In the antiquated Egyptian religion, an individual was accepted to be comprised of different components, some physical and some profound. Comparable thoughts are found in antiquated Assyrian and Babylonian religion. The Kuttamuwa stele, a memorial service stele for an eighth century BCE imperial authority from Sam'al, depicts Kuttamuwa mentioning that his grievers remember his life and his eternity with feasts "for my spirit that is in this stele". It is perhaps the most punctual reference to a spirit as a different substance from the body. The 800-pound (360 kg) basalt stele is 3 ft (0.91 m) tall and 2 ft (0.61 m) wide. It was uncovered in the third period of unearthings by the Neubauer Expedition of the Oriental Institute in Chicago, Illinois.
The Baháʼí Faith asserts that "the spirit is an indication of God, a radiant jewel whose reality the most educated of men hath neglected to get a handle on, and whose secret no brain, anyway intense, can at any point desire to unwind". Bahá'u'lláh expressed that the spirit not just keeps on living after the actual demise of the human body, however is, truth be told, everlasting. Paradise can be seen mostly as the spirit's condition of proximity to God; and damnation as a condition of distance from God. Each state follows as a characteristic outcome of individual endeavors, or the scarcity in that department, to create spiritually.[9] Bahá'u'lláh instructed that people have no presence before their life here on earth and the spirit's advancement is consistently towards God and away from the material world.