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The pre-existence of God is the pre-existence of essence, and also pre-existence of time, and the phenomenality of contingency is essential and not temporal....

From Bahá’í World Faith by `Abdu'l-Bahá

Indeed I am not even existence any longer, since by knocking thing out of being I have forfeited my own reality, and consent henceforth to be pure personality, i.e. phenomenality.

From Notes of a Son and Brother by James, Henry