preexistence

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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

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

The spirit is independent of the body, and in relation to it the spirit is an essential preexistence.

From Some Answered Questions by `Abdu'l-Bahá

If this were so, the case which would be one of latent illness or even of self-suggestion; and the preexistence of the future, without being entirely disproved, would be less clearly established.

From The Unknown Guest by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

Virgil enunciated the doctrine of the preexistence of souls in eternal fire, 399-l.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert