Homeopathy Examined
H. J. Bopp, M.D.
Neuchatel, Switzerland
Links to Topics:
Introduction
Samuel Hahnemann, the Father of Homeopathy
The Doctrine and Method of Homeopathy
Homeopathic Determinants
Infinitesimality
Scientific Evaluation
Occult Influence
The Christian's Attitude Towards Homeopathy
Bibliography
'Great Joy' Publications takes pleasure in offering to the English Speaking Christian
public an easily read, concise, lucid and Scriptural work on Homeopathy, for prayerful,
spiritual consideration and evaluation.
We desire to thank Dr. H. J. Bopp of Neuchatel, Switzerland, for his permission to
translate and publish his original French edition of "L'HOMEOPATHIE".
Thanks are also due to Mervyn Kilgore Esq., of Londonderry, Northern Ireland, for his
willing and able work of translation.
It is our prayer that 'Homeopathy' will prove, by the grace of God, a blessing to every
reader. Believers in the Lord Jesus Christ are exhorted in the inspired word to
"prove all things, hold fast that which is good."
Published by Great Joy Publications - Carryduff
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1st English Edition 1984- 2nd English Edition (Revised) 1985
Copyright Dr. H. J. Bopp
This electronic version has been edited by Rick Miller for Logos Communications
Consortium. Most transcription errors have been corrected, British colloquialisms are
explained, and several notes to clarify technical points have been added.
Like other ancillary paramedical practices, homeopathy is assuming an increasingly
respected position in society, even inside the medical profession. It is a
"science" dating from the beginning of the nineteenth century. It has since
developed outside yet alongside official medicine. From the beginning of the twentieth
century, medicine for its part has made enormous progress in its knowledge of disease
through physiology and biochemistry. It has sharply focused on some revolutionary
treatments: antibiotics, antituberculars, insulin, vaccines and others. Homeopathy from
the time of its originator, Hahnemann, has remained separate from official medicine. J. J.
Kent, grand master of American homeopathy (1849-1916) jealously accentuated the division
between the two schools: "There is no valid excuse for getting lost amid the dark and
misleading paths of the patterns recommended by traditional medicine. There are people
incapable of grasping the wisdom of homeopathic doctrines who practise a mongrel
homeo-allo-pathic medicine. The homeo therapy of these is moreover just as ineffectually
understood and applied as their allopathic". (The Science and Art of Homeopathy
pp. 174, 175)
It is staggering to note how, in recent years, the separating line is gradually
disappearing. From the homeopathic side, doctors are closing with the official position.
Dr. Leeser, for example, a German, is studying and assimilating the recent discoveries in
biochemistry for his homeopathic research. From the orthodox side, there is a growing
number of doctors, and especially chemists ["pharmacists"], who are
attempting to treat their patients by homeopathic means. In France, homeopathy is being
taught in faculties of pharmacy. In this country, Switzerland, the number of enrolled
homeopathic practitioners stands at 1,500. Doctors in France, Germany and Switzerland have
the opportunity regularly to attend courses on this method. In French-speaking areas there
is seldom to be found a chemist's shop ["drug store"] which does not
have the word "homeopathy" displayed in large writing on the window. People
swallowing its pastilles or liquids are evidently growing more numerous.
Certainly homeopaths are right when they condemn the prescription, for commonplace
illnesses, of powerful drugs that have sometimes dangerous side effects. Antibiotics, for
example, are to be banned for any and every influenzal complaint. It is equally
inappropriate to give corticoids for every arthritic pain. Similarly it is undeniable that
homeopathy owes its growing success with patients to the fact that it presents itself to
many people as a medicine that is both personal and scientific, with a remedy both
individual and natural. One often hears of patients running from one doctor to another
without finding real help. Faced with a technical and impersonal medical routine,
sufferers are drawn to the homeopath, who takes pains with his patient and cures him with
treatment "shaped" to his need.
