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

The preexistent Christ has made all this literature one, by the influence in the sacred writers of his omnipresent Spirit.

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

The characteristics which distinguish our age from all others are the very ones which have been found so destructive to preexistent civilizations.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

Our author is himself a devout believer in a preexistent Christ, and he recognizes some rays of Christ's light in Buddha and in Confucius.

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

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