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<strong>The</strong> Soma plant Asclepias acida has small, fragrant white flowers<br />

at the end of its branches and few leaves. Christian graves in Rome’s<br />

catacombs have drawings of a variety of this plant showing long fruits,<br />

which is not found in Europe.<br />

<strong>The</strong> early Israelites and Edomites used the burning bush datura<br />

stramonium, commonly called the thorn apple. It is the only plant to<br />

grow on rocky high places such as Jebel Madhbah at Petra. <strong>The</strong> spiny<br />

black fruit has long been used as a folk medicine and intoxicant.<br />

Diodorus Siculus wrote that the priests used its fruit to bring on fantasy,<br />

which they say is the voice of their god. 1374 It seems that the thorn apple<br />

is Eden’s forbidden fruit because the peculiar feature of the thron apple is<br />

that it produces a vapour that burns without the bush being consumed.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re are references to the thorn apple in Homer’s Odyssey and<br />

Shakespeare’s plays Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Anthony and<br />

Cleopatra. In recent times it has been found to control severe brain<br />

cancer. 1375<br />

While in times that are more recent, the Persians made Soma<br />

from Asclepias acida, some scholars now suggest that the ancient recipes<br />

in the Rig Veda strongly imply that Soma was made from two stones or<br />

rocks (adrau) in the mountains (girau). It is quite likely that Soma had its<br />

true source in metals before they used hallucinogenic plants like Asclepias<br />

acida and more recently, Cannabis<br />

At the end of Chapter 2, we saw that volcanoes produce ores with<br />

iridium and rhodium that can be used to manufacture ORMES and<br />

healing monatomic materials. Rig Veda recipes say that a divine Eagle<br />

fetches Soma from Heaven. 1376 <strong>The</strong> Eagle extracts it from a metal fortress<br />

in the form of golden-yellow (hari) and reddish-brown (aruna) rocks,<br />

which are probably yellow gold-quartzite and reddish-brown goldplatinum<br />

ores. <strong>The</strong> Rig Veda also says the priests crushed the collected<br />

material with noisy grinding stones, which sounds more like heavy ore<br />

grinding than squeezing plants. <strong>The</strong>n they washed it free of impurities,<br />

filtered it through a woolen fleece (avi) and cooked it in water. <strong>The</strong> Rig<br />

Veda says the final product is clothed in robes of milk. <strong>The</strong>y called it the<br />

Milk of Heaven or Milk of God.<br />

Returning to the manufacture of glass, we find the metals of<br />

alchemy used extensively, such as gold for ruby red color and antimony<br />

as a decolorant and opacifier. 1377 This red-golden, transparent, antimony<br />

glass symbolizes the new Jerusalem. <strong>The</strong> glassblowers of Murano, north<br />

of Venice, still manufacture rose lamp glass from gold. Many of these<br />

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