But the Christian, seeking to walk in the light and in obedience to his Lord, must not
allow himself to be seduced by every brand of the "in" philosophy and practice,
especially when it comes to finding help for his body, the temple of the Holy Spirit (1
Cor. 6 v 19). That is why it is so important to examine the doctrinal origins and basis of
homeopathy.
The word homeopathy is of recent origin, coined at the end of the eighteenth century by
the German doctor Samuel Hahnemann, from the Greek homoios - like, common, similar, and
pathos - pain, suffering. Homeopathy, therefore, is defined as a therapeutic system of
treating patients by means of agents producing a condition kindred to the one being
fought.
Hippocrates, born about 460 B.C., had already established two therapeutic principles;
opposites and similarities. Galen (138-201 A.D.) used the "opposites" theory to
characterise the therapy of his era. This is the basis of classical medicine,
allopathy,
from the Greek alloios - different and pathos - suffering. The following example explains
the principle. If a person is suffering from diarrohea, he is given a preparation to
constipate him. For constipation the opposite is prescribed, a substance producing
diarrhoea.
ln the Middle Ages Paracelsus, (1493-1541) rejected Galen's ideas and developed the
principle of similarities, identical to that of Hippocrates. He devoted himself to
mystical research using alchemy, seeking to analize the correspondences between the world
of the outside (macrocosm) and the different parts of the human body (microcosm).
The originator of homeopathy, such as it is taught and practised today, is indisputably
Samuel Hahnemann, born in 1755 at Meissen, the son of a china painter. A good student, he
had the opportunity to study medicine at Leipzig, Vienna and Erlangen. Later he married a
chemist's daughter. His medical practice at Leipzig was a failure and his eleven children
lived in terrible poverty. He had a tragic history; of his three sons, one died shortly
after birth, another, mentally ill, went off one day for good. Of his eight daughters, one
died at birth, another at the age of 30, three others were divorced (a tragic fate for a
woman of that day), and yet two other were killed. At 72, Hahnemann lost his wife and, at
the age of 80, remarried a Parisian. His last and somewhat sparkling years were spent in
Paris until 1843, the year of his death.
But let us get back to the time he spent at Leipzig, where he began to translate
scientific material to help feed his family. The book "Substances in
Medicine" by the Scottish doctor Cullen, attracted his attention. Interested
in the description of the effects of chinchona (Peruvian bark) or quinine, a medicament
for malaria, he set about carrying out tests upon himself. He noted that quinine produced
on him the same symptoms as of a patient who had contracted malaria. After this discovery,
he intensified his tests with other medicaments and eventually formulated the definition
of a law; "Similia similibus curantur" or "like heals like". He began
to attack official medicine which was guilty of making many mistakes through its use of
harsh and limited treatments, such as; opium, purgatives and blood-letting.
In 1810 he published the most important work on homeopathy; "Organ of the
Art of Healing". It's in this that he develops his whole doctrine. It also
marks a total break with classical, or orthodox medicine. Right up to our own day the
"Organ" is the foundation piece for all homeopathic treatment. In 1960, at the
Montreux International Congress on Homeopathy, 260 doctors and chemists celebrated the
150th anniversary of the "Organ". The organizer summed up the significance of
this treatise with the words: "The Organ is for the homeopath what the Bible is
for the Christian. Homeopathy must consider the Organ as the foundation and basis of
its therapy" (Dr. Pfister of Clarens). Hahnemann's disciples are encouraged to meditate
on this book, paragraph by paragraph, in order to grasp the spirit of it. Dr. J.
Kunzli of St. Gall confirms this in his article that appeared in the "Swiss
Periodical Journal on Homeopathy" No. 2/1962: "You all know that today we are
witnessing a reinstatement and new progressive emergence of homeopathy in many countries.
