ABSTRACT
The cults which we have so far considered are the outstanding forms of modern free religious movements, but they do not begin to exhaust the subject matter. Even the outstanding cults have their own border-lands. When we have clearly come to see the nature of psycho-therapy, the occult authority of healing cults will in the end yield to this understanding and the cults themselves be greatly weakened or displaced. The cults which are organized around faith and mental healing at once challenge and in a measure indict modern medical science. Historic Christianity has lost out because it has made religion too self-centered, not that the cults are a corrective here, for they are even more self-centered, that is one of their great faults. The movement toward religious syncretism of which Bahaism is just now the expression will not be so easy to dispose of.
