holds the secret.'"

"Yes," said 'Abdu'l-Baha, "I received a letter from Tolstoy, and in it he
said that he wished to write a book upon Baha'u'llah."

HEALING

A friend interested in healing quoted the words of Baha'u'llah: "If one is
sick, let him go to the greatest physician."

'Abdu'l-Baha said: "There is but one power which heals--that is God. The
state or condition through which the healing takes place is the confidence
of the heart. By some this state is reached through pills, powders, and
physicians. By others through hygiene, fasting, and prayer. By others
through direct perception."

On another occasion 'Abdu'l-Baha said with regard to the same subject,
"All that we see around us is the work of mind. It is mind in the herb and
in the mineral that acts on the human body, and changes its condition."
The talk developed into a learned dissertation on the Philosophy of
Aristotle.

DEATH

A friend asked: "How should one look forward to death?"

'Abdu'l-Baha answered: "How does one look forward to the goal of any
journey? With hope and with expectation. It is even so with the end of
this earthly journey. In the next world, man will find himself freed from
many of the disabilities under which he now suffers. Those who have passed
on through death, have a sphere of their own. It is not removed from ours;
their work, the work of the Kingdom, is ours; but it is sanctified from
what we call 'time and place.' Time with us is measured by the sun. When
there is no more sunrise, and no more sunset, that kind of time does not
exist for man. Those who have ascended have different attributes from
those who are still on earth, yet there is no real separation.

"In prayer there is a mingling of station, a mingling of condition. Pray
for them as they pray for you! When you do not know it, and are in a
receptive attitude, they are able to make suggestions to you, if you are
in difficulty. This sometimes happens in sleep, but there is no phenomenal
intercourse! That which seems like phenomenal intercourse has another
explanation." The questioner exclaimed; "But I have heard a voice!"
'Abdu'l-Baha said: "Yes, that is possible; we hear voices clearly in
dreams. It is not with the physical ear that you heard; the spirit of
those that have passed on are freed from sense-life, and do not use
physical means. It is not possible to put these great matters into human
words; the language of man is the language of