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Mind Cure
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false principles. It is foreign to the nature and spirit of Christ. It
does not lead to Him who is life and salvation. The one who attracts
minds to himself leads them to separate from the true Source of their
strength.
It is not God’s purpose that any human being should yield his
mind and will to the control of another, becoming a passive instru-
ment in his hands. No one is to merge his individuality in that of
another. He is not to look to any human being as the source of heal-
ing. His dependence must be in God. In the dignity of his God-given
manhood he is to be controlled by God Himself, not by any human
intelligence.
God desires to bring men into direct relation with Himself. In
all His dealings with human beings He recognizes the principle of
personal responsibility. He seeks to encourage a sense of personal
dependence and to impress the need of personal guidance. He desires
to bring the human into association with the divine, that men may
be transformed into the divine likeness. Satan works to thwart this
purpose. He seeks to encourage dependence upon men. When minds
are turned away from God, the tempter can bring them under his
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rule. He can control humanity.
The theory of mind controlling mind was originated by Satan,
to introduce himself as the chief worker, to put human philosophy
where divine philosophy should be. Of all the errors that are finding
acceptance among professedly Christian people, none is a more
dangerous deception, none more certain to separate man from God,
than is this. Innocent though it may appear, if exercised upon patients
it will tend to their destruction, not to their restoration. It opens a
door through which Satan will enter to take possession both of the
mind that is given up to be controlled by another, and of the mind
that controls.
Fearful is the power thus given to evil-minded men and women.
What opportunities it affords to those who live by taking advantage
of other’s weaknesses or follies! How many, through control of
minds feeble or diseased, will find a means of gratifying lustful
passion or greed of gain!
There is something better for us to engage in than the control of
humanity by humanity. The physician should educate the people to
look from the human to the divine. Instead of teaching the sick to