A correspondent writes: An error, peculiar to some advanced Scientists, is to volunteer promiscuously, statements concerning difficulties that they have experienced and that are past and gone.
If these statements were in the line of demonstrations they would be helpful. But I refer here to that elaboration of experience that is made to impress younger students with the supposed sufferings that the older ones have supported for the cause—when in fact the suffering they complain of may have been caused by wilful sin or perhaps have been due to imperfect knowledge of the Science they were trying to demonstrate, and need not necessarily be the experience of other students. I have recently listened to some inexcusable and vivid portrayals of this sort by Scientists who are teachers of note, and who ought to understand that they are not demonstrating Science, by the unsolicited resurrection of these errors.
Does not much of our current talk, even that about demonstrations,—and what we call "talking Science," illustrate the persistence of the mortal mind habit of gossip? From talking about the weather and the neighbor on one plane, have we not simply passed to a higher level of the same thought—material, sensual? And the talk is immeasurably more harmful than in the old way. Is it not bearing "false witness," to so much as mention what is contrary to the Reality of Being? And whether it relates to persons or things?
