The Religio-Medical Masquerade: A Complete Exposure of Christian SciencePeabody, Frederick William
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The Religio-Medical Masquerade: A Complete Exposure of Christian Science
Peabody, Frederick William
Christian Science -- Controversial literature
“It is no longer possible to keep still concerning these things
—nay, it is criminal to hold silence and to cover crime that
grows bolder and picks off its victims as sharpshooters pick
off the officers of an attacking force.
“These secret, heaven-defying enormities must be proclaimed, or
we become guilty before God as accessory after the fact. If a
friend were fallen upon and maltreated or murdered before our
eyes, should we hold ourselves guiltless, should we count
ourselves men and women, if we buried the secret of the
violence and our knowledge of the assassins?
“Are we such cowards, knowing the facts that we do know, as to
turn and run? Shall we see the evil, the deadly danger that
threatens our brother, and, to hide ourselves, flee away not
warning him?
“The Science of mind uncovers to Scientists secret sin, even
more distinctly than so-called physical crimes are visible to
the personal senses; crime is always veiled in obscurity, but
Science fastens guilt upon its author through mind, with the
certainty and directness of the eye of God Himself.
“Human laws will eventually be framed for these criminals that
now go unwhipped of human justice. Human law even now
recognizes crime as mental, for it seeks always the motive.
Rude counterfeit as it is of Divine Justice, it metes out
punishment or pardons according as it finds, or finds not, the
evil intent, the mental element. _The time has come for
instructing human justice so that these secret criminals shall
tremble before the omnipotent finger that points them out to
the human executioner._”
If that isn’t witchcraft, I don’t know what witchcraft is. The
Omnipotent finger will point out these criminals, who operate
through silent and invisible mental influences, and justice will
be meted out to them by the human executioner!
In a personal letter to a student Mrs. Eddy said:
“The mental malpractitioners or mesmerists employ the argument
of poison to kill people. They cause you or your patients to
suffer from arsenical poison in the blood or stomach, mercurial
poison, morphine or any other form of mineral, vegetable or
animal poison which they may name in their arguments.”
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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