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I until reading about the two of you had never heard of the Coptics. I just want to know where it came from. Is it something that was created in this country? How does it differ from Christianity? It is Christianity. This church is accepted by the Jamaican government. It's accepted by the Queen of England and is accepted by the Florida Supreme Court as a religion. Marijuana is our communion. It's our sacrament. We have formal prayers three times a day, and at that time we pass the marijuana in a cup amongst us, amongst ourselves, the brothers amongst themselves and the sisters amongst themselves. We raise Psalms, we raise chants, and we read from the scripture. We believe in the fatherhood of man and the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. Christ took a cup at the Last Supper and blessed the cup and passed it amongst his disciples and said, Take and eat. This is my body and my blood, this do in remembrance of me. So as we partake of that divine substance that Christ partook of with His disciples we're partakers of Christ's Holy Spirit. So it's like a denomination, like there are Methodist and there are Baptists and Episcopalians, there are Coptics. Well Christ only did preach one word. He preached a word of love and a word of salvation. So man has to examine the churches that say they're preaching that and see which one is walking in his word. Christ put his spirit into something and passed it among pass it amongst his disciples. And we say that he's put his spirit into the Ganja. Christ is going to come and baptize with fire. And John said he was going to come and baptize with water. And this is a fiery sacrifice. This is a fiery baptism that John said would come after him, someone that was preferred before him. Christ also said that he that does not partake of my body and my blood has no life in him. So I know that all of us have life. But what kind of life is he talking about? He's talking about spiritual life. In other words, marijuana in itself isn't a cure all. Man has to live, right? Man has to think right. Man has to live cleanly in order for marijuana to be of use to him, the creation of God, it's a seed existing within itself that's perfect. There's nothing there's nothing imperfect about marijuana. By partaking of that same spirit, I have a direct experience with God within myself. I partake of wine at a certain services and that's that's really made me more or less a drunkard. I know that this church is a church. God has always had a relationship with man from Adam to this day. And this church is the present day manifestation of God's true relationship with man. According to the laws of God, the laws of God are contrary in many aspects to the laws of men. I don't consider the marijuana statute to be a law. Law is something that I was shown throughout my life is something that doesn't change. Law is eternal. You have mosaic law. We live by the law of Moses: to kill, to thief, to rob, to lie. Those are always things that are wrong. But statutes one year will say that marijuana is an illegal controlled substance. In a few, in a few years, it's likely to be something that's legal. My final year of college with about a half a semester left. I had a burning desire in myself to find out what my place in the earth was rather than what position in society I would hold. I wanted to know what I as a man was doing on the earth. I went to California. I went to the Haight-Ashbury area of San Francisco and spent a few years out there and my wife was with me and we were very disillusioned and found nothing that showed us any path worthy of following. And we returned to Massachusetts, rented a small place in the country and lived there for a number of years. And after a few years, some college friends of mine came by and told us that this doctrine and lived with us for a while. And basically I didn't really want to hear anything about another doctrine because I'd been exposed to so many and found them all to be something that really didn't interest me. And it's just recently that the the lies and all the absurdities about marijuana from the 30s with Reefer Madness and all those movies is now finally people are starting to realize that marijuana doesn't cause all those dangerous things. Men and women have a responsibility every day to do the right, not just one day a week on Sunday, but every day, every hour of the day to do the right and think right and love. I just got to ask you this, because when I ask you earlier about why you decided that marijuana was divine and the perfect seed and all that, I wasn't trying to be facetious because in my mind, if everything God created is perfect, you might as well smoke a tomato plant if you just want to do something. Well we've been also given the knowledge of what we did is we found an herbal civilization and herbal culture. See, America doesn't really know anything about an herbal culture. It doesn't have any understanding of what herbs are used for. Yet many civilizations in the Earth and throughout history have used herbs in many ways. We just don't use marijuana. We use many different kinds of herbs, but we use marijuana in a divine relationship. First of all, scientifically, we've been involved now in a court case and we've had various experts from all over the country testifying on our behalf. And basically their testimony is similar, that there's been no proven ill effects to marijuana, on the contrary, there aremany beneficial uses for marijuana. It takes a few ounces to make the tea. I make tonics, I make tinctures. Some of it's fed to my chickens. Every man has to decide for himself. This is a judgment where every man has to decide for himself. God said that he would take man and cleanse him as he does gold. We start smoking when we get up and we pray and we smoke till we go down at night. And I don't really notice one one moment being different from another. I'm not high one minute and not high the other. I'm just like, I probably feel like anybody else. But you do know of being high because you did smoke it before at one time before you became religious in this. That's why we're so convinced of this of this church and this doctrine because we do know the difference between smoking marijuana recreationally and getting stoned and and enjoying that sort of attitude. And then we know about sacramental use of marijuana and it's just a complete difference. I make herbal tonics out of ganja and other herbs and I make a large tonic usually twice a year. And it does ferment naturally to I don't know what the percentage would be, but it's a very light, it's a medicinal type drink, but there is a tiny bit of alcohol in it. I'm not trying to to make something up or try and invent a way to God. I've been handed something that I accepted and have found to be truly the way. As I mentioned, it's really not something I'm trying to make fit my life. It's something I had to change my entire life to be a partaker of. He says: "those who love me will follow my commandment."