Pharmacology Inspirational Quotes

Movement is life!

Within just a few thousand years-a millisecond in evolutionary time-humans had developed much more complex tools, and the intellectual theories to support them. Newtonian physics, the industrial revolution, and the nineteenth century age of enlightenment spurred tremendous technological development and transformed our social mores. A consequence of this paradigm shift, however, was that humanity's view of the world changed from an organic to a mechanistic one. Early engineers saw the potential of breaking up any system into components and rearranging the parts. Innovations in machinery and materials led to mass production: making thousands and then millions of exactly the same forms out of flat metal plates and square building blocks. However, for all its positive impact on the economics and culture of the era, the industrial revolution's orientation was shortsighted. In the rush to understand the world as a clockwork mechanism of discrete components, nature's design genius was left behind-and with it the blueprints for natural, nontoxic, streamlined efficiency. A new set of values emerged, such that anything drawn from nature was dismissed as primitive in favor of human invention. Just as the pharmacology of the rain forests, known to indigenous people for millenia, has been largely lost to modern science, so too were the simple rules of natural design obfuscated. A our societies became more urban, we went from living and working in nature and being intimately connected with its systems, to viewing nature as a mere warehouse (some might say, whorehouse) of raw materials waiting to be plundered for industrial development.

Eshmun means “Eight”. In Neo-Platonist lore, Eshmun was the 8th Son born of Sadyk (an ancient Phoenician god of justice), this healing god is recognized as the Greek Asclepius. Semyaza taught spells and the cutting of roots. The name of Semyaza is another aspect of Azazel, the Deific Mask reveals different energies and power than Azazel within our context of magickial lore. As the leader of the Watchers, the knowledge of that which grows from the green earth and the uses of herbs in sorcery is what Semyaza inspires. The Watcher Amezarak is thought to be an inner-Ethiopic corruption of Semyaza. In Jewish legend, Semyaza is an alternate name to Samael and Mastema as Abezi Thibod ("father devoid of counsel"). Semyaza is described as a Seraph who was tempted by the maiden Ishtahar to reveal to her the Name of Power (of El) which allowed her to ascend to the skies. In the Hebrew myths, Semyaza is said to hang upside down between heaven and earth as the constellation Orion (the Hunter). Semyaza had among others two Nephilim sons, Hiwa and Hiya. Semyaza is the patron Watcher of magicians and sorcerers, an inspiring spirit to the Witch or Warlock who seeks the Elphame path of hidden light of which to cast shadow. Visualize Semyaza, Shemyaza or Amezarak in your invocations and meditations. For further healing meditations and spells, Eshmun may also be invoked with incense and libation offerings. His inspiration of healing comes from both plants, herbs and pharmacological inventions of modern times. Semyaza is presented here in two forms. The first is the Watcher united and partially composed of the earthly green and fertile vines and the witch-cult knowledge of our sorceries. The second is Semyaza, crowned in radiance of divine power, instructing cultists of the Hellenistic Pan and Dionysos with the rites of health, lust and renewal much like the temple-cults associated with Mt Hermon.