The Anointed One:
Did Jesus Perform His Miracles with Cannabis Oil?
The
plant known as kaneh-bosm in Aramaic is considered by most mainstream Biblical
scholars to be calamus, an herb with well-known medicinal effects. But some
people believe that kaneh-bosm is actually cannabis, and that Jesus used
highly...
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December 2013
"You’re
completely re-establishing your whole life," one father of a two-year old
epilepsy sufferer explained of his family's recent decision to relocate from
Tennessee. "We don’t have a support system. We don’t have friends. We had
to find a new church."
"We can’t leave the state with [cannabis] or it would be a federal offense," his wife added. "But we just felt like if we knew something was out there that might work and we didn’t try it we’d be doing the ‘what if’s’ our whole life."
"We can’t leave the state with [cannabis] or it would be a federal offense," his wife added. "But we just felt like if we knew something was out there that might work and we didn’t try it we’d be doing the ‘what if’s’ our whole life."
Tales
of “miraculous” healing through the use of highly-concentrated cannabis oil have
been circulating within the global marijuana community for almost ten years, but they only
broke into the popular consciousness this August, when Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's
Chief Medical Correspondent, offered millions of viewers a painful apology for
previously dismissing mounting evidence in favour of medical cannabis,
describing himself as having been “systematically misled” on
the subject.
Then
Dr. Gupta introduced the world to six-year-old Charlotte Figi from
Colorado Springs, Colorado, who used to suffer 300 seizures per week, even
after cycling through every anti-seizure medicine in the pharmacopeia and
enduring a series of painful procedures that left her unable to walk, talk or
eat. Those seizures started when Charlotte was just three months old and yet in
all that time, not one medical professional ever so much as mentioned cannabis.
Her parents only learned the herb might help treat Dravet's—the rare,
intractable form of epilepsy tormenting their child—by watching a video on Youtube, and even then only
decided to try it after all else failed.
The
first time they gave their daughter a dose of wholly plant-derived
non-psychoactive high-CBD cannabis oil, her seizures ceased
for seven straight days—a completely astonishing response. She's
now down from more than 1,200 major seizures per month to just two or three mild ones.
Towards the end of the CNN segment, as Charlotte happily pedalled her bicycle,
her father asked, “Why were we the ones that had to go out and find this
natural cure? How come our doctors didn't know about this?"
SCATTERING SEEDS
Now
imagine Charlotte Figi living not in modern day Colorado, but in the Middle
East, roughly 2000 years ago. Whether an object of pity, scorn, fear, or
fascination, that poor young girl likely would've been thought to be
demonically possessed—her deeply religious community would have had no concept of
epilepsy as we know it today. At least until the day a stranger came to town,
calling himself Jesus the Nazarite,
but named by his disciples as Christ—a Greek word meaning the anointed.
Following
the recipe for holy anointing oil found in the Old Testament (Exodus 30: 22-23), this
healer of local renown would infuse nine pounds of a plant known in Aramaic as kaneh-bosm(fragrant
cane) into about six quarts of olive oil, along with
essential extracts of myrrh, cinnamon, and cassia. He would then apply this unguent concoction
topically to the infirm, allowing it to absorb transdermally.
According
to conventional Biblical scholarship, the “250 shekels of kaneh-bosm”
listed in ancient Hebrew versions of the Old Testament supposedly refers to
calamus, but Chris Bennett, author of the 2001 book Sex, Drugs, and Violence in the Bible claims
that this is a misconception, and likely a misdirection as well, one stemming
from a perhaps wilful mistake made the first time the Old Testament was
translated into Greek.
Kaneh-bosm, he writes, was cannabis.
The
first solid evidence of the Hebrew use of cannabis was established in 1936 by
Sula Benet, a little known Polish etymologist from the Institute of
Anthropological Sciences in Warsaw. The word cannabis was generally thought to
be of Scythian origin, but Benet showed that it has a much earlier origin in
Semitic languages like Hebrew, and that it appears several times throughout the
Old Testament. Benet explained that "in the original Hebrew text of the
Old Testament there are references to hemp,
both as incense, which was an integral part of religious celebration, and as an intoxicant.”
Benet
demonstrated that the word for cannabis is kaneh-bosm, also rendered in
traditional Hebrew as kaneh or kannabus. The root kan in
this construction means "reed" or "hemp", while bosmmeans
"aromatic". This word appears five times in the Old Testament; in the
books of Exodus, the Song of Songs, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel.... and has
been mistranslated as calamus, a common marsh plant with little monetary value
that does not have the qualities or value ascribed to kaneh-bosm. The error
occurred in the oldest Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagintin
the third century BC, and was repeated in the many translations that followed.
