THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS – JOHN ALLEGRO
From An Old To Ours: Dead Sea Scrolls come to Kansas City for three months: INSIDE: Your guide to the exhibit at Union Station; The Kansas City Star; Sunday, February 4, 2007; p. 8; “Discovery Timeline”:
Also at:
http://www.kansascity.com/multimedia/kansascity/archive/fyi/faith/Dead_Sea_Scrolls/DSS_P7.pdf, or http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/living/religion/16582894.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
http://www.salemiu.edu/resources/psilo/index.htm, Entheogens and the Origins of Religion, “MIDDLE EAST”:
Allegro was
a brilliant linguist and the sole humanist scholar who was assigned to the
translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which were discovered in the caves near
the ruins known as Khirbet Qumran. He fell out
of favor with the elder conservative translation team when he disagreed with
their methods of secrecy. Allegro wrote several books on the
implications of the scrolls. One of the books is titled The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth,
which argues that the early church portrayed ancient myths as historic facts,
and information damaging to the church has been
intentionally suppressed throughout history. Allegro points out that
many times in the bible the word for “substance” is used when discussing
rituals. Also the words flesh is used many times, the taking of flesh, the
eating of God’s flesh, so much so that early Christians were accused by the
Gnostics of being cannibals. Many passages have to do with anointing their
bodies during ritual with sacred mixtures, and list some of the specific
ingredients including heavy spices and perfumes. These
rituals, which he argues include collecting semen and menstrual blood as part
of the anointing, was called Agape, or the Love
Feast, possibly a very old Pagan
festival.
Another Allegro book, The Sacred Mushroom
and the Cross, explores the idea that early
Christianity began with a psychedelic mushroom and sex cult.
http://www.meta-religion.com/New_religious_groups/Groups/Christian/sacred_mushroom.htm, Sacred Mushroom of the Cross:
Book and also a church by the late Dead Sea Scroll scholar, Dr. Allegro.
Allegro was a brilliant student of Semitic languages at Manchester University and went on to study Hebrew dialects at Oxford University.
In 1953, he was named to an international team
formed to decipher the Dead Sea Scrolls, which were discovered in caves at Qumran on the shores of the Dead Sea six years earlier. The scrolls,
which spanned from about 100 B.C. to 70 A.D., included the oldest known
manuscripts of books from the Old Testament. Allegro's gift for deciphering
minute texts was crucial. His book, "The
Dead Sea Scrolls," was published in 1956 and became a bestseller.
Before being removed from the secretive team,
he had access to a limited number of scrolls. He used this source in ‘The
Sacred Mushroom and the Cross’, which maintains that Christianity has its
origins and nature in fertility cults of the Ancient near east centred on a
sacred Mushroom.
Allegro's
subsequent notoriety caused derision in the scientific community but developed
a cult following in the early 1970s. Allegro, in his 1970 book "The Sacred
Mushroom and the Cross," contended that Judaism
and Christianity were in fact products of an ancient sex-and-mushroom
cult.
"If rain in the desert," he writes, "was the source of life,
then moisture from heaven must only be a more abundant kind of spermatozoa. If the male organ ejaculated this precious fluid and made life in the
woman, then above the skies the source of nature's semen must be a mighty penis, as the earth that bore its
offspring was the womb. It followed therefore that to induce the heavenly phallus(penis) man
must stimulate it by sexual means, by singing, dancing, orgiastic displays, and above all by performing
the copulatory act itself." Thus at
the heart of all religions lies the phallic cult, and neither Judaism nor its
offshoot, Christianity, was exceptional.
