Bahá’u’lláh teaches that after its separation from the body,
the human soul begins to lead a new life, of which we can have no definite
knowledge, in the same way as the child in the embryo cannot visualize the type
of life it is destined to lead in this world.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 10 August
1934 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer; compilation:
‘Reincarnation and the Nature and Progress of the Soul’, prepared by the
Research Department of the Universal House of Justice)