This entire movement will only lead to results on condition that it draws its strength
exclusively from the 'Organ'." Further on he quotes C. Hering; "If homeopathy is
not applied according to the 'Organ' we'll be remembered only as a caricature in the
history of medicine". Kunzli goes on; "A dry, historical and theoretical study
will serve no purpose and will bring no help to your patients. You've got to penetrate the
spirit of this remarkable book; you must reflect and meditate on all it contains, and the
more you study it, the greater will be the profit you'll derive from it." The
assertion is made that it's an exceptional book; the president of the international league
on homeopathy, a Dr. Gagliardi from Rome said at the Montreux Congress in 1960: "It's
futile to reject this or that principle enunciated in the 'Organ'. There remains more than
enough to recognize the unfathomable intuition and divinatory spirit of its
author". (Swiss Homeopathic Journal No. 4/1960).
Concerning such inspiration, it is interesting to read Hahnemann himself, in his letter
to the town clerk of Kothen in 1828: "I have accomplished only what an individual can
do with his feeble means, guided by the invisible powers of the Almighty, listening,
observing, tuning in to his instructions, paying most earnest heed and religious attention
to this inspiration". It is both useful and necessary to study the spiritual
orientation of Dr. Hahnemann. We know that he was a member of a lodge of Free Masons. It
is significant that he placed on the title page of his 'Organ' the Freemasonry motto
"aude sapere" (dare to be wise). Dr. H. Unger gives us a clear
description of his spiritual personality: "Like Goethe, Hahnemann embodies the two
streams of the classical German genre (kind or style), the pantheistic idealism of nature
and the rational idealism of freemasonry". (Swiss Journal of Homeopathy
No. 1/1962). We thereby understand the relationship that exists between the spiritual
heirs of Goethe, the anthroposophists, and those of Hahnemann, the homeopaths, both having
a similar trancendental vision. Later, Hahnemann identified himself with eastern
religions, then took Confucius as his model, while rejecting Jesus Christ.
The Doctrine and
Method of Homeopathy
- Law of Similitude or Similarities
It reads thus: the treatment likely to cure a patient is that one which, tried out in
heavy dosage on the healthy person, produces phenomena and disorders similar to those
observed in the patient. For example, a patient afflicted with vomiting will be given the
substance, NUX VOMICA, in greatly diluted form. Nux vomica is characterised by its emetic
effect on a healthy subject. "All homeopathic medicines cure illnesses the symptoms
of which they most resemble" (Organ : 26) Hahnemann has formulated a whole doctrine
explaining this law. Firstly he considers man as a tripartite being:
- will and thought (the inward man)
- vital energy, spirit substance or immaterial essence (the ethereal body of the
anthroposophists, the god Prana of the Hindus)
- and the body which is material.
"In the state of health, the dynamistic, immaterial, vital energy, animating the
material part of the human body, reigns absolutely". (Organ : 9) "A person
becomes ill when a diseased agent infiltrates the body and disturbs the vital energy by
dynamistic influence". (Organ : 1 1) "It's only when the vital principle is
troubled by a diseased element (that is to say by the intrinsic nature of a virus in the
form of incorporeal substance) that it emits reactions and symptoms of disease". The
principle and consequence of healing are explained by Kent: "A weaker dynamic
condition is permanently removed by a stronger, if this latter is like it". (The
Science and Art of Homeopathy, p.150). The cure must act upon the vital energy; to
achieve this, it must resemble the disease as closely as possible in the totality of its
symptoms by being tested on a healthy man.
Pathogenesis is the testing of medicaments on healthy people. Hahnemann tried out 60
substances on himself. Homeopaths have tried out about 1,000 substances: minerals, extract
of plants, animal excrement, snake and spider venom, whole ground insects and others.
- Individualization of the Patient
Homeopathy doesn't seek out organic disease, the lesion of a part of the body. It
attempts to find a remedy to correspond exactly to the affected individual. The diagnosis
and choice of treatment are carried out on three levels:
- by subjective symptoms, meaning that the doctor takes note of the totality of the
patient's complaints.
- by objective symptoms, that is, the examination of the patient, if necessary, by means
of test such as X-rays, blood samples and others.
