"Does not every wise soul live like an immigrant and sojourner in this mortal body, after having for habitat and country the most pure substance of heaven, from which it migrates to this habitat by a compelling law? Perhaps this was in order that it might carefully inspect terrestrial things, that even these might not be without a share in wisdom to participate in the better life..."
-- Philo, Questions and Answers on Genesis (23:4), cited in When Souls Had Wings, Pre-Mortal Existence in Western Thought, Terryl L. Givens, p. 45.
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