Article December 11, 1909 Issue

Will you, with that courtesy which has hitherto been...

Frederick Dixon

British Medical Journal

Will you, with that courtesy which has hitherto been as unfailing as your disagreement with me, permit me to protest against the suggestion contained in Dr. Mansell-Jones' letter, that Christian Science healing is nothing but a form of hypnotism. Christian Science healing is the effort to give back to the world that supreme consciousness of God which made the first century of the Christian era the age of miracles. Now a miracle is that manifestation of the power of Truth which, though supremely natural to a man conscious of the availability of this power, is supernatural to one who regards physical laws as the expression of divine intelligence, and even preposterous to one who regards those laws as the expression of forces inherent in matter. Healing in Christian Science is, in the words of Mrs. Eddy, "the reality of all things brought to light" (Science and Health, p. 505). Hypnotic suggestion is the claim of one human mind to dominate another, and, as no one has ever maintained that the action of the human mind is wholly beneficent, this would entail the corollary that evil is power—a statement which in Christian Science is strenuously denied.

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