On page 570 in Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy writes: "The march of mind and of honest investigation will bring the hour when the people will chain, with fetters of some sort, the growing occultism of this period." It is now more than thirty-five years ago, during the Depression, that I was helping a certain friend and his family out in a way I then thought I should.
My friend's wife was a very adept mortal mind reader. Everything would appear to come about as she would foretell it, and some of it was evil. I had never put any stock at all in this kind of mind reading, thinking I understood it fairly well. Nevertheless, one day she came alone to my home for the purpose of borrowing money. I saw no need to lend it; so I declined. She became so angry at my refusal that a very evil malediction was uttered. If this had come from an ordinary person, I might have laughed it off, but coming from one of an occult mind, I became somewhat concerned about it, and fear started to creep in.
When she left, I remembered what Jesus said about blessing even those who curse us, so I sat down and realized that that evil prediction did not come from the woman's real self. This quieted my thought.
