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THE ABUSE OF MENTAL HEALING

From the April 1884 issue of The Christian Science Journal


No one who understands metaphysical healing is practising or teaching honestly, in the spirit of Truth, who does not faithfully point out the danger and the way of escape from a mental mal-practice, any more than the pulpit is reforming the sinner and society by concealing, instead of uncovering and denouncing, sin.

There are two motives leading to the culpable concealment of the sin that secretly works through mind to accomplish a sinister purpose, to gratify envy or to sate revenge, namely: fear of being found out a mental malpractitioner, or fear of the malpractitioner.

Human nature is not changed in a moment. This period gives it a large license through mental practice in healing, or mental malpractice in sinning either to do good or evil. That this practice is taken advantage of both ways, every one of my students within the last twelve years have seen and acknowledged. Those who now deny it are either mal-practicing themselves and would conceal it, or have such a fear of the mental mal-practitioner, they are willing to risk being dishonest to conciliate this unprincipled mental marauder.

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