- and by unforseen symptoms, as if accidental or fortuitous, resulting from very precise
questioning, including areas of the soul, behaviour in private life; the study of
hand-writing (graphology), forms and shapes of things (morphology), colours of the
rainbow, and astrological signs.
Diseases are categorised as acute or chronic. Hahnemann established three major chronic
miasmas; psora, syphillis, sycosis.
- Psora (scabies)
- This would appear to be "the fundamental cause of disease, the origin of almost
every complaint" (Organ : 80). Psora is compared to leprosy as in the Old Testament.
Psora would represent the consequence of leprosy which signifies impurity, the consequence
of sin. A host of manifestations are attributed to psora: psychic and mental disorders,
epilepsy, cataract, deafness, jaundice, haemorrhage, arthritis, gout.
- Syphilis (V.D.)
- Characterised by chronic history and cutaneous, osteo-arthritic and mental indications.
Heredity would play a big part, including hereditary alcoholism.
- Sycosis (Gonorrhoea)
- By this Hahnemann understands particularly the chronic type of gonorrhoea. It comprises
affections of the subcutaneous or mucous tissue, with benign peduncular and glandular
tumours.
Later two more miasmas were added:
Tuberculoid
Canceroid
A. Nebal and L. Vannier have defined basic determinants as:
- the carbo-calcic or carbonic type, short and squat, stolid, strong, of decisive habits,
strict, lacking imagination, headstrong.
- the phospho-calcic or phosphoric type, long-limbed, tall, lithe, graceful,
distinguished, polite, lover of fine arts.
- fluoro-calcic (calcium fluoride): variable height, easily deformed frame, lacking
elegance, fidgety, unstable.
The treatment, selected according to the principle of similarities is prepared by
successive dilutions. These attenuations are obtained by very well defined techniques, and
are reckoned in tenths and hundredths.
The starting point of the decimal scale is an original tincture from
which one drop is taken and mixed with nine drops of liquid (water). By again mixing one
drop of this first dilution with nine drops of liquid the second decimal dilution,
indicated by the symbol D2, is obtained.
The centesimal scale involves the mixture of one drop of the original
tincture with 99 drops of liquid. One drop of this first centesimal dilution mixed with 99
drops of liquid gives the second centesimal dilution, represented by C2 or Ch3.
The lower dilutions range from D1 to CH5 (the same as D10); the higher from CH6 to CH30
or even as high as CH100 and more.
Scientifically, using the example of the salt NaCl (sodium chloride), it may be proved
by a simple calculation that there is no longer likely to be a single molecule left in the
dilution after CH12. In the case of organic substances (for example Belladonna), this
limit is already reached at CH10 or CH11 (approximately Avogadro's number). Any patient
receiving a homeopathic treatment at CH30 should be under no illusions as to its
composition. There is no longer any of the named material substance in his pill or liquid
whatsoever.
[The probability of one drop of a "CH30" solution of table salt
(NaCl)
containing any of the original sodium or chlorine ions is actually in the neighborhood of
one in 500,000,000,000,000,000. This means that if five hundred quadrillion doses were
administered (every person on earth taking a dose every three seconds over seventy-five
years), it is likely that only one person would ever receive even a single atom of the
original salt.
Note that even the best efforts of science have never been able to maintain the purity
of any substance to this degree without introducing contaminants from the containers
themselves.]
However, such mathematical proof doesn't in the least upset the homeopathic doctors.
Their teaching declares that the more diluted the substance, the more active it is. It's
not just a question - and this is their secret - of a simple dilution, but of a process
known as dynamization or potentialization, produced by repeatedly shaking the mixture
between dilutions. Such repeated concussion makes it possible to contact and retain a
hidden power in the liquid, its immaterial essence. We'll let the "Organ"
explain (No. 16):
"The doctor can only remove these morbid affections (illnesses) by bringing to
bear upon this immaterial energy certain substances endowed with modifying properties that
are equally immaterial (dynamic) and are discerned by the all pervasive nervous system.
