Spirits Contaminated Upon Birth

Orson Pratt

Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

“Spirits, though pure and innocent, before they entered the body, would become contaminated by entering a fallen tabernacle; not contaminated by their own sins, but by their connection with a body brought into the world by the fall, earthly, fallen, imperfect, and corrupt in its nature.  A spirit, having entered such a tabernacle, though it may commit no personal sin, is unfit to return again into the presence of a holy Being. . .”

(The Pre-existence of Man,” The Seer, Vol. 1, No. 7, (July, 1853). Republished by Eugene Wagner, Salt Lake City, p. 98)