for bounty if giving without desert, and justice is
giving what is deserved. As we have the power to pray for these
souls here, so likewise we shall possess the same power in the
other world, which is the Kingdom of God.... Therefore in that
world also they can make progress. As here they can receive light
by their supplications, there also they can plead for forgiveness,
and receive light through entreaties and supplications.

Both before and after putting off this material form, there is
progress in perfection, but not in state.... There is no other
being higher than a perfect man. But man when he has reached this
state can still make progress in perfections but not in state,
because there is no state higher than that of a perfect man to
which he can transfer himself. He only progresses in the state of
humanity, for the human perfections are infinite. Thus however
learned a man may be, we can imagine one more learned.

Hence, as the perfections of humanity are endless, man can also
make progress in perfections after leaving this world.--Some
Answered Questions, pp. 260, 261, 268, 269, 274.

Oneness of the Two Worlds

The unity of humanity as taught by Baha'u'llah refers not only to men
still in the flesh, but to all human beings, whether embodied or
disembodied. Not only all men now living on the earth, but all in the
spiritual world as well, are parts of one and the same organism and these
two parts are intimately dependent, one on the other. Spiritual communion
one with the other, far from being impossible or unnatural, is constant
and inevitable. Those whose spiritual faculties are as yet undeveloped are
unconscious of this vital connection, but as one's faculties develop,
communications with those beyond the veil gradually become more conscious
and definite. To the Prophets and saints this spiritual communion is as
familiar and real as are ordinary vision and conversation to the rest of
mankind.

'Abdu'l-Baha says:--

The visions of the Prophets are not dreams; no, they are spiritual
discoveries and have reality. They say, for example: "I saw a
person in a certain form, and I said such a thing, and he gave
such an answer." This vision is in the world of wakefulness, and
not in that of sleep. Nay, it is a spiritual discovery....

... Among spiritual souls there are spiritual understandings,
disco