Tablet catalog
Answer to Mrs Brittingham, New York, Jul 1912
OOL 06 80764 Phelps: ABU 3556
ABU 3556•‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Answer to Mrs Brittingham, New York, Jul 1912
20 words
Question:
Were the souls created as individuals before they entered the physical bodies of this world?
Translation:
Provisional translation
They existed before coming to this world, but not as we know personality upon this planet.
PN. Pilgrim notes from the U.S. National Bahá’í Archives. Arranged by year with occasional additional identifiers. https://bahai-library.com/pilgrims- notes_us_archives_1898-1959
PN_unsorted p035
https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_unsorted.pdf#page=35
PN_unsorted p089
https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_unsorted.pdf#page=89
PN_unsorted p091
https://bahai-library.com/pdf/p/pilgrims_notes_us-archives_unsorted.pdf#page=91
BSTW. Dwight Barstow collection. Collection of miscellania in English, mostly old translations and pilgrim’ notes. http://bahai- library.com/file.php?file=lovejoy_dwight_barstow_collection
BSTW#017
http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_000-050.pdf#page=22
BSTW#042b
http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/vol13/Barstow_000-050.pdf#page=55