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)