Another source:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/article-preview?article_id=10716 (The New York Review of Books), Worshipping the Red Mushroom, “The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross by John M. Allegro”:
this is what Dr. Allegro is stating in a remarkable study of the origins and nature of Christianity. 'If rain in the desert,' he writes, 'was the source of life, then moisture from heaven must only be a more abundant kind of spermatozoa. If the male organ ejaculated this precious fluid and made life in the woman, then above the skies the source of nature's semen must be a mighty penis, as the earth that bore its offspring was the womb. It followed therefore that to induce the heavenly phallus man must stimulate it by sexual means, by singing, dancing, orgiastic displays, and above all by performing the copulatory act itself.' Thus at the heart of all religions lies the phallic cult, and neither Judaism nor its offshoot, Christianity, was exceptional.
http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/1998/novdec/lsjournal/jesus.html (Stanford Magazine), In Search of the Real Jesus:
The fungus, Allen explains, was supposedly central to Near Eastern “drug and fertility cults, including Judaism and Christianity, which involved ritualistic copulation and the shedding of menstrual blood in the fields to ensure an abundant harvest.” Allen dismisses Allegro as “outrageous.”
http://www.skepticfiles.org/cultinfo/allegro.htm, Dr. John Allegro, renowned for his work in:
Allegro's subsequent notoriety caused derision in the
scientific community but developed a cult following in the early
1970s. Allegro, in his 1970 book "The Sacred Mushroom and the
Cross," contended that Judaism and Christianity were in fact
products of an ancient sex-and-mushroom cult.
http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Sea-Scrolls-Christian-Myth/dp/0879757574, The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth (Paperback) by John Marco Allegro:
He explains in depth just how the name 'Christian' (Christ) is derived from chrism (semen anointing), and the correlation of the Sun and the Morning-star and their correlation to morning 'dew', and rain as being the Sky Gods' semen, which impregnated the mother earth--from which the most powerful drug plants had the most of God's seed.
http://www.iamshaman.com/amanita/jesus.htm, The Amanita Shop, “Amanita muscaria and Cannabis Sativa - Keys to Christianity?”:
'The role of Messiah or "Anointed One" - literally, "one smeared with semen" '
Jesus as a symbol of the mushroom
Jesus is portrayed as the Son of God, sent to fulfil the role of Messiah or 'Anointed One' - literally, 'one smeared with semen'.
http://www.johnallegro.org/Allegro-SundayMirror.htm, The Sacred Mushroom And The Cross, Beginning The Most Challenging Book For Years, by John Allegro:
Once man had worked out his theory about the divine rain, he thought he could help to stimulate rain in much the same way as he did orgasms on earth; by singing, dancing, orgiastic displays and, above all, by performing the sex act—particularly in the fields, where the sacred semen was most needed.
It was then a natural step to want to share the secrets of how to control the power and knowledge of the heavenly phallus (representation of the penis).
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,909327,00.html (Time in Partnership with CNN), Jesus as Mushroom:
Allegro's method is to delve behind the surface meaning and context of biblical words, conjuring instead with their frequently erotic root meaning ("Christian," he says, is a derivation from the Sumerian meaning "smeared with semen"). These half-forgotten roots, Allegro maintains, link the characters and stories of the Bible to the orgiastic, often outlawed mushroom cults of the Near East.
http://www.joerogan.net/main.php?archives=1&article=52927, Santa Claus was a mushroom:
He even traces the word “Christ” back to an ancient Sumerian word that meant “A mushroom covered in god’s semen.”
http://www.cures-not-wars.org/dana1.html (Cures not Wars), The Lost Gnostic Sacrament of the Early Christians...:
JESUS AS A SYMBOL OF THE MUSHROOM
Jesus is portrayed as the 'Son of God,' sent to fulfill the role of 'Messiah' or 'Anointed One' -- literally, 'one smeared with semen.' As a mushroom the Amanita muscaria does not disseminate seeds as plants do, but ejaculates microscopic spores which create a threadlike fungal network at the base of conifer trees from which thunderstorms elicit more mushrooms. Prior to knowledge of spores lightning was thought to be the source of mushrooms and lightning was considered the firey progenitive spears of God, hence the phallic fungi were called 'Sons of God.'
The mushroom's spore ejaculate leaves an oily film on the blood-red cap spotted with white thorns, hence the term 'Messiah' ('Anointed One') and allusions to thistle-entwined, bloody-browed sacrifices, such as the miraculous 'Ram' of Abraham (Genesis 22:13) and Jesus the thorn-crowned 'Lamb of God.'
