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Wine keeps turning up at the turning points. The first thing Noah does after the flood that is not about survival is plant a vineyard. The first priest in Genesis meets Abram with bread and wine. In Plato, the kings of Atlantis seal their laws with wine and blood. I did not set out to research wine, but after tagging it on dozens of pages I saw that it marks a threshold every time: between the old world and the new, between ordinary people and initiates, between sobriety and vision.
Noah’s vineyard
On Genesis 9 the scene comes straight after the covenant of the rainbow, and I think the writing style marks it as a later addition:
And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
Genesis 9:20-21 (KJV)
What interests me is that the survivor of the old world is the one who brings the vine into the new one. The Genesis Apocryphon keeps a version where Noah falls asleep drunk on wine and receives a vision of a cedar and an olive tree, so the drink is tied to a dream and not only to shame. On Noah’s Family I follow the idea that Noah carried Atlantean knowledge across the flood, and the vineyard fits that reading.
Bread and wine with Melchizedek
The second wine scene in Genesis is a priestly one. On Abram rescues Lot, after the war of the kings:
"And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God."
Genesis 14:18 (KJV)
Bread and wine, offered by a priest-king of El Elyon, long before any temple in Jerusalem. On Melchizedek and EL Elyon I look at who this priest served. The pattern is older than the Last Supper, and the Book of Judgment in Oahspe even traces the bread and wine rite of the Uzians back to the worshipers of Baugh-ghan-ghad.
The bowl of the Atlantean kings
In Plato’s Critias the ten kings of Atlantis gathered at the temple of Poseidon, hunted a bull and sacrificed it at the pillar of the law. On The Festival of Judgement I go through the rite step by step: the blood was mixed with wine in a bowl, and each king drank from it as an oath. Bull Fighting follows the same ceremony into the bull games of later Mediterranean cultures. In Atlantis, wine was the bond of law.
Selestor’s channeled history describes a different side of Atlantean wine, a drink for sages and kings. On Selestor’s Men of Atlantis:
Not the fiery fluid which today ye know, but an elixir mixed with well-riped wine which then produced a power of thought and vigor of the brain that gave discernment to the dullest mind.
Selestor, Selestor's Men of Atlantis
The same text also shows the drunkard on the tablets and a husband whose eyes “were dulled with wine”, so the elixir and the excess sit side by side. That elixir belongs to a much wider search, which I follow on Immortality: the Tree of Life, Amrita and the Quest for the Elixir.
Dionysus and the mountain cults
The Greeks gave wine its own god. On Mount Cithaeron and Mount Pangaion I note that Dionysus, god of wine, fertility and ecstasy, was worshipped on the heights, and Pangaion had one of the few oracles dedicated to him. On Miracles of Elijah, Moses and Jesus I set Dionysus turning water into wine next to the wedding at Cana. The Book of the Angels describes festivals where wine was used to reach ecstatic states, which is the same function in a darker key.
The Essenes on drink
The calmest voice on wine comes from the Essenes. In Dolores Cannon’s regressions, quoted on The Essenes, Suddi answers a question about excess:
S: You are speaking of, perhaps when a person drinks too much wine. Those of our community do not indulge in excess. It is not said that they do not drink, for it is very acceptable to drink wine.
Suddi, as printed by Dolores Cannon, Jesus and the Essenes
The Aquarian Gospel, on the other hand, has John the Baptist vowed to drink no wine from birth. Taken together the sources do not condemn wine. They treat it as a strong thing that belongs in a rite, and the trouble starts when it leaves the rite.
Related pages
- Genesis 9 – The everlasting covenant
- Noah’s Family
- Melchizedek
- The Festival of Judgement
- Bull Fighting
- Selestor’s Men of Atlantis
- Mount Cithaeron
- The Essenes
For every page I tagged with wine, see the wine tag archive.
