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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The children struggled together within her, and she said, "If it is thus, why is this happening to me?" So she went to inquire of the LORD.
And he said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The LORDgave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD."
Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, and she exclaimed with a loud cry, "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! read more. And why is this granted to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.
And his disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"
"Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created."