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Section 6—True and False Systems of Mind Cure
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hopes so to confuse the minds of men and women that none but his
voice will be heard.—
Letter 244, 1907
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A Dangerous System of Mind Cure
I am so weighed down in your case that I must continue to write
to you, lest in your blindness you will not see where you need to
reform. I am instructed that you are entertaining ideas with which
God has forbidden you to deal. I will name these as a species of
mind cure. You suppose that you can use this mind cure in your
professional work as a physician. In tones of earnest warning the
words were spoken: Beware, beware where your feet are placed and
your mind is carried. God has not appointed you this work. The
theory of mind controlling mind is originated by Satan to introduce
himself as the chief worker, to put human philosophy where divine
philosophy should be.
No man or woman should exercise his or her will to control
the senses or reason of another, so that the mind of the person is
rendered passively subject to the will of the one who is exercising
the control. This science may appear to be something beautiful,
but it is a science which you are in no case to handle.... There is
something better for you to engage in than the control of human
nature over human nature.
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I lift the danger signal. The only safe and true mind cure covers
much. The physician must educate the people to look from the
human to the divine. He who has made man’s mind knows precisely
what the mind needs.
In taking up the science you have begun to advocate, you are
giving an education which is not safe for you or for those you teach.
It is dangerous to tinge minds with the science of mind cure.
A Deceptive Fallacy
This science may appear to you to be very valuable; but to you
and to others it is a fallacy prepared by Satan. It is the charm of the
serpent which stings to spiritual death. It covers much that seems
wonderful, but it is foreign to the nature and spirit of Christ. This
science does not lead to Him who is life and salvation.