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From: sandrock@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Mark Sandrock)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.eastern
Subject: re: Body and Soul?
Summary: incarnation occurs during middle of pregnancy
Keywords: incarnation
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Date: 16 Oct 90 05:27:06 GMT
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In article <1990Sep13.000952.27231@nas.nasa.gov> hugh@cs.adelaide.edu.au (Hugh Garsden) writes:
>
>Suppose we accept that there is a soul, and that we are reincarnated. At
>some time, therefore, the soul must enter the body (since it comes
>intact from a previous life). When does it do this? Before we are born?
>After? At the same time? Are there any references in religious texts (please
>give them) on this?
>

The soul typically incarnates into the new body during the middle, i.e.,
the fifth month, of the pregnancy. The event gives rise to the first move-
ments of the unborn child.

I am happy to provide a reference for this assertion:

	"In the Light of Truth", the Grail Message, by Abd-ru-shin.

Best regards,
Mark Sandrock