Material and Spiritual Healing Quotations

Material Healing

"Do not neglect medical treatment when it is necessary, but leave it off when health has been restored… Treat disease through diet, by preference, refraining from the use of drugs; and if you find what is required in a single herb, do not resort to a compounded medicament. Abstain from drugs when the health is good, but administer them when necessary." ⁴

"Whenever ye fall ill, refer to competent physicians. Verily, we have not abolished recourse to material means, rather have We affirmed it ..." ⁵

Spiritual Healing

"All true healing comes from God. There are two causes for sickness, one is material, the other spiritual. If the sickness is of the body, a material remedy is needed, if of the soul, a spiritual remedy. If the heavenly benediction be upon us while we are being healed then only can we be made whole, for medicine is but the outward and visible means through which we obtain the heavenly healing. Unless the spirit be healed, the cure of the body is worth nothing. All is in the hands of God, and without Him there can be no health in us!" ⁶

"When an illness is slight a small remedy will suffice to heal it, but when the slight illness becomes a terrible disease, then a very strong remedy must be used by the Divine Healer…" ⁷

Healing with Foods

"…let us speak of material healing. The science of medicine is still in a condition of infancy; it has not reached maturity, but when it has reached this point, cures will be performed by things which are not repulsive to the smell and taste of man; that is to say aliments, fruits and vegetables which are agreeable to the taste and have an agreeable smell. For the provoking cause of disease – that is to say, the cause of the entrance of disease into the human body – is either a physical one or is the effect of excitement of the nerves.

"But the principal causes of disease are physical; for the human body is composed of numerous elements, but in the measure of an especial equilibrium. As long as this equilibrium is maintained, man is preserved from disease; but if this essential balance, which is the pivot of the constitution, is disturbed, the constitution is disordered, and disease will supervene.

"For instance, there is a decrease in one of the constituent ingredients of the body of man, and in another there is an increase; so the proportion of the equilibrium is disturbed, and disease occurs. For example, one ingredient must be one thousand grammes in weight, and another five grammes, in order that the equilibrium be maintained. The part which is one thousand grammes diminishes to seven hundred grammes, and that which is five grammes augments until the measure of the equilibrium is disturbed; then disease occurs.

"When by remedies and treatments the equilibrium is re-established, the disease is banished. So if the saccharine constituent increases, the health is impaired; and when the doctor forbids sweet and starchy foods the saccharine constituents diminishes, the equilibrium is re-established and the disease is driven off.

"Now the re-adjustment of these constituents of the human body is obtained by two means; either by medicines or by aliments; and when the constitution has recovered its equilibrium, disease is banished. All the elements that are combined in man, exist also in vegetables; therefore if one of the constituents which compose the body of man diminishes, and he partakes of foods in which there is much of that diminished constituent, then the equilibrium will be established, and a cure will be obtained. So long as the aim is the re-adjustment of the constituents of the body, it can be effected by medicine or by food." ⁸

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^{Quotes on the Role of Physicians in Healing}

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Spiritual Health Sections

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