While
that etymogical argument in no way serves as material proof, the "aromatic
reed theory" can serve as the basis for a set
of assumptions. Assuming the oil described in Exodus did in fact contain high
levels of cannabis, the effective dose of the plant's medicinal compounds would
certainly be potent enough to explain many of the healing miracles attributed
to Jesus, as marijuana has been shown to be an effective treatment for
everything from skin diseases and glaucoma toneurodegenerative conditions and multiple sclerosis. Also, while it's highly
unlikely anybody back then had herb capable of competing with the 20-25 percent
THC super-chronic Cannabis Cup winners of today, there's also no reason to
believe that artful botanists of the ancient world couldn't have bred and grown
plants in the 10 percent THC range—with perhaps even higher levels of CBD than
our modern hybrids—a cannabinoid profile that advocates claim is potent enough
to produce a truly profound reaction when absorbed in such large amounts.
MOSES THE STONED SHAMAN
Kaneh-bosm makes its first, rather
auspicious appearance in the Bible as part of the story of Moses and the
burning bush, when the revered Jewish prophet gets the holy anointing oil
recipe direct from the Lord, along with clear instructions to anoint only the
priest class—a restriction later eased to allow kings access as well.
Exodus
30:31
You
shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, “This shall be holy anointing oil to
me throughout your generations. It shall not be poured on anyone’s body, nor
shall you make any like it in the same proportions; it is holy, and it shall be
holy to you. Whoever shall mix any like it or whoever puts any of it on a
layman shall be cut off from his people.
Unfortunately
for the priests and their erstwhile marijuana monopoly, however, many other
competing religions and spiritual paths active at the time—including pagans and
those who worshipped the Goddess Ashera—had their
own far more free-flowing kaneh-bosm supply. Cannabis, after
all, has been grown as a food crop since at least 6,000 BC and was well
known and widely available in Moses's time.
"There
can be little doubt about a role for cannabis in Judaic religion,” according to
Carl P. Ruck, a professor of classical mythology at Boston University who
studies the way psychoactive substances have influenced humanity's spiritual
development. “There is no way that so important a plant as a fibre source for
textiles and nutritive oils and one so easy to grow would have gone unnoticed…
the mere harvesting of it would have induced an entheogenic reaction."
Which
means it wasn't so much the cannabis plant that ancient Judaic priests tried to
keep to themselves, as the healing potential of high-potency anointing oil
passed down to them by Moses. A prohibition they maintained by targeting for
elimination anybody who dared to break God's commandment by sharing the elixir
with the masses, assuming that kaneh-bosm is cannabis.
JESUS THE REBEL
Aside
from crucifixion, Jesus's baptism is considered by many researchers the only
historically certain fact about his life. The New Testament's vivid accounts of
the ceremony make it clear that the apostles considered their saviour’s
encounter with John the Baptist to be a pivotal and transformative event, one
that marks the beginning of his public ministry.
Mark
1: 9-13
It
came to pass in those days that Jesus came from Gennesaret of Galilee, and was
baptized by John in the Jordan. And straightway coming up out of the water, He
saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon Him. And
there came a voice from Heaven, saying, 'Thou Art My Beloved Son, In Whom I Am
Well Pleased.' And immediately the Spirit drove Him into the wilderness. And He
was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan, and was with the wild
beasts; and the angels ministered unto Him.
But
if water served as the catalyst for Jesus's spiritual ascension, why does he
never perform a baptism? Why take the name Christ? And why anoint his flock in
oil before sending them out to anoint others, as described in Mark 6:13: They cast out many devils,
and anointed with oil many that were sick
and healed them.
To
those who believe that Christ used cannabis oil, the answer lies in
non-canonical Christian texts. The canonical texts of the New Testament, that
is the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, etc, were not selected as such until
around 325 years after Jesus's death, when the Roman Catholic Church culled
them from a large number of contenders in hopes of uniting all of Christendom
under one banner—their own. The Church then sought out and destroyed every
account that differed from their now official version of events. Allowing the
very empire Jesus once virulently opposed to seize control over the practice of
Christianity for a thousand year period known as the Dark Ages.
