Identity
highHill's hemp entry is botanical and fiber-oriented: Cannabis is described as a tall cultivated field plant with rigid stalk, fingered serrated leaves, and separate flowering plants.
Found in the Hermetikon archive
Hemp / Cannabis
Cannabis sativa
Hemp / Cannabis appears in Hermetikon as an archive-backed plant entry, with references across historical medical, magical, symbolic, and ritual contexts where the source texts support them.
- Risk
- moderate
- Books
- 25
- Contexts
- 4
- Mentions
- 198
Archive Profile
Identity, safety, and search aliases used to connect this herb to the archive.
Herb identity
- Common name
- hemp
- Latin name
- Cannabis sativa(ambiguous)
- Identity note
- Archive hits include hemp fiber, cannabis, hashish, medicine, and ethnography.
Safety
moderate
Cannabis and hemp materials differ; psychoactive, legal, pregnancy, and interaction risks require modern review.
Historical archive citations are not medical advice. Use modern clinical and poison-control sources for ingestion, dosage, pregnancy, and toxicity questions.
- NCCIH Cannabis: Cannabis and hemp materials differ; psychoactive, legal, pregnancy, and interaction risks require modern review.
Aliases
hempcannabisCannabis sativahashish
Hemp / Cannabis in Historical Sources
Curated archive synthesis of recurring uses, recipes, rituals, and interpretive problems.
Hermetikon's curated reading of Hemp / Cannabis (Cannabis sativa) is built from 3 source-linked archive notes and 1 preparation or ritual-use entry. The strongest recurring contexts are astrology, identity, and safety. Each note below links back to the archive source used for the claim.
Safety
highSpence's hashish passage treats cannabis through intoxicating Orientalist lore, connecting hashish with opiate-like visions and reckless preparation for violent service.
Astrology
highCrowley assigns Cannabis indica a mixed Venus-Mercury effect in Liber 777: voluptuous visions in one mood and self-analysis in another.
Preparations and ritual uses
tincture
highKing's records tincture of Cannabis indica administered repeatedly in a poisoning case; this is historical emergency materia medica, not modern dosage guidance.
Hemp / Cannabis Archive Contexts
Compact source patterns from the extracted citation set.
Astrology
5 passages across 5 books; strongest source: Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics.
Matched as cannabis; high confidence.
Folk magic
1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: The Discoverie of Witchcraft.
Matched as cannabis; high confidence.
Preparation
1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: King's American Dispensatory.
Matched as cannabis; high confidence.
Safety
8 passages across 8 books; strongest source: Encyclopaedia of Occultism.
Matched as hashish; high confidence.
Hemp / Cannabis Cited Excerpts
Representative public passages with the herb mention highlighted and linked to archive source material.
King's American Dispensatory
Harvey Wickes Felter
1854
"...4 hours, the person was saved by the administration, every 5, 10, and 15 minutes, t>fi-teaspoonful doses of tincture of Cannabis indica. J. Rosenthal, from liie results of experiments upon animals, and having observed that artificial respiration caused the convulsions, arising from the influence of strychnine, to cease, and even saved the animals from dying, is strongly inclined to believe that, if any method can be devised by which artificial respiration can be maintained for a long time, all persons poisoned by strychnine can be saved, if too long a time has n..."
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Preparationalias: cannabishigh confidence
The Family Herbal
John Hill
1755
"...g disagreeable smell, and has been called poisonous. The roots are excellent in pultices for hard swellings. ### HEMP. *Cannabis.* **HEMP** is a tall plant, of a coarse aspect, cultivated in fields for its stalk. It grows five feet high, and is a robust plant; the stalk is thick and rigid; the leaves are numerous, they are large and each composed of six or seven smaller; these are disposed in the manner of fingers, and are of a deep green colour, rough, narrow, and serrated at the edges. The flowers in hemp grow in some plants, and the"
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Safetyalias: cannabishigh confidence
Encyclopaedia of Occultism
Lewis Spence
1920
"...made it probable that the Oriental term Hashishin, of which the Crusaders made Assassins, comes (as already noted) from Hashish, a species of hemp, from which intoxicating opiates were made, which the Fedavi were in the habit of taking previously to engaging in their daring enterprises, or employed as a medium of procuring delicious visions of the paradise promised to them by the Sheikh-al-Gebel. It is a curious question how Hassan contrived to infuse into the Fedavi the recklessness of life, joined with the spirit of implicit obedience to the commands of their..."
