It is my opinion/contention that most, if not all, of the grand secrets of the Mystery Cults of the ancient world and even early Hermeticism (Blasphemy!), were actually ceremonies with entheogens as their primary catalyst. You went through initiations to move through the grades, and were tested on your knowledge, all to prepare you to Touch the cosmic. As anyone with a working knowledge of psychedelics will tell you, tripping for the first time by yourself can have disastrous results. Now imagine if your first trip was after you had learned a strong mythological context, with a pre prepared ceremony r ritual to guide you through it? And you thought listening to Dark side of the moon on mushrooms was amazing. I truly feel like this is the keystone to the mysteries. And I feel it's why most of the Modern Mystery schools all seem so hollow. Yes there is still a great deal for the modern Adept to glean from the Esoteric societies, but it is a faint shadow of true communion/revelation.
Having performed the LRBP
using Entheogens, I can tell you with some certainty that it is a
wholly/Holy different and powerful experience. I would even go so far
as to suggest that the reason High magic in the Hermetic tradition is
so concerned with sacred geometries is precisely to instill order in
the potential chaos of the entheogenic experience.
Also I would hazard a guess, as I
haven't done the work on this myself, that Evoking a spirit to
visible manifestation would be more likely successful. Almost as if
that was how it was originally intended.
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