Animal Magnetism.

Since If I am If If God has commissioned me were [?] Unclear or illegible we are morally obligated alone to speak the [?] Unclear or illegible truth and all the truth and nothing but the truth then then I alone must remove the pus gagg Corrected: gag from in from the mouth of this department and at voice the [?] Unclear or illegible while while Fear may prevents [?] Unclear or illegible  Only from fear any hundreds of [?] Unclear or illegible or others keeps from workings of the under consent of from voicing the demonology of this period named mainly mental malpractice [?] Unclear or illegible  may malicious mental practice [*]Archival Note: The following text is crossed out with vertical lines.But [?] Unclear or illegible nothing can hinder me whom me fromfrom [?] Unclear or illegible if it is a demand when Gods comands Corrected: commands aor a duty to my fellow mortals[*]Archival Note: End of text crossed out with vertical lines.

But love [?] Unclear or illegible  me and face [?] Unclear or illegible do it error the foe to Truth while others are busy finding out what the error Truth is. But love has enabled me to see the error and face it while others are running before it or busy trying to find out what is up

A few months since one of my most an esteemed students Mr. B.– was the bunsiness manager of the C.S. Journal left Bostonand held other responsible places of trust. The last time I saw him before he left Boston I saw the his changed mental can state startled me mental change, the shadow that hung over the disk of his thought a black cloud of mental confusion. The calm light of self confidence Corrected: self-confidence moral strength and indomitable christian purposes seemed but cintilations Corrected: scintillations upon the darkened disk of a [?] Unclear or illegible disturbed mind I recognized it at once as phenomenal. It was the sign of the times with which I am familiar. It was the horoscope hung out upon the sky with this inscription malicious animal magnetism. I knew his fate was imminent and [?] Unclear or illegible wondered if he was [?] Unclear or illegible resisting the power of mortal mind that [?] Unclear or illegible had hold of him to demoralize through silent arguments his once clear sense of honesty [?] Unclear or illegible justice and truth, so I casually remarked "does the mental malpractice of this hour reach you"? He replied "I dont know." Had he but known the cause he would have mastered its effects.

"Behold [?] Unclear or illegible one woe is passed and behold another cometh quicklyRev 9:12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter. , The Secretary of our Association whom this demonology could only reach physically became suddenly sick. He r was treated by a Christian Scientist for mind poisoning. This removed the [?] Unclear or illegible  febril Corrected: febrile condition and the pulmonary sufferings but the virous Corrected: virus of [?] Unclear or illegible malicious minds caused the relapse of his old diseases [?] Unclear or illegible that the honest mental practitioner had removed, and he died suddenly. I saw him two weeks before his death, noticed the symptoms of mental malpractice upon him spoke of it begging him to address himself to removing that at once or he would find himself in great danger. But the worst was he seemed unconscious of any necessity for doing it The [?] Unclear or illegible mental malpractitioners could not demoralize him, hence they slew him.

The next mental manifestation of the workings of this hidden malice to [?] Unclear or illegible disrupt our organizations and enbroil Corrected: embroil Teacher and student was the usu usual detonation running to and fro whispering [?] Unclear or illegible and audibly insinuating falsehoods Trifles light as air were confirmati [?] Unclear or illegible ons sure and the blows fell [?] Unclear or illegible thick and fast upon the [?] Unclear or illegible  old society of the [?] Unclear or illegible had hold of him to Mass. Met. College that had braved the s [?] Unclear or illegible torms when seas were rough, but now in a sunny hour fell off.

The funds of the Church and the books of the Association became the prey. of [?] Unclear or illegible  I called the special meetings that were rapidly demanded but in my effort to get ready to attend the National Convention was delinquent in the notifications. There were over one hundred letters for the new Secretary to dispatch who was unfamiliar with the business, and to aid others send request for the members most distant to be re [?] Unclear or illegible ady for the notification but before the notices were ready to be mailed the timemomentshours were passed and the time was insifficent Corrected: insufficient for a legal notice [?] Unclear or illegible  This infuriated the intoxicated senses upon which the mental malpractitioners were enacting the cats' play with the mouse and new invectives were hurled at their Teacher and pandemonium prevailed. Mrs

Mrs Eddy never appointed a meeting nor held a private meetingEditorial Note: For a further explanation of this “private meeting society,” see page 350 of Mary Baker Eddy’s book, Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896. for mental practice but the angels might witness not witness. The M.P. was a meeting suggested by her students. She adopted only the methods they proposed and gave this out as as [?] Unclear or illegible the first subject for mental practice "There is no animal magnetism" After the first meeting This subject was dropped and in less than one week the MP came together and took this topic for mental practice "God is all and God is Love." This worked well, but [?] Unclear or illegible some of the members took but little interest and there were in all but two meetings of the M.P. that some of its members moved by the fatal spell to dishonor somebody have refered Corrected: referred to with holy horror.

I have attended the Association meetings very seldom for the last three years and not as an active member until the meeting called after following the death of our Secretary. The members have had it all their own way and its prosperity or disaster is wholly due to their own management That I have ever wrote to Mrs Choate a letter asking [*]Archival Note: There is an arrow drawn at this point in the text. That I have written a letter to Mrs Choate asking her forgiveness like all [?] Unclear or illegible this piymy Corrected: pygmy stuff is a falsehood If she is showing a letter of that sort over my signature this letter is it is [?] Unclear or illegible  counterfeited [*]Archival Note: There is an arrow drawn at this point in the text. The following is a duplicate copy of the only letter [?] Unclear or illegible I wrote to Mrs Choate beang bearing present date [*]Archival Note: There is an arrow drawn at this point in the text. [?] Unclear or illegible in reply to hers of Dec 1887 I challenge [*]Archival Note: The following text is crossed out with vertical lines. any mortal man or woman on the Globe to show me [?] Unclear or illegible a deceiver [?] Unclear or illegible or not strictly conscientious in all that I say and do

This too is unnecessary to say for The discoverer and founder of Christian Science has no needs of no [?] Unclear or illegible apology and has stood the onslaught of 22 years of all [?] Unclear or illegible envy malice and libels unharmed [*]Archival Note: There is an arrow drawn at this point in the text. This tempest in a teapot is the work of the [?] Unclear or illegible  mental assassins and the plot of ofAs Written:of ambitious student in Boston who has in Boston played been playing the AbsalomEditorial Note: Absalom was the third son of King David in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). in female apparel three years [*]Archival Note: End of text crossed out with vertical lines.

That I have written a letter to Mrs. Choate asking her forgiveness is a falsehood like all the rest of this pigmy Corrected: pygmy stuff. If she is showing a letter of that sort over my signature that letter is a counterfeit. The following is a duplicate copy of the only letter that I have written to her for at least two years. I cha chalange Corrected: challenge any mortal man or woman. to show me a deceiver or not strictly conscientious in all that I say or do. This tempest in a teapot is one of the crises the consumation of malicious mental malpractice, one mortal mind affecting another mortal mind to consumate Corrected: consummate its schemes of revenge. It is the actor and not the one acted upon who is the special secret assassin. Also it is the consumation Corrected: consummation of a plot of an ambitious student in Boston whom I have lifted above her proper level and whom it is now evident has been playing the Absolom Corrected: Absalom with me for several years.

I have stood the onslaught of envy, malice and [?] Unclear or illegible  libels twenty-two years unharmed and the discover and founder of Christian Science needs not self-defence Corrected: self-defense.