Chapter Thirteen : The Pharrnacratic Inquisition
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There is much more to these secret teachings than can be discussed in one book. For now, we have come to the end of a road, as we leave you with some thoughtful words from those who have come before us:
Romans 12:2 and be not conformed to this world: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of god.
Jesus proclaimed the coming of the Kingdom, but what came was the Church. 503 "' Alfred Loisy
Even more controversial [than The Dead Sea Scrolls] was my study of a hallucinogenic cult and associated mythology centred on the Sacred Mushroom, the Amanita muscaria. This was in the main a philological study, although it was brought to public attention dramatically through its serialisation in Britain's Sunday Mirror tabloid. Its main importance was that it drew together in a unique way the origins of cultures and languages in the ancient Near East and the classic civilizations of Europe and Asia Minor. However, the occasion for the almost hysterical condemnation of the work was my inclusion within its scope of certain aspects of biblical mythology, even the New Testament stories. In their opposition the clerics found willing support from the supposedly less partisan world of the academics who saw a threat posed by such all-embracing studies to their carefully erected interdisciplinary barriers. Professional scholars feel happier and more secure when they are permitted to dig deeper and deeper into less and less, and are not required by less inhibited researchers and an enquiring laity to peer over their trench walls into adjoining fields of which they know little and frankly care less. 504 "' John Marco Allegro
When you turn your eyes inward, you discover the birthright ... the existential facts out of which this particular existence emerged. Because it means that mystery did not die with the fall of Arthur or the fall of Atlantis or the fall of anything. Mystery is alive in the moment, in the here in now. It just simply lies on the other side of a barrier of courage. And it isn't even that high of a barrier; it's just a barrier high enough to keep out the insincere and the misdirected. But for those who will claim it, in the midst of the historical chaos of the late 20th Century, they become the archaic pioneers; they become the first people to carry the Ouroboric serpent around to its own tail and to make closure. To the degree that any one of us has this connection back to the archaic in our life, it makes where we have been make a lot more sense, and it makes where we're going seem a lot more inviting. "' Terence McKenna, Alchemical Illuminatus
503 The Gospel and the Church, by Alfred Loisy, 1903. 504 Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2003.
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