Heavy subject Bruce!
Yes as above the quote as noted is from Teherzade..
Mysteriously the soul is created by God and has a connection to the body but does not enter it..
In the Hidden Words (Persian) no. 29 Baha'u'llah reveals:
"`Out of the wastes of nothingness, with the clay of My command I made thee to appear, and have ordained for thy training every atom in existence and the essence of all created things..."
Abdul-Baha in Some Answered Questions also mentions that the soul doesn't descend into the body and mentions pre-existence:
"...the rational soul, meaning the human spirit, does not descend into the body--that is to say, it does not enter it, for descent and entrance are characteristics of bodies, and the rational soul is exempt from this. The spirit never entered this body, so in quitting it, it will not be in need of an abiding-place: no, the spirit is connected with the body, as this light is with this mirror. When the mirror is clear and perfect, the light of the lamp will be apparent in it, and when the mirror becomes covered with dust or breaks, the light will disappear."
"But the universal divine mind, which is beyond nature, is the bounty of the Preexistent Power."
"So the preexistence of the specification and of the individualization of beings which are the things known of God the Most High does not exist; and these divine and perfect attributes are not so understood by the intelligence that we can decide if the Divine Knowledge has need of things known or not."