[Christian Science by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookChristian Science CHAPTER VII 16/35
Her serfs must see to it, and not say a word. Does the other Pope possess this prodigious and irresponsible power? Certainly not in our day. Some may be curious to know how Mrs.Eddy finds out that a member is practicing hypnotism, since no one is allowed to come before her throne and accuse him.
She has explained this in Christian Science History, first and second editions, page 16: "I possess a spiritual sense of what the malicious mental practitioner is mentally arguing which cannot be deceived; I can discern in the human mind thoughts, motives, and purposes, and neither mental arguments nor psychic power can affect this spiritual insight." A marvelous woman; with a hunger for power such as has never been seen in the world before.
No thing, little or big, that contains any seed or suggestion of power escapes her avaricious eye; and when once she gets that eye on it, her remorseless grip follows.
There isn't a Christian Scientist who isn't ecclesiastically as much her property as if she had bought him and paid for him, and copyrighted him and got a charter. She cannot be satisfied when she has handcuffed a member, and put a leg-chain and ball on him and plugged his ears and removed his thinker, she goes on wrapping needless chains round and round him, just as a spider would.
For she trusts no one, believes in no one's honesty, judges every one by herself.
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