homeopathy occult?

Originally posted on May 08, 2009 – by Andre Piet

questions

Regularly I receive questions about medicines with alleged ‘occult’ backgrounds. For example about homeopathic drops or pills. After all, behind this method of treatment stands (so it is said) the freemason Hahnemann with his hocus-pocus of extreme dilution of active substances and the shaking (“potentizing”) of them. Do you not bring demonic influences into your house with such medicines? so the question goes.

nonchalant

My nonchalant motto is: do not ask such questions. I learned that from Paul.

All that is being sold in the meat market, be buying, examining nothing because of conscience… If anyone of the unbelievers is inviting you and you are wanting to go, be eating everything that is being placed before you, examining nothing because of conscience.
1 Cor. 10:25, 27

In the meat markets of Corinth meat was for sale that had first been sacrificed to idols. In the Corinthian assembly the view existed that for that reason this meat should not be eaten, since one would thereby defile oneself with idolatrous influences. A sensible line of reasoning, yet Paul calls this standpoint “weak.” Whoever is strong in faith proceeds from the fact that everything on earth is of the LORD and of no one else. Thus including meat… or pills and drinks, I add. And therefore we thank the Owner (=Lord) when using them. With possible dubious ideas and actions of others we have nothing to do. Such things one should not wish to know, since such knowledge can all too easily burden the good conscience.

falling for it

Is there then not something like ‘the domain of the serpent’? Can believers not become demonically defiled? Absolutely — but not by eating or drinking something. “The ancient serpent” reigns through the lie, not least by denying death.

You shall by no means be dying, for… your eyes shall be opened…
Genesis 3:5

This is the lie into which Eve once fell. What makes magic and divination above all demonic is the assumption that man does not die but continues to live in some manner. This idea motivates consulting the ‘dead’ (spiritism) or investigation into a ‘former life’ (reincarnation), whereby one by definition comes into contact with lying spirits. There lies the danger. Not in taking a (whether or not effective) tablet or drink.

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