0.0 – Christian Science S&H with Key to the Scriptures – 1910 Edition – Subtitles

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: these... are the things which defile a man. —  JESUS.

100:1 - 101:7 ~ Mesmerism or animal magnetism was first brought into notice by Mesmer in Germany in 1775. According to t...he American Cyclopedias, he regarded this so-called force, which he said could be exerted by one living organism over another, as a means of alleviating disease. His propositions were as follows:
"There exists a mutual influence between the celestial bodies, the earth, and animated things.  Animal bodies are susceptible to the influence of this agent, disseminating itself through the substance of the nerves." 
In 1784, the French government ordered the medical faculty of Paris to investigate Mesmer's theory and to report upon it. Under this order a commission was appointed, and Benjamin Franklin was one of the commissioners. This commission reported to the government as follows:
"In regard to the existence and utility of animal magnetism, we have come to the unanimous conclusions that there is no proof of the existence of the animal magnetic fluid; that the violent effects, which are observed in the public practice of magnetism, are due to manipulations, or to the excitement of the imagination and the impressions made upon the senses; and that there is one more fact to be recorded in the history of the errors of the human mind, and an important experiment upon the power of the imagination." 

101:8-20 ~  In 1837, a committee of nine persons was appointed, among whom were Roux, Bouillaud, and Cloquet, which test...ed during several sessions the phenomena exhibited by a reputed clairvoyant. Their report stated the results as follows:
"The facts which had been promised by Monsieur Berna [the magnetizer] as conclusive, and as adapted to throw light on physiological and therapeutical questions, are certainly not conclusive in favor of the doctrine of animal magnetism, and have nothing in common with either physiology or therapeutics."  This report was adopted by the Royal Academy of Medicine in Paris. 

101:21-32 ~ The author's own observations of the workings of animal magnetism convince her that it is not a remedial age...nt, and that its effects upon those who practise it, and upon their subjects who do not resist it, lead to moral and to physical death. If animal magnetism seems to alleviate or to cure disease, this appearance is deceptive, since error cannot remove the effects of error. Discomfort under error is preferable to comfort. In no instance is the effect of animal magnetism, recently called hypnotism, other than the effect of illusion. Any seeming benefit derived from it is proportional to one's faith in esoteric magic. 

102: 1-15  ~  Animal magnetism has no scientific foundation, for God governs all that is real, harmonious, and eternal, ...and His power is neither animal nor human. Its basis being a belief and this belief animal, in Science animal magnetism, mesmerism, or hypnotism is a mere negation, possessing neither intelligence, power, nor reality, and in sense it is an unreal concept of the so-called mortal mind. There is but one real attraction, that of Spirit. The pointing of the needle to the pole symbolizes this all embracing power or the attraction of God, divine Mind. The planets have no more power over man than over his Maker, since God governs the universe; but man, reflecting God's power, has dominion over all the earth and its hosts. 

102:16-29  ~  The mild forms of animal magnetism are disappearing, and its aggressive features are coming to the front. ...The looms of crime, hidden in the dark recesses of mortal thought, are every hour weaving webs more complicated and subtle. So secret are the present methods of animal magnetism that they ensnare the age into indolence, and produce the very apathy on the subject which the criminal desires. The following is an extract from the Boston Herald:
"Mesmerism is a problem not lending itself to an easy explanation and development. It implies the exercise of despotic control, and is much more likely to be abused by its possessor, than otherwise employed, for the individual or society." 

102:30 - 103:5  ~  Mankind must learn that evil is not power. Its so called despotism is but a phase of nothingness. Chr...istian Science despoils the kingdom of evil, and pre-eminently promotes affection and virtue in families and therefore in the community. The Apostle Paul refers to the personification of evil as "the god of this world," and further defines it as dishonesty and craftiness. Sin was the Assyrian moon-god. 

 6	    The destruction of the claims of mortal mind through
  	Science, by which man can escape from sin	              ...   Liberation
  	and mortality, blesses the whole human fam-                  of mental
 9	ily. As in the beginning, however, this libera-	                 powers 
  	tion does not scientifically show itself in a knowledge of
  	both good and evil, for the latter is unreal. 
12	    On the other hand, Mind-science is wholly separate
  	from any half-way impertinent knowledge, because Mind-
  	science is of God and demonstrates the divine Principle,
15	working out the purposes of good only. The maximum
  	of good is the infinite God and His idea, the All-in-all. 
  	Evil is a suppositional lie. 

18	    As named in Christian Science, animal magnetism or
  	hypnotism is the specific term for error, or mortal mind. ...
  	It is the false belief that mind is in matter, and	          The genus
21	is both evil and good; that evil is as real as	                  of error 
  	good and more powerful. This belief has not one qual-
  	ity of Truth. It is either ignorant or malicious. The
24	malicious form of hypnotism ultimates in moral idiocy. 
  	The truths of immortal Mind sustain man, and they anni-
  	hilate the fables of mortal mind, whose flimsy and gaudy
27	pretensions, like silly moths, singe their own wings and
  	fall into dust. 

