Healing has a deep connection with the work of the messengers of God. We may, for example, think of the many stories and parables of healing that are recounted in the Gospels. However, while the healing of the individual – physical or spiritual – can be involved, it goes far beyond that. The individual can only truly be whole and healed when society itself is in a condition of well-being. Healing is so integral to Bahá’u’lláh’s mission that he uses the metaphor of “Divine Physician” to convey insights into the process he is unfolding. Thus he writes: We can well perceive how the whole human race is encompassed with great,…