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RYPNOTISM
acting forces can be put in operation, and here comes in the practical working of the law of ethical causation. If all these facts and laws are understood by the mes. merists and also by the Christian Scientists, then we will have even on this earth a kingdom of heaven; but if we think that we are only going to have the physical life here, and all of us are going to pass into a spiritual eternity by the fiat of God or by expressing our faith in a Saviour, there will be no necessity for practising morality, because acco: ding to that, morality counts for nothing. The righteousness taught in that system would mean obeying the laws prescribed by God. We are creatures created by him, and there is no choice; we must go only according to the node or plan pre. scribed by words dictated by him. If we go according to our reason, that does not count for anything. That idea in the Hindu view, is a limited idea. It makes God cruel to some persons, and kind to others. If all of us are his children, why should some be happy, and others quiserable ? There is no explanation. Some may say that is his plan, that he is going to do us some good some way or other. That is begging the question. If we can only take if for granted that all this is given by nim for a purpose, we can come to this conclusion. Those who have studied logic will understand the fallacious reasoning employed here.
:. In hypnotism and mesmerism there are too schools as I said. One is that which says that sleep can be
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