Still more in regard to those avocations which have no end outside themselves, which are to be justified, if at all, as actually adding to the sum of the world's permanent possessions, it is necessary to keep alive a knowledge of their aims, a clear Prefiguring vision of the temple in which creative imagination is to be embodied.
"Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays"
Bertrand Russell
Thus the father spoke, and knew not that he spoke Prefiguring words: for soon after the delicate child, with the morning brightness of his early wisdom, was exhaled, like a dewdrop, into heaven.
"The Campaner Thal and Other Writings"
Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
Well, pilgrimage is for the most a sort of Prefiguring or rehearsal.
"Hills and the Sea"
H. Belloc