""It can be shown that
an incorporeal and reasonable being has life in
itself independently of the body... then it is beyond
a doubt bodies are only of secondary importance
and arise from time to time to meet the varying
conditions of reasonable creatures. Those who require
bodies are clothed with them, and contrariwise,
when fallen souls have lifted themselves up to better
things their bodies are once more annihilated. They
are ever vanishing and ever reappearing."
-- Origen, First Church Father of the Catholic Church
(185-254 AD)
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