In the pursuit of understanding that will give us a coherent working philosophy – especially one based on answering ‘What is it to be fully and positively human? – we occasionally come across passages in Baha’i writings that suggest a ‘complete’ model. This passage by Abdu’l-Baha seems to me to be one such passage;

Sense-perception gives rise to desire, desire to will, will to action, and action again to sense-perception. This chain ever repeats itself, and so the powers of thought, memory, reason, and the emotional capacities are evolved in spirit. These power and capacities of spirit, expressed in individual human beings, constitute human characters.

Through these successive evolutionary steps, spirit develops characters having Divine attributes. The positive, creative aspect of God is reflect in the them. Individuality is derived from expression in individual form. Self-consciousness accompanies individualised character, and the being thus endowed has the potentiality of rising to the knowledge of God.

Characters inspired by the universal human spirit continue in lines of specific developing types, as did species in the vegetable and animal kingdoms. (Compilations, Baha’i Scriptures, p. 301)

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