The passing of a soul into another body after death

Usage examples of transmigration.

We are led by the following considerations to think that Plato really meant to accredit the transmigration of souls literally.

It being taught in the Mysteries, either by way of allegory, the meaning of which was not made known except to a select few, or, perhaps only at a later day, as an actual reality, that the souls of the vicious dead passed into the bodies of those animals to whose nature their vices had most affinity, it was also taught that the soul could avoid these transmigrations, often successive and numerous, by the practice of virtue, which would acquit it of them, free it from the circle of successive generations, and restore it at once to its source.

Transmigration of souls taught by Pythagoras as an allegory was accepted literally, 398-m.

Furthermore, the Brahminic thinkers and sages were a distinct class of men whose whole lives were absorbed in introspective reveries and metaphysical broodings calculated to stimulate the imagination and arouse to the keenest consciousness all the latent marvels and possibilities of human experience, thus furnishing the most favorable conditions for exactly such a belief as that of transmigration, an endless series of ever varying adventures for the imperishable soul.

Although they are partly followers of Bramah and Pythagoras, they do not believe in the transmigration of souls, except in some cases, by a distinct decree of God.

Greek dragoman linked to one of the Phanariot merchant houses, an imam looking exactly as he had looked fifteen years before, when Palewski had had a discussion with him on the history of the idea of the transmigration of souls.

An irresistible belief in preexistence, immortality and transmigration, results.

Transmigration of souls according to Pythagoras and disciples, 622-623.

Transmigration of souls taught by Pythagoras as an allegory was accepted literally, 398-m.

Breeches Pythagorical, by reason of their transmigration into several shapes.

No, my son, transmigration of souls from men to animals is not possible, as man is the vehicle for the divine purpose of God.

The Bodhisattwa or Sangha continues to be such until he has surmounted the very last grade of that vast and laborious ascent by which he is instructed that he can 'scale the heavens,' and pluck immortal wisdom from its resplendent source: which achievement performed, he becomes a Buddha, that is, an Omniscient Being, and a _Tathagata_--a title implying the accomplishment of that gradual increase in wisdom by which man becomes immortal or ceases to be subject to transmigration.

A great part of Antiquity contented their hopes of subsistency with a transmigration of their souls.

It was no doubt moulded up with the tenet of the transmigration of the soul, perhaps with notions analogous to the emanation system of India in which the human soul was an efflux from or indeed a part of, the Deity.

This law of transmigration of souls which brought even orthodox eschatology into confusion, seemed an endless servitude and pain to Indian consciences, which felt crushed by it.