Article January 5, 1935 Issue

The purpose of my recent letter was, first, to remove any...

C. Shelton Agar, Committee on Publication for Natal, South Africa,—Durban

Natal Mercury

The purpose of my recent letter was, first, to remove any misunderstanding regarding Christian Science prayer and the conveying of suggestions to a patient, which your correspondent understood was being used; and, secondly, to point out that Christian Science healing is not demonstrated through hypnotism, mesmerism, or any form of necromancy.

All Science, or true knowledge, emanates from the divine Mind, God, who needs no human agent to maintain the perfection of being. Supplication "to pull us out of a mental or physical morass" implies that God is conscious of evil, whereas the Bible says, "Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil." Mesmerism, hypnotism, and necromancy involve the action of the human or carnal mind, which Paul says "is enmity against God," and they are classified in Christian Science under this category. Mesmerism and hypnotism are modern words, and so one would not expect to find them in the Bible, but there are many references denouncing the practice of esoteric magic.

May I quote from the Lecture Recorder of November, what W. A. D. King, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., D.P.H. (Camb.), has to say about the brain: "Orthodox science has stumbled long enough, bearing on its shoulders a false concept of brain function. In the brain there are no cells which may be called halls of memory or of reason or of intellectual processes; so why, in all conscience, does science ascribe to the brain functions which it does not possess?"

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