…regarding the question whether the faculties of the mind
and the human soul are one and the same. These faculties are but the inherent
properties of the soul, such as the power of imagination, of thought, of
understanding; powers that are the essential requisites of the reality of man,
even as the solar ray is the inherent property of the sun. The temple of man is
like unto a mirror, his soul is as the sun, and his mental faculties even as
the rays that emanate from that source of light. The ray may cease to fall upon
the mirror, but it can in no wise be dissociated from the sun.
(‘Abdu’l-Baha,
’Tablet to August Forel’)
