A study of human history discloses the immeasurable length of time that men have suffered from accepting as power the ignorant beliefs of false prophecy. Yet false prophecy has never had any more power than men have given it.
There is nothing wrong with prophecy; the Scriptures and the writings of Mrs. Eddy abound with it. But this is true prophecy, based on the divine facts of being as revealed to spiritual understanding.
Foretelling, based on the knowledge of the supremacy of God, Spirit, good, and of the unchanging perfection of man as the idea or spiritual image and likeness of God, is true and helpful prophecy. But the harmful as well as useless practice of merely predicting the future from the erroneous standpoint that matter is real and substantial, that life and intelligence are in and of matter, and that evil is real and more powerful than good is false prophecy, which can and should be promptly and persistently denounced as powerless.
