Apr 30, 2017

Soul, body, and spirit

The soul is a link between the body and the spirit. It receives bounties and virtues from the spirit and gives them to the body just as the outward senses carry to the inward senses what they receive from the outer world in order that it may remain deposited in the memory and may be made serviceable by man through his power. 
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha  (Responding to a question aboard the Cedric, April 2, 1912, recorded by Mahmud Zarqani; ‘Mahmud’s Diary’)