The Dangers of Hypnotism

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 4, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 18.

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The Dangers of Hypnotism

When Hypnotism becomes a complete success it will defeat not a few of its own promises, and disappoint the majority of its devotees. Among other things it promises to make its disciples successful business men, successful in leading others as the hypnotists will, successful lawyers, ministers, etc., successful in resisting the influence of others. Now, when all understand the science, when all have developed into hypnotists, what field will be left? The hypnotizer will find his subject resisting, the promoter of wildcat schemes will find his victims fortified; the sinners will through hypnotism resist the hypnotizing minister, and the judge and jury instructed by this new "science" will turn aside the power of the hypnotizing lawyer. What good will the "science" be? The simple fact is that the whole thing is based on Satanic principle, the control of another's intellect and will. It dates from the suggestion of the serpent in Eden of old. Any power that would place one human under absolute control of another is not of God. Any one who yields his will and mind to the control of the creature makes himself a slave in a worse bondage than Israel in Egypt ever knew. Never, never, yield your mind, your will, to any being in the universe save God. By yielding it to Him, He sets it free, and maintains its freedom.