The story of the great plot of Satan, the Master-Strategist, to capture (1) men of science, (2) men of business and (3) men of religion, cannot be told in full in this article. Suffice it to say that the scheme was to lead men to “discoveries” of “natural phenomena” under the name of “Psychic Science.” How they counterfeit in the soul-realm the wondrous life of God in the spirit, cannot but strike those who know anything of the latter, and it is in this present development and increase of the use of the powers of the soul that peril lies for the children of God who are really “spiritual,” and ignorant of these latent powers in human nature.

We see the results at the present time in the numbers of scientists caught in the great deception, through the specious plea of “investigation” into a “natural science.”

From the history of Spiritism we learn that the first stage of advance into conditions which enabled the spirits to break through into communication with man, was the discovery of Anton Mesmer somewhere about 1778, from which has come a knowledge of what is today called, “Mesmerism.” Following Mesmer, we read that numbers of his converts made further and further “discoveries,” producing phenomena which seemed almost incredible. But it was when Mesmer assumed the position of a man of science, and appealed to the scientific world to examine “natural phenomena,” declaring that he wanted for his “discovery” the “unqualified approval of the most scientific men of the age, that the Satanic scheme of capturing the men of science succeeded. For Psychic Researchers admit that Mesmerism is “the rock from which all mental sciences (including Christian Science) were hewn.”

A list of some of the “discoveries” which followed the obtaining by Mesmer of the basic knowledge of the mysterious forces latent in human nature, shows how amazingly the movement advanced once men had obtained the key. In 1784, a pupil of Mesmer discovered “clairvoyance,” as the result of mesmeric sleep, and incidentally stumbled upon “Thought Reading.” Then ancient books were studied for further knowledge, and it was seen that these “secrets of nature” had been made known to a few; but now through Mesmer and his pupils, the time had come for the advance of the movement which in the end would re-engulf the world in darkness.

Hypnotism, Neurology, and Psychometry—the discovery that the mind can act outside the human body, and that the “psychometric