preexistence

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Book of Mormon scriptures are likewise explicit in proof of the preexistence of the Christ and of His foreappointed mission.

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

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)

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

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

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