December 4

Shoghi Effendi, in a letter dated 25 May 1936, written on his behalf, identifies man's “true self” with “his soul”. In describing the nature of "man's inner spiritual self or reality”, he notes that the “two tendencies for good or evil are but manifestations of a single reality or self”, and that the self “is capab1e of development in either way·” 
- The Universal House of Justice  (From a letter dated 11 September 1995 written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice to a National Spiritual Assembly)