SUBJECT — ANCIENT AND MODERN NECROMANCY, ALIAS MESMERISM AND HYPNOTISM, DENOUNCED
“Denounce: censure, condemn, damn, decry, reprehend.” Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
and opposite meaning of denounce: allow, applaud, approve, ignore, commend, compliment, praise welcome.
“So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth,” (Rev. 3:16). James describes being lukewarm or wishy washy as: “For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways,” (James 1:6-8). Whether we call it being lukewarm, wishy washy, or double minded, the Bible warns us of the results of being lukewarm.
This would include also indifference, apathy, or tolerance. There is no nice moderate stance toward the forms necromancy and hypnotism takes and is generally accepted as harmless in society today. Either you are for it or against it. It is written Christ Jesus, “loved righteousness, and hated iniquity.” We see where it landed Saul in the lesson this week. He was tempted because he had drifted from his connection with God, after allowing jealousy overtake his thought.
Mrs. Eddy writes on the last page of the chapter Christian Science versus Spiritualism, page 99, “Those individuals, who adopt theosophy, spiritualism, or hypnotism, may possess natures above some others who eschew their false beliefs. Therefore my contest is not with the individual, but with the false system. I love mankind, and shall continue to labor and to endure.”