preexistence

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Man, preexistence of, 6, 17;   an embodied spirit, 18;   fall of, 19, 29;   free agency of, 18, 29.

From Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern by Talmage, James Edward

The second sort of preexistence is the preexistence of time, and that has no beginning.

From Some Answered Questions by `Abdu'l-Bahá

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

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

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)