Reference: Pre-existence of Souls
Hastings
'Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The soul that rises with us, our life's star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar.'
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And the children were fighting together inside her, and she said, If it is to be so, why am I like this? So she went to put her question to the Lord.
With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.
Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book all my days were recorded, even those which were purposed before they had come into being.
And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.
And when the voice of Mary came to the ears of Elisabeth, the baby made a sudden move inside her; then Elisabeth was full of the Holy Spirit, And she said with a loud voice: May blessing be on you among women, and a blessing on the child of your body. read more. How is it that the mother of my Lord comes to me? For, truly, when the sound of your voice came to my ears, the baby in my body made a sudden move for joy.
And his disciples put a question to him, saying, Master, was it because of this man's sin, or the sin of his father and mother, that he has been blind from birth?
It is right, our Lord and our God, for you to have glory and honour and power: because by you were all things made, and by your desire they came into being.