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The Bahá’à Writings teach that humans have a soul that is associated with, but not inside the human body. This soul comes into being at the moment of conception and thereafter lives an immortal life; the purpose of which is progress towards God[1]. The Writings provide a way for understanding spiritual concepts by explaining that all physical things have spiritual counterparts, and visa versa. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá[2] discusses how we can understand the life of the soul by looking at the development of an embryo in the womb of its mother. In brief, the embryo while in the womb world is developing the faculties that are necessary for its life in this physical world; and so too are we now meant to develop the spiritual faculties necessary for our spiritual life after death. This analogy can be extended in that if an embryo fails to fully develop certain faculties like eyes or ears, it would find itself born with disabilities in this life. Additionally, the embryo can not possibly imagine this physical world, even though it is separated from it by just a few inches.