Accordingly it's only by their dynamic action on the vital energy that the curative
remedies are able to redress and do indeed redress the biological balance and restore
health".
Rudolf Steiner, the pioneer of anthroposophy, had the same concepts of this invisible
life energy, which he called ethereal substance or the ethereal world. Anthroposophic
products, which are generally homeopathic, supposedly contain the same occult force.
There has as yet been no controlled study which proves the efficacy of homeopathic
treatment given to any group of patients. The results of a series of scientific studies
carried out in Germany have all been very discouraging for Hahnemann's method. Doctor
Fritz Donner, the son of a German doctor and homeopath, had dedicated himself to
scientific research in order to explain and justify homeopathy. In 1966 he published a
paper in which he confesses all the failures and all the errors of homeopathy discovered
during his years of work.
Let's take an example: For a test, a certain number of research workers were divided
into two groups. One of the groups received silicea C30 (a homeopathic preparation); the
other group a trick pill called a placebo (pill or liquid lacking any medicinal
properties). After waiting for results, the experimentees were incapable of telling
whether they had received the medicine or the placebo. When the group who had received the
medicine were informed of it, they were unable to identify it. On the occasion of a second
experiment, one of the arbiters, professor H. Rabe, president of the German Homeopathic
Society found Silicea-produced symptoms in several of the experimentees. He was satisfied
he had proved its efficacy until he discovered he had the wrong group. All those
displaying symptoms had received placebos. Dr. Donner's discoveries confirm that
homeopathic treatment is incapable of evidencing significant effects. That is the reason
why homeopaths are not interested in these experiments and content themselves with their
individual successes.
However, those teaching homeopathy would very much like to bring forward a scientific
basis to explain the effects of their therapy. They refer to recent discoveries, in which
they seek to find resembalance to Hahnemann's theory.
We shall examine three principles of classical medicine which are often used to provide
a scientific explanation:
- Vaccination
- This immunizes an individual against a microbial disease by inoculating him with the
attenuated microbe or its toxin. The technique is well known, clearly defined. It consists
of stimulating the production of specific antibodies to act against the microbe.
Homeopathy is not based on this technique. There is no production of specific antibodies.
- Allergies
- These are exaggerated reactions (asthma, nettle-rash, eczema) of a person made sensitive
to a substance by contact with it. The violent reaction produced by a substance often of
very weak concentration, would seem to validate homeopathy. But that is not the case,
because here too the precise and well known physiological procedure is absent in the
homeopathic method.
- Hormones and Biocatalysts
- They, too, have a clearly recognized role in the biochemical reactions of the
metabolism. Even in very weak concentrations, they can be detected, measured, and their
levels corrected. Thus, when there is a deficiency, as in the case of disfunction of the
thyroid gland, the degree of the thyroid hormone can be precisely measured and corrected
by supplying this hormone. Homeopathic preparations do not resemble these substances. The
great scientist Claude Bernard, with his discovery of the principles of control by minor
excitation, using substances of weak concentration, is far from supplying an aid towards
understanding Hahnemann's doctrine.
In order to establish the absurdity of homeopathic treatment, let us consult the "Practical
Guide to Homeopathy" by J. Hodler. In conformity with the law of similarities,
he recommends: calculi renalis 9CH for a patient stricken with stone in the kidneys. And
so disappearance of stones and cure are expected by applying a preparation containing a
renal calculus reduced and diluted in strength to the order of one over ten to the power
of 18 ["1E-18" on a scientific calculator]. This form of treatment
becomes dangerous in the case of infectious disease. Thus the same Guide proposes
Pyrogenium 7CH, high dilution of a fever-producing substance for Septicaemia. The
condition of Septicaemia is a serious one and may terminate in death, should immediate,
appropriate, antibiotic treatment not be administered.
The serious treatment of an illness is undertaken by means of drugs, the primary action
and secondary effects of which are known; and sometimes by surgical intervention.
Present-day medicine, as taught in the universities, speaks only very little about
homeopathy. Its basic literature, as well as the scientific periodicals, do not mention
it.
