well ini view is that ini am the temple, and where jah dwell, and the temple before the high priest went to the ark of the covenant it had to be smoked, to purify it. now ini am the temple where jah dwell and we smoke the temple,
now there are different smoke, a baker who bakes bread know that, incense smoke is different from paper smoke, and i had a paper which show that studies were done with people who smoke weed and people who don't smoke any thing and those who smoked lungs were slightly healthier than those who did not smoked anything.
here is a paper that i have
IT IS SAID THAT THE ASSYRIANS USED HEMP AS INCENSE IN THE SEVENTH OR EIGHTH CENTURY BEFORE CHRIST AND CALLED IT QUNUBU, A TEARM APPARENTLY BORROWED FROM AN OLD EAST IRANIAN WORD KONABA THE SAME AS THE SCYTHIAN NAME CANNABIS( PLANT OF THE GODS-ORIGIN OF HALLUCINOGENIC USE BY RICHARD E SCHULTES AND ALBERT HOFIMAN)
IT IS RECORDED THAT THE CHINESE TAOIST RECOMENDED THE ADDITION LF CANNABIS TO THEIR INCENSE BURNERS IN THE FIRST CRNTURY AS MEANS OF ACHIEVING IMMORALITY. (MARIJUANA, THE FIRST TWELVE THOUSAND YEARS, BY EARNEST ABEL, PG 5)
THERE IS A CLASSIC GREEK TERM,CANNABEIZEIN, WHICH MEANS TO SMOKE CANNABIS. CANNABIZEIN FREQUENTLY TOOK FROM OF INHALING VAPORS FROM AN INCENSE BURNER IN WHICH THESE RESINS WERE MIXED WITH OTHER RESIN, SUCH AS MYRRH, BALSAM, FRANKINCENSE, AND PERFUMES. (RITUAL USE OF CANNABIS SATIVA L)
HERODOTUS IN THE FIFTH CENTURY B.C OBSERVED THE SCYTHIANS THROWING HEMP ON HEATED STONE TO CREATE SMOKE AND OBSERVED THEM INHLING THIS SMOKE. ALTHOUGH HE DOSE NOT IDENTIFY THEM, HERODOUS STATE THAT WHEN THEY HAVE PARITIES AND SIT AROUND A FIRE, THEY THROUGH SOME OF IT INTO THE FLAMES. AS IT BURNS, IT SMOKES LIKE INCENSE, AND THE SMELL OF IT MAKES THEM DRUNK, JUST AS WINE DOSE US. AS MORE FRUIT IS THROWN ON, THEY GET MORE AND MORE INTOXICATED UNTIL FINALLY THEY JUMP UP AND START DANCING AND SINGING.( HERODOTUS, HISTORIES 1.202)
THE NAME CANNABIS IS GENERALLY THOUGHT TO BE OF SCYTHIAN ORIGIN. SULA BENET IN CANNABIS AND CULTURE ARGUES THAT IT HAS A MUCH EARLIER ORIGIN IN SEMITIC LANGUAGES LIKE HEBREW,OCCURRING SEVERAL TIMES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. HE STATES THAT IN EXODUS 30V23 THAT GOD COMMANDS MOSES TO MAKE HOLLY ANOINTING OIL OF MIRTH, SWEET CINNAMON, KANEH BOSM, AND KASSIA. HE CONTINUES THAT THE WORD KENEH BOSOM IS ALSO IN THE TRADITIONAL HEBREW AS KANNABOS OR KANNABUS AND THAT THE ROOT KAN IN THIS CONSTRUCTION MEANS REED OR HEMP, WHILE BOSM MEANS AROMATIC. HE STATED THAT IN THE EARLIEST GREEK TRANSLATION OF THE 'kan' WAS RENDERED AS REED, LEADING TO SUCH ERRONEOUS ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS AS SWEET CALAMUS. EXO 30V23, SWEET CANE ISA 43V234,JERE 6V20 AND CALAMUS EZE 27V19 SONG OF SOLOMON 4V14
BENET ARGUES FROM THE LINGUISTIC EVEDENCE THAT CANNABIS WAS WELL KNOWNIN OLD TESTAMENT TIMES AT LEAST FOR ITS AROMATIC PROPERTIES AND THAT THE WORD FOR IT PASSED FROM THE SEMITIC LANGUAGE TO THE , IE. THE ASHKENAZ OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.
SARA BENETOWA OF THE INSTITUTE OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCE IN WARSAW IS QUOTED IN THE BOOK OF GRASS AS SAYING: THE ASTONISHING RESEMBLANCE BETWEEN THE SEMITIC KANBOS AND SCYTHIAN CANNABIS LEADS ME TO THAT TO SUPPOSE THAT THE SCYTHIAN WORD WAS OF SEMITIC ORIGIN. THESE ETYMOLOGICAL DISCUSSIONS RUN PARALLEL TO ARGUMENTS DRAWN FROM HISTORY.
THE IRANIAN SCYTHIANS WERE PROBABLY RELATED TO THE MEADS, WHO WERE NEIGHBOR OF THE SEMTIES AND COULD EASILY HAVE ASSIMILATED THE WORD FOR HEMP. THE SEMITES COULD ALSO HAVE SPREAD THE WORLD DURING THEIR MIGRATION ASIA MINOR.
TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE MATRIARCHAL ELEMENT OF SEMITIC CULTURE, ONE IS LED TO BELIEVE THAT ASIA MINOR WAS THE ORIGINAL POINT OF EXPANSION FOR BOTH THE SOCIETY BASED ON THE MATRIARCHAL CIRCLE AND THE MASS USE OF HASHISH
THE ANCIENT ISRAELITE WERE A SEMITIC PEOPLE. ABRAHAM, THE FATHER OF THE NATIONS, CAME FROM UR, A CITY OF BABYLONIA LOCATED IN MESOPOTAMIA. THE ISRAELITES MIGEATED THROUGHOUT ASIA MINOR AND COULD EASELY HAVE SPREAD THE RELIGIOUS USE OF MARIJUANA.
IT IS SAID THAT MOSES, AT THE DIRECTION OF ALMIGHTY GOD,FIRST BROUGHT IN THE USE OF INCENSE IN PUBLIC WORSHIP, AND THAT THE OTHER NATIONS OF ANTIQUITY COPIED THE PRACTICE FROM IT FROM HIM. IT WAS HOWEVER A PRACTICE THAT BEGAN WITH ADAM . THE BOOK OF JUBILEES AN (APOCRYPHAL BOOK WAS CONSIDERED CANONICAL BY THE EARLY CHURCH AND IS TO THIS DAY IS BY THE ETHIOPIAN ZION COPITIC CHURCH) STATES THAT ON THE DAY WHEN ADAM WENT FORTH FROM THE GARDEN OF EDEN, HE OFFERED AS A SWEET SAVOUR AN OFFERING OF FRANKINCENSE, GALBANUM, AND STACTE, AND SPICE, IN THE MORNING WITH WITH THE RISING OF THE SUN, FROM THE DAYNWHEN HE COVERED HIS SHAME. AND ENOCH WE READ THAR HE BURNT THE INCENSE OF THE SANCTUARY, EVEN SWEET SPICES, ACCEPTABLE BEFORE THE LORD, ON THE MOUNT
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