PSYCHOTHERAPY

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22338, 28 February 1938, Page 9

PSYCHOTHERAPY

to turn editob or thb pbess. Sir,—G. F. Seward and Eglon Sercombe cannot agree with my interpretation of the word "dead," as used in the Scriptures. All that I can do is to give a few texts to prove that I am right, and write that "There are none so blind as those that won't see." Both Jesus and St. Paul. used the word "dead" in relation So those persons who were immersed in materialism. In Ep. 2, 1, we read, "And you hath be quickened who were dead in trespass and in sin." Ist Tim.. 5, 6: "But she that hveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.' Ro., 8, 22: "Follow me and let the dead bring their dead." Luke 15. 32: "It is meet that we should make merry and be glad, for this thy brother was dead and is alive and was lost and is found." The Scriptures are full of such texts. We do not read of any corruption having taken place in Lazarus. Martha only surmised this as he had been in the tomb for some davs, and it was well known that corruption sets in in the ordinary course of events. But Lazarus was not dead: ha was sleeping, as Jerus had plainly told them. He was dead to spiritual truths, and consequently had been sick. In reply to W. P. B. Cleary, I can only say that the man who writes "ultimately we can only rely on the evidence of our senses checked and clarified by artificial apparatus, repeated experiment and exhaustive inquiry" is in total darkness. Not one of us can answer for what others perceive through the medium of the senses. As man rises above self he gets his evidence of a higher power working through him, and the wise man goes on "doing, daring, arid keeping silent."—Yours, etc., PSYCHOANALYST.

February 25, 1938. [This correspondence is now closed. — Ed., "The Press."]