"Faith in Drugs"

[parthens]

02-06-2021 Forum

SH 146 : 2-12
The ancient Christians were healers. Why has this element of Christianity been lost? Because our systems of religion are governed more or less by our systems of medicine. The first idolatry was faith in matter. The schools have rendered faith in drugs the fashion, rather than faith in Deity. By trusting matter to destroy its own discord, health and harmony have been sacrificed. Such systems are barren of the vitality of spiritual power, by which material sense is made the servant of Science and religion becomes Christlike.

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PHARAMAKEIA

https://www.biblestudytools.com/lexicons/greek/nas/pharmakeia.html

https://biblehub.com/greek/5331.htm

https://biblehub.com/greek/5332.htm

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BRIEF HISTORY OF DRUG USE IN WARTIME
https://www.recovery.org/addiction/wartime/

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The word “assassin” is derived from the Ismaili Muslim term “hashashim”, which refers to the use of the drug hashish in grooming young men for violent jihad, particularly to induce them to commit murder of important officials. See The Travels of Marco Polo here:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Travels_of_Marco_Polo/Book_1/Chapter_23

[JPalmer]

Since coming to Plainfield I have begun to really appreciate knowing the real, unadulterated meanings of the words we use. With the 1828 Webster’s Dictionary, and other resources, it has slowly become clearer to me how this understanding affects our ability to handle error. Through the Forum, the Bible Studies, Roundtables, and all this Church offers — along with regular practitioner support — my toolbox has been expanded and refined in ways that I could never have done on my own. Your posts have been an important part of that, Parthens, and I am very grateful for them!

During my time here, I have seen how eliminating words such as luck, fortunate, chance, etc. from my vocabulary have forced me to see where those concepts had a hold in my thought so I could handle them. I have also found that gaining a real understanding of Love has uncovered all the times its counterfeit showed its head before. Without a right understanding, I was as unprepared as though I was bringing a flower to a gun fight: I never stood a chance, which is exactly what error wants.

I am so grateful for this Science, and for all that is done here. Thank you!

[parthens]

Thank you . . . the subject of “faith in drugs” and the history of that faith, in every age, repeatedly confirms the proverb: “there is nothing new under the sun.”

[nice.neighborhood]

Thank you so much for your post!! I shared it with my boss who has read Science and Health and is a local leader in Alcoholics Anonymous. An online source from AA said, “Before the 1930s, popular attempts to treat alcoholism and drug dependency included methods like segregation in asylums, reliance on mutual aid fraternities, and even the use of cocaine, which psychologist Sigmund Freud considered the “magical drug.” If I understand it correctly from what my boss said, AA offers recovery… but not in the sense of, or with the hope of complete healing of the possibility of being attracted to or being drawn back into the drug use… no complete healing in that sense (even if abstinent for many years)- but with danger of relapse and being overpowered by the drug ever hovering.

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