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Metempsychosis

noun
(pl. metempsychoses)
1.
After death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body.  Synonym: rebirth.






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"Metempsychosis" Quotes from Famous Books



... events, and from which it was impossible to escape. In India Fate was rather an inevitable consequence of actions done in births antecedent to one's present state of existence, and was therefore connected with the doctrine of metempsychosis. A misfortune was for the most part a punishment, an expiation of ancient faults not yet entirely ...
— The Ramayana • VALMIKI

... metempsychosis, or transmigration of souls—a doctrine to which the foregoing considerations are for the most part easy corollaries—crops up no matter in what direction we allow our thoughts to wander. And we meet instances of transmigration of body as well as of soul. I do not mean that both body ...
— The Humour of Homer and Other Essays • Samuel Butler



Words linked to "Metempsychosis" :   rebirth, phenomenon



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