4. Amanita Muscaria Legendary Herb of Immortality

The ancient Indo-Europeans called the Amanita Muscaria mushroom “Maga” (The Great Gift) and so great was this Gift that its fame and name echoes down the ages as the root of our modern word Magic. The “Magus” or “Magi” (Great Gift bearers) used this truly wondrous great Gift of Nature; that healed their bodies of sickness and inspired their minds with wisdom and poetry, and they praised it in story and song, even worshiping the Gift as a God, it being the only source of an incredible magic.

The great Gift bears hundreds of different ancient names; the Greeks called it “Ambrosia” (Not Mortal) the “Nectar” (Death-overcomer) of the Gods. As the ancient legendary “Herb of Immortality” the Great Gift alone holds the Secret of what we call the “Holy Grail” and the magic multiplying “Living Bread” of the New Testament Bible.

The Great Gift is incredibly old, far; far older than mankind and in its original discovery by ancient western man are the roots of our western magic, religion, science and medicine.

The Great Gift has worn many names of Gods such as the Indo-Aryan’s “Soma” with 100+ names the drinkable Immortal Living God who made the “blind see and the cripple walk” thousands of years before any human named Jesus walked the earth. Soma was so revered that Bronze Age “Seers and Sages” composed over 100 Hymns in its honor; these Hymns ring with ecstatic praise of this divine Living God, and are incorporated into one of the world’s oldest religious text, the Rig Veda.

“Haoma” with 50+ names, the Persian pronunciation of Soma was the sacred drink made from a sacred immortal plant, which inspired the Persian Prophet Zoroaster to create a new religion that in approximately 550BC became the state religion of the ancient Persian Empire, which stretched from the Nile in Egypt to the Indus river of India.

Zoroaster’s religion had a tremendous impact on what we would call the Old Testament Hebrews who were a part of the ancient Persian Empire and who’s Prophets like the Persian Prophets (Magi) rehydrated the dried fungus and pressed out a magic Elixir or used it to create the Living Bread and by its power they healed the sick, found lost objects and foretold the future.

The Hebrew Prophets called this one wondrous life form by more than twenty names including “the Anointed One” which in Greek is “Christos”, Latin “Chrestus”, English “Christ”.

The New Testament story of the Sky God’s divine infant’s “virgin birth”, who “turns water to wine”, then “heals all the sick”, who is “the source of all prophecy”, that suffers death at the hands of men only to “resurrect in three days” and then became “Immortal”, a story that is totally impossible for any man, yet it is exactly those impossible elements of the Christ story that are actually an accurate description of the birth, use, and death defying ability of the ancient Sacramental “Herb of Immortality”.

The legendary “Herb of Immortality” the source of the golden, honey sweet, “Elixir of Life”, the goal of philosophers, alchemists and mystics alike, who quested after it in the hope of life eternal. This theme of human immortality from consuming a very special Herb of Immortality is found throughout Eurasian mythology and in the ancient texts that are the foundation of several modern religions “Soma” in the Rig Veda (Hinduism), the “Fruit of the Tree of Life” in the Old Testament (Judaism and Christianity) and as the “Eucharist” or “Christ” in the New Testament (Christianity). All of these ancient texts also mention the same basic “Miracle” cures “the blind see, the deaf hear, the lame walk, and all the sick are cured” and greatly extended life spans for those humans who regularly consumed this magic herb.

However a close examination of the name or phrase “Herb of Immortality” and related words in the context of the ancient texts that refers to it, reveals that the ancients who actually used and knew this “plant” had a much more literal meaning of immortal in mind, when it is applied to the actual “plant”.

The prefix im - when used in English means “not” as in impossible = not possible, or improbable = not probable. Mortal in English means “death” so the word immortal literally means “not-death” this is the same concept we see in the original ancient Indo-European words, where A= not, such as Greek, Ambrose = not-death, ancient Persian, Amarta = not-death, and Sanskrit, Amrita = not-death, or deathlessness. All of these ancient words are names of a “deathless plant” that produced a living magic drink with the same name; i.e. Ambrose, Amrita, and Amarta are all names of the plant and the drink made from it. “Herb” in English is traditionally considered to be any species of non-woody plant picked for medicinal, culinary or aromatic use. Keeping in mind that from ancient times until just very recently mushrooms were always considered to be “plants” since they are obviously not animal or mineral. When you place the two concepts together you end up with the “herb of not death” or the “herb that is not death,” so it is the “herb” that is “immortal.” This Herb’s real physical Immortality is the true Secret of the Holy Grail and the Bibles Living Bread.

We know this life form today by its scientific name Amanita Muscaria or its common name the Fly Agaric, it is the large golden or red-capped white mushroom with small white flakes on the cap that is commonly found in temperate forests worldwide. The names Amanita Muscaria and Fly Agaric both refer to this mushrooms ability to attract, intoxicate and completely stuptify housefly and other fly species, along with slugs, snails and beetles, please note; removing these comatose insects and slugs from the mushroom usually results in their complete recovery within the hour.

Amanita Muscaria is commonly considered poisonous to humans, yet reliable recorded fatalities are extremely rare, even when it is consumed fresh in large quantities by humans seeking intoxication or even those attempting suicide, however the resulting experience is usually not one many people would repeat.

Drying the fresh Amanita Muscaria mushroom at a low heat of 100-120 deg. F until it is completely dry radically changes the mushrooms chemistry leading to an aromatic, sweet tasting form that is usable, storable, and resurrect able. Consuming this dried form is capable of generating a profound fundamental spiritual experience in some individuals.

While doing field research that led to my first book “The Sacred Secret; The Return of the Christ,” I discovered that Amanita Muscaria resurrects in three days and is Immortal, exactly as the ancients said it was, a very important fact that seems to have been overlooked by both modern Biological Science and Religious scholars. Further research into this natural immortality led to my second book “Natural Magic; Recreating the Grail”, in which I show that Amanita Muscaria is the only logical source of the Holy Grail and other magic vessel legends of Eurasia. In this work I will show that Amanita Muscaria is the source of the biblical Living bread and the only logical explanation of the miracle of the multiplying loaves.

To understand how a mushroom that is here today and gone tomorrow can really be “Immortal” you have to know what the mushroom Amanita Muscaria really is.