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
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
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
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