>>19358416 lb/pb

the author kinda missed the point re: the way the Greek word pharmakeia is translated.

So much of witchcraft is about affecting people's minds. Using substances to drug them.

So much of modern medicine is just that: not to cure an illness, but to change one's perception. To deaden the pain. To "correct" an imbalance. But not with an aim of bringing the body back to total health, but to make the person dependent upon that substance.

A real doctor would find the cause of the ailment and rid the body of that; to bring the bodya living systemback to having the ability to correct problems, and heal itself.

But the practitioners of pharmakeia do not do this.

They want imbalanced bodies that are unable to heal without outside interventions, without these 'magical' potions.