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In dealing with the science of mind cure, you have been eating of
the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which God has forbidden
you to touch. It is now high time for you to begin to look to Jesus, and
by beholding His character become changed into the divine likeness.
Cut away from yourselves everything that savors of hypnotism, the
science by which satanic agencies work.—
Letter 20, 1902
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Counsel Regarding the Publishing of Books on Hypnotism
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Over a period of years, in an endeavor to profitably utilize
the equipment in our publishing houses—acquired for printing the
message—a certain amount of commercial work was accepted. There
came a time when, among other items, copy of a detrimental character
was accepted for publication. Reference to this sad experience is made
in Testimonies, Volume 7, pages 164-168, and in the following item
dealing with the publication of literature on hypnosis.—Compilers
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Shall its managers consent to be the agents of Satan by publishing
books dealing with the subject of hypnotism? Shall this leprosy be
introduced into the office? Satan and his agents have been and are
working diligently. Will God give His blessing to the publishing houses
if they accept the deceptions of the enemy? Shall the institutions which
have been kept before the people as holy unto the Lord become schools
in which the workers eat the fruit of the forbidden tree of knowledge?
Shall we encourage Satan in his stealthy entrance into the citadel of
truth to deposit his hellish science, as he did in Eden? Are the men
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at the heart of the work men who cannot distinguish between truth
and error? Are they men who cannot see the terrible consequences of
giving influence to wrong?
If you should gain millions of dollars by work of this kind, of what
value is this gain when compared with the terrible loss that is incurred
by giving publicity to Satan’s lies, by making it possible for the world
to say that books containing errors were published at the Seventh-day
Adventist publishing house, to be scattered broadcast to the world?
Awake, and realize that your presses have published the devil’s lies.
Let the men who know the truth act like wise men, placing the whole
weight of their influence on the side of truth and righteousness.—
Letter 140, 1901
(Addressed to the managers of our publishing houses,
October 16, 1901).