If a Christian Scientist should believe or say that there is no mental malpractice, no transference of evil thought, and leave the subject there, or if he should believe or say that there is danger from mental malpractice and leave the subject there, he would be closing his eyes to the instructions of his Leader, Mary Baker Eddy.
Mrs. Eddy declares in Miscellany (p. 364): "Animal magnetism, hypnotism, etc., are disarmed by the practitioner who excludes from his own consciousness, and that of his patients, all sense of the realism of any other cause or effect save that which cometh from God. And he should teach his students to defend themselves from all evil, and to heal the sick, by recognizing the supremacy and allness of good."
A Biblical example of the practicality and correctness of this rule may be seen in the success of Daniel in withstanding and rendering harmless the malicious mental malpractice of his fellow presidents, as recounted in the sixth chapter of the Book of Daniel. He recognized to a degree the "supremacy and allness of good." He steadfastly refused to turn aside from praying to God. He dealt with the evidence of evil much as a Christian Scientist deals with the evidence of sickness today. He refused to accord reality or power to it. And when he was cast into the den of lions, the lions did him no harm.