Meanwhile,
any Christians who continued to promote alternate views of Jesus and his
teachings were labelled heretics and brutally suppressed. Much of their
scripture and dictates were thought to be lost forever as a result, until 1945,
when an Egyptian peasant digging for fertilizer in a cave unearthed a dozen
leather-bound codices inside a sealed jar, a treasure trove purposely buried there by
scribes at a nearby monastery sometime around AD 367, when the Church first
condemned the use of non-canonical texts.
Within these volumes—many of which predate the books of the New Testament—Biblical experts discovered a parallel but radically different telling of the life of Jesus, one that places the anointing ceremony squarely at the centre of Christianity. So much so that these various sects were given the blanket name Gnostics (from the Greek word for “knowledge”) to highlight their shared focus on first-hand experience of the holy oil as what defines a Christian, rather than second-hand faith in scripture or the priesthood.
Within these volumes—many of which predate the books of the New Testament—Biblical experts discovered a parallel but radically different telling of the life of Jesus, one that places the anointing ceremony squarely at the centre of Christianity. So much so that these various sects were given the blanket name Gnostics (from the Greek word for “knowledge”) to highlight their shared focus on first-hand experience of the holy oil as what defines a Christian, rather than second-hand faith in scripture or the priesthood.
The
Gnostics were early "Followers of The Way (Christ)" who believed that
followers of The One God should not merely revere Christ, but strive to emulate
him, in every thought, word and deed.
They sought to describe this emulation in philosophical terms, as a
method of practice. As the early Roman church
formulated its canons, the Gnostics were considered wilful heretics, opposed to
turning their lives over to God as a matter of faith. To become a true believer, the early church
leaders claimed, one had to forego understanding and analysis [of Christ's
Teaching] and be content to live life through divine revelation [in Scripture],
adhering to God's Will moment by moment.
The
churchmen did this in order to sustain their control over the people. They wished to keep God's Message and Overall
Plan from the public, so people would be deceived into thinking that they had
to go to the churchmen to find God, rather than learning to look within and
find the Divine within themselves as Christ's True Teachings and Message to the
world had been.
The
Gnostic tractate The Gospel of Phillip, for
instance, proclaims that any person who “receives this unction...is no longer a
Christian but a Christ.” A transformation then compared to the placebo act
of baptism adopted by the Roman Catholic Church, in which would-be initiates
“go down into the water and come up without having received anything...
[Because] there is water in water, there is fire in chrism [an anointing].”
Basically, the Gnostics believed Jesus's baptism took place, but only as a kind of cleansing ritual, in preparation for receiving holy anointing oil—the true sacrament. As Chris Bennett writes, “The surviving Gnostic descriptions of the effects of the anointing rite make it very clear that the holy oil had intense psychoactive properties that prepared the recipient for entrance into ‘unfading bliss.’”
Basically, the Gnostics believed Jesus's baptism took place, but only as a kind of cleansing ritual, in preparation for receiving holy anointing oil—the true sacrament. As Chris Bennett writes, “The surviving Gnostic descriptions of the effects of the anointing rite make it very clear that the holy oil had intense psychoactive properties that prepared the recipient for entrance into ‘unfading bliss.’”
THE SKEPTICS
Lytton
John Musselman, a Professor of Botany at Old Dominion University and author of A Dictionary of Bible Plants (Cambridge
2011), says he's familiar with the theory that keneh-bosem refers to cannabis,
but remains wholly unconvinced, calling the evidence claiming marijuana to be
part of the holy anointing oil “so weak I would not pursue it.” He also defends
calamus as capable of producing medicinal effects on par with those described
in the Bible.
“Calamus
is a very important component of Ayurvedic medicine and has been shown to have
efficacy,” according to Musselman. “For example, in Sri Lanka it is available
in any herbal remedy shop and also universally grown in home gardens. The North
American species was and is so important to Native Americans in the Northeast
that land with natural populations is highly sought after.” Like most Biblical scholars, Musselman gives
little consideration to the idea that Jesus used marijuana to perform the kind
of healing miracles we now see on CNN and read about in the Salt
Lake City Tribune.
Understandably,
for children like Charlotte Figi and their families, religion, history, politics,
medicine, and the law all must take a backseat to the positive effects they are
experiencing treating illness with marijuana. As Jesus said to his apostles
after preaching at Lake Galilee:
Mark 4:
21-23
Do you bring in a lamp to put it under a
bowl or a bed? Instead, don’t you put it on its stand? For whatever is hidden
is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out
into the open. If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear.
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