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The Healer
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The Healer
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The power of spiritual healing is doubtless common to all
mankind in greater or less degree, but, just as some men are
endowed with exceptional talent for mathematics or music, so
others appear to be endowed with exceptional aptitude for
healing. These 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. -- BAHÁ'U'LLÁH, Tablet
to a Physician.
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`Abdu'l-Bahá writes: --
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He who is filled with love of Bahá, 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 the hands.
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O thou pure and spiritual one! Turn thou toward God
with thy heart beating with His love, devoted to His
praise, gazing towards His Kingdom and seeking help
from His Holy Spirit in a state of ecstasy, rapture, love,
yearning, joy and fragrance. God will assist thee, through
a spirit from His Presence, to heal sickness and disease.
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Continue in healing hearts and bodies and seek healing
for sick persons by turning unto the Supreme Kingdom
and by setting the heart upon obtaining healing through
the power of the Greatest Name and by the spirit of the
Love of God.
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