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Thomas Jefferson

Jefferson enjoyed “the solitude of a hermit” at his year-round retreat near Lynchburg, Virginia. At the heart of this 4800-acre plantation in beautiful Bedford County, Jefferson built his final, personal architectural masterpiece -- an octagonal house surrounded by an elaborate villa landscape. The rescue of this National Historic Landmark began in 1984, and today you can watch the state-of-the-art restoration under way. Come discover the private, contemplative side of Thomas Jefferson.

DEISM - AMERICA'S FORGOTTEN RELIGION!

People like Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin were avid readers of the great philosophers of the European Enlightenment. They treasured the ideas found in the works of such thinkers as Descartes, Voltaire, Bacon and Locke.

One of the cornerstone ideas of the Enlightenment was to give every idea and assumption the test of reason. When they applied reason to religion they found it necessary to strip it of revelation and they ended up with Deism. Deism is belief in God based on reason and nature. The differing alleged revelations of the various revealed religions are conspicuously absent from Deism. It is a natural religion as opposed to a revealed religion such as Christianity, Judaism, or Islam.

Enlightenment, term applied to the mainstream of thought of 18th-century Europe and America.

The major champions of these concepts were the philosophes, who popularized and promulgated the new ideas for the general reading public. These proponents of the Enlightenment shared certain basic attitudes.

With supreme faith in rationality, they sought to discover and to act upon universally valid principles governing humanity, nature, and society.

They variously attacked spiritual and scientific authority, dogmatism, intolerance, censorship, and economic and social restraints. They considered the state the proper and rational instrument of progress.

The extreme rationalism and skepticism of the age led naturally to deism; the same qualities played a part in bringing the later reaction of romanticism. The Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot epitomized the spirit of the Age of Enlightenment, or Age of Reason, as it is also called.

An International System of Thought

Centered in Paris, the movement gained international character at cosmopolitan salons. Masonic lodges played an important role in disseminating the new ideas throughout Europe.

"The Hashish Club" -- an Anthology of Drug Literature"
edited by Peter Haining, publ. 1975 by Peter Owen Limited)

The Hashish Club was the name given to a the group of French writers and artists who first banded together in the years just before the Second Republic to experiment with, and record their experiences, of hashish .......

All were united in a search for new forms of expresssion and enlightenment ....... the assembled writers (and painters) comparing their symptons under hashish or opium, and speculating on how their imagination and the writer's art might be stimulated or betrayed by drugs".

EDGAR ALLAN POE, 1809-49.
- "Usually I had half filled the bowl of the hookah with opium and tobacco cut and mingled, half and half.

THEOPHILE GAUTIER, 1811-72.
-"Hashish has nothing of that ignoble drunkenness about it which the races of the North obtain from wine and alcohol ; it offers an intellectual intoxication". (Essay, 1844)

CHARLES PIERRE BAUDELAIRE, 1821-67.
- "Now, even if we admit for a moment that hashish can confer genius, or at least increase it, it must not be forgotten that it is the nature of hashish to weaken the will, and so to give with one hand what it takes away with the other, that is, to bestow imagination without the power to make use of it" ("Les Paridis Artificiels", 1860)

The Nectar of Delight mirror
The Early History of Cannabis
from Plants of the Gods by Schultes & Hofmann

Archaeology
If, for instance, archaeologists want to find references in Jefferson’s correspondence about crops at Poplar Forest, they can ask the database to retrieve references about wheat. (or hemp)

The Corporation for Jefferson's Poplar Forest
P.O. Box 419 • Forest, VA 24551-0419
Voice (434) 525-1806 • Fax (434) 525-7252

Or archaeologists can tap into the catalog of artifacts discovered during excavation. An entry for a button, for instance, will include information on where and when it was found, what it’s made of, what size it is, how old it is, and what decoration it has. The transit used by the field archaeologists maps the location of each excavation unit, which is automatically fed into the database.

The house at Poplar Forest was very pretty and pleasant. It was of brick, one story in front, and, owing to the falling of the ground, two in the rear. It was an exact octagon, with a centre-hall twenty feet square, lighted from above. This was a beautiful room, and served as a dining-room.

Round it were grouped a bright drawing-room looking south, my grandfather’s own chamber, three other bedrooms, and a pantry. A terrace extended from one side of the house; there was a portico in front connected by a vestibule with the centre room, and in the rear a verandah, on which the drawing-room opened, with its windows to the floor.

Mr. Jefferson had decidedly one of the evenest and most cheerful tempers I ever knew. He enjoyed a jest, provided it were to give pain to no one, and we were always glad to have any pleasant little anecdote for him-when he would laugh as cheerily as we could do ourselves, and enter into the spirit of the thing with as much gaiety.
Letter,history/ellen

Thomas Jefferson Biography
A French nobleman observed that he had placed his house and his mind "on an elevated situation, from which he might contemplate the universe."

Recreation drug use

"Prohibition . . . goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legistlation."
-- Abraham Lincoln (attributed)

Starting in the 1860s, the Ganja Wallah Hasheesh Candy Company made maple sugar hashish candy, which soon became one of the most popular treats in America. For 40 years, it was sold over the counter and advertised in newspapers, as well as being listed in the catalogs of Sears-Roebuck, as a totally harmless, delicious, and fun candy.
--Jack Herer

History of Cannabis

Cannabis (hemp) was once held in high esteem

U. S. A. HEMP MUSEUM

The history and benefits of hemp

Hemp Facts

An old medicinal

Recannabis Index 2001

History of Cannabis Intoxicant Use

"Galen wrote in the second century that it was customary to promote hilarity and happiness at banquets by giving the guests hemp."
-- Reininger, 1967: 14-15

