To scapegoat someone.
As in to bring about their death to hide crimes of yourself or others.
To pay someone to murder another in an occult or covered up kind of way.
A cover up, a conspiracy, making someone a patsy to fall victim to a dirty deed.
It covers a broad spectrum, even something like shaming or excommunicating.
If someone knows the truth, or if he says the truth then he must go or he must die… that sort of thing.
One of the most efficient ways being to drug them.
Either to kill them right on the spot or to make them an addict that slowly kills himself because he needs the drug.
As an addict he loses all grace from peers and society. Slowly dying socially before finally dying physically.
Many ways to scapegoat and pharma comes not from the use of drugs per se but with how drugs have been the chief instrument over time.
A drug is called a DoT or death/damage over time weapon. It is underhanded and occult and so tied to the word we know as sorcery.
Magic has nothing to do with all of this other than how we modernly tie it to sorcery and how in the past people of magic would turn to pharma to keep their magic.
Magic means something like greatness or power. As person like Hitler with his ability to speak and cause others to flock to him is a perfect example of the word magic.
It means great one, to be great, to be powerful, to be mighty, to be more than others and others looking up to you because of sycophantic or other related feelings.
It is the unhealthy over the top self confidence of a person who is his own god and who is viewed by others as a god or as a power in this world.
That is all magic means. It does not mean throwing lightning bolts from your finger tip or ice daggers from your eyes.
Well of course it does, but in a symbolic way, such as when you stare someone down to show them your dominance or to cut them down a peg. That is magic.
Of course pointing to someone to finger him as the ‘bad guy’ in order to scapegoat him and get him out of the way is killing via lightning strike from your fingertip.
Folks rather believe the fantasy of the literal than the reality of the symbol.
The word and concept “magic” refers to hidden, invisible, or inexplicable influence. The word “sorcery” refers specifically to potions, or what we today refer to as biochemicals, or drugs. Sorcery is associated with magic, but magic is a broader field involving almost any kind of strong deception, chemically based or not.
Clearly, Pharmakeia refers to drugs, and the attempt to limit it’s meaning to poisoning is a self-serving deception.
The words pharmacologic, pharmacology, pharmaceutical, pharmacopeia, pharmacy, pharmacokinetics, pharmaotherapeutics, and pharmacist, to name a few, all derive from the same root. Each of the above words referring to drugs as a topics, comprise toxicological subtopics, but to limit “pharmakeia” to homocidal poisoning is simply wrong. It is a wrongful justification for explicitly that of which scripture warns us.
Obviously, a drug can be used in different ways, perhaps to kill, intoxicate, incapacitate, or treat. For example, a barbiturate is used for lethal injection in capital punishment, here, both a drug, and a lethal poison used to intentionally kill someone for taking another’s life. Conversely the same drug, at a lower dose, can be used as a medicine, e.g., to treat seizures, or yield sleep for a distraught person. A barbiturate can also be used as a “party” drug, to alter the mind, produce a spell, or even as a vehicle for rape or murder.
The use of potions has been intrinsic to sorcery and witchcraft throughout its history, and, again, of course, there are many potions for many purposes. One could, e.g., kill a heard of cattle, and demonstrate one’s power, or poison a country’s leader so as to assassinate. One could sub-lethally dose another person surreptitiously for nefarious purposes, and/or simply lustful purposes. But, for the most part the drugs are taken by the sinner themselves so as to produce a spell, to feel, to host the spirit of the drug experience. For example, in the case of hard drink, we call it distilled “spirits”. There are many spirits, but only one Holy Spirit. The righteousness of the Holy Spirit is incompatible with the presence of the familiar, unclean spirits. Purity and contamination cannot be compatible.
A case was made by Timothy Leary in the 1960’s that one could find God by using “a sacrament that works”. He claimed the church’s sacraments “didn’t work” but his, LSD, and other psychedelics did work. The certainly “work” in some fashion, spiritually. However, later he told us that he saw himself furthering the work of Aleister Crowley, the great pedophilic occultist heroin addict hero of today’s Satanists. When asked about this once, who’s side was he on, Leary answered by quoting the Grateful Dead’s song, saying, “Well, ‘a friend of the Devil is a friend of mine’”.
“And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: … the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God…” Gn 3:4
"“I tell you the truth, anyone who sneaks over the wall of a sheepfold, rather than going through the gate, must surely be a thief and a robber! But the one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out…his sheep follow him because they know his voice. But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger’s voice.” Jn 10:1
Timothy Leary’s “following” turned into a disaster of broken families, addicted lives, scattered, drunken, turning from God. The hopes of the flower child generation did not materialize into a following of goodness and light that Leary promised. One of his last youtube videos shows him chain smoking, huffing nitrous oxide laughing gas, in a wheel-chair, mumbling sloganeered nonsense, surrounded by 18 year-olds, who have not yet had the chickens come home to roost.
Witches used drugs throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. They were fond of anticholineric, atropine-like compounds, datura, henbane, withches root, loco weed, amanita mushrooms, etc. When they took these drugs they often felt as if they were flying, perhaps on a broom, for example, and so the broom came to be associated with iconography of a witch.
The word pharmakeia used in Galatians was translated into English as witchcraft or sorcery at a time when drugs were less pervasive and commonplace in society, in a time when such use of them was understood as what it is: witchcraft.
Alcohol is prohibited in most Islamic societies, but it is said for example, that Tehran is the ecstasy capital of the world. Combined with the West’s love of drugs, it is easy to see what is meant in Revelation’s recitation of a time when all of the nations are deceived by pharmakeia.
The Greek word for drug was used in Galatians 5:19-21. The Greek words for poison or toxin were not used, e.g., not toxini, ios, nor diliatrius.
If the word drug were meant to mean murder, Paul would arguably have used murder, instead. But then, it would not make sense, because Paul was talking about about a particular category of sins, the acts of the flesh. If you substitute “murder” or “poisoning” for “witchcraft” (pharmakeia) in the passage, it becomes incompatible with the rest of the general theme of the nature of the carnal acts described, all of which are more about selfish indulgence than the physical injury of others. Including getting high. Including advocating getting high. Obviously.
“The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.” Gn5:19-21