se are the people who ought to make
the healing art their lifework. Unfortunately, so materialistic has the
world become in recent centuries that the very possibility of spiritual
healing has to a large extent been lost sight of. Like all other talents
the gift of healing has to be recognized, trained and educated in order
that it may attain its highest development and power, and there are
probably thousands in the world today, richly dowered with natural
aptitude for healing, in whom this precious gift is lying dormant and
inactive. When the potentialities of mental and spiritual treatment are
more fully realized, the healing art will be transformed and ennobled and
its efficacy immeasurably increased. And when this new knowledge and power
in the healer are combined with lively faith and hope on the part of the
patient, wonderful results may be looked for.

In God must be our trust. There is no God but Him, the Healer, the
Knower, the Helper.... Nothing in earth or heaven is outside the
grasp of God.

O physician! In treating the sick, first mention the name of Thy
God, the Possessor of the Day of Judgment, and then use what God
hath destined for the healing of His creatures. By My Life! The
physician who has drunk from the Wine of My Love, his visit is
healing, and his breath is mercy and hope. Cling to him for the
welfare of the constitution. He is confirmed by God in his
treatment.

This knowledge (of the healing art) is the most important of all
the sciences, for it is the greatest means from God, the
Life-giver to the dust, for preserving the bodies of all people,
and He has put it in the forefront of all sciences and wisdoms.
For this is the day when you must arise for My Victory.

Thy Name is my healing, O my God, and remembrance of Thee is my
remedy. Nearness to Thee is my hope, and love for Thee is my
companion. Thy mercy to me is my healing and my succor in both
this world and the world to come. Thou, verily, art the
All-Bountiful, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.--BAHA'U'LLAH, Tablet
to a Physician.

'Abdu'l-Baha writes:--

He who is filled with love of Baha, and forgets all things, the
Holy Spirit will be heard from his lips and the spirit of life
will fill his heart.... Words will issue from his lips in strands
of pearls, and all sickness and disease will be healed by the
laying on of t