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THE OCCULT
PROPERTIES
OF HERBS
by
W. B. CROW
D.Se., Ph.D.
THE AQUARIAN PRESS
37/38 Margaret Street, London, W.I
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CONTENTS
page
I. TE NATURE OF HERBS
7
Herbs, Shrubs and Trees-Kins f Plants
2. HERBS AS FOODS
I I
The Seven Cereas-T.ir Myserious Origin-
Myth and Magic-Bean King and ueen-Carling
Sunday-Apple Cult-Other Fruit Ceremonies­
Japanese Tea Ceremony-Other Tisanes
3. HERBS N HEALING
18
Ancient Medicine-Ayur-veda, the Hindu Sysem-
Moxa - Doctrine f Signatures - Herbalism -
Homoeopathy.
4. DRUGS AND POISONS
2 5
The Cult of Bacchus-ermented Liquors-Tobacco
-Opium - Mescal-Indian Hemp-Some other
Vegetable Drugs-Aphrodisiacs-Poisonous Plants
5 . HERBS N ALCHEMY
33
The Herb of Immortality-Elxir f Lfe-Palin­
genepontaneous Generation
6. HERBS N sTROLOGY
35
EpochsSeasos-Plans and the Moon-The
Floral Clock-Herbs f the Plaes-Plans f the
Zodiac
7 . HERBS N MAGIC
40
Lotus f the Ancients-Druis and the Mistletoe
-Rosicucians and the Rose-Love Philtres-Herbs
tn Divination-Plans used tn Witchcraft­
Antidotes to Enchantments-Trees as Oracles
8. HERBS N RELIGION
4 5
Ambrosia -Nectar - e Christian Mysteries­
Incense-Sacred Oils-Linen.
9. SYMBOLISM OF HERBS
50
Emblems f PlacesSymbos f Gos-Symbos f
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E CCULT PROPERTmS OF HERBS
SaintsSymhols f Virtues-Heraldic Herbs and
Trees.
10. MYTHICAL PS
5 3
World Tree-Bodhi-tree-The Tree f Le-Tree
Spiris-Metamorphoses-Druidical Tree Alphabet
57
I I.
BAS D WOODS
Types of Bark-Woos f the Cross-Various Woos
12. RESNS D BASS
60
Gums-Kinos-Gum-resins-Resins - Oleo-resins
-Oils
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CPER OE
THE NATURE OF HERBS
Herbs, Subs nd Trees If we consider plants as they
actually are, and not because of their use or medical
properies, we an clas them roughiy as herbs, shrubs and
trees, with ome intermediate stags, such s undershrubs.
Hebs have no woody stems ove ground. They die down
in winter, and pass the cold season either as a persistent
underground tm, hich may be woody, or Ithe individual
plant dies a:ltogether, and only ees remn to reproduce
the plant. Sometims the underround persistent part is a
stem with non-reen scale ,leavs, with various shapes to
which such names as rhizome, tuber, corm, bu�b are
applied, and to :ih rots or rootletsl are attached.
The shape of the overground shot varies very much
acording to whether the lavs are crwded together on
the stem or whether they are more 1idely separated.
In spite of the immense diversity among the <thousands
of known plant specis there is a certain common plan of
structure bservable Ithroughout a large part of Ithe veget­
able kingdom. Hippocrates (460-377 B.C. ) that great physi­
cian of antiquity recognised the plant s a compound
individual, i.e. a unit made of many smaller units. Each
unit was a shoot, i.e. a stem with leaves. Only a few of
the shoots or a single one at ,the base may have a rot or
roos attahed. In more recent mes, but before the rise of
DaWinism, that grat in�tiate f the arcane cienes,
Goethe (17 4 9-1832), taught <the doctrine f the Urpianze,
the primkive plant, :at living form or pattern which
eiists as an arane archetype in all the higher plants. It is
not an ancestral species, in the sense f evolution, but a
reality e�pressing kinship, and lherefore implying genetic
relationship, hence possible descent from a common ances­
tor. In 1790 n his Metamorphoss of Plants Goethe showed
1 A rotlet s simply a small rot.
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