“I hold that the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was Soma, was the kakuljd, was Amanita muscaria, was the Nameless Mushroom of the English-speaking people. The Tree was probably a conifer, in Mesopotamia. The serpent, being underground, was the faithful attendant on the fruit. (See my SOMA, p 214) Please read the Biblical story in the light of all I have written on the awe and reverence that A. muscaria evokes, and how the knowing ones speak of it only when alone together, preferably by night. Gradually it will dawn on you that the `fruit' can be no other than Sonia. Everyone mentions the tree but its fruit is nameless.”