The Soul After Death

"And now concerning thy question regarding the soul of man and its
survival after death. Know thou of a truth that the soul, after its
separation from the body, will continue to progress until it attaineth
the presence of God, in a state and condition which neither the
revolution of ages and centuries, nor the changes and chances of this
world, can alter. It will endure as long as the Kingdom of 156 God,
His sovereignty, His dominion and power will endure. It will manifest
the signs of God and His attributes, and will reveal His loving
kindness and bounty. The movement of My Pen is stilled when it
attempteth to befittingly describe the loftiness and glory of so
exalted a station. The honor with which the Hand of Mercy will invest
the soul is such as no tongue can adequately reveal, nor any other
earthly agency describe. Blessed is the soul which, at the hour of its
separation from the body, is sanctified from the vain imaginings of
the peoples of the world. Such a soul liveth and moveth in accordance
with the Will of its Creator, and entereth the all-highest Paradise.
The Maids of Heaven, inmates of the loftiest mansions, will circle
around it, and the Prophets of God and His chosen ones will seek its
companionship. With them that soul will freely converse, and will
recount unto them that which it hath been made to endure in the path
of God, the Lord of all worlds. If any man be told that which hath
been ordained for such a soul in the worlds of God, the Lord of the
throne on high and of earth below, his whole being will instantly
blaze out in his great longing to attain that most exalted, that
sanctified and resplendent station.... The nature of the soul after
death can never be described, nor is it meet and permissible to reveal
its whole character to the eyes of men. The Prophets and Messengers of
God have been sent down for the sole purpose of guiding mankind to the
straight Path of Truth. The purpose underlying Their revelation hath
been to educate all men, that they may, at the hour of death, ascend,
in the utmost purity and sanctity and with absolute detachment, to the
throne of the Most High."

(Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 154)