no-being

A finite being is a no-being, a no-being, until it is created; it cannot come into existence or continue to exist on its own initiative.

CREATION IN RELIGION PETER A. BERTOCCI 1968

Wouldst thou have thy no-being the gift of a shadow?

Thomas Wingfold, Curate George MacDonald 1864

Methinks it must have been a precursive vapour of the madness that afterwards infolded me, for I know well that there is not one called Death, that he is but a word needful to the weakness of human thought and the poverty of human speech; that he is a no-being, and but a change from that which is.

Thomas Wingfold, Curate George MacDonald 1864

Methinks it must have been a precursive vapour of the madness that afterwards infolded me, for I know well that there is not one called Death, that he is but a word needful to the weakness of human thought and the poverty of human speech; that he is a no-being, and but a change from that which is.

Thomas Wingfold, Curate V3 George MacDonald 1864

Wouldst thou have thy no-being the gift of a shadow?

Thomas Wingfold, Curate V3 George MacDonald 1864

How, then, were they worth calling out of the depth of no-being?

Hope of the Gospel George MacDonald 1864

Joyful to men as the dawning of day from night; _is_ it not, indeed, the awakening for them from no-being into being, from death into life?

Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838