Mind, Character, and Personality Vol. 2 - Second Advent Revival

flattering manner. False theories, clothed with garments of light, will be presented to
God's people. Thus Satan will try to deceive, if possible, the very elect. Most seducing
influences will be exerted; minds will be hypnotized. --8T 293 (1904). {2MCP 719.2}
The Author's Experience With Hypnotism.--It was reported all around [in 1845]
that the visions were the result of mesmerism, and many Adventists [remnants of the
Adventists who had not accepted the seventh-day Sabbath] were ready to believe and
circulate the report. A physician who was a celebrated mesmerizer told me that my
views were mesmerism, that I was a very easy subject, and that he could mesmerize
me and give me a vision. {2MCP 719.3}
I told him that the Lord had shown me in vision that mesmerism was from the devil,
from the bottomless pit, and that it would soon go there, with those who continued to
use it. {2MCP 719.4}
I then gave him liberty to mesmerize me if he could. He tried for more than half an
hour, resorting to different operations, and then gave it up. By faith in God I was able to
resist his influence, so that it did not affect me in the least.--EW 21 (1882).
720 {2MCP 719.5}
Spiritual Magnetism.--In New Hampshire [in 1848] we had to contend with a
species of spiritual magnetism, of a similar character with mesmerism. It was our first
experience of this kind.--LS 79 (1915). {2MCP 720.1}
No One to Be Passive Instrument.--It is not God's purpose that any human being
should yield his mind and will to the control of another, becoming a passive instrument
in his hands.--MH 242 (1905). {2MCP 720.2}
Must Be Free From Human Enchantment.--The mind cure must be free from all
human enchantment. It must not grovel to humanity but soar aloft to the spiritual, taking
hold of the eternal.--Lt 120, 1901. (MM 110.) {2MCP 720.3}
EXPLANATORY NOTE ON "PHRENOLOGY AND MESMERISM"--"GOOD IN
THEIR PLACE": IN 1862 MRS. WHITE PUBLISHED A LENGTHY ARTICLE IN THE
REVIEW AND HERALD ENTITLED "PHILOSOPHY AND VAIN DECEIT."
REPUBLISHED IN TESTIMONIES FOR THE CHURCH, VOL. 1 (PP. 290-302), IT
AGGREGATES THIRTEEN PAGES COMPRISED OF WARNING AGAINST
DECEPTIONS AND FALSE MIRACLES. IN THAT MESSAGE SHE STATED THAT
CERTAIN SCIENCES WOULD BE EMPLOYED BY SATAN TO ALLURE SOULS INTO
THE NET THAT HE HAS SPREAD BY MEANS OF SPIRITISTIC PHENOMENA. {2MCP
720.4}
IT SEEMS CLEAR FROM THE CONTEXT ITSELF AND FROM THE AUTHOR'S
ARTICLE "SCIENCE FALSELY SO CALLED" PUBLISHED IN THE SIGNS OF THE
TIMES, NOVEMBER 6, 1884, THAT WHEN SHE USED THE TERMS
"PHRENOLOGY," "MESMERISM," AND "ANIMAL MAGNETISM" IN 1862 SHE DID SO
IN RATHER A LOOSE AND ALL-INCLUSIVE WAY, AS REFERRING TO THOSE
SCIENCES WHICH "PERTAIN TO THE HUMAN MIND," FOR SO THEY WERE
CONSIDERED AT THAT TIME. {2MCP 720.5}
THE 1884 SIGNS STATEMENT IS CLEARLY BUILT ON THE 1862 REVIEW