Rudyard Kipling's character, Kim, mentally refused to listen to an East Indian's mesmeric suggestions intended to make Kim believe that a water jug which appeared to be broken in fifty pieces was joining itself together again. To divert his thought from the suggestions Kim repeated the multiplication table over and over. His two times three is six, and three times three is nine, so occupied his thought that the mesmerist was powerless to influence him.
Christian Science provides a far better defense against mesmerism than the repetition of the multiplication table. Its sure defense is the realization of the scientific fact that God is the one everywhere-present Mind; that all true individualities are of and in this Mind, and know only what it causes them to know; that in God's kingdom there is no mortal mind or its materially-thinking puppets—some called mesmerists and some the mesmerized—to do its bidding. Every individual has God as his Life, his Mind, and his controller. So-called mortal mind, with all its mesmeric suggestions, is an impotent liar, unknown, unheard, unfeared by God or any of His children. Substanceless and placeless, it can be and do nothing.
Christian Science analyzes the nature of evil for the purpose of helping men to detect, resist, and destroy it. Our United States Federal Bureau of Investigation has been eminently successful in combating certain forms of evil because it has informed itself as to the methods employed by evildoers, and so has been better able to thwart them.