  	    In reality there is no mortal mind, and conse-
30	quently no transference of mortal thought	            Thought-
...  	and will-power. Life and being are of	                    transference 
  	God. In Christian Science, man can do no harm, for

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 1	scientific thoughts are true thoughts, passing from God
  	to man. 
 3	    When Christian Science and animal magnetism are
  	both comprehended, as they will be at no distant date,
  	it will be seen why the author of this book has been
 6	so unjustly persecuted and belied by wolves in sheep's
  	clothing. 
  	    Agassiz, the celebrated naturalist and author, has
 9	wisely said: "Every great scientific truth goes through
  	three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. 
  	Next, they say it has been discovered before. Lastly,
12	they say they have always believed it." 

  	    Christian Science goes to the bottom of mental action,
  	and reveals the theodicy which indicates the rightness ...of
15	all divine action, as the emanation of divine	                    Perfection
  	Mind, and the consequent wrongness of the	                    of divine
  	opposite so-called action, — evil, occultism,	                    government 
18	necromancy, mesmerism, animal magnetism, hypnotism. 

  	    The medicine of Science is divine Mind; and dishonesty,
  	sensuality, falsehood, revenge, malice, are animal pro...-
21	pensities and by no means the mental quali-	                     Adulteration
  	ties which heal the sick. The hypnotizer	                             of Truth 
  	employs one error to destroy another. If he heals sick-
24	ness through a belief, and a belief originally caused the
  	sickness, it is a case of the greater error overcoming the
  	lesser. This greater error thereafter occupies the ground,
27	leaving the case worse than before it was grasped by the
  	stronger error. 

  	    Our courts recognize evidence to prove the motive as
30	well as the commission of a crime. Is it not	            ...        Motives
  	clear that the human mind must move the	                    considered 
  	body to a wicked act? Is not mortal mind the mur-

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 1	derer? The hands, without mortal mind to direct them,
  	could not commit a murder. 

 3	    Courts and juries judge and sentence mortals in order
  	to restrain crime, to prevent deeds of violence or to p...unish
  	them. To say that these tribunals have no	                      Mental
 6	jurisdiction over the carnal or mortal mind,                           crimes 
  	would be to contradict precedent and to admit that the
  	power of human law is restricted to matter, while mortal
 9	mind, evil, which is the real outlaw, defies justice and is
  	recommended to mercy. Can matter commit a crime? 
  	Can matter be punished? Can you separate the men-
12	tality from the body over which courts hold jurisdiction? 
  	Mortal mind, not matter, is the criminal in every case;
  	and human law rightly estimates crime, and courts rea-
15	sonably pass sentence, according to the motive. 

  	    When our laws eventually take cognizance of mental
  	crime and no longer apply legal rulings wholly to physical...
18	offences, these words of Judge Parmenter of	             Important
  	Boston will become historic: "I see no reason                     decision 
  	why metaphysics is not as important to medicine as to
21	mechanics or mathematics."

  	    Whoever uses his developed mental powers like an es-
  	caped felon to commit fresh atrocities as opportunity oc-...
24	curs is never safe. God will arrest him. Di-	                  Evil let
  	vine justice will manacle him. His sins will	                  loose 
  	be millstones about his neck, weighing him down to the
27	depths of ignominy and death. The aggravation of er-
  	ror foretells its doom, and confirms the ancient axiom:
  	"Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad." 

30	    The distance from ordinary medical prac-	               The misuse of
  	tice to Christian Science is full many a... league	       mental power 
  	in the line of light; but to go in healing from the use of

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 1	inanimate drugs to the criminal misuse of human will-
  	power, is to drop from the platform of common manhood
 3	into the very mire of iniquity, to work against the free
  	course of honesty and justice, and to push vainly against
  	the current running heavenward. 

 6	    Like our nation, Christian Science has its Declaration
  	of Independence. God has endowed man with inalien-
  	a...ble rights, among which are self-government,	            Proper self-
 9	reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-	            government 
  	governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by
  	his Maker, divine Truth and Love. 
12	    Man's  rights are invaded when the divine order is in-
  	terfered with, and the mental trespasser incurs the divine
  	penalty due this crime. 

15	    Let this age, which sits in judgment on Christian
  	Science, sanction only such methods as are demonstrable
  	i...n Truth and known by their fruit, and classify	                       Right
18	all others as did St. Paul in his great epistle	                       methods 
  	to the Galatians, when he wrote as follows:
  	   "Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are
21	these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
  	idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath,
  	strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness,
24	revellings and such like: of the which I tell you before,
  	as I have also told you in time past, that they which do
  	such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.  But
27	the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
  	gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against
         such there is no law."