"The judgment that must be passed upon the hasheesh life in retrospect is
widely different from the one which I formed during its progress. Now the
drug, with all its revelation of interior mysteries, its glimpses of
supernatural beauty and sublimity, appears as the very witch-plant of hell,
the weed of madness. At the time of its daily use, I forgave it for all its
pangs, for its cruel exercise of authority, its resistless fascination, and
its usurpation of the place of all other excitement, at the intercession of
the divine forms which it created for my soul, and which, though growing
rarer and rarer, when they were present retained their glory until the
last....
SOURCE: Ludlow, Fitz Hugh "Vos non vobis --
wherein the Pythagorean is a By-stander", The Hasheesh Eater, available at this library.
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