The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name

by Brian C. Muraresku

And that’s how the War on Drugs actually begins. Ever since Paul yelled at the Corinthians for consuming a lethal potion, the entire history of Christianity has been one epic battle over the Eucharist. There has always been a right Eucharist and a wrong Eucharist. From the house churches and catacombs of paleo-Christianity, to the Italian graveyards and incubation temples of the Dark Ages, to the Sabbats of the Renaissance, the mystics have always tried to protect their version of the Drug of Immortality. And the bureaucrats have always responded with an iron fist: from the Church Fathers, to the Inquisitors, to Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón, to the Protestant missionaries, to the American federal government. When Uncle Sam got involved in 1890, and the international treaties got under way not long thereafter, this story seemed all buttoned up. Even if it took a couple thousand years, the bureaucrats had finally done away with the competition.