Preface – Whoso Readeth

WHOSO READETH LET HIM UNDERSTAND

PREFACE

On three dates in November and December, 1938, meetings of Christian Scientists who have been through class with me were held in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Jose. The subject under consideration at each meeting was “Malicious Mental Malpractice.” Those attending had been requested to study thoroughly Mrs. Eddy’s writings on this all-important question.

Stenographic reports of the three meetings, together with articles resulting from the amplification of points brought out there, form the subject matter of this book.

A correct understanding of malicious mental malpractice is necessary in order to meet the myriad perplexities of evil appearing today in the form of sin, sickness, limitation, and world conditions.

Mrs. Eddy has declared: “Where all students have failed is in not knowing how to handle animal magnetism.”

I have used quotations of statements which I believe are rightly attributed to Mrs. Eddy. Although their exact language does not appear in any of her published works, they are so pertinent and accurate in expressing Christian Science that no better words could be found in set-

ting forth and emphasizing the genuine metaphysics of this subject. The quotations have been given to me at different times by reliable friends, as coming from Mrs. Eddy, and I have not hesitated to use them.

In her Vision of September 10,1887, as recorded in Files of the Library of Congress, Mrs. Eddy said: “After I had seen my way in Truth, I had to go back to teach them the error . . . I then thought the Truth—the Truth as applied to sickness was all that is necessary . . . Step by step I began to learn that the remedy of SIN must be searched out . . . The arguments to heal sickness caused by the fear of physical beliefs would not heal the suffering caused by the fear of SIN. I have been learning the remedies for SIN through suffering that the fear of SIN has imposed . . .When you think you have mastered disease on a physical basis you are mistaken. You have got to learn that it must be healed on the basis of SIN causing it . . . All the beliefs of SIN and their methods of destroying the peace of mind, filling the body with disease, administering poison through mind with more effect than the doctors could administer it through matter, have to be met and overcome through divine Science by every mortal here or hereafter.”

Note: Remember when Mrs. Eddy uses the word “SIN” as here, she is not referring to anything of the corporeal senses but is referring to the one SIN pure mental iniquity, malicious mental malpractice. This in conformity with her own statement in Mis. Ws. 299:16, “The evil which these senses see not is the only absolute evil.”—H.W.E.

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