Tolstoy-
The same questioner said: "I have read much of Tolstoy and I see a parallel between his teachings and yours. In one of his books he speaks f the Enigma of Life, and describes how life is wasted in our endeavour to find the Key. But Tolstoy goes on to say: `There is a man in Persia who holds the secret.'" (78:1)

"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." (78:2)

Healing (2)-
A friend interested in healing quoted the words of Baha'u'llah: "If one is sick, let him go to the greatest physician." (78:3)

'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." (78:4)

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. P96 (78:5)

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. (78:6)

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