Materia medica and mortal mind declare the body to be made up of electrons, so it is important to handle electricity in every treatment. Mrs. Eddy classifies electricity with mesmerism, occultism, hypnotism, etc. The belief is that it is a powerful agency in human thought.

All claims of conflict and opposition in what we call animal magnetism and malpractice, can be recognized as the claim of destructive electricity, but the fact remains that there is no destructive electricity because all substance expresses within itself only the qualities of the Father-Mother God, existing as God's own identity. There is no electricity in God's image and likeness, the one and only man.

Manipulation is electricity. Mrs. Eddy writes in the textbook, "When you manipulate patients, you trust in electricity and magnetism more than in Truth; and for this reason you employ matter rather than Mind."

Electricity the Claim of Opposites

Electricity claims to attract and repel. Therefore all of mortal mind is a claim of electricity, because it is all a claim of opposites; a claim of good and evil, mind and matter, love and hate; a claim of the positive and negative acting and reacting; a claim of magnetism attracting and repelling; a claim of antichrist or resistance to Christ; a claim of positive evil and negative good; all of it a claim of the magnetic power of electricity. Mrs. Eddy once told a student, "Operating in the individual, it claims to attract evil to that individual and to repel good, and when the claim refuses to yield to treatment, it is because the repelling force of electricity claims to be greater than the attracting power of Truth. In the claim of supply, the so-called power of electricity repels the manifestation of the affluence of good, attracts fear of limitation and its seeming manifestation."

The denial of electricity as existence, presence, or power, destroys the root of all evil and its seeming manifestation, and frees man to reflect and manifest the Truth and its infinite form of good.

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