Understanding Magic, Medicine, and Natural Healing

Magic, Medicine, and Natural Healing, researched by andRe Christos Helios

Since the days of antiquity, civilizations employed magic when it came to medicine. There weren't any hospitals with emergency rooms and people coughing. There weren't any Tylenol tablets for headaches or Bayer for pain relief. It was the application of magic that facilitated medicine for healing -- natural healing, not Western medicine.What is magic? Magic isn't optical illusions. Nor is it solely the practice of communing with intelligences (i.e, spirits).

According to P. Christian's Histoire de la Magie, magic has its origins in the Greek words Magos and Mageia, meaning magician and magic. Christian continues that these are renderings of Pehlvi and Zend's Mog, Megh, Magh, which in these languages, mean priest, wise, and excellent.

Christian further delves into the etymology of magic with the Chaldean Maghdim, which means supreme wisdom or sacred philosophy. This research concludes that magic has nothing to do with optical illusions, but is the embodiment of a superior knowledge practiced by the Righteous.

Joseph Ennemoser's History of Magic, which was translated by William Howitt, supports this idea. He inclines that among the Persians, Medes, and Egyptians, magic was understood as a "higher knowledge of nature" combined with religion and astronomy. He states that Plato understood magic, or Wisdom, as "nothing less than a worship of the Divinity" and that Aupleius believed that Magus meant a priest in the Persian tongue.

History teaches us that the practice of the oldest magic took place in Chaldea, India, Persia, and Egypt. According to Ennemoser, Zoroaster, Ostanes, the Brahmins, the Chaldean sages, and the Egyptian priests were acquainted with the secret knowledge of Magic. They dedicated their lives to preserving this Secret Wisdom as well as healing the sick.

Prominent occultist Eliphas Levi asserts that magic is "the traditional science of the secrets of Nature which has come down to us from the Magi." It is this science that administered medicine in the form of natural healing.