Take that you Commie, ISBN #0-9710938-9-X
By Marlin Creasote, Fiction 276 pages. Aug 2000
Reviews by Crazy Bob, page 4, Take that you Commie,
DECEIVED, Corrupt Leadership and the American Empire
The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, John Allegro
THE SACRED MUSHROOM AND THE CROSS
by John M. AllegroJohn Allegro was a scholar of language (philologian) that was asked to study the Dead Sea Scrolls and was the only original member that was not a religious man. After years of studying the scrolls he then wrote this book and was criticized so much his academic career was finished.
Allegro claims that mankind invented gods when he had hallucinations from eating a certain kind of mushroom (Amanita muscaria, or Fly-Agaric), with that I can agree. Allegro also sees penises, vaginas, and sex in everything, here I think he had a personal problem.
The mushroom grows without a seed (virgin birth) it breaks through the ground looking like an egg then within a day it grows long like a penis then it develops a bright red cap with white spots. It then dies and is resurrected. Allegro thought that the people that eat it and thought they saw god thought of it as "the son of god": god come to the earth to reveal himself and offering himself as a sacrifice.
As a linguist Allegro could look at an old Greek, Aramaic or Hebrew word and trace its meaning and origin all the way back to the first written language, the Sumerian. Again I agree with him when he says that everything started with and came from Sumer. He ties together such things as the Christian Easter and Jewish Passover to the Bacchic Anthesteria. He states that the concept of Sin was wasting sperm meant for making babies because early man saw rain as god’s sperm.
Allegro starts by pointing out that the Christian myth and all its writings was not in existence until after the Romans crushed the Jewish revolt in 70 AD. His contention is that there was no real Jesus and points out that in the Dead Sea Scrolls there is a "Teacher of Righteousness" that was put to death and that the Essenes where expecting him to be resurrected and return to the earth as the Messiah, to kill the hated enemy, Rome, some 90 years before Jesus. I can understand early man before civilization taking hallucinatory trips and then equating their visions as gods. However his contention is that there were mystery cults that used mushrooms and that everything up to and including the New Testament was not real; that when talking about Jesus they where really talking about the mushroom.
I will give you an example of Allegro’s reasoning. "The use of the name Jesus (Greek iesus) as an invocation for healing was appropriate enough. Its Hebrew original, yehöshiia’, Joshua, comes from Sumerian *JA_U_ShIJ_A (ShuSh), "semen, which saves, restores, heals". Hellenized Jews used for "Joshua" the Greek name IasJn, Jason, very properly, since iasón, "healer", and the deponent verb iaomai, "heal", come from the same Sumerian source." As you can see this is not easy reading if you are not a wordsmith and we must take his (and his critics) word for the truth unless we have the ability to research the language ourselves.
Eve ate the "fruit" of the "tree of knowledge of good and evil" or the holy mushroom and it made her as god. Abraham heard god tell him to kill his son, Moses saw god in a burning bush and heard him speak, Jesus and his disciples saw Moses; could they all have been hallucinating after munching on the sacred mushroom?
Allegro claims that the origin of the term "Blue Blood" that we use for people that think they are special (usually only rich) comes from the Sumerian for menstrual blood that was thought to be special but also dangerous thus royalty and the color purple.
Allegro points out that it was religious fanaticism that was the cause of the downfall of the Jews in 70AD; it was the mushroom eaters that caused all the trouble for the innocent Jews. The Romans where not picking on the Christians, they where fighting mushroom eating Jewish terrorists who spoke of a Chrestus. We know that the Christian religion also has had its share of religious fanaticism and that today we are suffering from Moslem religious fanaticism.
Allegro claims that all of the Bible stories from the Old and New Testaments where really cover stories about the use of this mushroom written to pass on the information to new members of the secret mystery cult. Then sometime before Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire the cult was wiped out and the message was picked up by the ordinary people and believed as a fact.
Let’s see if I understand this. A group of early men, before we where civilized, were eating the magic mushroom and thought they saw god when they where hallucinating. They then developed religion and the priests of this religion kept the truth a secret passing it on to their select priestly followers. This first religion of the Sumerians spun off to become the Egyptian, Greek, Hittite, Hindu, and early Hebrew religion with only a select few allowed to know the secret of the mushroom. Then one fanatical sect of Jews that hoped for a deliver from Roman oppression invented the story of Chrestus and started so much trouble that they where hounded by the Roman authorities into oblivion. The unknowing followers of this religion where picked up by Constantine and the rest is history. Except for the uncomfortable fact that a select few to this day know the truth that it all came from the visions brought on by eating this special mushroom.
You need to read this book through and then on a second reading it begins to make more sense. Allegro’s claim reminds me of the so called "Bible Code" where people find hidden messages in the Bible; if you try hard enough you can find hidden meaning in everything. Allegro claims he never tried the mushroom himself, one wonders.
Crazy Bob 2009AD