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God Forbids the Learning or Teaching of Hypnosis—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 a 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....
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.—Lt 20, 1902. (
Selected
Messages 2:350
.)
Satan Has Great Power (further counsel to the physician and
his wife)—Remember that Satan has come down with great power
to take possession of minds and to hold them captive under his sway.
Neither of you can do anything acceptably to God unless you follow
the Saviour, who says, “If any man will come after Me, let him deny
himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me” (
Matthew 16:24
). In
all things Christ is our example.—Lt 20, 1902.
A Science Fraught With Peril—We do not ask you to place your-
self under the control of any man’s mind. The mind cure is the most
awful science which has ever been advocated. Every wicked being can
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use it in carrying through his own evil designs. We have no business
with any such science. We should be afraid of it. Never should the
first principles of it be brought into any institution.—MS 105, 1901.(.)
Taking Advantage of Weakness—Fearful is the power thus given
to evil-minded men and women. What opportunities it affords to those
who live by taking advantage of others’ weaknesses or follies! How
many, through control of minds feeble or diseased, will find a means of
gratifying lustful passion or greed of gain!—
The Ministry of Healing,
243
(1905).
Counsel Regarding the Publishing of Books Dealing With
Hypnotism—Shall its [Review and Herald Publishing Association]
[
Note: For years the Review and Herald did commercial work to keep
equipment in use.
] managers consent to be the agents of Satan by