Baha'u'llah's Stupendous Revelation : “The human soul is an essence spiritual in entity and material or physical in function.”

December 5, 2015

“The human soul is an essence spiritual in entity and material or physical in function.”

From: Human Soul and Its Eternal Journey

The human soul is an essence spiritual in entity and material or physical in function. It is defined as essence because it is independent in itself, while the body is accidental and dependent upon the soul.

- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a talk, quoted by Lua Getsinger in her talk in San Francisco on December 17, 1911)

the challenge

"To strive to obtain a more adequate understanding of the significance of Bahá'u'lláh's stupendous Revelation must, it is my unalterable conviction, remain the first obligation and the object of the constant endeavor of each one of its loyal adherents. An exact and thorough comprehension of so vast a system, so sublime a revelation, so sacred a trust, is for obvious reasons beyond the reach and ken of our finite minds. We can, however, and it is our bounden duty to seek to derive fresh inspiration and added sustenance as we labor for the propagation of His Faith through a clearer apprehension of the truths it enshrines and the principles on which it is based." (Shoghi Effendi, ‘The World Order of Baha'u'llah’)

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December 5, 2015

“The human soul is an essence spiritual in entity and material or physical in function.”