than being simply “materialistic, atheistic ideas“, are “religious truths which the godless and the deluded have unjustifiably used in their campaign against religion and the Bible“. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’ passed away on 26 November 1921; his response to Forel's letter of December 28, 1920, with the title Tablet to Dr. Auguste Forel, eventually arrived in March 1922, accompanied by a letter of explanation from ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s grandson, Shoghi Effendi, who later referred to the Tablet as being “one of the most weighty“ that ‘Abdu’l-Bahá ever wrote. In his letter to Forel Shoghi Effendi expressed his regret regarding the time it had taken the Tablet to reach him, referred to the grief which ‘Abdu’l-Bahá's sudden passing had caused, and affirmed that had it not been for the process of procuring good English and French translations, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s response would have arrived much sooner. Shoghi Effendi also informed Forel that an English version had been sent to a Mr. A. Isfahání, who Forel was acquainted with, and expressed his decision to wait for Forel’s approval before sharing it with the Bahá’ís of the world. Forel lost no time in responding to Shoghi Effendi’s letter, acknowledging receipt of the various translations, expressing his grief on learning of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá's passing, and giving permission for the Tablet to be distributed. He also mentioned having asked ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’ a question which, due to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s passing, hadn’t been answered, and which he hoped Shoghi Effendi would answer in his place, explaining that through his study of science he believed the human soul, with its ability to feel and understand, to be identical with the workings of the brain, and asking if, despite this belief, he could be considered as being a Bahá’í. No record exists of a response to Forel from Shoghi Effendi, as is also the case in regard to most of the correspondence between them, despite Forel noting that they corresponded “often“ and “assiduously“. However, in a letter written in 1931 by Shoghi Effendi to Martha Brauns-Forel, Forel's daughter, following Forel's death, Shoghi Effendi stated that despite Forel's lack of understanding regarding fundamental aspects of the Bahá’í Faith, there was no doubt that ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Tablet had brought about significant changes in his monist philosophy and opened the way to him being able to accept the Faith, albeit with a “partial glimpse of the Bahá’í Revelation.“ Bahá’í activities, publications and correspondence. When Forel declared his belief as a Bahá’í in 1921