Article April 27, 1935 ISSUE

The Washington Post Magazine of Sunday contains...

William G. Biederman, Committee on Publication for the District of Columbia,—Washington

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The Washington Post Magazine of Sunday contains an article entitled "With Magnets and Hand-Waving, Mesmer Drew Out Hysterical Ills," in which it is stated of Franz Anton Mesmer that he was "the ancestor (in certain ways) of everything from theosophy to spiritualism, from Christian Science to Freudian and Adlerian psychotherapy."

I should like to correct any erroneous impression that might be gained from this statement with reference to Christian Science. Christian Science was discovered by Mary Baker Eddy in 1866. This unfoldment came to her as the result of many years of careful, prayerful search for the method of healing used by Christ Jesus. She consistently and firmly opposed the use of mesmerism, or animal magnetism, as a healing agent. This is plainly evident from the fact that one of the chapters in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," is entitled "Animal Magnetism Unmasked."

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