Man’s identity or rather his individuality is never lost.
His reality as a person remains intact throughout the various stages of his
development. He does not pre-exist in any form before coming into this
world....
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 26
November 1939 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer;
compilation ‘Reincarnation and the Nature and Progress of the
Soul’, prepared by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice)
