The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2

VII. Satan Seeking to Control the Minds of Men

Biblical counsel and admonition, just here, is specific and vital. The apostle Paul warns of the oppositions of “science ⁵⁵ falsely so called” (1 Timothy 6:20), and again of being spoiled through specious “philosophy ⁵⁶ and vain deceit” (Colossians 2:8). The “science” of mind controlling mind opens the way for Satan and his evil minions to insinuate themselves into minds that have been rendered passively receptive. Paul foretells how “evil men and seducers,” “in the last days,” will “wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived” (2 Timothy 3:1-8, 13). That is our present-day situation. It calls for constant watchfulness. CFF2 1151.1

The “philosophy” of such seductive “science” is part of Satan’s masterpiece of deception of the ages in its varied forms. No one should yield his mind and will to the control of another, for Paul reminds us that “to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey” (Romans 6:16). Satan is obviously seeking to captivate and then to capture the minds of men in these latter times. Spiritualistic hypnosis opens the way for Satan and his agents to gain control of both the controlling mind and the mind so controlled. That is the gravity of the involvements of hypnotism. Christians should keep off this danger area of enchanted ground. This will become increasingly evident in the next chapter. CFF2 1151.2