title: The Sacred Mushroom & the Cross Fertility Cults and the Origins of Judaism and Christianity
author: JOHN M. ALLEGRO
description: John Marco Allegro (1923-1988) was a British archaeologist and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar; his (relatively) swift publication The Treasure of the Copper Scroll] of the Scrolls material he was assigned was in marked contrast to the delays and stalling of publication of much of the other Scrolls material. This 1970 book postulated that &quot;Jesus&quot; in the gospels was simply a code word for a psychedelic mushroom used by an ancient fertility cult; the lack of evidence presented effectively ended his scholarly career. He simply assumed the &quot;truth&quot; of his thesis in his subsequent books such as The End of a Road and The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth. He wrote in the book&apos;s Introduction, &quot;The dream of man is to become God... But God is jealous of his power and his knowledge... Under very special circumstances he will permit men to rise to the throne of heaven and glimpse the beauty and the glory of omniscience... For such a glimpse of heaven men have died... Our present concern is to show that Judaism and Christianity are such cultic expression of this endless pursuit by man to discover instant power and knowledge... these religions are logical developments from the older, cruder fertility cults.... Very rarely, and then only for urgent practical purposes, were those secrets ever committed to writing... Such an occasion, we believe, was the Jewish Revolt of AD 66... The secrets, if they were not to be lost forever, had to be committed to writing, and yet, if found, the documents must give nothing away of betray those who still dared defy the Roman authorities and continue their religious practices... Our present study has much to do with names and titles. Only when we can discover the nomenclature of the sacred fungus within and without the cult, can we begin to understand its function and theology : John Propp
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  THE SACRED  
  MUSHROOM  
  AND THE  
  CROSS  
  A study of the nature and origins  
  of Christianity within the fertility cults of the ancient Near East by  
  John M. Allegro  
   
   
   
   
   
   
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  A message to those who’ve taken this book out of print. This book will forever circulate. You 
  will never be able to remove it from the public light, as you, the Vatican and Anheuser Busch 
  attempted to do.  
   
  In such a case as 2000 years of intellectual hijacking, this book will now remain forever free 
  online. 
   
  Though Allegro’s theories seemed extreme at the time, philology today knows he was right. See a 
  publication by Piotr Michalowski in “Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient 
  Languages”, edited by Roger D. Woodard. 
   
  To the reader, enjoy a once banned book.  
   
  To the suppressors, Fuck you! 
   
   
  ORIGINAL CHARACTERS 