The Secrey Brotherhood of the Holy Smoke
‘Ark the herb of underground arcane practices
Hidden knowledge handed culture to culture
Pot seeds passed in barter from tribe to tribe
Buds exchanged for grain, jewellery and goods
Her sweet musky scent is prized as an incense
Traded along the silk road from China, Bharat
To Lebanon and along t’ path to Constantinople
Used in Chin by herbilist, taoist and scholars
And to give puja to Indra in the Vedic tradition
Aroma used in Khemet as perfume and unguent
To heal, to smoke in censors as a burnt offering
To Queen of Heaven the sublime feline Goddess
Blazing incense high up in Palestinian mountains
Persecuted by the Sahdrin for being most ungodly
The followers of Astarte in a trance and profane
Driven underground to continue secret worship
Scythians jubilantly threw bud on stones aglow
To fill their souls with joy, to mourn at funerals
The Greek and Romans fortified wine wi cannabis
Herb of Sybils, seers, alchemist and necromancer
The sacred grass of Arabs and Persian prophets
The Hoama and Soma drank reverently in chalices
Employed in the initiation rites of the Mithras cult
The Gnostics knew the esoteric value of holy fume
The Mancheans followed a prophet killed for ganjah
The troubadors spread occult verse of hemp virtue
Cathers hemp farmers, weavers, worshipt piously
Slaughtered by the Pope for their version of divinity
In the medieval era bastard Pope Innocente banned
Knowledge of t’ sacred plant of saints and prophets
Many witches burnt for astrally attending Sabbats
Flying on brooms traditionally made of hemp stalk
Anointed with psychotropic grease of poison herbs
The knowledge of hashish was passed secretly from
The Assassins to the Templars, Masons, Rosicrucians
To secret societies, to the Golden Dawn to present day
The Arcane knowledge of cannabis oil cannot be stopt
Is now common knowledge to he who wants to learn
About the secret oily tradition of a esoteric holy herb
