'Drugs do not cure sickness, they simply change the form and location [thereof]'...temporarily obscuring/diffusing it throughout the body but ultimately not resolving it; enabling it to re-manifest itself at a later date and stage in forms ever more injurious and difficult to deal with...
By thus effectively 'glossing over' the real issue, they not only obscure and temporarily shunt it from visible notice, but by thus 'hiding' it enable it to ultimately re-manifest in ever more deadly and sinister ways...
And thus are so-called 'modern medicines' - potions et al - which themselves often contain highly suspect substances/ingredients which themselves contribute to either exacerbated issues or other, new problems down the track, often even worse than the original presenting problems...
What has ever so intrigued Yours Truly is how the Good Book Itself - amidst one of its various enumerated lists of sins, in the Book of the Apocalypse, itself dealing with 'last days' events, i.e. 'stuff' occurring from the days of Jesus' surviving Apostles through to the long-foretold Second Coming of Jesus in great glory to our inglorious globe - uses the term 'pharmakeia', translated 'sorcery', in Revelation: 9.21(cf 18:23; Isaiah 47:9,12).
Under numerals '5331' and '5332' (and '5333', the same as 5332), the 'Greek Dictionary of the New Testament', in the extensive indices to the New American Standard Bible: Hebrew-Greek Key Word Study Bible, has the following (listings):
5331: pharmakeia...medication ("pharmacy") i.e. (by extens.) magic (lit. or fig.): -sorcery, witchcraft.
5332: pharmakeus...from pharmakon (a drug, i.e. spell-giving potion); a druggist ("pharmacist") or poisoner, i.e. (by extens.) a magician; -sorcerer.
Nuff Said?
Well, admittedly, maybe not, insofar as we are presently living through what is popularly known as a 'drug epidemic', not only in God's Own/Godzone, but throughout the Western world...which term (in that particular context) clearly, obviously is in specific reference, not to the various pills and potions upon pharmacy shelves but to the plethora of narcotics, illicit substances and/or legal but deadly alcoholic beverages, one and all, so readily available to one and all these days...
Nevertheless I'm sure the point is well taken, and is nonetheless an indication - and of as graphic a variety as is pretty well possible, surely - of the etymology of such commonly-accepted terms/concepts as 'pharmacy' and 'pharmacist'...
...suggesting the shadier side of their longstanding, even seriously ancient history...
-and I for one, given the absolute lack/dearth of ingredients oftentimes 'revealed' upon the containers of variously concocted 'medications' for this, that and the other, the simultaneous lack of transparency by so-called 'health professionals' over, let alone even knowledge concerning the contents therein... alongside the sole focus upon the treatment of readily observable symptoms with nary a discussion over, much less an intention to deal to, the underlying causes giving rise to said symptoms...
...am far from convinced that the various and sundry drugs, pills and potions presently being so freely and readily dispensed to one and all by the orthodox health establishment...via the 'neighborhood pharmacy'...are not indeed the selfsame sort of exceedingly questionable hocus-pocus, magical 'puff 'n stuff'' that in a former age were the stock 'n trade of ye garden-variety sorcerers/magicians/witches.
By thus effectively 'glossing over' the real issue, they not only obscure and temporarily shunt it from visible notice, but by thus 'hiding' it enable it to ultimately re-manifest in ever more deadly and sinister ways...
And thus are so-called 'modern medicines' - potions et al - which themselves often contain highly suspect substances/ingredients which themselves contribute to either exacerbated issues or other, new problems down the track, often even worse than the original presenting problems...
What has ever so intrigued Yours Truly is how the Good Book Itself - amidst one of its various enumerated lists of sins, in the Book of the Apocalypse, itself dealing with 'last days' events, i.e. 'stuff' occurring from the days of Jesus' surviving Apostles through to the long-foretold Second Coming of Jesus in great glory to our inglorious globe - uses the term 'pharmakeia', translated 'sorcery', in Revelation: 9.21(cf 18:23; Isaiah 47:9,12).
Under numerals '5331' and '5332' (and '5333', the same as 5332), the 'Greek Dictionary of the New Testament', in the extensive indices to the New American Standard Bible: Hebrew-Greek Key Word Study Bible, has the following (listings):
5331: pharmakeia...medication ("pharmacy") i.e. (by extens.) magic (lit. or fig.): -sorcery, witchcraft.
5332: pharmakeus...from pharmakon (a drug, i.e. spell-giving potion); a druggist ("pharmacist") or poisoner, i.e. (by extens.) a magician; -sorcerer.
Nuff Said?
Well, admittedly, maybe not, insofar as we are presently living through what is popularly known as a 'drug epidemic', not only in God's Own/Godzone, but throughout the Western world...which term (in that particular context) clearly, obviously is in specific reference, not to the various pills and potions upon pharmacy shelves but to the plethora of narcotics, illicit substances and/or legal but deadly alcoholic beverages, one and all, so readily available to one and all these days...
Nevertheless I'm sure the point is well taken, and is nonetheless an indication - and of as graphic a variety as is pretty well possible, surely - of the etymology of such commonly-accepted terms/concepts as 'pharmacy' and 'pharmacist'...
...suggesting the shadier side of their longstanding, even seriously ancient history...
-and I for one, given the absolute lack/dearth of ingredients oftentimes 'revealed' upon the containers of variously concocted 'medications' for this, that and the other, the simultaneous lack of transparency by so-called 'health professionals' over, let alone even knowledge concerning the contents therein... alongside the sole focus upon the treatment of readily observable symptoms with nary a discussion over, much less an intention to deal to, the underlying causes giving rise to said symptoms...
...am far from convinced that the various and sundry drugs, pills and potions presently being so freely and readily dispensed to one and all by the orthodox health establishment...via the 'neighborhood pharmacy'...are not indeed the selfsame sort of exceedingly questionable hocus-pocus, magical 'puff 'n stuff'' that in a former age were the stock 'n trade of ye garden-variety sorcerers/magicians/witches.
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