Know thou that the distinction between male and female is an
exigency of the physical world and hath no connection with the spirit; for the
spirit and the world of the spirit are sanctified above such exigencies, and
wholly beyond the reach of such changes as befall the physical body in the
contingent world.
(‘Abdu’l-Baha, from a Tablet, recently translated from the
Arabic, memorandum from the Research department of the Universal House of
justice, dated 23 February, 1992)
