Your letter of glad tidings duly received I can only thank you with my heart and pen and do you a service in correcting you on some important points.
In a letterEditorial Note: See 013D.08.008. prior to this, which I had not time to answer, you wrote of a patient seeing cherubs all around her That was not scientific it was mesmeric even the transference of images of thought which are mortal and material. The very things to be put out of the mind. Human concepts are not healing, the Divine Mind takes them all away Again the way you listen for my voice and to it is your own self-mesmerism As Written: selfmesmerism which is very harmful in the end. It turns your thought away from the Divine Principle which alone should govern you and does no Science to person, and props your faith in person rather than Principle and the understanding of Christian Science. You will hinder your advancement in this way and must abandon it at once. I give my students imperative instructions on these points which are siren As Written: syren rocks in Metaphysics that one can readily make shipwreck upon and lose ones course in Science
P.S. I stopped publishing Christ & ChristmasEditorial Note: Christ and Christmas by Mary Baker Eddy, published on December 2, 1893. because it was misuse[*]Editorial Note: There is a missing letter at the edge of the page. by materializing the illustrations. The Cherubs were an artist's form of depicting cherubic thoughts not children. The female figure which art uses was to represent liberty means anythingAs Written:any thing but a woman, it means the beauty of liberty for one thing
Beware of letting your imagination control your thought. Let your mind be governed by the Divine Love that fashions its own grand ideas as subjects for contemplation
Again M B E