Mushrooms were also seen as 'winged' creatures, or crowned by a cloudy cap or 'halo,' each carrying a 'message' from God, the very definition of an 'Angel.' Some mushrooms were 'good' or nutritious, some were 'evil' or poisonous, but Amanita muscaria was considered 'blessed' and capable of bestowing health, strength, inspiration and the power of prognostication.
http://sexinreligion.usgab.com/, Sex in Religion, “The Epistlemology of Sperm”:
For over 7,000 years, semen has been regarded by this planet's greatest civilizations as an Erotic and Sacramental Elixir Vitae or 'Elixir of Life' and the liquid embodiment and Life Force of Nature [liquor vitae]. As such, the adoring devotees of these societies reveled in many sexual rites and festivals where semen drinking was enthusiastically engaged in. Sexual expression was considered by ancient phallic-worshipping religions as an erotic and spiritual sacrament where semen represented the sacramental wine at such rites. … Remarkably, there exists intriguing evidence that the Christian Eucharist [Sacrament/Communion] had its origins founded in an ancient Canaanite / Israelite rite that "...involved the anointing and swallowing of sacred semen, an orgiastic ritual that had been the bane of the Old Testament prophets a thousand years before..." [John Romer, Testament: The Bible and History, p 194]
Known as the "Agape" (Love Feast), the early Christians used and swallowed actual semen in their communion rites. Following the Nicene Creed in 325 C.E., Papal Rome denounced this earlier Christian ordinance and instituted its own non-erotic version of the "Chrism." The Roman Church vilified the popular semen ceremony by denouncing it as the "malodorous chrism" while calling its own version the "Eucharist" (Greek for "Good Chrism"... i.e., sans semen). In modern times when the term "Eucharist" is spoken, Christianity acknowledges its erotic origin: "Chrism" which is semen.
http://www.mystae.com/restricted/reflections/messiah/beliefs.html, Early Christian Beliefs, “Love Feasts”:
Light and intellect were their opponents; earthly organization and authority were its allies; and the organized Christian church was seen to have been made by the Devil to pervert true faith. Among these underground sects, people aimed for perfection. They might eat, for example, what they thought of as magical foods, like moist cucumbers, glistening and filled with light. Later, the residue would pass through the body and emerge as dark excrement, while the light element emerged in orgasm as semen. Many of the rituals involved the anointing and swallowing of this sacred substance, an orgiastic ritual that had been the bane of the Old Testament prophets a thousand years before and now afflicted the early church. … In the New Testament rare reference is made to a festival called the Agape, so-called Love Feast. The Syriac translators, at any rate, thought the practice had to do with the comforting of the dead, and this certainly accords well with the meaning of agapao, 'love'. This Greek word, so favored by the New Testament writers, is used by the tragedians for affection for the dead, and specifically in the Bible for the relationship between man and God. It is properly used in the Greek version of the Old Testament to translate a Hebrew word for 'seduce, allure'." - John Allegro, The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross
Man, Myth & Magic: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Mythology, Religion and the Universe, Cavendish, 1995, p. 552, “Dead Sea Scrolls | The Unpublished Texts – a Conspiracy?”:
Rather interesting.
http://deoxy.org/annex/pbfluids.htm, Psychedelic bodily fluids?:
And one has only to dip into John Allegro's book The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth to realise that semen and menstrual blood (from fully-enlightened Gnostics?) was consumed with relish by devotees during the early Christian "love feasts"
http://search.ldslibrary.com/article/view/1260811, (excerpt from book:) The Dead Sea Scrolls and Original Christianity, O. Preston Robinson, 1958, p. 94, “The Covenanters’ Concept of Sin | Sin Is Individual” (Essene’s listing of sins, direct quotations from Manual of Discipline, aka Community Rule: 1QS 4:10; source: Manual of Discipline, Section III. Gaster, op. cit., p. 44, 45):
“…, filthy ways in the thraldom of chastity, …”
http://www.answers.com/thrall, “thrall” (base form of “thraldom”):
1.
a. One, such as a slave or serf, who is held in bondage.
b. One who is intellectually or morally enslaved.
Chastity does take away a person’s freedom to have sex. The book tells about the unusual similarities between the Jewish Essene sect and Christianity. Again, this was a direct translation from the Scrolls.