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den 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.
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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.
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.—Lt 121, 1901. (.)
Appears Valuable and Wonderful—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.
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....
At the beginning of my work I had the mind-cure science to contend
with. I was sent from place to place to declare the falseness of this
science, into which many were entering. The mind cure was entered
upon very innocently—to relieve the tension upon the minds of nervous
invalids. But, oh, how sad were the results! God sent me from place to
place to rebuke everything pertaining to this science.—Lt 121, 1901.
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Tends to Destruction, Not Restoration—I wish to speak plainly
to you. You have entered upon a work which has no place in the work
of a Christian physician and which must find no place in our health
institutions. Innocent though it may appear, this mind cure, if exercised
upon the patients, will in its development be for their destruction, not