For years now people have been talking a lot about psychosomatic illness. By that we
are to understand a psychic ["mental"] imbalance which after a
considerable time may transform itself into organic illness, such as duodenal ulcer,
asthma, pectoral angina and others. In these cases, it has been possible to prove that the
patient's trust and faith in his medicine play a very important part. A placebo very often
effects a disappearance of symptoms culminating in complete recovery. The use of placebos
is often welcomed and adapted in a programme of treatment, whether in hospital, or in the
practitioner's study. It is in this area that certain professors concede a role to
homeopathic medicine. Let us quote from Professor G. Kuschinsky's book "Lehrbuch der
Pharmakologie", a basic work for courses in pharmacology in the German language.
After thoroughly studying the effects of homeopathy, he concludes: "homeopathic
substances may be admitted in the realm of suggestion, seeing that they possess neither
main nor secondary effect."
[An unfortunate side effect is that the patients go away believing that the
homeopathic medicine actually worked.]
Professor Schwartz of Strasbourg shares the same opinion in his course on pharmacology:
"No study of homeopathy to date would appear to be significant. No experimentation
authenticates the theory". However, he leaves the door open when he says that
"it does no-one any harm", and "the patient needs a touch of magic".
If the French Social Security reimburses homeopathic medicine up to dilution CH9 it isn't
by reason of scientific proof of its efficacy, but because the patient seems to need
"a little psychotherapy". He wants his own personal miracle, his own private
cure.
To find the cure, that's to say, the herb for the original tincture of the preparation,
the researchers often have recourse to occult practices such as the pendulum. Dr. A.
Voegeli, a famous homeopathic doctor, has confirmed that a very high percentage of
homeopaths work with the pendulum. There are groups whose research is carried out during
seances, through mediums who seek information from spirits.
The testimony of a person who worked in an important homeopathic laboratory of high
standing in France, is very interesting. She told me about the interview she had with the
former director and founder of the establishment with a view to her recruitment. After a
short introduction, this director asked her which astrological sign she was born under.
Satisfied with the knowledge in this field of his future co-worker, he then wished to know
whether she was a medium. As this was so, he confided to her the secret of the practices
of the place. New treatments were researched there during seances, through the agency of
persons having occult powers - mediums, - by which to question spirits. Today the person
mentioned is converted and follows Jesus Christ. She separated herself from every occult
practice, as well as from homeopathy, used by Satan to blind and to bind people.
All these facts are scarcely surprising, nor could they be to anyone who has read
Hahnemann's "Organ" or the other works of leading homeopaths.
As a matter of fact the vocabulary is esoteric [using mangled, half-Latin names for
things which are commonly found in the kitchen] and the ideas are impregnated with
oriental philosophies like Hinduism. The predominant strain of pantheism would place God
everywhere, in each man, each animal, plant, flower, cell, even in homeopathic medicine.
"The cure alone really knows the patient, better than the doctor, better than the
patient himself. It knows just where to locate the originating cause of the disorder and
the method of getting to it. Neither the patient nor the doctor has as much wisdom or
knowledge".
(Dr. Baur, Swiss Journal of Homeopathy No. 2/1961, p. 56)
This paragraph explicitly states that the medicament has become a god. This god to whom
Hahnemann constantly refers in all his books, most assuredly does not correspond to
Almighty God, who reveals Himself in His Word, the Bible.
Hence we can better understand the interesting passage of the book: "The
Science and the Art of Homeopathy" by J.T. Kent:
"In the universe, everything has its own atmosphere. Each human being also
possesses his atmosphere or his aura, as also each animal. This conception of the aura
opens up some very interesting horizons from which we may descry the pale light, and it
occupies a very important place in homeopathic studies"
(p. 108)
Generally speaking the truly homeopathic doctor is initiated into this transcendental,
spiritualist world. He must have knowledge "of the four states of matter: the solid,
liquid, gaseous and radiant states" (Ib. p.98). The author explicitly states that it
is necessary to be able to see "with the eyes of the spirit", (Ib, p.120), in
order truly to grasp the Hahnemann method.
