Ancient and Modern Necromancy, alias, Mesmerism and Hypnotism, Denounced.

Ancient and Modern Necromancy, alias Mesmerism and Hypnotism, Denounced
11-28-2010 Sara Lincoln

Is imagination a useful mental capacity? ____. It helps a thinker discover new things and new ways of doing things. A person who values im_______ does not get stuck in limitation.
A spiritual thinker might call imagination sp______ s______, which also refuses limits and seeks new possibilities. A Psalmist urges us to Mark the p______ m_____, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is ______. Ps. 37: 37. To mark means to ____________.
Not with material sense, but with imagination, spiritual sense, we behold the perfect man.

Mortalnomind does not honor G____ nor look to sp______ s______. It claims to imagine e_____ and dishonest mental nightmares like the words in our lesson title: n___________, m________, and h________. The Psalmist asked, Why do…the people imagine a v______ thing? Ps. 2: 1. Seee didn’t answer the question, but instead said Be w_____… A wise thinker knows what has power and what does not have power. God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that p______ belongeth unto G____. Ps. 62: 11.

The Apostle Paul said there is no po_____ but of God. Rom. 13: 1.The spiritual thinker, the Christian Scientist, needs to denounce necromancy, mesmerism, and hypnotism because__. Does denounce mean disapprove of, or disprove? ___________. What’s the difference?

Mary Baker Eddy makes a great power statement (SH 228: 25-27): There is no p______ apart from God. Omni________ has all p______, and to acknowledge any other p______ is to dishonor God. What is the great power statement we say together every Sunday? ________.

Moses led the Children of Israel out of Egypt, through the wilderness, and into the P______ L_______. They had to go through the land of Moab. Find it on the map. Balak, King of Moab, was afraid of this horde of Israelites. He commanded Balaam, a diviner (wise man) to c________ the Israelites and halt their progress. Balaam truly was a wise person. He said he couldn’t curse them because God did not curse them. He said Behold, I have received commandment to b_____: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.
Numbers 23: 20.

Balaam said, ‘even if you gave me a lot of money, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the Lord, to do either good or bad of mine own mind, but what the Lord saith, that will I speak.’ Numbers 24: 13. Do you think Balaam would have agreed with another wise person, ______ ______ ______, who came along several thousand years later saying, The h______ m______ has no power to kill or to cure, and it has no c________ over God’s man. The d_____ M_____ that made man maintains His own i____ and l______. SH 151: 21.

Could n__________, m__________, and h__________ be described as evil thoughts and aims? ____. Science and Health declares that Evil thoughts and aims reach no farther and do no more harm than one’s ________ permits. SH 234: 31-3.

When Jesus was ready to begin his public practice, he called twelve men to be his disciples. Can you name any of them? Matt. 10: 1-4_________________________________________.
When the first disciples heard Jesus preach in the syna_________, they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had auth_________, and not as the scribes.
Mark 1: 21-22. Is authority similar to power? _____.
What happened after they left the synagogue? Let’s read the rest of the story,
Mark 1: 29-34.
The last four words are ______ ______ ______ ______. Did Jesus cast out real devils? _. If they were real, if God had made them, would Jesus have cast them out? _____.

The Glossary of Science and Health explains that the ‘devil’ Jesus cast out was _________.
Through the Christ, God’s idea of man, Jesus cast out beliefs in the so-called ‘magical’ powers of so-called m________ m_______. Three of the false beliefs Jesus denounced were n________, m________, and h________. The lie has to be rejected so that the t________ can be uncovered, revealed. A mistake in mathematics has to be detected and erased or deleted before you can write down the fact.

Can you learn mathematics by copying the answers from another person’s paper? Can you excel in your sport just by watching videos of it? ______. Can you experience the power and authority of Christian Science just by filling in the blanks on your Sunday School discussion sheet? ______. What do you need to do? ____________________________.
Here are some good instructions:
1. Christian Scientists, be a ______ to yourselves that mental malpractice cannot harm you either when asleep or when awake. SH 442: 30.
2. At all times and under all circumstances, overcome _______ with ________. Know thyself, and God will supply the wisdom and the occasion for a v_________ over evil. Clad in the panoply of Love, human hatred cannot reach you. SH 571:15-19.