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’)
