The Ultimate Medical Mistake
Chapter 7

Medical Magic

For many long years, medical science has vainly searched for the so-called "magic bullet," this being a chemical formulation that will zero in on a specific disease condition within the human body and obliterate it.

“This seductive idea, on which modern medicine is predominantly based, is that of a German chemist, Paul Ehlrich. In 1906, while working with arsenic compounds in efforts to treat syphilis, he elaborated the concept of a magic bullet. In Ehrlich’s mind that bullet was a chemical, which would kill parasites within the body, and the magic would be the chemical’s ability to select the parasite and ignore the host.

“Ehrlich quickly realized the limitations of his original idea. The medical, chemical and pharmaceutical industries did not. Seduced by its powerful simplicity, they have clung to it tenaciously, its attractiveness allowing them to behave as if the necessary prerequisites for its success were indeed established.” (Dr A. Melville & C. Johnson, Cured to Death, p.10)

Once we understand the true nature of disease, we can only conclude that the magic bullet theory is a vain hope indeed for it is based upon a number of altogether faulty assumptions, not the least of which is the assumption that disease is an enemy that must be obliterated, when all the while disease, and this applies more specifically to acute disease, is a friend that should be cooperated with.

“The thrust of twentieth century medicine can be described by the metaphor of war. Disease is considered an invasion by an enemy and treatment is aimed at "magic bullets" in the form of drugs and vaccines to eliminate that enemy. Lost in this approach is the concept of repairing the imbalances that allow the illnesses to occur in the first place. Medical science has become one-sided in its focus, increasingly losing sight of the whole person in its attempt to treat the body’s individual parts.” (Dr. J. R. Lee, Alternative Medicine, p.6)

While the great medicinal drug hope may be fuelled by many good intentions, and while it may be fired by many genuine, sincere, well meaning and caring professionals, we need to realize that this hope actually borders on the field of magic.

As Bishop Berkeley once stated:

“The hopes of mankind in medicine are very close to the belief in witchcraft.” (As quoted by Dr. Hartley-Hennessey, Water the Healer, p.212)

This is a shocking thought indeed, yet there is more truth attached to Bishop Berkeley’s statement than many realize – especially when we consider it in the light of the fact that:

“Nature alone possesses curative powers. Medicines have no power to cure, but will generally hinder nature in her efforts.” (4aSG136.1)

If nature alone can cure, and if medicines have no power to cure, then it is obvious that our hope in medicine is a hope that we are placing in something that could only ever produce results in defiance of natural law - and anything that defies natural law is nothing other than magic or witchcraft. 

With this most challenging thought in mind, let us now turn our attention to the Scriptures.

In the book of Revelation we are told that at the end of time there will be a number of practices that mankind will refuse to repent of. One of those practices is referred to four times in the book of Revelation as "magic arts" or "magic spells."[1]

But just what are these "magic arts?"

In the King James Version of the Bible, the translators have used the word “sorceries” rather than “magic arts.” The original Greek word from which the word “sorceries" is derived, is "pharmakeia." Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance, which is one of the most highly respected concordances in the world, explains the meaning of the word "pharmakeia." Please take note that the words in brackets below are all included in the concordance.

5331: Pharmakeia. From 5332; medication ("pharmacy"), i.e. (by extension) magic (lit. or fig.):- sorcery, witchcraft.

The root word from which Pharmakeia is derived is Pharmakon, the meaning of which is given as follows:

5332: Pharmakon. (A drug, i.e. spell-giving potion); a druggist ("pharmacist") or poisoner, i.e. (by extension.) a magician:- sorcerer.

My reader may draw his or her own conclusions from this information but, needless to say, the association between “pharmacy” and “sorcery” is ominous indeed. Can it be that mankind’s hope in medicine actually borders on a hope in magic or witchcraft?

In that the average medical textbook of our day does not give credit to God as the Great Physician, and in the light of the fact that Nature alone possesses curative powers, it is obvious that mankind’s hope in medicine is seriously misplaced.

What other conclusion can we come to as we see an unwitting world, and even many of our very own physicians, confidently embracing a philosophy of healing . . .

• That could only ever produce results in defiance of natural law,

• That does not meet with the approval of heaven, (CD301.2)

• That is focused on suppressing our acute diseases, instead of on assisting our acute diseases,

• That masters in the treatment of the effects of disease, but that does little or nothing to cure disease,

• That seems to be far more efficient at serving corporate interests than it is at serving the interests of our health,

• That all too often deprives sick people of their life savings while doing little or nothing to improve their health or their long-term prospects.

According to Dr John Abramson . . .

“Half of all personal bankruptcies in the United States are caused by medical expenses, [but] the ugliest truth of all is that these enormous costs do not come close to producing commensurate improvements in our health.” (Overdosed America, pp. xvii; xviii)