And so, when it comes to drugs, that blind spot of the classicists continues. If even the professionals won’t bother with the topic, what hope is there for the rest of us? And what hope is there of proving or disproving the pagan continuity hypothesis, and getting to the true origins of Christianity, when the potential key to the Mysteries has been ignored by both secular and religious historians for so long? Because if ever there was a missing link between the Ancient Greeks of the final centuries BC and the paleo-Christians of the early centuries AD, it’s the spiked wine I have been
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