Pharmakeia's Grip
- Diane Cordaire
- Aug 5
- 2 min read

A System Built on Symptom Management — Not Healing
What I’m noticing is tragically real:
Cognitive decline — whether age-related, trauma-induced, or environmentally triggered — often leads to pharmaceutical intervention.
Medications designed to help memory loss frequently bring side effects: confusion, agitation, fatigue, gastrointestinal distress.
But instead of addressing the root, more medications are added — creating new ailments: depression, blood pressure issues, liver stress, even deeper cognitive erosion.
It becomes a spiral of pharmaceutical dependence — not healing. A system that offers comfort but enslaves, promising restoration while stealing vitality.It mirrors Babylon: a structure of control masked as care.
Spiritual Memory and Mental Decline
There is something deeply spiritual about the loss of memory.
In Scripture, remembering is not just a mental act — it's covenantal.
“Remember the Lord your God…” — Deuteronomy 8:18“This do in remembrance of Me.” — Luke 22:19
To forget is not merely cognitive failure — it can mark a spiritual erosion.
When a people forget who they are…When they no longer recall what God has done…When they lose truth…They become vulnerable to manipulation, fear, and external control.
Memory is more than recollection — It’s the preservation of identity and testimony.
Could This Be the “One-Third” in Revelation?
Revelation 9:15–18 speaks of a time when:
“...a third of mankind was killed…”
Not all death comes by sudden sword. Some comes slowly:
Environmental toxins
Pharmaceutical overloads
Psychological conditioning
Bio-neurological breakdowns — some tech-induced, others chemically accelerated
It is not difficult to imagine that the “one-third” could include those who perish silently — not in warzones, but in hospital beds and care homes, lost inside minds no longer able to remember.
Minds that fade. Bodies that weaken. Spirits that surrender under pressure.
A slow death… yet a devastating one.
A War on the Image of God
This is more than physical decline — it’s a spiritual assault.
A war on the imago Dei — the image of God in man.
When memory fades, testimony is lost.
When thought is confused, discernment is dulled.
When the mind is drugged, the spirit is muffled.
This is not just deterioration. It is theft. Of clarity. Of identity. Of divine breath in human form.
A Warning
I see it clearly.
We are witnessing a system that manufactures sickness — then crowns itself saviour.
Many may not die by sword or famine, but by pharmakeia — the word used in Revelation 18:23 for sorcery.
“…for by your sorceries (pharmakeia) all the nations were deceived.” — Revelation 18:23
This is not just about medicine. It’s about man trusting Babylon to heal what only God can restore.
One medication leads to another — and that’s the cycle. Not a path to healing, but a slow descent into dependency — until the image fades, the memory dims, and what was holy is hollowed.
But God did not design us for confusion.
“For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” — 2 Timothy 1:7
Pray that prayer. Believe those words. And watch the restoration of all things begin.
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