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DdC Decade Yahookan Join Date: Feb 1999 Location: Santa Cruz,CA,USA Posts: 2,088 Blog Entries: 5 Thanks: 47 Thanked 570 Times in 378 Posts	Thomas Jefferson Jefferson enjoyed “the solitude of a hermit” at his year-round retreat near Lynchburg, Virginia. At the heart of this 4800-acre plantation in beautiful Bedford County, Jefferson built his final, personal architectural masterpiece -- an octagonal house surrounded by an elaborate villa landscape. The rescue of this National Historic Landmark began in 1984, and today you can watch the state-of-the-art restoration under way. Come discover the private, contemplative side of Thomas Jefferson. DEISM - AMERICA'S FORGOTTEN RELIGION! People like Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin were avid readers of the great philosophers of the European Enlightenment. They treasured the ideas found in the works of such thinkers as Descartes, Voltaire, Bacon and Locke. One of the cornerstone ideas of the Enlightenment was to give every idea and assumption the test of reason. When they applied reason to religion they found it necessary to strip it of revelation and they ended up with Deism. Deism is belief in God based on reason and nature. The differing alleged revelations of the various revealed religions are conspicuously absent from Deism. It is a natural religion as opposed to a revealed religion such as Christianity, Judaism, or Islam. Enlightenment, term applied to the mainstream of thought of 18th-century Europe and America. The major champions of these concepts were the philosophes, who popularized and promulgated the new ideas for the general reading public. These proponents of the Enlightenment shared certain basic attitudes. With supreme faith in rationality, they sought to discover and to act upon universally valid principles governing humanity, nature, and society. They variously attacked spiritual and scientific authority, dogmatism, intolerance, censorship, and economic and social restraints. They considered the state the proper and rational instrument of progress. The extreme rationalism and skepticism of the age led naturally to deism; the same qualities played a part in bringing the later reaction of romanticism. The Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot epitomized the spirit of the Age of Enlightenment, or Age of Reason, as it is also called. An International System of Thought Centered in Paris, the movement gained international character at cosmopolitan salons. Masonic lodges played an important role in disseminating the new ideas throughout Europe. "The Hashish Club" -- an Anthology of Drug Literature" edited by Peter Haining, publ. 1975 by Peter Owen Limited) The Hashish Club was the name given to a the group of French writers and artists who first banded together in the years just before the Second Republic to experiment with, and record their experiences, of hashish ....... All were united in a search for new forms of expresssion and enlightenment ....... the assembled writers (and painters) comparing their symptons under hashish or opium, and speculating on how their imagination and the writer's art might be stimulated or betrayed by drugs". EDGAR ALLAN POE, 1809-49. - "Usually I had half filled the bowl of the hookah with opium and tobacco cut and mingled, half and half. THEOPHILE GAUTIER, 1811-72. -"Hashish has nothing of that ignoble drunkenness about it which the races of the North obtain from wine and alcohol ; it offers an intellectual intoxication". (Essay, 1844) CHARLES PIERRE BAUDELAIRE, 1821-67. - "Now, even if we admit for a moment that hashish can confer genius, or at least increase it, it must not be forgotten that it is the nature of hashish to weaken the will, and so to give with one hand what it takes away with the other, that is, to bestow imagination without the power to make use of it" ("Les Paridis Artificiels", 1860) The Nectar of Delight mirror The Early History of Cannabis from Plants of the Gods by Schultes & Hofmann Archaeology If, for instance, archaeologists want to find references in Jefferson’s correspondence about crops at Poplar Forest, they can ask the database to retrieve references about wheat. (or hemp) The Corporation for Jefferson's Poplar Forest P.O. Box 419 • Forest, VA 24551-0419 Voice (434) 525-1806 • Fax (434) 525-7252 Or archaeologists can tap into the catalog of artifacts discovered during excavation. An entry for a button, for instance, will include information on where and when it was found, what it’s made of, what size it is, how old it is, and what decoration it has. The transit used by the field archaeologists maps the location of each excavation unit, which is automatically fed into the database. The house at Poplar Forest was very pretty and pleasant. It was of brick, one story in front, and, owing to the falling of the ground, two in the rear. It was an exact octagon, with a centre-hall twenty feet square, lighted from above. This was a beautiful room, and served as a dining-room. Round it were grouped a bright drawing-room looking south, my grandfather’s own chamber, three other bedrooms, and a pantry. A terrace extended from one side of the house; there was a portico in front connected by a vestibule with the centre room, and in the rear a verandah, on which the drawing-room opened, with its windows to the floor. Mr. Jefferson had decidedly one of the evenest and most cheerful tempers I ever knew. He enjoyed a jest, provided it were to give pain to no one, and we were always glad to have any pleasant little anecdote for him-when he would laugh as cheerily as we could do ourselves, and enter into the spirit of the thing with as much gaiety. Letter,history/ellen Thomas Jefferson Biography A French nobleman observed that he had placed his house and his mind "on an elevated situation, from which he might contemplate the universe." Recreation drug use "Prohibition . . . goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legistlation." -- Abraham Lincoln (attributed) Starting in the 1860s, the Ganja Wallah Hasheesh Candy Company made maple sugar hashish candy, which soon became one of the most popular treats in America. For 40 years, it was sold over the counter and advertised in newspapers, as well as being listed in the catalogs of Sears-Roebuck, as a totally harmless, delicious, and fun candy. --Jack Herer History of Cannabis Cannabis (hemp) was once held in high esteem U. S. A. HEMP MUSEUM The history and benefits of hemp Hemp Facts An old medicinal Recannabis Index 2001 History of Cannabis Intoxicant Use "Galen wrote in the second century that it was customary to promote hilarity and happiness at banquets by giving the guests hemp." -- Reininger, 1967: 14-15