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Safetyalias: hashishhigh confidence
Liber 777
Aleister Crowley
1909
"... stimulants. Alcohol in particular pertains to Bacchus. Further, it is an omniform menstruum for the Astral Light. 7-8. Cannabis Indica and Anhalonium Lewinii appear to act on both these Sephiroth. Their action is very similar. They produce in one mood voluptuous visions which pertain to Venus, and in another confer the power of self-analysis, which is Mercurial. - This attribution refers to its alleged aphrodisiac action. - Corn is the typical stimulant of the Nephesch as such."
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Astrologyalias: cannabishigh confidence
The Discoverie of Witchcraft
Reginald Scot
1584
"...phobia (Pliny). Phil. Holland says, " Some take it to be Asperula, the wood-rose" ; Holyokes Rider gives " rubia minor, cannabis agrestis". P. 244. " Scarifie." Might be done with a gum lancet ; but the magical tooth might have the advantage in some instances of affecting the thoughts, and through them the body, as noted, p. 240. " Os non." This, preceded by Jesus autem transiens ►J< per medium illorum ibat with a after "eo", was, according to Paulus Grillandus, who twice witnessed it, a charm producing taciturnity and insensibility under torture ! Something, ei..."
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Folk magicalias: cannabishigh confidence
Books Mentioning Hemp / Cannabis
Complete public source inventory, placed after the interpretive reading so the page opens with the most useful synthesis first.
The Equinox Vol. 1 No. 3
Aleister Crowley | 1910
hashish
51 mentions
The Equinox Vol. 1 No. 2
Aleister Crowley | 1909
hashishcannabis
45 mentions
The Equinox Vol. 1 No. 1
Aleister Crowley | 1909
cannabishashish
24 mentions
King's American Dispensatory
Harvey Wickes Felter | 1854
cannabis
21 mentionscited
Adventures of a Modern Occultist
Oliver Bland | 1920
hashishcannabis
12 mentions
The Equinox Vol. 1 No. 10
Aleister Crowley | 1913
hashishcannabis
8 mentions
Encyclopaedia of Occultism
Lewis Spence | 1920
hashish
6 mentionscited
The Evil Eye
Frederick Thomas Elworthy | 1895
cannabis
4 mentions
Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
James Hastings | 1918
cannabis
3 mentions
The Equinox Vol. 1 No. 5
Aleister Crowley | 1911
hashish
3 mentions
Primitive Culture, Vol. 2
Edward Burnett Tylor | 1871
hashish
3 mentions
Liber 777
Aleister Crowley | 1909
cannabishashish
2 mentionscited
Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
James Hastings | 1916
cannabis
2 mentions
Isis Unveiled, Vol. 2: Theology
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky | 1877
hashish
2 mentions
Principia Discordia
Malaclypse the Younger (Gregory Hill) | 1963
cannabishashish
2 mentions
The Family Herbal
John Hill | 1755
cannabis
1 mentioncited
The Discoverie of Witchcraft
Reginald Scot | 1584
cannabis
1 mentioncited
Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
James Hastings | 1913
hashish
1 mention
The Equinox Vol. 1 No. 6
Aleister Crowley | 1911
hashish
1 mention
Transcendental Magic
Eliphas Levi | 1854
hashish
1 mention
Jungle Ways
William Seabrook | 1930
hashish
1 mention
Magick in Theory and Practice
Aleister Crowley | 1929
hashish
1 mention
The Equinox Vol. 1 No. 4
Aleister Crowley | 1910
cannabis
1 mention
Book 4 Part 1
Aleister Crowley | 1912
hashish
1 mention
The Equinox Vol. 1 No. 9
Aleister Crowley | 1913
hashish
1 mention