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 struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of the LORD.
And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there: the LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.
Your eyes did see my substance, being yet unformed; and in your book they were all written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
And it came to pass, that, when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit: And she spoke out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. read more. And why is this granted me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For, lo, as soon as the voice of your greeting sounded in my ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.
And his disciples asked him, saying, Teacher, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for you have created all things, and for your pleasure they are and were created.