We are all by original nature, an individual soul distinct from God, immortal. As souls we originally lived in the kingdom of God, but by dint of envying the Lord, challenging his authority, refusing to serve him devoutly, and expressing material desires, we have fallen into the material universe. Because of this fall, the soul is forced to be born and die in an endless cycle.

However, the soul has the possibility, through spiritual practice, of returning home to the spiritual world. The principle of reincarnation was widespread among Greek philosophers such as Plato, Pythagoras and among early Christians such as Origen and Tertullian.

According to the law of material nature governed by God, the eternal soul is placed in the male seed and then injected into the mother's womb. The soul is therefore present even before conception and certainly after.

It is the habitat, the body, of a spiritual soul which develops in the womb of the mother, and no one has the right, at the stage of embryonic development, to expel the soul out of the womb of a woman in which GOD has placed it.

In truth, each of us is an eternal spiritual soul, we are not the body material in which we reside. The latter is only a carnal envelope which covers the soul. In every form of life or living being, human, animal or plant, resides an eternal individual soul. In each material body the soul is accompanied by the Supreme Soul also called the Holy Spirit. The Supreme Soul stands alongside the individual soul as it transmigrates (reincarnates) from body to body in its very long journey through the material universe. This is why the material body is called the temple of God. Thus all forms of life are sacred and must never be deliberately destroyed or interrupted.

The living spiritual soul is a tiny fragment of God, it is an integral part of his divine person, and exists in all forms of life, celestial beings, human beings, animals and plants.