him and forced him to drink and when it says it took him that’s really
like capturing him like like taking a hold of putting hands on him and he forces him to drink
he forces him to drink what does he force him uh to he forces him to drink what he told him
he’s going to force him to drink pimpson he sent him out into the wilderness he sent him out into
the wilderness whereas what’s the wilderness the wilderness is that place where you are tempted
it is literally here this use of it of the word is that borderland in egypt they referred to it
this way it’s that desert borderland um in greece different parts of greece you could talk about
the inlands of the hills the wild hill country as that wilderness as that wilderness yes
Let’s go.
That will say six minutes.
And so, yeah.
And so what else did he do?
And he, kaelthen, right?
So he comes back and he’s holocleros.
He’s holocleros.
That word kleros is the word for lot.
Yes.
His lot is whole.
He comes back.
He hasn’t untied him yet, right?
He hasn’t let him go.
He sends him into the wilderness with this solution that he makes him drink, specifically drink.
And he comes back holocleros, true to the sorte, true to the randomization of reality.
This is drug talk.
These are necromancers, right?
These magi are doing these interrogations.
These are necromancers, bro.
this high priest the dude’s a necromancer he’s a jewish necromancer okay keep going hurry we gotta
hurry yeah and um so he sends the uh he sends the virgin out to the wilderness too and she comes
back holo kledos everything is fine and everybody is amazed right because they couldn’t find any
falsehood in the story they didn’t reveal anything right and so the priest says you know since well
And since we can’t bring out any fault, then I’m not going to, right?
I’m not going to contradict here.
What’s going on?
Yes, yes, yes.
Let’s go to the next text.
I just wanted you to see Klaidos here.
Klaidos here.
Ah, yes, necromantic ties for those of you who want to pause that and take a look at it.
Let’s go to the next test, though.
I want to go back really quick to Pliny, and I want to read this to you.
The Mithridatic antidote is composed of four and fifty ingredients,
none of which are used in exactly the same proportion,
and the quantity prescribed is in some cases so small as the sixtieth part of one denarius.
That’s not very much.
Which of the gods, pray, can have instructed man in such trickery as this,
a height to which the mere subtlety of human invention could surely never have reached?
Come on, calm down, play.
It clearly must emanate from a vain ostentation of scientific skill and must be set down as a monstrous system.
Yes, puffing off the medical art.
You see that?
They’re so specific with their measurements for all of these ingredients.
They’re just showing off their scientific skill.
That’s all they’re doing.
So when the priest pulls out his water of of God’s judgment and is able to administer it, don’t let it be surprised.
Don’t let it surprise you. This knowledge is there. This knowledge is there. Fantastic.
I want to take you really quick. Why do we go to the Mithridatic?
I want you to consider the treacle well for everybody who’s in satanic initiation.
I want you to consider the treacle well and consider it that
Lewis Carroll
Took Alice there with her sisters in a boat. He didn’t take her to the well
But he talked about the well in Oxford and he said there are three girls that live at the bottom of this well
Right that treacle that word treacle is based off the Greek theory
I and for those of you who have been paying attention
this
Explosion of knowledge comes partially because of what Lewis Carroll’s advisor is doing in classics
So if you really want to understand Alice in Wonderland and the use of the treacle well
You want you want to dip into antiquity?
Yes, and then all of a sudden the symbols are there and instead of saying like that terrible English translation
They sent them off into the woods, and they came back, and it makes no sense.
Where’s the drug involved?
By the way, it says after that, he untied their hands.
It says he released their bonds and let them go, right?
So this is exactly it.
It matches Pliny’s almost contemporary description, right?
Pliny’s first century.
This gospel is really second century.
It’s like 150-ish, somewhere around there.
so um yeah it’s it’s okay you’re within you know 80 years of each other that’s you know
it’s not much so it’s good contemporary evidence plenty and the gospel using the same language to
illustrate the same type of event yeah it’s wonderful and um what i’ll do is i’ll continue
with this uh through neil tomorrow gnostic informant tomorrow and we’ll talk about some
of the hardcore drug texts and what they’re doing what doctors are doing in antiquity and kind of
look at that side that narcotic side if you will of everything i wanted to tie this all up into a
nice with a nice bow and say the world that we’re learning about that’s there in the greek
is not the world that we’re being given there is an ideological war i i’m in complete agreement
derrick is right there’s an ideological war going on and that war has been going on for a long time
and it is meant to obscure reality it is obfuscation at its best christianity as they
said in antiquity is meant for one thing and one thing alone power the acquisition of power when
you start burning down the museum you are doing so to set your path to power we are in conflict
the things that i say are not what your preachers are going to tell you but you should know they’re
out there they’re out there and they’re real and we have a duty we have a duty as servants of the
muse, we have a duty to protect those texts. And those who claim to be guardians, who have taken
these New Testament texts and say, these are ours, you seminarians, you priests, shame on you
for letting your guard down. Shame on you for claiming your expertise when you have none.
It’s disgusting. Long live the muse. Hail Satan.
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