Article December 18, 1943 Issue

"Animal Magnetism Unmasked"

CLARENCE O. BULLARD

A Man beginning to learn about Christian Science earnestly desired to serve his country. Being overage for the armed forces he happily found employment in a defense plant as an inspector of bomber propellers. In order to secure this employment he had to pass an exacting eye test, which he did by applying to himself and realizing the significance of Mary Baker Eddy's definition of "eyes" in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 586), "Spiritual discernment,—not material but mental."

His new work demanded perfect vision. The machine he operated used electrical magnetism to reveal flaws in the metal structure of the propeller blades. Any weakness, even if extremely minute, would, unless perceived and corrected, shatter blades under the centrifugal force of high-speed revolutions.

Blades without flaws were demagnetized following his inspection and advanced toward final approval by the government. Although the majority of the blades he inspected passed the rigid test satisfactorily, he realized shortly after commencing this work that his own thinking needed demesmerizing. For, instead of seeing his fellow workers as ideas of divine Mind, intelligently supporting the nation's right activity, he was yielding to the evil suggestion that workers were wasting time, opportunity, and material. So blinding was the influence of this mesmerism that he felt unable to see it as delusion and to rise above it.

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