Famous Cannabis Quotes From 
Ancient Books Thru Out History

Three things suffice for the work: a white smoke, which is water; a green
Lion, which is the ore of Hermes, and a fetid water... The stone, known
from the chapters of books, is white smoke and water.

Michael Maier
Atalanta Fugiens

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Of this self-same body, which is the matter of the Stone, three things are
chiefly said; that it is a green Lion, a stinking Gum, and a white Fume.
Having twelve pounds of Green Lion thus brought into gum, thou mayst
believe...
St. Dunstan (pseudo)
Philosophia Maturata
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A green Gum called our green Lyon, which Gum dry well, yet beware thou not
burn his Flowers nor destroy his greenness.
Sir George Ripley
The Bosome-Book of Sir George Ripley

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You will see marvelous signs of this Green Lion, such as could be bought by
no treasures of the Roman Leo.
Paracelsus
The Treasure of Treasures
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Beware therefore of many, and hold thee to one thing. This one thing is
naught else but the lyon greene...

Bloomfields Blossoms

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I know well this Lyon Greene...
Hunting of the Greene Lyon

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Upon the delicate leaves thereof it retaineth for our use that sweet
heavenly honey which is called the manna, and, although it be of a gummy,
oily, fat, and greasy substance, it is, notwithstanding, unconsumable by
any fire.
Rabelais
Gargantua and Pantagruel
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This is called the blessed stone; this earth is white and foliated, wherein
the Philosophers do sow their gold... The fourth color is Ruddy and
Sanguine, which is extracted from the white fire only.

Jean Despagnet
The Hermetic Arcanum
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O how many are the seekers after this gum, and how few there are who find
it! Know ye that our gum is stronger than gold, and all those who know it
do hold it more honorable than gold... Our gum, therefore, is for Philosophers
more precious and more sublime than pearls...

Turba Philosophorum
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Therefore I affirm that the Universal Medicine for bodies is the
philosophic gold, after it has been separated and drawn to the highest state of
perfection. Our common gold has absolutely nothing in common with the
philosophic gold we use to begin our task. In that respect common gold is
dead and clearly useless.

Philip a Gabella
Consideratio Brevis
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By gold I mean our green gold- not the adored lump, which is dead and
ineffectual.

Thomas Vaughan
Aula Lucis
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Take the fire, or quicklime, of which the philosophers speak, which grows
on trees, for in that God himself burns with divine love.

Gloria Mundi
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It appears then that this Stone is a Vegetable, as it were, the sweet
Spirit that proceeds from the Bud of the Vine...

Count Bernard Trevisan
Verbum Dismissum

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Trust my word, seek the grass that is trefiol. Thou knowest the name, and
art wise and cunning if thou findest it.

The Sophic Hydrolith
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You ought to know concerning the Quintessence, that it is a matter little
and small, lodged and harbored in some Tree, Herb, Stone, or the like...

The Tomb of Semiramis
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It contains the fire of Nature, or the Universal Spirit; with Air as its
vehicle it contains Water, which must be separated in the beginning of the
work, and also earth which remains behind in the form of caput mortuum,
where the fire has left it, and is the true Red Earth wherein the fire
dwelt for a while. The subject, duly collected, should not be less than eight nor
more than sixteen ounces: place it in a china or glazed basin and cover it
loosely to keep the dust out.

Sigismond Bacstrom
Rosicrucian Aphorisms and Process
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Long have I had in my nostrils the scent of the herb moly which became so
celebrated thanks to the poets of old... this herb is entirely chemical. It
is said that Odysseus used it to protect himself against the poisons of
Circe and the perilous singing of the Sirens. It is also related that
Mercury himself found it and that it is an effective antidote to all
poisons. It grows plentifully on Mount Cyllene in Arcadia...
Michael Maier
Septimana Philosophica
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Our secret fire, that is, our fiery and sulfurous water, which is called
Balneum Mariae... This water is a white vapor.

The Secret Book of Artephius
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Know the secret fire of the wise, which is the one and sole agent efficient
for the opening, subliming, purifying, and disposing of the material.

Letter to the True Disciples of Hermes
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Study, then, this fire, for had I myself found it at the first, I should
not have erred two hundred times upon the veritable material.

John Pontanus
The Secret Fire
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No philosopher has ever openly Revealed this secret fire, and this powerful
Agent, which works all the Wonders of the Art.

The Hermetic Triumph
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Mercury, i.e. the white flower, can be used and applied to the tinctures of
all planets.

The Little Peasant

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Our true and real Matter is only a vapor... This Green Dragon is the
natural Gold of the Philosophers, exceedingly different from the vulgar, which is
corporeal and dead... but ours is spiritual, and living... Our Gold is
called Natural, because it is not to be made by Art, and since it is known
to none, but the true Disciples of Hermes, who understand how to separate
it from its original Lump, tis also called Philosophical; and if God had not
been so gracious, as to create this first Chaos to our hand, all our Skill
and Art in the Construction of the great Elixir would be in vain.

Baron Urbigerus
Aphorismi Urbigerani

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This stone is of delicate touch, and there is more mildness in its touch
than in its substance. Of sweet taste, and its proper nature is aerial.

Khalid said: Tell me of its odor, before and after its confection.

Morienus answered: Before confectioning, its odor is very heavy and foul. I
know of no other stone like it nor having its powers. While the four
elements are contained in this stone, it being thus like the world in
composition, yet no other stone like it in power or nature is to be found
in the world, nor has any of the authorities ever performed the operation
other than by means of it. And the compositions attempted by those using anything
else in this composition will fail utterly and come to nothing. The thing
in which the entire accomplishment of this operation consists of the red
vapor, the yellow vapor, the white vapor, the green lion, ocher, the impurities of
the dead and of the stones, blood, eudica, and foul earth.

Begin in the Creators name, and with his vapor take the whiteness from the
white vapor. The whole key to accomplishment of this operation is in the
fire, with which the minerals are prepared and the bad spirits held back,
and with which the spirit and body are joined.

In answer to you question about the white vapor, or virgins milk, you may
know that it is a tincture and spirit of those bodies already dissolved and
dead, from which the spirits have been withdrawn. It is the white vapor
that flows in the body and removes its darkness, or earthiness, and impurity,
uniting the bodies into one and augmenting their waters.

Without the white vapor, there could have been no pure gold nor any profit
in it.

The Book of Morienus

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Let it be sublimed in an high body and head...

Geber
Search of Perfection

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Our Subject cannot be called the fiery Serpent of the Philosophers, nor
have the power of overcoming any created thing, before it has received such
Virtue and Quality from our Green-Dragon...

Baron Urbigerus
Aphorismi Urbigerani