Animal magnetism is starting a belief and getting others to fear it…

Working on the belief of the coronavirus pandemic: One of Mary Baker Eddy’s definitions of animal magnetism, from a collection of her notes: “Animal magnetism is starting a belief and getting others to fear it, until evil is done to those that hold the belief and law is made, and the error goes on gaining ground until the serpent becomes a dragon.” Then in Science and Health, page 567, in the chapter “The Apocalypse”: “That false claim – that ancient belief, that old serpent whose name is devil (evil), claiming that there is intelligence in matter either to benefit or injure men – is pure delusion, the red dragon; and it is cast out by Christ, Truth, the spiritual idea, and so proved to be powerless. The words ‘cast unto the earth’ show the dragon to be nothingness, dust to dust; and therefore, in his pretense of being a talker, he must be a lie from the beginning. His angels, or messages, are cast out with their author.”