Words to Mrs. Hoagg, spoken around Jan. 1914
OOL 06 80427 Phelps: ABU 3236
ABU 3236‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to Mrs. Hoagg, spoken around Jan. 1914
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40 words
Question:
Do souls choose to come to this world?
Translation:
Provisional translation
Individual consciousness is realized after birth here. This is the matrix world for the soul, even as the womb was the matrix world for the body or vehicle. Birth into consciousness of another world begins here, a world for which this physical and material one is but the preparation and foundation.