Tablet catalog
The Appearance of the Spirit and the Mind in Man
OOL 05 10202 Phelps: AB 00722
AB 00722•‘Abdu’l-Bahá•Persian
The Appearance of the Spirit and the Mind in Man
Some Answered Questions #051
460 words

ابتدای تکون انسان در کرهء ارض مانند تکون انسان در رحم مادر است

Question:
Did the mind and the spirit appear in the human species from the very beginning of its growth and development on earth, or was it a gradual process?
Translation:
Official translation
The beginning of the formation of man on the terrestrial globe is like the formation of the human embryo
# Name Source Translations
#1 Some Answered Questions, The Appearance of the Spirit and the Mind in Man Source Persian Translations Arabic
# Name Source Translations
#1 مفاوضات - الروح والعقل يظهران في الانسان حين ولادته Source Persian Translations English
# Name Source Translations Resources
#1 مفاوضات - آيا روح و عقل در انسان حين ولادت ظهور نموده اند Source Persian Translations English Arabic Resources
MFD. Mufáviḍát-i-‘Abdu’l-Bahá. Mir'at, 1993. Original Persian text of SAQ. In this catalog each of the 84 chapters is given its own ID.  https://www.bahai.org/fa/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/ and https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1541.pdf
MFD#51
https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-143.html
SAQ. Some Answered Questions. Revised translation, U.S. Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 2014. English translation of MFD. In this catalog each of the 84 chapters is given its own entry. https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative- texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/
SAQ#51
http://www.bahai.org/r/951994139
BWF. Bahá’í World Faith: Selected Writings of Bahá’u’lláh and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. U.S. Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1943. https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up
BWF.312-313
https://archive.org/details/bahaiworldfaithselectedwritingsofbahaullahandabdulbaha./mode/2up