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The second doctrine is commonly known as metempsychosis, the transmigration of souls or reincarnation, the last name being the most correct. From Wordnik.com. [Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1] Reference
On the other hand, his psychogony, based on the idea of metempsychosis borrowed from the Orient, gives itself up to numerical vagaries. From Wordnik.com. [Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English] Reference
It must have grown up among a people to whom the idea of metempsychosis was well known, but who at the same time held a skeptical view of that doctrine. From Wordnik.com. [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference
India and imported by Buddhism into all the countries which it influenced — is that called metempsychosis, the transmigration of the soul or reincarnation. From Wordnik.com. [Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1] Reference
That metempsychosis which is familiar in the old mythology of the. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Men] Reference
Many of their works, also, undergo a kind of metempsychosis, and spring up under new forms. From Wordnik.com. [The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon] Reference
He has the artistic metempsychosis which is half drunk when sober and looks down on airships when stimulated. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Grafter] Reference
'metempsychosis' into Socinianism, and thence again into modern. From Wordnik.com. [The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Reference
Let us, then, add the teachings of metempsychosis to those of the. From Wordnik.com. [Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution] Reference
The metempsychosis is only for common people; for other souls they have. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
Such is the dogma of the metempsychosis, which was built upon simple deduction. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
At the same time they held and taught to the Greeks the doctrine of metempsychosis. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
This doctrine of re-birth is known as the transmigration of souls (metempsychosis). From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
Various forms of this doctrine are transmigration, metempsychosis, palingenesis, and rebirth. From Wordnik.com. [DEATH AND IMMORTALITY] Reference
Now, if I believed in metempsychosis, I should think you were Mark Antony brought down to date. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
“That is metempsychosis,” said Sonya, who had always learned well, and remembered everything. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
Let us take, for example, the doctrine of metempsychosis, or, as it is commonly called, the “transmigration of souls.”. From Wordnik.com. [Religion in Japan] Reference
Ennius also believed in the Pythagorean theory of metempsychosis, and considered that his soul had animated the body of a peacock. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
The idea of metempsychosis is perhaps the most ancient dogma of the known world, and prevails still in a great part of India and of. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
Pythagorical metempsychosis, without the least hurt, transmogrify them into such birds as you now see; much after the fashion of the. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
Their ideas of metempsychosis are more definite, but this, I think, is to be accounted for by the influence and proximity of Buddhism. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
The notion of "the metempsychosis" was just that in which all the ninety-six erroneous systems agreed among themselves and with Buddhism. From Wordnik.com. [A Record of Buddhistic kingdoms: being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline] Reference
Humans, for example, retain the same existence and identity across these three planes of being hence denying the need for metempsychosis. From Wordnik.com. [Mulla Sadra] Reference
That the doctrine of metempsychosis should have been applied by Buddhists to their great Master himself, is only what we should expect to find. From Wordnik.com. [Religion in Japan] Reference
Sometimes the souls of pious Jews pass by metempsychosis into Gentiles, in order that they may plead on behalf of Israel and treat them kindly. From Wordnik.com. [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference
Possibly, I thought, the doctrine of the metempsychosis may be true, and this brute, in the early stages of its development, once have been in love. From Wordnik.com. [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference
It is also needful that thou shouldst know that the Kabbalists believe in metempsychosis from the body of one species into the body of another species. From Wordnik.com. [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference
Here a short explanation must be given of what has been said regarding transmigration or metempsychosis, in order that all misunderstanding may be removed. From Wordnik.com. [Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution] Reference
The following is a quotation from the same philosopher, dealing with metempsychosis, and which, when compared with the foregoing sentences, appears strangely absurd. From Wordnik.com. [Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution] Reference
"The advocates of the resurrection should not confine their attention to the repellent or ludicrous aspects of metempsychosis, ... but do justice to its claim and charm.". From Wordnik.com. [Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution] Reference
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