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Answer.—Some sages and philosophers believe that there are two kinds of preexistence: essential preexistence and preexistence of time. Phenomena are also of two kinds, essential phenomena and that of time. Essential preexistence is an existence which is not preceded by a cause, but essential phenomena are preceded by causes.
Bancroft, George: literary rank, 33; in college, 45. Barbier, Henri Auguste, on Napoleon, 208. Barnwell, Robert W.: in history, 45; in college, 47. Beaumont and Fletcher, disputed, line, 128, 129. Beauty: its nature, 74, 94, 95; an end, 99, 135, 182; study, 301. Beecher, Edward, on preexistence, 391. Behmen, Jacob: mysticism, 201, 202, 396; citation, 380.
That is why those who were heedless and denied God were said by Christ to be dead, although they were apparently living; in relation to the people of faith they were dead, blind, deaf and dumb. This is what Christ meant when He said, “Let the dead bury their dead.” Question.—How many kinds of preexistence and of phenomena are there?
Sir Walter Scott tells us in his diary: "I cannot, I am sure, tell if it is worth marking down, that yesterday, at dinner time, I was strangely haunted by what I would call the sense of preexistence, viz., a confused idea that nothing that passed was said for the first time; that the same topics had been discussed and the same persons had stated the same opinions on them.
Imagination: the faculty, 141; defined, 237, 238; essay, 283; coloring life, 324. Imbecility, 231. Immortality, 262. Incompleteness, in poetry, 339. India: poetic models, 338; idea of preexistence, 391; Brahmanism, 397. Indians: in history of Concord, 71; Algonquins, 72. Inebriation, subject in Monthly Anthology, 30. Insects, defended, 190. Inspiration: of Nature, 22, 96, 141; urged, 146.
But the light of the moon is received from the sun, for the moon is dependent on the sun for its light; therefore, the sun, with regard to light, is the cause, and the moon becomes the effect. The former is the ancient, the precedent, the antecedent, while the latter is the preceded and the last. The second sort of preexistence is the preexistence of time, and that has no beginning.
Preexistence of time is without beginning, but the phenomena of time have beginnings and endings; for the existence of everything depends upon four causes—the efficient cause, the matter, the form and the final cause. For example, this chair has a maker who is a carpenter, a substance which is wood, a form which is that of a chair, and a purpose which is that it is to be used as a seat.
In economic language what are luxuries? 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.
The hypothesis in question was also maintained by many great philosophers, because they imagined that if the past eternity of the soul were denied, this would shake the philosophical proof of its future eternity. There can be no doubt, however, that after the idea of the soul’s preëxistence had been conceived and entertained, it was very generally employed to account for the origin of evil.
Prayer: not enough, 138, 139; anecdotes, 267. Preaching, a Christian blessing, 123. Preexistence, 391. Presbyterianism, in Scotland, 409. Prescott, William, the Judge's mansion, 38. Prescott, William Hickling: rank, 33; Conquest of Mexico, 38. Prior, Matthew, 30. Proclus, influence, 173, 380. Prometheus, 209. Prospects, for man, 101-103. Protestantism, its idols, 28.
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