lung wide open to mankind;
prejudice towards none, love for all. The central building will be
devoted to the purpose of prayer and worship. Thus ... religion
will become harmonized with science, and science will be the
handmaid of religion, both showering their material and spiritual
gifts on all humanity.

Life After Death

Baha'u'llah tells us that the life in the flesh is but the embryonic stage
of our existence, and that escape from the body is like a new birth
through which the human spirit enters on a fuller, freer life. He writes:--

Know thou of a truth that the soul, after its separation from the
body, will continue to progress until it attaineth the presence of
God, in a state and condition which neither the revolution of ages
and centuries, nor the changes and chances of this world, can
alter. It will endure as long as the Kingdom of God, His
sovereignty, His dominion and power will endure. It will manifest
the signs of God and His attributes, and will reveal His loving
kindness and bounty. The movement of My Pen is stilled when it
attempteth to befittingly describe the loftiness and glory of so
exalted a station. The honor with which the Hand of Mercy will
invest the soul is such as no tongue can adequately reveal, nor
any other earthly agency describe. Blessed is the soul which, at
the hour of its separation from the body, is sanctified from the
vain imaginings of the peoples of the world. Such a soul liveth
and moveth in accordance with the Will of its Creator, and
entereth the all-highest Paradise. The Maids of Heaven, inmates of
the loftiest mansions, will circle around it, and the Prophets of
God and His chosen ones will seek its companionship. With them
that soul will freely converse, and will recount unto them that
which it hath been made to endure in the path of God, the Lord of
all worlds. If any man be told that which hath been ordained for
such a soul in the worlds of God, the Lord of the throne on high
and of earth below, his whole being will instantly blaze out in
his great longing to attain that most exalted, that sanctified and
resplendent station.... The nature of the soul after death can
never be described, nor is it meet and permissible to reveal its
whole character to the eyes of men. The Prophets and Messengers of
God have been sent down for the