October 19, 1911
Paris, France
Healing comes from God, if the heavenly benediction be upon us while we are being healed, then only can we be truly healed. All depends upon God. Medicine is merely an outward form or means by which we obtain heavenly healing; without the Heavenly Benediction it is worth nothing.
Paris, France
Healing comes from God, if the heavenly benediction be upon us while we are being healed, then only can we be truly healed. All depends upon God. Medicine is merely an outward form or means by which we obtain heavenly healing; without the Heavenly Benediction it is worth nothing.
If man looks at the nature of the world around him, he will
see that all created beings are dependent upon something, i.e., man is
dependent for his life upon the air which he breathes, likewise the animals
which are upon the earth, and each created being is dependent for its life upon
some material circumstances. Man, therefore, and all creatures are prisoners of
nature. The sun must follow his law, the earth must follow his law of motion,
the sea also hers. But, by the spiritual power of God, which, through His
Bounty, He has bestowed upon men alone, man is enabled to defy the laws of
nature in many and wonderful ways, i.e., it is the law of nature that man
should walk upon the earth, but he defies this law, for he sojourns upon the
water and also flies, like the bird, through the air.
Through the wonderful spiritual power which God gives to
man, man is enabled to reach the Kingdom of Heaven; but behold! man is not
grateful and is careless of the great mercy which God has shown him.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a talk, October 19, 1911, Paris, France; ‘Star of the West Vol. 2, no. 16,
December 31, 1911)
