August Henri Forel (1 September 1848 – 27 July 1931), Swiss psychiatrist, neuroanatomist, myrmecologist and eugenicist, became a member of the Bahá’í Faith in 1921. At the end of December 1920 he had written a letter to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá explaining his relationship with science, his problem accepting that the mind is separate from the soul and that the soul survives after death, and stating that he was an agnostic. Having asked ‘Abdu’l-Bahá if he could consider himself a Bahá’í despite his reservations, he nevertheless made a personal decision that his beliefs were in accordance with becoming a member of the Bahá’í Faith. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’ passed away on 26 November 1921, his response to Forel's letter eventually arriving in March 1922. Known as the Tablet to Dr. Auguste Forel, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s grandson, Shoghi Effendi, later referred to it as being "one of the most weighty" that ‘Abdu’l-Bahá had ever written. Initial encounter with the Baháʼí Faith Auguste Forel received his religious education from his Protestant mother, who taught him that both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible were the revealed Word of God. By the time he was 16 he was already filled with doubt, and any hopes he had of a miracle conversion having failed to materialise he later noted that "In the quiet meadows round my home I had often cried in despair to the so-called personal God: 'If you really exist, destroy me here and now; then I shall know that you exist, but otherwise I cannot believe in your existence!' But all was silent; I was not destroyed". Forel's first encounter with the Baháʼí Faith was through his daughter Martha and her husband, Dr. Arthur Brauns, who became adherents of the Faith in Karlsruhe, in 1920. Forel referred to this period and his initial contact with the Baháʼí Faith in Ethik der Zukunft, which he personally considered as being one of his most important works, and in which he stated that before knowing anything about the Baháʼí Faith he had written an article entitled the Religion of Social Good, calling for people of any denomination to create an ethical organisation based on "this life" rather than the afterlife. He also described how, on coming across the teachings of Baháʼu'lláh which centred on the unity of religions for the good of all mankind, he decided to become a Bahá’í, associating himself with the Bahá’ís in Karlsruhe. Several years later