Does the body of (hu)man receive a portion of the Almighty Spirit?
The body of (hu)man is made up from the elements of the material world, the spirit from those of the spiritual world, while the soul, the inner man is the offspring of the Deity, and of which none of us—no—not even the blessed ones who are nearest to Him know anything. We do know something of the other parts but of that part of (hu)man we know nothing. You see your own body—we see our spirit bodies, but we cannot see our souls ourselves.
At what time does the spirit portion become connected with the body?
I can only give you my opinion, for it is still a subject of discussion in our spiritual halls. After the germ in the womb begins to develop in shape—after it has become not many inches in size and formed as a body, the spirit body also begins its growth and grows with the material body but not until life is felt can it be said that the soul has taken up its abode in the spirit body.
Yet it may never live to breathe.
The blood does not circulate in the unborn body as it does in life out of the womb. You are not to suppose that the blood is the life, it is but the supporter of life and it is not requisite while the child is still in the womb.
Many children, alive in the womb, are born into death. They never breathe your atmosphere. Why?
Because the thin membrane, which covers the mouths of the heart valves remains unbroken by the action of the atmospheric air—when this thin covering is snapped, the child lives and breathes, becomes a denizen of earth—when it does not rent, the child goes to the better world.
—Hafed, Prince of Persia

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