Furthermore, homeopathy is related to acupuncture, auriculotherapy, iridology and the
practice of hypnotists. Now, all these methods are occult or very suspect of such
influence. The attempt at debunking and the scientific gloss are not convincing when we
study the origins, the theory, the practice and the evidence of today. It would be naive
to expect a clear response, a telling disclosure from doctors or chemists who give
homeopathic treatment. There are to be sure some honourable and conscientious ones seeking
to utilize a homeopathy detached from its obscure practices. Yet the occult influence, by
nature hidden, disguised, often dissimulated behind a parascientific theory, does not
disappear and does not happen to be rendered harmless by the mere fact of a superficial
approach contenting itself simply with denying its existence. HOMEOPATHY IS
DANGEROUS! It is quite contrary to the teaching of the Word of God. It willingly
favours healing through substances made dynamic, that is to say, charged with occult
forces. Homeopathic treatment is the fruit of a philosophy and religion that are at the
same time Hinduistic, pantheistic and esoteric.
The Christian is concerned above all else to please God. The Bible alone is his sole
authority, and it clearly warns man of the consequences of certain practices highly
treasured by homeopaths.
"Regard not them that have familiar spirits (mediums), neither seek after wizards
(spiritists), to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God. (Leviticus 19:31)
"And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits (mediums), and
after wizards (spiritists), to go a-whoring after them, I will even set my face against
that soul, and will cut him off from among his people. (Leviticus 20:6).
"A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall
surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.
(Leviticus 20:27)
"There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to
pass through the fire, or that useth dinivation, or an observer of time, or an enchanter,
or a witch, Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a
necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of
these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from thee. (Deuteronomy
18:1O-12).
God considers these sins impurity, spiritual adultery, abomination. His warning is
solemn.
"My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff (pendulum) declareth unto
them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone whoring from
under their God" (Hosea 4:12)
We earnestly warn against the use of homeopathic medicines including anthroposophic
products. Some Christians think that homeopathic treatments in weak dilutions, up to D6,
which are reimbursed by the Social Security, are spiritually harmless. Let's remember that
these products all equally undergo the process of dynamisation. Contact with immaterial
essence, the invisible force of the ethereal world operative in the medicament, sullies
the Christian. The occult influence in homeopathy is transmitted to the individual,
bringing him consciously or unconsciously under demonic influence. Very often the result
is a bond with Satan. A person may be cured of a bodily ailment, but this is replaced by
pyschic imbalance. Spiritual life ebbs away. In this very connection it is significant
frequently to find nervous depression in families using homeopathic treatments.
[The author seems to believe in the "immaterial essence" upon which
homeopathy is based. Whether or not such a thing exists, or whether it can be impressed
upon water either by shaking with substances or by rubbing it against demons themselves is
irrelevant. Practitioners of homeopathy are dealing with spiritual things in an occult,
rather than Godly, manner.]
Christians must not allow themselves to be seduced by the fact that homeopathy can
effect remarkable cures. It's not a question of denying them, even if scientific medicine
lacks explanations. The Bible teaches us that Satan, through the agency of men, is capable
of performing miracles and healings. "For there shall arise false Christs, and false
prophets, and shall show great signs ans wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they
shall deceive the very elect. (Matthew 24:24)
"Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and
lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because
they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God
shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:" (2 Thessalonians
2:9-11)
What must that person do who has come to realize just how much he has exposed himself
to occult influence? First of all he must repent and cut himself away from that influence;
believe with all his heart, after confessing his sins, in total deliverance through the
sacrifice and precious blood of Jesus Christ on the Cross. A chat with Christians who have
had experience in this matter is often necessary, especially when psychic or
spiritualistic problems arise. The Lord Jesus has come to save and to rescue: "If we
confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from
all unrighteousness". (1 John 1:9)
"If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed."
(John
ch. 8:36).
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