St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-11-16

effective stop to the indlscrinhnate use of
hyppotism. 1t is positively alarming to
pick up a newspaper nowadays and see
the abuses to which this litte-understood
science is being put. l know of cases
where the continued use of hypnotism up
on a person has so weakened the brain
and the will-power that the subjects had
become little better than idiots, with no
more stability than water. l will admit,
however, that have known of only few
such unfortunate cases; but 1t must be
said, on the other hand, that have never
seen any person hypnotized even once who
lid not show its weakening effects in some
degree. l am convinced that If the bare
truth could be generally learned the
startling fact would come to light that
the insane asylums contain great Num-
Der of inmates who would never have
reached their portals had they not been
started on the route by the use OF hypnot'
ISM"
THE REVERSALS OF SCIENCE.
A lie is simply the reversal of truth.
1t Is not a thing in itself but the inverted
sense of what Is. Let lie come between
two friends; the one who believes 1t be-
comes unfriendy to his friend, whose love
may continue the same as ever. The one
who believes the lie may misinterpret al
the manifestations of that love which re-
mains ever the same, but he is. by be-
lieving the lie, depriving himself of both
truth and love. Such case of msunder-
standing may start a feud; families may
be involved, there may be the cross-coun-
tering of murder, and after the tribal war
has buried its victims, 1t may be found
out that the beginning of the whole
trouble was a little, needless and silly lie
We remember Othello and how the lying
suggestions of Iago acted upon his mind
like poison until the purity of Desdemona
became reversed to his thought,-truth
and love inverted, and sorrow and death
the outcome Now when the lie is re-
versed for the person he perceives the
truth and also perceives that it was al
ways the same; the lie did not diminish it
or change it, only his sense of the truth
was perverted. When the misunderstand-
ing is over between two friends they know
that their friendship abides
Like Truth we conceive the creation Of
God as eternal. Being good and perfect
and the outcome of Spirit, it is to be seen
by spiritual sense All that the material
lied view can do is to invert the spiritual.
1t does not destroy Spirit, which continues
to be the real; but it puts in place of
Spirit it's own concept of matter as real,
and believes, therefore. the concom1t-
ants of matter, sin, discord, disease and
death, to be real also. For example, the
thief believes that real substance is mat
ter and searching for happiness steals
gold, or silver, or jewels. Immediately
thereupon he becomes a fugitive. He has
stolen happiness from himself SO like
wise the pleasure-seeking man INDUCES in
debauchery to find the consequent diseases
bring him misery. Envy and jealousy sug
gest to a man that he can find happiness
in the murder of another believing that
the flesh and blood are the reality of the
man and they can thus be destroyed. If
the thief knew that honesty and truth
were substantial, If the lbertine knew