Statement of Belief

We welcome any who seek truth, wisdom and tolerance.

We, at the church of the three are a Cantheist Church that believes that we are all spirits in bodies, seeking and discovering our own personal truth in our own unique way.

That Cannabis is a Holy Sacrament to be shared among the faithful.

For many of us, that truth is found through Jesus Christ, Buddha, the goddess, or The Divine creator. For a large number of our members, it is found through Pagan Gods and Goddesses, while still others find their truth through examining life and the experiences we all have.

All of these paths and more are welcomed and explored.

We value all the viewpoints of our ministers and congregation, however varied and controversial they might be.

We believe in religious freedom, as long as it does not infringe on the rights of others and is within just laws.

We use teaching material from a variety of sources, Bibles included, as wisdom is found in many places and people each hear it in different ways.

Through our ministry, we explore many faiths and belief systems and seek to understand the universal truths that each of these contain.

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Shintoism (Japan)--- Cannabis was used for the binding together of married couples, to drive away evil sprits, and was thought to create laughter and happiness in marriage.

Hinduism (India)--- The God Shiva is said “to have brought cannabis from the Himalayas for human enjoyment and enlightenment.” the Sardu priests travel throughout India and the world sharing “chillum” pipes filled with cannabis, sometimes blended with other substances. In the Bhagavad-gita, Krishna states, “I am the healing herb” (Ch 9:16) while the Bhagarat-purana Fifth Canto describes hashish in explicitly sexual terms.

Buddhists (Tibet, India, and China)--- from the 5th century B.C. on ritually used cannabis; initiation rites and mystical experiences were (are) common in many Chinese Buddhist Sects. Some Tibetan Buddhists and lamas (priests) consider cannabis their ost holy plant. Many Buddhist traditions, writings, and beliefs indicate that “Siddhartha” (the Buddha) himself, used and ate nothing but hemp and its seeds for six years prior to announcing (discovering) his truths and becoming the Buddha (Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path).

Zoroastrians or Magi (Persia, c. Eight to Seventh Centuries B.C. to Third to Forth Centuries A.D.), it is widely believed by many Christian scholars, commentators, etc., that the three “Magi” or Wise Men who attended the birth of Christ were cult references to the Zoroastrians. The Zoroastrian religion was based (at least on the surface) on the entire cannabis plant, the chief religious sacrament of its priest calss, and its most important medicine, (e.g., obstetrics, incense rites, anointing and christening oils), as well as lighting or fire oils in ther secular world. The word “magic” is generally considered derived fro the Zoroastrians-- “Magi”.

Essenes (ancient Israeli sect of the extreme Hebrewites approx. 200 BC to 73 AD) used hemp medicinally, as did the Theraputea (Egypt), from whom we get the term “therapeutic.” Both are believed by some scholars to de disciples of, or in brotherhood with, the priests/magicians of the Zoroastrians.

Sufis of Islam (Middle East) and Moslem “mystical” priests who have thought, used and extolled cannabis for divine revelation, insight and oneness with Allah, for at least the last 1,000 years. Many Moslem and world scholars believe the mysticism of the Sufi Priest was actually that of the Zoroastrians who survived Moslem conquests of the 7th and 8th centuries A.D. and subsequent conversion (change your religion and give up liquor or be beheaded).

Coptic Christian (Egypt/Ethiopia) sects believe the sacred “green herb of the field” in the Bible (“I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and the shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.” Ezekiel 34:29) and the Biblical secret incenses, sweet incenses and anointing oils to be cannabis.

Bantus (Africa) had secret Dagga Cults,* societies which restricted cannabis use to the ruling men. The Pygmies, Zulus and Hottentots all found it an indispensable medication for cramps, epilepsy and gout and as a religious sacrament.
* their Dagga cults believed Holy Cannabis was bought to earth by the Gods, in particular from the “Two Dog Star” system that we call Sirius A and B. “Dagga” literally means “cannabis.” interestingly, the surviving Indo-European word for the plant can also be read as “canna,” “reed” an “bi” “two,” as well as ‘canna,’ as in canine; and ‘bis,’ meaning two (bi)-- “Two Dogs”
Rastafarians (Jamaica and elsewhere) are a contemporary religious sect that uses “ganja” as its sacred sacrament to communicate with God (Jah).