…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’)
