Chapter 44—The Perils of Hypnosis
[
Counsel supplementary to
Medical Ministry, 110-117
;
Testimonies
for the Church 1:290-302
;
The Ministry of Healing, 241-258
.]
A Warning to Physicians Employing Hypnotic Methods
Brother and Sister N, in the name of the Lord I ask you to remember
that unless your sentiments regarding the science of mind cure are
changed, unless you both understand that you are in decided need
of having your own minds converted and transformed, you will be
stumbling blocks—pitiful spectacles to angels and to men.
The truth has had but little influence over you. It is dangerous for
anyone, no matter how good a man he is, to endeavor to influence
another human mind to come under the control of his mind. Let me
tell you that the mind cure is a satanic science. Already you have
gone far enough in it to endanger seriously your future experience.
From its very first entrance into your mind until the present time, it
has been a most injurious growth. Unless you can see that Satan is
the mastermind who has devised this science, it will not be so easy a
matter as you suppose to separate from it, root and branch. The whole
philosophy of this science is a masterpiece of satanic deception. For
your souls’ sake, cut loose from everything of this order. Every time
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you put into the mind of another person ideas concerning this science,
that you may gain control of his mind, you are on Satan’s ground,
decidedly cooperating with him. For your souls’ sake, break loose
from this snare of the enemy.
Neither one of you should study the science in which you have
been interested. To study this science is to pluck the fruit from the
tree of knowledge of good and evil. God forbids you or any other
mortal to learn or to teach such as science. The fact that you have had
anything to do with this science, ought alone to be sufficient to show
you, Brother N, the inconsistency of your being the leading physician
in the sanitarium
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