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Mind Cure
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upon false principles. It is foreign to the nature and spirit of Christ.
It does not lead people to Him who is life and salvation. It leads
them to separate from the true Source of their strength.
It is not God’s purpose that human beings should yield mind and
will to the control of another, becoming passive instruments. They
are not to merge their individuality in that of another human being.
They are not to look to any human being as the source of healing.
Their dependence must be in God. In the dignity of their God-given
personhood they are to be controlled by God Himself, not by any
human intelligence.
God desires to bring us 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 we may
be transformed into the divine likeness. Satan works to thwart this
purpose. He seeks to encourage dependence upon humans. When
minds are turned away from God, the tempter can bring them under
his 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 than this, none more certain to separate souls
from God. 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 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!
There is something better for us to engage in than the control of
humanity by humanity. Physicians should educate people to look
from the human to the divine. Instead of teaching people to depend
upon human beings for the cure of soul and body, they should direct