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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 229
ing, "He is not dead, he sleepeth." They also possessed
the power to force the Ego into its body and restore the
normal condition. Thus so-called miracles were per-
formed by them.
QUESTION Xo. 114.
Do you believe in conversion?
Answer: Certainty,
but there are conversions and con-
versions. There is the conversion which takes place in a
revival meeting to the beating of drums, the clapping of
hands, the singing of gospel hymns and the insistent call-'
of the revivalist to "come before it is too late." All
ing
these aids to conversion produce an intense hypnotic in-
fluence, which works upon the emotional nature of many
people in such a way that these "sinners," so called, can
no longer remain in their seats, but are forced in the most
literal sense to obey the command and come forward to
"the mourner's bench." That kind of a conversion is
usually of very
little worth. Bevivalists find that it is
extremely easy to convert people in that manner. The ex-
asperatingly difficult problem is, as one of them expressed
it, "to make it stick," for when the victim of the hypnotic