Spiritual healing
While the Baha’i followers do not reject Western medicine, there are no less than four kinds of non-physical healings within the faith.
The first one is compared to contagion. Since the foundation of the Baha'i faith appears to be this belief that every thing is interconnected, it is believed that a person's health, not only illness, can affect others, but in a positive manner. This form of contagion is said to be very slow in action and with subtitle results.
The second form of non-physical healing is described as a "magnetic force": "The other kind of healing without medicine is through the magnetic force which acts from one body on another and becomes the cause of cure. This force also has only a slight effect. Sometimes one can benefit a sick person by placing one’s hand upon his head or upon his heart. Why? Because of the effect of the magnetism, and of the mental impression made upon the sick person, which causes the disease to vanish." (Abdul-Abba, 1990)
The two other kinds of non-physical healing are said to be of spiritual nature. With the first one of the two, someone called a "spiritual healer" could cure a sick person through intense concentration. "where the means of cure is a spiritual power—one results from the entire concentration of the mind of a strong person upon a sick person, when the latter expects with all his concentrated faith that a cure will be effected from the spiritual power of the strong person, to such an extent that there will be a cordial connection between the strong person and the invalid. The strong person makes every effort to cure the sick patient, and the sick patient is then sure of receiving a cure." (Abdul-Abba, 1990)
While this is described in details in the Baha'i writings, cautions are added further in the text: "There is no such thing as Baha'i healers or a Baha'i type of healing. In His Most Holy Book (the Aqdas) Baha'u'llah says to consult the best physicians, in other words, doctors who have studied a scientific system of medicine; He never gave us to believe, He Himself would heal us through `Healers' but rather through prayer and the assistance of medicine and approved treatments." (Abdul-Baha, 1990)The fourth kind of non-physical healing, also of a spiritual nature, is made possible through the intervention of the Holy Spirit. This form of healing has no boundaries, as God can act when and how it suits him.
The first one is compared to contagion. Since the foundation of the Baha'i faith appears to be this belief that every thing is interconnected, it is believed that a person's health, not only illness, can affect others, but in a positive manner. This form of contagion is said to be very slow in action and with subtitle results.
The second form of non-physical healing is described as a "magnetic force": "The other kind of healing without medicine is through the magnetic force which acts from one body on another and becomes the cause of cure. This force also has only a slight effect. Sometimes one can benefit a sick person by placing one’s hand upon his head or upon his heart. Why? Because of the effect of the magnetism, and of the mental impression made upon the sick person, which causes the disease to vanish." (Abdul-Abba, 1990)
The two other kinds of non-physical healing are said to be of spiritual nature. With the first one of the two, someone called a "spiritual healer" could cure a sick person through intense concentration. "where the means of cure is a spiritual power—one results from the entire concentration of the mind of a strong person upon a sick person, when the latter expects with all his concentrated faith that a cure will be effected from the spiritual power of the strong person, to such an extent that there will be a cordial connection between the strong person and the invalid. The strong person makes every effort to cure the sick patient, and the sick patient is then sure of receiving a cure." (Abdul-Abba, 1990)
While this is described in details in the Baha'i writings, cautions are added further in the text: "There is no such thing as Baha'i healers or a Baha'i type of healing. In His Most Holy Book (the Aqdas) Baha'u'llah says to consult the best physicians, in other words, doctors who have studied a scientific system of medicine; He never gave us to believe, He Himself would heal us through `Healers' but rather through prayer and the assistance of medicine and approved treatments." (Abdul-Baha, 1990)The fourth kind of non-physical healing, also of a spiritual nature, is made possible through the intervention of the Holy Spirit. This form of healing has no boundaries, as God can act when and how it suits him.
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