The True Meaning of Pharmakeia
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The True Meaning of Pharmakeia
By Raven White Dove
The Greek word pharmakeia is an abstract noun meaning "sorcery, magic, and the practice of magic arts".
The word "pharmacy" in medieval Latin is "pharmacia" and in Old French is "farmacie". Like the Greek "pharmakeia", all mean "a healing or harmful medicine, a healing or poisonous herb; a drug, poisonous potion; a magic potion, dye, raw material for physical or chemical processing."
The word potion is not unlike the word poison. In fact, the word "potion" in Latin is "potio(n- )" which means to "drink, poisonous draft", related to "potare" which is "to drink". That's why clean water is called "potable" drinking water.
The word pharmacist comes from the word "pharmakeus" (fem. pharmakis) which means "a preparer of drugs, a poisoner, a sorcerer" and from the word "pharmakon" which means "a drug, a poison, philter, charm, spell, and enchantment."
This dude Buck (from "Selected Indo-European Synonyms") notes that "Words for 'poison', apart from an inherited group, are in some cases the same as those for "drug'". In addition, the Latin word "venenum" means "poison," which is known, as well as, "drug, medical potion". Venenum translated into English is the word "venom".
When people were saying snake venom was put into the covid-eugenics-19 vaccines, they were not wrong. The C-vaxes are 2020's version of "snake oil" and everyone of the injections are filled with "venom", aka poison, also known as a medical potion.
The word pharmaceutical which "pertains to pharmacy or the art of preparing drugs," circa 1640s (pharmaceutic in the same sense is from 1540s), comes from the Greek word "pharmakeutikos", which means "preparer of drugs, and poisoner".
Thereby, the root word "pharmakeia" means clearly,
1) the use or the administering of drugs,
2) poisoning and,
3) sorcery, magical arts, often found in connection with idolatry and fostered by it.
Now, what is the root word of sorcery?
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