preexistent

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De Creeft believes that a sculpture, like the chicken in the egg, is partially "preexistent" in the shape of the block, the grain, the texture.

From Time Magazine Archive

Verily, she is a leaf that hath sprung from this preexistent Root.

From Bahíyyih Khánum by Baha'i World Centre

This question cannot be settled by saying that "it would be a mere waste of time and space to enumerate the proofs which show that the Universe was created by a preexistent and self-conscious Being."

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green

As knowledge is preexistent, the things known are equally so, and the individualizations and the specifications of beings, which are the preexistent knowledges of the Essence of Unity, are the Divine Knowledge itself.

From Some Answered Questions by `Abdu'l-Bahá

The truth will activate directly the preexistent action model, which is in this case to flee.

From The Brain, A Decoded Enigma by Moisa, Dorin Teodor