…in
the world of sleep, man's body is powerless and his faculties inactive. The eye
does not see, the ear does not hear, the body does not move; but the soul sees,
hears, moves and discovers realities. Therefore, it is proven that the soul is
not destroyed with the death of the body; it does not perish after the death of
the body; it does not sleep when the body is asleep; rather, it has perception,
it discovers, it flies and it travels. (‘Abdu’l-Baha, excerpt from a talk at the residence of Mr.
and Mrs. Parsons, August 7, 1912, Dublin, USA; Mahmud’s Diary)
