The Yahwocratic
OATH of Natural (i.e. True Orthodox) Medicine
(Derived from the Original
Hippocratic Oath)
I, Kohen Shalomim
Y. Halahawi, MD(AM), Spiritual leader and Natural
Healer, SWEAR by Yahwah
Elohim, the Eternal Father and Mother, Divine Creator
of the Heavens and Earth, and by Yahwah’s Malak, Rapha’El, the appointed heavenly physician and by
health, that according to my ability and judgment, I will keep this Oath and
this stipulation-- to reckon him who taught me this Art equally dear to me as
my parents, to share my substance with him, and relieve his necessities if required;
to look upon his offspring in the same footing as my own brothers, and to teach
them this art, if they shall wish to learn it, and that by precept, lecture,
and every other mode of instruction, I will impart a knowledge of the Art to my
own sons, and those of my teachers, and to disciples bound by a stipulation and
oath according to the law of natural medicine, but to none others. I will
follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I
consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is
deleterious and mischievous. I will give no deadly, unnatural or allopathic
medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner
I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce
abortion. With purity and with holiness I will pass my life and practice my Art
as a prophetic Ministry. I will not cut persons laboring under the stone, but
will leave this to be done by men who are practitioners of this work. Into
whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the sick, and
will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and corruption; and, further,
from the seduction of females or males, of freemen and slaves. Whatever, in
connection with my professional service, or not in connection with it, I see or
hear, in the life of men, which ought not to be spoken of abroad, I will not
divulge, as reckoning that all such should be kept secret. While I continue to
keep this Oath unviolated, may it be granted to me,
by Yahwah Elohim, to enjoy
life and the practice of the art and Prophetic Ministry, respected by all men,
in all times. But should I trespass and violate this Oath, may the reverse be
my lot.
1. Natural Medicine is of all the arts
the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it in
allopathic systems, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them,
it is at present far behind all the other arts. Their mistake appears to me to
arise principally from this, that in the cities there is no punishment
connected with the practice of poisonous medicine (and with it alone) except
disgrace, and that does not hurt those who are familiar with it. Such persons
are the figures which are introduced in tragedies, for as they have the shape,
and dress, and personal appearance of an actor, but are not actors, so also physicians
are many in title but very few in reality.
2. Whoever is to acquire a competent
knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a
natural disposition; instruction; a favorable position for the study; early
tuition; love of labor; leisure. First of all, a natural talent is required;
for, when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the
art takes place, which the student must try to appropriate to himself by
reflection, becoming an early pupil in a place well adapted for instruction. He
must also bring to the task a love of labor and perseverance, so that the
instruction taking root may bring forth proper and abundant fruits.
3. Instruction in natural (i.e true Orthodox) medicine is like the culture of the
productions of the earth. For our natural disposition, is, as it were, the
soil; the tenets of our teacher are, as it were, the seed; instruction in youth
is like the planting of the seed in the ground at the proper season; the place
where the instruction is communicated is like the food imparted to vegetables
by the atmosphere; diligent study is like the cultivation of the fields; and it
is time which imparts strength to all things and brings them to maturity.
4. Having brought all these requisites to
the study of Natural medicine, and having acquired a true knowledge of it, we
shall thus, in traveling through the cities, be esteemed (true) physicians not
only in name but in reality. But inexperience is a bad treasure, and a bad fund
to those who possess it, whether in opinion or reality, being devoid of
self-reliance and contentedness, and the nurse both of timidity and audacity.
For timidity betrays a want of powers, and audacity a lack of skill. They are,
indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor
really to know, the other to be ignorant.
5. Those things which are
sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and
it is not lawful to impart them to the profane until they have been initiated
into the mysteries of the science.
Rabi_kohen Shalomim Y. Halahawi, M.D.(AM), D.Div. Ph.D. D. ORT