"eternalist" meaning in English

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          "text": "1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth\nBut if they believe neither paſt nor to come, in a natural ſence, but an unchangeable ſtate of Nature from the Creation to its annihilation, I leave them then to their Fellow Eternaliſts in the Text, […]"
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        "One who holds the existence of matter to be from eternity."
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        "A believer in eternalism."
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