And yet I was shown that you did not realize the influence of your past course upon the cause, and your present position and duty in regard to that fanaticism. Instead of working with all your energy to free yourself and counteract the influence you exerted, you came up out of all this excusing yourself and censuring those whom God sent to you, and ready to dictate, and even to suggest a plan whereby the Lord might have arrested you by His servants pursuing some different course from that which they did pursue. Your judgment was perverted by Satan’s power, and while enshrouded in darkness you were an incompetent judge of the best course to be pursued toward you. If you knew just what course the servants of God ought to pursue in order to help you, you knew enough to come out yourself. God gave you your choice, to be taught, to be instructed through His servants in His own appointed way, or to go on, maintain your willful course, and fall into bewildering fanaticism. {1T 312.2}

Og alligevel fik jeg vist at du ikke erkendte din tidligere indflydelse på sagen og dit nuværende standpunkt og pligt med hensyn til fanatisme. I stedet for at arbejde (313) med al din kraft på at befri dig selv og modvirke den indflydelse du har udøvet, kom du frem og undskyldte dig selv og kritiserede dem, som Gud havde sendt til dig, du var rede til at befale og endda foreslå en plan hvori Herren, gennem sine tjenere, kunne have standset dig og du kunne have tilstræbt en anden kurs end de tilstræbte. Din dømmekraft blev forvansket af Satans kraft og så længe du var indhyllet i mørke var du ukvalificeret til at bedømme den bedste fremgangsmåde, der skulle tilstræbes mod dig. Hvis du vidste hvilken kurs Guds tjenere burde anvende for at hjælpe dig, ville du kunne hjælpe dig selv. Gud gav dig valget, om at blive oplært og at blive belært gennem sine tjenere på sin egen bestemte måde, eller at bare gå videre og bevare din egen viljefaste kurs og falde i forvirret fanatisme.