SECRETS of the HALLUCINOGENIC LOTUS

The SONG OF SOLOMON claims that Jesus once said; "“I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily" - the translations nearly always refer to the landlocked lily of the valley.  Interestingly, the New Age version of the Bible now called THE MESSAGE dispels the original translations and ascribes the lily as the Sacred Lotus of 'the valley pools'.

SECRETS of the HALLUCINOGENIC LOTUS:

I photographed beautiful specimens of the sacred hypnotic blue lily in ponds outside the National Museum of Cairo during my recent expedition - little did any of the tourists realise that they were walking past perhaps the most important plant in the history of the world's religious movements - a psycho-active, hallucinogenic plant - whose elegant long buds and stems had influenced the shape of columns at the temples in ancient Egypt.  One of the most important creation myths of ancient Egypt says that a ‘Blue Lily of the Nile' emerged from the waters of a lake called "the Sea of the Two Knives". It is these two ceremonial knives which we see being held by the frog-headed Ogdoad male god in the carvings on the walls of the crypt at Dendereh. This mythological Sea of the Two Knives was apparently meant to be located in a garden (probably represented by a man-made lake of lilies) near to the temple of Hermopolis. To this day, we can see the ruined sacred pool at the rear of the Temple of Dendereh.

Egyptian mythologies tell us that when the lotus' petals opened, a divine child was revealed - who was named Re. Another permutation of this legend taught basically the same as the previous mythos, with the lotus sometimes being identified as the 'Eye' of Re - without question, I find this particular imagery very important, as the Hypnotic psychoactive alkaloids in the Blue Lily most certainly affect the so called 'third eye' and pineal gland.

My group, along with our Coptic Christian Egyptologist, visited a perfume factory where the manager claimed to have extracted an oil from the buds and root matter of the sacred lotus.  I acquired a bottle of this sacred lotus oil and have also built a dragonfly-lotus pond and have started to cultivate this enchanting lily.

An interesting mosaic has been circulated on the web whose provenance is unknown - the mosaic shows Jesus sitting upon a lotus flower, giving two mudras: His right hand showing the mudra of Abhaya, symbolizing protection, peace, benevolence, and dispelling of fear, while his left hand displays the Varada mudra, symbolizing ‘open-handed’ generosity such as charity or the granting of wishes.  Wikipedia writes that "it is nearly always shown made with the left hand by a revered figure devoted to human salvation from greed, anger and delusion".