preexistence

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It is true—to do complete justice to neospiritualism—that its position offers certain advantages from the point of view of the almost inconceivable problem of the preexistence of the future.

From The Unknown Guest by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

For it must be remembered that the preexistence of souls is a distinguishing tenet of this philosophy as of the Kabala.

From Five Years of Theosophy by Various

Those products which bear the smallest ratio to the total wealth, those which come last in the industrial series and whose creation supposes the preexistence of all the others.

From System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)

How can utter nothingness gallop its steed in the field of preexistence, or a fleeting shadow reach to the everlasting sun?

From The Seven Valleys and the Four Valleys by Bahá'u'lláh

They disagreed on infant baptism, the preexistence and adoration of Christ, etc.

From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by Bente, F. (Friedrich)