San Pedro Cactus - Trichocereus pachanoi
Cactus Of The Four Winds
Trichocereus pachanoi, The Cactus Of The Four Winds
or San Pedro has been used in South
American shamanism for over three thousand years. Both names attest
to the effectiveness of this Mescaline containing columnar cactus.
The Four Winds, refers to an ancient
shamanic cosmology of the origin of the Universe and the structure of
space-time and its relationship to consciousness, the vertical and
horizontal planes, the four inter-cardinal directions and the Axis
mundi. San Pedro, or Saint Peter in English,
is the geometric embodiment of The
Cross, and a natural lingustic transmutation and
Christianisation of the sacrament.
The
State religion of the Roman Catholic Church claimed its authority and
divinity from God. Having indulged in ignorance, dualism and polarity
for millennia with the use of a placebo sacrament, the church
associated the true ecstatic states of shamans with the practices of
the devil. And rightly so. The shaman, the Horned One, The One Who Sees In
The Dark is The Prince Of Darkness, the archetypal practitioner
of the sacred.
Aware that faith and knowledge are mutually
exclusive, the Roman Catholic Church attempted to eradicate from the
Andes, the cactus, as well as the shamans who used it to heal the
sick and commune with the Cosmos.
Another modern example of the transmutation of
language can be seen in the geography of the State Of California.
San Pedro is the port city of Los
Angeles, The City Of Angeles. San Pedro means Saint Peter in
English. Saint Peter stands at the gates, the port to Heaven, the City
Of Angels. The state capital of California is Sacramento, referring
to the linguistically hidden sacrament of San Pedro. California is
The
Golden State. The state motto is,"Eureka, I've found it!"
One
must be aware that to the Spaniards of the Inquisition and the
materialistic spirituality of the Roman Catholic Church, gold was the
alchemical equivalent of God.
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