Basic HTML Version
138
Medical Ministry
that day be without God and without hope.—
Testimonies for the
Church 9:16
.
Taking Hold of the Eternal
The mind cure must be free from all human enchantment. It
must not grovel to humanity but soar aloft to the spiritual, taking
hold of the eternal.—
Letter 120, 1901
.
Satan’s Apparent Miracles
We are to be on guard against Satan’s deceptive arts. He will
take possession of human bodies, and make men and women sick.
Then he will suddenly cease to exercise his evil power, and it will
be proclaimed that a miracle has been wrought. We need now to
have a true understanding of the power of Jesus Christ to save to the
uttermost all who come unto Him....
Men and women are not to study the science of how to take
captive the minds of those who associate with them. This is the
science that Satan teaches. We are to resist everything of the kind.
We are not to tamper with mesmerism and hypnotism— the science
[111]
of the one who lost his first estate and was cast out of the heavenly
courts.
The science of a pure, wholesome, consistent Christian life is
obtained by studying the word of the Lord. This is the highest
education that any earthly being can obtain. These are the lessons
that the students in our schools are to be taught, that they may come
forth with pure thoughts and clean minds and hearts, prepared to
ascend the ladder of progress and to practice the Christian virtues.—
Manuscript 86, 1905.
Efforts of Satan to Confuse Minds
For thousands of years Satan has been experimenting upon the
properties of the human mind, and he has learned to know it well. By
his subtle workings in these last days he is linking the human mind
with his own, imbuing it with his thoughts; and he is doing this work
in so deceptive a manner that those who accept his guidance know
not that they are being led by him at his will. The great deceiver