The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-06-24

human will L. the polar opposite OF
Christian Science, and no Christian
Scientist ever employs the human will
In healing sickness or sin. because the
human viii. Is the product of the carnal
mind, which Is "enmity against God. -
Christian Science employs only the
spiritual Mind, which Is life ana peace.
But how shall an individual determine
as to whether he is employing the car
nal mind or the spiritual Mind? by
their fruits ye shall know them" Some
OF the fruits of the carnal mind are
jealousy, dishonesty, lust, and hatred,
and these are continually at war with
the fruits OF Spirit, which are justice,
tenderness, goodness, mercy, ano
which make for life and peace.
carnal Mind Diseredlted.
Ii may be profitable to analyze some
what the characteristics of the carnal
mind. Jealousy, for example, as a
characteristic of the carnal mind, Is al
ways the result of ignorance of some
sort, and never should be INDUCED.
1t never can know the truth about any
thing. Again, dishonesty always bears
the mark of ignorance. A dishonest
man can not know whether another
man is really honest Like the sinful
man, he always suspects another of his
own baseness, often unjustly. 1t is
only the honest man who can know
whether another man is honest. To
Illustrate: Suppose YOU are in need
of an employee. You advertise in the
morning paper, and a half dozen men
respond. In looking them over, you
may recognize one man in the group
to be thoroughly honest. But how 90
you know? You may say that you can
see it in his countenance. But what
is it that enables you to discern the
honesty expressed in a mans face?
Is it not the intelligence manifested
through honesty in yourself that en-.
ables you to recognize it in him? The
Scripture says, "In thy light shall we
see light" Thus We recognize that
honesty is positive, spiritual discern
ment and power. Dishonesty is purely
negative, -non-intelligence. Thus we
might continue in the analysis of all
the characteristics of the carnal mind
Nevertheless, i claims to be honest
in the same way that Satan assumed
definite intelligence about Jobs good
ness; but the assumption was proved
to be false. 1t claims, moreover, to be
intelligent, but it is destitute Of
intelligence. It even claims to be the
Mind which Jesus employed to hea
sickness and sin; but Jesus said Of
this same carnal mind, it "is a liar
ana the father of it." He repudiated
1t in every sense of the word; he knew
that it is unintelligent, is outside Of
Mind, and therefore mindless. So il
is seen that the carnal so-called MIND
is no mind at all, for it is destitute Of
truth or reality,-a mere supposition
al, false belief.
Suggestion.
1t has been observed that the evil
promptings of dishonesty, jealousy
and so forth, which go to make up the
carnal mind, operate through sugges
ton. Beginning mildly, these sugges
tons or impulses become more insist
ent only to the degree that they are
believed in or INDUCED. Psychology
has seized upon this PECULIARLY of the
carnal mind, and has developed its
suggestions into various systems. Some
of these systems have been called
hypnotic suggestion, auto-suggestion,
vibratory suggestion, therapeutic1sug-
gestion, psycho-therapeutics, and even
so-called Christian psychology which
has expanded into the Emmanuel
movement in Boston. They are all
conceded to be the operation of the
human wi |, or vibratory suggestion,
and may be employed by a wicked
man, an infoel, or pagan. Anciently
these same systems We're employed
by the necromancers, magicians, and
astrologers. 1t is a matter of record
that their opponents always sought to
oppose the works of Moses, Daniel,
and the early Christians, even as the
representatives of the modern systems
are continually at war with Christian
Science. These systems are the prod
ucts of the carnal mind, which is
"enmity against Cod or the divine
Mind, and the Bible specifically de-
clares that they are IAN abomination
unto the Lord" This blind belief in
stubborn viii would lie, commit muir
der, ana do all manner of evil, merely
to satisfy its own will, impulse, wish,
or whim. Its chief characteristics are
lust and selfishness. AS an education
al system its higher attenuation of evil