Article June 27, 1925 Issue

The chief present-day exponent of suggestion, M. Coué,...

William C. Brookes, Committee on Publication for Midlothian, Scotland,—Edinburgh

Scotsman

The chief present-day exponent of suggestion, M. Coue, admitted in the course of an interview with a Scotsman representative in November, 1922, that fundamentally his method is hypnotic. Admittedly, therefore, suggestion is hypnotism, that is, the control of one so-called human mind over another, or, as in autosuggestion, the control of a weaker thought by a stronger. But on the subject of endeavoring to substitute hypnotism for materia medica, Mrs. Eddy says in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 233), "The standard of metaphysical healing is traduced by thinking to put into the old garment of drugging the new cloth of metaphysics; or by trying to twist the fatal magnetic force of mortal mind, termed hypnotism, into a more fashionable cut and naming that 'mind-cure,' or—which is still worse in the eyes of Truth—terming it metaphysics!"

That this "magnetic force of mortal mind, termed hypnotism," is fatal was taught by Jesus when he pointed out that the "last state" of the man healed by such means was "worse than the first." Mrs. Eddy felt so strongly on this subject that on page 53 of the Manual of The Mother Church she says, "Members of this Church shall not learn hypnotism on penalty of being excommunicated from this Church."

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