The ''Tablet to Dr. Forel'' is a letter of

ʻAbdu'l-Bahá ʻAbdu'l-Bahá (; Persian: ‎, 23 May 1844 – 28 November 1921), born ʻAbbás ( fa, عباس), was the eldest son of Baháʼu'lláh and served as head of the Baháʼí Faith from 1892 until 1921. ʻAbdu'l-Bahá was later canonized as the ...

(1844–1921), written on 21 September 1921 in reply to questions asked by Auguste-Henri Forel (1848–1931), a Swiss myrmecologist,

neuroanatomist Neuroanatomy is the study of the structure and organization of the nervous system. In contrast to animals with radial symmetry, whose nervous system consists of a distributed network of cells, animals with bilateral symmetry have segregated, defi ...

and psychiatrist. It first appeared in print in

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

in 1922, and was then translated into English in 1976. In this tablet ʻAbdu'l-Bahá discusses the differences between the mineral, vegetable, animal and human worlds, the spiritual nature of man and proofs of the existence of

God In monotheistic thought, God is usually viewed as the supreme being, creator, and principal object of faith. Swinburne, R.G. "God" in Honderich, Ted. (ed)''The Oxford Companion to Philosophy'', Oxford University Press, 1995. God is typically ...

. This letter was used as a model by William Spottswood Hatcher (1935–2005) in his 1994 article entitled "A Scientific Proof of the Existence of God," first published in Russian in March 1992 under the title: "Научное доказательство существования бога."

References

* Baháʼí Reference Library
ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's Tablet to Dr. Forel

A Scientific Proof of the Existence of God
(Hatcher, 1994), published in the Journal of Bahá’í Studies Vol. 5, number 4. Works by `Abdu'l-Bahá {{Baháʼí-stub

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