Mind, Character and Personality, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

superstitions will assume new forms. Errors will be
presented in a pleasing and 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.—Testimonies for the Church 8:293
(1904).
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.
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.
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