Mary Baker Eddy's Discovery
Mary Baker Eddy was a revered healer, who used the same system of healing that she believed Christ used in his lifetime. She taught this system to as many as she could, and the religion she founded, Christian Science, intended to spread this healing philosophy worldwide. Eddy was known for healing the sick and reanimated the dead. Despite the enormity of her abilities, she noticed that many of her enemies were attempting to overwhelm her with an almost psychic power, which they intended to kill her with. She named this Malicious Animal Magnetism. She warred with this power on many occasions, and it is documented in Adam Dickey's (her personal secretary) biography of Eddy, Memoirs of Mary Baker Eddy. In this biography, Eddy told Dickey that she wanted to make sure that her fellow Christian Scientists knew after she died that it was a result of her enemies mental attacks on her. In fact, she had even noted on many occasions that this was the cause of her own husband's death. At the end of her life, as depicted in Dickey's biography, Eddy found herself haunted day and night by the power of MAM. She even had watchers in her home to help her fight off the malicious attacks. Eventually, despite her efforts, she succumbed to it and died in 1910. |
| Mary Baker Eddy, Mother of Malicious Animal Magnetism |
The Father's Discovery
In the healings that I accomplished in my years with Christian Science, utilizing the works of Mary Baker Eddy, I was able to do things that I found to be quite miraculous. As a Scientist, I knew that demonstration was the most powerful proof for what we did. However, I was quite unaware of the struggles that Mary Baker Eddy had undergone during her lifetime, and it was not until I became exposed to what I saw as a supreme demonstration of the power of MAM (its victory over Mary Baker Eddy), that I became certain that there was more to it than had been presented in Christian Science literature. At the same time, I found that the secrets to MAM lied within that same literature. Many times, Eddy presented accounts where MAM had triumphed over Christian Science. Here is one instance, published in the third edition, Vol. 1, of Science and Health:
A young lady whom we had restored from hopeless disease to health, she drew to his office [a mesmerist], told her she was not restored, and prevailed on her to visit him and he would remove her remaining difficulties. She was in perfect health, and her mother had said so to us. He treated her three times and pronounced her cured. The change was immediately apparent, she grew rapidly ill. Then, by his mesmeric mental treatment, he made her believe that we had caused her relapse, and when her mother sent for us to visit her daughter she was unwilling to be treated by us. Knowing nothing of what this malpractioner had done, we were astounded at the result, but thought no more of it until we heard of her death.
Though I certainly cannot condone what this aforementioned mesmerist did to this poor child, it is clear that the Christian Science healing that this girl had received was easily overpowered by his MAM efforts. This is one of many accounts of the power of MAM that can be found within the Christian Science literature. After reading all these accounts for myself, I realized that it must be a mighty power that could demonstrate effectiveness even over Christian Science. I decided to test this power for myself and inevitably found that it was more powerful than anything I had ever seen a Christian Scientist perform--and in fact, longer lasting. In Christian Science, I had seen so many relapse back into old diseases. With MAM, I never saw such a thing occur. And in fact, MAM proved to be more reliable on more serious ailments; whereas I had seen Christian Scientists fail time and time again on the more serious of illnesses. This led me to absolute certainty and conviction in the truth and power of MAM. If that proof cannot be seen in the death of Mary Baker Eddy, one of the most powerful leaders on the planet, I do not know what can. Aside from this, I am certain that my works alone have been proof enough of the validity, strength, and endurance of MAM. I call myself the Father of Malicious Animal Magnetism because I believe that, while Mary Baker Eddy birthed the discovery, I took the child and raised it as my own and have seen the discovery through to a place that is much further than Eddy's primitive understanding. In Dickey's biography of Eddy, he once quoted her as saying, "There is a new form of sin or malpractice that has been revealed to me that nobody has ever discovered before..." Eddy was like Benjamin Franklin, who in using a kite discovered electricity. However, unlike Franklin, Eddy feared this electricity, and fearing this power, she was never able to harness it. I do not fault her, though, for I feel that she was, like primitive man with a wheel, unaware of the potentialities that lied in such a construction.
However, Eddy is not to be seen as a victim to MAM. Rather, she should be viewed as a martyr for MAM. Had it not been for her death to MAM, we would never have understood the immensity of MAM's power over even Eddy's system of healing. Eddy's death represents the dawn of MAM--the revelation of its power, force, and absoluteness.
