“…This is really the true description of the physical body, and if it were all of a person, they would soon perish with its death and cease to exist as a part of the creation of the universe of God. The soul is the vital, living and never dying part of humans, and the only part that was intended to continue an existence in the spirit world. When people say, or believe, that the body is all of the person and that when it dies the person ceases to exist, they do not understand the relationship or functioning of soul and body, and know only the half-truth which is visible to their senses – that the body dies and can never again be resuscitated.
“But questions are asked; whence comes the soul, by whom was it created, how does it become incarnated in the body, for what purpose and what is its destiny. First let me state that man has nothing to do with the creation of the soul or its appearance in the flesh. Their work is to provide a receptacle for its coming – a mere host for its entry into the flesh and existence as a mortal. While this receptacle is a creation of man and without him it would not be brought into existence, yet the soul is no part of this creation and is independent of the body.
“After the earth life, in the spirit world, the soul will eventually cease to remember that it was ever connected with or dependent upon this creation of its parents. The soul in spirit life is so separate from and dissociated with that body, which was its home while on earth, that it looks upon it as a mere vision of the past and not a subject for its consideration.
“The soul was created by God long before its appearance in the flesh and awaited such incarnation for the purpose of giving it an individuality which it did not have in preexistence. There’s a law of God controlling these things that renders these preexisting souls capable of knowing the desirability of incarnation, and they are always anxious for the opportunity to be born in the flesh and assume their separate identities. Mortals provide the receptacle, they become aware of that and take advantage of the opportunity to incarnate and become an individual.” Amen
Read more about this in, “The Gospel of God’s Love,” page 73.