Preserve the Tablet of Your Being

Christian Science, its “Clear Correct Teaching” and Complete Writings by Herbert W. Eustace is a book that wonderfully deals with, and handles, animal magnetism. In it he speaks about one of the ways that animal magnetism will try to get to us. And what is that? It is the belief that there’s a power other than God.

Mr. Eustace writes on page 560, “One of the most insidious and aggressive forms of this ‘direction by malicious minds’ comes as the pollution of the ‘air’ by hourly and daily harangues and mental absurdities. Because radio has many uses, it has by the false sense of the law of reversal, many abuses.” We can now also add television and the internet.

“Since radio is rarefied matter it is a nearer approximation to mentality, hence its hidden danger and the great need for carefully guarding against the subtlety of its use for suggestions, political, financial and religious. The Christian Scientist must think alone with God, and preserve the tablet of his mind ‘from every blemish free.’”

That is our clarion call, and that is why it is very wise to silence all noise pollution in whatever form it tries to enter consciousness. It is a mesmeric suggestion, animal magnetism, a belief that there is a power apart from God. And we can prove, and we do prove in our lives, that it is not the truth. There is one power, one God that we worship.

Church of the ever-living God,
 The Father’s gracious choice;
Amid the voices of this earth
 How mighty is thy voice.
Thy words, amid the words of earth,
 How noiseless and how pure;
Amid the hurrying crowds of time
 Thy step how calm and sure.

Horatius Bonar
Hymn No. 36, verses 1 and 2