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Preexistence   Listen
noun
Preexistence  n.  
1.
Existence in a former state, or previous to something else. "Wisdom declares her antiquity and preexistence to all the works of this earth."
2.
Existence of the soul before its union with the body; a doctrine held by certain philosophers.





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... won the favor of Christian philosophers in the Middle Ages, and, indeed, was adopted or adapted by the angelic Doctor Aquinas himself, the foremost of ecclesiastical and scholastic metaphysicians. The psychology of the Kabbalah, even its treatment of the soul's preexistence before union with the body, found many advocates among Gentile ...
— Hebrew Literature


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