Transliteration
pharmakeia

Pronunciation
fär-mä-kā’-ä

feminine noun

Root Word (Etymology)

From φαρμακεύς (G5332)Dictionary Aids

Vine’s Expository Dictionary:

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) the use or the administering of drugs

2) poisoning

3) sorcery, magical arts, often found in connection with idolatry and fostered by it

HONEST QUESTIONS:

Is ALL drug usage Witchcraft?

Over-the-counter drugs?

Anesthesia?

Did Paul encourage Timothy to witchcraft by recommending “a little wine for his stomach”?

Did Jesus turn water into Pharmakeia?

How rigid or legal are we to take the word “Pharmakeia” in its application?

To take an ABSOLUTE and make it relative – is liberalism.

To take a RELATIVE matter and make it absolute – is legalism.

Are all we, who occasionally take Ibuprofen, witches & warlocks?

Or is more a matter of the heart? For man looks on outward appearances, but God judges the intents and motives of the heart.

Answer please.

“All this to say, I really don’t give a rip whether I stay or go. Except for how I may benefit others.”

“How sad that all you can think of is yourself and not the well being of others.”

Please read this as well.

Dear Friends, Thurs 11th Sept 2014 0700 hrs

Good Morning!

278/14 Serene And Simple Living!

You must begin with meditation and let

everything else follow – OSHO

1. Daily actions of God demonstrating His impregnable

power, though ignored now, are a clear roadmap towards

the goal He will lead us to. The goal will take us to only one

“ism” burying deeply all other “isms” we embraced and espoused.

No democracy in the world could have envisioned and initiated

steps towards this only one “ism” that is proven to be the elixir of

every individual! This “ism” – spiritualism , is a great built-in design

to bring an about-face in our living!

2. We resorted to medicines and methods to calm us and correct

the situations. We embraced theories and eschewed actions that

demonstrate the pitfalls of theories. We recognized degrees and

diplomas but we could not recognize the rare design of our creation.

We understood the ability of aliens undermining our own . Every

race on this earth had a common rage to recognize the sexual power

that does not demand any qualification. This rage spread faster than

any knowledge that we ought to have acquired. But we did not know

that this rage was a road to ruin.

3. But meditation , as an “ism”, is the grandest built-in design to outwit

every design we conceived and contrived to manipulate and mesmerize.

For every design and duplicity laws helped us because laws had loopholes.

What is admirable and astonishing in meditation is that it is self-regulated

in action and approach, in comforts and communication, in desires and

digestion, in demonstration and dress, in habits and health and in sacrifice

and sleep! Meditation is the greatest medicine of all medicines mankind

has ever invented. It is the grandest design to divine the divinity in us

to be divinely now and ever!

4. Meditation fosters serene and simple living. Meditation creates

abundance, cause avoidance of wastage, cause us to cast off ostentatiousness, meets the needs, and does not create an

embarrassment of riches. What is obtained with great efforts in

materialism is obtained effortlessly in spiritualism of meditation!

Everything outlined above is automatic but gradual! Attachment

caused avariciousness but detachment that meditation gives birth

to will drain all desires. Indulgence in three-course meals three times

day will vanish automatically giving room for one good meal a day!

Regards,

Thiagarajan TVS

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Please read this as swell.

Dear Friends, Thurs 4th Sept 2014 1300 hrs

Good Afternoon!

270/14 The God We don’t Know!

Should you choose the experience of communion with God,

you will finally know peace, and joy unbounded and love

fully expressed and full freedom – God

1. We can expatiate eloquently on the existence of God right

from conception stage to our death and beyond, His role in our

life, His power, the power He delegates to us, His ubiquity etc .

If we pose a question “who am I”, the answer is always ” I am

the God ” camouflaged in a body! Without God in each one of us

our limbs wont move nor can we perform any activity. Yet, we

have not been brought up nor have we educated ourselves well

to believe this. Today as a race we are caught up between

illusion and reality. while living in illusion, acceptance of reality

is a far cry! .

2. When God is in each one of us we are still going to many

places in search of God to propitiate for all the problems. When

He has made our creation simple, we always tried to complicate.

Complication is our handiwork and simplicity is His creation. .Are

we capable to untangle the web of complication? We have come

a long way with all our academic qualification and deep-rooted

thoughts that it will be difficult for us to eschew complication and

embrace simplicity!

3. Of all the messengers of God, Ramana Maharshi espoused

the existence of God in each one of us. His teachings in book

form, very relevant in today`s globe-changing events by God,

are not drawing the attention of people. We can still uphold

our current belief that God is in the worshipping place until

events make us think seriously and act quickly. Quickness

might have helped us anywhere but not with God. When

events overwhelm us, fear will course through our veins as

fear is the outcome of addiction to sexual bliss, if we know it!

4. If we don’t know who God is, we will not know what Ebola

is. How nightmarish this disease alone is going to be is beyond

the comprehension of medical professionals. Disease will lead to

food shortage and people will die not only of disease but also of

starvation. How ignorant we are of God`s actions and how our continued ignorance of God in us will make this disease far deadlier than solar flares hitting the earth! When we could not understand women as God in flesh and blood form, how can we understand God in each one of us. Lack of understanding now is not going to be an excuse!

Regards,

Thiagarajan tVS

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do not hesitate to say NO; I will honor your wish.

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