preexistence

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He was like some one lying in twilit, formless preexistence, and stretching out his hands lovingly towards many-coloured, many-sounding life. 

From Merry Men by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

In the following year Faustus removed to Poland, where he endeavored to unite the various Unitarian parties: the Anabaptists, Non-adorantes, the believers in the preexistence of Christ, etc., and their opponents.

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

Essential preexistence is an existence which is not preceded by a cause, but essential phenomena are preceded by causes.

From Some Answered Questions by `Abdu'l-Bahá

And finally, in his Epistles, he declares the preexistence of Christ, and the fact of Christ's utterances through the prophets as far back in time as the days of Noah.

From A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions by Strong, Augustus Hopkins